LOVE Canvas Art

   Hi, everyone!  Happy Labor Day!  I started laboring away on a beautiful, easy project last night.  It's a piece of art on canvas.  Let me tell you how I made it. :)

   I used my Silhouette machine to cut the word LOVE from a piece of pretty black scrapbook paper.  I also took a canvas out of my canvas stash to put the letters on.

I painted my canvas hot pink.  (If you want to get technical, the color is strawberry.)

Now, the reason I started this project is because I recently bought some of the new Martha Stewart paints from Michaels.  I just had to try out the beautiful pearly colors.  So I chose the Pink Taffeta Pearl paint to stencil a design onto my canvas.

I don't like my projects to look too "new."  I love for them to have an aged look.  So when I finished with the stenciling.  I rubbed my black ink pad over the edges and some of the surface of my canvas.

Then I took out my Mod Podge and glued the letters to the canvas.

I intentionally left space at the bottom of the canvas to add some type of embellishments.  I decided on ribbon flowers with button centers.  I am kind of obsessed with them right now.

I used my glue gun to attach the flowers to the canvas.

I put rhinestones in the centers of the two outside ribbon flowers' buttons because they had a space in the middle that was screaming, "Add some bling!"  Then I was finished!

I love the pearl effect of the stenciled design, and I love the pink!  And I really love that it was inexpensive and pretty easy!  This would be so cute in a little girl's room or as a Valentine's gift.