Be Still & Know That I Am God

 My cousin Tiffany asked me if I could make her a sign. I told her she could come over and we could do it together! We made a trip to Hobby Lobby and spent $7.15 on paint, 2 canvases, and paint brushes. 

We came home and designed the sign on my Silhouette. Then it was time to cut it out. I had successfully used my stencil vinyl, and was excited to use it, however, it was not big enough for the canvas we bought! So then we tried contact paper, and my machine was not having it. Finally, I settled on some vinyl. We would use one as a stencil, and use the vinyl from the other one.  She wanted to make her friend one too! 

After carefully putting the stencil on we painted it with acrylic paints. 

 She wanted the GOD part to be distressed, I think we did a pretty good job!

It was not super centered, so I drew a little design in the corner!

 The other one we painted the canvas, and then stuck the vinyl on. To make sure the vinyl stuck we painted it with some Modge Podge.

You Are My Sunshine

Welcome Kelly's Korner - Show Us Your Life visitors! This is my latest project that I made. Check out my blog for other great DIY crafts, gifts, & home decor!

I got a new toy, a Silhouette Cameo, that does some really neat stuff! I couldn't wait to try using vinyl with it to make a canvas painting.  So I went to my favorite store, Hobby Lobby. They had 2 packs of canvas for $5.99 and acrylic paint on sale for 30% off. So for about $8, I was able to make 2 pieces of art for my spare room.

Here is how I did it! First, I found the bird and designed him in my Silhouette software.  I made him a little smoother and gave him a wire to sit on.  Next, I found a pre-made & free "You Are My Sunshine" I thought it was cute and would go well with my yellow and grey room. I cut them out using my new toy!

For the bird painting, I first painted the whole canvas yellow. 

I let the yellow dry.  Then I stuck the vinyl bird onto the yellow where I wanted it.  

Next, I painted the whole thing grey.  Right when I was finished painting I peeled off the vinyl.  I read somewhere that sometimes if you let it dry the paint will come up with it. 

The sunshine canvas was a little trickier.  I cut it out, peeled back the vinyl that was not the lettering. 

Then I used Contact paper to transfer it to the canvas.  When using contact paper to transfer, it is important that it is not super sticky, otherwise the letters are really hard to get off. I learned this the hard way.  This took me a while, and I ended up placing them by hand. 

Finally, paint the whole thing yellow, and peel off the vinyl right away.

(And of course, my camera died...)