Hello crafty friends and welcome to my blog today and my
Crayon Canvas Tutorial for Off The Rails. I have been looking forward to sharing this with you as it
was so much fun creating. Between me having this canvas done and my
post I have been without internet for some time and this week a very
sick son. All of this with selling our farm and buying a new home. It has been one very busy time. I'm glad to be back on line properly but the packing is cramping my crafting time lol.
So now for my canvas -
I have created the canvas for my eldest son Riley for in his room in our
new home. Another of the things I have been busy with, selling our farm
and buying our new home. He is so happy with the final result. Now for
How I created it.
When starting your creation you need a Canvas, Crayons, Hot Glue Gun and
a Heat Gun (or hairdryer) and these things are for creating the
background. I chose to use a 20" X 24" canvas but you can chose any size
you want and just adjust your crayons to suit.
You need to make sure that you cover your work area extremely well as
this can be a very messy process. With my work area I used cardboard
from a TV box that I had saved. You can also use newspaper. When Heated
the crayons can splatter.
After you have sorted out the order you would like to place your crayon
colours you will need to use your hot glue gun and place them across the
top.
Once this is done it's time for the real messy fun to begin. Standing
you canvas up on your covered work area it is time to get out the heat
fun or hairdryer. I chose my heat gun but you must keep in mind which
every you choose the crayons will melt fast, a lot faster than you
think. Depending on the distance you hold your heat gun and how much air
comes out it will determine how fast the crayons will melt and flow
down your canvas.
Once this is done it is time to decorate your canvas with what you would
like. I'm big on dream catchers being in our bedrooms and decided that I
would place one on Riley's canvas and being a boy and the fact he liked
the bright colours I decided I would keep it simple, the colours
already were speaking enough. So the dream catcher and a word were
going to be all I used on it.
To place the dream catcher on the canvas I also used my hot glue gun.
Once this was done I placed the canvas aside and it was time to create
my word - DREAM.
For the word I used Colorbok Monogram Punch-out Pack. The first thing I
did was choose the colour I wanted to paint it. I picked Dylusions Pain -
After Midnight.
Once I had painted each of the chipboard letters and they were dry I
then used my finger to place some Viva Inka Gold Colours here and there.
The three colours I chose were - Lava red, Aquamarine and Champagne.
After this I then hot glue gunned each letter in place on the canvas.
Now it was time to coat each of the letters with Glossy Accents and the
finish looked great. Once the Glossy Accents were dry the canvas was
finished and the canvas was ready to hang.
I have another canvas that I have done and on this one there is no dream
catcher. I have used the darker crayons and then placed a photo of my
youngest son Harley and a few other bits and pieces. I thought I would
add a photo of this canvas at the end just so you could see a different
way they could be done. Harley's is a smaller canvas though.
I hope you have enjoyed popping in and having a look at my canvas. Please call over to the Off The Rails Blog and have a look at other projects the design team have been creating. While there make sure you check out the monthly challenge and join in with us.
Happy Crafting XXX
