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Monday, May 2

April Showers Bloom Amazing May Flowers...

Hello Amazing Crafters! Welcome to May! April showers have passed and Spring is here! This month our amazing creatives will bring you projects and inspiration to get your Cre8time garden in full bloom.

We would also like to give a huge thank you to Myléne Hillam of Mill Lane Studio for joining us as Featured artist last month. If you missed all of Myléne's amazing creations... CLICK HERE to see the posts – her creations are truly out of this world!

It's National Scrapbooking Month and Mother's Day is just around the corner... join for "Flower Power" week as we share an amazing variety of floral projects using Amazing Casting Products.

Where do you find blooms to mold?

Vintage jewelry, furniture hardware, buttons, magnets, candle holders, cupcake toppers, or stacking your own funky flowers... the world is your garden!

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Friday, May 16

Cat Kerr... an AMAZING Featured Artist Spotlight

Greetings AMAZING Crafters! Today we have a fun questionnaire that we posed to our Featured Artist Cat Kerr! Have fun getting to know her a little better and enjoy the eye candy, too! :) Sb

A little bit about Cat...

Cat Kerr is a mixed media artist/instructor that lives in Central Florida with her husband and two children. Her work has been featured in numerous publications such as Somerset Studio, Belle Armoire Jewelry, Cloth Paper Scissors, and many more. She currently teaches on-line and at national retreats around the country. To inquire about her workshops and teaching schedule, please visit her website at http://www.catkerr.com.

Some fun questions for the inquiring minds...

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What did you want to be when you grew up?

"All through Middle and High School I wanted to be Fashion Designer. I still love fashion, and it was a full circle moment for me when last year my jewelry was featured in a fashion magazine called "Belle Armoire". It was my first "interview" type article in the "Art of Presentation" Series."

Coke or Pepsi???

"Neither, I only drink seltzer water."

What inspires you?

"Tree bark. A cool breeze running through the house. My sons laughter, a birds nest, poetry, color, the lack of color, music, the way the sun filters through the trees, the way birds dance in the sky, fabric, sand, texture, rust, vintage, rub-ons, patina, stitch-work, collaboration, unpredictability. Sometimes I feel like... what doesn't inspire me?!!"

What is the TOP thing to do on your "Bucket LIST"? 

"Go to Sweet Paris! I have an online class called "Memories of Paris"...
this class was inspired by my love for Paris."

If you could print any phrase

on a T-shirt, what would it say?

"Make Every minute Count!"

If you could mold ANYTHING with

Amazing Mold Putty, what would it be?

"I'm still trying to figure out how to mold popcorn... heehee... yes, that's true."

What style of music gets your creative juices going?

"Currently on my playlist: Pink, Chopin, Pit Bull, movie soundtracks (Pride and Prejudice and Memoirs of a Geisha), Billy Joel, Luther Vandross, Eagles, Salsa Music, Vivaldi, Police, Andrea Bocceli, Lindsey Stirling, Ub40... a little bit of everything."

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Thanks for stopping by today! We hope you enjoyed this fun visit Cat Kerr. Cat will be joining us with a How-To project next Friday... be sure to SAVE-the-Date! To inquire about her workshops and teaching schedule, please visit her website at http://www.catkerr.com.

Friday, May 9

Introducing our AMAZING Featured Artist for May... Cat Kerr

Happy Friday! Today we continue our "Featured Artist" series here at the Amazing Crafting Products blog. Each month we feature one artist who will share a special project and some inspiration using Amazing Crafting Products. Please CLICK HERE to jump to post for more info on project in photo collage above.

Our featured artist this month is a new friend to us, though a longtime user of Amazing Crafting Products... we are so excited this creative "wild child" is joining us this month! We are proud to have Cat Kerr join us as our Featured Artist for May. We are excited to welcome Cat and to take a peek into whimsical and inspirational world as she plays with Amazing Crafting Products.

A little bit about Cat...

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"Begin"

In 2007, I stumbled across a poem that I read the year before,"The Journey" by Mary Oliver. One night, in the light of the moon, I read it again, ...but this time something clicked. The first line in the poem read, "One day you finally knew what you had to do and began" and for the first time in my life I could make out what my heart had been whispering for so very long. "Begin". In this moment of clarity, the once quiet whisper now thundered loudly deep inside me. Begin what, you ask? Well, it was a dream I carried, a need, a wanting... to create art and set a path for myself. With the support of my husband and family I mustered up the courage and listed my first item up for sale on Ebay. Months later (yes, it took some time) I sold my first piece... but it was never about the money, it was about the connection that someone had with something I made. It was the validation, that I was exactly where I was supposed to be, and now I just needed to keep going. ~ Cat

"The Journey"

One day you finally knew

what you had to do, and began,

though the voices around you

kept shouting

their bad advice --

though the whole house

began to tremble

and you felt the old tug

at your ankles.

"Mend my life!"

each voice cried.

But you didn't stop.

You knew what you had to do,

though the wind pried

with its stiff fingers

at the very foundations,

though their melancholy

was terrible.

It was already late

enough, and a wild night,

and the road full of fallen

branches and stones.

But little by little,

as you left their voices behind,

the stars began to burn

through the sheets of clouds,

and there was a new voice

which you slowly

recognized as your own,

that kept you company

as you strode deeper and deeper

into the world,

determined to do

the only thing you could do --

determined to save

the only life you could save.”

~ Mary Oliver

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Thanks so much for dropping by! Check back next Friday for more from our Featured Artist Cat Kerr... you don't want to miss it! CLICK HERE to head on over to Cat's site "Cat Kerr Mixed Media" and see more of her fabulous work.

Have a fabulous day! :) Sb

Thursday, May 1

#Cre8time starts at HOME with Amazing Crafting Products

Greetings Amazing Crafters! It's a new month and hopefully May brings Springtime to your hometown. I hope you enjoyed our April Celebration of Mixed Media with our "Partners in Crafting", Frog Dog Studio. Be sure to join us this Saturday {May 3rd} for a special project from the creatives at Frog Dog Studio. You don't want to miss it! It's also National Scrapbooking Day... we will post bright and early so you don't miss any other NSD festivities!

Quite a while back I shared this little paper house shrine inspiration... and it's been sitting on my craft table waiting for a proper home ever since.

Last month I became one of the new columnists at the Unruly PaperArts Blogozine. The first of each month a new themed issue is presented along with a monthly Reader's Art Quest – the May theme for this challenge being "HOME". Eureka... finally a calling to give this wonderful beginning {with a little tweaking} a wonderful permanent home.

I created this mold from a house-shaped frame {that came from an old embroidery kit} using Amazing Mold Putty, then cast in Amazing Casting Resin colored with Gold Alumilite Metallic Powder to create this Little House Shrine embellished with patterned paper and ephemera. Paper shown in this curio is from Bo Bunny's C'est La Vie line. The mini white domino inside the house is molded with Amazing Mold Rubber and cast in Amazing Casting Resin. I've created a whole mixed media scene around my little curious house.

Please CLICK HERE to jump over to my blog

and see my HOME renovation how-to.

If you would like to see more of my creations, please visit my blog

sbartist : painting in the dark by clicking here -or- by visiting

my column "thoughtful abstractions" at Unruly PaperArts ~ Susan