Success For Dustin!

May 8, 2012 by Jess in Randomness

Success For Dustin!

Ho ho ho! New Painting surface and lots of creativity coming from Patty! We’re all super excited to see what she comes up with! Way to go Dustin for engineering this awesome sleigh! (That’s his happy face )

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Joe (our tech/ video editor) and his college graduate girlfriend Katelyn, congrats!!!

May 5, 2012 by Patricia in Randomness

Joe (our tech/ video editor) and his college graduate girlfriend Katelyn, congrats!!!

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Jess

April 30, 2012 by Patricia in Randomness

Jess

Poser! Lol **edit: This is Patty testing her new iPod app for posting to the blog! Yay =)

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Using Essential Corners

April 30, 2012 by Jess in Product Testing, Randomness

Using Essential Corners

Using the Essential Corners for the first time! Layering the different sizes. Different size scrolls for different size surfaces! Mix & Match! Using the 4×4 essential square with a corner on a larger square, would make a super cute frame for an iPhone photo print! Click here to pick some up today!

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How To Place An Order

It seems like you can buy everything online these days, doesn’t it? The frustrating thing can be that pretty much every website has a different way to buy products. We’ve made a handy-dandy tutorial video that will make ordering from CreativeArtsLifestyle.com easy!

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5 Tangle Critters, Inspired By Lucy

5 Tangle Critters, Inspired By Lucy

One of my very best friends had a birthday a few months ago. She likes to deny it, but she has them from time to time. This particular friend is artsy, creative, free-spirited, and has a wide range of “critters” that she loves to incorporate into her artwork. So I put together a Zentangle® bucket for her, with one of the books, some micron pens, and a few other art supplies, and a card with step-by-steps of the five creatures she uses the most in Zentangle® style.

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Making Rubber Stamps

April 19, 2012 by Jess in Experiments, Product Testing

Making Rubber Stamps

Do you have any idea how long I’ve wanted to do this exact thing? Make my own rubber stamps? I mean seriously, I was a kid trying to stick layers of foam together that I’d cut out, carving shapes out of potatoes, anything that would apply ink to paper without having to spend all my hard earned chore money on an expensive wooden stamp (but they’re so PRETTY!!). I always thought “I wish there was something permanent, something that worked. . .”

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The How To Use A Video…Video!

April 18, 2012 by Dustin in How-To Videos, Product Testing, Site News

If you’ve ever had trouble watching the Tole TV videos on CreativeArtsLifestyle.com, then you need to watch this video! Wait…a video on how to watch videos? That’s right! Just click “Play” and grab a pencil and paper. I explain how to use our Vimeo video player, including how to fast forward, adjust volume, and resize. I also give a quick explanation to some video terms you might have heard before, like “streaming” and “buffering”. Click the Read More & Discuss button below.

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Decorative Painting for…Nerf Guns?

February 13, 2012 by Dustin in Creativity, Experiments, Painting, Randomness

Decorative Painting for…Nerf Guns?

It all started with the announcement that Club Kairos would be having a Wild West theme with a twist this year. What is Club Kairos? Well, several years ago, my church, Fellowship of Faith, started doing themed dinners for Valentine’s Day weekend. The first year I started going, it was a ’50′s diner theme. The year after that, it was a murder mystery theater. They were a fun way for families at the church to have a “date night” (even though kids were often involved). Eventually this morphed into Club Kairos (“kairos” being Greek for “the right moment”), with the idea that each year would have a different theme based on a period in history.

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Uh-Oh, Creative Arts Lifestyle found Pinterest!

February 6, 2012 by Jess in Site News

Uh-Oh, Creative Arts Lifestyle found Pinterest!

Guess who’s pinning like crazy here at Creative Arts Lifestyle? Patty, Jess S, and newcomer Jess M! (We’ll figure out some way to easily differentiate between the Jess’s at some point soon!) We think we’ve finally found a Social Media form that really really fits us (in addition to Facebook, of course), and Patty is super excited! (who am I kidding, we’ve all spent the afternoon flipping through awesome pins!) We hope you’ll all check us out and see what inspires us! You can see our latest Pins in the sidebar, and we’ll eventually have a “Pin This” type button in a prominent place on our blog posts so you can share the stuff we’ll be blogging about in the next few weeks! Thanks for following us, everybody! Happy creating =)

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