Jesus Loves Me, Valentines Craft DIY

If you are like me you love to craft but don't always have the budget to do so. Well, with Valentines Day coming up. I wanted to get a head start. I began looking on Pintrest to get some ideas for gifts and church. I found one inspiration from this picture.  All the materials I used to make this, I already had on hand.  So I literally spent nothing but time on this. 

This is the inspiration peace behind the craft that you will see in the blog post.  Since my budget is $0.  I had to get a little crafty and make do with what I had to come up with something I could give to my sister for Valentine's Day.  

So I printed off this copy of the Song Jesus Loves Me 

 I dipped it twice in some cold coffee letting the paper dry completely between each dip.  The more you dip, the darker it becomes and fragile.  So be careful. This is what it looks like after two dips into coffee, 30 secs to 1 min per dip. 

 8x10 Canvas Before PIC

After I painted the canvas

 I just dipped a paper towel wrapped around my fingers and rubbed until I got the color I wanted, you can go light or dark depending on your preference.  I let my canvas air dry, but you can use a hair blower/dryer if you choose to.  

This is the song after I had it stained and dried. I stained the song by dipping into coffee and drying between each dip.  mine was stained twice. 

I put mod podge onto the painted canvas and then placed the song, cut to size onto the "glue".  Then I applied mod podge to some vinyl I had free hand cut into the shape of a heart using a stencil. Then I attached a treble cleft I had printed out on my printer and because my ink was low, I colored it with a black sharpie Marker, then I laminated it and cut it out.  while cutting out the treble clef, some air bubbles came in it but I ran it back through the laminator and it fixed that issue very easy.  

This is the final product. I am HAPPY with the way it turned out.