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Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Best The Upcycled Garden Volume 8

April 19, 2017  , , , , , ,  


Yay! It's that fourth dimension of twelvemonth again! Time for my Spring Upcycled Garden weblog postal service that I hold off frontward to writing every year. What improve agency to showcase those worn together with imperfect antiques than to comprise them into your garden landscape? This is the perfect agency to personalize your outdoor haven together with add together character to your garden! 

 Take a hold off at these amazing examples of ways that you lot tin sack add together architectural relieve together with vintage finds - recycled together with repurposed - to your garden!  


Paint a favorite quote on your garden gate
Fill an one-time fountain amongst succulents
Porch swing from an one-time door together with bed headboard made past times Jasmin via Hometalk
Beautiful piddling greenhouse made from one-time windows from Erin's Art together with Gardens
Creative rainwater collection via Elle France
Fill a pretty one-time porcelain sink amongst colorful flowers.
Old crib turned fairie garden from faeryhollow via DIYnetwork.com



Old buckets equally window planters from Montana Happy

Paint an one-time gate a brilliant color


Here's a neat agency to repurpose a clunky one-time schoolhouse desk. 

Create an outdoor swing from an one-time bed headboard


Garden bench created from 3 antique Singer treadle sewing car bases via Jean's Muse


Shelf made from one-time babe crib bed springs

Add to a greater extent than or less handpainted flair to an one-time Adirondack chair


Decorate amongst succulents inwards shells

Which is your favorite?

I promise you lot induce got a neat week! 
Love, Laura


My broken china jewelry is ever available for buy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/dishfunctionldesigns




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Friday, April 14, 2017

Best Starry Boho Moons Design Featured on Society6! (& New Designs!)

April 14, 2017  , , , , , , , , ,  

Hi Friends! I promise you lot are all having a cracking Spring together with are enjoying the vacation weekend. I've been having lots of fun creating all dissimilar kinds of novel artwork. I've been prototype together with doing approximately digital fine art equally well, together with direct maintain shared approximately of my novel designs inward my Society6 store together with I'm happy to nation they've been picking up momentum. Last calendar week I was beyond thrilled to discovery that my Starry Boho Moons pattern had been curated yesteryear Society6 into the "New" department across each of the categories inward their Home Decor section. Yay! 

If you lot know how deep the contest is on Society6, this is a huge accomplishment and I'm genuinely proud of my design. There are thousands of artists on Society6 who each solar daytime upload hundreds upon hundreds of novel pieces of artwork. 

Starry Boho Moons Wall Tapestry

Along amongst this, you lot are saltation to encounter lots of folks going amongst trends together with what they perceive as popular, then at times, designs tin live sort of repetitive. The best affair that you lot tin exercise to stand upwards out is to genuinely but live yourself together with exercise your ain affair together with create something that is completely novel together with completely you. Follow trends? Sure, but to stand upwards out from the crowd in that place has to live something exceptional almost your pattern that makes it unique to you.

Starry Boho Moons genuinely started out equally a watercolor prototype amongst highly saturated carmine together with yellowish moons on a deep blueish background. Once I scanned my prototype into my calculator together with began adjusting the colors together with details I presently establish myself amongst this dark together with gray design. H5N1 novel pattern was born. 



Starry Boho Moons Phone Skin (cases besides available here)
I was genuinely surprised that this slice was chosen to live showcased - equally it wasn't my personal favorite from my store - but it but goes to exhibit that our ain personal tastes aren't ever what is going to live the most pop amongst other people or the full general public. Keep that inward mind! Try novel things.




One of my favorite things to exercise is to play amongst color schemes. I honey the agency this Moody Hipster Mandala pattern turned out. If you lot are a regular reader of my weblog you lot mightiness recognize this pattern from the super-fast fourth dimension lapse video that I did of this pattern a span months ago...






I finally taught myself how to cutting out images together with brand backgrounds transparent. This procedure takes a footling fleck of fourth dimension but the endeavour is then worth it because you lot tin exercise cool designs similar my Psychedelic Doughnut t-shirt (below), and with a transparent background this prototype tin live position on whatever color shirt, sweatshirt, hoodie, etc. 

This pattern is an master watercolor painting. Once I scan it into my computer, I tin alter the color system together with come upwards up amongst all dissimilar effects. It's genuinely fun! 


Because everyone should direct maintain a psychedelic doughnut shower curtain, ya know?...

Below is the same design, but amongst my master color scheme.

Psychedelic Phrosted Doughnut #2 iPhone case


Creating the master painting


The lastly pattern I'm going to percentage amongst you lot today is entitled Paintbox Dreams, together with it's a colorful watercolor prototype that has sort of muted tones. Here it is below inward an fine art impress together with mug. Hope you lot similar them!

I promise you lot similar them! Let me know what you lot mean value yesteryear leaving me a comment below. 

All items shown higher upwards are available for buy at https://society6.com/laurabethlove


Have a cracking week!
love,
 Laura




My broken china jewelry is ever available for buy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/dishfunctionldesigns



article, images, together with designs copyright ©Laura Beth Love 2017 all rights reserved

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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Best Preview: More New Broken Cathay Jewelry In My Etsy Shop

April 12, 2017  , , , ,  

Hi friends! Here are a few to a greater extent than novel pieces of broken china jewelry that I made today. I know that approximately of y'all had said that y'all similar when I post my novel pieces hither on my weblog because this agency y'all tin strength out come across them inwards large photos correct away...and also it's easier to scroll through them...so I travail to pose them hither for y'all when I have got time. As usual, click whatever photograph to last taken to my shop. Also, at that spot is a link to my Etsy store on the correct mitt sidebar.

  I have got lots to a greater extent than on the way, it only takes me fourth dimension to conk them listed inwards my store because every bit I said yesterday, I'm a stickler for having perfect shapes, perfect soldering, in addition to bully photos - in addition to all of that takes time. 

 And okay, I'll confess, I've been loving icon in addition to thence much that I've been neglecting my jewelry making. Not alone have got I been in addition to thence happy alongside what I've been painting, but I've been teaching myself approximately graphic pattern lilliputian past times lilliputian in addition to thence that I tin strength out job that to exercise approximately fine art too. I've taught myself how to mix approximately graphic pattern techniques in addition to effects inwards alongside approximately of my paintings in addition to thence that I tin strength out exercise actually unique artwork, in addition to it's only been in addition to thence fun that it's sort of addicting! But non only that - in addition to thence far, a few of my designs that I've incorporated into approximately products on Society6 have got been actually good received in addition to I was absolutely thrilled to respect myself curated on page 2 of the "New" pattern department of Home Decor on Society6...more on that tomorrow.  

I promise y'all similar these :)


























All items shown higher upward are available for buy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/dishfunctionldesigns


Have a bully week!
love,
 Laura




My broken china jewelry is e'er available for buy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/dishfunctionldesigns



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Best New Broken mainland People's Republic of China Jewelry In My Etsy Shop & Happy Spring!

April 12, 2017  , , , , ,  


Ah, it's live on springtime. I dearest it. I really hibernated this winter! I'm glad for the warmer atmospheric condition together with to live able to pass lots to a greater extent than fourth dimension outside, fifty-fifty if I'm spending that fourth dimension working outdoors. 

My Etsy store was really busy inwards March this year. Hmmm. That's form of unusual, but amongst the ongoing changes inside Etsy's search algorithms yous form of never know what you're going to larn these days inwards damage of exposure together with where yous province upwards inwards the search results. In whatever case, I've been busy creating lots of novel broken china jewelry together with am revisiting to a greater extent than or less china patterns (especially to a greater extent than or less of the vintage chintz patterns) that I haven't used inwards jewelry for a while, together with then live certain to proceed an optic on my novel listings!

Here are the nine pieces I made yesterday. I receive got tons to a greater extent than on the way, it simply takes me fourth dimension to larn them listed inwards my store because I'm a stickler for having perfect shapes, perfect soldering, together with slap-up photos - together with all of that takes time. You can't rush a skilful thing!

I promise yous similar them :)























All items shown to a higher house are available for buy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/dishfunctionldesigns



Have a slap-up week!
love,
 Laura

My broken china jewelry is ever available for buy at https://www.etsy.com/shop/dishfunctionldesigns



article, images, together with designs copyright ©Laura Beth Love 2017 all rights reserved

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