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Glazin’ Away

16 Friday Dec 2011

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coasters, craft, paint your own pottery, painting, pottery, tips

Not always the cheapest gift (the cost entirely depends on the studio fee at your local paint-your-own-pottery shop), but a fabulous & personal creation is the hand-painted coasters. (The tiles are generally one of the cheaper items to paint.) Here’s a set I did as a wedding gift.

Monogrammed Coaster Set
I found an image I loved and designed the set in Adobe Illustrator, printed, and took a copy with me.

After a bit of scribbling on the back and tracing over my lines, I was good to go. Graphite burns off in the ovens, so pencil tracing your design is a good plan if you’re uncertain about your freestylin’ skillz. ;-)

Another simple way to go is to use a foam stamp (it also takes much less time). Most pottery shops have their own, but you can pick some up pretty cheaply at any craft store. With a stamp you’ll still need to go back over the design with a paintbrush, so the simpler, the better. (I usually take my own cheap brushes too; hundreds of little hands make for some gnarly brushes.)

Here are a couple sets I made that way:

Had I remembered to run by the pottery store yesterday, I’d have a newly glazed set to share, but that will have to wait until next week now.

Happy Friday!

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Putting Villiany to Use

22 Tuesday Nov 2011

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Art, coasters, craft, Disney, evil queen, jafar, maleficent, painting, ursula, villians

One of my favorite gift ideas (and a fun night of craftiness) is painting tiles at a pottery shop to make a coaster set.

Here’s a set I made (and sold) a while back. Not gonna lie, I kinda wish it hadn’t sold because I love this so much. Still planning to do another set for me at some point.

My favorite Disney Villians:
My Favorite Villians - Coaster SetMaleficent, Ursula, Jafar & The Evil Queen.

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Just Clowning Around…

15 Thursday Apr 2010

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circus, clown, collage, painting, themed event

This past October, I painted these for a church function, our annual Harvest celebration (Hallelujah Harvest). The Young Adults group did a themed walk-through area, Under the Big Top. I took charge of the decorating, of course. ;-)

These hung in the hallway when you first entered our area:

the man-clown

i think these two need names. any suggestions?

incomplete, but with the lovely tightrope walker

tightrope detail

the unfinished collage.

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