We are looking for some people that will allow us to share their creativity on our blog.  Our vision is to have a hoppin' blog packed with great ideas and tutorials of crafts made from reCREATE items.   Our Creative Team will also post crafts that  promote our classes, products and reuse concepts at reCREATE.

We offer you an exciting opportunity to participate in our mission to inspire others with your projects, encouraging them to find their inner artist, get creative and have fun!   We will rely on our Creative Team to help us tell the region about the great treasures we have at reCREATE.  We hope that participation on this team will generate friendships and camaraderie among like-minded creative types helping build the reCREATE community.   What type of creative talent are we looking for?  Sewing, knitting, crocheting, sculpture, child crafting, wire-work, jewelry making, mosaic, collage, trashion, you name it – we are game if you are reusing materials!

Requirements - Creative team members must commit to the following:

• A school year commitment to membership on the reCREATE Creative Team (September to June)
• Two projects per month made from upcyling materials like those we have at reCREATE. (Probably one child’s craft and one adult craft)
• Having your own blog where you also post your projects would be a plus, including a link to our website for materials.
• Additional projects given by invitation, such as seasonal projects.
• We may also ask you to provide an in-person tutorial up to two times per year, if you have an interest.

In exchange, we offer you:

• A $25 monthly allowance of reCREATE materials
• A 25% discount on ALL classes and other purchases
• The opportunity to help a nonprofit showcase art that will inspire others to make art, not waste.

Entry Details

To apply for the Creative Team for reCREATE:

1.Choose two or three of your best projects.

2.Upload your photos to the reCREATE Creative Team Search gallery on our facebook page.

3. Include a description of what was reused, and include a link if you have a blog or tutorial of the craft.

Entries will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. Pacific August 30st, 2010.

Creative Team members will be announced September 4th.

We make loads of GREAt art all the time at reCREATE.  We are REALLY bad at taking pictures and sitting down and blogging it though.  I am going to try and get on here more often with craft ideas... .but there are zillions of blogs out there to inspire you. 

Take this post... for making Barbie Headbands from a few sequins and the plastic rim of a bottle.  Love it!

http://zakkalife.blogspot.com/2010/07/upcycle-craft-doll-headbands.html

We were out recently at a Vendor fair at Whole Foods and made bracelets from scraps of fabric, inspiried from this:

http://itsahodgepodgelife.blogspot.com/2010/02/rag-braceletall-grown-up.html

We added some faux flkowers to ours and this is what they looked like!

I saw a number of blog posts for recycling crayons recently, and one Make and Take that suggested Valentine's Cards... so we whipped these up for Zach and Sela to take for their Valentines cards. We used the gazillion restaurant crayons that they always HAVE to take, when we leave - which is better than tossing them - but I was thinking we would be buried in Red, Blue and Yellow crayons until this great project came along!

I used a silicone heart baking tray, we broke the crayons in pieces, heated them up to 300, watched them melt, pulled them out, let them cool, and repeated until we have 48 beautiful chunky crayons for their Valentines! Easy Peasy!

Like the idea - but not the mess?  Join us for our Recycled Crayon Class coming up!