""Why
compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world
can do a better job of being you than you."
~Susan Carlson
Enjoy being YOU today...that is what we love about you!
Eva
Berg of Christiana, Tennessee reports she is having great fun needle
felting hats
with our Needle Felting Hat Forms. She used the Medium
Form for this lovely hat.
We love the scalloped edges and matching flower!
*Our felting foam is on sale this weekend...
take an ADDITIONAL 25% OFF
the current sale price! Use code FOAM25 @ check out.
As
always, we wish you happy felting, and let us know if you have any questions
or need any support by emailing us at customer
service@livingfelt.com
With
Love,
Marie
It's a great
weekend to save!
SAVE BIG on Earth Harmony Needle
Felting Foam,
and YES, the 25% OFF is in addition to the current sale price!
There are still a few days left to pre-order our fabulous
new line of felting wool: MC-1™
Merino Cross Felting Batts!
The color gradations will give you a wonderful palette to work with,
and the batts are smooth, uniform, easy to handle and easy to felt!
(sale ends Sunday at Midnight...hurry!)
Lisa Schmidt of Murray, UT wins a $25 Gift Certificate
for her sweet Dancing Bear Photo shared on facebook!
To
create a little darling similar to this, try our
Needle
Felting a Bear Kit to learn how to make your own
string jointed bear, use our Merino Cross colors:
SAND
for the body, CAMEL
or TOFFEE
for the ears,
and TEAK
for the nose.
You
can get all of these colors in our EARTH
TONES PACK,
and also pick up an extra DETAIL
PACK complete with glass eyes,
floss, thread and a doll needle.
...visit
facebook
to see even more great pics by our mutual felting friends,
and send us your pics to be featured on our blog,
in our newsletters,
and the Living Felt Website. Your pic might even make the home page!
How to Submit Your Photos
,
we need clear, crisp photos
-- Please send the best photos you can! :)
More Felting Friends Pics on the Blog!
Living Felt Friends on Facebook
How FIRM should
your needle felting be?
We call it "well done" to "very well done"...watch
this little
video
to learn how to gauge your needle felted sculptures.
The LIVING FELT
2nd Annual International Felting Contest!
The
LIVING FELT International Felting Contest promotes
quality in craftsmanship, creativity and the uniqueness
of self-expression within a particular theme.
There are two categories you may enter.
Download
Entry Form and Complete Guidelines
Felted Doll Category:
Create an Art Doll of Your Design
Wet felt or needle felt a doll of your own design.
The doll
can be human or fantasy, and must have at least head,
and hands made from hand-made felt.
Puffeena, by Lyn Cooper (doll category)
See
last year's amazing entrants here
Download
Entry Form and Complete Guidelines
Theme
Category: Seuss~pirations!
(Inspired by Dr. Seuss)
Oh! The things
you'll felt! Within
the theme you may create 2D or a 3D creation,
it can be a sculpture, a doll, a functional item, a purely decorative
item,
a wearable...you name it!
For our Seusspirations category this year, we encourage you
to make up your own unique beings inspired by the Good Doctor.
Awards & Prizes:
1st
Place Winner in each Category:
* $250 Gift Certificate
for Living Felt *
* promoted on Living Felt website & publications *
* featured in Art Doll Quarterly Magazine *
* Certificate and Ribbon *
2nd
Place Winner in each Category:
* $100 Gift Certificate
for Living Felt *
* promoted on Living Felt website & publications *
* appear in Art Doll Quarterly Magazine *
* Certificate and Ribbon *
3rd
Place Winner in each Category:
* $50 Gift Certificate
for Living Felt *
* promoted on Living Felt website & publications *
* Certificate and Ribbon *
Download Entry Form and Complete Guidelines
Some of the most outstanding creations will
be
showcased in ART DOLL Quarterly!
SEE
THE ARTICLE
FEATURING 2010 CONTEST WINNERS
To share this contest
with your online groups and felting friends,
simply point
them to this page, or tell them to go to our website
and click on Win! at the top of the page!
Join us on facebook, and become a
friend
of LIVING FELT where you can upload your felted creations for
all to enjoy!
Sending My Blessings,
Marie Spaulding
www.LivingFelt.com
~ Act on Your Inspired Ideas!
P. S.
On behalf of all of us here at Living Felt, I thank you for
your letters, emails, pictures, and facebook posts. We truly love hearing
from you, receiving your echoes of joy at tapping into your Inner Creativity,
feeling the wonder and exhilaration of expressing from your heart. All
of us here read your notes, and we all give thanks that we can be of service
in lighting up that brilliant, brilliant light within you, and reminding
you that it was with you all along.
Enter to Win!
and see your creation
in
Art Doll Quarterly Magazine!
2011
International
Felting Contest
Last Week's Newsletter
Summer Felting Fun + Felted Soap Tutorial
Over
250 people have registered from 15 countries to
create a circle of Peace Felt around the world...there is still time
to participate!
www.peacefelt.org
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Felt on Facebook
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