Light House Canvas - DIY Home Decor with Creative Embellishments

 

Welcome to the ocean. The ocean is my happy place and I adore creating a variety of coastal projects to keep me as close as I can be to my favorite place.  

Creative Embellishments has a large selection coastal themed products to help with card making, home decor, traditional memory keeping,  scrapbooking, and any crafty idea you can imagine.

Today's feature is an easy  DIY home deco canvas made using Creative Embellishments Wooden Home Decor - Lighthouse and embellished with Creative Embellishments Seagull Set and Starfish and Sand Dollars

Creative Embellishments Wooden Home Decor - Lighthouse

Creative Embellishments Starfish and Sand Dollars

Creative Embellishments Seagull Set

 

The wood wooden Home Decor - Lighthouse  piece is fairly large (4.2" wide and 12" tall ) so I selected an 8"x 10" canvas for the project.  The paper background is a sheet of patterned paper from Stamperia's Sea Land 12x12 collection. It's also the backing behind the wood light house.  

I think I am on my 4th reorder of this gorgeous collection.  

I used a sea sponge and dabbed the wood light house with white  and light blue acrylic paint - but did not cover the whole piece. I tried to achieve a weathered look - not full coverage.    Tip:  if you find you have "over painted", just take some sand paper to the wood and ruff it up a bit.  You'll get it back to sea worthy perfection in no time.  

 

Thanks for stopping here today.  Happy Crafting.

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Creative Embellishments Wooden Home Decor - Lighthouse

Creative Embellishments Starfish and Sand Dollars

Creative Embellishments Seagull Set

Buttons Galore - Doo Dadz - Yankee Doodle DD110	Creative Embellishments United States - Wood Home Decor	Sea Land - Stamperia Double-Sided Paper Pad 12"X12" 10/Pkg - Stamperia Intl - Paper Pads

Coastal Boat Oars DIY Home Decor

Custom DIY Home Decor 

Creative Embellishments has a new product line featuring wood DIY Home Decor designs.  If you have not seen the designs yet,  you'll definitely want to check them out.  

These have been thoughtfully designed as affordably priced, DIY Home Decor pieces and are large durable wooden shapes ready to be decorated as you please; 

paint them,  paper them,  stencil them, alter them, hang them, gift them.

  

Today I am featuring the new Creative Embellishments Home Decor Wooden - Oars.  I love the beach and everything sea-worthy so this was a perfect DIY choice for me to decorate. 

 The wooden shapes are large - perfectly sized for a wall, front door, decor grouping. The oars are  12' x12' so there is a lot of surface area to decorate with your special flair.

The shape is smooth unfinished wood,  ready to finish.  No sanding needed.  I chose to paint mine with white acrylic paint to start.  After the paint was dry, I added Authentique's- Voyage Collection - 
12 x 12 Double Sided Paper - Seven to the oars because the paper looks like old weathered wood.  

Next I used hemp rope and wound it round the oar handles, gluing/stapling in back to secure. 

Once the rope handles were finished, I used a sea sponge and lightly dabbed them with white acrylic paint - more instant "weathering".  

I added a bit of decorative fishing net to the project - securing in the back using a craft staple. 

The staples also add durability to the finished decor.  

My finishing touches come from a few added coastal chipboard pieces from Creative Embellishments.  

These were also white washed lightly with a sea sponge and white acrylic paint thinned with water. 

  

Creative Embellishments - Seagull Set	Creative Embellishments - Starfish And Sand Dollars	Creative Embellishments - Large Seashells?search=shells

 

Check out the ever growing selection of DIY wood Home Decor pieces from Creative Embellishments.     Happy decorating.  

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Creative Embellishments - Seagull Set	Creative Embellishments - Starfish And Sand Dollars	Creative Embellishments - Large Seashells?search=shells

Creative Embellishments Wood Home Decor- Oars	Authentique Paper - Voyage Collection - 12 x 12 Double Sided Paper - Seven

Tiny Canvas Dimensional Card - Spellbinders Large Die of the Month with Video

Mini Canvas - Spellbinders Large Die of the Month (and more)

The creativity and innovation overflow with the cool Spellbinders clubs this month (well every month).  Unleash your mini Bob Ross, Van Gogh, or your own unique style with the Spellbinders Large Die of the Month for August.  

This month, you can make your own art easel, dimensional canvas and decorate to your heart's content. Spellbinders has a wonderful step-by-step video to help you along the way.

  Scroll down to see the video.  

Large Die of the Month Membership

In addition to the Spellbinders Large Die of the Month , I am featuring the alphabet dies from the Small Die of the Month  and sailboat and palm tree dies from Spellbinders Card Kit of the Month for August. 

 

Small Die of the Month Membership from: Spellbinders

Spellbinders Card Kit of the Month

My mini canvas was created using an inexpensive watercolor set and water pens with watercolor paper.   The canvas is watercolor paper as are the sailboat, palm trees and tiny alphas.  The frame was made using kraft paper. 

American Crafts - Art Supply Basics  Watercolor  Set

Brea Reese - Empty Water Brush - Fine

Strathmore - 12 x 12 Watercolor Paper Pad

Spellbinders Video Tutorial

Here's a quick video produced by Spellbinders showing how easy it is to create the easel and canvas.   

The definition and highlights were created using a fine black pen and white paint pen after the watercolor paper was dry.  

The second mini canvas uses the flowers and vase elements from the

 Spellbinders Large Die of the Month .   This was also made using watercolors, watercolor papers and a water brush. 

And as always, the dies for Spellbinders monthly clubs are exclusive to Spellbinders and you won't find them anywhere else. 

Thanks for stopping here today.  Happy crafting.

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Spellbinders Large Die of the Month Membership	Small Die of the Month Membership from: Spellbinders	Spellbinders Card Kit of the Month
American Crafts - Art Supply Basics  Watercolor Cake Tray Set - 37 Piece	Brea Reese - Empty Water Brush - Fine	Strathmore - 12 x 12 Watercolor Paper Pad