Love Makes a Home DIY Art Canvas
With these canvas ideas, you can turn an ordinary canvas into a stunning décor piece for your house. Use a message of love and place this Love Make a Home DIY Art Canvas on your mantelpiece, surrounded by a candle or two. You can also hang this DIY canvas art to the wall close to the front door to remind visitors that love has transformed your house into a home. This DIY canvas would also make a touching wedding gift for a new couple to remind them that the hallmark of any happy house is love.
Estimated Cost$31+
Time to CompleteWeekend project
Primary TechniqueWood Crafts
Materials List
- 12" x 12" artist canvas
- 6" high natural wooden heart
- 1.4" high natural wooden house
- 2.4" wide natural wooden laser cut-out of the word "LOVE"
- 3mm wide cotton twine
- 15mm wide cream-with-golden-polka-dots washi tape
- Acrylic paint: raw sienna, green gold, and cream
- Pentel ultra fine black pen
- Rolkem gold dusting powder
- Quick-drying clear gloss spray varnish
- Quick-drying craft glue (such as Bostik Clear)
- Super Glue
- Paintbrush
- Standard scissors
- Pencil
- Sponge - use one that was in a medicine bottle
Instructions
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Paint the top and sides of the canvas with a layer of raw sienna paint and allow to dry thoroughly.
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Use a piece of twine to add a textured pattern to the canvas. Use Super Glue to adhere the twine to the canvas.
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Paint the canvas and twine in raw sienna and allow to dry thoroughly.
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Cut the sponge in two. Use one half of the sponge to apply green gold paint to some areas of the canvas. Allow to dry thoroughly.
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Use the second half of the sponge to apply an uneven cream wash to the top and sides of the canvas and allow to dry.
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Cover the heart with strips of washi tape. Use Bostik to make sure that the tape won't come undone and cut off any protruding edges.
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Use Super Glue to adhere the tape-covered heart to the canvas.
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Use a pencil to write the words "Makes a" in the first line and "a Home" in the second line. Use the Pentel pen to draw over the pencil lines.
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Use Super Glue to adhere the wooden house in the first line next to the "a."
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Use Bostik to adhere the word Love across the wooden heart.
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Use the paintbrush and the gold dusting powder to add a gold shimmer to some areas of the canvas.
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To protect the canvas from wear and tear, apply one coat of the quick-drying spray varnish to the top and sides.
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