Stenciled Succulent Love

Hey all!
Happy Monday! 
I am so in love with succulents, tiny plants, and little garden scenes and wanted to share with you how you can turn your love for succulents into a cute home decor wall hanging!

SUPPLIES:
succulent stencil
foam on a stick
acrylic/fabric paints in lavender, azure, mint, leaf green, lime
embroidery hoop
white leaf patterned fabric 
pinking shears or sharp scissors
hot glue
jute/twine

First thing's first: Take your fabric and tightly secure it into your embroidery hoop. Pull taught on all sides, and trim excess fabric with either your pinking shears or sharp scissors leaving a 1-2 inch border around the hoop.

Using your foam on a stick, dip lightly into your acrylic/fabric paint colors. Use a DABBING motion, not a brushing motion. If there is too much paint in the foam it may get blobby so test your technique on a scratch piece of fabric or paper! Hold your stencil very still, and dip your foamy stick into the other colors on your palette without cleaning your foamie in between dips. This technique will create a really smooth blended look. 

I focused on more blue in the center, and lavender on the outer tips of the leaves.

Then cut strips of jute/twine and hot glue them into words like 
fun,
relax,
summer,
and of course Succa!  aka succulent! 

SO MUCH CUTENESS!

Check out our blog every weekday for a new project!

Love, Bethany @Enchanted Lake

TCW Canvas Decor

Check out our new Crafter's Workshop Stencils! 

We used:
Canvas
Black Acrylic Paint
Paint Brush
TCW Stencil - Urban Landscape
Modern Spray Pain - Champagne
Silver
Some masking tape

This wall hanging was created with a 9x12 canvas that we painted black. We used the Urban Landscape Stencil with Modern Spray Paint in Champagne Silver. Just tape the stencil down using masking tape and spray with the Modern Spray Paint. If any spray paint gets on the black part of the canvas, just touch up with more black acrylic paint. These stencils are great for any craft and come in SOOO many different styles... it was hard to choose which one to use!!

Deborah @ Market City

Crankin' Out Crafts Episode 244 - Mom's T-Shirt

Mother's Day is coming up on Sunday, May 12th! Where would we be without our Mothers? Crankin' Out Crafts has another week of great Mother's Day gifts for you starting today with Mom's T-Shirt.

Create a beautiful & one-of-a-kind shirt for Mom!

Watch how to make this project here: Crankin' Out Crafts: Episode 244 - Mom's T-Shirt

Supplies:

White T-Shirt

Tulip fabric spray paints and glitter

Stencil

Tulip's fabric spray paint is permanent on fabrics once dried but you can heat set your design for longer lasting color. 

In the Black

If you read Kahului's post on Friday, you already know about our newest product, the black canvas. Obviously, we're all very excited about our new find so you'll probably be seeing a lot more about black canvas over the next little bit. I wanted to show off some our display pieces to give you an idea of how versatile the canvas can be.



Crayons, canvas, and a heat tool are all you need for these works of art.



These two pieces are done using our latest "hot" art technique, crayon dripping. I love how the drip art gives the work such a feeling of movement and I LOVE how the colors seem so much brighter on the black canvas. As you can see, we can't seem to stop melting our crayons.



Opaque acrylic paints can really pop on a black canvas.



This canvas panel was done using acrylic paints. You can see how easily anyone can make a beautiful work of art.



A little paint, a canvas, and a stencil, and Pow! A ready-to-hang work of art.

This canvas used a mix of acrylic paint and paint pens with a simple flower stencil. By far my favorite despite it's simplicity, this last piece was so very easy to make. I think it turned into a bold and stunning work.

Hope you liked looking through our black canvas gallery. All of these pieces are on display right now in our store at Enchanted Lake, so stop by and check them out.

Puna @ Enchanted Lake

*You can watch our Crankin' Out Crafts episode on how to make your own crayon drip art if you scroll down to today's previous post

Black Canvas

Aloha Crafters ~

Today's Idea & Inspiration is Black Canvas - what fun! Black Canvas allows light colors to pop and dark colors to go deep.

• Use with paint, spray paint, paint markers, oil pastels & mixed media.
• Great for stencil techniques.
• Allow the canvas to show through to create edges and contrast.

Happy Crafting!


- Kahului BFC

Crankin' Out Crafts Episode 61 - Simple Screening

Welcome to T-Shirt week on Crankin' Out Crafts! We'll be teaching you new ways to make and decorate your own T-shirts. Today, Brandon demonstrates how to create designs using the Simple Screening stencil and fabric paints.

Watch as Brandon shows you 3 different ways to use this perfect silk screening stencil. 

They come in many different designs that can be re-used over & over! 

View the episode on our youtube channel: Crankin' Out Crafts: Episode 61 - Simple Screening

Supplies:

Simple Screening Stencil (includes squeegee)

Simple Screening Fabric Paint

Brush

Simple Screening Glitter

This is just one example of an easy way to decorate T-shirts and clothing. Join us again this week for other ideas to help you create unique and fun designs.

*Don't forget to read our previous post today on hair accessories by Puna from Enchanted Lake BFC.