Learning to Design Bolt Fabric

June 9, 2013 by craftchick

I’m really excited to be taking an amazing and challenging online art course right now with the talented Lilla Rogers called Make Art That Sells.  We have just finished our first week of the course where we focused on bolt fabric.  My mother is an intense quilter and sewing queen so I grew up surrounded by fabric and was really excited to try my hand at designing it. Lilla assigned us a mini assignment at the start of the week to draw […]

Categories: Courses, Design, Digital Mixed Media, Drawing, Making Art That Sells, Painting • Tags: bolt fabric, fabric design, Lilla Rogers, Making Art That Sells, mushrooms

Arts in the Park

June 2, 2013 by craftchick

I, and my puppy Shiloh, just spent the last week as the visual artist for Arts in the Park.  Arts in the Park is a summer long music and arts festival, that highlights a musical act every weekday lunch hour all summer long.  At the same time they feature a visual artist who creates work for a full week of the festival’s run.  It was an amazing experience – creating work for the public in the sunshine every day (and […]

Categories: Artist in Residence, Community, Drawing, Mixed Media, Painting • Tags: artist demonstration, Arts in the Park, demo, plein air painting

Etsy Craft Party

May 29, 2013 by craftchick

Etsy has asked me to put on a Craft Party in Whitehorse on June 20 (the perfect pre-Solstice event).  You can get your free ticket here.  If we get a really big group I’ll move the party to a bigger venue.  Please help spread the word – if we have more than 25 guests register by tomorrow Etsy will graciously provide a box of free craft supplies to make the party that much better!

Categories: Community, General Crafts • Tags: Craft Party, Etsy, Etsy Craft Party, Summer Solstice, Whitehorse

Ice Age Mammals Yarn Bomb

May 22, 2013 by craftchick

Yarn Bomb Yukon got back to work last night when we set about yarn bombing the Beringia Centre‘s iconic mammoth and giant beaver sculptures.  We’ve been wanting to do this for a long time and the upcoming Canadian Museums Association Conference provided the perfect opportunity (the warm weather and sunshine certainly didn’t hurt either). It took six of us and two ladders, three hours to get the job done.  We feel that both of the animals look much more cozy […]

Categories: Installation, Knitting, Yarn Bomb • Tags: Beringia, Beringia Centre, Canadian Museums Association Conference, giant beaver, mammoth, yarn bomb, Yarn Bomb Yukon

Running and Creating Art to Beat Cancer

May 21, 2013 by craftchick

I have decided to bring two of my passions together – art and sport – to raise funds for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada through their Team in Training program (at the same time fulfilling one of my New Year’s resolutions). In October of this year I will be taking part in the 10th anniversary of the Nike Women’s half marathon in San Francisco to raise funds to support cancer research and those battling the disease. I’ve set myself a personal […]

Categories: Community, Drawing, Fundraising, Mixed Media, Painting, Personal • Tags: cancer, donation, Fundraising, half marathon, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada, New Year’s resolutions, Nike Women's Marathon, running, Team in Training

In The Rain Wall Art

May 19, 2013 by craftchick

So I’m bidding farewell to So You Think You’re Crafty today – finishing third in the competition (which I’m thrilled about…I even get a prize).  Thank you everyone for your amazing support – now I’m on to the next set of projects (keep your eyes open on Tuesday when I announce a particularly large and exciting one).  I want to wish luck to Heidi and Amber in the finale – I’m exciting to see what they both come up with […]

Categories: Decorating, Drawing, Painting, Polymer Clay, So You Think You're Crafty Season 15 • Tags: bike, boy and girl, fingerprints, foot pop, Hearts, ink, kiss, quote, rain, Season 15, skate shoes, So You Think You're Crafty, umbrella, wall art

Vertical Succulent Garden

May 10, 2013 by craftchick

I have made it into the top three of So You Think You’re Crafty and I’d love to thank everyone who has been following the competition and voting.  Next week’s challenge is handmade gifts so watch for that on Monday.  This last week’s project was a bit of a challenge as there is still a lot of snow where I live, so I needed to create an indoor garden project.  I decided to build a vertical succulent garden – my […]

Categories: Decorating, Design, Gardening, So You Think You're Crafty Season 15 • Tags: garden, indoor garden, living wall, plants, Season 15, So You Think You're Crafty, succulents, vertical garden

New Prints Available

May 5, 2013 by craftchick

The prints from Manipulating Media are now available on Etsy.  Check them out here.

Categories: Drawing, Gallery Shows, Mixed Media, Painting, Raven Mad Designs • Tags: Manipulating Media, prints, Raven Mad Designs

Birch Syrup – Step One

May 5, 2013 by craftchick

A group of friends (and kids and dogs) have decided to make our own birch syrup this year. The temperatures around Whitehorse have finally warmed enough for us to head out and tap the trees (it has to go above an average daily temperature of 5 degrees Celsius before the sap begins to flow).  We tapped ten trees and now will need to spend the next month checking on the buckets we have sap collecting in (you need to boil […]

Categories: Syrup • Tags: birch syrup, syrup, tapping trees

Duct Tape Dress Form

May 3, 2013 by craftchick

I made it through duct tape week of So You Think You’re Crafty (Tyler got up before me this morning to check the results so he would know what sort of mood I’d be in all day…I was worried there for a while).  Thank you everyone who voted.  I’ve been doing a lot of clothing design work for people recently, and the trend doesn’t show signs of stopping as I ramp up to painting someone’s wedding dress in the near future […]

Categories: Sewing, So You Think You're Crafty Season 15 • Tags: clothing design, dress form, duct tape, duct tape dress form, Season 15, sewing, So You Think You're Crafty