Create a framed canvas portrait

using your printer, iron on paper and a canvas

© Mary Welling-Bonney

nativity, ftibor

Make your own masterpiece with this fast and easy method.

This is a great way to make a gift that will impress.

Materials Needed:

approx. 13" x 15" piece of canvas

8" x 10" wooden frame

iron on printer paper

printer

scanner

photo of your choice

staple gun

Scan your photo into your computer.

Print the photo on ironon paper.

Following the manufacturers instructions, iron the photo onto the canvas. The photo will take on the texture of the canvas.

Staple the canvas snuggly into the frame.

You now have a personalized work of art. It really is that easy.

You can give someone a framed canvas of their wedding photo or that special moment on vacation when the world was perfect. Think about family portraits, old and new. Your athlete would feel like a star with this framed canvas of them in action.

It is a great way to make many gifts for a reasonable price. Get creative and start looking through all those photos. Even pull out the scrapbooks and scan a scrapbook page. What a great way to share that moment.

As always, just have fun with it.

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