Friday, March 6, 2009

Whipup and mixtape do a dance

Hooray for collaboration and cross promotion!!

Kathreen from Whipup will be doing a weekly roundup of all the crafty happenings at whipup - and I will be doing the same thing called "mixtape mash" over at Whipup. We have just finished a 2 day competiton over at Whipup for giveaways of the HOT OFF THE PRESS Issue 8. I will be choosing winners over the weekend.



Welcome to March - and some seasonal changes are in the air. Whipup
has a new feature section at the top of the page how do you like it?
This is where some stories will be able to stay for a little longer -
competitions and features and roundups will appear.

Last week on whipup I was drooling over spoonflower
fabric designs - and this week my fabric designs arrived in the mail.
I did a few different designs - the most successful I thought were the
kids drawings - together we scanned in a few of their drawings and
played around with colour and flipping them around and tiling them in
photoshop - here are our results. I also have been having fun with
vintage maps - and like the outcomes of these too.

The results of last weeks fabric
giveaway
are in and the two winners of $25 voucher from this and
that from Japan etsy store are Jesselyn and Monica T - winners have
been contacted via email - thank you all for entering - our current
competition is a chance to win a copy
of the latest mixtape zine - enter here.


Did you see the grumpasaurus
knitting pattern
and the video tutorial on Norwegian Purl
or how to do french
knots
- we also featured a fun shamrock
knitted hat
and the mother bear
knitted bears project.
Make sure you get yourself some craft
therapy
if you feeling edgy. Did you miss the sew,
mama, sew fat quarter month
.

Lots more tutorials of course as usual here are just a few: hand
carved stamp tutorial
- there is a whole series so be sure to
check back with this one : the modern sampler quilt
along
looks fantastic - and with a regular update and very
detailed tutorial this is another one to keep checking back in on : buttercup
bag free pattern
: homemade
goodie bags
: flower
quilting block patterns
.

So much to do - get craftin'

Thank you to Nicole
and happy crafting everyone!

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