Valentines Day Give Away Item One.

Just one of the items you could win!

Valentines Day Give Away!!

On my twitter I am doing a give away! my goal is to hit 1000 people before the 14th of February.

My Twitter!

I will be giving away 2 peaces of jewelry that are not even in my shop at the moment. This is a  Valentines Day give away.

Here are the rules:

1. I must have hit 1000 people on twitter or Instagram.
2. You must be a follower before the 14th of February.
3. Leave a comment on this blog/twitter/or Instagram account letting me know you want to be entered in the drawing.
4. Tweet this post (just once) and use the tag #christinecreates  @christin3creats on twitter.
5. Absolutely NO privet accounts OR give away accounts.
6. Must be 18 years or older.
7. The is open to the USA (ill do another one open world wide very soon) 

Thank you for joining and Good Luck!!

~xo~ Christine. 

Favorite Shops to buy from!

I have been thinking about my favorite shops to buy from and I came up with 2 lists.

My favorite shops in person (walk-in) and my favorite online shops!

Favorite Shops In Person (walk-in) 

1. Michael's Crafts store.  Every time I walk in I know that this shop will have most of the items I need or want for my new projects. 
2. Joann's Fabrics store.  This is one of my favorite shops to buy inexpensive yet very nice fabrics. 
3. Hobby Lobby. I love when I walk in and I instantly get ideas. Great prices as well
4. Thunderbird beads. This is a buy in bulk type of store. They have a lot of findings, jewelry making supplies. I get most if not all of my seed beads here.  

 
Favorite Online Shops

1. Beadaholique. They have amazing projects. Great customer service as well. 
2. Fire Mountain Gems. I absolutely LOVE this shop. It has a lot of great prices and so many charms, crystals, and projects if you need something new. 
3. Amazon. You read right I like Amazon for all my crafting needs. I like how they have so many items to choose from in bulk. If you want bulk go to Amazon.
4. Mold Muse on Etsy. They have a lot of good quality molds and the customer service is great too.
5. Blue Goat Studio on Etsy. Another great quality mold shop. 
6. DGBootique on Etsy. This shop has a lot of ribbons, Gothic type items. Great shop! 
7. Delish Beads on Etsy. I have bought a lot of my findings from this shop. Great customer service. 

My first few picks have amazing prices and coupons. I am fortunate for these shops to be here in my state. The online shops anyone who is interested just copy and past the names into google or etsy and you should be able to find them! I highly recommend each and every shop I mentioned in my post. They all have great customer service. I am NOT a sponsor nor am I accepting any thing from these shops. I just really like the quality of items that I bought and wanted to give them props!!
Oh and you can google any of my top 4 too if you want.

I hope you enjoyed today's blog!
~xo~ Christine

Website!

I went ahead and made a website of a few items that will be in my store this coming year!

I hope you all check it out!

~xo~ Christine

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Tree of Life pendent

I have been working a lot with wire wrapping. I learned a lot from YouTube and got a lot of tips from my older sister on how to work with wire.
Just recently I made a Tree of Life wire pendent for my little sister.

 This it my very first ever handmade Tree of Life pendent.
Its not perfect, but I am happy with it.

I happened to make another one the next day.

This is my second Tree of Life I made.

The first one was made with wire, and glass beads. The second was wire, and sapphire seed beads.
I am happy with both of them and my little sister loved them. I gave both to her.

Have a great day everyone!

Christine Creates Items

Here are items that are in my shop!

Black Or Red Skull Rings! 

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Lady Of The Dead Brooch!

Red and seed bead Charm Bracelet!

You can find these in my shop and soon to be more! Happy shopping!!Christine Creates

Valentines Day!

I hope everyone has an awesome Valentines Day!

Don't forget to go shopping for that special someone, OR yourself!!

Christine Creates

Simple Jewelry

I have this black cording the same one I used for the Celtic braid that I did when I didn't have wire any ways.
I was thinking about making some simple necklaces with it. I had made some jump rings with some of the silver plated wire I bought and wasn't sure what to do with them.  Like I said in the begging of this post I have some black cording and thought it would be great to use it with the jump rings I made.
For the simple necklaces I would use the black cording one of the jump rings I made add some colored seed beads to the cording ( so it wont be so boring) and add the jump ring with a charm.

I have several charms left over from older projects and would love to use them. I have silver snow flakes, silver fairies, silver spiders, hearts, keys, a dragon, and other charms.

After I get this project done I will post photos of my work.

I hope you all have a great day!

My Shop!

Happy New Year! 2016

From 2012-2013 I wasn't a craftier and in fact I had very little interest in becoming one. I would even ask my sister (who is an incredible craftier) why she liked to craft. I was told that she loved it, that it made her happy and plus she was able to hand make gifts for people and a lot of people loved them over the gifts she would buy.

 In late 2014 I decided to give it a go and try to teach myself how to make bracelets. I had YouTube to help me and teach me new crafts. My first craft ever was a bracelet made from a zipper. That's right I made a zipper bracelet. I made one for myself, my niece and my two sisters. They liked them and so did I.

After the zipper bracelets I decided to try something a little more challenging like chain mail. I did a lot of chain mail bracelets. I did twisted chain mail and chain mail that had round pearls in it as if it were caged in the bracelet. I did a lot of those types of bracelets. I had so much fun with them. Then I decided to try out polymer clay ( oven bake) and molds. I have 7 molds and tons of polymer clay. I absolutely loved doing polymer clay. It makes me fell like a kid again!

I have several items I have made with polymer clay. I have done necklaces, bracelets, rings, brooches, and hair accessories. Then in 2015 I decided to try out spikes. I made a heart out of polymer clay and baked it off. It was about 2 inches long. I went ahead and added some spikes to the whole heart and turned it into a ring. Its my spiky heart ring! I love it.

Near the end of 2015 I decided to try working with wire. I have worked with 18 gauge, 20, 14 and so on. I absolutely love working with it. So far I have been able to make braided bracelets. I have also learned a lot though YouTube.

In 2016 I hope to of opened my mine and eyes to other crafts. I hope you enjoy and check out my shop! Christine Creates Shop