Pottery Barn Kids Swallow Art Knock Off

  Hi, everyone!  This week's challenge at The CSI Project is to create a knock off.  I looked at several different online stores to find something to create for the challenge.  I stumbled upon the Sentiment Canvas Collection from Pottery Barn Kids.

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 I love all the canvases, but I chose to "knock off" the swallow canvas.  So here's what I did to create my knock off.  It was super easy and super inexpensive-- a great combination!

First, I pulled a canvas out of my canvas stash.  Unfortunately, I didn't have a square canvas, and the closest craft store to my house is a 45 minute drive, so I just worked with what I had.  I used my Silhouette to cut a swallow from white card stock.

I painted my canvas with the tan paint.  I only used one coat because, to me, the PB canvas almost looks like burlap.  The texture of my canvas shows through the thin coat of paint, creating a burlap texture.  I then taped off my canvas with painters tape to create the lines around the edge of the canvas.

I used my stencil brush to paint between the tape.  The photo of the stencil in progress shows me using white paint.  This was before I realized the PB art has pink lines....so I repainted the lines pink.

Here is where I had to use my noggin!  To create the flowers in the corners of the canvas, I first traced a flower I had cut with my Silhouette.  I filled in the traced flower with pink paint.

I used the end of an unsharpened pencil to create the circles for the smaller flowers.

I used the small end of a small paintbrush to create the centers of the flowers.  I used the end of a straight pin to create the dots around the center of the large flower.  And, finally, I painted the white edge around the large flower with a small paint brush.  It's not perfect, but I will have to accept that and move on with my life.

The finishing touch was applying my paper swallow to the canvas with Mod Podge.  I also used two coats of Mod Podge to seal the canvas.

Then I had a PB Kids knock off!

Besides the fact that it's not square, I think it looks pretty darn close to the original!  :)