Boldly Going craft class- All the details!

Okay, so Here are the rest of the details about our new online craft class- Boldly Going!

 

It's 4 week ONLINE craft class, hosted on a private blog, open only to students. Class participation includes over 20 projects, inspiration posts, flickr group, facebook page, giveaways and more!

We'll be using papercrafting, sculpting, altering, sewing, and other cool crafting techniques.

Boldly Going is filled with geeky projects, star trek, star wars, pacman, and so many other awesome things!

Here's a list of the projects we will be doing - except for the bonus inspiration, giveaway posts, etc.

1. R2D2 Necklace
2. I Love Books Planner
3. Hero/Villain comic earrings
4. Plush Borg Cube
5. Calculator Book Cover
6. Super Man Art
7. Outer Space Cupcakes
8. KeyBoard Magnets
9. Nerd Tshirt
10. PacMan Scarf
11. Nerdy Mini Album
12. Outer Space Art
13. Spocks
14. How to be a Nerd Kit
15. Nintendo Painted Notebooks
16. Star Fleet Votives
17. Geek Laptop Cozy
18. Robot Greeting Cards
19. Superhero Cape
20. Captain Jean Luc Picard Tea Cozy.

The class is set to a work-at-your-own-pace style, and the project blog will remain open to students for 6 months after the class ends so that you may view and complete projects on your own time.

The class is only $30 for 20 projects + giveaways and downloads! that's less than $2 a project!

Registration will be open until March 13th and the class will run March 14th through April 8th.

Purchase your spot in this class here!

Here's a peek at the Boldly Going blog [I designed it]

This class is going to be great! Hope you join us!

xo, Katie

Sponsor Love

Hey Hey, The month is almost over so I thought I would feature some products of my February sponsors. :)

[Strumpets Crumpets]

Postcard Greetings available here

iPad of paper available here.

[PampleMousse]

Magical Unicorn embroidery pattern available here.

Doe visits Grandmother Fine Art print available here.

[Eef-Ink]

Coffee Lovin'  Notecards and envelopes available here

Coffee or Tea ATC available here

Those are just my favorites, I would definitely recommend going and checking out their shops. They have so many lovely things for sale! :)

xo, Katie

Upcycle Book Pages into Easy Paper Flowers

Hey there, Here's a super-simple, easy-peasy, lemon-squeezy DIY  I whipped up for you guys!

Tools & Supplies:

Glue Stick, Brads, Scrap Paper and Book Pages (I used pages from an old Star Trek novel-yes, I'm one of those geeks who like to read star trek. lol. )

1. Paint you book pages with watercolor- I used some purple.

2. Cut petal shapes from your pages.

3. Glue the tips of them together to make a flower shape.

4. Stick a brad through the middle and Voila! Cute & easy flowers!

I haven't decided what to use them on yet, but they would be great on a scrapbook layout, cards etc.

xo, Katie

[p.s. Don't forget to sign up for punk projects new craft class- BOLDLY GOING ]

winner!

Did you win the giveaway from Eef-ink?

if your name is Carolyn Caffelle you did!

[winner chosen using random.org]

Congrats, I will be giving your email to Erin from eef-ink!

For those of you that love these notecards but didn't win, You can purchase your own set from Eef-ink's shop, here. She has so many cute things in her shop, so be sure to check it out!

xo, Katie

Spring Inspiration

[images via weheartit]

Spring is in the Air..

xo, Katie

[p.s. I will post the giveaway winner later today, so you still have a few hours to enter to win some cute notecards from eefink!]

Boldly Going Online Class- Register Now! :)

[a few of the projects from the class pictured above]

[watch the promo video here for a few more sneak peeks....]

Punk Projects is super excited to invite you to join us for our newest craft class, BOLDLY GOING! It’s going to be awesome with geeky projects, star trek, star wars, pacman, and so many other geeky things!

Boldly Going is a 4 week ONLINE craft class, hosted on a private blog, open only to students. Class participation includes over 20 projects, inspiration posts, flickr group, facebook, giveaways and more!

We'll be using papercrafting, sculpting, altering, sewing, and other cool crafting techniques.

The class is set to a work-at-your-own-pace style, and the project blog will remain open to students for 6 months after the class ends so that you may view and complete projects on your own time.

I've decided to open registration early! The class is only $30 for 20 projects + giveaways and downloads!

Registration will be open until March 13th and the class will run March 14th through April 8th.

Purchase your spot in this class here!

We would love to have you join us for this class!!

-Katie and Taylor

Felt Feather Mobile DIY

Hey you guys, I made this fun mobile for our back porch yesterday and i thought I would share the tutorial with you guys! It was inspired by some chimes my mom has hanging up outside. enjoy.... :)

Tools and Supplies: Sticks, Fabric Strips, Felt, Sewing Machine or Needle and Thread

step 1. Go outside and choose 3 sticks. I wanted some that were a little curved upward..

2.Take your fabric strips and tie your sticks together. I used alot of small strips and tied them together.

3. Cut out some Felt Feathers, I layered them so that each feather was 2 pieces of felt.

4. Starting at the point, Sew up your to pieces of felt. But when you get to the end so cut the threads.

instead, pull your feather out and cut it so that there is about 5 extra inches of thread.

5. Tie the feathers to your sticks.

6. now hang up your mobile!! I think this is perfect for spring. what do you think?

xo, Katie

OdoSketch

       

So, I found this cool new website- Odosketch. You sketch things (I guess thats pretty obvious, lol) and then it will replay it back to you. so you can see the process of your sketching. it's pretty neat! With the girl (above) I couldn't decide wether or not I wanted to give her a pencil to hold or not. so I drew her arm twice and then just decided to erase it. ;)

xo, katie

Guest Post with Maryam from Pamplemousse 1983

Hello Punk Project readers!  My name is Maryam and I blog over on Pamplemousse1983.  I'd like to share a little tutorial on making a decorative silhouette piece to hang on your wall.  First of all, we'll need our supplies:

• Gel Medium (You can find it at your craft store with the gesso and paints)
• A printed image (I've heard not to use inkjet and I've heard not to use laser jet...I used my inkjet printer and it works just fine so I would suggest you experiment first before you try this on a piece you really love :)
• A paintbrush
• Fabric
• A spoon
• Acrylic paint (optional)

We start off by brushing the gel medium all over your image.  I find that if you brush it on too thin it won't transfer well so I like to brush it on a bit thicker.

Place the image face down on the fabric you'd like the transfer to end up on.

Using the spoon, rub the back of the paper firmly.  Don't press too hard with the side of the spoon as the paper will rip.

Once you are done burnishing you can peel a corner to make sure the image has transferred.  Let the paper dry on the fabric before peeling it all off.

After peeling all the fabric off, you'll probably have some spots where the paper is still stuck on the fabric.

 

Run the fabric under water while rubbing the remaining paper in a circular manner.  The paper will come right off leaving the image in tact.  The fabric will feel a bit stiffer where the gel medium was but you shouldn't be able to see a difference.

Let the fabric dry and if your image came out well and you are happy with the result you can put the fabric in an embroidery hoop or frame it and hang it on your wall!

Now, if you run into complications like I did and lost a bit of your image you can do the following.  I used a bit of black acrylic paint mixed with a bit of water to go over the image.

I started to paint in the area that didn't transfer.  You do have to be careful since the fabric will soak up the paint and it will spread a bit.  You can use more paint than water for detailed areas as it won't spread as much.

I ended up painting over the whole head because you can see my printer is almost out of ink and I had those nasty lines through my silhouette.  All in all I think it look pretty good!

This technique also works to transfer onto paper and you can also use color images!  I would suggest giving the project a try because it's fairly simple and fun to do.  I hope you enjoyed the tutorial and if you try it out, please let me know!

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Thanks Maryam for sponsoring my blog and guest blogging! I love this tutorial! -Katie

Make it Monday

Good Morning! Have any fun crafts planned for today?

Decorate Glass jars using Rub-ons with this tutorial.

Get the pattern for this Crocheted Sewing Basket here!

Make these cute plush kittens with this tutorial!

How neat are these Now-Sew Photorealistic pouches?

Get the tutorial for this cute Braided Headband here.

Here's some things that have been going on in punk projects land recently---

Boldly Going online craft class

Giveaway from Eef-ink

Sponsor spots for March available

Spring headband tutorial!

and, I'm guest blogging on Campfire chic today, go check it out here!

xo, Katie

Sponsor Spots for March available!

It's that time again, Sponsor spots for March are now available!

For $5 you get:

A 300 x 100 sponsor space on my sidebar.

A Feature/introduction Post at the beginning of the month.

The Option of doing a giveaway on my blog

and the option of doing a Guest Post on my blog.

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Purchase your $5 sponsor spot here!

The reason I've started adding sponsors to my blog is to raise money for an upcoming bicycling trip:

We are driving from Dallas/Ft Worth to Bar Harbor, Me., Cycling from Bar Harbor, Me to Key West, FL (2600 miles!) and then Driving back home to Dallas/Ft Worth. We have named this this trip "Clam Chowder to Key Lime Pie." 

I can't wait to see all the awesome places like New York City, Washington D.C. etc. I've never been anywhere up in the northeast, so it will be an amazing ride!

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

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Another way I'm raising money for this trip, is selling my art on etsy, If you would like to help me raise money, you can visit my etsy shop, or I am accepting donations, here! Every little bit helps, and it would mean alot!

Thanks for reading and sponsoring my blog! xo, Katie

p.s. Check out my sidebar to see my sponsors for February-------->

they are pretty awesome!)

A Geeky Craft Class

[watch the promo video!]

Punk Projects is super excited to invite you to join us for our newest craft class, BOLDLY GOING! It’s going to be awesome with geeky projects, star trek, star wars, pacman, and so many other geeky things!

Boldly Going is a 4 week ONLINE craft class, hosted on a private blog, open only to students. Class participation includes over 20 projects, inspiration posts, flickr group, facebook, giveaways and more!

We'll be using papercrafting, sculpting, altering, sewing, and other cool crafting techniques.

The class is set to a work-at-your-own-pace style, and the project blog will remain open to students for 6 months after the class ends so that you may view and complete projects on your own time.

Registration opens on February 28th and runs til March 13th and the class will run March 14th through April 8th. We would love to have you join us for this class!!

-Katie and Taylor

[I will be posting some sneak peeks at some of the projects soon!]

Sponsor Giveaway w/ Eef-Ink!!

Hey there! Guess what I have for you today? an awesome giveaway from Erin with Eef-ink! Look what you can win:

A set of Coffee Cup Mini Notecards designed by Erin!

Okay, now on to the details.. To enter comment on this post by next Fri. the 25th. when I will choose a winner! It's that easy, and who wouldn't want to win these cute notecards?? (I wish I was allowed to enter!)

If you want to know more about Erin and Eef-ink you can find her here..

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