July crafLAB: Basic Beading!

Join us for a FREE Basic Beading Workshop at craftLAB on Sunday, July 1, 2012 from noon-3pm at The Lunch Studio! 

Learn basic beading techniques from craftLAB Coordinator Jenni Snyder!

Create your choice of bracelet, ring, earring set or charm pin.

All tools and materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own supplies if you have something special you would like to use!

Flint Handmade hosts FREE craftLABs on the first Sunday of every month at The Lunch Studio in Downtown Flint!  Come explore and express your creativity!

Quilling craftLAB Recap

We had a great time learning the coiled papercraft known as quilling during our May 2012 craftLAB!

Jenni (left) is our new craftLAB Coordinator!  She will be leading the majority of our craftLABs from now on! She is pictured here with her daughter Mallory.

Sarah is as colorful as the quilling paper!

Maureen (left) and Jeanette start quilling!

Jenni was so prepared with a demo board!

Lovely quilled tags to match a lovely smile!

Hayley's son really took to quilling!

Mallory (left) and her friends show off their handiwork.

Jeanette's quills!

Jenni and her awesome demo board!

Check our more photos from our Quilling craftLAB HERE!

P.S. Jenni is leading our Decoupage craftLAB this Sunday at The Lunch Studio.  Hope to see you there!

June craftLAB: Decoupage!

Join us for a FREE Decoupage Workshop at craftLAB on Sunday, June 3, 2012 from noon-3pm at The Lunch Studio!

Learn the basics of decoupage from Flint Handmade Founding Member Jenni Snyder!

Bring your own item for decoupaging, such as a photo frame, trinket box, wood plaque, vase, etc. 

All other supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring your own paper (e.g. vintage magazines, sheet music, photos, etc.) if you have something you specifically want to use for decoupaging. 

Flint Handmade hosts FREE craftLABs on the first Sunday of every month at The Lunch Studio in Downtown Flint! Come explore and express your creativity!

IMAGE CREDIT: Mod Podge drawing by Yasmin Ladha!

April craftLAB Recap: T-Shirt Reconstruction!

Posted by Crystal Pepperdine, Founder and Executive Director of Flint Handmade

We had a great time at Buckham Gallery reconstructing t-shirts with Christa Irons of Ms. Christa's Rockin' Accessories!

Christa wore her reconstructed Flint Handmade shirt to crafLAB. 

She showed Theresa (l) and Nicole how to transform their regular t-shirts into scoop neck shirts with cap sleeves.

Mary cut and pinned her shirt and started sewing right away.

Mary finished quickly and modeled her shirt by a piece of art at Buckham Gallery.

Christa assisted Monica with sewing her shirt.

Toe used Christa's serger to sew her scoop neck without pinning.

Toe was all smiles in her modified shirt!

Christa helped Nicole with pinning her shirt and sewing on Flint Handmades' new-to-us sewing machine.

Theresa (l) and her daughter, Nicole, showed off their cute new shirts.

Group photo!

Special thanks to Buckham Gallery for hosting craftLAB.

In May 2012, we will be back at the The Lunch Studio for craftLAB to learn the coiled papercraft known as quilling. 

We hope to see you there!

May craftLAB: Quilling!

Join us for a FREE Quilling Workshop at craftLAB on Sunday, May 6, 2012 from noon-3pm at The Lunch Studio!

Learn the basics of the coiled papercraft known as quilling from Flint Handmade Founding Member Jenni Snyder!

PHOTO CREDIT: http://cynchronicity.wordpress.com/2010/08/09/paper-quilling

VERY IMPORTANT: PLEASE BRING A QUILLING TOOL.

You can make one yourself with a wine cork and large hand needle or you can buy one from a craft supply store. 

We will have some corks and needles on hand for those who want to make their quilling tools at craftLAB, but it might take a while for the glue to dry and we want to make sure we have lots of time to quill!

All other supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring any of your own papercrafting or quilling supplies (including scissors, scrapbook paper, etc.) if you would like to use them!

Flint Handmade hosts FREE craftLABs on the first Sunday of every month at The Lunch Studio in Downtown Flint! Come explore and express your creativity!

April 1st craftLAB at Buckham Gallery!

We're changing locations for our April craftLAB...and we promise this is not an April Fool's Joke!

The Lunch Studio is hosting a baby shower on April 1st, so we are taking craftLAB down the block and around the corner to Buckham Gallery!

Buckham Gallery

134 1/2 W. Second Street

Flint, MI 48502

Join us on Sunday, April 1, 2012 from noon-3pm at Buckham Gallery!

Our friend, Christa Irons of Ms. Christa's Rockin' Accessories, will show us how to transform a standard t-shirt into a scoop-neck shirt with cap sleeves! 

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN T-SHIRT. 

We are not adjusting the size of the shirt, just the neck, so bring your usual size.

We will also have Flint Handmade t-shirts available for $15, but the size selection is limited.

Sewing machines and all other supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring any of your own smaller supplies (including scissors, tailor's chalk, pins, etc.) if you would like to use them!

Donations will be collected to help cover the venue rental fee and we encourage everyone to bring a dish to pass since we will not be able to order food from The Lunch Studio. 

Beverages are being generously provided by Buckham Gallery.

NOTE: Buckham Gallery is located on the second floor of the building up a steep flight of stairs.  Unfortunately, it is not handicap accessible.  Please email us at flinthandmade@hotmail.com if you need special accommodations and we will work with Buckham Gallery to provide assistance.

Flint Handmade hosts FREE craftLABs on the first Sunday of every month from noon-3pm at The Lunch Studio (usually!) in Downtown Flint. Come explore and express your creativity!

Yudu Screenprinting Demo Recap!

Posted by Crystal Pepperdine, Founder and Executive Director of Flint Handmade

We had a fantastic turnout for our Yudu Screenprinting Demo for National Craft Month!

The floors were being refinished in the front room of The Lunch Studio, so we all had to squeeze in the back room, but we made it work.  :)

Yummy red velvet and banana cupcakes from The Lunch Studio to celebrate March as National Craft Month!

We had TWO Yudus this time!  Mary B. (r) ran the Yudu with the Craft CSA screen.  Mary W. (l) brought two blue shirts for screenprinting.

I (not pictured) ran the Yudu with the Knuckles logo.  Jodi B. smiles with the shirt she made for her youngest daughter.

Jodi B. and her oldest daughter love the purple ink on the "safety green" shirt! 

Don't the girls look great in the Knuckles?!

Nicole is getting ready for spring with a Knuckles tank top. 

Mary ironed all of the shirts to set the ink and shows off an adorable lavender onesie with the Knuckles running longways up the front.

Susanna also wanted her Knuckles to run longways up the side of her hoodie.  Such a cute idea!

Jodi H.'s daughter chose a blue ink for her raspberry shirt.  Too cute!

Lorraine shows off her Craft CSA bag with multiple logos.  How creative!

Matt liked Lorraine's bag so much, he did the same design on his shirt!

At the end of the demo, Sarah got really creative and tried two ink colors in an alternating blue and purple on a scrap piece of fabric.  We think it turned out well and Sarah says she is going to make a pillow out of the fabric.  :)

Join us again on the first Sunday of March 2013 for our 3rd Annual Yudu Screenprinting Demo for National Craft Month!

Spiral Notebooks: New Year's Day craftLAB Recap!

Posted by Crystal Pepperdine, Founder and Executive Director of Flint Handmade

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

The first Sunday of the month just happened to fall on January 1, 2012, so we rang in the new year with many of our friends and members at craftLAB!

Thanks to the generosity of our friend Kate Kehoe of Chicaloo Photography & More, who donated her old hole punch machine to Flint Handmade, we made spiral notebooks!

Nicole made a supercute notebook featuring an owl with button eyes!

All supplies were provided, but people were encouraged to bring their own scrapbook paper if they wanted and Nicole brought the most adorable coordinated paper.

Ali is a papercrafter, too, so she brought some lovely purple scrapbook paper.

Sarah rolled with the paper we had on hand...and used our circle punch to make polka dots for her cover.

Dana also used the circle punch to make labels for her "Sewing Ideas 2012" spiral notebook!  Her husband collated lined and blank paper for her so that she could have intermingled sheets for writing ideas and drawing pictures.  How sweet!

Hayley just stopped by to consign goods in the Flint Handmade Shop, but I convinced her and Steve to stay and make notebooks, too.  Steve was skeptical, but by the end, he was very pleased with his color selection for the front and back covers of his notebook!

Danielle brought her own paper, too...

...and made the cutest mini-notebooks using the leftover spirals from larger notebooks!  So resourceful!

Wondering what the covers were made out of?  Michelle is using her portable papercutter to cut paper to size to glue to an old SkillShare flyer! 

Our SkillShare Workshops in Fall 2011 filled up so fast that we had lots of leftover cardstock flyers, so I came up with the idea of covering them with scrapbook paper and making notebooks after Kate said she would donate her hole punch.  We crafters love to upcycle materials that would otherwise go to waste!

Toe thought the SkillShare flyer looked good as is, so she made a notebook featuring the flyer itself!

 

Gwen (l) and I decided to cover our notebooks with paper that had been donated to Flint Handmade.  Clever Gwen put the spiral at the top of her notebook to make a flip pad!

Amy arrived a little late and wasn't going to make a notebook, but I said that she had to!  She used some light blue checked paper to make a cute notebook that would be great for recipes.

Darice, Dieshawn and Shanterra (l-r) all made very colorful notebooks!

Finally, Theresa made a matching pair of memo pads.  Too cute!

The spiral notebooks were so popular, we may offer this craftLAB again.  Keep checking our blog for updates!