creative jewish mom

Toilet Paper Tube Birdy Gift Tags Or Party Decor

With Purim coming up on Saturday night, I started making really fun egg carton portrait gift tags, only the later ones came out so well I really can't give them away, so I was looking for something super cute but just a bit less precious, and these toilet paper roll birdies fit the bill! I'll be attaching them to the top of a cellophane wrapped plate of goodies with a ribbon or piece of string attached to the head I think, and then folks can use them as holiday decor on their table, or if they end up in the garbage, gasp it isn't the end of the world. I made 20 of these and they are now all sitting on my piano looking cute as can be, and waiting to fly off to new homes on Sunday morning. This is relatively quick, and if you choose to leave the background the cardboard and just add details, even quicker, so lets make some!

A Mixed Media Peacock Painting For Purim!

When Purim is at the doorstep and there is so much to do, and yet this year with no crowd to host the pressure to do it all is somewhat reduced, so you paint a peacock, because it reminds you of royalty and castles and castle gardens, which certainly could be connected to Purim! Okay, that does not mean that there is not loads of bags of groceries and all kinds of preparations to do, but hey, when you are on a mission to be an artist, you know one that actually sells their art, well you have to show up and make art, lots of it, even when Purim is calling.....

And friends, this is clearly not a highly detailed 20 plus hour painting, I did this in a few hours or so.....and I already had the under-painting on hand, keep reading to see what it is!

Paint And Doodle Heart Birds!

After filling many pages in my sketchbook with layered heart paintings, covering a cardboard box with graffiti hearts, and even making an actual layered hearts painting on canvas, the natural progression might be to start seeing things in those heart shapes, and what did I see? Why birds of course, because there are plenty of birds around here lately because of the #28featheredfriends instagram challenge I'm doing! I had hoped to have time to do an actual tutorial on this one with individual hearts, but there just isn't time for that right now, so I'm showing you the page in my sketchbook, now called "flash mob doodle birds" and I'm quite sure you can take it from there. These heart shaped birds would look great on a card, a gift tag, or even a tote bag or t-shirt, right? If you choose to create them on paper, why not do it on a large sheet that you can then cut up into smaller pieces? Okay, let's take a closer look!