DISCOVERING HOMEMADE CANVAS ... WITH LAURENCE !

How long have you pratcice home-deco with homemade canvas ?

I discovered this hobby in 2005 along with scrapbooking. I had just moved into my house and I really wanted to customize my deco. And since I'm a fan of creative leisure of all kinds, I launched.

Especially when I made my first canvas in scrapbooking, I wanted to try something else. And now it was gone ! I made my first triptych, mixing paints, stencils and my "scrapbidules".

What do you prefer in homemade canvas ?    

I have no preference in particular. What I like is that I can really use different techniques and use all kinds of materials : painting, gluing, cutting, "scrapbiduling", rhinestones, flower .... I do not remain confined to a single technique. That way I can experiment.

What are your favorite colors? 

I love bright colors : fuchsia, turquoise, orange, green, and then all those who are close to the natural like brown, beige, cream ...

 What brings you home deco ?

In fact it is not only "home deco" (homemade canvas) but for me these are all creative hobbies. It's like a stimulant (my brain is all excited with 1000 ideas that go through my head) and an "un-stressant" (at the end when I see the result I am quite happy).

And what a pleasure to offer personalized gift to a loved one.

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What is home made canvas ?

What? HomeMade canvas you said? A term sometimes still quite unknown.

Yet something very simple to practice.

This fun and creative activity allows us to customize our daily lives. Yes, everybody work increasingly in the decoration of his home as a privileged place to live. This art allows us to customize our homes thanks to the various techniques of creative leisure. Moreover, the fact to DIY provides self-fulfillment.

So why hesitate to give you pleasure ?

Officially, the HomeMade Canvas activity consist to apply various decorative techniques such as cutting, gluing, stenciling, drawing on canvas frames ... or fabric covered wood panels, harmonizing with decoration in relief elements.

Personally, doing HomeMade Canvas allow me to use different creative leisure activities such as scrapbooking, digital scrapbooking, beads, mosaics, cardboard, sewing, embroidery, napkin... to decorate and customize my "home", especially events (wedding, baptism, banquet...) just for my pleasure.

The necessary equipment.

- Thin or thick stretched canvas

- Acrylic Paint, 3D Paint, Paint Additive (first layer, gel, paste, gel 3D, glitter gel, granite gel ).

- painting Knives, painting spatulas, painting Combs, Brushes...

- Stencils.

- Various wood or paper Decorations (decorating objects in different forms to paint and paste)

- Other items that can be used for decoration.

What to do with Homemade canvas Deco?

- Renovation or creation of various furniture (console, bedside table, chair) creating furniture with cardboard working, recovering old furnitures ...)

- Wall Decor (canvas frame, 3D frieze directly painted on the wall ...)

- Decoration of various objects (vases, Pictureframes, glasses, flower pots ....).

Suspension for picture frames ( with grill wand, raffia, rope, photos clamps):

Garland for curtain (rope, flower, butterfly, pearl):

Lighting (cardboard, tracing paper on which I printed patterns, beads, raffia):

From Recycling (redecorated pots of whiskey bottle, a bottle of liquor converted to soliflore).

Brands Products Homemade canvas...

Lefranc & Bourgeois invented the concept of Homemade canvas -

Pebeo is a paint manufacturer which has a range Home Deco

Bibliography

"I create my canvas arts" Viviane Rousset Editions & Creations

 
I create my fabric covered frame 

"The Book of Home Deco" Henny Donovan

Create your own canvas to decorate your home! Looking for an original and very personal touch to decorate your walls? Painting look very tempted, but you have no artistic training?

No need to be already an artist, you can transfer existing patterns, enlarge your favorite images, create collages and textures from textile or paper, produce effects with paint with a sponge, brush or spray. .

 
The Book of Home Deco 

"Home Deco Nature" C. Browet, A. and M. Dayez Derien

By combining stretched canvas, collage, simple flat areas of paint colors and designs in current, homemade canvas provides decorative trendy paintings and accessible to everybody without being gifted in drawing

Finally, we can even customize them suiting our mood with beads, ribbons, paper, mosaic, buttons ... Everything is possible with a canvas frame, and bold ideas.

Home Deco Nature  

"Home Deco Retro C. Browet, A. and M. Dayez Derien

Here, the authors present 20 original projects inspired by the 30's and 60's : golden arabesque panels and scrolls bakelite glossy mosaics, shining in earth tones and bronze, crimson and butterscotch; Large canvas frames with triangular colorful and tangy shapes, designed with paper evoking the vinyl and "yéyé" years .

Home Deco Retro  

Addresses and links: step by step

Where to find SRAP & Home Deco ...

For inspiration, visit my website Scrap and Home Deco :

And above all let your wander imagination, and you will make wonders

And now, your turn!