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Tuesday, March 9, 2010

PIY Tulips – Paint it Yourself!

Who’s ready for Spring? I am! I am! Actually, I love every change of season. I love pulling out seasonal decorations, packing up the old ones, changing colors and so on. But my favorite is always painting new designs.

This year is more special because I’m sharing my Spring designs with you, in hopes that you try one or two. Remember, you don’t have to use the colors I’ve chosen. If pink works better for you, use it. Or red, or purple. Anything goes – it’s your painting!

single tulip

Here’s our first grouping of tulips. Now, check out the step-by-step pics below. You just basecoat, shade, highlight & topcoat – that’s it! Here's the link to the full instructions.

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Whoops, I forgot this step. Sorry

I’m out of the studio while posting this so I don’t have the line art. I’ll post the step-by-step tutorial tomorrow for you. In the meantime, you can pick your colors.

Now - are you ready for a sneak peek at what we’re working towards? Here ya go!

bunny with tulip copy

This was done in Photoshop (I’m not in my studio right now), but do you get the idea? Take the Bunny Kit, add a tulip – or two, and you can create your own painting.

Now you see what I’m working towards. The PIY (paint-it-yourself) kits will be interchangeable and work together – kind of like stencils.

So stay tuned and see what’s coming. Or, better yet, give me some of your idea. What flowers would you like to paint? What else – watering cans? clay pots? baskets?

And don't forget my Feng Shui GiveAway! Get any room in your home assessed with feng shui!

Let me know. In the meantime, let’s check out what other crafty gals are up to today at these parties.

Funky Junk's Saturday Nite Special


I Made It Blog Party



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The Shabby Chic Cottage





Get your craft on Thurs.








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Colleen

13 comments:

Diane {createdbydiane.blogspot.com} said...

Super cute! you do great work!

Ms Bibi said...

I love tulips. They are my favorite spring flowers and I am so happy that we can buy them now in January.

Leanne said...

You are so talented. I'm pretty sure I could never paint like this. Thanks for visiting.

除夕 said...

志不立,天下無可成之事。........................................

Katie said...

Those are beautiful. I love tulips- so brings in Spring. Thanks for sharing.

Denise said...

Beautiful!
Following you over from Shabby Chic Cottage!
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fawnda said...

Your tulips turned out great! Thanks for the step by step!

fawnda said...

Here a few of my ideas of other PIY kits:
Daisies (my other favorite flower besides tulips)
A cute duckling
a picket fence

I love your PIY idea! : )

Kim @ Everything Etsy said...

Really, you're awesome! Thanks for bringing your beautiful link to the party this week!

~Kim

Luschka said...

your new project looks so cute! cant wait to see end result

Lori said...

This is super cute..

Thanks for joining Get Your Craft on Thurs. Pleas join me next week for another great party.

Lori

Maryann @ Domestically-Speaking said...

Once again, a beautiful painting! I always love to see what you'll link up to the POPP.

Farah said...

I always have a fear to paint a tulip, I feel it very difficult to paint, but you did it very expertly, I may try some time. thanks for sharing...

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