Mini Class Festival is Sunday!

Mini Class Festival – Ornaments

Date: Sunday, November 17th from 12-4PM

Sign up today for our next Mini Class Festival – Ornaments!

Our Mini Class Festival will be Sunday, November 17th from 12-4PM.
Your options are a la carte or bundled.
Take each class for $8 or all 5 for $30!
Your choice!
But the more classes you take, the more options you have to win!!

What’s a Mini Class Festival?
This event is designed to guide you through a card, technique or project in 15-20 minutes. You’ll have access to five of our fabulous teachers and designers. They will give you one on one attention while you create!
Several of our Mini Class samples are ready for you to look at. You’ll have the option to take a mini class with Donna, Chris, Susan, Maria and/or Nicole!

There will be raffles, prizes and refreshments!
We might even have a clown or two in the student body, you just never know!

Sign up for the Mini Class Festival today!

Kelly Kilmer is coming to Kept Creaitons!

Kelly Kilmer – Mixed Media Artist and Workshop Instructor.  Kelly experiments in Mixed Media Art, Art Journaling, Collage, Artists Books, Altered Books, Acrylic Painting, Bookbinding, Composition, Design and More…

Kelly will be visiting Kept Creations on Friday, June 28th and Saturday, June 29th.  You don’t want to miss out on these fabulous classes and this wonderful mixed media artist and instructor! 

Telling Your Truth with Kelly - Friday, June 28th from 12-4PM - $80

 

 A Beautiful Life Journal with Kelly - Friday, June 28th from 5-9PM - $80

 

Journal This! with Kelly - Saturday, June 29th from 10AM - 12PM - $60

A Beautiful Necessity with Kelly - Saturday, June 29th from 1-5PM - $80

End of Year Sale, Open House and Free Make and Takes!

End of Year SALE!

30% off
All Christmas Papers, Stamps, Stickers, Dies and Embellishments!

WOW!  Yes!  30% Off!

All Halloween, Thanksgiving and Fall will be 30% off as well!

Anything with a yellow sticker will be 30% off! 

No Frequent Buyer cards will be punched during the sale.

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Free Make and Takes!

Stop in this Saturday or Sunday and make a quick and easy card!

You're Invited!

Stop in on Sunday from 12-4PM for some snacks, cider and free make and takes!

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Hero Arts Preview Sale!

The Newest Hero Arts has arrived!  Stop in this weekend and see what's new!  Free make and takes both Saturday and Sunday!

Conversation Starters...

KEPT Creations Treasures.

Yesterday, my other half was out of town, leaving me to just hang around all day.  I had already signed up for Kristin's Quick Creation (more on that in a bit) which started at 10:00 am. So I just decided to anchor my untethered self down to KC for the day and spend some quality time soaking in the creativity and getting some inspiration.  You know, it had probably been a whole 12 hours since I had been there. I was certain that all sorts of new stuff was going on, and that I was missing it.

I spent a little time poking around the store checking out all of the little treasures. I was on a treasure hunt as it were.  There really are so many delightful things to look at.  Just look at the collage above and that is just a 1 minute turn around the store... Hmmm perhaps a new series is being born as I type... Treasure Hunt.  I like it.  You just might see it again.  

Just look at this adorable tree... 

psst... you can learn to make this, Maria's teaching a class; "Oh, Christmas Tree."!

or how about this little steampunk sweety ...

She was the winner from the Clothes Pin Contest this past September.

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Some fabulous inchies...  For sure some of the best things do come in little packages.

  

KC is all about embracing your creative side. I just love it.

As I mentioned before, I took Kristin's Quick Creation... I had so much fun.  I had never really worked with Ice Resin before.  It is really quite easy and the results are stunning... just look!  I know my niece is going to love it and I think her mother might be so jealous I'll end up making one for her too.  Keep an eye for these Quick Creations.  They are so much fun, and who doesn't love near instant gratification!?  Also, Kristin's classes are so great.  Learning to make some truly original and stunning wearable art.  Just so cool.  

Steampunk pendant made using Ice Resin.  

I've only begun to scratch the surface of the wonderful Kept Treasures. Not just the stuff, but the people too... Kristin, Susan, Maria, Donna, Chris, Nancy, Sara, Nicole and OF COURSE THE PINK HAIRED MUSE... Kim.  Definitely check out their work and their classes each one is so inspiring, and has her own unique style.  There is truly something for everyone. 

So lets get the conversation started... What is the newest thing you've tried in your creations?  

As I mentioned, I just used Ice Resin for the first time. The gears are all ready turning in my head (pun totally intended) as to the many ways I can use this product and all the great little gifts I can make with it.   

Drop me a comment, and let me know the fun stuff you're trying out.  I'm always looking to learn something new.

Oh and why not subscribe to the blog? Then you can always be part of the conversation.

Until later, all. 

la.

loveaphid: Sayin' Hello.

Hi!, everyone.  First let me introduce myself. I am Kate, a.k.a loveaphid. That weird looking icon at the left is the loveaphid. One day my husband and I were watching a Nature episode about ants and aphids.  Being goofy I reached over to him and squeezed him and said I am your aphid of love. That morphed to loveaphid. Its a silly story and not all that exciting. But the nickname stuck and so there it is.  I am a teacher, shopper and loiterer at KEPT Creations (gonna call it KC from now on, if you don't mind).  I spend a lot of time hanging out and absorbing the inspiration that is all around me at KEPT.  I tend to work in the less perfect mediums; felting, rubber stamp carving, collage, art journaling and the like but I've been known to throw a card into the mix here and there.  I love miniature anything and inchies are a favorite for that reason.  In the immortal words of Bart Simpson, "I do what I like."  Kim has granted me permission to do a little rambling on her blog.  I am excited, because now I have a chance to share some of the super creative things that other KC fans, teachers and I are doing.  I also get to do fun things like; share designs with you, tell you about my trials and errors with new techniques, highlight the new stuff KC offers and give you some peeks from around the store from my perspective.  (there is always some little treasure I hadn't noticed before.) I hope to create some connections, host some challenges, do a meme here and there and most of all; just have some fun.  So lets start a crafting conversation here at KEPT Creations Blog.  Get to know each other, create a crafting community here and in this wonderful store that so many of us call our creative home. Oh and the more the merrier.  If you know someone who might want to join in, by all means, invite them by.  After all, art is about sharing.  So all are welcome.   I look forward to seeing you around KEPT creations, here in BloggyLand and out there is the real world.

Until Later, all.
la.