Painted Burlap Pencil Case Tutorial

I purchased this burlap pencil case a while back from the craft store.  I needed a pouch to take with me when I'm out and about.

                       I used color pencils, watercolor crayons, and acrylic paint for the background.

As I started to paint I noticed that the fabric absorbs quite a bit of paint so please keep this in mind when painting on burlap.  The vibrancy of the paint will also be dulled a bit once dry so I pulled out my neon colors and stenciled away.

I wanted my focus to be abstract silhouette's so I used my charcoal pencil to loosely draw four figures.

The background was too busy so I added purple to make the silhouettes stand out.  I also added blue highlights to the figures to make them more cohesive.

The other side was treated the same way although I didn't know how it was going to turn out.

I really liked the stencil letters but it was too plain.

So I drew in one silhouette and filled the background with color and more stenciling.

I added two additional figures and blue to the background.

All done!!!

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Altered Burlap Pencil Cases

If you've seen my previous Target haul vid then you might have seen this pencil case.

 

I wanted to share a few more I've made.  I can't wait to use these as gifts.  I have two birthday's coming up and I plan to stuff these full of girly gifts!

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The Shabby Tea Room-Party Time Challenge

I really wanted to join in on the The Shabby Tea Room's challenge for week #53 and I almost missed it!  The theme is "Party Time" so I chose to this Celebrate Mom stamp from Hampton Art.  This is the first time I altered a gift bag.  My inspiration came from a Youtuber (RoseS915), she is so creative!  Here is my late night entry!

Products used: Prima bling, Recollections roses, Studio 112 stamp, Donna Salazar Journaling cards, Maya Road spool.  Thanks for stopping by!