Craftside

Crafty links and news to kick off the week

First up I want to congratulate the two winners of the Westcott cutting tools and Craftside book giveaway:

Marylinn K. of the blog at http://www.marylinnmlkelly.blogspot.com won a whole big bunch of purple Westcott cutting tools and a copy of Mixed-Media Girls with Suzi Blu: Drawing, Painting, and Fanciful Adornments from Start to Finish.

and

Brenda F. is the Westcott winner of a whole big bunch of pink cutting tools and a copy of Mixed Media Workshop: A multifaceted approach to creating unique works of art-step by step.

Happy cutting and crafting ladies!

Next up: Do you like to combine travel and crafting? Why not do it with a Crafty Chica 8-day Artful Journaling Tour through England!

And finally, check out these fun ideas:

The Card Album Blog
Learn how to make a "Keep Calm and Cut On" recycled art card.

RockPaperInk.com
Fumi Watanabe is inspired by her messy desk.

About Family Crafts
Play along with the new Make-It-Over craft challenge. This challenge is all about making crafts using Easter Peeps candy.

Aileen's Musings
Aileen offers you a re-post of a fun magnetic Easter or Mother's Day project!

Carmi's Art/Life World
Carmi makes some pop up cards using some beloved vintage imagery!

Crafty Princess Diaries
Tammy shows off a new work in progress, a beautiful ripple shawl using self-striping yarn.

Eileen - The Artful Crafter
One of The Artful Crafter's readers has developed a new, improved recipe for homemade polymer clay. Be sure to check out Eva’s recipe, as well as the darling "gingerbread" house she made with it.

Mixed Media Artist
What's a girl to do when she can't draw but she wants to include a drawing in her quilt?

    

Craftside will be at Craftcation 2012!

What is Craftcation?

Craftcation: Indie Business & DIY Craft Conference is three days of 50+ lectures on small business and hands-on DIY craft, food & sewing workshops with 30+ industry professionals like JENNY HART, CRAFTY CHICA, CATHY CALLAHAN, AIDA MOLLENKAMP and THE URBAN CRAFT CENTER.

When: March 22-25th, 2012

Where: Beachfront Crowne Plaza Hotel, Ventura, CA

For info go to www.craftcationconference.com or find Craftcation on Facebook here.

Register by February 15th for discounts on tickets & hotel.

Hope to see you there!

 

Quarry is a sponsor of this year’s Holiday Felt Club! Come visit me and several of our other authors!

What is Felt Club you ask?


Felt Club is...A CRAFT FAIR Sunday November 16, 11 AM-7 PM

Felt Club is an annual indie craft fair featuring the best and brightest of today's creative scene. Felt Club's carefully juried shows highlight a wide variety of handmade goods, including handbags and jewelry, baby gifts and paper products, clothing and housewares, one-of-a-kind plushies and original artwork. In between shows, they host a variety of craft-related events around the city, including how-to workshops, craft supply swaps, and more.

Felt Club features a varied crew of rotating artists, crafters, designers and indie businesses, including My Paper Crane, Cathy of California, boygirlparty, Nervous System, and many others. Their events feature amazing shopping, tasty food, crafty workshops, great music and more. You can check out photos from past events in our Flickr pool.

Holiday 2008 happens @ the Shrine Auditorium Expo Center, 700 W. 32nd St., LA CA 90007. Click here

for directions.

Lisa Sonora Beam will be there signing copies of

The Creative Entrepreneur
A DIY Visual Guidebook for Making Business Ideas Real

Angela Cartwright will be there signing copies of:

Mixed Emulsions

and

In This House

I will be there signing copies of my book:

Sweater Surgery
How to Make New Things from Old Sweaters

and you can come and make an ornament out of a felted wool sweater and use needle felting tools provided by Clover Needle Craft.

Lisa will be demo-ing as well...details to be announced shortly!!!

In addition to these books we'll have lost more of the fabulous Quarry, Creative Publishing international and Voyager craft titles perfect for gift giving to that special crafter in your life!

Not only will there be great shopping, there will be:

To see pictures from the last one that I attended click here.

Come on by to see us while you shop!

My Crafty Chica Empowerment Guardian Entry and Glittering Tip

Here she is:

Our Lady of Plaidbunny, The Guardian of Scissors and Protector of Safe Cutting.

I just so happen to have this wood coffin in my Halloween decorations and I thought it would make an excellent grotto for Our Lady of Plaidbunny. I lined it with scrapbook paper and decorated it with found objects, pom poms and of course more glitter!

You may be wondering how I got those great little glitter bunnies on Our Lady of Plaidbunny. Well let me tell you:

First I used a paper punch to punch out a bunch of bunnies from paper (in a coordinating color to my Crafty Chica Glitter-Bollywood Blue.

I then rolled a tube of Scotch tape with the sticky side out and placed it into a Snappy Tray. I then spread a bit of white glue onto each paper bunny and stuck it on the sticky tape tube.

I sprinkled the glitter onto the bunnies and allowed to dry. Then I poured the excess glitter back into the container.

The bunnies were ready to then glue onto Our Lady of Plaidbunny. I just love how the black (Be Bop Black) glitter has bits of green in it that pick up the green in the plaid fabric

If you need a bit of inspiration for your Empowerment Guardian or anything else you have that needs your special touch, grab a copy of  The Crafty Chica Collection
Beautiful Ideas for Crafts, Home Decorations and Shrines from the Queen of Latina Style and get crafting!

The Crafty Chica Collection
Beautiful Ideas for Crafts, Home Decorations and Shrines from the Queen of Latina Style

By

Kathy Cano Murillo

Over 60 colorful craft projects, decorations, and shrines that celebrate “Latino Style”.

Kathy Cano Murillo, known as the Crafty Chica, launched her publishing career with two lively books: Making Shadow Boxes & Shrines and La Casa Loca, which means “the crazy house.” All of the projects that she designed for those two books are now featured in this classy-meet-campy companion collection of Latino-American pop art. The projects include everything from party gear to home decorations; garden accessories to gifts; and shrines to jewelry. More than 60 fabulous ideas incorporate paint, fabric, collage, embellishments, and a heavy dose of glitter. A book that every hip crafty chick needs in her collection.

Kathy Cano Murillo is a syndicated crafts columnist for The Arizona Republic and Gannett News Service. She is known for her pod-cast and web site, www.CraftyChica.com, which receives 900,000 hits a month. She is the author of five creativity/crafty books and makes regular appearances on local and national TV demonstrating her projects.

Here is the info for the Contest the Crafty Chica is holding-The Deadline is Friday!!!!!

1. Decorate one of the Crafty Chica Empowerment Guardians. Available at select Michaels stores or on Amazon.com.

2. When you are finished, take two pictures of it: One of you holding it, and another of it by itself.

3. Upload the picture to the Flickr Crafty Chica Inspiration Gallery with the header: CONTEST ENTRY. In the caption area, share the name of your Guardian, what her theme is and how you hope she will inspire you.

4. Send The Crafty Chica an email with the link to your Guardian, your name, age, and city you live in.

Deadline is Friday October 10th. A panel of crafty folks will choose a winner and The Crafty Chica will announce it on November 1st.

Entries will be scored on creativity, originality, innovation, and the personal inspiration that went into it. It can be healing, comical, kooky, happy, serious - whatever moves you! *Enter as many times as you want (a different guardian for each entry)!*

Winner will receive a paid spot on the Crafty Chica 2009 cruise. You'll share a room with another cruiser - however if the winner has a family member who wants to go, that family member will receive a reduced rate! That is a smokin' deal! Keep in mind, they depart from San Diego, so you will have to provide that transportation. The prize pack includes your room, all workshops, meals, and basic beverages. Does not include incidentals, you will need a credit/debit card upon boarding for those.

If you are already signed up for the cruise, you can still enter and win!

Crafting with Crafty Chica goodies for Her Contest

Win a paid spot on the Crafty Chica 2009 cruise!

1. Decorate one of the Crafty Chica Empowerment Guardians. Available at select Michaels stores or on Amazon.com.

2. When you are finished, take two pictures of it: One of you holding it, and another of it by itself.

3. Upload the picture to the Flickr Crafty Chica Inspiration Gallery with the header: CONTEST ENTRY. In the caption area, share the name of your Guardian, what her theme is and how you hope she will inspire you.

4. Send The Crafty Chica an email with the link to your Guardian, your name, age, and city you live in.

Deadline is Friday October 10th. A panel of crafty folks will choose a winner and The Crafty Chica will announce it on November 1st.

Entries will be scored on creativity, originality, innovation, and the personal inspiration that went into it. It can be healing, comical, kooky, happy, serious - whatever moves you! *Enter as many times as you want (a different guardian for each entry)!*

Winner will receive a paid spot on the Crafty Chica 2009 cruise. You'll share a room with another cruiser - however if the winner has a family member who wants to go, that family member will receive a reduced rate! That is a smokin' deal! Keep in mind, they depart from San Diego, so you will have to provide that transportation. The prize pack includes your room, all workshops, meals, and basic beverages. Does not include incidentals, you will need a credit/debit card upon boarding for those.

If you are already signed up for the cruise, you can still enter and win!

Here is mine in progress:

My process:

Think of all the things I love and inspire me.

The first being my love of plaid!

So I covered the "cloak" area of the guardian with some cool lime and black plaid fabric.

I have a lot more work (and glitter) to go but I think the plaid is a good start!

If you need a bit of inspiration for your guardian try grabbing a copy of her wonderful book, it will surely get your creative glittery juices flowing, it always works for me!

The Crafty Chica Collection
Beautiful Ideas for Crafts, Home Decorations and Shrines from the Queen of Latina Style

By

Kathy Cano Murillo

Over 60 colorful craft projects, decorations, and shrines that celebrate “Latino Style”.

Kathy Cano Murillo, known as the Crafty Chica, launched her publishing career with two lively books: Making Shadow Boxes & Shrines and La Casa Loca, which means “the crazy house.” All of the projects that she designed for those two books are now featured in this classy-meet-campy companion collection of Latino-American pop art. The projects include everything from party gear to home decorations; garden accessories to gifts; and shrines to jewelry. More than 60 fabulous ideas incorporate paint, fabric, collage, embellishments, and a heavy dose of glitter. A book that every hip crafty chick needs in her collection.

Kathy Cano Murillo is a syndicated crafts columnist for The Arizona Republic and Gannett News Service. She is known for her pod-cast and web site, www.CraftyChica.com, which receives 900,000 hits a month. She is the author of five creativity/crafty books and makes regular appearances on local and national TV demonstrating her projects.