The Arty Crafter for all your craft ideas

Hi crafty creative people and welcome to The Arty Crafter website.

This is a site by creative people for creative people. My name is Kathy and I've been making things for as long as I can remember. I've trained and worked as an apparel designer and pattern maker, I've studied screen printing and metal jewellery making and trained as an Art Clay Silver instructor and my work room at home is constantly full of my on-going projects.

Having spent so many years creating, I have always been frustrated by how hard it can be to get my hands on the products I want to create my masterpieces. The arrival of the internet has been a godsend and I spend hours on line searching for interesting new things.

However, buying from lots of sites is time consuming and the postage can really add up. Therefore, I have decided to get together some of the products that I think are really great to market and sell them from a New Zealand based website.

The aim of this site is to make creating your masterpieces easy and fun. I have tested all the products myself and I have created project sheets using the products available on the site to help inspire you. I have also gathered some of the best craft books around (in my opinion) and they are also available for sale to you.

Also, I'd love to hear from you, your questions, comments and advice for myself and other site users is invaluable. I love to talk with other crafters about their work and to share inspiration, tips and advice.

Always on the look-out for a new craft to indulge in, I have started cake decorating. I really enjoy the ability to be whimsical and colourful with cakes - and the materials are relatively cheap!

It is early days for me yet so I am still teaching myself techniques by reading lots of books. The cow on this cake is a design my Maisie Parrish who has some fantasic books available.

Check out the gallery for a few more of my early attempts.

I have been playing with fused glass and Art clay silver quite a bit lately.