Our Spooktaular collection is Here!

Happy Monday!
The wait is finally over ... our new Halloween and Autumn handmade ornament collection is up online for all to enjoy. Much like your trick or treat candy, make sure you get your orders in quick because these sweet little designs won't last long.

Here are some close up shots of our designs because the real beauty is in the details.
Good luck and let us know what you think of our latest designs.

Swirling in Celebrate 365 Magazine

We were so thrilled to been asked to submit a few of our new Halloween ornament designs for the upcoming double issue of Celebrate 365 magazine. This issue will combine late summer with Halloween designs for everyone's enjoyment.

The two swirlies that were chosen were our Candy Corn Owl and our Sweet Little Candy Corn Witch. Both of these sweet little swirly designs are perfect to celebrate the upcoming Halloween season and will be available online on September 26th along with the rest of our new Halloween/ Autumn collection. And to order a copy of Celebrate 365 magazine check out Connie's website here.


Enjoy your weekend, When do you start decorating for Halloween?

Halloween Collection update

As we add the finishing touches to this years new Halloween/Autumn ornament collection, we also have updated our homepage. So we can finally announce a launch date. Drumroll please.......

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 26th

It's official! It's in writing....So mark your calendars, program your phone reminders... whatever, but make sure you get a chance to check out this years collection of 15 new spooktacular designs.

Most of this years designs were inspired by the Halloween candy icon the candy corn. This little yummy treat and it's seasonal colors of white, orange & yellow (some cases we used brown instead of yellow) are showcased in our designs. We also have some spooky designs as well as a few Autumn/Thanksgiving pieces.

Be sure to sign up for our email list so you can be one of the first people notified when the collection is online. All our collections are limited quantities and sell out quickly and we thank all of our wonderful followers for that.

See you the 26th

Check out our Tweet little shadow box

We thought we would share with you a quick little project we did this week for a friends daughters 3rd birthday gift using one of our swirly ornaments.

Our friend really liked our Swirly birds ornament we created for our Spring collection. Unfortunately we sold out of the designs before she could order one. So we told her we would create another one. By the time we got around to creating a new one, her little girls birthday was coming up. Perfect we thought, we can create a cute shadow box so she can hang it in her room all year long. It's very simple and with a few supplies you too can create this tweet little shadow box.


We picked up a simple white shadow box frame at our local craft store along with a piece of scrapbook paper, some paint, embellishments & tissue paper. Take the frame apart and set the glass aside until your done. Use the background cardboard of the frame as a template for your scrapbook paper. We used Mod Podge to glue the paper to the cardboard. Then we dry brushed with white paint over the scrapbook paper to dull down the pattern a little.


We then cut up small rectangle and square shapes out of tissue paper.


Using Mod Podge again, we glued the tissue on the top and bottom of the frame for a punch of color . Then we painted a light green wash around the front and two sides of the frame.


The shadow box came with a thin piece a paper for the frame mat. You can use that paper as a template on a piece of really nice decorative paper. We picked a metallic white glitter cardstock and embellished it with paper flowers.


The creativity is endless when decorating your frame. Just remember you want to make sure the frame compliments your artwork/ornament and not competes with it.


The frame is now complete and all that is left is hot gluing the ornament to the background. Assemble the frame and hang it on your wall!

We hope Catherine will enjoy this for years to come. Happy Birthday!
~Lianne & Paul

Back to business.

What a whirl wind these last few weeks. Last week our computer crashed and we were without for close to 10 loooong days. We only had a very old laptop computer so we could monitor our emails but we couldn't access our photos, etc.

It couldn't have happened at the worst time. We were right in the middle of working on a project for a company and working on a photo shoot. Thankfully everyone was very understanding and were very patient with us.

When we finally got our computer back and up and running we were bracing ourselves for hurricane Irene. Thank goodness we were only hit with rain and a few small tree branches around our yard.

So this week we are getting back on schedule. The project is complete, the photo shoot is done, and we are working like crazy coming up with new Christmas sketches (we are soooo behind on those!!) and soon we will need to varnish, embellish and glitter our new Autumn collection coming out later next month

Speaking of Autumn.... In today's mail we got our issue of Autumn with Matthew Mead.
What are looking forward to taking a little time to explore the beauty of this magazine.
If you love seasonal magazines and want to get inspired we would highly recommend checking out Matthew's site and ordering your own issue before they are gone.

Have a good week everyone!
Lianne & Paul

Yummy!

My mouth is watering here in the studio for some candy corn!
Why you ask? We're working on painting these yummy owls in candy corn colors for our new Halloween Ornament collection coming soon:)
I think a trip to the candy store is in order, what do you think?

What we are working on

Happy Friday everyone! It's such a beautiful day here. Nice breeze coming through the studio window, and we're listening to some soothing music ahhhh. But really it's the calm before the storm as they say....

This will be an extra busy weekend for us here. The kids are away (Yipee!) for the weekend so we really need to work extra hard and accomplish as much as we can in a short time. The studio is full of fall ornaments waiting to be painted and tiles full of ornaments waiting to be swirled so we can can bake them. We are the thick of creating our new Halloween/Autumn 2011 collection.

We are also working with Scupley (the material we use to make our ornaments) on a fun spooky how-to project that will come out in September. So we have to make the project in many stages so we can photograph it. Hopefully we will have nice weather for the pictures sake:)

And after all that we will be transforming our studio into a winter wonderland for an upcoming photoshoot. Crazy we know, but we still wouldn't trade it for anything.


Our growing pile of new designs waiting to be sanded so we can start painting.


Our swirly turkey is making another appearance this season.


We are trying something a little different with a few of our ornaments.
Can you tell what (or should we say who?) these are going to be?

Here is a closer look. If all goes as planned you will see them in this years Halloween collection.