Posted by: Dena in Craft Projects, Announcements on
Aug 02, 2010
Something new and exciting is happening in September!
Noted Art Licensing Industry pro, Tara Reed, has invited me to be the featured designer in her next interactive Q + A on Art Licensing. Tara setup this innovative forum to connect designers who have questions about licensing, with designers currently working in the industry.
Be sure to tune in for the live broadcast next month, and please visit http://askdenadesigns.com/ to submit your questions.
I'm really looking forward to it!
I recently started a line of wall decals with RoomMates Peel and Stick Décor. These repositionable decals are really colorful and cool! My daughter, Lisa, and I put up the Scroll Tree design in my new studio, take a look!
There are other coordinating peel and stick designs, including wall borders. This idea is such a great alternative to wallpaper or other techniques that are difficult to remove. You can purchase these from the RoomMates website here:
http://www.roommatespeelandstick.com/walldecals/scroll-tree-wall-decals.aspx
A couple of weeks ago I got a phone call from my friend Sunday, who is a stylist for home dec magazines. She told me that in less than one week, she and a photographer would be at my house for a story! Ah! I had to quickly spruce up my home. My main focus was the living room, because it had changed a lot since the last time it was photographed for a magazine (Mary Engelbright Home Companion.)
Since then, the ceiling had been painted while, we installed a new fireplace, and all of the furniture was different. In order to really make the room pop, I decided to stencil the main wall and paint big roses on my curtains. I made my own stencil for the first time with acetate and an X-Acto knife. I had my assistant, Katrina, help with the stenciling while I painted the curtains. For those, I used a big house painting brush and big bowls of paint! Here's how the day looked:
We used 4 colors for the wall stencil: cream, iridescent white, silver, and gold.
After! I think the photographs are going to look really great. Once I find out when the article will be published, I'll be sure to let you know!
Posted by: Dena in Craft Projects on
Jun 01, 2010
This post is so overdue! Back in March I went to New York because I had bedding premier with Nostalgia Home Fashions. They did a beautiful job on the bedding collections, and to make the designs pop even more, they asked me to paint the walls behind each bed. Edit: I've just heard my bedding will be shipping to a major retailer this Fall. I'm so excited, stay tuned!
At the end of April I flew to St. Louis with my daughter, Lisa, to attend the Mary Engelbreit Workshops! I had been invited as a guest speaker, which also meant that I was able to take workshops, listen to the seminars, and explore St. Louis. It was a lot of fun! I felt honored to be chosen by Mary Engelbreit to be on the panel of speakers along with Amy Butler, Marcia Ceppos, and Margo Tantau as the moderator. The talk was really great; we were relaxed up on stage talking with each other about what we create and answering questions from the audience. I thought I would be so nervous but it was like sitting down with friends.
Here are some photos of the crafts my daughter and I made at our workshops!
Mary Engelbreit did a great job or recapping the fantastic weekend in St. Louis on her blog: http://www.maryengelbreit.com/blogs/