Crafty Ass Female

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

208 episodes of Crafty Ass Female since the first episode, which aired on December 13th, 2017.

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    Episode 128: Find Your Voice

    May 18th, 2020  |  Season 6  |  51 mins 50 secs

    You are an amazing human and you’ve got amazing stories to tell. Learning how to tell those authentic stories starts with figuring out who you are as the storyteller. Kristin’s six week course FIND YOUR VOICE calls us to learn more about ourselves, what we love, and the things that drive us to tell our own stories. This is the episode all about it!

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    Episode 127: Hanging w/ Lauren Hooper

    May 11th, 2020  |  Season 6  |  55 mins 56 secs

    Today on the podcast we are thrilled to bring you Lauren Hooper, crafter, adventurer, and storyteller. She has been living overseas with her husband and pup for 6 years and has created a career out of creativity and adventure. She co-founded the Get Messy Art Journal program and now she runs Radiant Art Retreats, hosts the podcast How She Creates, teaches online courses for creatives at lauren-likes.com, and is currently redesigning her popular travel art journal which will be available this spring. Her work explores the intersection of art, travel and good in the world.

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    Episode 126: Life Love Paper w/ Tina Aszmus

    May 4th, 2020  |  Season 6  |  53 mins 26 secs

    Today on the podcast we are thrilled to bring you Tina Aszmus, who runs the design studio LifeLovePaper.  Tina designs and illustrates memory keeping products, having designed for Studio Calico and the Kelly Purkey Shop. She currently freelances and provides digital shop items as well as special paper mailings which include limited edition screen prints, zines and stickers. She lives in Anchorage, Alaska with her husband, son and a very loved dog.

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    Episode 125: Picture Home w/ Tracey Clark

    April 27th, 2020  |  Season 6  |  57 mins 36 secs

    Today on the podcast we have Tracey Clark, a freelance writer, photographer, and mom of two nearly grown up girls. She’s the creator of The Picture Series, founder of Shutter Sisters, and her communal photo project Picture Home starts May 1st. Tracey enjoys sharing insights and inspiration through online classes and gatherings and events nationwide and believes that perspective—and love—changes everything.

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    Episode 124: Lettering & Living a Life to Love w/ Heather Spooner

    April 20th, 2020  |  Season 6  |  1 hr 11 mins

    Today on the podcast we have Heather Spooner, a full-time hand lettering artist, muralist, and educator. She owns Ampersand Lettering Lab, in Traverse City, Michigan. Heather works with a variety of of mediums to create original hand lettered art for print, mural installation and various freelance projects. She lives with her wife in Northern Michigan.

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    Episode 123: Getting in Front of the Camera w/ Jennifer Thompson

    April 13th, 2020  |  Season 6  |  58 mins 32 secs

    Today on the podcast we have Jennifer Thompson - wife, mother, and creative soul. Jennifer is a fellow Michigander and lover of sarcasm and humor. She enjoys paper crafts, memory keeping, bible journaling and DIY projects. Her job in sales and event coordinating plays to her strengths: talking to people and making sure things are organized and in order.

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    Episode 122: Cabin Fever & Our New Normal w/ Joy Frame

    April 6th, 2020  |  Season 6  |  59 mins 35 secs

    Today on the podcast we have Joy Frame, from Northern Michigan, where she currently works as a social worker. She aims to open Cabin Fever Coffee and Play House in 2020. Cabin Fever offers families an opportunity to grow, play and engage in play in a clean and bright environment. Cabin fever will offer song and play classes for parents and children to attend, open play hours and space rental for family friendly events.

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    Episode 121: Your Day by MK Anderson

    March 30th, 2020  |  Season 6  |  1 hr 1 min

    Today on the podcast we have MK Anderson, who graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a political science degree in 2017 and then immediately opened her own wedding and event planning firm! She produces 15+ weddings a year all over the Chicagoland area, Notre Dame, Minneapolis, and more!

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    Episode 120: Season 6 - Resilience

    March 23rd, 2020  |  Season 6  |  1 hr 2 mins

    A + K start off by exposing the elephant in the room: we’re QUARANTINED. We’re all at home, things are rapidly changing, and we’re all doing our best amongst all of it. We’re happy to be in season 6 - with over half a million downloads under our belt - and we’re happy RESILIENCE is the lens through which this season will be viewed through.

    Amanda talks about how she plans to be resilient for the next 100 days at home in quarantine, and Kristin talks about falling into the ‘I’M FINE’ trap and how you have to make sure you’re taking care of yourself.

    The girls also discuss how RESILIENCE will be showing up in the form of redefining what expectations are realistic and unrealistic for each of us.

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    Episode 119: Botanical Art w/ Adriana Picker

    March 16th, 2020  |  Season 5  |  54 mins 13 secs

    Today on the podcast we are thrilled to bring you Adriana Picker, a New York based, Australian born Illustrator and author, with a lifelong passion for for botanical illustration, and for the real thing - flowers and plants.

    Petal - A world of flowers through an Artist’s eye will be published in April 2020 and is Adriana’s fourth book to date. A compendium of illustrated floral wonder, Petal reveals the colours, details and unique sculptural beauty of nature’s most remarkable creations and features over 200 flowers from 27 plant families.

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    Episode 118: New Wave Crafting w/ Amber Kemp-Gerstel

    March 9th, 2020  |  Season 5  |  54 mins 54 secs

    Today on the podcast we have Amber Kemp-Gerstel Amber Kemp Gerstel, the founder and creative director of Damask Love: a creative lifestyle blog all about doable DIY. In 2018 Amber Kemp-Gerstel was a finalist on NBC’s Making It, you can find Amber on Disney+ as the host of their new, original show Disney Family Sundays.

    You can also find Damask Love products at Office Depot and JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores or take a dive on the creative side with her newest venture YayDay Paper Company - a digital subscription service offering delightfully designed stationery, craft projects and planner goodies that you can print from home.

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    Episode 117: Being @KELLOFAPLAN w/ Heather Kell

    March 2nd, 2020  |  Season 5  |  48 mins 34 secs

    Today on the podcast we are bringing you #plannerbabe Heather Kell. Heather Kell is a content creator who combines her passion for teaching with her love for creative planning. She uses both her YouTube channel and Instagram account to teach others how to plan a life they love! Heather lives just outside of Fort Worth, Texas with her husband and their two dogs.

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    Episode 116: Awesome Ladies Live 2020

    February 24th, 2020  |  Season 5  |  57 mins 56 secs

    The fourth annual Awesome Ladies Live Feminist Scrapbooking Retreat hosted by our very own Kristin 'rukristin' Tweedale will be taking place in her home town of East Lansing, Michigan the weekend of July 24th - 26th, 2020. It is AWESOME! There are LADIES! ...and we craft together LIVE! This epiosde is all about it!

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    Episode 115: A+K Discuss Color

    February 17th, 2020  |  Season 5  |  50 mins 23 secs

    In this episode, A + K talk about COLOR! As a kid, choosing a color out of the crayon box was one of the the first things we had agency over.

    Amanda + Kristin talks about the magic of COLOR and different ways we work color int our worlds.

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    Episode 114: Pieces of Us, Ali Edwards' Self Portrait Challenge

    February 10th, 2020  |  Season 5  |  57 mins

    Sometimes a creative community challenge comes along at just the right time that gets a crafty ass female excited to take pictures, share content, and have a load of fun! ENTER: Ali Edwards’ PIECES OF US, Self-Portrait Adventure!

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    Episode 113: Snail Mail Superstar Author Sara McNally

    February 3rd, 2020  |  Season 5  |  1 hr 1 min

    Constellation & Co uses the power of words and the magic of snail mail to connect people and make us all feel less alone. Sara is the author of The Year I Became Snail Mail Superstar, a memoir about the importance of handwritten correspondence, feeling our feelings, and making peace with grief.

    When Sara’s not working at the shop, she’s sending snail mail to her loved ones, lusting over stationery and fountain pens, admiring her jungle of houseplants and spending time with her husband and son.