How to Make a "Favorite Quote" Art Canvas
Materials:

12x24 Canvas (or any size of your choice)

Mat Finish Mod Podge

Scrapbook paper

Black or Brown Acrylic Paint

Stencils

White Paint Pen

Tools:

Paint Brushes

Paper Cutter

1. First choose a color scheme and pick out scrapbook paper that matches your color scheme.

2. Second cut your scrapbook paper in approximately 1 or 2 inch squares.  Keep in mind the smaller the squares the more you will need to cover the canvas.  This also means more time.

 

3.  Then lay your canvas in front of you with the piles of squares above it so you can access them easily.

4. Next use a large paintbrush to spread a generous amount of Mod Podge on the top corner of the canvas, like you see here.  Lay one square on this corner & cover with  more Mod Podge.

 

5. Now repeat step four, but this time be sure to overlap the first square of paper with the second square.

6. Then continue steps four & five until the canvas is covered.  I like to go around the border first with the most interesting pieces.  *Note: There is no pattern to follow.  Placing you paper squares on the canvas is totally random.

7. After that when the entire canvas is covered you will want to go back and apply another generous layer of Mod Podge over the whole canvas.  *Note: It will be white at first but it will dry clear.

8.  Now let your canvas dry completely.

9. Next cut out or use premade stencils to lay out your quote. *Note: I use my Cricut Machine to cut out the letters I want to use.  You can also free hand bubble letters if you want.

                                                   

10.  Then use a pencil to outline the letters.

11.  Next draw a boarder of your choice or any other shape or design on your canvas.  I like to use a pencil for this as well.

12. Now use your black or brown paint and go over the pencil marks of your letters, shapes, and boarder.  You will also be painting between the letters & boarder to give your art the look that it has scrapbook paper on top of a black canvas. *Note:  I always need two coats of paint.

 

13.  Also you will want to paint the outside edges of your canvas.  I have done this to most of those I have done.  (The canvas you see below that says "Sugar & Spice" I did not paint the outside edges.)

14.  After you are finished painting let your paint dry completely.

                                              

15. Once the paint is dry use the white paint pen to outline the letters and shapes.  This will clean up the lines and make your artwork pop.

16. Finally hang your artwork to enjoy or give it to a special person as a gift.

 

Here are some more examples of other "Favorite Quote" Art Canvases that I have made: