Scroll down for an opportunity to win a $55 Fine Doodle.
I love art and I love my kid’s art, so when Summer contacted me about doing a Fine Doodles review and giveaway I knew I it would be a terrific fit. Fine Doodles combines Summer’s artistic talent and my kid’s creativity.
After receiving the paintings that Summer did for us, I’m even more excited to be able to tell you about it and to give you the chance to win one.
Summer takes children’s drawings and then uses acrylic paint to render them with color, dimension and imagination. The results are amazingly charming and whimsical. She created two paintings for us and I’m completely sold.
Just look at what she did with Alyssa’s “People”
"People" - original
"People" - Fine Doodled
and with Savannah’s “Wedding Cat”
"Wedding Cat" - Original
"Wedding Cat" - Fine Doodled
I already have several more drawings selected that I want to have Fine Doodled. I should have at least one from each child, right? The great thing is that my husband was also enchanted with the paintings, so I don’t have to sell him on the idea of getting more.
After seeing these delightful paintings, even Suzanne (the college student who is currently living with us) wants to have one of her childhood drawings painted by Summer.
Summer paints onto a high quality board that can be placed into a frame for ease of display. Each drawing comes with a certificate of authenticity that includes a high quality copy of the child’s original art work.
Pros:
- Wonderful way to celebrate and preserve your kid’s favorite drawings. (Our copy of “People” had been drawn on scratch paper and was a bit crumpled, but now it can be displayed.)
- The quality of art is amazing.
- Summer really captures the essence of what the children had imagined. (We emailed a couple times about “Wedding Cat” so that she was sure her painting fit with what Savannah was trying to express.)
- I honestly can’t say enough good about these. You just have to see your child’s art transformed into a Fine Doodle to completely appreciate them.
Cons:
- One of our paintings was damaged during the shipping process. However, Summer did offer to immediately make it right.
Fine Doodles offers gift certificates for any of their painting sizes. These would make great gifts for grandparents, parents, children, grown children and even grand children. (I would love to have a Fine Doodle of one of my parent’s childhood drawings.) It’s a special way to celebrate and preserve children’s art.
Want a Fine Doodle of your own? Summer is going to create a medium sized Fine Doodle for one blessed Raising Olives reader.
To enter:
- Please visit Fine Doodles and look around. Then come back and leave a comment on this post telling me how you save/store of your kid’s art work.
Extra entries:
- Tweet about this giveaway. (You may receive one extra entry every day that you tweet.)
- Post about this giveaway on your blog. (Three extra entries)
- Please leave a comment for each entry.
Open to residents of the U.S., Mexico and Canada. Giveaway will end Wednesday, February 24 at midnight.
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Hi, I'm Kimberly. 
Oh, wow! I really must do that! How neat it would be to use in the school room as our art. We already put their art up, but to have it rendered would be so cool.
I sometimes scan in their art. I can then print it as a photo (but smaller and flatter than the original) and put it in a scrapbook. Other times I just put them in their special box.
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That is so neat! And what an inspiring idea for budding artist children, to see what can be done even with their own little drawings.
We have a gallery on the living room wall for our children’s artwork.
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Sooo cool! Since we can’t save everything ever drawn by ALL of our children, we save the most favorites and then take pictures of our kids holding their other artwork and put them in an album! This idea is fabulous and something you could display anywhere in the house!! It makes their art look like something you might have paid big bucks for!! You always find the neatest stuff- thanks for posting this
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What a neat idea! Currently, each of my children have an “art drawer” – they are the stackable plastic drawers, scrapbook paper-sized. They put all of their drawings and other artwork in their drawer, and once their drawer is full, we go through and pull out the favorites to save in their homeschool box for the year.
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I have one large folder which really needs to have something done with it. This sounds great!
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Those are SO great. We don’t have a set way to save all my son’s pictures. I have the first one that he made independently framed in his playroom. We hang others up around the house or use them as stationary to write letters on to family. He did just the other day find a picture that I had thrown away and he very sadly said, “Mommy, I don’t want you to throw away my pictures!” I felt SO bad. So now, I don’t throw anything away! I let him tell me when he’s “done” with a picture.
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This is awesome. I have never heard of anything like this.
We have a “treasure Box” its a cedar chest and we keep everything in there.
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Oh these are so adorable! My daughter is just starting her “art career” as a child, but I usually photograph the big stuff (and then eventually throw it out) and I’ll keep a few of the smaller things or scan them to scrapbook.
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I put my children’s artwork in individual picture frames, that have either glass or plexiglass in the frame. I hang some throughout the house, others are stored in an under the bed storage box If it’s 3-D,I have a bookcase to display it….but this giveaway is great! Thanks for the chance!
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We just glued corkboard to two of our walls to give our kids a place to display their artwork (that wasn’t the refrigerator). Periodically, we gather up their work – save the best pieces in a keepsakes box and take digital pictures of the rest before throwing them away.
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This looks so fun. I try and scan or take a picture of some of their art, I should do it more often, it is a neat way to keep it for a long time.
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This is the best idea I have seen in a long time and I love it – my daughter is a little artist since a baby and this is something I am going to do for her birthday – Thanks for sharing – I am in love and off to share with others.
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That is such a neat idea! Currently we put the best art work in page protectors in a binder. The rest of the art is stacked. At the end of the year, the children make covers and I get the drawings comb bound into a book for each one.
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That is very cool! Megan is *always* drawing, so I would love to have some of her artwork “Fine Doodled.” And, I can just picture Josh’s Star Wars drawings preserved that way. What a fun giveaway!
As for storing my kids artwork…um, most of what I’m saving is shoved in a box that once housed a case of printer paper. Not the best preservation method, I’m sure.
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Wow! What a wonderful idea!
We tape the kids’ artwork to the schoolroom wall for the short-term. For long-term storage, I put their favorite artwork (or my favorites) from each year in a plastic page protector, and store it in their homeschool portfolios. Our portfolios are on the scrapbook-y side.
I like Melinda’s idea of making a cover and comb-binding the art into a book.
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THIS IS FANTASTIC!!!
WOW. Well, for our family, depending on the size of the art work, we do several things. If it’s a drawing on a pice of 8.5X11 piece of printer paper or construction paper, I date it and slip it into the next available page protector in my child’s notebook. We always start a new notebook each year (what’s 12 binders per kid over their school years, when it’s such a great way to go back and show them how far they’ve come?) – if it’s a bigger project (like a model, or a large painting, I usually will get them to hold it up, and we take a picture of it with the digital camera and then we can print it off on a 8.5X11 page and again, insert into the notebook.
I find that when the kids can look back and remember the cool things they did, they are pretty good about sending their originals to an “appreciative” long distance relative (hey, what they do with it is not my problem! LOL!). Thankfully most of our art is done on regular 8.3X11 paper… they love seeing their work in their notebooks. It’s like a kid’s version of a “brag book”. LOL!
Blessings!
ShannonR
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Had already clicked the link button and book marked the fine doodle site. It’s so great, and am currently in the process of finding My favorites to have doodled. I don’t do anything special to store, except keep it all the exceptional faves in a drainstef drawer. Our fridge is pretty full at times! I like having it on display for a WHILE…
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We just put them all in a “keep pile” in a basket. Then go through that every 3 months or so, and it’s so fun to see and remember. And then we decide together which ones to keep and put them in notebooks to save
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I love this! So creative. I learned about magnetic walls from your blog & have since painted an area on my son’s wall. I love it! It’s a perfect way to display his artwork!
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I reposted on my blog. Check it out!
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I like to take pictures of the art work I don’t save. We can always put it in a scrapbook later.
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Jeremiah is an especially good artist, and I love displaying his work. I have inexpensive “document” frames all over my kitchen filled with Miah drawings. If the are too big for the frames, I try to keep them in a safe cabinet. I would love to have some of Miah’s pictures fine doodled.
Blessings!
Hannah
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I took a digital picture of my son’s first finger painting and had it made into magnets for all the family. We mostly pass artwork on to family.
Love this idea. The button advertisement had my attention when it first appeared, especially since we already gift art work all the time, this would make it more special.
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wow, that is pretty amazing, I love what she did with wedding cat! right now, I stack my kids artwork, meaning to frame some of it in the future, but haven’t yet…I take photos of some of it, too. sad.
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Wow! “Fine Doodled” is an amazing site! Thank you for the resource. My son is almost 2 so the art he creates is mostly “obals” (ovals) so we would definitely have an abstract piece of art of we won this giveaway.
As for art storage, I plan to take digital photos of his art and then order a photo book once we’ve stored up tons of photos.
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What an awesome concept. The time and effort our children put into each drawing makes them so special. Right now we simply hang them on the refrigerator … you can see we need to work on this area! Great giveaway!!
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We hang a piece of artwork from one of our four kids up around the house for a few weeks, then it makes it into the recycling bin (aka trash) or the storage box each child has. I have been wanting to buy frames to hang extra special projects….if I win it would be hard to choose what to have Fine Doodled. (I have also lined artwork up with the child in the middle and taken a picture to save instead of all the paper.)
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My kiddos are a little too young to doodle all too well, but it won’t be long!! My plan is to dedicate part of a wall in their bedroom as their gallery, let them pick out their favorites, and put the pics in frames for a month or two, or until we create some new favorites to change them out. If the frames get to laborious, plan B is to string some fun wire and simply clip favorites up.
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we take a photo of the art and keep the photo instead of the art. i would love to have something like this for my kids’ rooms, however. i think these would make great grandparent gifts as well…
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I love these! We currently have no system of storing or saving the pictures! We have them all over the place. This is a great idea- I love it!
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My sweet daughter Abby, now 9 drew a family picture when she was 5 I would love to have done, I hope our family wins!
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Really enjoyed Fine Doodles site! Very creative for her to come up with this idea!
I scan some of my boys artwork and keep in the computer and run it as a screen saver slide show. But I also keep their MANY drawings in a binder. One for each child, with dividers between each year – or for one of my budding artist – another binder for each year!
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Wow! Those are really neat! Currently I am saving my son’s artwork in files (I fill one a year and then it goes in a box) but I figure eventually that will probably be too much so I also snap a digital picture of each piece. I hope in the future I can make a book or collage of the digital images.
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I scan a lot of drawings and save them in files – and also make digital pics of some, keep others in a box.
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http://twitter.com/aitmama/status/9432293417
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I have a budding artist and this would be such a great way to preserve some of her artwork! Currently it is all in a portfolio…
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I don’t have a special box yet, just a shoe box or 3-ring binder. Love the Fine Doodles!
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What a great site!! We have three curtain rods hanging in our play room and use curtain rod clips to hang up their art!
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This is Super Cool!!! My son( age 4) is always drawing and I have a “gallery” I put on the wall of some of the really cute ones he has drawn or painted they are in frames, then I keep his artwork in a folder with the different years, age 2 age 3 and age 4 . I also have his drawings stashed in drawers that I still need to file:) Anyway I really ,really like this..I just noticed you have a magnetic wall..that seemed really neat!!I am going to look at that after I post this. Thanks!!
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I keep my son’s artwork in a box stored up in my closet…
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What a fun idea! I usually put a special work of art my daughter has created on the fridge so we can enjoy it while we sit at the dinner table. We have a special binder with clear pages that her work goes into as well along with her completed sticker charts and certificates of accomplishment from swimming and other classes.
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I’ve tweeted this wonderful idea!
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this is soooooo amazing!
i have a folder for the best drawings that I really want to keep. The others, I just take digital photos and then recycle, or use them as wrapping paper.
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In boxes that we magically find years later. :p
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I would have it done onto a Large Canvas!
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i absolutely love that site!!!! my son had so much art work we began taking pictures of most of it and saving it that way, some of it i used as a background paper in his scrapbook too. my daughter is just starting to really doodle around so we haven’t quite decided how to store hers yet
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I don’t really have a good system yet. We display stuff on the fridge and some corkboards, but I don’t have a permanant storage system devised yet. Most of the drawings stay in the paper drawer, so it gets to be quite a mess.
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I have a special cloth box that I keep my son’s art work and other special things I save of his.
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How cool! I love this an have bookmarked the site – might do one for each of the kids birthdays. I save very little of the artwork my kids generate daily. “Special pieces” like their first person or the first time they write “I love you” goes into an under the bed box one box for each child along with any other things we want to save. The rest of the art is switched out on the magnet board.
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What a great idea! We keep our daughters artwork on a wire hanger display in our dining/school room, once we’ve seen enough of them, they go into a filing box
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