DIY:: Melted Crayon Art

This was one of my favorite DIY projects!  I've been wanting to do this for a while now but just haven't had the time.  It is super easy and just so awesome to watch melt! 

What you will need::

• Crayons
• Glue Gun along with glue sticks
• Marker if you wanted to draw
• Any size canvas you want
• black paint
• hair dryer
• tape
• and something to keep your work from getting too messy; I used newspaper

Start off painting your canvas black.  Once dry, hot glue your arrangement of crayons.  Just hot glue the end of the crayon so it stays in place.  Make sure to leave a white space for the drawing!

Don't forget to tape your white space so it doesn't get too messy.  You want to prop the canvas up against a surface, a bit slanted.  That way it is easier for the crayons to melt down. Now take your hair dryer and start blowing away!

You can experiment here.  Blow to the right, blow to the left, blow straight down! Watch the colors blend and melt away!

How awesome does that look?!?

Now slowly take your tape off.

I decided to draw a couple underneath an umbrella.  Theres the pencil sketch.

And the finished product!  For those of you who watch How I Met Your Mother, the yellow umbrella is indeed symbolic ;)

I loved it so much I decided to do another one!  I started out by laying out my colors.

Then arranged them into a heart-shaped design and starting hot glueing it to stay in its place.

This one was different than the other because I literally had to keep turning the canvas and tilt it down for it to splatter since the design was a circle type.

Finished product!!  Look at all this mess!  I wasn't kidding by saying it leaves a huge mess!

Still looks soo amazing!

What design are you going to try?

Happy crafting!

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DIY Crafting:: Lilly Frames

Who does't like Lilly Pulitzer and who doesn't like spending less??  Combine those two and we have a winner!  During this event called "Twin Week," we were to craft or buy different items for our twin.  I decided to craft since I think it is so much more meaningful and fun!  The first day was a picture frame and I wanted my frame to stand out then some ribbon or letters, so I decided to replicate the Lilly Pulitzer print! It was SO EASY and yall can do this at home!

What you will need::

You can always choose different colors but I wanted to recreate this print::

Paintbrush ( I used to, a thinner one and a regular sized one)

Light Pink paint

Dark Pink paint

Navy Blue paint

White Paint

Green Paint

and a cloth or something to work on

First, go ahead and paint your whole frame with a blue base and let dry.

 Now add some random pink flowers that sorta look like the print.  I added the word twin to make it more suiting for the event!

You can now add some greenery and light pink  flowery shapes.

Use white paint and a small paint brush to start roughly outlining the shapes.

And Voila!! Add a picture and you are now ready to gift this cute frame or keep it for yourself!  You can know even boldly try out some other prints! Good Luck and have fun this weekend!

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