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Seed Bead Art: Arty Farty Friday #19
Dear Chicago House, Work, work, work…I have had a busy week with little time to flex my creative muscles. However while I have been confined to my office working on SEO projects for a number of...
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You Can Create Your Own Art: Arty Farty Friday #24
Dear Chicago House, Creating an original piece of art to hang on your walls is not difficult. Take a look at these simple watercolors, simple and contemporary. Difficult to do? No. I painted them will...
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Arty Farty Friday #29 A Quick Art Lesson
Dear Chicago House, I love the transparent effects you can get when painting with watercolors. This painting is like translucent pebbles on a light box and is today’s piece for arty farty Friday. and...
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You Can Paint This!
Dear Chicago House, Who knew a hail storm could inspire this A little stumped by the connection? Lets look a little closer. Dots! This is a painting technique called pointillism and I gave a sneak...
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Design Your Own Fabric : Another Easy Technique
Dear Chicago House, Who knew this little post on custom fabric creation would get so much interest. I shared only one technique for creating your own stunning fabric but I am here today for another...
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Driftwood Pot Tutorial
While having a Spring clean of my garage last week I came across a bag of driftwood scraps from projects like my driftwood seahorse and pair of driftwood fish. There is nothing like a bag of junk to...
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A Sea Horse Wall Sculpture from Trash
Just over a month ago I moved house… and let me tell you that process produces a tremendous amount of trash in the form of packing materials Although most of it got recycled I held back on a few choice...
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Pistachio Shell Art
I may have a problem with nuts! Over the weekend Mr CH and I enjoyed a rather large bag of Pistachios, but it was not enough for me to savor their loveliness, I had to create something with them too....
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Inktense Pencil Abstract Art
Undeterred by my recent Epic Art Fail recently, I have continued dabbling around with colored pencils and Facebook fans will have seen a quick peek of this work in progress last week. It got finished...
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Simple Watercolor Abstract
Here is a super easy-to-do water color abstract. I very lightly penciled circles onto a thick watercolor paper – I drew around something but I can’t remember what…doesn’t matter really! Then I outlined...
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DIY Petal Votive
My summer has been hectic. Long story short, I have had to say goodbye to beautiful Pennsylvania and am now back in the not so beautiful Chicago area …sigh. The good news is that Mr Chicago and I have...
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Fun with a Geometric Stencil
Over the summer, the kind people over at Stencil Revolution let me pick out a couple of their stencils to play around with. What with moving house and all that entails, I have only now got around to...
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Fun 3D Christmas Card Tutorial
Here is a really creative 3D Christmas card sent in by Giulia Talmacel. It takes a bit of patience but this beautiful “Explosion Box” can serve as a perfect gift for a special person or just as a cool...
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Make an Autumnal Leaf Card
Don’t you just love the colors of fall! This pretty Autumn card sent in by Marcie McCabe captures all those wonderful colors and uses an interesting resist technique which adds a lovely bit of...
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Make A Holly Christmas Card
When I was a kid, Christmas cards were a big thing. You got loads and you gave loads. This day and age, putting pen to paper and actually mailing someone a letter or a card seems to be a dying art in...
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Sweet DIY Clay Birds
With temperatures cold enough to cause “expletives” outside I am willing on those Spring days which, lets face, it are month and months off. So today I am bring Spring indoors with these sweet little...
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Valentine Day Decor
Looking for an easy way to add a little Valentine decor to your home? How about creating a simple watercolor heart and framing it? Creating the heart couldn’t be easier. Take a sheet of watercolor...
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Boredom Buster Art Tutorials
Gosh it has been five weeks in lockdown. Cabin fever anyone? I am doing a round up today of painting tutorials so by the time lockdown is at an end you will have loads of beautiful painting begging for...
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Create Tessellated Art
Bored out of your mind in lock down hell? Here is a little something that will waste and hour or two and give you something pretty to hang on your wall. A suitable art project for both kids and adults....
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End of lockdown celebration popup card
I may be jumping the gun a bit but at least there are some signs that Covid-19 lockdown is being eased a little. I don’t know about you but I am really looking forward to being able to spread my wings...
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