Best Friend Canvas

Hi everyone, this is Maddie again. My mom is letting me share this project that I made for my good friend, Lyndie. We recently graduated from high school and we will be going to different colleges, so I wanted to make her a reminder of our high school days.

I saw this project here on A Beautiful Mess, and I just followed Elsie’s directions. I tried it on a canvas the first time and it didn’t turn out very well. I didn’t get enough of the paper and gel off and it was really cloudy. I decided to move to plan B. I found a piece of fabric from our stash and tried again. I used a black and white photo that was printed from the printer, and gel medium.

I painted the gel onto the face of the photo, then pressed the photo onto the fabric and let it dry for a few hours.

To get the photo off the fabric, I sprayed it with water and gently rubbed the paper with my finger. This is where I was very careful, because it’s easy to rub too much off and get all the way down to the fabric, but I also wanted to make sure to take enough off so that it wouldn’t look cloudy. It took longer than I thought it would to do this part.

Once the fabric dried, I cut it down to a size that I could wrap around the canvas that I used on my first failed attempt. I put some E6000 glue on the back of the canvas and along the inside edge where the wood shows.

Then I wrapped the fabric around the canvas and tucked it in.

I decided it needed something else, so I added a blue stripe that matches Lyndie’s room. I dabbed a wet paper towel on the blue stripe to make it look a little messier, so it would go with the rest of the picture. Once the paint dried I painted over the whole image with another layer of gel medium. This is how it turned out:

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