crafty

I'm not creative. Or crafty. But I can aspire.

One of my internet friends did this project from Pinterest and I loved the results, so I decided to give it a shot since I had some free time this weekend...

Shockingly easy (though now I have 3/4 of a medium bottle of Mod Podge left - I didn't know how much I'd need - and might need to find more things to slick it over).

I ordered prints through Snapfish, since they a) have pick up at Walgreens b) will print bigger than 4x6 and c) I could have them same-day (mail order is cheaper, but even the 8x10s were only $2.99).

So here goes...

scrapbook paper and one photo glued down.

The instruction post said to make the sides a smidge small.  I didn't do this, and it worked out ok since I was able to wrap them around to the back...

with a layer drying on top....

I bought two extra "just in case" canvases and couldn't stop. Of course, I'd only gotten 2 8x10s....so I improvised...

The two with the small prints were hard. What to do with the edges?? (see the drying one above? The edges didn't "fade" into the scrapbook paper like I was kind of hoping. Seems Mod Podge doesn't melt things).  I played around with some acrylic paint I had leftover from the nursery (more on that later). This proved to me I am a crappy painter. I wiped it off so many times I wet through the Mod Podge on this one and had to recoat the bottom. In the end, I think it came out ok, but its a little too....crafty? for me.

I think I'm going to slip this into my wife's bag to put up at work. It's WAY too pink for our house. She'll put pink on her desk right? right??