Materials: stiff posterboard or canvas, leaf stamps, green inkpad, brown paint, paint brush
1.
Paint the branches of a tree and letters onto
the blank canvas with brown paint. If
you don’t want to free draw the tree, try this simple technique:
1. Print out a picture of a tree you want to trace
and enlarge if necessary. On the back of the paper, use a lead pencil to
shade in areas of where the tree is printed on the front side.
2. Place the printed picture of the tree on top of
your canvas and secure it with tape. With a pencil or a ballpoint pen, trace the tree
on the front side of the paper.
3. The shaded pencil on the back of the paper will make a carbon-like print onto the canvas.
4. Remove the paper and paint over the pencil lines
on canvas.
5. You can repeat the above process to paint names on to the canvas.
On your wedding day, leave out stamp pads and
leaf stamps for guests to stamp onto the tree.
Have guests sign their names on each leaf with a permanent marker.
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If you are using a stretched canvas for your
collage, stack a book or magazines underneath the canvas to fill in the empty
space underneath the canvas. This will
help guests to stamp evenly onto the canvas.
Have fun!
