Craft Discoveries

Sharing the love of crafty-goodness!

  • 21st May
    2012
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indiecraftexperience: The Atlanta Institute of Stitches and Crafts is joining us at our summer Indie Craft Experience on June 2-3. They are hosting a craft competition…what??? Yup! That’s right.  They say, “We are super excited to announce that we will be holding a craft competition at this year’s summer Indie Craft Experience show, with great prizes and guaranteed fun! We’ve teamed up with Binders Art Supply to bring you a super crafty competition.” Learn more about the competition and how to get involved here. 

indiecraftexperience:

The Atlanta Institute of Stitches and Crafts is joining us at our summer Indie Craft Experience on June 2-3. They are hosting a craft competition…what??? Yup! That’s right. 

They say, “We are super excited to announce that we will be holding a craft competition at this year’s summer Indie Craft Experience show, with great prizes and guaranteed fun! We’ve teamed up with Binders Art Supply to bring you a super crafty competition.”

Learn more about the competition and how to get involved here. 

(via stitchesandcrafts)

  • 11th May
    2012
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    2012
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    2012
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  • 26th April
    2012
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I stayed up until 4 O’clock this morning because I didn’t want to stop making Mother’s Day cards. When I get into that craft zone it’s difficult to stop! I’ve made 6 cards so far, not sure if I’ll make more or not. My mother is gone now, but I have other women in my life I like to recognize for their awesomeness whenever I can. I picked up a giant art book at Savers with the most beautiful images specifically for the purpose of using them for cards and scrapbooking. As soon as I saw this image I knew it would be for my sister. It reminds me of her and her daughter when she was about this age as well as our love of the ocean. I cut out the image, ran it through my die cutting machine, attached it to a piece of card stock after punching the corners with a frilly corner punch, and added a bow tied from vintage ribbon. For the inside I cut 2 more pieces from the image (it was quite large), put strips of matching card stock at the center and stamped “Happy Mother’s Day.” And because I know my sister likes this sort of thing, I clipped the description of the painting, which is titled “Summer Afternoon” circa 1906-1908 by Frank Weston Benson, and will tuck it inside the card.

I stayed up until 4 O’clock this morning because I didn’t want to stop making Mother’s Day cards. When I get into that craft zone it’s difficult to stop! I’ve made 6 cards so far, not sure if I’ll make more or not. My mother is gone now, but I have other women in my life I like to recognize for their awesomeness whenever I can.

I picked up a giant art book at Savers with the most beautiful images specifically for the purpose of using them for cards and scrapbooking. As soon as I saw this image I knew it would be for my sister. It reminds me of her and her daughter when she was about this age as well as our love of the ocean. I cut out the image, ran it through my die cutting machine, attached it to a piece of card stock after punching the corners with a frilly corner punch, and added a bow tied from vintage ribbon.

For the inside I cut 2 more pieces from the image (it was quite large), put strips of matching card stock at the center and stamped “Happy Mother’s Day.”

And because I know my sister likes this sort of thing, I clipped the description of the painting, which is titled “Summer Afternoon” circa 1906-1908 by Frank Weston Benson, and will tuck it inside the card.

  • 26th April
    2012
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idreamcreateandadmire:

Knitted skulls, by Hildur Bjarnadottir

” When I was four years old my mother taught me how to knit, crochet and sew. I was raised immersed in a textile environment. My mother was a knitting and sewing teacher, and I would constantly be knitting or making crafts.

One thing my mother did not teach me was to follow patterns; everything I made she had me design myself. The line between art and craft is hazy, and is based on context as well as concept.

In my art I explore this fine line between decorative, usable crafts and conceptual art. My work takes the focus from the usefulness and beauty that textiles are generally connected with and places it more on simple techniques and the inherent properties of the materials. I work with as well as against the materials and traditional textile rules.” – Hildur Bjarnadottir

(via bookspaperscissors)

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