Mothers Day Stamp Painting

I didn't get to post this before Mothers Day because I had to give it to my Mom first, so here it is! My mother is an amazing woman and teaches Stampin' Up card making classes in her house so I thought this would be the perfect painting for her for Mothers Day this year!

Love you Mommo!

Prints of this watercolor painting are available as well!

Contact me for details pratt.lynn@gmail.com

Quilling with SU Paper!

I have been having so much fun QUILLING with Stampin' Up paper! I made this little fairy angel for a friend of mine by cutting my paper into strips and used a quilling tool to make this!

Hope you like it!

Christmas Bulbs Garland

Most of you know I have not posted in a long time because I am full time painting now!!

You can see my watercolor paintings here!! 

http://www.lynndpratt.com

But... this project was just too cute not to share.

You can find the step by step directions with photos at: http://www.stubbornlycrafty.com/blog/paper-christmas-lights-garland/

Supply List:

• Gray cardstock
• Colored cardstock in colors of choice
• Glue gun or paper glue
• Hole punch
• Scoring blade or other scoring tool
• Twine, ribbon, or yarn

Cutting Your Cardstock:

• Cut out your gray cardstock in 1 1/4″ x 4″ strips
• Cut out your colored cardstock in 1″ x 8.5″ strips

Putting Our Lights Together:

Take your gray cardstock and score it every 1/2″. Make two marks a half inch down at 1 1/4″ and 2 3/4″.ξFold your paper on the score lines and use a paper punch to punch two holes where we added pen marks.

Take the two ends, overlap one 1/2″ flap onto the other end’s last 1/2″ flap and glue.

Now onto shaping the bulbs. My eight year old came home from school and I recruited her to help. Ignore her out of lunch money stamps.
Take your strip of 1″ x 8.5″ cardstock and fold in half lightly pressing at the crease.


Pinch your two ends together and push the paper onto your palm. When you bring it back up it should resemble a Christmas light. If not try it again until you get the shape you like.

While still pinching your ends together use your hole puncher to punch a hole through both layers about a 1/4″ down. Make sure it’s centered.

Now let’s start stringing our lights together. Stick it through one hole of your gray light top and then insert your bulb in the center and string your twine through both holes of your bulb. You can push your bulb paper up high to make it easier.

String it through the other side of your gray cardstock. Repeat for as many lights as you need to get the garland length you’d like. Make sure to keep the side you glued in the back on all the bulbs while stringing them together.

And that’s it. Now display them somewhere fabulous and admire your quick and easy Christmas lights garland. I think they turned out pretty darn adorable. I hope you do too.

A new card!

A new card from Mommo!

Some Easter & Spring Oldies!

Looking through some old tutorials and I found some great Easter and Spring ones!

You can find the links right below them or just click on the image to see more details! 

 

http://stampndesign.blogspot.com/2010/03/eggs-over-easy.html 

 

http://stampndesign.blogspot.com/search?q=egg 

  

http://stampndesign.blogspot.com/2010/03/easter-bunny-fancy-favor-basket.html 

 

http://stampndesign.blogspot.com/2010/03/black-sheep.html

http://stampndesign.blogspot.com/2011/03/planter-six-pack.html

 

http://stampndesign.blogspot.com/2010/02/bacon-and-eggs-birthday.html

Eggcelent Box & Chick Cards

This is the perfect gift to give anyone, big or small, for Easter!
This would also be a great gift for someone who just had a baby. You could add pink bows for a girl or blue bow ties for a boy!
The egg box flips up to open and fits three chick cards with 3” x 3” envelopes or more.
You do not need 12” x 12” paper for this project, only 8 ½” x 11”!

CLICK HERE to get the directions for this project!

New Cards!

I will be posting new cards each day for over a week on my Stamping Facebook page!

Log on and check them out! These are all cards done by my wonderful Mommo!

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stamp-n-Design/175713182482603

 

Star Ornament Revisited

I am such a proud Mama! Yesterday I was doing craft projects with my 9 nine year old daughter, Ashley. We were searching on Pinterest for fun stuff to do. Ashley saw a photo of something she wanted to do, and the directions were HERE on MY blog!! SO much fun. She followed the step-by-step directions that I had done years ago. So... not only did she follow my directions (with no help at all!), she changed it to make it better on her own!! So proud of this kid!!

 On the original post I said to fold the ends to attach them. Instead Ashley just overlapped the ends flat and put a paper circle over them to hide the overlapping. Much easier and looks even better!!

Here is what I originally showed in my directions:

HERE is the link to the original post with the full directions!

Get a FREE Pet Painting!

Click on the link below to join my mailing list 

BEFORE Monday, May 26th, 2014 

and get entered into a 

FREE DRAWING 

to win a custom pet painting of your pet! 

If you don't have a pet and you win, you can use it as a gift for a friend!

I do it all from a photograph of your pet that you can mail or email me, so don't worry if you live far away. When the painting is finished, I will ship it to you for free!!

Click here to enter!
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Stars and Stripes

 I just found out that my watercolor painting, "Stars and Stripes", 

WON THE EXCELLENCE AWARD 

in the 2014 Annual Juried North East Watercolor Society Exhibition!! 

It is on display at the Orange County Community College in Middletown, NY until March 21st.

You can see the step-by-step of how I painted it on my site as well as many others: 

http://lynndpratt.com/the-process.html

Downhill for Diabetes tomorrow!

The Downhill for Diabetes ski/board event is tomorrow Feb 9th!! 

Shirts are made, poster is in and everything is almost ready! You can donate, register or buy raffle tickets right on the website:

http://www.donationsfordiabetes.org/

Hope to see you at Pico tomorrow!

In the News!

If you missed it this morning, here is the WCAX Channel 3 news story!  Ashley and I were on about our Downhill for Diabetes Ski Event!!

http://www.wcax.com/story/24563084/downhill-for-diabetes

You can see more information, make a donation or get raffle tickets on the website:

 http://www.donationsfordiabetes.org

Anything you can do to help us find a cure for this disease would be wonderful!

Watercolor Classes Starting Soon!

I will be having a four week

Watercolor Painting Class

starting in January 2014! 

All are welcome to sign up!
It will be on Thursdays; Jan 9, 16, 23 and 30 from 10am-1pm at my house in Pawlet, Vt.

This class will be for first time watercolor painters or beginners looking to further explore the medium.

You have the option for all materials to be provided as well, so don't worry if you don't have anything. 

Winter in Vermont is the perfect time to start a new indoor hobby!
Email me for details! pratt.lynn@gmail.com