Workshop: Visual Art Journaling at Shemer Art Center Wednesday, November 9 from 9 am to 12 noon

This workshop will celebrate the everyday by designing and creating a visual art journal. Participants will receive writing and materials prompts to work with for each page.  Supply fee of $5/person

Class# CC-1 Cyndi Coon
Wed., 9-12am, 11/9
1 session
Non-member: $ 45  Member: $35
Studio 2

I love Halloween. I always have and I think it is because it doesn’t require stressful family time, it is all about dressing up and acting like a character. Orange is also my favorite color so that gives and edge to the holiday for me. I am going to start posting several new Halloween projects but I thought I’d take a minute to kick off the 2011 season by revisiting Halloween projects from last year.  Click HERE to see some great ideas from 2010.

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I had a stretched out, plain, pink t-shirt that I decided to give a re-style to. I cut the shirt up the front and pulled it in together to “tighten up” the shirt and then sewed it back together.

I cut a piece of pink patterned fabric and ironed it into a pocket shape. I cut a squirrel on my Cricut using the Create A Critter Cartridge out of black construction paper and used that to burn a screen on my YUDU. I then screen printed the squirrel onto canvas in pink ink on the YUDU. I ironed it to the pocket using Heat-n-Bond and then sewed the squirrel pocket to the t-shirt.

Now I have a re-styled, new feeling t-shirt in pink to celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness month.

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Craft rave 2011 applications are due this week. If you like to teach and are crafty apply during the Early bird round. Download the application here: Craft Rave Application 2011

Yum, Yum, Yum! Spinach Strawberry Smoothie for breakfast.

6  ounces of fresh strawberries, trimmed and washed

5 ounces of fresh spinach washed

Put into Cuisinart, add some water if needed, puree

Add in a couple drops of Stevia for sweetness, pour over ice and serve. Delicious!!

I have been on a cleaning streak since the short one went off to Kindergarten a couple of weeks ago. I happened upon a drawer of VCR tapes I was holding on to. I knew I had to let them go and thought why not make a project out of them instead of just tossing them. So I made a vintage looking purse using a double case and the outer paper from My Fair Lady. I love it!

For the purple background I used Bazzill Basics Metallic paper and ran it through the Cuttlebug using the Peacock from the Animal Prints Embossing folder set.  For the female silhouette I used the “My Fair Lady” outer paper box, flattened, along with pink Bazzill Basic paper. I readied the papers onto mats and then used the Cricut Art Nouveau Cartridge to cut out the silhouettes.

The handle was created by braiding the actual VCR tape and using E-600 glue to attach to the sides. I finished it off by gluing down black and white striped ribbon along the edge and spray painting the inside of the box white.

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I had a great time visiting my local dollar store. I was immediately attracted to a turnstile filled with blue and white nautical looking scarves. I also found blue, white and red undies and thought hey why not make it a total project runway moment! So I used the fabric from the undies and the lace trim. I backed the fabric with wonder under and cut the snail on the Cricut using the Give A Hoot Cartridge and the house using the Heritage Cartridge.

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All this back to school talk got me thinking. I head back to school next week too, I teach at Arizona State University and thought – I want a fun new notebook. So I grabbed a plain black spiral bound notebook and went at it. Used glitter paper and pink masking tape. I also used pink card stock and ran it through my Cuttlebug with the skull and cross bones embossing folder included in the Happy Hauntings set. The pink skull on top is also cut on the the Cuttlebug using the Beware Die.

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I had to post a link to Mary Lou and Whimsy Too, who wrote a sweet piece about my t-shirt yarn instruction kit. Mary Lou, I want to see your necklace posted on the Flickr Group: T-Shirt Yarn – get to it! Happy Crafting.

Here is the necklace she is referring to in the post, made by the kit publisher, Carrie Bloomston of Suchity Such for the show.

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For this project I used my Cricut and a Cartridge called Something to Celebrate really offers something to celebrate! It is totally cuties and totally tween! Just my style! There are cakes with faces, candies and tiaras.

I used the candies on the Something to Celebrate Cartridge and cut out all of the layers onto different colors of glitter, jewel tone paper. I glued them together and added Ranger Glossy Accents on the top, sides and back of the shapes. While still tacky, I embedded amethyst jewels on to the front and the necklace findings on to the backs. I braided purple embroidery floss and added a Busy Kids Plastic Necklace Clasp.

For the Tutorial Click Here: Candy Necklaces

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