DIY Pom-Pom Frame

I have just been dying to make a frame with pompoms, and when I saw this adorable canvas quote art in the Michael's store, that was it.  I grabbed it up the minute I saw it.  Plus, my daughter Tricia always signs her cards with "Forever and Always" so it was the perfect gift for her new home in Iowa. 

When you make this pompom frame, just know that the Aleene's® Super Fabric Adhesive™ is truly one of my favorite glues, and it has been for a very long time.  I always keep it in my designer tote when I go to trade shows, do television spots, and go on photography shoots because it doesn't run, it sets up fast, and it's dependable. 

CRAFTY CHICA: My new products at Michaels! Plus a tutorial!

I'm super excited to announce that the new round of CraftyChica™ products are now on sale at select Michaels stores!

Here is a video showing how to use a transfers:

Click here to see if your local Michaels carries the line.
Click here to read about the Crafty Chica California Road Trip Tour!

To celebrate the launch of the new Crafty Chica Dia de los Muertos craft line at Michaels, I'm going on a Crafty Chica California Tour, sponsored by iLoveToCreate, Michaels, and La Quinta Inn & Suites, for a series of personal appearances at select locations! If you live in Phoenix or California, I hope you come visit me!

For those who attend - we're going to have a special gift if you purchase Crafty Chica products, plus freebies: commemorative Crafty Chica temporary tattoos, buttons and more! I'll also have a display of finished craft projects showing what you can do with the products. Oh, and I'll have books too! There is limited supplies of the goodies, so get there early!

Click here to see if your local Michaels store is carrying the line.

Now wait, what if you don't live near one of the stores that sells the products? You can buy the items online at iLoveToCreate.com (should be posted soon). Now, I'm going to have fun on this road trip. I'm making special pieces of art and will be leaving them along the way throughout the tour in random places. I'll be posting the locations on my Instagram and my Facebook page - so if you live in Phoenix or California, stay tuned, you might score one of them! If you do, share a photo on my Facebook page!

Lastly, I have to give special thanks to La Quinta Inn & Suites for sponsoring this tour. They are providing us rooms each night, we couldn't have done it without them! And also, gracias to iLovetoCreate and Michaels for making it all happen!

APPEARANCE DATES AND LOCATIONS

Phoenix Kick-off party! Thursday, September 13th, 6-8 pm
1925 E Camelback Rd, Phoenix, AZ

Friday, September 14th, 6:30-8:00 pm

1652 Camino Del Rio N
San Diego, CA 92108-1514

Saturday, September 15th, 4-6 pm

561 Coleman Ave
San Jose, CA 95110-2047

Sunday, September 16th, 2:00-3:30 pm

3340 W Century Blvd
Inglewood, CA 90303-1305

Sunday, September 16, 6:00-8:00 pm

4240 Pacific Coast Hwy
Torrance, CA 90505-5526

Monday, September 17, 10 am-12 pm

13410 Whittier Blvd
Whittier, CA 90605-1932

Monday, September 17, 2:30-4 p.m.

10345 Magnolia Ave
Riverside, CA 92505-1809

Mural Making with the Perkins Sisters

I just spent the last 3 days doing the best job ever! I got to hang out with my sister, I got to stay in a fancy hotel and I got to color in the lines of a giant fantabulous coloring book! My sister Hope and I were lucky enough to fly to Dallas and hang out with the rad folks of I Love to Create at the Michaels 2010 Leadership Conference & Holiday Showcase. Store managers from Michaels stores across the land gathered in Dallas to learn hands on about all the fun craft products in their stores. Hope and I were in charge of painting a huge mural on the back wall of the booth. When we arrived on Monday the wall was a huge piece of blank white canvas & an arsenal of I Love to Create goodies to play with - AKA pure crafty heaven.





Hope was the mastermind behind our mural doing all of the drawing. My job was to go around and color in her gorgeous illustrations.



We used everything from the I Love to Create line we could get our hot little hands on. We used Phat Markers, Tulip Fabric Paints, Aleene's Tacky Glue, Tulip Fabric Sprays, Scribbles Paints and more.




We embellished our portrait with paper flowers using Aleene's Acid Free Tacky Glue, stencils from the new graffiti line, Tulip Fashion Glitter and Tulip Glam It Up Crystals.


All our crafty work paid off as I Love to Create was given the award of most creative booth! Good choice Michaels if I do say so myself. Wanna see more pictures of our mural painting adventures and the rest of the I Love to Create booth? Check out my pictures on Flickr.

Check out our cute Michaels Make and Take at the CHA Supershow

Here's the adorable shirt they are making at the Michaels booth at CHA Supershow!

Participants are having a lot of fun creating their shirts.

Crafty Chica is helping them at the Make&Take!