Owl Wall Art {Birthday Party Project #2}

I've been wanting to make a canvas picture for Emily's room for a long time, but I'm definitely NOT an artist when it comes to painting.  I ran across a tutorial on Martha's website for making collages, and I figured I could tweak it for Emily's room.  It just so happened that Emily's upcoming birthday party was going to be a pajama party theme, and I thought this little "night owl" canvas could do double duty as a part of the birthday decor. 

This was such an easy project.  I started by painting my canvas pink.  It took a bunch of coats because I was painting over an old painting that was on there.  Next, I gathered my scrapbook papers, and started cutting out my owl and tree shapes.  I used a large scallop punch to make the leaves for the tree, and a small scallop punch for the owls' eyes.  I hand drew their eyelashes (as if you couldn't tell!  Ha!) and used some pink ink to distress the edges.  Once I had laid everything out, I started gluing my paper onto the canvas using Mod Podge.  I used my mom's Cricut to do the letters.  The last thing I added were some cute yo-yos to dress up the owls' ears.  Finally, I wrapped some cute ricrac around the edges.  Voila - cute, cheap wall art!!!

This ended up being the perfect decoration for Emily's party!  Party pictures coming very soon!

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