canvas mania

Join us for Canvas Mania!

Were hosting a fun $5 project each Saturday through Feb 4th.

Just show up at your local Craft Warehouse this Saturday afternoon (January 14th) and you can make the really cool 12x12 Light design canvas. (it actually has a strand of lights tucked in the back of the canvas, so you'll be able to enjoy your masterpiece day or night! It's really impressive when it's lit up.

Learn new techniques and try out some new craft products.Playing with canvas is only limited by your imagination, let us show you some fun ideas while you create your own canvas to take home.

Redneck Wine Glasses easy as 1, 2, 3

Every body knows some body who would get a kick out of their very own 'redneck wine glass'.

These are very simple and fast to make!

Supplies: (available at your local Craft Warehouse!)

Mason Jar

Glass candle stick

Sandpaper

E6000 adhesive

vinyl of your choice (choose from 'Redneck wine glass', 'Redneck wine Guy', 'Redneck wine Gal', 'North Dakota Pour', and my personal favorite, 'Hillbilly Hooch'

How to:

1.) Use sand paper to rough up the top of the candle stick and the bottom of the mason jar. This will give each a little texture or 'tooth' for the adhesive to stick better.

2.) Adhere the candle stick to the bottom of the mason jar using E6000 glue.

3.) Apply the vinyl of your choice to the mason jar.

Such a fun project, we tried another version with a candle votive cup instead of a mason jar.

Thankgiving Project by Design Team Member Jennifer Evans

Family is pretty important to me. I love the memories that I have of my late grandparents and wish that I could hear them tell me just one more story of their growing up in England or their adventures coming to the United States on the Queen Mary. Growing up, we always had photos and stories to share about our family's history.

When I got married, I asked my in-laws about pictures of them or their family and they told me they didn't have any pictures of them as babies. I was shocked! No photos?

A couple of years ago, I was in the spare room helping my mother-in-law. She came across a few boxes in the closet. She said they were her mother-in-law's and she didn't know what was in them. She opened them up and inside was envelopes. I asked if I could take them home to look through them and she said it would be fine.

Needless to say, I found a gold mine. My husband's grandmother was quite the scrapbooker at heart. She had organized every envelope down to each month since her marriage. Inside each envelope were negatives! They were still in perfect order including the negatives of my father-in-law as a baby in sealed envelopes! I was the first one to crack open the envelope sealed with a 1950's date, hold up the negative to the light, and squeal at the treasure I had found. Some of these photos had been lost at what was thought forever. She had preserved them by sealing the envelope and keeping them in a dark closet for years!

Layout by Jennifer Evans

Using Crate Paper's Farmhouse line

I purchased a professional negative scanner and began preserving my family's history. I then decided, that my son should know the story of his family and wrote up questions for my family to answer. I emailed these questions to family members ahead of time and asked them to email me the answers before Thanksgiving. (You could give them a date before Christmas too).

I didn't tell the family my real reason for collecting these answers; they all thought they would be just reading the answers on Thanksgiving. What I really did, was compile the answers and gave every family member their own page in a scrapbook. I added recent and the new photos I found hidden away in the album.

I will never forget the look my in-law's had when they opened their Christmas gift that year. There were pictures of their wedding that they hadn't seen in over 20 years on the front cover. Their eyes were filled with tears and they were speechless. Now, that was the best gift I could have ever given them! A collection of memories to pass down through the years.

Some of the questions I gave the family are as follows. Feel free to use them in your own scrapbook album. The more questions the better because they may not want to answer some of them if they don't want to.

What was it like growing up as a small child?


What was your favorite part of school?

What was your favorite memory of your grandparents? Your parents?


What did you like to do as a child? What was your favorite game?

What was your favorite food?


What was your favorite childhood toy?

If the album is for a specific person add What is your favorite thing about ___________?

What is your favorite holiday memory?


What was your favorite family vacation?

What do you love about being a __________ (mom, dad, aunt, uncle, etc.)

Spooky Blocks

Fun Project idea!
Amber from our Gresham Oregon store designed this fun home decor project.

Create this set of decorative wood blocks to spell 'spooky'
Supplies: Set of 6 wood blocks
Glowing collection of Halloween Pattern Papers
Large alphabet chipboard letters
Black craft paint

Basic How to:
Paint edges of all 6 blocks with black paint
cover each side with different pattens of Halloween pattern scrapbook papers
add embellishments, and letters

Bonus idea! Cover one side of blocks in the Halloween paper as shown here, and cover the oppisite side with fall color papers and spell 'Autumn' . Now you can display 1 side for fall and the other for Halloween.
Arrange the blocks however you wish, you can stack them as we have, or make a tall tower, or line them up side by side....so many options.

Or take this idea, and use colors and papers to match your decor-
Other 6 letter words to consider:
FAMILY
CREATE
ALWAYS
GARDEN
NATURE

Create a photo display to match your decor

Feeling the need to do something crafty, but dont want to spend the whole weekend to get to the finish line? Here is a fun project you can do in under 2 hours!

Choose colors and patterns to match your home decor, or mood. Make one for a friend to match her style!

Scroll down to see the supply list.

How To:

1. Remove and discard the glass and any wrapping from frame. Remove and set aside the back panel of frame. Using a foam brush, paint the frame with craft paint the color(S) of your choice and set aside to dry. Meanwhile glue the pattern paper of your choice to the back panel of the frame and set aside.
2. After the paint is dry wrap top portion of the open frame with the rope and tie off in a secure knot or bow. should be VERY snug fit around the still open frame. Cut off access rope and save to make a rope rosette with later. Now push the paper covered back panel back in place- over the rope. The rope will stretch to allow you to get the panel all the way back in and secure in place with the little metal levers on back of frame.
3. Use 3 in 1 glue or Hot Glue to secure moss along the bottom edge, and maybe up one side a little on the front of your wood frame.
4. Create flowers from remaining rope, the torn strip of fabric, and the burlap. For the rope rosestte- tie a knot in one end. Coil rest of rope around knot. Secure in place on your frame with 3 in 1 glue or Hot glue. For fabric flower- tie knot in one end, now twist the fabric a little and then coil around the knot. The loose threads and right and wrong side of fabric play peek a boo as you create your flower- looks cool! Secure in place with 3 in 1 glue, or hot glue. You may need to use some adhesive as you go so you flower holds it's shape. For the burlap flower- fold the 4in wide strip in half so you have a 2 inch wide strip. tie end in knot. Now repeat same as the fabric flower- twist and coil, twist and coil, twist and coil until you run out of burlap. Use 3 in 1 or Hot Glue to secure to frame. Finish off your 3 rosettes with vintage buttons, cluster of beads or pearls, maybe a decorative brad, maybe some silk leaves- whatever you like to enhance your flower!
5. Adhere rhinestones, beads, or gems to your paper or frame where ever you like for added bling!
6. Attach the butterfly clip (or glue a clip to a silk flower, or anything else you like) to the 'clothesline' rope.
7. attach any little embellishments to the 'clothesling' rope like little charms. Attach with jump rings, or tie them on with twine or ribbon.
8. add a clothespin or two- use these to hold and display family photos, post cards, whatever you wish.

Supply list:

1. 12x12 craft frame (it's 9.99 and 40% off right now!)
2. 1 12x12 scrapbook paper- pick anything that will match your decor, or mood!
3. about 1 yd of jute or rope
4. about 24 inches of torn 2 inch wide fabric strip (choose color to match your decor, or mood!)
5. about 24 inches of a 4" wide piece of burlap (we have this in 4 colors right now)
6. 1 butterfly clip (we sell a set of 4 of these, but consider anything you want and hot glue an aligator clip to it!)
7. 1 clothespin
8. your choice of beads, pearls, rhinestones, or gems - in a color to match your decor or mood.
9. deorative moss
10. craft paint (to macth your decor, or mood!)
11. foam brush
12. 3 in 1 Glue from BEACON is so AWESOME for this project, but if you want to use your handy hot glue gun- that will work too.
13. Charms, pendants, beads, or whatever you have on hand to hang on the line. I used the metal charm from Tim Holtz, and a clear fragment charm also from Tim Holtz - to which I glued a piece of matching scratch paper to so it matched the look I was going for) but just choose 1 or 2 things you can dangle from the rope. A tag maybe?

Here is what the 3 in 1 Glue looks like: