World Cardmaking Day: Meet the Demonstrators: Marisa Pawelko

We are so thrilled to have Marisa Pawelko as one of our demonstrators for Creative Cynchronicity's "World Card Making Day" event.  Join us on October 6th from noon to 6 pm Eastern and on the 7th from noon to 8 pm Eastern for online live streaming craft demos and giveaways.  Marisa’s appearance is sponsored by Westcott Brand, Charity Wings' platinum sponsor.

Meet award winning celebrity crafter Marisa Pawelko. Armed with a formal education in furniture design, Marisa used her talents to design products for the gift, toy, fashion, jewelry and decorative accessory markets before turning her focus to the craft industry. In 2005, sparked with an idea to create a recycled baby memento-keeper out of one of her son’s baby food jars, she founded Modern Surrealist™ which quickly developed an international following.

Marisa is a spokesperson for Westcott Brand (aka The World’s Favorite Scissors™) and an official crafter for The Duck Brand® Duct Tape. Her unique promotional skills and stylish design aesthetic have been used to highlight many of the world’s top brands including but not limited to: VELCRO® Brand, SYROFOAM® Brand, Hasbro, Wonka, Disney and Barbie®.

Products designed by Marisa have been featured by a highly diverse array of retailers ranging from exclusive high-end boutiques and galleries to dollar stores, including: Nordstrom, Macys, Marshall Fields, Target, Walmart, Walgreens, Bed Bath & Beyond, Costco, Sam’s Club and Family Dollar just to name a few!

Marisa’s creativity in design has been featured by PBS, HGTV, The Illinois State Museum and in countless exhibitions and publications around the world.
Professional design and promotional services include: product development, promotional appearances, craft project design, product demonstration, display design, viral marketing and creative industry consultation.
Marisa will be making a card using the Westcott Scissor Mouse.  Check it out:

You can find more from Marisa here.
Be sure to buy your raffle tickets for the "Stop to Smell the Flowers with Charity Wings" raffle  to benefit the Charity Wings Art Center. Each day of this two day event, we’ll draw for a winner to receive an amazing prize pack filled with all sorts of flower themed supplies!  Check out this post to find out more about the prizes.
Raffle Tickets are ONLY:

3 Tickets for $5
10 Tickets for $10
25 Tickets for $20
Click HERE to get your tickets!

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World Cardmaking Day: Meet the Demonstrators: Lisa Fulmer

Lisa Fulmer will be joining us on Sunday October 7th for Creative Cynchronicity's "World Card Making Day" event.  Join us on October 6th from noon to 6 pm Eastern and on the 7th from noon to 8 pm Eastern for online live streaming craft demos and giveaways.

Lisa says:
i am an artist, crafter, writer, designer, teacher, marketeer - you know, the crazy creative type.

lisa liza lou is an childhood nickname from my mother. it has a sweet little sing-song feel to it, doesn't it?
by day, i do my thing with marketing communications.

by night, i stay up way too late arting and crafting...designing new projects and experimenting with new techniques and materials.
here's where i've been published...
color your world with princess mirah batiks (fabric pocket board book project)
cupcakes!   (needlefelted trio project)
countdown calendars (wedding day project)
my diy wedding projects were featured in crafts-n-things magazine
You may also recognize Lisa from TLC’s Craft Wars. She was Andrea Currie’s partner and they did an amazing job with Andrea coming through as the winner!
Be sure to buy your raffle tickets for the "Stop to Smell the Flowers with Charity Wings" raffle  to benefit the Charity Wings Art Center.  Each day of this two day event, we’ll draw for a winner to receive an amazing prize pack filled with all sorts of flower themed supplies!  Check out this post to find out more about the prizes.
Raffle Tickets are ONLY:

3 Tickets for $5
10 Tickets for $10
25 Tickets for $20
Click HERE to get your tickets!

Sponsors

World Cardmaking Day: Meet the Demonstrators: Andrea Currie

The World Cardmaking Day event is  coming up fast!  We hope you’ll be joining us for it.  To get you in the mood, we thought you might like to meet the demonstrators who will be sharing their creativity with you during the weekend of October 6th and 7th for this live streaming event online.

Andrea Currie is a craft personality, designer, inventor and "Champion" on TLC's Craft Wars. Whether she's designing innovative new craft products or demonstrating clever projects and tutorials, she always bring an intoxicating mix of artful moxie and pure glee to her work.

Andrea and her husband Cliff  founded HandMAKEMyDay.com, a kicky creative blog where they chronicle their “he said, she said” adventures in crafting, cooking, home improvement and product development. When they aren't covered in glitter or sawdust they are playing with their dog Gracie and drawing up plans for their sustainable dream home.

Join Andrea and the rest of our amazing demonstrators for Creative Cynchronicity's "World Card Making Day" event on October 6th from noon to 6 pm Eastern and the 7th from noon to 8 pm Eastern for craft demos and giveaways.  Be sure to buy your raffle tickets for the "Stop to Smell the Flowers with Charity Wings" raffle  to benefit the Charity Wings Art Center. Each day of this two day event, we’ll draw for a winner to receive an amazing prize pack filled with all sorts of flower themed supplies!  Check out this post to find out more about the prizes.
Raffle Tickets are ONLY:

3 Tickets for $5
10 Tickets for $10
25 Tickets for $20
Click HERE to get your tickets!

Sponsors

World Cardmaking Day AMAZING Prize Pack

As you know, Charity Wings is taking part in Creative Cynchronicity's "World Card Making Day" activities on October 6-7, 2012.  This is an online event that features wonderful designers doing craft demonstrations every half hour from noon to 8 pm Eastern each day! At the end of each demo, there will be a giveaway from the designer – be sure to be there so you can have a chance of winning!

As part of this fun-filled event, we’re having a "Stop to Smell the Flowers with Charity Wings" raffle  to benefit the Charity Wings Art Center.   Each day of this two day event, we’ll draw from these raffle tickets and the winner will receive an amazing prize pack filled with all sorts of flower themed supplies!  Just have a look at what you can win!!!

Each prize pack (remember – we have TWO – we’re drawing for one each day!!!) will contain:
One of the new lines from Prima – Prima will choose one from their new lines released at CHA; samples of their new lines are shown below:

Check out Prima’s website, blog, or Facebook page to learn more about these beautiful lines!

This $100 prize pack from Flowersoft:

Head on over the Flowersoft’s website, blog, or Facebook page to find out more about these fabulous products!

Also included in this prize pack are:   Clear Snap Ink Petals:  A Clearsnap Petal Point Classic Pigment Inkpad in Easter Eggs and full size Pigment Stamp Pads in Mango Tango and Razzberry.

AND a Hydrangea Hippo Flower Kit

Raffle Tickets are ONLY:

3 Tickets for $5
10 Tickets for $10
25 Tickets for $20
Click HERE to get your tickets!

Sponsors

Thank You Microsoft!

So what do you do when you’re Elena’s Chief Twitfacer and your laptop starts falling apart the week before you’re due to head to Chicago for LIVE from CHA Summer?  Well, in my case, I contacted Kristina Libby from Microsoft.  I knew her from the #winchat Twitter Chats that Windows hosts every Tuesday at 3 pm Eastern and thought it was worth a shot to see if there was anything she could do to help me out and thereby help Charity Wings.   And she definitely came through! 

Kristina immediately shipped out a loaner laptop that I was able to use at both CHA and BlogHer, allowing me to liveblog, tweet, and Facebook from both events.  I could keep everyone updated on all the Charity Wings news as it happened and I’m sure this helped us sell more tickets and exceed our goal of $5000 for A Place to Bark.  I was so happy to be able to meet and hug Kristina in person at BlogHer but still I cannot express my appreciation to Kristina and Microsoft enough.   You were truly a lifesaver to us and to A Place to Bark. 

Please head on over to my blog and check out the review I did of the Toshiba Portege Z835-P330 laptop that I was loaned and be sure to join in on the #winchat Twitter Parties on Tuesdays at 3 pm Eastern.  You’ll learn a lot, get a chance to ask your questions, and have the opportunity to win great prizes!