The 4th of July is right around the corner so I made this cute, little 4th of July Star Canvas to add a little patriotic sparkle to my office.
It was made using:
- Silhouette Stencil Material (I fell in love with this stencil material after using it to makeover a favorite chair of mine)
- 8×8 canvas
- blue acrylic craft paint
- white spray paint
- small paint brush
The shape that I used is the Star Inverted Rhinestone Design ID #6443 from the Silhouette Online Store. This shape has a message on it instructing you not to alter the size, but since we’re not using this for rhinestones, go ahead and resize for the size of your canvas. I resized mine to 8×8 to fit my canvas.
First I painted the canvas with blue craft paint and let it dry. Since the stencil material is adhesive, I just stuck it down on the canvas and sprayed the white spray paint over the whole thing.
Since I didn’t pay attention to how well the stencil was sticking to the canvas around the edges, I ended up with this sort of bokeh affect! That’s one happy accident! Trust me, it’s rare when my mistakes actually look good.
I like how it looks like there are lights shining through the canvas.
Oh, and one more thing about the stencil material: the stencils that you create using it are reusable! Yep, reusable.
I used the same stencil on a T-shirt.
We will be at the beach over the 4th and now I’ll have a cute t-shirt to wear to the boardwalk to watch the fireworks.
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Love this! What cut settings did you use? I tried to cut the stencil material and couldn’t get it to work even at the highest depth setting. Thanks!
I just checked and my blade was set at 5.
Hey Jeanie,
I was just on Ahalogy scheduling some pins and I came across this…and then I saw it was from your blog! I LOVE IT! I love even more than you took a Rhinestone design and just painted it. How clever are you. Very very cool! – Melissa
Thank you Melissa! I’m not a fan of setting rhinestones but I love the look!
The bokeh effect is totally a happy accident! Love it!
Thank you Alexis. It doesn’t happen often but this one worked out!
Wow, Jeanie! This is gorgeous. And I absolutely love the bokeh effect – – so happy accident indeed. Love that stencil material. Off to pin!