
Let me start at the beginning, for which I don’t have a photo.
I had some scraps of door from making my desk, and one scrap was 30 x 50”. Perfect for a nice big wall canvas.
I painted it with a thick white layer of wall paint, lay a piece of ironed white sheet over it, and painted on top of the sheet.(using a roller) This gave me a large fabric canvas that was sturdy as all get out. I did the same to the sides with paint, and on the back I used spray adhesive to connect the fabric to the door because the wall I’m going to hang it on is newly painted, and two painted surfaces don’t like to touch, even if they are both dry.
With the canvas ready, I moved onto my stencils.

I first pressed shift, and the circle 4th up from the bottom on the left side of the overlay. (accent #11) This gave me a single circle. Then I changed my dial size by ½ inch, moved it back to the starting point, and moved the blade housing into the circle three nudges. (this would be from the right edge of the matt, not the inserted edge. Then I cut out the funky circles button third from left on the bottom row of the overlay. (Accent #43)
I cut it out in multiple sizes.


I started painting in the middle of the canvas with one color. I worked my way left, mixing my original color into darker and darker shades of brown. When I began working my way right, I started mixing green into my original color.



I touched up just a few places with a sharp edge 1/4" brush when I was done.
Next I'm going to spray the whole thing with Glimmer Mist. My cool friend Shellie Hubbartt is sending me a bunch of her colors to use on this, who knows what it will look like after those arrive.
I am also, hanging an eclectic assortment of picture frames to the left and right of the painting that line up with it's top and bottom edges. The effect will be a decorative "stripe" that spans a white wall. I'm also thinking of shoving some color into the grooves on that white wall to make it look a bit oldy-worldy. (This is in the room that I just retextured)
So I guess I've posted a work in progress again :D
TFL!
8 comments:
Girl, you are amazing. That's all I can say.
Love your blog!
This is very Zen but looks like a ton of work even with the Cricut!
That is awesome! You have such cool ideas.
Ok, now I know what you meant when you were describing it at the crop. I want to do something like this with a different pattern. I need to check out my cartridges and then we need to talk. :)
Oh Natalie,
I love that!! I'm looking for something like that to go above my bed. Now then, gotta look at those cartridges a little closer :-). You are SO creative.
Holy Flippin" Cow!!!!
I'm blown away by this!!!!!
Just blown away like a mobile home in a hurricane!
I love it...I've got to try this (someday) I can't wait to see it in person too!
OMW!!!!! That is too awesome and you are just too creative for my own good! I love it! (wanna make me one ;) )
Way fun! I love this idea! It's so fun stopping in at your blog to see what you have been up to!
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