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Brighton Craft and Design Fair finishes Sunday 22nd November

I'm late putting this up as it is the last day of the Brighton Craft and Design Fair tomorrow but some of our members… Continue

Added by Jill on November 22, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Abstract by Aileen Clarke is our latest Creative Cafe Side Picture Challenge Winner.

It is the turn of talented artist Aileen Clarke to be winner of our Side Picture Design Challenge this week. This is the second of three lovely designs submitted by Aileen which you can see on her… Continue

Added by Jill on October 11, 2009 at 8:36am — 4 Comments

Kate of Omshanti Handicrafts is our new Creative Cafe Side Pictures Design Challenge Winner

Here is our latest winner of the Creative Cafe Side Pictures Design Challenge. It is by our member Kate who runs Omshanti Handicrafts where you can find her very popular range of bath… Continue

Added by Jill on September 13, 2009 at 3:13pm — 6 Comments

Bronzed Burgandy by Brenda of Split Rock Ranch is our latest Side Picture Challenge Winner.

Bronzed Burgundy by Creative Cafe member Brenda who lives on a Llama ranch in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Brenda harvests the lovely llama fleeces every Spring. Some fleeces are sold raw and she processes others into rovings, batts… Continue

Added by Jill on August 28, 2009 at 11:00pm — 5 Comments

Canstruction

Acadia owner of… Continue

Added by Jill on August 3, 2009 at 1:30am — 1 Comment

Tomas Karkalas is our latest Creative Cafe Side Picture Design Challenge Winner.

Creative Cafe artist memberTomas Karkalas who is from Klaipeda in Lithuania is the latest winner in our side picture design challenge. Thomas says "this p… Continue

Added by Jill on July 24, 2009 at 9:10pm — 10 Comments

Sculptures made from Pencils

Further in my mission to find 'art' made from the unusual how about this sculpture made from pencils? More examples of 'Pencil Art' can be seen HERE Continue

Added by Jill on July 16, 2009 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Textile Abstract by Aileen Clarke is our new Creative Cafe Side Picture Design Challenge Winner

It is the turn of talented artist Aileen Clarke to be winner of our Side Picture Design Challenge this week. Aileen submitted three lovely designs which you can see on her… Continue

Added by Jill on July 10, 2009 at 4:00pm — 10 Comments

Loiosh Fur by Kate is our new Creative Cafe Side Pictures Design Challenge Winner

Here is our latest winner of the Creative Cafe Side Pictures Design Challenge. It is Loiosh Fur by our member Kate who runs Omshanti Handicrafts where you can find her… Continue

Added by Jill on June 27, 2009 at 10:00am — 6 Comments

Design Your Dream House

If you fancy designing your Dream Home then th… Continue

Added by Jill on May 25, 2009 at 10:22pm — 1 Comment

Create Your Own Playing Cards

Making your own playing cards which you can personalise with your own pictures could be an interesting creative project and this is what you can do with help at the Hewlett Packard website. They do say you need to use special paper which can be ordered. You also need Adobe Reader… Continue

Added by Jill on May 23, 2009 at 12:37pm — No Comments

First Creative Cafe Side Pictures Design Challenge Winner- Mandala by 'On a Whimsey' owner Pat O'Neill

I put the brilliant entrants names in a hat and the first pulled out is our First Creative Cafe Side Pictures Design Winner "On a Whimsey" owner Pat O'Neill. The picture looks brilliant up as our current side picture and will stay up for the next two weeks when another winner… Continue

Added by Jill on May 15, 2009 at 6:30pm — 6 Comments

Current entrants to the Creative Cafe Side Pictures Design Challenge. Still time to enter.

We have four lovely entrants in the Creative Cafe Side Pictures Design Challenge so far (Details on how to enter HERE ) All these entrees to the Creative Cafe Side Pictures Design Challenge are wonderful and I think they will each look lovely up on display. Each entree will be up for two weeks as our Creative Cafe backdrop/side picture with publicity at the top of the Main page for the entrant and $10 to spend wi… Continue

Added by Jill on May 9, 2009 at 1:30am — 1 Comment

Design Squad Trash to Treasure Competition Winner: Max age 12

12-year-old Max from Natick, MA won the 2008 Design Squad Trash to Treasure Competition for his invention " The Home Dome". On February 17th, 2009, Max made his much-awaited trip to the development lab at Continuum in W. Newton, MA. Watch him as he builds a prototype of 'the home dome'. Max also received a check for $10,000 and a Dell laptop from Intel. About Design Squad: Design Squad is a reality compe… Continue

Added by Jill on March 16, 2009 at 6:45pm — No Comments

Looks like Op Art

Illusion design works that look like op art. See more examples HERE Continue

Added by Jill on February 8, 2009 at 2:30am — No Comments

Unleash your Creativity. Design a Moodboard and Win £500 Competition

My Deco have introduced Moodboards you can design yourself on their site and they have a competition to win £500 for the chosen one. Go HERE to enter. Continue

Added by Jill on January 19, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Own Art Competition. Win £500

Design a room for your Own Art collection and win £500 towards the purchase of a real work of art for your home! The above picture is from an article in Grazia magazine.Having given up his pop-star life style for pastures new, Alex J… Continue

Added by Jill on December 11, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

Is this ecopolis "Lilypad" a city of the future?

This is a picture of "Lilypad" a prototype for an auto-sufficient amphibious city. The main deck has three marinas, the submarine performing arts center and the gardens of phytopurification. The three mountains are ecological niches, aquaculture fields and biologic corridor. Enti… Continue

Added by Jill on November 20, 2008 at 10:57am — 2 Comments

Design a Christmas themed room and win £5000 of John Lewis vouchers.

Create your own Christmas fantasy with mydeco’s 3D Complete Room Planner and you could win either a £3,000 or a £500 shopping spree at John Lewis! This year, we’re all dreaming of a FREE Christmas. In true Santa spirit, we’re thrilled to offer the chance to w… Continue

Added by Jill on November 7, 2008 at 8:58am — No Comments

Changing your Creative Cafe page appearance is quite easy.

Yesterday I changed my Creative Cafe page appearance and the Main page appearance. I swapped my photo of flowers to the above one of fireworks at the sides of my page. And I changed the colour scheme to match. On the Main page I added more fireworks to the sides and changed th… Continue

Added by Jill on November 3, 2008 at 11:30pm — No Comments