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February 15, 2007
Softie Awards
I'm really excited to be one of the judges for the upcoming Softie Awards! Just wanted to let you know there still lots of time to enter the contest. Read more on how to enter and find out about the 12 different categories. You can check out all the entries so far here. The deadline for all entries to be uploaded to the flickr group is March 9th. Pictured above left is Phishykitty by Beck W. and Limp and lump by spooky daddy on the right. Link.
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Feb 15, 2007 03:44 PM
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Vote for Craftzine in SXSW People's Choice Award
Hi Crafters! We are so happy to be one of the nominees in the Art category for the SXSW Web Awards. If you like what you read here everyday on Craftzine, please submit a vote for us in the SXSW People's Choice Awards! Link.
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Feb 15, 2007 02:26 PM
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Cabinet Makeover
Jenny at Cut + Paste blog revamped her boring glass cabinet with some IKEA fabric. [ via ] Link.
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Feb 15, 2007 01:41 PM
Home and Garden |
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Crochet Bracelet Tutorial
Lina of Kardemuma has a tutorial on how to crochet a cute circle bracelet. Link.
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Feb 15, 2007 12:10 PM
Crochet, Jewelry |
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Sewing Zippers
Lisa of the U-handbag blog has a tutorial on how to sew the perfect zipper--in this case, for a boomerang, zippered pouch with pocket and loop. The photos are really helpful and cover all the steps. Link.
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Feb 15, 2007 10:38 AM
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HOW TO - Make a Three Strand Necklace
Pam Conway says, "Here's a tutorial on how to turn an ordinary single gold chain into a 3 strand beaded necklace with a pendant. Great for using up old chains you don't wear or ones you got as a gift that are still sitting in the box! Really easy instructions and very pretty photos." Link.
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Feb 15, 2007 09:45 AM
Jewelry |
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Chocolate Covered Car
Splurch says, "A chocolate-coated car was placed in front of a supermarket in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, on Valentine's Day. This eye catching car was the work of seven employees from a local car company. The car was wrapped in a plastic wrap before being painted with melted chocolate. A total of 200 kg of chocolate was used in its making." Link.
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Feb 15, 2007 08:52 AM
Arts |
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February 14, 2007
Chinese New Year Good Luck Bag Tutorial
The Purl Bee has a tutorial up on how to make these beautiful embroidered bags for Chinese New Year. The Chinese Lunar New Year is this Sunday, Feb 18th and it will enter in the Year of the Pig 4075. You can make this cute bag and stash them with the Chinese Lucky Candies. Link.
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Feb 14, 2007 05:35 PM
Holiday projects, Needlearts, Sewing |
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HOW TO - Make an Origami Valentine (Video)
Here's another paper craft you can make for Valentine's day from The Peace of Paper. Make an Origami Valentine with this helpful video tutorial. Link.
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Feb 14, 2007 03:29 PM
Holiday projects, Japanese Crafts, Paper Crafts |
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HOW TO - Make a Paper Rose Bouquet for Valentine's Day (Video)
Mark says, "I kind of forgot about Valentines, so made a little video of how I made a cute bunch of flowers, hope you all like it and hopefully it will get some fellas out of hot water! :) Happy Valentines!" Link.
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Feb 14, 2007 02:42 PM
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CRAFT Featured in Daily Candy SF Today
Thanks Daily Candy San Francisco for featuring for Valentine's Day one of our the projects from CRAFT: 02, "Voodoo Doll Pincushion" by Casey Dougherty! Link.
From the pages of CRAFT:
CRAFT Subscribers can also see the Voodoo Doll Pincushion project online here via our Digital Edition p. 122-123 . - Link.
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Feb 14, 2007 01:36 PM
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CRAFT Valentine's Day Card Contest Winners!
Happy Valentine's Day Crafters! Thank you so much to everyone who participated in our "Recycle Your Heart" CRAFT Valentine's Day Card contest. We got such creative and amazing entries in that it was hard to pick just 3 winners. Thanks also to our guest judges Megan Reardon of Not Martha, Garth Johnson of Extreme Craft, and Tiffany Threadgould of RePlayGround (formerly Tiffany Tomato Designs).
Each of these winners will receive CRAFT: 02, a CRAFT T-Shirt, and a one month free subscription to The Sampler! Woo!
Winner: Postbird by Ciana Bodini
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Description: A beautiful bird is drawn on recycled paper carrying an "I love you" note slyly in his beak. The card folds out so that it can be displayed nicely and lives inside a recycled map envelope.
Megan says, "I like how the recycled materials work in the context of both the overall design as well as the theme of the card. I think the card is simple and sweet, and the message is displayed cleverly. I appreciate that the card unfolds into a presentation of itself."
Winner: Monster Valentine Card by Blythe Church
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Description: Monster Valentine's Day card with a removable anatomical heart pin. Made using two recycled sweaters, shredded pantyhose for stuffing, felt scraps, safety pin, thread and a button.
Garth says, "This card was a great response to the challenge--it used simple materials, a great concept, and some great crafting. The removable pin is the cherry on top. It's great to see an entry with layers of intrigue and creativity tied up in a wicked cute package. Snugglicious."
Winner: Valentine by Emma Axelson
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Description: Materials are a used Altoids mints tin (paint sanded off), fortune cookie fortune, cardboard, cardstock, wrapping paper, toothpicks (supporting the wires), wire, and a Coke can (the hearts strung on the wire). And the tempting proposal that's promised? It's on the tape... :)
Tiffany says, "This project made the best use of multiple recycled materials and because of it's 3-dimensional-ness. Nice use of old Altoids tin (it's always great to come up with an alternate use for them), soda can hearts (I think that's the part that won my heart), and recycled paper. But hmmm. what's the message on the tape?"
But wait! There's more. We couldn't stop ourselves with the winners. Here are our Honorable Mentions where each will receive CRAFT: 02.
Honorable Mention: Secret Valentine by Genevieve Dionne
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Description: A valentine crafted from a nearly empty match box
Megan says, "The cleverness of how this valentine message is revealed creates a
sweet, secret intimacy."
Garth says, "Holy Cow! Who wouldn't be charmed by a code-lovin' sweetheart. Brilliant."
Honorable Mention: a valenTINES greeting for you! by Rakka
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Description: Made from a recycled plastic fork. (I got the fork in a prepackaged lunch, used it, washed it and then formed the heart.)
Garth says, "Simple. Sweet. Clever....and well crafted!"
Tiffany says, "Loved the use of valen"tines" on the fork."
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Feb 14, 2007 12:02 PM
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Give CRAFT and/or MAKE for Valentine's Day
Phil @ MAKE says:
Flowers wilt, chocolates go straight to my hips... Trust us on this one, if you need to give something, give a year of CRAFT or MAKE, or both if you really like someone.
Subscribe to CRAFT - Link.As a special treat here's a poster/print you can make and add a special message to. The illustration is from MAKE's editor-in-chief Mark Frauenfelder. I used the art to make this acrylic version for our office in Brooklyn. Get the EPS and the PNG here [ via ] - Link (ZIP).
Subscribe to MAKE - Link.
The image is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 License, ok to edit and share, just not ok to sell. If you something neat with it, let us know.
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Feb 14, 2007 10:40 AM
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Valentine's Day Sugar Cookies
Candace of Crafty Daisies has a quick and easy recipe to make sugar cookie heart cut-outs. Yum! Link.
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Feb 14, 2007 08:53 AM
Food, Holiday projects |
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February 13, 2007
The Origami Lab
Phil @ MAKE brings us a cool origami post:
The New Yorker has a great article about Robert Lang, physicist turned origami pro (we've covered his work on MAKE a lot)...
One of the few Americans to see action during the Bug Wars of the nineteen-nineties was Robert J. Lang, a lanky Californian who was on the front lines throughout, from the battle of the Kabutomushi Beetle to the battle of the Menacing Mantis and the battle of the Long-Legged Wasp. Most combatants in the Bug Wars--which were, in fact, origami contests--were members of the Origami Detectives, a group of artists in Japan who liked to try outdoing one another with extreme designs of assigned subjects. They engaged in the Bug Wars after one of the Detectives displayed what the group's Web site calls "an incredible secret weapon"--a horned beetle with outspread wings, which he had folded from a single sheet of paper. "Then the origami insect war got full-scale," the English translation of the Web site continues. "They compared their confident models with others at their monthly meetings, and losers left with chagrin." During the Bug Wars, Lang was not yet a professional origami artist; he was a research scientist at Spectra Diode Labs, in San Jose, who did some paper folding on the side. He was busy at work--in 1993, the year of the Menacing Mantis, for instance, he patented a self-collimated resonator laser and worked on fibre-optic networks for space satellites--so he usually wasn't able to travel to Japan to hand-deliver his bug of the month. Instead, he would e-mail his design to an ally in Tokyo, who would fold it and present it to the Detectives on Lang's behalf.The New Yorker: The origami lab. Thanks Saul! [ via ] Link.
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Feb 13, 2007 05:15 PM
Japanese Crafts, Paper Crafts |
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