Laurie's Charming Designs

I wasn't feeling real great last night, so I crawled into bed early, got my tray out, a little water, a brush, watercolors and tags...I ...

Love Lori Vliegen's blog and her class on Letters at Creative Workshop is great. In her blog she shows these birds from watercolor splo...

I just marked down my birdies on my Etsy, check it out! Sale is through the weekend

I had a chance today to add a tag and a needle holder to this pincushion Took a drive up into the mountains. What a beautiful day Close up o...

I painted this snowman watercolor. Added lettering learned from Lori Vliegen Thanks to Hobby Lobby, I picked up some charms, and some new ep...

Here is one of my little pink wool birdie Pincushion A sweet pink metal vintage pin is added for a little glitz I dye the wool myself to com...

A fun little tag, I painted the snowman on a coffee dyed tag for sale in my ETSY

I painted this last year. Its fabrics, texture medium, watercolors, acrylics, vintage lace, old buttons. If you are interested I listed it o...

A little vintage Christmas music, a monogram on a vintage spoon handle A sweet pearl/shell vintage button A touch of lace All sprinkled with...

After a two year break, I'm back at it again. Bending, hammering, priming, painting, glittering I've had a thought...I'm wonderi...

The above is what I started out with...wrong paper, it wouldn't take watercolors at all So, I am not one to like repeating myself, but I...

I've been wanting to improve my journal writing, so, visiting blogs, I followed what they did, so I could learn and have a page I could ...

My husband and I decided to go out for breakfast/lunch today. As we were pulling up to the Cheesecake Factory, my husband asked me to go ahe...

I was visiting a bead shop yesterday and she mentioned in passing that she bought something at Hobby Lobby. I'm thinking she just got ba...

I tried One Step Crackle on the above pages. The one on the left I coated the whole thing, the one on the right I just did spots. It didn...

This worked so great, clear gesso on plaster pages then scratched on detal, then paint. my favorite out of everything I tried...now for a br...

Still a work in progress...I got the backside soldered...lots of pages The pages are dry...not sure if I want to color them before I stitch ...

First I must share last nights beautiful sunset Our sleeping baby, how he doesn't fall off I'll never understand. I'm confused, ...