You know when you find a blog that you just instantly love?  That was how I felt when I first read The Happy Housie!  Her motto is “Home wasn’t built in a day” and I think that is so important to remember!  Today, she is sharing a great project for canvas wall art that would be so easy to make your own!

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Hello readers of Just Us Four!! I am SO excited to be here today to share these fun and simple Nature Inspired Canvases with you. Thanks to Shannah for having me here! My name is Krista and I spend most of my bloggy time over at The Happy Housie. I called my blog this because I must admit to you that I am a bit of a “housie”… (think foodie but for houses). I love all things related to houses: decorating, DIY, organizing, crafting, gardening, and more. I love sharing projects and ideas, and especially love finding old pieces and fixing them up to make them vibrant and beautiful again.

Do you have a bunch of momentos or natural items that you have collected this summer while on holidays? These little canvases are the perfect way to create some personalized meaningful art out of things that you or your children have collected. My son love to find all kinds of items in nature and wants to keep and display all of them! He 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

Thanks again to Shannah for having me here today… it has been so much fun! I would love to invite you all over to The Happy Housie . Some of my other projects include Easy, Fast Envelope Pillow Covers, lots of DIY Chalk Paint Projects, and some room reveals like our Laundry Room Revamp.

 Or come on in for our summer home tour….

I’d be so thrilled to connect with you through Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, or Google+ as well!

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

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Thanks Krista! I love this project. It is such a simple way to bring nature indoors for major impact! Be sure to go check out the other awesome ideas Krista has over on her blog, The Happy Housie!