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Turn Nature & Holiday Collections into Nature Canvas Art

Do you have a bunch of momentos or natural items that you have collected this summer while on holidays? Then you already have half of what you need to create these nature canvas art pieces. These little canvases are the perfect way to create some personalized meaningful art out of things that you or your children have collected.

Turn Nature and Holiday Collections into Canvas Art at The Happy Housie

My boys love to find all kinds of items in nature and they want to keep and display all of them!

They love rocks, sticks, driftwood, bugs, and every other assortment of items that we find when out walking and exploring the world around us. Some of these objects are so beautiful that I think they deserve to be displayed… and love this fun and easy way to give them some presence.

Today I am going to show you how I made two of these nature canvases that now hang on our gallery wall in the entry hall.

Turn Nature and Holiday Collections into Canvas Art at The Happy Housie gallery wall

 

Start with found objects of all kinds and various sizes of white canvases as well as a glue gun and glue

Turn Nature and Holiday Collections into Canvas Art at The Happy Housie wood burl

 

For this first object, a beautiful piece of burl wood that was found by our neighbor’s son and generously given to me, I only attached glue to the high points on the back of the wood and then simply held it onto the canvas for a few seconds to secure it.

Turn Nature and Holiday Collections into Canvas Art at The Happy Housie burl

 

Turn Nature and Holiday Collections into Canvas Art at The Happy Housie glue wood

 

Turn Nature and Holiday Collections into Canvas Art at The Happy Housie wood

 

The canvases are so light that I only use push pins to hang them on the gallery wall.

The next object is a beautiful slice of a tree stump that clearly shows the rings of the tree… I love the way that tree rings look and thing that they have such a story to tell with each ring representing a year in that tree’s life. This particular piece was dropped and broken but I think that adds a unique look with the two pieces spaced slightly apart.

Again, I started with a thick white canvas, the piece of wood, and my hot glue gun.

Turn Nature and Holiday Collections into Canvas Art at The Happy Housie wood round gluing

 

Turn Nature and Holiday Collections into Canvas Art at The Happy Housie sharpie

 

I played with the placement on the canvas and decided to add one of my favourite quotes along the one side.

Turn Nature and Holiday Collections into Canvas Art at The Happy Housie writing

Once the writing was finished I glued on the two pieces of the whole…

Turn Nature and Holiday Collections into Canvas Art at The Happy Housie wood round

 

Some other simple nature inspired canvases that I created for our gallery wall include a piece of scrubby sea grass…

Turn Nature and Holiday Collections into Canvas Art at The Happy Housie sea grass

And a twig that my son found and held onto the holds up a little birdhouse painted out white…

Turn Nature and Holiday Collections into Art at The Happy Housie birdhouse and twig

 

I think these simple nature inspired canvases look beautiful on their own, but I like them even better grouped together on our gallery wall. We also have some maps framed nearby… and I think that you could easily create a grouping like this to tell the story of a favorite holiday of adventure.

 

Turn Nature and Holiday Collections into Canvas Art at The Happy Housie gallery wall 1

 

Turn Nature and Holiday Collections into Canvas Art at The Happy Housie gallery wall

Simple nature inspired canvases… I think they are a perfect way to display your finds from the summer and to create a meaningful personal display wall in your home.

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Turn Your Nature Collections into Canvas Art at The Happy Housie

 

Do you end up with a purse full or rocks and sticks and potentially infested chunks of wood like I always seem to? What do you do with all the “stuff” you collect while traveling?

Thanks for reading. And remember my housie friends, HOME isn’t built in a day. Enjoy the journey!

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6 Comments

  1. SUCH a fun idea!!! I love that you’ve found a way to display your treasures and memories instead of tucking them on a shelf or worse yet, into a box. BRILLIANT! Wishing you a fabulous weekend Krista!

  2. I love the broken tree section, at first I thought it was done on purpose how fun it was natural. What a clever idea! My littlest one is always coming home with “treasures” a mummified frog, dead star fish, etc… and wants to display them. (she is such a delicate little flower-sarcasm 🙂 This is a neat idea, if I can bring myself to hang her “treasures” on the wall we will do this. Perhaps I will try to nudge her toward tree stumps, and seaweed. 🙂

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