It is amazing when you look out the window and the nature around you inspires you to create art. Creative Crew Member Kimberly did just that. She looked out her window, saw a beautiful dandelion and wanted to recreate it but how she did it is truly a work of art. She uses rice as…
We love challenges around here, maybe because they help us to get focused, think outside of the box and then see how others interpreted the same challenge. Mandy Leever-Koel show us what she came up with for this month’s challenge: Movember. What is Movember? It is a word used around the world with a few…
We certainly love our coffee around here! It’s the perfect pick-me-up boost in the mornings, especially as the weather turns cooler. Most people grab their coffee on the go as they rush out the door to work, but Marie Nicole shows us how you can turn your cup-o-joe into a fun, social gathering! We love this…
When it comes to gift wrapping it can be as creative as the gift inside. Why just wrap and put a store bought bow on your special gifts, when you can make something unique that sets the tone for the gift inside? Ava shares some simple and very cool tips on how to make your own bows and…
Decorating your Christmas tree in December can be a very personal and sentimental task. Some like their trees completely coordinated and pristine, looking like it just came out of a magazine. Others like their trees to be mis-matched and full of handmade, memorable ornaments that they have collected over the years. No matter what your…
Happy Halloween everyone!!! We are finishing this creative Halloween season with these amazing tags created by Crew Member Viktoriya Porechnaya. Halloween is being celebrated more around the world each year and with so many fun creative products to work with, so much inspiration, events and parties popping up, it is a bit contagious and that is so fun….
Hello, October! We’re wearing our sweaters and plaid flannel, enjoying pumpkin spice lattes and farmers markets, cheering on our favorite football teams and applauding another fun Fall creation from crew member Alison Osborn. Now that October has cast its magic spell, our gardens are bright with dahlias, camellias, and chrysanthemums, so my autumn wreath features…
Hey CCB Fans….. Crew Member Lynne Forsythe here! Did you catch the September Challenge over at The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge? Canvas Corp Brands was the sponsor last month and we supplied their design team with a box of GOODIES! Each design team member created their own “Rustic Mood Board” and they were sent goodies…
“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!” – Humbert Wolfe. Halloween is fast approaching and with that comes, apple picking, pumpkin carving, trick or treating and Halloween parties! We are so excited to have Crew Member Alison Osborn sharing her…
Today is National Coffee Day and since we love coffee around here at CCB, we are so excited to be celebrating today! No one is exactly sure where coffee originated, but different cultures have their own stories and legends about how it was discovered. One Ethiopian legend claims that coffee was discovered after a goat…