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affordable decor, Art, custom pillow, custom textile, digital textile, DIY Tutorials, pillow, pillow cover, textile design -

Psst, I have a secret. I am going to reveal my design process for the pillow pictured below. Here goes... Create your characters as a separate file - that way you can use them over and over. [caption id="attachment_316" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Summer Fun"][/caption] I was washing my car and my son kept getting in the way, so I turned the hose on him. My niece found it hilarious, so she grabbed the hose and joined in on the  fun. [caption id="attachment_315" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Water War"][/caption] My son was having a blast, [caption id="attachment_318" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Yeah, Scream, Yell"][/caption] he called...

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affordable decor, Affordable Style, Art, digital textile, DIY Tutorials -

Is it me or is this handmade movement catching on? There was a time when my friends needed to spruce up their homes, they would head to the closest decor department and get something off the rack. Recently, I have been getting requests form them for unusual items to enhance their home decor. I decided to use the "teach a man to fish" approach and invited a few friends over to learn the process. The first step was a bit tricky because unlike most people, I do not sketch my patterns on paper, I go strait to the computer. For...

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digital textile, Home and Garden, Silk ribbon embroidery -

Happy Friday - it has been an exciting week. I hung out at the out at the 5 minutes for mom Ultimate blog party. It was my goal to read all the blogs listed, but I was only able to read about 200 - well the links are permanent, so I will keep going back. I was happy to meet Shay @ http://designsbyshay.blogspot.com/ , Keonte @ http://www.mommy2k.com/ and Maria @ http://mgdezigns.blogspot.com/. I wish them all great luck. Thanks for the party 5 minutes for mom. Today's Share form my craft archive [caption id="attachment_110" align="alignnone" width="326" caption="Silk ribbon on B/W image"][/caption]...

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