Past Swap Items...

Beautiful wooden box painted by Vicki in 97 I think it was...

Bottom edge of an apron painted by Melinda Frewin...in 98 I think...the design goes all along the bottom border..and I still use this apron today...I love it...it hangs in my kitchen...
From an ornament swap by PBO 1997...wish I could remember her name...those are the initials on the bottom...I love this little acorn...I used to use it on my Christmas tree, now it hangs on an old brass piece on the buffet in the dining room...

This is my beautiful Pear ornament from Melinda Frewin...it hangs with the acorn above...

This piece is from 2001...from Lyn...I love this cd ornament...we had a cd ornament swap...and we each said what our favorite season, or holiday was...and our partner painted us something accordingly...mine is fall...and I love tis little guy...he as always hung in my creative space...

This was from 1997 again...I love birds, birdwatcing, bird feeding, etc...and again...our parnters painted us something that was personal and special...Barb Ann is the name on the piece...she sits on top of my china cabinet, along with other bird stuff...

This beautiful piece, has no name and I do not remember who it was from...I think it was 97 or 98...cannot remember for sure...its a small wooden tray...again...my favorite season is fall...so my partner painted it special for that season...

All of these swap items are from an AOL Decorative Painting Group I was on for years and years...Some of the best gals and we had a blast sharing thru our swaps, our chat room was always busy with chatter...and just inspiring each others creativity...

Mini boxes and coaster book

These are my little snowman head boxes I painted this week...I base coated the box lids in navy blue (FA) and then using a scruffy brush pounced on two coats of white for the snowman faces...I added the detail freehand...

The idea for these mini box snowman faces came from Jamie Mills Price website...I looked at hers and used it for inspiration to paint them...

This was awesome...I got a RAK from Lynn Circe...oh my goodness...4 beautiful coasters she painted and sent my...plus two plain ones...these are not the traditional 4x4 square coasters I have been used to working with...they are more like 3.5 x 4...The flowers are so pretty...and I love Hydrangeas...I decided I wanted to turn them into mini books to share photos in...

I was so pleased with how the little book turned out, can't wait to get the other one made...I used dark blue cardstock for my pages...Thanks so much Lynn...I will treasure my little books...

Grab Bag envy's full of goodies

I have a few grab bag envy's filled with goodies...samplings of all sorts of paper arts stuff...Email me to order debbiesdiecuts@yahoo.com , I take paypal...Each envy is $14.95 and that includes US only shipping...

Painting, old and new...

This is an old painting I did, early to mid 90's...unfortunately, I did not put the year on the back...but I did quite a few large paintings and gave them as gifts that year...this one I kept...and just found it amongst more of my packed up stuff...its on a 16x20 canvas panel...

More pins from chipboard...I made most of these between yesterday and this morning...these little things are so much fun to make, I cant wait to start wearing them to work...

This was another old treasure...early to mid 90's...dang it...no date, so cannot remember exactly when I painted it...I saw a pic in a painting mag...dont even remember which one...and I did my own thing with it...its 8x10 painted on 1/4 inch birch plywood...I also made my dice and game pieces...This had been packed up at my moms house for years...we found it, when we were packing her up to move her and then I lost it amongst, all my other packed stuff...and found it yesterday while plundering again...I really need to plunder thru my own stuff more often...I dont know for sure what I even own anymore...

Not sure if you can tell from this pic, the little dice and snowman game piece...I used different colored embroidery floss scarves on the snowmen and added toothpick ends for the carrot noses...

Painted Mini Boxes...

I like to paint little things...I bought these little paper mache boxes in 2002...and just found them while plundering in my studio storage room...I painted one box with my snowman and one with my freehand pumpkin designs...The front and back sides have this design...

both end sides have this design...

these are the tops of each box...I will use them to give little gifts in during the holiday...

these are the cutest little round boxes, I based each lid with dark blue and did my little freehand snowman designs on the tops...the bottoms are an ivory color, so I left them as they are...

Bird in Flowers Box

I love to paint birds...this little paper mache box was perfect for this little design...I basecoated the lid white, then did a wash of the purple color to stain the white...I transferred the bird, and some of the flowers and leaves...after I painted the bird, I did the flowers kinda freehand, the painted the leaves...

I painted the edge of the lid the same purple color and the box bottom in the green used on the leaves...

Painted Chipboard Die Cut Pins

Oh my...I am addicted to these little buggers...I am making painted chipboard die cut pins to share with family and friends for the holidays...I used to make these types of pins, but they were all hand cut, years ago...I am using those cheap earring backs to make the pins and using Glossy Accents to adhere to the chipboard...

These will be so cute to wear on a shirt collar, to hold a scarf together, or just as a shirt accent...

These are all the ones I have made so far...I already had the bunny, and finished all the others today...I will have packs of the chipboard die cut shapes, if interested, email me at debbiesdiecuts@gmail.com Asst pack of 27 shapes is $5.00 includes US shipping...

ATC Mini Scrapbook with Page Protectors Kit...Special Offer...

I am offering a special kit and price on my Original Design ATC Mini Scrapbook with Page Protectors...Each kit comes with enough goodies to make 2 books...See the special at the studio blog http://thestudioinpreston.blogspot.com

Samples above are by myself and Donalda Cox...See more samples at the links below...

http://debbiesdiecuts.blogspot.com/2008/09/atc-scrapbook-by-dianne-adams.html

http://debbiesdiecuts.blogspot.com/2008/09/atc-scrapbook-with-page-protectors.html

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