Easter Project Group-Cross Canvas

I'm sooo excited to take part in an Easter Project Group today!!  One of my all time fav bloggers, Bethany of Pitter and Glink, invited me to her 'party' and it sure sounded like fun to me! 

In a nutshell, a group of bloggers have completed some type of crafty, Eastery, goodness and we are all sharing our projects today.  You'll find photos and links at the bottom of this post so you can just click away!

When thinking about what I would make for today's post I knew I wanted it to be a canvas.  I actually had a different idea in mind but I was doing laundry and saw a box of vintage clip on earrings among my craft mess.....I mean craft treasures!.... and thought to myself  "I need to do something with those to get them gone!" And immediately thought they might make a pretty cross. 

So I gathered up the supplies and printed off the words (from a worship song I first heard long ago at Acquire the Fire!) from PicMonkey and got started.

Supplies:

11x14 canvas

paints

foam brushes

vintage clip on earrings

hot glue gun

fine point sharpie and pencil

word printout

The first thing I did was remove the clips from the back of the earrings so they would glue down flat. I did have to use pliers on a few! See my pile of clips? ☺

Next I painted the canvas using a metallic blue, purple, pink, and green.  I wanted the blue to be 'sky' and the green to be 'grass' in a watercolory way.  Didn't take much paint to do this! Then I laid out the earrings and glued them down.

Finally, I cut my words down and used a pencil and colored the backside of the words, then I was able to position the words and then trace over them with the pencil to transfer them to the canvas. I went over the words with a fine tip sharpie, taking my time. Such a neat trick!!

All done!!

I loved how it turned out!! And so did my 'sounding board' sister!

Pretty sure it will find it's way to this year's Easter mantle!

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Have a Happy Day!

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