How to Create Easy St Patrick’s Day Canvas Decor with Dew Drops

Hello and welcome!  Shelly with you today to give you some inspiration and an easy to do project for St. Patrick’s Day!

I love to decorate for all holidays – big and small. I was inspired to create a St Patrick’s Day mixed media canvas from my latest manicure!

Let’s get started!

Gather:

In all shades of green:

• Original Dew Drops
• Mini Dew Drops
• Tear Drops

Other:

• 6×6 Canvas
• Gesso
• Acrylic Paint in 5 shades of green
• Ink

Make it!

• Swipe gesso across your canvas for base.  I used wide uneven swipes
• Starting with your lightest shade of green – free hand a horseshoe shape low on your canvas

• Continue making horseshoe shapes in darkening shades of green for a total of 5 to create your green rainbow
• Do not try for perfect stripes – keep it rustic and charming!
• Create a shamrock under your green rainbow using 1 mini Dew Drop and 6 Tear Drops (or 8 Tear Drops if you opt for a 4 leaf clover!)
• Make sure you are using a CLEAR drying glue – you want those Dew Drops to SPARKLE!

Making Lemons into Lemonade….

I originally wanted to write “Happy Go Lucky at base of canvas, and normally, I love my handwriting – but was not happy with how it looked..

I used several layers of gesso – but it would NOT cover the sharpie pen writing!

And then – – found this wonderful rainbow washi tape! and the final touch was some ink along the edges of canvas.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today! Have a creative week!