Monday, March 28, 2011

wedding paintings

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So today, I decided I wanted to paint a little bit. I love to paint, I am not an expert, and I am certainly not the best painter there is. My wedding is coming up in FIVE months (OH WOW!), and I would love to be able to relax from decorations the few weeks before the wedding, and the weather has been so nice, so I thought I would go ahead and paint a few things. :)

I whipped out my acrylics, and went to town on this little birdhouse gazebo that I bought a few of for center pieces... :)


We are using a lot of birds and butterflies, and purple hydrangeas. :) I like the way this turned out, and after I got to painting it went so quickly.


I used an antique white for the base, and a periwinkle color, and combined a cranberry and white to get my other shades of purple. Mixed a few colors to get the green, and voila! oh, and of course I added some ribbon. (It's the scrapbooker in me *tee-hee*)


I think I have 6 more of these big ones, and about 10 small bird houses. For show I put in a tealight, but we actually have battery powered votives for these that are really neat looking. I have no intentions of lighting a candle inside a piece of wood. ;)

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Thanks so much!

5 comments:

  1. Very nice. Thank you for sharing. I found you through momo and now I am following. I hope you stop by and check out my blog too:)

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  2. What a great idea for a centerpiece. These turned out beautiful. :)

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  3. These are beautiful. They will look so elegant on the tables, such a great idea!! Have fun!!

    Laurie

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  5. This so pretty, great idea. I love the fact that you painted your own centerpieces for your wedding yourself.

    Smiles Sher
    www.patternsbysher.blogspot.com

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