Canvas pin

Hello Everyone, Kim here today with another fun and simple project using the canvas butterfly. I made it into a pin. You can wear it on a jacket, scarf, or attach it to a pillow, or even a curtain.

Let me tell you a little bit about how, I made this. First, I took the canvas butterfly and gessoed the front and then the back. This makes it stiff. Once it was dry, I used spray inks, stencil and some glitter glue. The center piece is a collaged mini-domino piece. Attached that to the canvas butterfly with some E6000. Made some antennas out of wire and used E6000 to attach them to the back of the canvas butterfly. Then I took some felt (I only had blue) and used my butterflies stencil/mask and trace a butterfly on the felt.  Cut it out. Since,  I can't sew to I used fabric glue attach the felt to the backside of the canvas butterfly. Leaving open one wing so you can add poly stuffing to it. Once you have it all filled with the poly stuffing then put the fabric glue on open area to close it. Then with E6000 I add a pin closure. Let dry and you have a super duper cute pin.

Hope you have enjoyed my project today! 

Hugs,

Kim H

Bird Pin or Hair Clip by Pinky

Good morning Linnie Bloom friends, 

Pinky here today with a step by step tutorial for making this 

Linnie Blooms bird pin/hair clip. It could be used as either.

This is a "Wearable Art" post for sure!

• Start with Linnie Blooms Canvas Bird, and Canvas Leaves. 
• Coat each in embossing pad- Press firmly 3 times into pad. 
• Dust with embossing powders. (I used a multi colored for the bird and brass color for the wing).

• Using a Heat Gun- heat emboss powder onto canvas. Repeat if desired color is not strong enough. 

•  Coat Linnie Blooms pieces in Glossy Accents.
• Set to dry overnight. 

•  Using a clip pin- coat with mixed media adhesive. (Beacon Quick Grip works well).

•  Turn bird over and press into clip at desired position. 

•  Set to dry for a minimum of 1 hour I actually recommend all day. 

•  Adhere "wing" using same adhesive. 

•  Apply bronze pearl pen for accent pearls. 

 That's it! Now you have a wonderful pin for your jacket or hair clip. 

Very artistic and it would make a wonderful gift!

I hope you enjoyed my post and it pushes you to think outside of the box.

Until next time- Keep on creating!

Pinky Hobbs- Linnie Blooms Design Team

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Products Used:

Linnie Blooms-Canvas Birds, Canvas Leaves

Liquid Pearls
Beacon Quick Grip
Mardi Gras, Brass embossing powder
Watermark embossing pad
Heat Gun