I love metal cake covers, don't know why, but I just do.  I love the fact that they can double as a cover for the cake as well as a seasonal or year-round decoration.  

The Aurora Borealis Cake Cover was an idea I came up with that would be more than a suitable decoration for both the entire Winter Season as well as the Holidays.  The cake cover has a lovely combination of reindeer, snow-filled night sky, a concentric aurora borealis on the top, glittery snowflakes and snow-covered evergreen trees all topped with a snow-dipped pinecone with glitter for the handle.  

This was just such a fun and festive cake cover to design and paint and I hope it gives you joy to paint it!

This is one of my original designs and was published in the Pixelated Palette in November 2017..

This is an e-pattern and not a finished product.

This  E-Pattern  will instantly be uploaded to your computer upon completion of the sale.  Written instructions, supply list, line drawing and photographs are included.

Please be sure to download the pattern within 24 hours of receipt as it is time-sensitive.

If you would prefer a paper pattern, please email me for more information (thesunflowercupboard@gmail.com).

I have long been drawn to cobalt blue glassware.  I had some wooden Mason jar ornament cut outs and put the two ideas together and came up with a cobalt blue Mason jar for each of the four seasons.  This was a fun project and hopefully you will enjoy it too!

This is my original design.  This piece was published in Painting E-Zine in January of 2018.

This is an e-pattern and not a finished product.  Upon completion of the sale, you will receive notification that the pattern is ready to be downloaded to your computer at a time that is best for you.  

Please be sure to download the pattern within 24 hours of receipt as this is time sensitive.

If you have any questions whatsoever, please do not hesitate to contact me at:

thesunflowercupboard@gmail.com

Happy Painting!

I originally designed one of these ornaments and painted it on a resin sand dollar and wanted to make it available as a pattern and ended up designing two more ornaments to go with it!  Don't these just make you smile?  These (I think) are really so cute and I hope you think so too!

This pattern was published in Painting E-Zine in September 2017.

This is an e-pattern and not a finished product.  Upon completion of the sale, you will receive notification that the pattern is ready to be downloaded to your computer at a time that is best for you.  If you would prefer a “hard copy” pattern, please feel free to contact me for further instructions.

Please be sure to download the pattern within 24 hours of receipt as this is time sensitive.

If you have any questions whatsoever, please do not hesitate to contact me at:

thesunflowercupboard@gmail.com

Happy Painting!

This is a painting pattern and not a finished product.

This piece came directly out of my childhood memory of the night before Christmas when our Mom would read this wonderful book to us right before bedtime.  I found this wonderful surface that looked like a stamp to me and thought it would be just perfect. The surface is a wood composite. The house mouse is all tucked in with presents and popcorn under his bead and through the mouse hole to the living room you can see that everything is all ready for Santa to come down the chimney.  Looks like the house mouse also helped himself to a bite of cookie!  This was a fun piece to create and I hope it brings happy memories to you as well!  

This pattern was published in Painting E-Zine October 2017.

Upon completion of the sale, you will receive notification that the pattern is ready to be downloaded to your computer at a time that is best for you. 

Please be sure to download the pattern within 24 hours of receipt as this is time sensitive.

If you have any questions whatsoever, please do not hesitate to contact me at:

thesunflowercupboard@gmail.com

Happy Painting!

A starlit winter’s evening with a full moon shining down upon a quaint New England village with lots of snow and a stray whale cruising by…..the idea of this cooled me right down (was a very hot day).  One of the benefits of designing and painting for me is that I get to escape into my own little world. I don’t always know where I am going but the journey is always fun and rewarding. 

This pattern was published in Pixelated Palette in December of 2016.

This is an e-pattern and not a finished product.  Upon completion of the sale, you will receive notification that the pattern is ready to be downloaded to your computer at a time that is best for you.  

Please be sure to download the pattern within 24 hours of receipt as this is time sensitive.

If you have any questions whatsoever, please do not hesitate to contact me at:

thesunflowercupboard@gmail.com

Happy Painting!

This soap looks like a folded leaf...seriously!  It has a melt and pour base, Wild Current Sandalwood Fragrance oil, ecological gold glitter sprinkled on top and colored with a mix of two greens to get this wonderful shade!  It weighs 4 ounces.  All of my melt and pour soaps are shrink wrapped to keep them sealed until used.  I have tested all the soaps and all are wonderful!  As I stated on the back of the soap, all of my soaps are made with LOTS OF LOVE!  

There is a minimum of 2 soaps per order and these can be mixed or matched as inventory allows..

All of my MELT and POUR soaps are being sold through SHOP JOBIE and their link is shopjobie.com

I was inspired to design these ornaments after hearing one of the songs from the Sound of Music, My Favorite Things, written by Richard Rodgers.   I decided to use the star cut out shapes as they are readily available and usually very low cost.  The front and back of each star is painted and stenciled which is a feature I really like – an extra step, but really nice!

This is an e-pattern and not a finished product.  Upon completion of the sale, you will receive notification that the pattern is ready to be downloaded to your computer at a time that is best for you.  If you would prefer a “hard copy” pattern, please feel free to contact me for further instructions.

Please be sure to download the pattern soon after receiving it as there is a time restriction.

If you have any questions whatsoever, please do not hesitate to contact me at:

thesunflowercupboard@gmail.com

Happy Painting!

I have always loved lambs/sheep and when designing Christmas tree ornaments, the first thing I thought of was how do I incorporate sheep into the designs.  This is what I came up with.

This pattern was published in Painting E-Zine in August of 2018.

This is an original design.

This is an e-pattern and not a finished product.  Upon completion of the sale, you will receive notification that the pattern is ready to be downloaded to your computer at a time that is best for you.  

Please be sure to download the pattern within 24 hours of receipt as this is time sensitive...

If you have any questions whatsoever, please do not hesitate to contact me at:

thesunflowercupboard@gmail.com

Happy Painting!

Is this the cutest ornament ever or what?  The snowie is doing something I am sure everyone who has ever experienced snow has tried... to catch a snowflake on their tongue!  I saw them and had to make them.  Each ornament is sculpted out of air dry clay, painted, sealed, glittered with snow to within an inch of its existence and then an eye screw and ornament hanger installed.  These are designed by Nichola Battilana, a wonderful clay artist.  The ornament are shipped in a 4x4x4 inch box!  This would make such a wonderful gift for someone who collects ornaments, for anyone who loves snow and snowy items or anyone who likes to smile.

The ornament is $8.00 each.   If you wish to purchase more than 1 ornament, please send me an email so I can let you know what the new postage and total will be!   Thanks!

The weight of the ornament is 0.5 ounces and the shipping will be determined for the total weight for shipping.

Oh my, this is such a bright and wonderful clear and colorful soap.  The clear base is a cobalt blue.  Birds and Fish are "embossed" into the design on top.  Made from a clear melt and pour soap base, colored with a cobalt blue color agent, scented with Blue Lotus Spa fragrance oil and made with LOTS OF LOVE!  The soap bar weighs approximately 5 ounces and is hermetically sealed in a shrink wrapper.  

All of my MELT and POUR soaps are being sold through SHOP JOBIE and their link is shopjobie.com

Oh, my...the scent of this soap is so similar to the scent of a freshly cut balsam fir wreath!  I love washing my hands with this soap!  There are four colors incorporated in this soap bar and then all four colors are hand swirled making each bar very unique.  This is definitely one of my favorite soaps.  It is made with Moroccan argan oil melt and pour base as well as green and silver white colorants, the fir fragrance oil and of course, and LOTS OF LOVE!  Each bar is hermetically sealed.  This bar weighs 4 ounces.

All of my MELT and POUR soaps are being sold through SHOP JOBIE and their link is shopjobie.com

Okay, here is a soap that could be used by anyone who loves to fish!  It is a clear base melt and pour soap with aloe vera, olive oil and lemon essential oils as well as poppy seeds.  This is definitely a larger soap bar!  Each bar is also made with LOTS OF LOVE!  The bar weighs 5.7 ounces and is hermetically sealed.

The approximate weight is 6 oz.  

All of my MELT and POUR soaps are being sold through SHOP JOBIE and their link is shopjobie.com

I must admit, I love bees and what they do for us!  I have been known to paint them and to make them out of clay.  I also was captured by this very wonderfully design.  This bar is made of detergent free shea butter melt and pour base with Pure Honey fragrance oil, caramel-colored mica coloring as well as LOTS OF LOVE!  Each bar has been hermetically sealed.  This bar weighs 4 ounces.

All of my MELT and POUR soaps are being sold through SHOP JOBIE and their link is shopjobie.com

This is one of my favorite soaps.  The folded leaf mold I used surpasses all the rest!  The black color seems to really emphasize the leaf so well.  To make it a little better I added an ecological glitter that almost makes it look as if Jack Frost came to visit!  This is made with detergent free aloe and olive oil clear melt and pour soap base, a currant and sandalwood fragrance oil, ecological glitter, black mica soap block and LOTS OF LOVE! The scent of this soap is so wonderful!  This bar is hermetically sealed for freshness and weighs 5 ounces.

All of my MELT and POUR soaps are being sold through SHOP JOBIE and their link is shopjobie.com

I chose this design not just because of St. Patrick's Day celebration in March, but because it is a stunning design.  The soap is white and then lightly glittered with gold ecological glitter.  The ingredients are:  detergent free shea butter melt and pour soap base, gold eco glitter, rosemary mint fragrance oil and LOTS OF LOVE! The soap bar weighs approximately 6 ounces and is hermetically sealed to keep it fresh!

All of my MELT AND POUR soaps are being sold through SHOP JOBIE and ther

link is shopjobie.com