A little Christmas project

Yes I said Christmas project. I have been meaning to post this for quite a while. so here goes...


I found this project on a blog called Whatever.(It's on Pinterest as well) It is really quite easy, could get a little messy but is tonnes of fun and uses up little bits of left over stuff.

Here are the supplies I used. 

I had some canvases that my daughter had used for practicing on  and I never threw them out, glad I didn't. I just painted over with the green background color. Just used the folk art paint from a dollar store.

The yellow bowl contains sequins, buttons ( from grandmas on both sides and great grandmas), beads of all sorts, plastic stars and even glow in the dark snow flakes. So a mish mosh of many craft and beading projects. I especially love the buttons because there is so much history now in this project.

This canvas was  16"x20" and I used about half of the bottle of the glue bottle, it was the biggest bottle I could find. For the cording you need something a little heavier/thicker that can contain the glue pool you will make.

First you paint the canvas and let it dry completely.
Draw your pattern on the canvas.
Glue the cording over your drawing.
Pour the glue inside the cording. Fill the whole area before putting the bead mixture in, you will more than enough time before the glue starts to dry.
Pour the bead mixture in and lightly press it down.
Let dry over night.
Pour excess beads onto a news paper.
Stand back and admire.

Now really you could do this with any shape on any size canvas for any season. I had enough bead mixture left over I want to do this over summer holidays with butterfly shapes or flower shapes.

We did do a blue background and made a bell shape that we gave to Grandma. Didn't think to grab a finished picture.

 I did add a little white to the background so it wasn't just a solid blue.

So keep all those little beads you find all over your house and in the laundry. I have a jar that I collect them in.