The Bullet List {Kari From Ucreate}

I had a chance to meet today’s author at the CBC conference and she is just about as down to earth as you can get.  And so so nice.  She didn’t even flinch when I all but tackled her, she must be used to it!

Kari is the voice behind Ucreate, a craft blog that supplies endless inspiration all at the click of a mouse.  One of the new features of Ucreate I want to try out is Create With Me, where Kari picks a featured tutorial every month to make and anyone can participate.  I love the idea.  At the end of the month she posts everyone’s pictures to see the different takes of the same project, genius.

It looks as though Ucreate will be growing soon with the addition of Ucreate Kids Crafts, Ucreate Food, and Ucreate Parties.  Three more reasons to check her out daily! pssstt….she’s hiring, if you want to work from home, now’s your chance!

Now onto her list, it is a good one, I can’t believe I haven’t thought of these!

Kari Sweeten

My Favorite Craft Tips

• Use a cookie sheet w/ newspaper or wax paper for a portable craft surface…super easy cleanup!
• Sharpen your scissors by cutting sand paper.
• Place a little bit of Vaseline to the end of your glue gun to get rid of those long glue strings.
• Soak your paint brushes in fabric softener or hair conditioner for 10 min…cleans right off!
• Recycle large plastic lids by using them for a painter’s pallette or cutting them up for stencils
• Need to create a large pattern? Use newspapers!
• Keeping a magnet close by makes picking up those sewing pins a sinch!
• store those pipe cleaners for kid’s crafts inside of a paper towel tube
• Break up some styrofoam to create snow for craft projects.
• Keep those cardboard boxes! Cut & cover with patterned paper to make a mini album, cover with art paper and use as a canvas, and I always use them to eliminate a mess while spraypainting!

Any great crafting tips you can add to the list?  Oh you know you do!