The weekend was ripe with potential. And then I got laid out flat with some kind of cold/sinus/fall muck. So I decided to spend Saturday and Sunday playing around with paper and trying to figure out which origami ornament would be the one I make for all my friends and family for Christmas.
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I have two fun things to tell you about today. First, the November issue of Craft Leftovers Monthly is in the shop. Order it before Wednesday to get a little off while I print and pack up all the issues. Just $6.50 for the next three days! Woot!
This month’s issue is all about getting ready for the holiday rush and a lovely mash of leftover crafting.
November Craft Leftovers Monthly Table of Contents
The Usual:
The Projects:
The Articles:
The Recipes:
For the first time, you can get your hands on the cards I love to send out the most! Holiday Canniable Snowman Cards! These fun cards are perfect to send to all your holiday buddies, especially if they have similar fond memories of building snowman like me. This card is based on the cover illustration of the Volume 2 Holiday Issue that came out in December of 2009.
You can order singles in the shop, and for a big savings, you can pre-order packages of 10 from now until November 19th. You are guaranteed to get them by December 1st *US and Canada only*.
Pre-order as many as you want here.
Get the November Craft Leftovers Monthly here.
Happy crafting!
Kristin
There is nothing I love more than getting together with a bunch of people and make things together. Yesterday my friend Sarah co-hosted an Ames C.art workshop with me and it was a delight!
She showed us all how to make these great little stars, how to use circle cutters, and general card making ideas, issues, and inspirations.
It was serious business going on, crafty business!
You can see a tutorial on how to make these sweet little stars here or here. Both show the 3-d Froebel Star, but you can just stop and clip the ends to make a flat one for card making purposes.
Making handmade cards is a great way to use up scraps of paper, buttons, ribbon, and whatever else is around the studio. The stars we made, for example, are all made from random bits of card stock. I actually made mine from misprints of the October clm cover. Perfect!
We had about a dozen people at yesterday’s workshop and we all made at least one card, ate cupcakes, and drank coffee. It was such a good time. If you live in central Iowa, you can check out and get updates for all upcoming ames c.art events, workshops, and meetings on Meetup.com/amescart. Most workshops are under $4 and all proceeds go to the help support the space we are meeting at.
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