I have a friend, a great, wonderful, talented and crafty friend, who when I said, “I’m teaching myself to craft with plastic canvas.” said…

“Pooh, I’ll be impressed if you can make plastic canvas look good.”

Then I sent her a picture from my phone…

To which she said, “Girl, you’ve got mad skills!”

Hahahaha! (That’s me, getting the last laugh!)

Have I told you lately how much I love it when I can have fun with my work? I think I have. Once or twice. 😉

And it’s even more fun when I get to have fun with the people who work in the same field!!

Ok, so let me show you what I came up with.

First off, I have NEVER done anything with plastic canvas but I have cross stitched. A whole lot… but not for several years. Very similar, I guessed, but one never knows. Ya know?

So I picked up this book because I thought a few coasters would be a way to teach myself the basics. I think that Leisure Arts has a book for every craft under the sun, don’t they?

I chose Sugar’n Cream yarns in bright colors. 1) because I detest that scratchy acrylic stuff and 2) because I wanted bright, vibrant colors.

Let me caution you right now though… if you have an aversion to little bits of cotton lint all over your clothes, in the air and yes, up your nose, then you may want to go with a different yarn. Just sayin’.

Ok.

So I followed the instructions in the book and I made coasters. Originally I thought I’d make 8.

A couple of hours later I decided 6 would be good for what I had in mind.

“Oh look, a chicken!”

Have I told ya that I have ADD? Yeah. I do. And 8 coasters weren’t going to happen.

I had other crafty ideas calling my name you know.

So I made 4. And I was quite happy. 🙂

Then I went looking for paper to go with my bright, lively coasters…

Is there anything that K&Company makes that I DON’T like? Probably not.

Then I found a clear acrylic 12 x 12 x 2 inch scrapbook frame.

I used my handy dandy Glue Glider Pro with the High Tac tape runner to attach the coasters to the paper. I put the paper and coasters in the deep frame, put the back on and then used packing tape to seal it (because there is really nothing on these frames to hold the contents in) all inside the frame.

All done!

Just so ya know, I did make a rather big mistake on one of the coasters. I can see it. I wonder if anyone else will?

It’s not perfect but that’s ok with me. Neither am I. What about you? Would you have torn it all apart and started over if you noticed your mistake?