SYTYC Week One - I'm Through

So I made it through Dollar Store week at So You Think You're Crafty.  Woo-hoo!  My project, if you didn't guess it, was the Tootsie Pop tote bag.

This was a cool technique and I'm going to do up a tutorial on it when I have a little more time.

This week at SYTYC is Thrift Store Crafts.  Time to vote again!  The poll is in the sidebar on the right side.  Maybe you'll vote for me.  Pin It

My "So You Think You're Crafty" Audition

Last week I let you know that I was auditioning for So You Think You’re Crafty.  This is a fun online competition where one crafter is eliminated each week until one winner is left.  I couldn’t tell you which of the projects was mine last week because the voting is done anonymously, but the voting is over and it can be revealed that my project was The Spring Garden Bracelet:

My Spring Garden Bracelet got me through the audition round of SYTYC.

I’m also happy to report that I made it safely through the audition round and will be ready to compete in the first round of the “real” competition come the second week of April. 

Let me tell you a little bit more about my bracelet.  A lot of people I’ve talked to thought that those flowers were beads that I bought somewhere.  They were actually individually made by me with Shrinky Dinks.  I do love my shrink plastic!

Individually made Shrinky Dink flowers

I used a craft punch to cut out the flower shapes then colored them with permanent markers.  If you try this at home, make sure you punch a hole for the wire before you shrink them! 

This is what I started with.

Above shows the size before shrinking, below shows the size after shrinking.

Once out of the oven, I immediately shaped the flower around the eraser end of a pencil to give it a rounded shape.  I didn’t worry about them being perfectly symmetrical.  I’m just not that fussy.  Besides, I liked that no two flowers were quite the same.  It’s more realistic.

The calla lilies were circles that were curled as soon as they came out of the oven.  You have to do this as soon as you pull the shrinky dinks out of the oven and they will be hot.  Be careful!

A circle pinched to form a calla lily.

I used a leaf punch and a heart punch to make leaves.  Okay, hearts don’t really look like leaves, but you work with what you got.

The rest was just a matter of adding some beads, some headpins, jump rings, a length of chain and a clasp.  ‘tweren’t nothing, really.

My homemade beads.

I hope you’ll follow So You Think You’re Crafty now and once my “season” of the competition gets underway.  I’ll be sure to keep you up to date with what’s going on.

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So You Think You're Crafty - I'm Auditioning!

Have you ever heard of So You Think You’re Crafty?  This is a craft competition blog that pits 10 crafters against one another.  Each week there is a new theme and the crafter with the lowest number of votes gets eliminated.

It’s audition week at SYTYC and, you guessed it, I’m auditioning!  I won’t tell you which project is mine until the voting is closed.  Still, I do hope you’ll hop on over to So You Think You’re Crafty and vote for your favorite project.  Maybe it will be mine!

I’ll let you know which of the projects is mine and the voting outcome next week.  The real competition begins in April. 

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