Crafty Chica Art Cruise!

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

@IceResin brings out the artist in all of us!

I filled my bezels with goodies from Suenos Latin American Imports and from Ranger Ink.

Ice Resin knows how much the Crafty Chica Cruisers love their product. We're going on three years now that we've had a bezel pendant project thanks to the team at the IR headquarters. This year they sent us each a kit and a beautiful metal bezel.

Here is what we did with them!

Monday, May 13, 2013

Loco for @Xochico !!

One of the highlights of our trip was that Xochico donated an amazing array of Mexi-style goods for our cruisers. So much that we were able to do drawings and everyone was able to win a fabulous prize from an innovative entrepreneur!

These items are beautiful, well-made and are certainly going to be collector's items. Check out their site and Facebook page to scoop up your own treasures!

We are so grateful, thank you, Xochico!

http://xochico.com

Wood Bangles - the wearable canvas! @diybangles

We crafty cruisers never get tired of these awesome wood bracelets provided by DIY Bangles! There are so many things you can do with them! From coloring, to gluing to even wrapping them with yarn, we had crafters stamp on them too! Endless ideas :-)

BoiFromIpanema (Jeshua) painted these for his mom for Mother's Day. Aren't they gorgeous?

And his sister, Denise from Pearmama.com made these - soooo sweet!

And I have a tutorial for these yarn-wrapped bangles on my blog, Crafty Chica.com.

Beautiful bracelets by Sylvia Alva of Que Milagro Studios! She made these on the cruise, so pretty!!

Mixed media trinkets from @RangerInk and @tim_holtz !

Tim Holtz over at Ranger Ink always, always, always sends us the best items to craft with. This year he packed 70 mini-swag bags of all kinds of interesting trinkets. I used several of them to fill a resin bezel (thank you Ice Resin!).

The cruisers used them on everything from jewelry to shrines to boxes to books! As you look though all the other projects, you can see them used everywhere!

Decoden-inspired shrine boxes from @WalnutHollow and Suenos Latin American Imports!

For another project we transformed a plain wood box that Walnut Hollow sent us and turned it into a functional shrine. On top we used bathroom silicone and decorated a wood block with all kinds of trinkets, Ranger Ink and buttons from Blumenthal Lansing.

Here are the goodies that Robert sent us from Suenos Latin American Imports!

We started by using Tulip Soft Paint as a base and then let it all dry and then decorated the top. I love how creative they all turned out! Each one tells a different story!

Our big surprise - Couture Smashbooks! @eksuccessbrands

K&Company has some new additions to their ever-popular Smash album series and they were kind enough to send each of us one of them. The theme they sent was "Couture" and is themed around fashion! We got the good news a week before we were to set sail and the morning of the cruise, they still hadn't arrived. We were going to try and figure out a way to get the to the cruisers once they got off the ship.

Would you believe that in between trips to pick up and deliver the boxes to the ship - our Smash books arrived? Just in a nick of time! We were all so excited and grateful! Yipppeeee!!

JoAnn's face says it all!

Here is a video showing all the pages inside the Couture Smash!

DIY Journals Using Bazzill Basics Papers! @bazzillbasics

One of the projects we made on the cruise was one of my most popular DIYs from this year - record album journals! I had a big box of old record album covers (no albums inside) and we cut them up to make into books.

Bazzill Basics Paper sent us each a pack of scrapbook paper and journal cards. We used them to make the pages for our signatures that went inside our journal covers!

Each paper was double-sided with different patterned designs. Some of u s left the papers as is, and others used the Gelli Plate to add mixed media textures.