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This Giveaway is closed! Check out week 3 and enter to win! The winner is!!!! Amanda – Sygnet Creations – why i heart homemade 101 Snappy Fashions Giveaway available for pre-order – available April 2010 Barnes and Noble – Amazon I am 9 weeks away from 101 Snappy Fashions release and to celebrate I am giving away a goodie pack each week for the next 9 weeks. The goodies will be themed by chapter and will include a signed advanced copy of the book, a grand prize and a few fun extras! Keep coming back each week and enter to win another set of goodies.
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Week 2 – 101 Snappy Fashions Giveaway
Cathie Filian and Steve Piacenza Homemade Hardware on Creative Juice ’70s Storage Locker The ’70s are making a comeback, and with this groovy storage locker decorated with lace trim, you’ll be packing in style.
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Revamped Trunk – 70′s Style
Washer Jewelry An ordinary metal washer becomes a funky piece of jewelry with nothing more than decorative paper and dimensional magic. Materials: large washer origami or other decorative paper scissors Mod Podge Dimensional Magic pencil 1 yd. leather cording leather clasp flat-nose pliers large hole punch 1
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Make It: Hardware Washer Pendants from Creative Juice
Pipe-Part Candlesticks: Patina Finish With the right parts and a little know-how, plain pipes can be transformed into distinctive candleholders that will help light up any room. Materials: 3/4″ lead pipe, 6″ long 3/4″ lead flange 3/4″ lead coupling Sophisticated Finishes Patina Antiquing Set (includes copper metallic surfacer and patina green antiquing solution) foam brush acrylic primer 1
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make it: pipe part candle holders
heat transfer on cotton, framed with antique cotton and indigo dyed silk, the image is from a vintage post card, heat transfer on tin foil, (vintage post card) It’s been a while since I’ve done photo transfers, but just last week I taught the heat transfer method in my art quilting class. The papers have become more accessible since the 90′s and they are user friendly for anyone with basic photo shop skills and an ink jet printer.
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image transfer
If you wanna create a quick and fun necklace to show off your Irish pride on St. Patrick’s day all you need to do alter a domino with a little Mod Podge , Dimensional Magic and an Irish image. To add a little glitz attach a few rhinestones or add a little glitter glue
The backwoods poet who is to make anything worth while out of his restricted material does so by facing it squarely and looking at it not with the sentimental glance of the local colourist but with the strict and penetrating vision of the realist. from my 1996 journal advice I found in a book about Canadian poetry.
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backwoods poet
Valentine Favor Box Materials: Mod Podge matte Folkart paint 413 pink Folkart Extreme Glitter hologram Clear heart shaped favor box Foam paintbrush Scissors Hot glue Decorative paper Wood heart Ribbon or trim Silk flower Rhinestone Steps: 1. Trace the lid of the box onto the decorative paper. Apply a layer of Mod Podge on the inside of the box lid and on the top of the paper
weathered saint, from Rouen cathedral, photographed last spring I live on an island, blessed with splendid isolation from urban life. When I drive to town I see wide expanses of water and sky.
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ancient faces, ordinary thoughts
Altered Valentine Tag Materials: Mod Podge matte Folkart paint 437 lipstick red Folkart Extreme Glitter red 1 wood heart 1 wood or chipboard tag decorative paper – 2 styles Foam paintbrushes Ribbon Hot Glue or tacky glue Paper flowers Rhinestones Steps: 1. Paint the wood heart red. Topcoat with 3 coats of extreme glitter
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make it: Valentine Gift Tags
So, here we are a month into the new year and I'm just now getting caught up. First it was getting ready to go to China, then it was being in China, then it was being back from China and getting caught up, which somehow elided right into teaching six classes last semester and subbing for two more at the end of it, with massive amounts of grading to do at the end of January
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New Year, New Schedule, New Paper Exhibit
Altered Candy Boxes Materials: Mod Podge matte Folkart paint 413 pink Folkart Extreme Glitter hologram Clear heart shaped favor box Foam paintbrush Scissors Hot glue Decorative paper Wood heart Ribbon or trim Silk or paper flower Rhinestone materials Steps: 1. Trace the lid of the candy box onto decorative paper. 2.
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Make it: Valentine Altered Candy Boxes
Marc Chagall Double Portrait with a Glass of Wine” 1917, oil on canvas. The artist was 30 years old when he painted this. His paintings are usually dream scapes or childhood narratives, every day worlds full of the wonderful and miraculous.
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Creative Painting
velvet and rayon couched to felted wool Before Christmas the Cornerstone gallery contacted me to see if I would mount a small exhibition in their space around the same time as my workshop in Kingston. Even though I was already committed to an exhibition at Greenwood Quiltery in Guelph for the same time period (april-may 2010) I said yes. It means gathering together two completely different bodies of work and finishing up some pieces.
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Drawing with fabric
indigo on linen with stitch resist women artists who use circular imagery in their work Eva Hesse Pamela Fitzsimons Lenore Tawney Sue Hammond West Sue Lawty Helen Parrott Ilze Aviks Donna Sharrett Marjan Bijlenga Ase Ljones Jude Hill indigo on cotton with tied resist
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circular imagery
Valentine Bubble Wand Materials: Mod Podge matte Bubble wand Foam paintbrush Scissors Hot glue Decorative paper Ribbon or trim Steps: Cut a piece of paper to fit around the bubble wand. Apply Mod Podge to the back of the paper, wrap around the wand and top coat with a second layer of Mod Podge.
According to Jung, the human psyche holds an ancient collective memory, where universal experience is symbolized. Archetypal symbols are so familiar we respond to them both intuitively and rationally. These universal symbols are common to many world religions
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primordial sacred symbol
CHA Winter Show Tuesday – January 26 10:00 – 6:00 Plaid Booth #2817 Hot Glue Gun Helpers Candy Filled Cupcakes Mod Podge Make and Take 3:15 Filming the Great Tool Hunt with When Creativity Knocks
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Tuesday’s Activities at CHA
Do you want quicker updates and on the spot info or creative inspiration?….. Add me on facebook or twitter ! This will be the Plaid CHA booth. Barnes and Noble Load In.
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CHA – Set up and Day 1 Pics
Loved as if Embroidered with Flowers, fabric and paper collage (2002) It has to be loved the way a laundress loves her linens, the way she moves her hands caressing the fine muslins knowing their warp and woof, like a lover coaxing, or a mother praising. It has to be loved as if it were embroidered with flowers and birds and two joined hearts upon it. It has to be stretched and stroked.
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Planet Earth