National Craft Month Part 1

Hello all!  So March is National Craft Month and we are excited! So we're going to be sending out a few goodies into the world :)

Starting here today, next week on our facebook page, the following week on our twitter page and in the final week of March in our facebook chat group we'll be sending out some Scrappy Tree RAKS!

We wanted to say thank you to you our followers for your comments and your chat, so we'll select at random someone who interacts with us in each of those formats :) starting this week with Kirsten at Isis Imaginings!  Kirsten does some beautiful work, please visit her blog and say hi!  But she's also kind enough to find the time to visit us here and leave lovely comments too, so we want to say thank you Kirsten and happy craft month!
Shoot us an email with your posting address to thescrappytree at hotmail dot com and we'll send you some candy :)

To everybody reading, join in the fun, like us follow us tweet us and chat with us :)

Look out next week for another Scrappy Tree RAK on our facebook page :)

Have a great week!

TST xxx

National Craft Month

So March is National Craft Month in the US, and it's a great time to expand your stash of craft supplies and to try some new things because a lot of manufacturers, sellers and other crafty types will be putting together some special offers this month!

Here at The Scrappy Tree we'd like to try this out on a smaller scale, so we're inviting you to take part in a March Spring Clean!  It's time to get organised and sort out those scrappy supplies to make room for some new ones, so if you'd like to swap or sell some scrappy items you no longer want/need/have room for, we'll be opening up an album on our Facebook branch where you can post some pictures of your items and hopefully make contact with another group member who could use them!

To take part, visit the March Spring Clean album at The Scrappy Tree Facebook Branch and upload some photos of your items with a description, specifying whether you prefer to sell and/or swap.  If you see items you're interested in, please leave a comment under that picture in the album or contact the person directly to let them know!

Happy Spring Cleaning!  We'll be keeping the album open for the month of March, so hopefully people will join in and get some great items!

Domino fun!

Well it's National Craft Month and we want you to try creating some new things this March!

Thought I would share an easy project today - if you have some spare dominoes around the house you might feel like giving this a go! I started out with an ordinary domino...

...and turned it over so I could use the blank side....
I inked up a Tim Holtz ink applicator with some coordinating alcohol inks ('bottle' and metallic gold)...
...and applied them to the domino all over...
...after leaving this to dry, using black StaZon ink, I stamped on an image of a fairy from a Dovecraft fairy flourish set...

...I added some Hero Arts gems...

...and varnished with some Mod Podge...

...and hey presto! A card topper, a necklace, a charm, an embellishment...

...you choose! I love what you can do with these - you can even use them to emphasise patterns on the project you are working on by printing part of the image you're working on onto the domino so that it appears raised. I would recommend using more permanent inks (such as alcohol inks and StazOn) for this project and then varnishing on top - even with the permanent inks, they can easily be scratched on the surface of the domino.

Happy crafting!

Gayle