of crafty times

We had a craft/making day on Saturday here at the house. We all did our own thing.... gorgeous box elevation, knitting, watercolor painting, nail painting, doodles, and glass etching (Which I'll show you later.)

 It was tons o' fun.
and it looked like this...

If you make a face when I photograph you, it will show up on the blog. 

I'm working on a planner.

I've been working on a new planner design made of seperate month books that connect together, but I need some help. Slip on over to the Adventures in Making blog to look at what I have so far.

Any help is appreciated.

it was an adventure indeed.

So that, my friends, is a close-up of a messy experiment. Inspired by my dear friend Rachel and her creations, I decided to try out a non-consistent color for the AIM business cards. (This basically involved slopping a very small amount of contrasting color on the ink disk repeatedly.)

Here you can see the mottled color on the roller, and the plate I used to make the cards. It was more fun than I can express, and the whole experience was exactly what the Adventures in Making blog is all about.

However, in typical Alison fashion, I bit off more than I could chew, and decided to duplex each card individually. (I will not be doing this again.)

But at last, ta da. A fun card for what I hope will be a fun (and useful) blog. (Each card is unique and backed with one of three bright colors. I hope to do the same in other color combos when I go back to the press.)

Oh, and while I have your attention- I'm giving free greeting cards to contributors over at AIM.

there's some clubbing going on...

Check out the beginning of our Adventures in Making craft club.

of Adventures in Making

It's alive!

I mean, it's live. My little brain child Adventures in Making is up and ready to fix all your problems.

Meant as a place to go when you're stuck in your creative pursuits, AIM will be full of creative people with different backgrounds who know just what you're going through.

It's just now shaping up, but keep and eye on the site as it all fleshes out...

so lets get to it : Part One

I am ready to get this Design Mommy thing started... I feel like jumping into it and letting it grow as it grows. This is a community I'm trying to build here, and I'm only going to start with the basics.

Just to refresh you, Design Mommy will be a blog community where people can

• send in questions about materials, tools, processes, etc.

• send in-process artwork/graphics/craft for constructive criticism

• write editorials about the arts, or whatever makes sense

• any other ideas?

to be answered by the blog contributors and anyone out there who feels up the the challenge.

Basic One - We need a name.

Let's not kid ourselves. Design Mommy won't really work for what I have in mind.

I'm brainstorming...

• Art Support

• Take a step back

• Crafty Fixes

• Artful Solutions

• Adventures in Creationing

• Adventures in Making

• Help me, I'm stuck.

I'm not sure anything's really doing it for me, so I need you help to ride this mania-driven creating frenzy.

(Although I'm liking Adventures in Making.... and it spells AIM which is fun...)