Review & Giveaway: Totally Creative online
November 9, 2009 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Book & Magazine Reviews, Contests
Totally Creative magazine is a relative newcomer on the scene, but I think it already shows a lot of promise. The sample issue that I saw contained articles by several artists whose work I know and love, including the fabulous Barbara Matthiessen, who wrote an extensive tutorial on creating multi-layered surface design effects on fabric. I also found an article by my friend Beth Wheeler, who shared a felting project.
So what you’ll find are professional designers, whose names you’ll know from other magazines and books, who’ve created projects in all different media and for all different skill levels. Sound interesting?
There were no wearables in this sample issue, but there may be some in other issues. Covering a wide variety of craft media, the issue that I saw was organized around the season and its holidays. There are projects to do with the kids, lots of home decor and gift ideas, a book and a product review, and a directory of online resources to help you actually be able to make the projects. There are many fabric projects that could definitely be enhanced even further by your beading skills!
***FREE STUFF ALERT***
So here’s the giveaway: leave a comment below, telling me what your favorite craft or art form is besides beading, and you’ll be entered for a chance to win a free subscription to Totally Creative for a year! That is six issues, altogether 
Next week, I will be randomly drawing a winner!
I like textiles – sewing clothes or things for the house; embroidery; art textiles; and especially wearable art textiles. One day maybe I’ll start getting textiles into the jewellery I make too.
I love working with wire, paper and clay – there is so much to learn…and every week brings more things to try!
put me in please. I love to sew and crochet. Mag looks interesting!
I love all crafts, from painting watercolor to glass art and mosaics. When I when the Power Ball, I will quit my job and stay home and do crafts 24/7, LOL
My go to when I’m not making jewelry is sewing! I’ve been sewing for well over thirty years, so when the jewelry muse is not talking to me, I move over to my sewing machine and fabric stash.
Any knid of surface design on fabric: dyeing, painting, stamping, discharging, etc.
Wow, so many! I love to crochet and dabble in embroidry as well. Many others. This magazine will give me even more ideas! Thanks for the review!
What a great opportunity, thank you. I love working with polymer clay, sewing and cardmaking. There’s never enough time for everything.
Hugs
Paper has been the most inspiring material for me. But painting, collage, knitting and calligraphy feed my creativity always. I agree with Sonja, never enough time.
I live to crochet,knit,and make Quilts the book would be an addition to my growing library thanks would love to win it
I’m into Watercolor, Acrylic, Card Making & Stamping, Crochet, Charcoal, Pen & Ink Drawing & Calligarphy. So many interests so little time to explore. The subscription would offer me information and keep me up to adate on so amny of these interests and ALL In ONE subscription, that would be AWESOME!
Sherry
I love to sew and make things with polymer clay.
I do a little bit of everything, including making art cards with hand painted papers and embellishments crafted from shells that I pick up on the beach.
i look forward to reading product reviews–times are tight and I don’t like wasting money experimenting with products that aren’t what they claim to be.
Hmmm, there are so many…but I guess I’d have to say sewing is my second favorite craft. I am a beginner, but I find fabrics wonderfully exciting.
I’ve been an avid crocheter for over 30 years and just starting to quilt as well. Each new grandchild that enters the family gets a baby quilt. The newest will arrive in February so I’m currently shopping for blue flannel!
There are not many forms of art I do not enjoy. However after beading / jewelry I probably do ceramics and clay the most. When I moved off campus in college I made myself a ceramic set of dishware to use rather than going out and buying it. I also made a bunch of ceramic tiles to make a mosaic on my coffee table. I couldn’t find the tiles I wanted for the design in my head, so I just made them.
Cyndi – Thanks for the review of Totally-Creative Magazine. Our next issue will be full of Gift-Making and Ornament projects; and more from the Disorganized Diva. Did you know there’s a FREE Trial issue for anyone who signs up for our TC eLetter at our website?
Good luck to all your contestants!
Patti Ryan
Editor, TC Magazine
After beading, I truly enjoy designing wearable art. But I also have many other interests in crafts.
I love papercrafting scrapbooking glass-painting using Magents peel-offs in interesting ways, and just about anything creative I get my hands on. Colleen
I love 3D paper-crafts. glass-painting using Magenta peel-offs in interesting ways, and just about anything creative I get my hands on. Colleen
I am an artist by heart in need of a boost to fuel my creative juices.
I love embroidery…felt…crochet.
I love to scrapbook, with pictures, or to create cards and home decor with scrapbook techniques. I’m also a big fan of cake decorating:-)
I love to crochet and scrapbook!
Felting and freeform crochet and weaving and spinning and crochet and knitting and rug hooking and latch hooking and rug braiding and embroidery and crewel work and … and … and … MORE!
-Perry-