Handpainted Christmas panel

Linen panel with Christmas decorations painted by hand

This handpainted linen panel is perfect to decorate home at Christmastime. It's very special and original.
Astonish your guests with a DIY Christmas decoration! Change the classical way to decor your main entrance!
Nowadays everyone is able to paint fabrics or other surfaces thanks to stencils. You can find them easily at many D-I-Y stores.
The only thing you must have is: patience!
We propose a panel whose dimensions are ideal for the main entrance.
Here's step-by-step instructions to do your handmade Xmas panel!

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Prepare the panel.
Cut off a perfect rectangle from the linen.
Now you have to hemstitch your linen panel.
So the first step is the drawing of the threads. They should be drawn according to the size to be enclosed within the hemstitching and to the width of the hem outside the stitching. The hem outside the stitching must be 1.5 cm wide in this case. Remember the linen outside the drawn work must be folded twice to baste a regular hem. So take the measures very well and then draw out several threads from the material where the double fold of the hem will come, from side to side, leaving a block of the material at each corner.
Baste the hem and then hemstitch using an embroidery thread in gold color.
Remember to let free the upper hem: you have to insert the support to hang the panel.

Paint the linen panel.
Stretch the linen panel on a smooth surface.
Begin with Merry Christmas. Apply the stencil on the upper edge of the panel and fix it to the linen and surface with pieces of painter tape. Make the linen and stencil don't move. Don't apply the spray glue on the back of the stencil as written in many instructions: it can stain the fabric indelebly!
Prepare the chosen colors, in this case the metallic acrylic paints, and one brush for each color.
Dip the brush into the color and remove from it a little bit of color with some blotting paper before realizing the decoration. Alternate the gold with the golden copper and paint all the letters as you can see in the photo.
Let the colors dry very well.
Remove this stencil and apply the stencil with reindeers. Make your decorations following our tips described above.
Let the colors dry very well and remove the stencil.

The last step.
Make the last decorations.
Using the Glamour Liner paint the stomach and a portion of the neck of the reindeers. Look at the photo for more details. Then mark some details of their horns (especially on the points) and of the decoration near the biggest reindeer.
Using a very little brush apply a bit of colle gel along the edges of some leaves or flowers and then sprinkle the glitter powder of the same color.
Let dry very well.
Complete the Christmas panel using the 3D color. Draw some drops and snow around the reindeer paws.
Let dry very well.

Your Christmas panel is ready!

Note

• - Hang your Chrstmas panel on your main entrance or a wall or anywhere your fancy suggests to you.