Easy Mixed Media Lemon Craft

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Summer begins in less than 2 weeks and nothing screams summer as much as sunshiny colors and bright yellow lemons! My easy mixed media lemon craft is the perfect arts and crafts summer project for kids or adults. Hello, adult here, and I enjoyed creating it!

This is a very simple mixed media project to start out with since this form of art can get quite elaborate.

There are a multitude of supplies that can be incorporated into this type of artwork, such as, design stencils, ink stamps, distress ink, embossing powder, cloth, and the list goes on. I didn’t have any of those items on hand so I just experimented with what was in my craft stash.

EASY MIXED MEDIA LEMON CRAFT

mixed media lemon craft

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SUPPLIES NEEDED:

  • square canvas
  • scrapbook paper ~ lemon, brown, green
  • craft paint ~ yellow, blue, brown
  • eclipse stencil
  • mod podge
  • dotter ~ I used end of artist brush
  • ruler
  • pencil
  • sponge paint brush
  • scissors
  • blue seed beads
  • green floss thread
  • yellow buttons

paper lemon craft supplies

more supplies for easy mixed media lemon craft
supplies needed for easy mixed media lemon craft

4 STEPS TO MAKE MIXED MEDIA LEMON CRAFT

TRACE & CUT PAPER PIECES OUT

Use your eclipse stencil to trace a variety of areas on the scrapbook paper for your lemon tree and cut out.

drawing lemon circles for fun summer   lemon craft

MAKE THE GRASS:

  • measure your canvas between the yellow inside edges lengthwise
  • using a pencil, mark your green paper using those measurements plus desired height
  • on one edge, draw a wavy line
  • cut the entire piece out

Draw a tree trunk shape on brown paper and cut out.

cutting out pieces for the fun summer lemon craft

PREPARE & PAINT THE CANVAS

Measure and lightly mark a square on your canvas leaving enough room for the yellow paint to be seen on the front side.

Use your sponge brush to paint yellow on the sides up to your marked off square on the canvas front, as indicated in the picture below.

yellow painting step for canvas

Use a sponge brush to paint blue on the rest of the canvas. Start at the yellow edge and paint inward.

TIP: Use a Q-tip to clean up any paint mistakes.

blue painting step for canvas

GLUE PAPER PIECES ONTO CANVAS

Use Mod Podge to glue the paper grass and tree trunk onto the canvas.

Play with the eclipse lemon paper pieces for the desirable placement of the tree shape.

Use the Mod Podge to glue the eclipse pieces onto the canvas.

TIP: I took a picture of the test placement so I could refer back as I was gluing the pieces on.

showing several steps completed for easy mixed media lemon craft

ADD EMBELLISHMENTS

Use Mod Podge to glue all embellishments onto the canvas.

  • yellow buttons ~ lemons
  • green floss ~ grass
  • blue seed beads ~ sky
  • brown paint ~ tree trunk
  • yellow paint ~ dots

SEED BEADS: Dip the end of the artist brush in the mod podge bottle and “draw” the glue where the beads will be placed. I dropped the beads in the areas with glue. Push the beads to the bare areas using the end of the artist brush.

GRASS: Snip some short pieces of floss, mix the colors, and glue the bottom ends on the canvas. Once glued, snip the top ends at varying lengths.

TRUNK AND LEMON DOTS: Use the end of the artist brush to make dots on the lemons. Use the end again to dot paint the trunk.

BUTTONS: Glue on with mod podge.

close up seed bead embellisments
Yellow Dots and Seed Bead Embellishments
close up grass embellishment
Trunk and Grass Embellishments

I hope you have lots of fun trying your hand at mixed media! Have you tried this type of artwork before?

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58 thoughts on “Easy Mixed Media Lemon Craft”

  1. This is such a great craft, Allyson! I love all the bright and cheery colors you chose and how you gave it extra dimension too. My niece is coming to visit us soon and I can’t to try this with her – thanks for the fun idea! Hugs, CoCo

    1. Thanks for the compliment, Michele! Lemons scream summer to me so I just had to make a lemon tree for our summer craft blog hop. YAY, I got a pin ~ thank you!

  2. I love love love this! I’ve been doing more and more mixed media and collage art and it just adds joy to my soul. 🙂 Thanks so much for visiting Wonderful Wednesday last week hope you’ve gotten a chance to stop by again. 🙂

    1. Cindy, I’m happy you like my easy mixed media! I hope to try more elaborate ones in the future. It’s always fun seeing what everyone shares at your blog party. Thanks for visiting!

  3. What a great idea and that’s very pretty paper. Mod Podge is the best for projects like this. The beads and the buttons are a great added touch for dimension.

    1. Thanks, Jenny! I’ve had that scrapbook paper for years in my craft stash. I thought the lemons were fitting for our summer craft theme. Nice crafting with you!

    1. Thank you, Marci, so glad you like my lemon canvas! It was fun summer crafting with you this month, and thanks so much for sharing my craft on Facebook!!

  4. This is adorable, and perfect for summer! My daughter is obsessed with arts and crafts right now. She would LOVE to put something like this together, and I have all the supplies on hand! Going to show her this tomorrow. Thanks for sharing!

    1. I hope your daughter has lots of fun making her mixed media craft! That’s wonderful she is so interested in creating arts and crafts. Thank you for dropping by!

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