July's Joy of Crating Show!

This past April, we were fortunate to have a number of awesome vendors come and do some crafting with us! On this show, they share some of their fun projects, first up is Darcy Christensen from We R Memory Keepers!

WeR makes a number of awesome punch boards and Darcy shows us the one that everyone 's been waiting for, the Planner Punch Board!

 

You can use it to make holes for all the different types of planner styles by interchanging the individual punching units.Now, it's so easy to make your own custom inserts for your planners!

 

Then, we had Kelli Taylor from Tierracast show us a really cool bracelet design featuring their buttons for a closure.

 

And like we said, WeR Memory Keepers make some many cool and useful punch boards. So, Darcy came back to show us the DIY Party Board. It makes throwing the perfect party so easy!

 

Thanks for taking time out to stop by and I hope you get a chance to see the show! Enjoy the Summer and Happy Crafting!

August's Second Show

It's time for another new Joy of Crafting Show! We start off the show with a new guest crafter! Joel Kutaka from Celebrations introduces us to their newest teacher!

Shiho Matsuda does some beautiful origami style wrapping and other projects.

 

On this show, she shows how to make an awesome origami pop up box/card embellished with a handmade flower. Look for future classes with Shiho coming up at Celebrations!

Next, we have our fun friend Kelli Taylor from Tierracast share another bracelet kit. This one uses different techniques like setting rivets.

And then we have Deena Zieglar back to share even more cool new things from Sizzix like Ink Sheets!

Hope you enjoyed your Summer, the days seem to be going by so fast! Hope you can catch this show, Happy Crafting!

July's First Joy of Crafting Show

For the start of July, we have more from our favorite craft companies! Our first guest is a friend I've known for about 9 years! Let me introduce to you...

Kelli Taylor from Tierracast! The people at Tierracast are great and very passionate about their products. So, Kelli is a perfect fit with them and we were so happy she was able to come here to Hawaii in April.

On the show, Kelli shows how easy it is to  make those wonderful bracelet kits!

 

Next, I made a new friend, Darcy Christensen from American Crafts! I feel like I've known this amazing lady for a long time, she is so full of energy!

 

Darcy showed us how to use the Heidi Swapp Minc machine. It takes any black toner image and adds your choice of foiling to make it Shine! As Heidi Swapp always says, Make Pretty Stuff, and the Minc helps you do that!Oooh, the possibilities!

 

Another new friend is this wonderfully creative lady, Vickie Bentley from Bo Bunny!

 

Using a card as her project, Vickie sowed us some new crafty products from Bo Bunny, like the Pearlescents paints and Glitter pastes and re-usable stencils, plus more!

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you had a fun Holiday weekend! Hope you can find time to catch this episode with so many new crafts to learn!

 



Mixed Media Weekend is here!

Mixed Media weekend started early for our employees. We had a product training session yesterday and there was so much creativeness flowing!

 We had some great project using Bella Boulevard's Star Student Collection. A really fun piece using a great wood surface.

We got to play with the Big Shot Plus and the new Ink Sheets, So, many things you can do with these!

Bo Bunny showed us their new sticky stencils and glitter paste! Love that bling!

We got to play with the amazing Minc foiling machine. It's so cool, the possibilities are endless!

We also got to make some jewelry with Wyatt from Beadalon. He is so fun and a really great teacher.

We even got to craft with a celebrity, the super cool Kelly Purkey!
So, don't forget, you can have fun like us by joining us for the free make and takes and signing up for one of the available classes. Check out the schedule here

Have an awesome weekend at Ben Franklin Crafts!