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Featured Product Friday: Sticky-Back Canvas project ideas, tutorials and more! | Pluckingdaisies.com

Hello, and welcome back to Featured Product Friday!  Today’s featured product is brought to you by…the letter C…for Claudine Hellmuth and her fabulous Sticky-Back Canvas!  You don’t have to be a fine artist to work with canvas.  Claudine’s Sticky-Back canvas is perfect for a plethora of artistic ventures and works well with a multitude of

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Featured Product Friday : Dylusions Stamps | Pluckingdaisies.com

Happy Friday creative friends!  So glad you stopped by for Featured Product Friday.  This weeks featured product hails from one of my favorite designers Dyan Reaveley.  Dyan’s Dylusions line from Ranger Ink is filled with fabulous ink sprays, stencils and stamps!  I’ve talked about all the things you can make with Dylusions Spray Inks here,

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Alice in Wonderland Art

by Amy Bowerman

Alice in Wonderland Art | Pluckingdaisies.com

Hello my lovelies!  I had the pleasure of spending the weekend with some wonderful and talented creative ladies at the SNAP! conference.  Some of the girls I had never met before and others I only knew from the blogosphere.  When meeting another creative for the first time the customary introduction is “What kind of art

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Why did the Chicken Cross the Road? {and other silly stories} | @PluckingDaisy

I may be a day late and a dollar short (or three) for “April Fool’s Day” but I’m pretty much late for everything.  What can I say?  I fear change…so don’t throw quarters at me (hardee har har!).  Today I have a silly project to share with you.  The way this project came to be

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Inspire Quote Sign

by Amy Bowerman

Inspire Quote Sign | @PluckingDaisy #DistressPaint #Tutorial

As promised I have a fun Distress Paint project to share with you.  Today I’ll be showing you how to alter a wooden word sign with stamped quotes and Distress Paint! I’ve used my favorite word in the universe to create my quote sign…”Inspire”. I thrifted this wooden Inspire sign several years ago with every

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Painting with Dylusions

by Amy Bowerman

Painting with Dylusions Tutorial by @PluckingDaisy

  I’m simply mad about the new Dylusions colors!  Mad I tell you!!  I love the new Dylusions so much I decided to recreate one of my favorite illustrations with some of the new colors.  Originally I thought Dylusions were just for spraying.  Oh no my friends…once you have entered the rabbit hole of Dylusions

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Cupid’s Arrow Valentines

by Amy Bowerman

Cupid's Arrow Valentines | @PluckingDaisy #ValentinesDay #KidsCraft

I have a super cute Valentines Day project to share with you…and I’m really excited about this one!  Get ready to draw back your bow because these Cupid’s Arrow Valentines are sure to have your heart. I wanted to create some cute Valentines for my son to share with his classmates but didn’t want to

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Recycled Cardboard Heart Banner | @PluckingDaisy #AliceInWonderland #Sizzix #RangerInk #DIY

Hello again!  I told you I had something extra special planned for the Alice in Wonderland Character tags I made recently.  Well it’s time to let the cat out of the bag…er…box   Come along and I’ll show you how I created this heart banner out of a recycled cardboard box to showcase my Wonderland

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The Weepies "Humming Bird" Art Journal Page | @PluckingDaisy #RangerInk #Dylusions #Tutorial

I love music.  I rarely do anything without music playing…I’m listening to music now in fact.  My musical tastes are eclectic much like my art varying from bass thumping techno, old school hip-hop, classic rock, reggae and pretty much anything in between.  When it comes time to create however, there is one band that is

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Distress Painting with Markers and Stains | @PluckingDaisy #RangerInk #DistressMarkers #DistressStain #Tutorial

Hi there!  Now that we are nearing the end of January I’m still plugging away working on my goals for 2013.  I’m happy to report that today’s Distress Painting tutorial has helped me reach not one but 2 goals on my list!  Goal # 1:  Draw More.  Goal # 2:  Learn New Techniques. I’m currently

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