Painted pins and mini boxes

Painting time today...

Chipboard ATC for swap...Freehand painted scene...

Cow on ATC accordion mini book...for swap...

Finished pumpkin book with sealer and clear snap ring binding...pages are cream colored...

Front and back pumpkin book covers with leaf embellishments...

Apple frame, chipboard apple, with die cut circle cut out, painted and accented, photo added, with simple easel backing...these would make adorable ornaments or magnets too...

Coasters with painted scenes

I love the little cottage look and feel to this little place...nestled in the woods, ah the perfect setting...I have already made this one into a book...it has coaster covers and kraft colored cardstock pages...

I love the little barn and outbuilding here...looks like just the place for me to raise some chickens...this coaster will be a book later, it was still drying last night...

I was going for a more night time look and feel to these two coasters...hubby says it worked, they look like night time paintings...they are so fun to do...

Snowmen are taking over...

ATC's and Coaster Book for swaps

Faux chambray background with collage image decoupaged on the chipboard ATC

Stippled background with tree limb and leaves painted on, bird and nest decoupaged over the limb...

Coaster book with Queen anne's lace and coneflowers painted on cover...

Painted Bowl with Scene

I basecoated the wooden bowl with white acrylic paint, sanded smooth with brown paper bag...

I made a wash for the sky and ground areas...

Floated in some clouds...

Transferred a pattern...

Based in all the areas...and started detail...

More details added...

Details and foreground added...

Finishing touches...

I painted the rim edge and the oustside of the bowl in a rich chocolate brown color...It has black spattering...

Close up of the details...

This bowl was fun to paint...

Tee Shirt painted in 1990

This is a tee shirt I painted for my dad as a fathers day gift in 1990...After he passed away in 2004, my mom gave the shirt back to me...I wear this shirt a couple times a month...I painted it with acrylics, and then added metallic acrylics to accent the entire painting...

Close up of the bunny driver...My daddy thought this was the coolest gift...he wore it often...

Chipboard box with Daffodils..

Chipboard box, basecoated white, then washed with a mixture of green, yellow, varnish and water...when dry, sanded lightly with brown paper bag...

Daffadils pattern from a Sherry Nelson book, transferred to front of box...

Basecoated sections of pattern

Beginning the shading process, building up layers...

Added some hightlights and deepened shading...

More shading and touch ups added...

Details added and spattered box with medium green used in leaves...just need to varnish it after it cures for a day or so...

Painted stuff

ATC cut from kraft colored cardstock and freehand bunny painted on

Rose painted on my business card...I learned this rose from a Prisciall Hauser book about 20+ years ago...and this is my version...

Scene on a scrabble tile...3/4 inch piece of wood with painted scene

Coaster books

Painted die cuts

Stamped images, painted with thinned acrylic paints...

ATC frame with mini scene painted on black cardstock

ATC envelope with roses, leaves and verse...

Some vacation photos to share

View from the hot tub...aahhh...its so nice...

View from Blue Ridge Parkway, right outside of Maggie Valley, NC

Tiger, GA...cutest little store called Goats on the Roof...and yes, goats really live on the roof...

Goats on the roof eating...this place is a hoot...