Merry & Bright Silhouette Project! (& Black Friday Discount Code!!)

Okay so I showed you this week how we installed our new rustic wood fireplace mantel and the awesome little ampersand cutout sign project.  Now I have the rest of that particular craft to go with it.  It all started when I saw this on Pinterest, from the Lovely Cupboard.

I loved the snowflake art and it reminded me a of table I saw on a HGTV home show a million years ago.  So, I thought I would make my own version.  I got what I needed at an office store and a crafts store.

Merry and Bright Christmas Art!

Supplies:

2 Large Foam core boards

2 (240) packages of 1” silver foil envelope seals (you could get away with one if you use less)

1 multi sized self stick gems (in a clear color- these are optional)

1-2 sheets of silver/metallic paper

glue

This was so fast, easy and kid friendly.  Etta had a lot of fun helping me.  We loaded one edge/side of the canvas with silver foil stickers and then slowly let them fade out, (like a falling snow)  I added some gems to change the size up a bit and make it even more blingy.

Next, I started off too lazy to go find my Silhouette in storage (I learned from this mistake, quickly).  So I printed out the text “MERRY BRIGHT” to the proper size on some regular paper.  Then I followed the steps below to transfer the text to my paper. 

Okay, so there was only one major problem when I was done.  The color of scrapbook paper I used was so light and reflective,  that you couldn’t see it very well.  Which meant I needed to cut it out again.  At this point, I wasn’t going to go through the hand cutting process that I just finished… I started over with my silhouette machine and it only took about 2 minutes.  I kid you not and that includes opening the box and setting up.  (Insert head smack here- dope!)

I just glued the newly cut words onto the bottom of the foam core boards. and I was done!  Easy and cute!  The ampersand cutout sits in front of the two boards.

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