This post will show you how to create a mixed media with a heart theme. This is a fun project you can do with a few simple materials. READ ENTIRE POST...
How to Make a Masquerade Mask Part 1
If you want to a fun project, try making your own masquerade mask. Masks possess an appeal for many people. Perhaps their mysterious nature invites us to hide parts of who we are while we develop talents we want to have. READ ENTIRE POST... SaveSave
Creating Cozy
It’s holiday hosting time and my husband starts acting like he’s on decorating crack (no drugs here but just a frenzy of creativity). I hear him stirring at 5:00 am on a Saturday morning and find him in his office pinning ideas on his Pinterest boards. “Hey, you’re right. This Pinterest thing is great. I’m …
Masquerade Masks: Ideas for Decorating
Whether you make your own masquerade mask or buy a blank one online, decorating your mask is a fun creative project packed full of potential for self-expression. Recently, my daughter, Andy, decorated some masks for her dance group. She used acrylic paints, glitter glue, ribbon, and feathers. Here is a photo of Andy applying glitter …
How to Make a Vintage Masquerade Mask
Soft and feminine yet brazen and bold; Hardly descriptors seeming to go together, except when you’re making a vintage, mixed media masquerade mask. I’d envisioned a vintage mask for weeks. In fact, the concept captivated me because I love all things vintage—aged colors of yellow ochre and burnt sienna with a splash of aqua green; …
New Year’s Resolutions
Rose Parade, New Year's Resolution, 2013 here I go! I love this time of year! The hustle and bustle of Christmas has passed and a fresh start stretches out before me. I sit cuddled up on the coach watching the Rose Parade and thinking about my New Year's Resolutions. This year my list is sliced …
Creative Gifts for Any Occasion
Here are some of the creative Christmas gifts my family and I received that I thought blog visitors might want to tuck away as a possible gift idea for any time of the year. One special treat was having my daughters spent some extra time with me. We went to see a movie together and …
A Recipe for Creativity
The rumbling inside bubbles; a brook of new beginnings beckons. Creativity’s call to contemplate and create. Newness surges, rushes over obstacles I’ve allowed to stymie me, to close my art room door, when I’m on the wrong side. So I wrestle with all of my realities, I’m too busy…need to go to the gym…fix up the house …
Home-crafted Christmas Gifts
Make some memories as you create homemade Christmas gifts.
JoDee Luna Art 