Painted Canvas Screen

Mother's Day Gift

Once again, I made this for my Daughter-in-Law.  This was a Mother's Day Gift, and I was a little nervous about whether she would like it.  She did.  I had purchased the canvas screen for $30 from Garden Ridge.  It had a hideous pattern in orange and blues, but I knew Bin Primer/Sealer would do away with that quickly.  I have been experimenting with chalk paint and waxes, and used these also.

 INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Paint with Bin Primer/Sealer.
2. Stencil the daisies with Dry Wall Compound.  I made big daisy stencils in 14" and 12" sizes.
3. Using the wall color (that I added Plaster of Paris to make chalk paint) paint the screen.  
4. Randomly stencil, using a Tim Holtz burlap stencil, in dark grey.    
5. Paint the daisies white and yellow.
6. Apply a coat of  furniture wax (like Formby's or Ana White).  Follow can/jar instructions.
7. Go over with a dark wax, applying and rubbing off, as desired.

Steps 6 and 7 can be done by spraying with satin polyurethane, and then using an Antiquing method.