And The Beat Goes On

I finally finished my entry for the PlushYou! Battle of the Bands contest. The contest rules were to choose a band who has played Seattle's music festival, Bumbershoot, at some point in the past, and make a plush doll in their likeness. I chose Courtney Love of Hole. I actually like their music and used to sing a couple Hole songs at karaoke. So it was a lot of fun to try to make it.  I am not normally a plushie artist. I kinda suck at it. But I still think it turned out pretty good :)  Whaddya  think?

I also wanted to say thanks to everyone who participated in the Crafty Challenge #2. Creating this doll has inspired me to come up with the next challenge theme. So without further ado.... the Crafty Challenge #3 theme is....

"Someday You Will Ache Like I Ache"

These are lyrics from Hole's song, "Doll Parts".  The deadline for Crafty Challenge #3 is Friday, October 15th. That gives you a little over a month to create your interpretation of the theme using any medium you choose. On the deadline date, you will make a blog post and add it to the McLinky Tool I'll put up on my blog. Further instructions on that date....Good luck and have fun getting crafty!

Now I gotta get back to my waiting around on jury duty...hoorah!  

It's Crafty Challenge time!

The Crafty Challenge #2 deadline is upon us {happy Friday, btw}! I hope you all had time to finish up and take your photos...I know I did everything last minute!

So our theme was "A Little Birdy Told Me". The challenge was to interpret that theme into a project using any medium you prefer...photography, painting, sculpture, embroidery..etc.

I decided to use polymer clay for mine...an old favorite medium in my crafting, although lately, I've been doing more with felt and embroidery. So my take on the theme was fairly literal. I chose a woodland setting with an old fashioned tin can & string phone {did you ever make those when you were a kid?}.  The photos might not be clear enough, but on the bird's end, it's a music note and on the fox's end, it's hearts coming out. So the birdy is singing into one end and it's coming out as love on the other :)

{click on the photos for larger detail}

I'm trying a new thing with the McLinky tools. To enter the challenge, make a blog post with photos of your entry. Grab the link to your blog post and paste it into the McLinky tool below (where it says click here to enter). That will run you thru a quick setup where you can paste the link, choose a title and grab a thumbnail photo. Then it will show up on my post so people viewing here can check out everyone's easily!

Cross your fingers!!



Thanks to everyone who played along this time! If you didn't get a chance to make something, I'll be having another challenge soon!

Crafty Challenge #2 ~ Wanna Play?!

It's FINALLY time for another Crafty Challenge! This time around, the theme is...

"A Little Birdy Told Me"

The challenge (should you choose to accept it) is to create a new project based on this theme. You can use any medium you'd like! Paint, crochet, embroidery, sculpt...whatever you want to do!

Join my Flickr group and choose one photo for your entry pic. Post it in this thread in the Flickr Group. You can upload additional photos/angles by adding to the group pool and adding the tag "LGFCC2" (so we can find them easier).

The deadline for this challenge is Friday, September 10th! That should give you plenty of time (hopefully) to come up with, create and photograph your work.

Remember, the point of these challenges is to get inspired and get crafting. Currently, there are no prizes. We just want to see what we come up with and how many different versions of one theme we can create!

Have fun! And pass it along to anyone you think may be interested in participating!