A Painting Project

The girls and I have completed another fun summer project.  I don’t remember where I first saw this nifty project but I knew it was one we just had to do.

We started off by painting our canvases–purchased pretty cheaply from Joann’s.   Chloe got annoyed because I started snapping pictures before I got their paint ready to go.

Annoyed Chloe

 We used one small bottle of acrylic paint–we probably could have used just a dab more.

Painting away

Elonie Painting

 It only took about 20 minutes or so to paint the canvases.  We chose a pretty windy day so we had to chase after things every now and then…oh, and pick off some grass bits from the canvases.

Elonie the pink nosed girlie

Painting, Painting

I should probably mention, that I falsely assumed that since this paint was water based, that I would have no problem washing it off the driveway even after it had dried.  I was wrong.

Our newly autographed driveaway

I didn’t take any pictures of the next step.  We water colored heavy sketch paper and then using a butterfly punch after the watercolors had dried, punched out a myriad of butterflies.  I picked up the stamp from Joann’s–those 40% coupons sure do come in handy! =)  We then glued the butterflies onto the canvas and…voila…instant art.

Butterfly Art

We really have been having a great time this summer! =)

On another note, I wanted to thank everyone for all of the wonderful comments about my post on Randi’s blog! =)  I am working on a more thorough Q&A to answer some of the questions that I received about applique.  If you have any questions about applique, shoot me a message or leave it in the comments and I’ll try to cover it. =)