Thank you for the nice comments, so much appreciated. The painted areas on the milkcan and watering can are sealed. Sue and Gottatry, if I can do One-Stroke Painting, so can you. It does take practice but once you get the hang of it, it's fun. Trust me, I am definitely no expert at it. Folk Art paints, which Donna Dewberry uses, also carries a line of "enamel paints" which (after curing) do not have to be sealed for outside use. Sal

I received two of her kits for Christmas. I wasn't pleased with either one. With both kits not all the items you need are really included. The basic strokes kits has no patterns included you are suppose to trace Donna's painting from the book. Even if you use a stylist you end up making marks/creases on the pages which shows through to the other side of the page as well. There are typo's or mistakes in the paint colors, in one flower the written words tell you to use white, and the color work sheet it is very clear you should be using a yellow. But of course there is no way to tell what yellow. Then after tracing a painting and putting it onto a shelf I realized the drawing I traced has one type of flower and the picture of the completed project has the small 5 petal flowers. So naturally it doesn't look the same. But again the book states the photo is a copy of the finished project and it isn't. Her Favorites kits is a little better for no other reason it comes with paper patterns. Both kits come with a list of substitutions that you must make with the paint you are given and the paints listed in the book. I did better buying her video from Wal-mart for 4.99 and using the paint and what few brushes you get from the kit. It is much easier to understand the video.

Hi Michael and welcome! I've done OneStroke with both Dewberry and other flat brushes but then I've been painting for a long time. If you are new to OneStroke I recommend you start by using Dewberry's brushes. Even though you can use any other good, flat, TAKLON brush to do OneStroke, the Dewberry brushes are made a lot thicker than most flats to hold more paint which is necessary to do OneStroke. OneStroke uses a LOT of paint. And just a note....I always found that using an ANGLE brush made doing OneStroke much easier and Dewberry now has those in her brush line.

Plaid should get back to you quite quickly. I had a general question for them about getting some Rub-ons to come off that were stubborn and they replied within a day or two, and even offered to replace the rub-ons which I thought was pretty impressive. Suzan J