All posts tagged: crafts

ACN MONTHLY CHALLENGE

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ARE YOU READY FOR OUR MARCH MONTHLY CHALLENGE?? CHALLENGE # 5 : Birthdays! Sadly, we had no one play in our February challenge…so the first comment entered on this post to say “Top o’ the morning” to me will be our WINNER!! Edited to add: Jill was the first to comment so JILL is our February WINNER!!  Jill, please send an e-mail to me at deenaperreault@gmail.com with your 2 digital image choices from A Creative Need. Please join us this month with your BIRTHDAY creations!! I would love to see what you do with any of the ACN images, and I’m making it easy to do so by giving you a FREE IMAGE every month! Join in the challenge ANYTIME THIS MONTH and leave a link to your creation (card, journal page, jewelry, scrap page, art journal etc.) here in the comments and I will pop on over to see what you’ve done.  If you followed the CHALLENGE, you will be placed in the random draw for 2 digi images!  If you are the lucky random draw winner AND you’ve used an …

Inspired Artisans: Renee (The Hobo Train)

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I’d like to introduce Renée for our Inspired Artisans Friday Feature! Welcome Renée! Tell us a little about yourself… I’m an independent artisan who makes crossbody hobo bags and upcycled hats and clothing (clothing to be launched soon on Etsy!!!).  I live in Montreal, Canada.  I love music, art, animals, and anything awe-inspiring.  I’ve been in business making textile creations since 2006.  I love when one of my items finds its rightful new home.  :o) What handmade product do you to sell on Etsy and what is the name of your shop?  I sell crossbody hobo bags and upcycled hats.  My shop name is The Hobo Train.  I will be debuting my new upcycled clothing collection on Etsy soon. Do you sell your work elsewhere? I sell my work at festivals and craft fairs in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec (Canada).   Can you share a few of your favourite items here with us?   1)  https://www.etsy.com/listing/99404267/zebra-print-bag-hobo-bag-long-strap  I LOVE this fabric!  It is sassy, bold, colorful, funky, and original all at once. 2)  https://www.etsy.com/listing/99463871/cross-body-bag-shoulder-bag-paisley-hobo  This purple paisley bag …

Inspired Artisans: Christina’s Venicia Creations

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Happy Friday!  I’d like to introduce Christina to our Inspired Artisans Friday feature! Welcome Christina! Tell us a little about yourself… Hi there! My name is Christina and I’m the designer behind Venicia Creations. I’m a registered dietitian by day and a mommy to a very active three year old little boy. I’m married to a wonderful and supportive husband. My family is Italian so we all speak very loudly but have a great time together! What handmade product do you to sell on Etsy and what is the name of your shop?  Do you sell your work elsewhere? In my shop Venicia Creations, I sell handmade jewelry (mostly necklaces and earrings) and some accessories (hairpins, rings, bookmarks, keychains). I love my jewelry very chunky and bold, with a lot of colors! I also just signed up to sell at Luulla.com, so that is pretty new and will have my shop also on The Craftstar. Can you share a few of your favourite items here with us?  I just LOVE mustard yellow right now so this …

Ride the MMS Blog Train for Freebies!

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Your friends at MyMemories would like to invite you  to climb aboard and …. catch the BLOG TRAIN!! Start on the MyMemories Blog on FRIDAY for FUN RIDE through some of the MyMemories  and ScrapWow Designers blogs!! Each one has a FUN FREEBIE for you!  There are over THIRTY of them to visit! MyMemoriesblog.com! There will be a freebie available from every designer on the train!! YAY!   that means lots of new kits to create with using my new software,  My Memories Suite!  (Yes, I’ve been using it every day since I got it! ) If you don’t have the My Memories Software yet…what are you waiting for? If you download digital papers and images already why not try it?  It really is a FUN and EASY tool for creating cards, scrapbook pages, and photo albums!  I just checked and it’s on sale $33.97 (15% off) for a limited time.  PLUS you can use this Code STMMMS31200 for an additional $10.00 off!   and there’s a FUN new challenge on the MyMemories Blog !! Check it out and post your page to be entered …

Join me at Crafter’s Cafe!

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Hi everyone! Have you joined MY GROUP at the CRAFTER’S CAFE ?   Come and take a peek at what’s going on at the cafe…there’s all kinds of challenges, tutorials and craft chat that you won’t want to miss!  It’s free and it’s fun! PSST…I’m also offering all my friends at the cafe a  40% discount on any two images from MY SHOP!  Stop by my A Creative Need Group and get the DISCOUNT CODE, and don’t forget to join the group for future freebies and to share any of your A Creative Need image creations!

Origami Birds

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My 7 yr old son asked me to make origami birds with him last night.  He had taken a book out of the library at school with the steps to make it and he was so eager to do so!  So we  set out to folding and 23 folding steps and 30 minutes later, we had these sweet origami birds made! RONIN”S BIRD I am entering this bird in the Crafty Creations Challenge as he is so proud of it! As am I, of him!  He did each step on his own; as he watched me try a fold, he would do the same on his.  I had to read the steps since they were in french.  He is a crafty little guy!! Here’s mine and here they are ‘flying’!!  Ronin would love to hear what you think of these fancy fold origami birds!   Thanks for stopping by and have a creative day! Deena 

Join me at The Crafter’s Café

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I’ve started a group where we I will be posting about A Creative Need digital image new releases, and sharing cards and freebies and the occasional contest/challenge too!  I hope you will join me at the Crafter’s Café where there are lots of fun design groups and great ladies sharing their talents and their time together! The Crafter’s Café Join the group and share the cards you’ve made using A Creative Need images.    Have a peek at my CURRENT FREEBIE (TOP) if you don’t yet have any of your own! I’d love for you to join us! If you have ideas for images, or questions about using digital images, that’s the place to share! JOIN THE GROUP Related articles ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas… (acreativeneed.wordpress.com) Giving Thanks (acreativeneed.wordpress.com) Here Comes Santa Claus! (acreativeneed.wordpress.com) New Images, A Mini Contest Giveaway and a Holiday Sale! (acreativeneed.wordpress.com)

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas…

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‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house  Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;  The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,  In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;  The children were nestled all snug in their beds,  While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads; excerpt of poem by  Clement Clarke Moore, or possibly, as the claim has also been made, Henry Livingston, Jr. The Challenges that helped me make this  card: Simon Says Stamp Challenge: photo inspiration (stockings) For Your Inspiration: photo inspiration (colors) The Stamping Boutique– Christmas no traditional colors Paper Crafting Journey– Christmas Celebrate the Occasion– Christmas no green Cute Card Thursday– Anything goes Make it Mondays– always anything goes linky comment party! I have some NEW IMAGES available !  I am so excited about these as I was so in the Christmas spirit when I drew them!   I really hope you like them too. The first is my new image “All snug in their Beds”  that I’ve used in my card above.  I …

A Few of my Past Easter Crafts

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Hi!  I will be away visiting my MIL for a while, and only have one other post scheduled for later this week, so I thought I would leave you with a few past Easter projects that I enjoyed making.   I’ve included the links to their original posts or tutorials if something inspires you. These mini notes were quick and fun to make.  I also wrote a tutorial for the mini 3″x 3″ envelopes. You’ll find it HERE. The tutorial for the envelope gift bag is HERE, and the full post with a tutorial link for the Easter basket  is HERE. I’m so glad you stopped by, have a great week and I’ll see you soon!

Magnetic Memory Game Travel Tin Tutorial

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MAGNETIC MEMORY TRAVEL GAME SUPPLIES 1 tin fun foam (self adhesive if available) cut into 24 one inch squares (most dollar stores carry this) strong mini magnets stamps (small images around 1″ ) 6 images for this size tin ink adhesive (ultra sticky red line tape) How To: 1. Measure your tin to see how many squares can fit.   A typical altoid tin can fit 2 rows of 3 in each the lid and the base, if the squares are cut to 1″. 2. I cut my self adhesive fun foam into 1″ squares.    The magnet is adhered with red line adhesive tape to the sticky side of one square.  Take another square and “sandwich” the magnet between the two squares leaving the second square’s sticky side out (for image adhesion) .  Repeat until you have finished all 12 two layered squares. A NOTE :  The magnets I use are extremely strong.  In fact without the double layer of foam, they would have ripped off the back and stayed stuck to the tin.  That …