14 days of Valentine's Day 4 - Wall Art

Today is Day 4 of the 14 Days of Valentine's and my projects today are from this week's Joy of Crafting Show! So simple, just take a canvas and paint it up. Decorate some paper mache letters and glue them on! These projects are keepers all year long!

First sample, I call the Summer of Love. I used yellow and orange acrylic paint and painted strokes from the middle of the canvas outward. This creates a "sunburst" effect. Then,  I covered the 8" L-O-V-E with some cheerful patterend paper and painted the sides with orange paint. Glued the letters on the canvas and ta-dah! Doesn't it just radiate with Love?!

For the other LOVE sample, I painted the canvas with chalkboard paint. Then, I painted the 8"  L-O-V-E with red paint. The "U" is 12" tall and I painted the sides with red and covered the top of the letter using the metallic silver poster board. I wanted to use the chalkboard paint so that we can leave messages on the sides.

I'm really loving the paper mache letters because you can do so much with them. They come in 8", 12" and 23.5" tall. And they're on sale until this week Friday!

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a LOVE-ly week!

First Joy of Crafting Show for February!

Tonight is the premiere of February's first show and we have some new crafts and a new friend!

 

I start the show with one of the hottest trends around, Letters! I'll show you a couple of sample projects using our new paper mache letters which comes in three sizes: 23.5", 12" and 8". The possibilities are endless! (Pssst...they are on sale until Friday, Feb. 8!)

Next, we welcome a new friend, Ruth Johnson of Kitty Bee Designs, one of Hawaii's creative stamp companies. Ruth uses one of her cow character stamps to adorn a chocolate filled box. You've got to check out all of her cute designs, now available at the Ben Franklin Crafts stores.

Then, we have Gloria from Pearl City BFC who shares the jewelry technique of Chain Maille which creates patterns using jump rings.

Gloria shows us how to do one of the basics, the Byzantine pattern. This is one of my favorites because it looks pretty cool without having to do a lot of work.

Thank You  for stopping by today and I hope you get a chance to catch the show. Have a great week!