Have you ever though of making some very special Art using babies handprint or footprint to commemorate your new baby?
I love the idea of making some wonderful collages onto Canvas. These are really easy to do and will be a keepsake that you will have to keep for ever. Here’s how to make them.
1: Buy three 4 x 4” canvas’s from the Art supplies store.
2: Buy some metallic acrylic paints, I am thinking of wonderful Lumiere paints or folk art metallic paints. Choose the colors that you are called to and that will work in your house.
3: Also buy some printed tissue paper or a pack of paper napkins that work for your color scheme.
4: You will also need some watered down PVA glue. Any white glue should work for this. Just water it down a little to make it more like the consistency of milk.
5: You will also need some black non toxic acrylic paint for the footprints as well.
6: While baby is asleep, paint the canvas’s in the colors you have chosen. Make sure you cover the sides of the canvas as well as the fronts.
7: Now open some tissue paper, then screw it up till it is good and wrinkled. Now open it up again and rip it up into small pieces.
8: Using your diluted PVA, glue the ripped tissue on to the canvas’s. You can overlap the tissues and generally make a collage with them. Once you are happy with how they look, put them away safely and let them dry.
9: The next step is to paint Babies foot with black paint and stamp them onto the canvas. I like to date the canvas as well.
10: If you would like to you can do Babies Handprints on another of the three canvas’s.
11: Or, if you have patience you can do the footprints every month for 3 months so you can show how fast baby has grown. That way you have three canvas’s that can be hung together.
