DIY - Canvas Art

My neice just turned 9 years old  

For her birthday,

she came over on Saturday

to spend the night.

After a shopping trip to Hobby Lobby,

we tried our first arts and crafts project.

We bought 2 different size canvas

They each had 2 in the pack

We each had an 8x10

&

 an 11x14 canvas

Of course, all inspiration came from Pinterest

Where else ?

 We just kind of "winged" it

We had the following:

acrylic paints

paint brushes

canvas

mod podge (sparkly)

My neice embraced the project with full force

She knew what she wanted to say

&

She knew exactly the colors she wanted to use

 

Me on the other hand..

Not so much...

I used copper & brown to match my room

I first started with a cute saying

but couldn't really commit

So, I just put random letters on after I painted the copper

Then I painted "expresso" over them

Then I wasn't thinking, and I peeled off the letters...

So... I had to improvise and paint gold over the DREAM letters

looks like it was meant to be that way, right???

This is both of our attempts of doing hearts.

I say for our first attempt at being artist,

we did pretty good...

since they are just going to hang

in our rooms for us to see