My favorite Christmas carol is Oh Holy Night. Every time I hear it, I get chills! The line I love the most is “The weary world rejoices…” I love how the Christmas season brings a sense of hope and joy in our hearts. We can grow so weary of our everyday lives. A little bit of rejoicing does a soul good!
I’ve seen many canvas projects and have wanted to try one. I get hair-brained ideas, usually when I’m in the craft store, and I have to do it right now. Like, RIGHT NOW. So today when I unpacked the nativity scene my Mom bought me last year, I had the prefect idea! I would make a canvas with that phrase to display with the nativity scene! Brilliant! Except that I can’t paint, I have terrible handwriting, and my stencil skills are that of a three year old (no offense to three year olds). So I did a quick search around the store and went with this idea…and low and behold…it worked like a charm!
Here’s what I did…
Supplies:
1 canvas, size of your choice
Sticker letters as big or small as you want them. I used glittery ones. Because glitter is fun!
Mod-Podge/Brush
Directions:
I laid the sticker letters out without pressing them into the canvas so I had them lined up just right.
I then used the mod-podge to glue the stickers on. They didn’t want to stick down all the way, so I just brushed some of the glue under the letters and again over them. I brushed the mod-podge over the entire canvas, back and forth, until smooth.
That’s it. I KNOW. I’m so lazy. I might get a silver glitter stamp to rub around the edges. I also hung a little silver star ornament over one corner. For festive purposes.
So that’s it! The lazy girl’s canvas art. What I love is that because of a sale at the craft store, this only cost me about $5 to make. If I change my mind, I can just rip the stickers off and do something else with it! Or give it away and do a new one next year. It’s a totally disposable piece of art for $5!!
Get creative and make one for yourself!
Hey, Tasha. Canvas art looks really wonderful. Thanks for sharing.
Looks wonderful Tasha, thanks for sharing this neat canvas art tutorial, will give this a go myself when I have a spare half a day 🙂
Love how simple this is, and yet it looks so great!
Ooh, what a great idea! I may have to do this 🙂
Not lazy Tasha…just smart and efficient. I love it!