Craft Day

I love to craft.

But I'm not crafty

There is a difference.

And don't let me anywhere near paint. 

I will paint everything, even myself.

But I had no plans yesterday afternoon 

and I decided to do some crafting.

I wanted to do those string art where 

you wrap the string around the nails and

it makes an outline of a picture. 

That didn't happen.

So I went to the dollar store because 

It's cheaper and got some ribbon, 

because I love ribbon, 

sticker, glass stuff, and random things.

Also if it is cheap I will buy it.

It's a problem I have.

Then I went to wal-mart,

I really don't like that place.

And got some more stuff. 

And they had paint on sale so I had to buy at 

least 6 bottles.

I was thinking I would try the string thing

until I got home and realized that it was

way to much work and I only had a couple hours.

So I pulled out a canvas I had, 

Only because I bought it on sale, 

and thought up an idea.

My penmanship is bad but I love those canvas art 

where the word is painted in it. 

But I had to solve the letter problem. 

So I used scrapbooking letter stickers. 

And this is what I made...

The stickers were not very sticky, 

I knew that paint would bled under but I painted it anyway.

Blue and purple are one of my favorite combinations.

Good thing I bought that paint, right?

I started the colors light and let them get darker, 

giving it an ombre type look.

Which was just adding water to the first rows and

 more paint to the later ones.

After I painted it and used my blow dryer to 

dry it up and peeled off the letters

Finished product...

I think I'll add a silhouette of a dancer on the left side 

but I love how it turned out. 

By -J