Here's one more cute cute tutorial I found! How to crochet these adorable baby monsters!
xo, Katie
January 31, 2011
Make it Monday
Hi there! have a good weekend? I have to say, I didn't craft at all this weekend. We had a garage sale on Saturday (raising money for our trip) and then yesterday we went shopping! I need to clean our studio- it's a disaster! haha.
Anyway, Here is today's Make it Monday round up! :)
and don't forget, I did a guest blog with a tutorial for this mini album! :)
January 30, 2011
The Katie Smith Daily
During my blog party last week, Kam guest blogged with a tutorial on how to turn your twitter feed into a newspaper using paper.li, and thats what I did this morning!
Cool, right? :)
xo, Katie
January 29, 2011
Guest Posting on Jordan Hebl
I'm doing a guest post with a tutorial on how to make this fun mini album over on Jordan Hebl's blog today!
xo, Katie
You've won!
It's time to announce the winners of the giveaways that were going on here at punk projects this week!
(winners chosen with random.org)
Winner of the big handmade giveaway:
#14 Jessica Jolly, You won!
Postcard winner:
#5, Marci! congrats!
And the winner of these awesome quilts is.....
*drumroll* :)
#11! Velma, you've won 2 awesome quilts!
I will be emailing you all so that I can get your address!
Congrats! xo, Katie
January 28, 2011
Punk Projects News
1. This is your last chance to enter the giveaways, I'm choosing the the winner tomorrow!
3. I would *love* it if you sponsored my blog for February! For January, Punk Projects has had over 10,000 views! Sponsor spots are only $5, and you get a feature post, the option of doing a guest post on punk projects, and the option of doing a giveaway!! All the money I raise goes towards riding my bike from Maine to Florida later this year!!
I spent the day going through stuff/sorting stuff for a garage sale, and now I just want to chill. :) xo, Katie
(I've been doing some more fabric painting... )
January 27, 2011
*I Heart You* Online Class
Punk Projects is pleased to announce a free online mini-class! "I Heart You" is a fun, 5-day online DIY class with 5 really cute step-by-step unique projects. We'll be using papercrafting, sculpting, altering, sewing, and other cool crafting techniques. We'd love for you to join us, and don't forget- it's FREE!
If you haven't taken a PunkProjects class before, please join us for a week of adorable Valentine's crafts. This class is set up similar to our standard 3-week art/DIY classes, so this will give you a small taste of the cool things we do in our classes.
All our classes, including this one, are hosted on their own private blog, so projects are open ONLY to students. The only people who have access to the class are students and instructors. The "I Heart You" online mini-class runs February 9th-13th.
We at PunkProjects work very hard to bring amazing and unique projects to our classes, so we ask that you do not copy our work, and please do not sell it. You may post pictures of your projects in your own blog/flickr, but you must give credit back to http://www.punkprojects.blogspot.com/
As always, all of our classes include inspirational posts, giveaways, and free downloads, so please join us for a fun and inspiring 5-day class! All you have to do to sign up is email Katie, or leave your email in a comment below!
January 26, 2011
fabric paintings
This is what I've been up to the past couple of days.. Painting on fabric, and then stitching around it. I really like how this one turned out!
Don't forget to enter these giveaways currently going on.. Handmade Postcard Giveaway, Quilt Giveaway and Handmade Giveaway with lots of goodies!
xo, Katie
January 25, 2011
Despicable Me Twinkies
Taylor and I made the cutest things yesterday! Minion Twinkies! If you haven't seen despicable me, you probably have no idea what I'm talking about. :) you should definitely go watch Despicable Me, its the cutest!
xo, Katie
January 24, 2011
February Sponsor Spots!!
It's that time again, Sponsor spots for February are now available! For only $5 you can have your button/widget on my sidebar for the month of Feb, a Feature Post, the Option of doing a giveaway on my blog, and the option of doing a Guest Post!
I really appreciate all my sponsors, I am raising money for our "Clam Chowder to Key Lime Pie" Bicycling trip later this year!
As the trip gets closer we will be setting up a blog to keep everyone updated on our progress. We've set up a map with our route, and have been putting push pins where we are going. We are driving from TX to Maine, Riding our bikes from Maine to Key West, Florida, and then Driving back to TX. for more info, visit here.
xo, Katie
Make it Monday
Hello! Lots of awesome tutorials for todays Make it Monday round up. Don't forget to check out all the great tutorials that were posted on my blog this weekend during my blog party!!
January 22, 2011
Teacup Pincushion
For my blog party yesterday, The Spotted Fox did a tutorial for this no sew teacup pin cushion and I wanted to do it, so here's my version! :) Here's a complete list of all the fun posts yesterday:
January 21, 2011
Second star to the left, and on till morning.
This is the last post of the day, I hope you've enjoyed my blog party!
xo, Katie
Coloring Book Pages to awesome paintings
This is what I've been doing all afternoon! Painting coloring book pages- Here's you a tutorial!
Supplies: Coloring book Page (I found the awesome star trek pages on google images) paint
1. paint in all the colored spots, leave the black. Try to color in the lines! (this was hard for me, haha j/k)
2. Using a small brush, paint over the black lines.
Now frame your cool paintings! These are really great if you dont think you can paint, because the coloring book lines make it easy to paint!
Now I have James T. Kirk and Uhura to hang on our art wall! yay! :)
xo, Katie
p.s. Be sure to scroll down for more guest blogs, tutorials, and giveaways!!
Guest post from Lindsay + tutorial!
Hello Everyone! I am Lindsay from LDC designs. Katie asked
me to do a guest post to accompany her Blog Party and I am super
excited to be included! This DIY is super easy but takes forever (to
be honest, hehe). It is really cute when you are all finished though.
So lets get started!
I hope you guys enjoy this and try it out! If you do send me a link to
a picture, I would love to see it!
have a lovely day !
xo ldc
How to make an Art Journal.
Enjoying the blog party? I'm so happy to have abunch of amazing guest bloggers today! Here's another tutorial I've made for you guys: How to make an art journal!
1. Gather your supplies--- grab every pretty paint, ink, stamp and glitter glue you can find! :) Also, grab some printer paper!
2. Color your pages. Here are some techniques to try:
- Ink- run ink pads across your page.
- Write. write all across your page, use song lyrics, a poem, or just random words.
- Remember how much fun crayon rubbings were as a kid? break out the crayons and play around.
- paint, use acrylics, watercolors, etc.
I really wanted a watercolor look, but I didn't have any watercolor paints. So I filled a plastic cup with water, and squirted in a few drops of acrylic paint, and voila! water colors!
3. Once you have all your pages colored, back 2 of them together, and sew along the edges. repeat with other pages.
4. Stack up your pages on top of each other, and sew a seam down the middle to bind them.
5. Fold in half, and start art journaling. There aren't any rules in art journaling, just have fun. add magazine pages, paint some more, doodle with sharpies:
Here's a peek at all the pages I've done so far..
Guest Blog with Tabatha + giveaway!
A few thoughts,
Katie asked me to write a post for her blog party so I thought I’d use the space to spread the word about a topic of our household as of late.
The other day Katie, Taylor and I spent the afternoon volunteering at the North Texas Food Bank. It was a real eye-opener. One in 3 Dallas Kids fall below the poverty line and are hungry. The food bank supplies food for 13 counties, not just Dallas. Only 9 percent of the people that receive food from the pantry are homeless, the rest are your neighbors, seniors and co-workers. They may have jobs, even degrees but don’t make enough to keep food in the house without help.
When most people donate to food drives, they think CANNED GOODS, well let me tell you, green beans, peas and corn are fine, but there is usually an overabundance of those donated and who really wants to eat JUST green beans, peas and corn? Even when you are hungry, you appreciate a variety. Dry goods are especially needed, cereal, rice, dried beans, macaroni and cheese Peanut Butter.
I am challenging all of PunkProjects Followers: Donate a bag of groceries to your local food pantry and make it anything but green beans, peas or corn!! If you sew, Donate a baby quilt or Lap quilt to your Local Shelter or Children’s Ward.
So for the blog party, Tabatha is giving away 2 baby quilts. I hope the winner passes one on to someone in need.
To enter to win these, simply comment on this post with your name & email! I will be announcing the giveaway winner on next Saturday, the 29th. -Katie
p.s. (Thanks, Mom, for guest blogging for me! xo, Katie)
Campfire Chic Guest Blog and How-to!
How-To: Turn Your Twitter Feed Into a Newspaper
Hi Punk Projects readers! Katie let me take over for a post so I could bring you a little How-To!
Have we met? I'm Kam of Campfire Chic I live in Southern California, am on the cusp of turning 25, and love to craft. Maybe that's why Katie and I get along so well! While this post may not be as awesomely crafty as Katie's regular posts, I think you will like this How-To none-the-less.
How-To: Turn Your Twitter Feed Into a Newspaper
Put away the carbon paper, and turn off the printer, today's project is less supply-intense.
You Will Need:
Internet Connection
A Twitter (or Facebook, but I won't focus on how to make that one) Account
How to make your newspaper:
You'll need to go to http://paper.li/ to create your paper. Sign in using your Twitter information. Twitter.com let you confirm that you would like to give this website permission to pull your information.
When you get on, you'll see this:
You will need to decide how you want your newspaper to be created. You have a few options, including only having your information, your information PLUS those of the people you follow, and a certain hashtag! It's pretty impressive, to tell you the truth.
I selected to create a newspaper with my information plus the people I follow
Pretty neat, right? It has all the sections of a normal newspaper! Do you see any of your tweets in there?
I went ahead and tested out what the hashtag newspapers would look like.
Here is the #Etsy paper I created:
The newspapers are updated every 24 hours, if it hasn't updated, there is a refresh button you can use. It's pretty neat!
Here is the #craft paper I created:
You are only given 10 credits to create newspapers. That means you can create 10. I would search for a newspaper before creating one...which I learned after I used a bunch of my credits! Darn.
Go ahead and try out this service!
Leave a comment below with a link to your newspaper(s), I'd love to see it!
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