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Domestic Elf Pendant: Fantasy Dye Art Project
On her day off, Santa’s elf is a domestic elf, baking cookies and otherwise enjoying hearth and home. This stardrenched mystic needs a bit of fancy—fantasy jewelry—as she putter about the house or...
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Teddy Bear, Mother’s Helper
Everyone needs a teddy bear, even big capable guys! People especially need a teddy bear when far from home. I have a bear the size of my thumb. It was perfect when I used to travel—I traveled light,...
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Creative Process: Hand-Painted Silk
Detail of altarcloth – stylized seven-pointed star. Francesca De Grandis Hand-Painted Silk Art Altar Cloth for Warrior Poet PG, you said on my Facebook page link you like to see the process. Hence this...
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Faerie Woodland Altar Cloth
Detail of altar cloth—Francesca De Grandis I’m posting this here instead of Etsy bc I’m so in love with it that I have to show more pics of it than Etsy allows and share my process a bit. Click pics to...
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Greater than the Sum …
Finished painting—Francesca De Grandis Greater than the Sum of Its Parts—Combining Techniques: Tutorial and Painting in Honor of Goddess Brigid Detail of finished painting—Francesca De Grandis You can...
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Mystic Garden Lamp, an Upcycling Project
Scored at the second-hand store! Hobnail milk-glass lamp: $5. Plus a $2 lampshade with masculine, modern lines to counterpoint the lamp’s old-fashioned femininity. Nevertheless, the shade required...
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A Happy Scarf and Tsukineko All-Purpose Ink
Tsukineko All-Purpose Ink makes fabric-painting easy. Learn All-Purpose Ink (API) basics by painting a scarf, using the Colors in Bloom Set. First wash a Light Jersey Circle Scarf, no fabric softener....
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DIY Wardrobe
I am happy. Can’t afford to buy many clothes but, bit by bit, have up cycled, stitched, and painted cloth, until I have more and more days like today. I’m wearing a blouse I painted and bloomers I made...
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DIY Rubbing Plates
An Upcycling Fabric-Painting Tutorial, with Shiva Paintstiks Click on smaller photos to see em larger and clearer. You know how rubbing a pencil over a tombstone makes a picture on paper? You can buy...
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Centered!
Finding the Spiritual Center of My Art AKA I’m Giving Up Fabric Painting The past four years have been an amazing journey for me as an artist. It’s been a time of exploration and finding the spiritual...
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DIY Tshirt Cloth Flower
Homespun, but Boldly Elegant I’ve got five new brooches, made from scraps. There’s something spiritually earthy when you upcycle to create beauty. The above T-shirt flower is my variation on this...
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