It's super cool! Cool2Craft TV July 2, 2012: Great Outdoors! The Cool2Craft design team is sharing a fun collection of great outdoors inspired craft ideas this week! EcoHeidi Borchers is crafting a Birdhouse Fairy Cottage featuring Aleene's Super Thick Tacky Glue, Tiffany Windsor is creating Upcycled Whimsical Yard Art featuring Aleene's Outdoor Adhesive, plus much more!
Learn new techniques, chat with us while watching the show and ask questions about all your favorite Aleene's products! It’s easy to watch the Cool2Craft TV Channel right from your computer. Airing Monday July 2, 2012 9am Pacific/10am Mountain/11 am Central/ Noon Eastern. Go to http://cool2craft.com and you'll see the Livestream player and chat box. See you Monday! Can't make the live show? No problem, you can drop by anytime 24/7 to watch the show!
Cool2Craft TV for September 5, 2011: Let's Repurpose, ReDo & Redecorate!
Join host Tiffany Windsor for a new episode of Cool2Craft TV. This week's show theme is redecorate. EcoHeidi Borchers transforms glass jars and clear vases with fancy yarn and Aleene's Tacky Double Stick Sheets, Candace Jedrowicz goes kitschy with her clock redo and Tiffany crafts thrift store frames into beautiful floral art in a reverse painting technique featuring Tulip 3D Slick Fashion Paint. It's terrifically tacky and creatively cool!
It’s easy to watch the Cool2Craft TV Channel right from your computer. Airing Monday September 5, 2011 9am Pacific/10am Mountain/ 11 am Central/ Noon Eastern. Go to http://cool2craft.com and find the Livestream player and chat box. See you Monday!
My sister EcoHeidi and I were busy moving Momma Aleene to her new home last week so we were not able to attend the Summer CHA show but that didn't stop us from being there in spirit! Over the last months, we were busy creating mannequins for the iLovetoCreate booth and today we're delighted to share Merrie Muse with you!
If you were able to attend the show, you know that the booth theme was "Driving Creativity" so Merrie got in the spirit with her rearview mirror magic wand! A cool quote collaged on to brown bag paper dangled from the wand with words of wisdom: "We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror." -Marshall McLuhan
Merrie's top was covered with Blumenthal Lansing buttons all glued in place with Aleene's Jewel It Glue with the tone-on-tone colors of white, ivory and crystal.
Heidi crafted Merrie's wings from chicken wire and used Aleene's Fabric Stiffener to adhere the cheese cloth. Then she used strips of the cheese cloth to create the swirled designs on the wings. This is a super cool way to make lightweight LARGE wings! Oh yeah, we also wanted to be sure she was sprinkled with some magic fairy dust so we sprayed her wings with Tulip Glitter Spray.
Heidi dug into her sewing stash to find a plastic apron hoop so Merrie's skirt was built by tying and gluing strips of fabric and brown paper and many layers. We used Aleene's Original Tacky Glue to hold the strips in place and then decided we wanted to add a feathery edging at the waist at the last minute so we grabbed our Aleene's Fast Grab Tacky Glue for that! Little butterflies and ladybugs were also scattered about her skirt.
Merrie needed some bling so Heidi created a collection of bracelets featuring her trademark soda can flowers along with fabric and button flower bracelets.
Thanks for letting us share! We hope your day is magically creative!
Join host Tiffany Windsor to celebrate the 4th of July with sparkle and glitter ideas. EcoHeidi Borchers is using a vintage Aleene’s Tacky Glue technique to create glitter sheets to make a floral necklace with rolled beads, Candace Jedrowicz recycles a soda can into a sparkly fairy pin and Tiffany shows how easy it is to use Tulip’s Fashion Glitter Shimmer Transfer sheets to create t-shirt iron ons. For more ideas/info go to: http://cool2craft.com . It’s easy to watch the Cool2Craft TV Channel right from your computer. Airing Monday July 4, 2011 9am Pacific/10am Mountain, 11 am Central, noon Eastern. Go to http://cool2craft.com and find the Livestream player and chat box. See you Monday!
Join host Tiffany Windsor and her special guests for a new episode of Cool2Craft TV. This week's show theme is beach! EcoHeidi Borchers celebrates beach with a fun seashell necklace created from water bottles, tiny seashells, no hole beads, pearls and more! Candace Jedrowicz captures the look of sea glass with shrink plastic and rubber stamping to create an embossed look and Tiffany creates a seashell plaque with Cool2Cast and a crackle finish.
It’s easy to watch Cool2Craft TV right from your computer. Airing Monday June 13, 2011 9am Pacific/10am Mountain, 11 am Central, noon Eastern. Go to http://cool2craft.com and find the Livestream player and chat box. See you Monday!
Cool2Craft is the place to be for all things crafty and fun on Monday mornings! This week's topic is Crafting with Food!
EcoHeidi Borchers is on a roll with her crafty self this week. She creates two fabulous projects! First off, she creates a Momma Aleene-inspired macaroni and pasta art box. Then she crafts letters from Aleene's® Original Tacky Glue® and bread dough! Tune into Cool2Craft's EcoHeidi TV segment Monday June 6, 2011 at noon Eastern/9 am Pacific. Viewers can join in at 9 am Pacific/10 am Mountain/11 am Central/Noon Eastern for #livecraftchat and watch the show right from their computer at Cool2Craft.com. If you miss the show, you can also watch the show 24/7 throughout the week and also find the YouTube video links on Cool2Craft.com.
Tiffany Windsor will be participating in our Let's Create LIVE! Design Challenge coming up Thursday of next week (read all about the Design Challenge here)! We are so excited to be having this incredibly crafty lady play with us for our live show airing Thursday of next week (April 28th 9-11 AM PST)!
Tiffany has truly lived the crafty life, and it's literally in her blood! Her Mom, Aleene, was the creator of Aleene's® Original Tacky Glue® and there has never been a time when crafting didn't influence her life!
Tiffany is widely known for her hosting and producing duties on TNN's Aleene's Creative Living, which lasted 8 years. She produced and hosted over 2,000 episodes and served as editor for the show's companion magazine! Tiffany has also hosted the Inspired at Home LIVE show as well as shows for FaveCrafts Radio on BlogTalk Radio.
Tiffany now focuses on her energies on the Cool2Craft web site and related Cool2Craft social media sites. Tiffany hosts Cool2Craft Live TV along with producing other great shows featuring artists Heidi Borchers, Julianna Hudgins, and Linda Peterson. The shows feature great demos and creative projects to inspire crafters of all skill levels!
Here's just a few of Tiffany's projects she's featured over the past couple of years! She loves using both vintage Tacky Glue and new experimental techniques in her projects.
We wanted to learn more about Tiffany and asked her a few questions about her crafty endeavors!
1.Having been born around crafts your entire life, you’ve probably seen it all! What is the strangest crafting fad that you’ve seen/participated in? Nothing is strange in my crafting world. Having grown up with a mother who was glittering garbage, trimming trash and decorating discards there was nothing in my family that was safe from being crafted. I do remember that I thought it was gross when my mom brought home liver containers and lids to shrink in the oven. But, soon after a huge crafting phenomenon of shrink plastic was born so it wasn’t so strange after all.
2.You’ve worn many hats during your career in the craft industry...Crafter, TV Host, Producer, Magazine Editor, and Entrepreneur, and much more? Which role did you learn the most from and why? Gee, no one role in particular. I have always learned from every experience. From my tv hosting, I learned how to step beyond being painfully shy. From my producer experience, I learned that I really enjoyed the minute details and hectic pace of producing a daily tv show. From my magazine editor experience, I learned that I really enjoyed working with a creative team. From my entrepreneur experience, I learned that we are our own worst critic and we really need move beyond the self imposed walls of self-doubt.
3.Being a self-described “Hard-core crafter”, what is your toughest and nitty grittiest crafting experience? I coined the phrase hard-core crafter for myself when everyone said to me that the word “craft” was dead. I didn’t want to tell them they were wrong so I decided to embrace it and shout out that I was a proud to be a crafter who had no problem getting her hands all gluey nor letting the paint dry under her fingernails.
4.In your opinion, how has social media changed the game in how crafters create and connect? It’s amazing how social media has brought the crafting world together. We can share our passion and ideas with the world with one click of the enter key on our computer.
5.Everyone knows you for crafting, but what non-crafty related passions do you have that keep you going? I love to study quantum physics and metaphysics and I love to try new raw food recipes. And glue keeps me together and yoga keeps me going :)
Here's just one of many of the fun technique videos that Tiffany has created for her Cool2Craft show showing you how to make a fun and pretty fabric rose. Find more Cool2Craft videos on Youtube! You can also watch all the Cool2Craft action on the Cool2Craft Livestream channel. Thanks Tiffany for sharing your creativity with us!
Save the Date! Cool2Craft is planning a special TV event on Thursday April 7th! 3pm Eastern/noon Pacific. We’re gathering some of the coolest projects featured on the Cool2Craft channel and offering them for sale to kick off this special fundraising event to benefit DonorsChoose.org.
To join in this special event all you’ll need to do is go to Cool2Craft.com at showtime! Or join us early for pre-show #livecraftchat. It’s the coolest! See you on April 7th!
Here's Kathy's daughter Maya creating in the booth. A pretty frame for a pretty girl!
We love to see how everyone uses similar materials, but comes up with totally different looks!
Like this cute frame by this Make&Take it participant!
And we're broadcasting live in the booth with Cool2Craft Tiffany Windsor. Crafty demos and interviews all day!! Here's a schedule for today and tomorrow's live broadcast!
Our booth is set up and we're anticipating the arrival of crafters at the iLoveToCreate booth at the CHA Summer Craft Supershow!
We even had our first glue emergency of the day! Check out how Alyson turned a frown upside down with Aleene's® Fabric Fusion®. Good as new! Isn't her sparkly top adorable?
Join Tiffany Windsor today as she broadcasts live via webcam from our booth! A full schedule for the Cool2Craft broadcast from the iLoveToCreate booth can be found here.
