12 Days of Christmas Day 7 Temporary Christmas Art

If you took my Christmas Home Tour (see post below if you missed it), you might have spied my snowy woods Christmas art.

I have enjoyed creating Christmas decor this year that is temporary or found or foraged. Living in a smaller house with not a lot of storage options encouraged me to not buy or make a lot of new Christmas STUFF that I would have to store for eleven months. I knew I wanted a Christmasy art picture in the spot above my little picture ledge, but wasn't sure what to use that wouldn't need storing.

I thought about hanging some wrapping paper, but I didn't have any that went with my natural, boho, pine loving theme. Then, I remembered I had a couple canvases in the garage that I had grabbed from the FREE spot at the dump. 

I sanded the larger canvas a bit because the flowers on it were raised. I thought I might recover the canvas in dropcloth, but I wanted something even more temporary than fabric. I found some fly fishing wrapping paper that was plain, paper bag brown on the back to use. I wadded the paper up to give it some texture and then smoothed it out and taped it to the back of the dump canvas.

Using a natural bristle chip brush, I dry brushed white, acrylic, craft paint on the paper. Without waiting for the paint to fully dry and without cleaning my brush, I dry brushed some green and tan paint over the white, making brush strokes both vertically and horizontally. When this was dry, I finished with a little more white dry brushing. The paper really looked like canvas after the dry brushing.

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Using Funky Junk's Old Sign Stencils (GET YOURS HERE) You Cut Tree Farm stencil, I stenciled trees around the canvas, overlapping some and stenciling only the top part on some to make shorter trees. I made sure I dabbed or tapped off most of the paint before stenciling.

When the trees were dry, using the Winter Graphics stencil to stencil three different sized snowflakes over the trees. I wanted a winter wonderland, snowy forest so I stenciled lots of snowflakes. 

I finished the Christmas art by splattering white paint over all of it. To do this, I use a hammer to tap my paint loaded chip brush. I put the canvas in a box  and splattered in the garage to avoid messes.

I love how the Christmas "canvas" fits in this vignette. The mirror got a temporary Christmas stencil (see here).

The embroidery hoop "wreath" got its winter look with the removal of fall branches. I added pine and one more pinecone to it. You can see how I made it HERE.

After Christmas, my stenciled art will most likely become fire starter. Not that I don't love it, because I do. But, next year I will want something else. I have learned over the years that I like to change up my decor and when I store something like this, I never use it again. If I think I might want to use it next year, I can roll the paper up and put it in a wrapping paper tube, which will take very little space. The dump canvas will go back to my project area in the garage until I have a more permanent project for it.