Imagine

Here is my final project I created with the June Anthologies kit. The kit includes this 4"x4" bare canvas. I was so excited when I first saw it, because I knew I wanted to created a little altered project with it. I just had to gather my ideas.

I finally decided to turn the canvas around and use the back side (that the canvas is stapled to) and make a tiny shadow box. And oila! My Fairy Ballerina now has a stage on which to perform.

Here's what I did:

1. I painted the canvas with a quick coat of pink craft paint. As the canvas dried, I coated the chipboard word with glue and glitter.

2. I went through a little art book that I have, looking for an image for her backdrop. This painting (of ancient Rome I think) was perfect. Now I started decorating the "stage."

3. I cut a piece of the gorgeous dragonfly fabric in the kit to create the curtain. I used upholstery tacks to hammer it onto the canvas frame. I used a small gold tassle from my stash as the curtain tie-back. Then I trimmed the top and opposite side with the gold trim in the kit.

4. I gave my vintage ballerina her fairy wings (an old millinery butterfly from my stash) and adhered her inside the box. I gave her "spotlights" with a few clear rhinestones from my stash.
 

5. I adhered the glittered chipboard title to the bottom of the canvas and added a scrap that gorgeous brown trim from the kit.

6. I added a hanger made from ribbon in the kit and added a strip of buttons from my stash down the side.

This is one of my favorite projects and is already hanging up in my craft room. I need to get a few more of these canvases and create some fairy friends for her.