A new craft mash-up for a new blog hop

Why are plastic canvas crafts so… well, lame? When Diane at Crafty Pod asked for plastic canvas tutorials for this week’s blog hop, I signed up to challenge myself.

Here’s a medium ripe for experimentation in three dimensions, and for merging with other crafts. There must be some fun uses for it. Turns out, there are!

Papercrafts, meet plastic canvas

After learning some basic stitches and bending and folding pieces together, I realized what I was envisioning was similar to papercraft sculptures. Voilà, you can do any papercraft with plastic canvas! After spending time with bookworm relatives, I thought these paper corner monster bookmarks from Tally’s Treasury would be perfect gifts. Try some of the pictured paper crafts with plastic canvas. I challenge you to make ceiling cat or grumpy cat before I do!

Let’s begin!

Materials

Cut out the face



Cross stitch the teeth

Stitch the edges

Gobelin stitch the face

Stitch face parts together

Stitch remaining edges

Glue on eyes

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Now feed your monster bookmark some book pages! I’d absolutely love to see your projects on my Facebook page, or tag them @knitsforlife on Instagram. And stay tuned to the Plastic Canvas Blog Hop for more fun projects this week.

xxxo,

Lorna