Photo Canvases {Gift Idea}

December 13, 2011 by Anna 2 Comments

This year, for our girl’s Christmas party, my friends and I decided to do a dinner and gift exchange. We drew names at our previous girl’s night, and I picked my dear friend Julie. I was really excited to get Julie because, like me, Julie loves pictures. Her two daughters are also incredibly beautiful so I knew exactly what to make her:

Photo canvases.

I had a few 8×8 canvases in the closet {from a project I never got around to} and I thought they would be the perfect size for pictures of her girls. Then I went to Michael’s and bought some beautiful metallic-looking ribbon.

Because I helped Julie pick the paint colors for her house I knew exactly what colors I wanted to do on the canvases. I painted the sides of the canvases dark brown and then once I Mod Podged the photos on I accented the edges with the same metallic paint that I used on my ceiling stencil.

I love the way it turned out and I was pretty sure Julie would too. :)

Here are a few pictures from our party:

Here’s Julie {on the left} getting her gift…

I think she likes it…

Yep. She loved it!

Here’s a few of us girls just having fun.

I sported my new Shabby Apple dress to the party that night. I was the only one in a bright color. :)

Are you making any gifts for Christmas this year? I have a few more I’ve made but I can’t share them yet because I don’t want to spoil the surprise!!!