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February 6, 2012 · 23 Comments

Mini Butterfly Crayon Art Canvases

Home Decor· Paper Crafts· Paper Decorations

I am always drawn to miniature items.  When I saw the mini (3 inch) canvases at Consumer Crafts, I knew I had to do something with them! Today I want to share with you a quick, easy and colorful project, one that you could easily enlist the help of children for.  Mini Butterfly Crayon Art Canvases!

(I made these for my daughter’s room, but now I kind-of want to keep them for myself!)

Mini Butterfly Crayon Art Canvases Let’s get started!

Supplies needed to make your own mini butterfly crayon art canvases:

  •  Three (3) Studio 71 3×3 inch Mini Canvases (white) (These come in groups of three when you order them at ConsumerCrafts.)
  • Victoria Lynn White Pearl Floral Spray
  • Queen & Co. Bling Pearls (white)
  • Core’dinations Cardstock (white)
  • Glue Dots Craft Adhesive
  • Studio 71 Wooden Mini Easel (optional)
  • 24 Count Crayola Crayons
  • EK Success Large Butterfly Punch
  • Multi-Purpose Heat Tool
  • Scissors

The first thing you need to decide is your color palette. I chose the whole rainbow! I split the spectrum into three sections: Red/Orange, Yellow/Green, and Blue/Purple. I found it worked well to use 3-4 colors per canvas to get a good variety of color.

Peel back and discard the paper on the crayons you wish to use.

Take off and discard the plastic coverings on your canvases.

Place a piece of scrap paper underneath your canvas, to keep your work space clean.

Here we go!

Hold your heat gun over the top of the tip of your crayon, and allow it to start to melt.

Let the drips from the crayon cover the canvas as desired.

Keep in mind, the heat from the heat gun will keep the crayon on the canvas liquid, and the drops on the canvas will spread.

Add additional colors as desired.

This is where it starts to get fun!

Keep adding color, and let the colors mix and swirl.

While the crayons are still molten on the canvas, you can tilt the canvas, and allow the crayons to mix and drip. I let mine drip right off the side of the canvas!

Look how cool the texture of the canvas is with the melted crayons!

Let the canvas dry, and the crayons harden.

Then you can add color splatters to the canvas.

Heat the crayon away from the finished canvas. This will keep the color already on the canvas from re-melting.

When the crayon starts dripping, hold the dripping crayon over the canvas, tap it, and allow it to splatter!

Are you having fun yet?

Repeat with your other canvases, and your selected colors.

Let the canvases dry. It doesn’t take long.

Using white Core’dinations cardstock, and a large butterfly punch, punch two butterflies per canvas.

Trim the antennas from the butterflies.

(I would like to thank my eight year old daughter Mikayla, for assisting me. She was my photographer, and the hand-model in the next photo.)

(We both clearly need manicures!)

Take a glue dot, and stretch it out to cover the body of the (bottom) butterfly.

(Designer note: make sure your working area is free from stray crayon residue, or you will be punching a bunch of extra white butterflies to replace the ones that inadvertently got colored while you worked on them. Just saying.)

Trim two strands of the pearl sprays from the bunch, and place them in the (stretched) glue dot.

With your second (top) butterfly, bend the wings upwards at the body section, and adhere it to the bottom butterfly, using the stretched glue dot.

Add a strip of adhesive Bling pearls down the center of the butterfly body.

Adhere the finished butterfly to your finished canvas using glue dots.

Trim those pearl spray antennas as desired.

That’s it!

You can choose to display your creative, artistic, FABULOUS crayon art canvases on easels:

Or on the wall:

Mini Butterfly Crayon Art CanvasesEither way, you might have to sign the bottoms of those crayon art canvases, because people aren’t going to believe you actually made them yourself!

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Shaunte

Shaunte is a 30-something, chocolate-loving, SAHM from Utah. She has been scrapbooking since 1997, the dreaded era of photos cropped with deco scissors. Since then, her work has evolved into a clean, linear, photo-focused style. Her favorite subjects to scrap are her husband and five kids (never a lack for subject material there).

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Comments

  1. scrapouille66 says

    August 28, 2014 at 3:18 am

    excellent super idée de faire fondre les crayolas sur un chassis les couleurs sont super belles.et les papillons BRAVO

    Reply
  2. Brenda says

    July 15, 2013 at 10:45 pm

    I love these great projects. Can’t wait to enjoy crafting time with my grand kids. I know they are going to love creating their own canvas art. Thank for sharing.

    Reply
  3. Lee W says

    June 26, 2012 at 7:43 pm

    Very cool

    Reply
  4. Rebekka Smith says

    May 22, 2012 at 6:38 am

    Very cute project. I’m going to try and make it this week

    Reply
  5. PBR says

    March 7, 2012 at 10:32 am

    These are great projects. Love them.

    Reply
  6. Melissa says

    March 1, 2012 at 7:36 am

    how clever!!!! what a great little home decor project!i love the contrast of the white canvas and butterflies with the bright crayon background 🙂

    Reply
  7. Maralyn Cavatorta says

    February 14, 2012 at 5:09 pm

    very nice!

    Reply
  8. Lynn says

    February 12, 2012 at 3:04 pm

    Adorable and creative, very eye catching

    Reply
  9. Amy So says

    February 9, 2012 at 5:25 pm

    SO cute, Shauntae!

    Reply
  10. Kathy says

    February 7, 2012 at 11:01 am

    What a clever project and so pretty too! Great tutorial.

    Reply
  11. Lucy says

    February 7, 2012 at 7:26 am

    Clever! They came out adorable 🙂

    Reply
  12. Pamela says

    February 6, 2012 at 10:06 pm

    Really cute! Great pops of colour for a kid’s room… or that spot on the back of my craft cabinet! 🙂 🙂 Thanks for the tutorial.

    Reply
  13. Lisa L. says

    February 6, 2012 at 9:36 pm

    This is fabulous!!! I love this idea and def. want to try it out, thanks so much!
    Lisa

    Reply
  14. AndreaA says

    February 6, 2012 at 7:30 pm

    Theses are so stinkin’ adorable and clever!!

    Reply
  15. DebP says

    February 6, 2012 at 4:11 pm

    Love it!!

    Reply
  16. Hollie Dortch says

    February 6, 2012 at 3:56 pm

    Perfect for crafting with kids! (and its one I would actually WANT to display!) so cute…

    Reply
  17. Cammee says

    February 6, 2012 at 2:15 pm

    I love these! So cute and creative.

    Reply
  18. Rena says

    February 6, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    Cool. My daughter would love these.

    Reply
  19. Debi Kinzel says

    February 6, 2012 at 11:00 am

    I am so excited! This is just what I was looking for as a project for a craft day with my daughter! Thank you for sharing!

    Reply
  20. Janice Aeschliman says

    February 6, 2012 at 9:56 am

    Those are so cute. Thank you for sharing the how-to-dos.

    Reply
  21. Paula says

    February 6, 2012 at 9:45 am

    I love these. i can’t wait to make these for my daughter’s room and some other little girls.

    Reply
  22. Bonnie says

    February 6, 2012 at 9:40 am

    Very cute and easy. Will be making these with my granddaughter.
    Love it!

    Reply
  23. Cathy Derouche says

    February 6, 2012 at 9:28 am

    an amazing project, I love it!

    Reply

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