I have had some time to get crafty! Look what I’ve been making!
a belated birthday and mothers day prezzie for my mom
my dad emailed me this pic of his belated birthday panel prezzie displayed on his cubicle wall
awful iPhone shot (there must have been schmutz on the lens) but you get the idea
These pieces are acrylic paint and spray paint on 5″ x 4″ canvas panels. First I painted each panel with a couple of coats of Liquitex acrylic paint, and then I used the Silhouette Digital Craft Cutter to cut out some stencils from freezer paper.
I ironed the freezer paper cutouts to the canvas panels, plastic side down. Freezer paper works like a dream with stencils because you can seal the edges to prevent leakage simply by ironing the stencil down. When you are ready to remove the stencil, it comes right off. The only difficulty I had was I had to keep ironing the freezer paper down in between coats of white spray paint. But I blame the $1.50 spray paint I was using that I got from Walmart. It was seriously lacking pigment. When I moved
