Stenciled Love & Heart Art

Alright. So I'm at Hobby Lobby and I see this ^ and I am in love! I want it, but don't want to spend $30 on it, so I convince myself that I can make it! I buy the bargain canvas boards they sell there as well as a $3 stencil. I already owned the paintbrushes and some red acrylic paint. I wish I had bought some  metallic red paint, but I wanted to spend as little money as possible on this project!  

So there you have it. The stencil was the word love, I connected that to the free handed heart and just swirled around the paint. I think the most important thing is to do this yourself! You don't even have any idea how much pride I get just from seeing this on my wall because I know that I made it myself. :)

  Thanks for reading

~Amanda

Melted Crayon art TUTORIAL! CRAFT MONTH!

I finally have something to report back to you all! A fun new craft! Melted Crayon Art!

So, I found this on Pinterest a while back and made a vow to do this, in heart form because I am a sucker for a good heart. I found lots of photo ideas, but no actual tutorial. I mean sure it sounds and looks pretty self-explanatory, but there were somethings I wish I had known before hand!

 There are 2 majors steps.

1. Attach your crayons to the canvas in the shape you want.
2. Use a hair blow dryer to melt the crayons.

HOWEVER, there are some questions that I had when doing this project... How do you attach the crayons? I stupidly, tried hot glue at first, well obviously the crayon melted and didn't stick to the canvas... I eventually ended up using rubber cement, and it is still sticking today, but I do think that there might have been a better way.

Then, when blow drying, be prepared for a mess! The crayons splatter a bit so I ended up putting the canvas inside of a large box. Tilting the canvas seems to work best also, lying it flat doesn't work as well, and standing it straight up doesn't get all the wax. I rotated the canvas as I went and used the dryer to direct the crayon of where to go. 

Extra tip! If you get melted crayon on your carpet, a good carpet cleaner should do the trick!!!!

Hope this gives you a better idea of how to accomplish the melted crayon art.

Next time, I've got some cute canvas art to show you!