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Authors: Cheryl Bradshaw & Debbie Cole & Debbie Mitchell
Pages: 80 pages/11 color
Price: $18.95

All three authors have combined their unique talents to create the ultimate bear book. Debbie Cole’s winter bear holding an igloo birdhouse is painted with soft pas- tel colors. Debbie Mitchell’s Cozy Cubbies are frolicking in the snow. Cheryl (Chezza’s Bears) has painted a nautical bear that rotates on a music box. There are three special memory boxes. Three color worksheets

Author: Donna Kerr
Pages: 36 pages/8 color
Price: $10.95

You'll find a little box wrapped with a ribbon and small cluster of flowers. Soft pan- sies enhance a mat, potpourri box and small clock. There's a lovely oval box with daisies and rosebuds that can be personalized. A doily is used to add a lacy effect to a fan box. A large wall clock is decorated with tulips, daisies, sunflower, bird's nest and butterfly. Includes three color worksheets.

Author: Jurate Okura
Pages: 56 pages including a 32 page pattern pullout / 8 color
Price: $10.95

Decorate your home for the seasons. A clock, letter holder and fan box feature spring scenes. Papier-mache´ boxes, a hand mirror and tissue holder bloom with colorful hydrangeas. An attractive table and basket are adorned with brilliant fall leaves. Snowmen are painted on a door crown, sled and votive holder for the winter months. You'll also find farm scenes on a floor cloth, cabinet and spice holder. Includes two color worksheets.

Author: Ana Bernabe
Pages: 60 pages/15 color
Price: $12.95

A dalmatian puppy stares at us with soulful eyes. A playful puppy tries to ride a horse- shaped tricycle. The "Motherly Love" project features striking white horses against a brilliant background. A kitty somehow manages to sneak inside a porcelain pitcher. The "Intellectual" black puppy is found reading a book. You'll also find two magical dolphins. Includes color worksheets for all projects.

Author: Jen Sykes
Pages: 52 pages/8 color Includes a color worksheet
Price: $12.95

The scenes on the ornament box are painted with soft washes of color. The coordi- nating Victorian ornaments are framed with faux-finished arches. Lovable bears include wooden tags that can be personalized. A triptych features old-fashioned chil- dren caroling on a cool winter night. Santa taking the time to go fishing in a rowboat. A set of ornaments depict Captain PJ's Curiosity Shop, the Toy Shop and Schoolhouse.

Author: Melanie Sunne
Pages: 60 pages/8 color
Price: $12.95

Theres "Grandma Junes Back Porch". Lovable scarecrows with colorful shirts and bandanas celebrate fall. For a special chef, theres a recipe box with sunflowers, wheat, rooster and hen. A snowman decorating a tree and gingerfolk cutouts adorn a birdhouse. A pair of Santas forms a lovely candleholder. You will enjoy the cookie box with Santa holding a gingerfolk.

Author: Atsuko Yoshikawa
Pages: 52 pages including a 16 page pattern pullout / 9 color
Price: $12.95

A screen features exquisite florals painted with washes of color on rice paper. Juanita added tile to trivets, a plant stand and a small table. Colorful roses, a topiary and watering can decorate a cookbook holder. A fantasy bird and trees adorn a plant stand, peg rack and box. Other projects feature a brilliant peacock and butterflies. You'll also find mouth-watering strawberries. Two color worksheets.

Author: Juanita Denton CDA
Pages: 44 pages/9 color
Price: $12.95

You'll find sweet children and angels, lovely florals, adorable bears, and a whimsical Santa and snowman. Thickening medium is used to add dimension to roses and angel wings. A delightful little girl is painted on a card; the card is displayed on a canvas aged to look like old parchment. A small plate, candy box and tea box fea- ture delicate pansies. There is also a Teddy music box and charming bear designs for a child's room. Includes four color worksheets.

Author: Louise DeMasi
Pages: 52 pages/8 color
Price: $12.95

Visit the chickens, "Cuddles" and "Helen,". A plaque with a wheelbarrow, milk can, pots and birdhouse. A seed box painted with gloves, a watering can, bird's nest and eggs. In the kitchen you'll find a blackboard decorated with sunflowers, apples, pumpkin, basket with eggs and a mouse. Includes two color worksheets.

Author: Moe Shier
Pages: 36 pages/18 color
Price: $12.95

Mans best friend takes the center stage in Moes new book. The adorable golden retriever puppy on the cover tugs at your heart and a sleepy basset hound stops to smell the flowers. A set of placemats features a sheltie, black lab, Brittany spaniel and Doberman. An elegant sheltie is painted on a rounded lingerie case and a Picardy blue spaniel with soulful eyes graces a bentwood box.

Author: Karen Hubbard CDA
Pages: 40 pages/12 color
Price: $12.95

Karen has decorated a delightful set of furniture pieces with playful baby animals. Although she had a child's room in mind, the babies could be painted on items for any room of your house. The grizzly cub is taking it easy on a sunny day and the fawn is watching a little bunny in the meadow. You'll also find a red squirrel, rac- coons, singing chickadees and baby bluebirds. The book also needed some mamas with their babies, so there's a wolf and cub, buffalo and calf, and sow and bear cub. Includes three color worksheets.

Author: Leila Lundberg
Pages: 48 pages/8 color
Price: $12.95

A colorful plate and canisters are decorated with mouth-watering cherries, pears, apples, grapes and strawberries. A mirror, box and candle holders are painted to look as if they were hand carved. A vanity box, and porcelain vase and bowl painted with soft tulips and lilacs. You'll think of spring when you see cheery plaques, a tissue holder and scallop-edge box. Rich blue, green and gold brighten a tray and coaster box for the holidays. Includes two color worksheets.

Authors: Michelle Almeida, Deb Malewski, Kay Quist, Sharon Saylor
Pages: 36 pages/8 color
Price: $12.95

Simple, beginner designs for Christmas that are enhanced with easy stroke roses. A couple of snowmen designs and a cute scarecrow for fall, all painted with vibrant colors. Charming snowmen and fluffy Teddies are always favorites for beginner painters. A Santa heart, an adorable snowman. Also includes Christmas ornaments painted on a variety of surfaces.

Author: Kim Klassen
Pages: 36 pages/18 color
Price: $12.95

If you love the look of primitive and well-loved antiques, you'll enjoy painting the projects from Kim's newest book. Kim details her technique for achieving "chippy, painted, crackled backgrounds." Her projects include some simple, antique-style signs for Milk, Eggs, Coffee and the Black Sheep Wool Co. She has also included primitive landscapes, houses, sheep, an angel and pineapple painted on simple pine signboards, framed panels, a key cabinet and boxes. Peace, love and country warmth abide in this book.

Author: Sue Jernigan
Pages: 40 pages/8 color
Price: $11.95

You’ll find the perfect ornament for anyone on your gift list. Sweet angels proclaim “peace on earth.” There are patriotic snowmen. Includes ornaments to celebrate the first Christmas for a little baby boy or girl and for the newly married couple. Paint the schoolhouse ornament for a favorite teacher. You will also find painting Santas, snowmen and a darling little girl. Also includes some of Sue’s unique can- dleholders and metal trees decorated with ornaments.

Author: Sue Jernigan
Pages: 60 pages/8 color
Price: $11.95

Start the year with bunny projects, including an adorable bunny tote. Paint a sweatshirt with an enchanting witch, kitty and pumpkins for Halloween. The cab- inet decorated with a scarecrow would be great for fall. Pilgrims remind us to give thanks. A snowflake painted with a snowman tucked inside a thimble would be a great gift for a seamstress. Santa and snowmen also decorate purses, a sweat- shirt, canvas jar labels and napkin holders.

Author: Susan Cochrane
Pages: 52 pages/12 color
Price: $12.95

There are stone, stucco and brick cottages with bright, colorful gardens. The lighted windows give you the feeling that someone is waiting at home. A book box is deco- rated with a church on a peaceful Christmas eve. Theres a cottage-shaped mailbox with sheep dogs standing by the door to greet you. A frame with cutouts features a picturesque village along a river. Cottages also beautify coasters, night light boxes, a tissue box and bookends. Two color worksheets.

Author: Luanne Wykes
Pages: 48 pages/8 color
Price: $12.95

Through the use of texture paste, Luanne has added dimension to her painting. A lit- tle porcelain tray is decorated with lilies of the valley. Basket weave is applied to the background of a beehive canister. Dimensional Jacobean designs grace a tray, can- dle and round box. The combination of ruby colors, flowers and red fruit creates a festive look. Includes three step-by-step worksheets.

Author: Pam Gonnason
Pages: 48 pages/8 color
Price: $11.95

Paint Maxwell in his baseball uniform on a cabinet and his team on a photo album. Painted on a corkboard, Betty Bear is lazily chasing butterflies on a warm summer day. Join Heather Bear on a camping expedition and paint a folding chair featuring bears around a campfire roasting marshmallows. Treavor Bear has white fur and is busy feeding his feathered friends in winter. A sleigh and stationery box feature Santa and tired little Rufus Bear. Two color worksheets.

Author: Phyllis Tilford CDA
Pages: 52 pages/8 color
Price: $12.95

Decorate your home with a brilliant rooster and sunflowers painted on tin, along with an eye-catching rooster sampler. Enjoy the view through a window that is painted on a shelf. Bright cheery florals are painted on a basket, plaque and old book. The "Full House" project features birds peeking through holes in small birdhouses. Fun- loving snowmen are painted on a gate, suds dipper and barrel stave. Also includes some lovely winter scenes. Three color worksheets.