Commission

I was recently honored to be asked of a friend here at work to make a painting for someone.  This friend had just climbed Mount Elbert in Colorado and at 14, 440 feet tall, that was an accomplishment that deserved some sort of remembrace!  We worked together to figure out what we wanted the painting to look like and I set to making it.  Here is the finished result:

I had never painted anything like this before - something based off of a photograph - so I was very pleased with the outcome!  I'm just glad it resembles a landscape! :)

Just thought I'd share this latest and new endeavor.  I'm still busy making coasters and yarn wreaths so I haven't really had a lot of time to try anything new lately.  I've got a few ideas that I'm going to try once I can surface from making coasters!

Yarn wreaths!

Well, friends, I finally made something new!  I'd perused Pinterest quite a bit and fell in love with yarn wreaths.  So, I made some of my own! 

        

I LOVE them!!  Here are some detail shots of the flowers:

      

I'll be selling them for $20 each.  Right now I have yellow, burgundy, green and brown yarn for the wreaths and lots of colors for the felt flowers, so just let me know what you'd like!  :)

Moved!

So we've officially moved!  Now it's just a matter of unpacking all the boxes and putting everything in its new place.  Because of the moving, I have had ZERO time to be crafty!  But, I have checked out Pinterest every now and again and here are some pictures of things I'd love to try!

Happy crafting!  Hopefully I'll have some sort of update up soon! :)

Late...

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, friends.  It's been a really busy week this week plus my dad's been having a rough week with his chemo treatments.  And we'll be moving in a few weeks!  So unfortunately, crafting and blogging has fallen a little farther down on the priority list! :)  I'll try to update a little bit, but it may be scarce in the next few weeks. 

Thanks for your patience!!

Friday Inspiration

This weekend, I'm going to try to branch out a little bit and try something completely different!

I'm going to try to make some cute, fun little flower accessories!!

I know the pictures show 2 different types of accessories, but they both seemed easy enough that I thought I'd at least try one of each of them.  I'd love to make brooches and hair pins to add to my inventory. 

I'll let you know how it goes next week!  Have a great weekend, everybody! :)

Thankful

I painted a canvas the other day just a solid light blue but wasn't sure what I was going to do with it.  Then I remembered that I had some letter stickers.  I'd seen a quote on Pinterest that really struck me and I thought, 'That'd be perfect.'  My dad is going through chemo treatments right now and this quote is a great reminder.

I may paint over the whole thing in another color so that there is light blue lettering on a different colored background. 

If you would like to have a canvas print like this, it is $15. 

A twist on an inspiration

On Friday I shared a picture of something I wanted to try this weekend. 

Well, I didn't do this exactly, though I will try this exact project soon.  I decided to do my own little twist on this project and make something else:

Ta-da!!  I should have taken a picture from the side, but the 'Dunn' letters are wooden and are glued right onto the canvas.  What do you think?

I would love to make something like this for you!  I'm having a bit of a hard time coming up with a price though because it'll just be dependent on how many wood letters I have to buy and if I need to bump up to a larger canvas (the one above is an 8"x10").  So, if you're interested in me making one for you, just shoot me an email at kimberrydunn@gmail.com and we'll chat. :)

I hope everyone has a lovely Tuesday!

Friday Inspiration

This weekend, I'm going to try to make something like this:




It's, of course, another find on Pinterest.  :)

I've been getting a lot of orders on coasters so hopefully I'll have enough time to try something new.  I'll probably be a little tired of Mod Podging after a few more hours tomorrow anyway.

Have a great weekend full of rest and fun!

Summary of Products

I thought I would put together a nice little picture list of all the things I'm currently making to sell.  That way you don't have to scroll like crazy to find everything!

State outline canvas - $8 for just state outline, $10 for outline and wording

More detailed outline canvases - $10

*New price* Coasters - $10 for a set of 4



Season tree canvas - $15



Whole set of season trees - $50

If you are interested in purchasing any of the above products, just shoot me an email at kimberrydunn@gmail.com.  And keep checking the blog!  I hope to add a few more things to my inventory in the coming weeks!

A tree for every season

Yesterday I previewed a painting with an 'in progress' shot (I'm getting better at taking them!).  Well, here's the finished product:

Viola!  The verse is Joshua 1:9 - "Be strong and courageous...The Lord your God will be with you wherever you go."

I made this one last week, but it was a remake of one I made for my mom for Christmas.  Except I made Mom a whole set!

I'm selling these for $15 each right now and $50 for all 4 paintings.  I can use any verse you'd like or I can keep the one I have on them currently.

The verse on the top left painting (spring) is 2 Corinthians 5:17 - I am a new creation!
The verse on the top right painting (summer) is Psalm 95:1 - Let us sing for joy to the Lord!
The verse on the bottom left (fall) is the one I mentioned above, Joshua 1:9
The verse on the bottom right (winter) is Luke 2:14 - Glory to God in the highest!

Better late than never

Sorry, friends, for my lack of posting the past few days.  But, better late than never, right?

My weekend project was to make some DIY coasters.  They're really quite easy to make, which is great!  The only issue I encountered was simply the smell of the Mod Podge.  I was NOT expecting it to smell so bad! 

Haha, anyway, here's a series of pictures to show how I made them:

I'm going to sell these for $5 for 4 coasters.  I have a whole book of scrapbook paper with different designs so if you'd like some, you can just tell me what color you'd like and I can show you a few different options in that color.

And here's a preview of tomorrow's post:



Friday Inspiration

Every Friday, I'm going to share with you something cool that I've found online that I'm going to try to make.  This week it is DIY coasters!

Very exciting, I know.  :)  I'm going to try to make a set or 2 of these this weekend and I'll update you on how it looks on Monday.

What are some things that you're wanting to try to make?  Are you like me and you scour Pinterest for inspiration?

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

More hearts in Africa

Another lady asked me to make an Africa painting for her, but this time with a few more hearts on it for different countries.  She wanted hearts over Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Sudan.  She also wanted the background color to be a tan color.

So, the only thing I had to do differently was paint the entire canvas in the tan color first and let it dry before I put my stencil on. 

I'm trying to take some more 'in progress' pictures for you as I make new things.  I'm getting better!  This was has 2 as opposed to none! 

P.S. I had to laugh once I took this picture and saw that the random piece of magazine paper I put underneath it said 'Sorry, no returns' on it. 

So, once the base color dried, I just rolled up a few pieces of Scotch tape, put them on the back of the stencil and placed it on the canvas.

I made sure I waited even longer than usual just to make double sure that the base color was dry since I was securing my stencil with tape.  I didn't want the tape to pull off any color.

With the stencil on, I was ready to begin!  And here's where my 'in progress' pictures stop.  I just got into a groove and forgot to take any pictures.  Plus I didn't want to risk getting paint from my fingers on my phone.  :)

But through the magic of blogging, here's the finished product!

The tan color looks a little different because I put it under a different light and used the flash on my camera.  The picture with just the tan color on it was a bit warmer than in actuality as well.

I really hope my friend likes it.  I wasn't sure how it would look with multiple hearts on it, especially since those 4 countries are all in the same area of Africa.  But I think it turned out well. 

Hopefully I can post a few varied things in the next few days since the past 2 have been these Africa paintings.  :)  Give you guys something different to look at.

Africa

Once I started putting up pictures of my paintings on Facebook, I had one of my friends contact me and ask me about making them one for Kenya.  She had seen a picture when she was there that she really liked and wanted to see if I could make one similar. 

So last night, while hanging out with my good friend Lauren, I whipped something up.  Ok, saying 'whipping something up' implies it didn't take that long.  This took a while.  With what I decided to do with the background colors, it took a few hours!  But I'm really pleased with how it turned out and I hope that my friend is, too. 

Here's the final product:

And here's a little sneak peek of the next craft project I'm going to try....

The Pinterest Challenge!

I recently started making a few things that I got inspiration from Pinterest and what do you know, but Young House Love issued a Summer Pinterest challenge today! I have been wanting to make a blog anyway to showcase the things I make for people to purchase, so this will make it a lot more fun to link it up with this Challenge!

So, first of all, here is the picture I found on Pinterest that inspired me to make something of my own:

The description for this tag said, "Such a cute idea to mark where you got married, met, honeymooned, etc."  And I agree.  Cute idea.  And super easy to make!  Especially since I already have some spare canvases and paint.  All I need is the outline of whatever state I'd want to use. 

So, since my lovely hubby and I got married in Louisville, KY, off I went to the great Internet to find me an outline to print off.  I finally found a good resource for all things stencils at Spray Paint Stencils - where you can find things from state outlines to cassette tape and George W. Bush outlines.  No joke. 

So I found Kentucky, printed it and cut it out and placed it on my canvas.  (Sorry, no in progress pictures for this one...it's already done!)  I picked my color and carefully painted out from outline onto the canvas...all the way around.  Then I painted the rest of the canvas and removed my outline so everything could dry (and not dry the outline onto the canvas making it hard to get off). 

Once it dried, I whipped out my red paint and painted a little heart where Louisville is.  And, just to fill out the empty space around the state, I added our anniversary date. 

Oh, and I posed it next to our wedding picture for a really professional looking photograph (haha). 

I really love how customizable it is and I look forward to making these for other people.  I think they'll look nice even without the wording...just the picture, like the Texas one.

So here's my first post ever!  I hope I can keep up with the lady bloggers and continue to make some awesome things over the summer.  Thanks for the challenge, ladies! :)

And for those who are interested in commissioning me to make one for you (aka Mom), my pricing while I'm starting out is $8 for a painting with just the state and heart and $10 for one with any writing on it.