Toronto Craft Alert

To win a FREE spot in one of the workshops listed below, let us know (by commenting on this post) which one you’d like to participate in: “Organic Skin Care” or “Wet-felting” .  We’ll choose two winners – one for each workshop. Good luck guys!

One of a Kind Show Hands-On Workshops are back!
At this year’s Spring Show, One of a Kind will be offering two workshops –one on skin nutrition, and the other on the art of wet felting!
One of a Kind Spring Show, March 31 to April 4, 2010, Direct [...]

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This contest is open to ALL elementary, high school and college/university students!

Here is what you need to do:
*Draw a prom dress, featuring fabric with a print designed by YOU. Your print can include drawings, found images, whatever! Or a combination of these things.

*Mail or email your submission to Peach Berserk to arrive by Thursday April 15th, along with proof of current school attendance.

*Winners announced Thursday April 22nd.

Prizes:

A custom made Peach Berserk silk party dress made with YOUR Dress design and YOUR fabric print, OR a Peach Berserk [...]

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Win YOURSELF an awesome handmade gift courtesy of Toronto Craft Alert

Are you attending City of Craft? If so, while you’re perusing the tables of handmade goodness for gifts for your peeps, be sure to enter the Toronto Craft Alert Handmade Love Draw. You could win an item from the vendor of your choice worth up to $100, courtesy of TCA.

Here’s what you have to do to enter:

2008 design by Shannon Gerard, printed by Studio XIX

Those of you who meant to enter the contest but saw the deadline come and go, take heart.  We’re giving you an extra chunk of time to get your original designs that reflect a unique, handmade aesthetic out of your head and into our inbox!

If your design is chosen, it will be printed on cotton totes which will be handed out to the first lucky 100 attendees of City of Craft 2009 filled with fantastic goodies from local [...]

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Our reuseable shopping bag contest is back!  We’re asking the general public to create a unique design for our bag competition.  The  winning entry will not only receive loads of accolades and a $100 shopping spree, they will have their design printed by us and sold at the 2009 One of a Kind Christmas Show!  Get your pencils ready…here are the details.  Your submission must:

• fit within a 10″ x 10″ square
• be ONE solid colour (ink and bag colour will be determined in the next few [...]
  

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Our pals at Handmade Detroit have launched a super pimped out new website, and to celebrate they are running a crafty contest for a whole whack of loot.   Here is but a small taste of it (see the post for the whole prize pack):

There are two ways to enter and win.

In their words :

1. For a chance at a DetroitGT shirt and some Handmade Detroit merch, simply go our contact page and sign up for the mailing list. Winners will be randomly selected and announced in the newly re-tooled [...]

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