Yearly Archives: 2014

Material of the Week 6/30-7/6

Presentation Sleeves!
These tri-fold sleeves strike me as perfect family menu’s… what’s for lunch?

Weekly Wow

Say it with tape.
For Solie expressing herself came easily with the colorful masking tape at her fingertips. Say what you mean and mean what you say, as they say.

Love Art
Solie
11yrs

Hashtag Highlights #6

We had some silly, expressive moments this week. Some seeing the unseen moments, getting things clean and ready moments and of course the typical cool creations moments. No matter which they were we were visually captured by each one so we just had to share…
@createstudio on instagram.

Hashtag Highlights #5

What a fun week! Lots was done with cardboard in all forms; a Fathers Day trophy, sleek jet pack, man on the moon, T.P roll owls and the grand US to show where family has been. We had to sneak in a shot shared of a super bougainvillea heart formed over a freeway wall! Inspiration is everywhere!
@createstudio

Weekly Wow!

“It’s a stick figure” the young girl said. “I made one like this at school too”. Making use of the simple things that nature offers us is a fun idea.
The other day a gentleman came by and said his daughter told him about the studio and the kinds of things we use (which is just about everything). He said he had been trimming back his birch tree and had some branches in the back of his car, could we use them? Yes, they would most certainly go to good use around here! Fast forward to a Saturday afternoon at CReATE, with a birthday party in full swing and a flurry of creative energy flitting about. A party guest in the zone of inspiration spots the Natural Things bin and a small birch branch on top- presto! She made this happy stick figure in a flash.
I have heard it said that one thing leads to another, around here it most certainly does.

Stick Figure

Material of the Week 6/16-6/22

Mini Glass Pots
This weeks material “Special” is a clear go to for crafty makings of all kinds. Make one for you and, why not, one for them too.

 

Hashtag Highlight #4

This week on #instagram we had fun making box heads-literally, Fathers Day treasures, working on a mural of the USA for my children’s alma mater elementary school, admiring a 5 year olds Natural collage and getting crafty at Sundays Senior Concerns’ Love Run.
I love capturing these little moments throughout the week to make a visual journal of some of our colorful moments in time. Read along @CreateStudio

Weekly Wow!

Painted rocks are a favorite at our house. They are like a little sprinkle of summer fun throughout the year. The rocks themselves are little natural canvases waiting to be expressed so we always have them at the studio, they are a great go-to crafty crowd pleaser.
A group of teens came to the studio the other day. I could tell there was a particularly crafty couple in the mix. All the kids sat painting, and creating with materials reserved for older crowds when there at the crafty couple table little rock monsters were coming to life. In that moment I felt the lovely high school girl was a kid again, paining rocks as my family has. For a moment, this activity seemed to surpassed time to bring about a timelessness air to a present moment. Magic.

Painted Rocks
Teen

Material of the Week 6/9-6/15

Tin Gift Card Boxes. Just in time for Fathers Day. They are perfect for holding love letters to Dad or drawings from the heart…