A beautiful Fall day in Northwest Arkansas led the gypsies on a vintage market journey to The Junk Ranch in Prairie Grove, Arkansas. The Junk Ranch is an outdoor vintage market filled with over 120 booths that are scattered around a vintage farmhouse and barn that set the tone for the event. We enter the dirt…
Do you have some everyday items that just don’t look new anymore? Why not add some paint to them and see what you can create? That is exactly what Sanna Lippert did with her not so new phone case. She spruced it up and made it look like new and now it is personalized just…
Tattered Angels Mists are not just for coloring backgrounds of papers or adding lots of mica to your projects, they are nice media tools that allow you to add color and design in the most fascinating ways. The vibrant colors can be added to a wide range of mediums and the results are fun to…
Oh we are so excited to feature this amazing scrap journal created by Crew Member, Shannon Green who is not only an amazing artist and designer, she is an amazing person who helps lead our Crew in all the right directions, spread the word about what everyone is doing and she helps where she can along the…
We had some fun playing with our Brother Sewing Machine and making the cutest Halloween Totes ever!!!! You know how the machine has all those cute stitches and you only use a few? Well here is a chance to try some different stitches on simple canvas tote bags to make them look oh so cute. Gather your…
Our new Holiday Miscellanies papers are so unique, yet they work well with almost any type of project you may be working on! The bold designs and colors are perfect for the holidays, but they are also great for the rest of the year! Crew member Marie Nicole shows us how she used this bold black and…
Tragedies come in so many different ways, so unexpected, so illogical, so life-changing. Creativity is part of the healing process even for those who don’t see themselves as creative – a photo collage, a display of memories, a scrapbook, a shadowbox or maybe even a shoebox filled with mementos. How it is done is not the focus,…
The Crew is exploring a fun side of Halloween this year with masquerade masks that come in all shapes and sizes. Maybe they are for a Halloween Ball, maybe for a costume party or for your Halloween decor. No matter what they are for, they are just so fun to make. You can make them to wear or…
As we travel across the world to learn more about each of our designers, we learn so much along the journey. We explore new places, see new things, find new bits of inspiration and get to know our Crew so much better. Today we are heading to France. Just stay the word France and a…
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…