5th Annual Christmas Love Campaign

The 5th Christmas Love Campaign starts tomorrow!

The FIFTH one! WOW! I am so SUPER excited! I have to admit, as a sat in a doctors office again this week it was really hard to find much excitement in much of anything and then I had a perfect stranger come up to me and tell me that she recognized me and that she liked my writing and my work, which was cool. But then she went on to say how much she really liked the “that Christmas Love thing’ that is do every year. That made my day and made me realize how important this campaign is. It and WE ALL can make a difference!  And with that I am SO proud to say that our Christmas Love Campaign starting tomorrow, November 1, is going to be out of this world FANTASTIC!!!

So, What is The Christmas Love Campaign?

The 'CLC' is a very dear event that I started five years ago shortly after losing my father to cancer.  My dad had lived a life of always doing kind things to ANYONE & EVERYONE. When he passed away suddenly I didn't know what I could do to continue spreading his kindness and love that he showed and gave everyone.. One day at a scrapbooking crop I noticed how kind scrap bookers can be to each other even though most of the time they are total strangers. I noticed that even happens on the internet. Crafters reaching out to other crafters with words of encouragement in hard times and in good times. After seeing this, I approached The Canadian Scrapbooker in the Fall of 2009 and I asked Katharina Doyle and Jackie Ludlage if I could write an article for their magazine on a topic that was very important to me, entitled 'Scrap Matters'. It talked about the awesome power of arts, crafts, and scrapbooking and I asked people how they brightened other peoples day by being creative? I know my Dad, and my Mom would have loved this!

 

'Simple Acts of Creative Kindness is an AWESOME TOOL!'

  This is the 5th Annual Christmas Love Campaign.

When: November 1,2013 - January 7,2014

The Mission: Create something (anything crafty),cards, sewing, editable art, beads, you name it, and then give it to someone. ANYONE....even a TOTAL STRANGER!
Instructions on HOW to Enter:
CREATE a projectTAKE a picture of what you have createdUPLOAD pic to Mr Linky below LIKE the CLC FB page leave a comment that you left your link here
SHARE your Christmas Love StoryINVITE a friend to join in and Grab a Christmas Love Campaign Blinkie. Your name will then be entered into win  one of several random draws that will be happening during the duration of the Christmas Love Campaign. If you have problems please email susiebeestudios@gmail.com 





There will be themed contests & dates announced every week so be sure to always check.
You can find out more information at www.susankweckesser.com

We have a lot of fun things planned including Hand Made Christmas event where Susan K. Weckesser Inc. has partnered up with some amazing companies in order to show you some amazing and quick Christmas gifts , cards, and other things that you can make and give to someone to #CRAFTUPLOVE.

We also have some amazing designers invited to come , visit and be apart of our Designer Talk which is always a lot of fun!

And we will be having a lot of contest and prize give aways! Once again we have some AMAZING sponsors that are helping to make this event AWESOME!!! You can see all of the sponsors HERE.

Grab a blinkie and join us!

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SO, let’s see how many people that we can make smile this year and how many people can we make have  a better and brighter day?

Let pick up are glitter, ink, glue, paper, flowers, yarn and anything else and create someone a smile! Please follow us on Facebook, Pinterest , Twitter, Instagram and use the hashtags ; #craftuplove & #christmaslovecampaign .
Thank-you for all your support and here’s to another fantastic year of showing the world that we care!

hugs & blessings,

Susan xo

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One play, two projects.

Hello there, it's Jaine here again with the second of my two posts as Guest Designer and today I'm bringing not one but two projects from the same technique but with very different results.

I absolutely love it when a play session can result in several different finishes and that's just what I got when I decided to get out my Gelli plate and the Autumn Grunge  Leaves stamps by Unity.

After brayering acrylic paint onto the Gelli I stamped the leaves onto the surface. I started with a piece of watercolour paper already painted with a green acrylic paint colour. As I stamped the leaves into the paint, I then re-stamped them onto the painted paper to a) clean some of the paint off and b) so as not to waste a good opportunity to get a good print of the leaves. (Wash the paint off your stamps straight away otherwise the paint might dry on the stamp and ruin them for ever!).

I then laid the other half of the watercolour paper on the plate to get the print. I only have a small Gelli plate that's why I can only print small sections at a time but I rather like that duo tone effect across the page. 

To finish my page I stamped the leaves again this time with a Versafine ink in brown and used Susan's border stencil and a black pen to scribble the border and numbers. The heart and it's negative came from the second part of my play session.

Once I'd cut my paper down to fit my journal page I had an off cut from the side which I'd stamped my leaves onto. I took this piece and cut it into a tag using a Sizzix die and used several colours of Distress inks to blend over the tag. The acrylic paint from the leaf prints resisted the ink and the more I put on the more they 'popped' out. With some more of this off cut I did the same and cut the heart and this frame to go with my journal page.

I gave my tag a Halloweeny theme with some black ink and ribbon and used the stencil once again to add some detail.

Have a spooktacular Halloween and get playing.

Jaine x

Time to say Goodbye . . .

Hi everyone, Tracy here today and I hope you will join me in a trip down memory lane, as I look back at my time on

 Susan K Weckessers first ever Design Team

with a few of my favourite things.

A Project made with my first ever stamps by

 Susan K Weckesser Co branded with Unity Stamp Co.

Create your day

I fell head over heels for this set!!

This is now in Donna Downeys Studio for her Altered paintbrush Project.

Onto my first official project using Felt . . .

even back then I started with a plan!

To a selection of cards . . .

  Little tiny Brooches . . .

Time for tea . . .

to altered spoons . . .

from small houses to . . . 

to large wooden houses . . .

journal pages full of memories . . .

to the ones . . . just because . . .

to large plates made of clay . . .

to boats sailing away . . . 

over the deep blue sea . . .

to one of my all time favourites - a mixed media book to chase the blues away.

You can see more pics of this one by clicking HERE.

 The back of the mini book sums it all up 

Create Your Day and be Happy

that is what I would wish for Susan, Cheryl and all the Design Team members past and present and I hope you will all stay in touch, I can`t wait to see what you all create!!

Susan thank you from the bottom of my heart for picking me to be part of your first ever design team, I will never forget the feeling I had when I opened that email . . . woohoohooo . . . I am sure everyone on the street could hear me jumping up and down, running around screaming, lol!

What an AMAZING journey it has been and a pleasure getting to know you and the rest of the girls, I sure have found some wonderful friends, so thank you!

Good luck to the new team and woohoo let the your journey begin . . . .

Big hugs