The 4th of July is right around the corner so I made this cute, little 4th of July Star Canvas to add a little patriotic sparkle to my office.

It was made using:

• Silhouette Stencil Material (I fell in love with this stencil material after using it to makeover a favorite chair of mine)
• 8×8 canvas
• blue acrylic craft paint
• white spray paint
• small paint brush

The shape that I used is the Star Inverted Rhinestone Design ID #6443 from the Silhouette Online Store. This shape has a message on it instructing you not to alter the size, but since we’re not using this for rhinestones, go ahead and resize for the size of your canvas. I resized mine to 8×8 to fit my canvas.

First I painted the canvas with blue craft paint and let it dry. Since the stencil material is adhesive, I just stuck it down on the canvas and sprayed the white spray paint over the whole thing.

Since I didn’t pay attention to how well the stencil was sticking to the canvas around the edges, I ended up with this sort of bokeh affect! That’s one happy accident! Trust me, it’s rare when my mistakes actually look good.

I like how it looks like there are lights shining through the canvas.

Oh, and one more thing about the stencil material: the stencils that you create using it are reusable! Yep, reusable.

I used the same stencil on a T-shirt.

We will be at the beach over the 4th and now I’ll have a cute t-shirt to wear to the boardwalk to watch the fireworks.

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Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links meaning that if you make a purchase using these links, I will earn a small commission. As always, I only recommend products that I use and love and you know I love my Silhouette! I was not compensated for this post, but did receive product. All opinions are 100% my own.