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The Arc Academy fundraiser and more crafty news to enlighten and inspire

First up today, I want to let you in on a sale at Qbookshop.com

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Here is a cool (or should I say hot?) video from Stephen Christena, author of our upcoming book Learn to Weld: Beginning MIG Welding and Metal Fabrication Basics - Includes techniques you can use for home and automotive repair, metal fabrication projects, sculpture, and more.

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And to listen to a cool interview with the 3 men of Arc Academy, pop on over to Vacalo.

More about the new book:

Learn to Weld: Beginning MIG Welding and Metal Fabrication Basics - Includes techniques you can use for home and automotive repair, metal fabrication projects, sculpture, and more

by Stephen Blake Christena

Master MIG welding and the metal fabrication techniques you need to repair, create, and duplicate projects in your home welding studio. Learn to Weld starts with the basics: setting up your studio, the right safety gear and safety procedures, and the equipment and materials you will need to begin with welding. With the help of step-by-step metalworking photos and tutorials, you will learn detailed techniques for cutting and grinding, and for joinery using a MIG welder. Practice the techniques and projects, and you’ll soon be able to repair, create, and duplicate metal fabrication projects in your own welding studio. Best of all, you will have both the fundamental skills and the confidence you need to create whatever is in your imagination. With Learn to Weld you’ll be equipped to conquer a world of welding projects.

Stephen Blake Christena is the owner of Midwest Metal Works in Chicago, IL. MW2 offers custom fabrication services and a learning center for hobbyists interested in MIG welding. Christena teaches small-size courses designed to cover the basics and explore students' projects and interests. He is also a spokesman for Miller welding equipment.

 

Originally from Flint, Michigan, Christena moved to Chicago in 1998 after graduating from Western Michigan University with a degree in art. During his time at WMU, his primary focus was directed toward metal sculpture, photography, and painting. He opened his first custom metal sculpture studio in August of 1998.

www.midwestmetalworks.org

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I know I'm mixing things up as I usually share links on Monday, but hey, who doesn't love a good list of links any day of the week?

  

Body Mind Beauty Health

6 Tips for Organizing Movies and Music

  

Quarry SPOON

Recipe for Sweet and Sour Mango Ketchup

  

Whole Home News

Recipe for French Onion Soup

  

Rock Paper Ink

Sketchology

  

Motorbooks

How to repair Aluminum Automotive Trim

    
  

New Craftside Look, Learn, & Create Video with Tracie Lyn Huskamp author of Nature Inspired

Today's Craftside Look, Learn, & Create video features the immensely talented Tracie Lyn Huskamp author of Nature Inspired: Mixed-Media Techniques for Gathering, Sketching, Painting, Journaling, and Assemblage showing us how to transfer a butterfly image onto fabric with a mechanical pencil and then paint it with pretty colors. She adds this to a "Nature Inspired" greeting card with an assortment of  elements.

To get lots more of her great projects and tutorials grab a copy of:

Nature Inspired
Mixed-Media Techniques for Gathering, Sketching, Painting, Journaling, and Assemblage

A lovely nature-inspired art and journaling book featuring the distinctive artwork, projects, journal pages, and unique techniques of artist Tracie Lyn Huskamp.

Along with hints and tips for photographing nature, collecting, and preserving natural elements, the book discusses ways to capture moments and create memories through simple sketches from photographs, painting on fabric, creating journals and journal art, as well as with shadowbox assemblages to display and highlight particular found objects. The artist will share handwritten notes, drawings, poetry, and detailed techniques.

Tracie Lyn Huskamp works as a freelance Product Designer/Illustrator creating mass-market products. A number of her designs have sold in retail stores such as Wal-Mart, Hobby Lobby, Michaels Crafts, Lowe's Hardware, and Walgreen Drugs. One of her products was featured on the television show, Extreme Home Makeover. Tracie's mixed media work has received both regional and national recognition. Her art has appeared on the cover of Somerset Studios, along with feature articles in Cloth, Paper, Scissors magazine, Stampington's premier issues of Artful Blogger, Life Images, and the Quilting Arts Gifts special publication, and she is a contributor to several Quarry books. She has also participated as a workshop instructor at some of the most popular art and fiber retreats and conferences around the country, including Artfest, ArtFiberfest, Art Unraveled, Art and Soul, and the International Quilt Festival. Visit her blog at http://thereddoor-studio.blogspot.com!

Craftside Look, Learn, and Create video with Lisa Kettell author of Altered Art Circus!

It's Friday and that means I have a spankin' new Craftside Look, Learn, and Create video for you! This one is with Lisa Kettell, author of Altered Art Circus!  She shows us how to make a Marie Antoinette paper doll in true Lisa style!

Altered Art Circus!
Techniques for Journals, Paper Dolls, Art Cards, and Assemblages

By
Lisa Kettell

Altered Art Circus! takes the reader on a magical journey into an artistic world where you can discover your creative muse, waiting to come out and play. It is, at heart, a technique book for altered artists, but the ideas are housed within a wonderful, spectacular fantasy land. Altered Art Circus! you the daydreamer, the explorer, the artist, to a place you have never been, where you can unleash your artistic dreams and explore hidden worlds through cutting-edge techniques, creative projects, and beautiful images.

Altered Art Circus! includes easy tutorials on basic digital altering effects for new and vintage images, step-by-step instruction for projects, a gallery of inspirational work from other artists, and clip art and images for you to use in your own projects. The book covers digital and paper alteration, creating from found and household objects (jars and boxes), features playful illustration, vintage imagery, and uses myriad other mixed-media materials, ranging from glitter and wire to crinoline and coloring agents.

Lisa Kettell is a mixed-media artist and writer with years of education and experience in altered art, graphic and print design, business, and marketing. She designs and publishes a successful art and fantasy zine called The Faerie Zine, which is dedicated to fairyology, the arts, creative inspiration, and travel.

One of the cutest elements to design with is the cupcake and combine that with a recycled jar you have in my ever so humble opinion a mixed -media project that you simply can't go wrong with.

Craftside's Look, Learn & Create video series: Ribbon bracelet with Elaine Schmidt

Do you like incorporating ribbons in your jewelry? Well then sit back and watch this fun Craftside Look, Learn and Create video as Elaine Schmidt, author of The Complete Photo Guide to Ribbon Crafts, shows us how to make ribbon lanyard style bracelets with a box stitch.

Like this and want more ribbon crafts? Grab a copy of:

The Complete Photo Guide to Ribbon Crafts:
Over 700 Photos - Bows - Flowers - Embroidery - Weaving - Jewelry - Fashion - Décor - More

By

Elaine Schmidt

The Complete Photo Guide to Ribbon Crafts provides a reference for all kinds of crafts that involve ribbon. It includes step-by-step photographed instructions for a wide range of techniques as well as projects to accompany each area of ribbon crafting. This is a comprehensive guide as compared to most books on ribbon crafts that are specific by technique or end result (ribbon flowers, silk ribbon embroidery, making bows).

This book explores a wide range of techniques and end products, using all kinds of ribbon, making it an essential reference for all craft enthusiasts. It includes ideas and projects for scrapbooking, home décor, general crafting, and fashion!

Elaine Schmidt is a freelance designer, consultant, educator and spokesperson in the craft and hobby industries. She is the former design coordinator for a chain of ribbon boutiques and has developed award-winning product concepts for several manufacturers. Elaine’s original designs are featured in a variety of books, magazines, project sheets and TV segments. Elaine enjoys teaching, demonstrating and thinking up new project ideas that make sewing and crafts fun and easy. Elaine lives in Long Valley, NJ and loves being surrounded by her growing stash of ribbons, fabric, buttons, beads and all the “fun stuff.”

Craftside's Look, Learn & Create video series: Steampunk Style hair pin with Barbe Saint John

Have you been wondering when you would see another great "Look, Learn, and Create" Craftside video? The wait is over! Check out this video on how to make a Steampunk style hair pin with Barbe Saint John.

Barbe is the author of the upcoming book

1000 Steampunk Inspirations

that you can still submit to:

Click above for more details!

To Submit:

1: Email [email protected], and either include a link to your website/online portfolio for our review, or attach no more than 4 low res JPEG images of your work (each file should be under 1 MB). Name each attachment with your last name, and the numbers 1-4.

2: If your low-resolution images are provisionally accepted, you will be given instructions on how to upload the corresponding high resolution files, and you will be required to fill out a Grant of Rights form allowing the publisher the permission to print your images. At this time, we may invite you to submit an additional 6 high-res images, for a total of no more than 10 photos entered into the final jurying round.

3: 1000 images will be selected for publication. If selected, you will not be required to provide any how-to instructions, but you will need to briefly describe your item and what it’s made from. Published contributors will be credited on the pages where their image(s) appear, as well as in the artist directory. Contributors will also have the opportunity to purchase copies of the book at a 50% discount.

4: Deadline: June 1, 2010.

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Need Steampunk goodness now? Grab a copy of:

Steampunk-Style Jewelry
Victorian, Fantasy, and Mechanical Necklaces, Bracelets, and Earrings
By
Jean Campbell