I am an avid paper crafter and hobbyist Close to My Heart consultant.  Close to My Heart is a stamping company that offers a variety of clear stamps, inks, patterned papers, alterable items, and other paper crafting accessories.  Clear stamps are a wonderful alternative to the traditional red rubber stamps.  They allow you to see exactly where the stamp with go and they are also much smaller for storage. I plan to host regular open crop nights for working on your current projects and I can demon …

Welcome to Art and Craft-tastic, where we celebrate the arts and crafts! Here new crafters mingle with seasoned artists and crafting professionals to share tips, learn or enhance skills, take and teach classes, and, most of all, have fun! If you enjoy knitting, crochet, paper arts, jewelry making, book binding, soap making, pottery, metal clay, wire wrapping, bead weaving, felting, drawing, painting, or any other art, this is the group for you to learn more about the craft or, if you're a profes …

Get your creative juices flowing at Craft Labs in San Francisco. Embellish your wardrobe or your home with unique custom crafts designed and made by you! All classes are held in a sunny artist’s studio space located in the Mission/Potrero Hill district, and taught by Susan Peterson, an artist and arts educator with more than 20 years of experience. Channel your inner craftiness with cool gadgets, jewelry, handmade books, paper, candleholders, wrist cuffs and cards. Feel good about yourself as yo …

Scrapbooking, card making, rubber stamping and other paper crafts. I invite you to join me if you love to craft (or just need a new hobby) and would like to learn new techniques to create beautiful, handmade things. No experience necessary! I'll have regular classes, workshops and get-togethers to satisfy your creative craving. I look forward to helping you unleash your CREATIVITY at my next meetup!

BiblioForge is a studio in Oakland that hosts book arts workshops and classes given by talented teachers in a variety of disciplines. Some traditional crafts as well as modern DIY and book arts disciplines. These will include bookbinding, mail art, calligraphy, lettering, paper crafts, lino and woodblock printmaking, maybe even letterpress printing. We'll also have history of the book classes where we visit rare book rooms and we'll feature out of town teachers with special subjects designed to …

Craft Flash Mob is a group that connects crafters and DIY enthusiasts of all ages with peers who like to do the same. This group is loosely based upon the idea of a flash mob, where people show up en masse to a location, participate in some (often unusual) activity, and then disperse. Crafting in coffee shops and cafes is a lot of fun to do with others and might be considered an "unusual activity" by some. So, join this group if you: are an adult over 21 years of age, have DIY/craft projects th …

Project Society is empowering makers, DIYers, crafters, artisans, tinkerers, etc... to come together and create and build crafting businesses. We are organizing meetups for individuals to demonstrate or instruct on how they craft, and people will be able to purchase the materials before or after to make that item. Or, crafters and makers can just come and mingle and make their own items. Host: Want to invite some friends or learn about something in particular? You can let us know, we'll find a …

This a group for anyone interesting in sketching or journaling in the South Bay places. Let's get outdoors and sketch whatever we are drawn to or an scheduled time to journal. Then we can meet at a coffee shop to go over our sketches or writings with no pressure to be good. Let's go out for the practice and the pleasure of the pencil hitting the paper. Looking forward to meeting anyone interested in joining these activities.

Welcome to Handmade Enthusiasts where we celebrate the arts and crafts while also making new friends and connections. At Handmade Enthusiasts, our group provides a great forum to learn new crafts, to try new arts and to explore the wonderful world of art and craft.  With our "sister" meetup group, Art and Craft-Tastic, we enjoy a wide variety of crafting courses including: Knitting and Crochet Felting Jewelry Making Beadweaving Wire Wrapping Silver Clay Riveting Collage Painting Sewing Chain M …

We gather in each other's homes to foster life-long friendships, while teaching each other how to make treasures from trash. Always $5 ~ ALL AGES WELCOME! ~ YELP REVIEWS:  http://www.yelp.com/biz/diamonds-in-the-rough-a-creative-cooperative-meetup-daly-city Past projects:   paper beads, records to bowls, earrings/bracelets/pins, clocks from objects, succulent living wreaths, coil baskets, shaggy rag rugs, no sew table runners, make a lamp, rain chains, starburst mirrors, garden candle lanterns, …

We are a group of gals (and guys, if there are any so inclined) who get together to make things and drink cocktails. We may be working with paper, paints, stamps, sewing, bedazzling, making small gifts or ornaments. During or after our craft-making we can enjoy a hand-crafted cocktail! Whatever our craft, the cocktail will match!  Drinking cocktails is not a requirement to be a part of the fun!

This is a group for us ladies who want to craft. Crafting being: knitting, crochet, polymer clay, decoupage, screen print, scrapbook, and on and on and on. I like to keep the craft groups small (3-6 people) due to space in my home, but if there is a growing demand I may be able to find a space to rent for each night. There will always be snacks and you are encouraged to bring something to share and something to drink... wine is fine! Please join us on facebook to suggest any crafts that you wou …

This group is for people who enjoy drawing, painting, sculpting, crafts, or any other creative pursuit. To be surrounded by creative minds while bouncing ideas off of each other. Any medium is welcome, including animation, visual development, graphic design, comics, manga and writers. Industry professionals welcome and encouraged to join. All levels welcome. Join as a student or as a Mentor. Everyone who is 18 and up is welcome!

Do you want to cosplay but are running into one of the following problems? No experience, no skill, no confidence, no one to cosplay with or not a whole lot of cash? Well, I noticed that there weren't any cosplay groups in the East/North Bay and I thought that it would be fun to start one myself! I'd love to get together with some like-minded people who love to cosplay! I like to work with all kinds of materials and try new things. We would be able to have crafting parties, create cosplay troupe …

Members of the Scrap-a-holics group have shown an interest in creating clubs to collect Stampin' Up! products in a more cost effective way. Each month I will hold rotating Clubs, ie. Ribbon Club, Marker Club, Paper Club just to name a few. In this way you can get the products you crave, on a monthly plan. To get the hostess of each club the most free product, all clubs are set up to reach the minimum of $150.00 Workshop total. Remember when it is your turn to be hostess, and you have been …

Meet other local individuals in the Antioch area who enjoy rubber stamping and paper crafting. Share ideas and bring projects to work on and enjoy good conversation, inspiration, and fun! Also come learn about Stampin' Up and all of their wonderful products (no obligation to buy anything). Come to a meetup to swap techniques for preserving your treasured moments, share keepsakes, trade tips on page layouts, and card ideas!

This is a group for anyone who is interested in being creative and enjoying evenings of making cards or working on your scrapbooks! All levels are invited and our group enjoys meeting new people with different creative ideas!

**Our events are hosted in Los Altos, San Jose (by Valley Fair), Santa Clara, Sunnyvale & Mountain View area, let us know if there are other location where it can accommodate large group of crafty ladies!! ** Meet other local Card Makers, rubber stampers and crafters. Making your own greeting cards is fun and easy, especially when you do it with a fun group of people. Gather, make cards, learn new techniques, try new projects, and have fun! Make new friends and have a good time with old friends …

The Origaminizers is a visionary collective that sees the world through a lens of folded space. Join us to discuss, create and invent outside of the grid, the cube, and matrix. We build anything with the music of the spheres, using point's, peaks and valleys. Our world is modular, organic, recyclable and always in motion. Are you a mechanical engineer with exotic linkages? ...an architect with non-Cartesian constraints? ...an artist with kinetic visions? ...a biologist with a knack for steering …

A creative bunch of folks who love Scrapbooking, Cardmaking, Stamping, DIY and whole lot more. This is co-creative group with a open calendar for meetup suggestions. Let the fun begin!

Hi, my name is Noey and I've been an avid Cricut user for about 5 years.  I have owned a Cricut Expression for most of that time and just recently upgraded to a Cricut Expression 2.  I also have a Gypsy. Please join me in getting together once or twice a month to share our Cricut experience and creativity!   It's great being social and I think it's motivational to see what everyone else is working on. Anyone is welcome to host or we can coordinate to meet at crops at the various local scrapbook …

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This is a group for anyone who has ever been curious about how to make a book. Whether you're a writer who wants to bind your own books, an artist who wants to create unique pieces, a photographer wanting to create an anthology of your work, a crafter who wants to learn new skills. Based out of the San Francisco Center for the book, this group will also be a resource for Bay Area materials, workshops, events, exhibition and fairs.

Many people want to express their creativity but haven't found the right outlet. Sound familiar?  Then this is the place for you! Fun, supportive environment, this meet-up is held at my studio located at 2231 Winchester Blvd. Campbell, 95008. The studio is crammed with tons of hand-made papers, paints, canvas, glue, fabric, string, found objects...anything you need to express yourself! Work on a specific project (see examples below) or do your own thing after a short tutorial about how to use th …

Ever have one of those days where you just feel like you're trudging through? Where everything feels "off" and you'd be happy just to crawl back in bed and try again tomorrow? These days happen to all of us and they're the Universe's way of telling us to take a break. Think about it: we are constantly moving about in high gear.... Between our jobs, the kids, the carpool, the spouse, the house and everything else that falls in between, there's very little time left to just "be". But it's extrem …

Art Journaling can be a catalyst for self-expression and reflection a way to give shape and form to the words, symbols and images that are part of one’s chronicled story. Carve some time to nurture yourself and free your creative spirit. No art experience necessary! Brief tutorial and guidance provided, emphasis will be on the creative process, loosening up and losing yourself in paper and art supplies. A safe and nurturing space will be created for all to explore and come out and play, particul …

This is a group for those who enjoy getting together with other Scrapbookers and PaperCrafters and spending time working on projects and sharing ideas. I love to see what others are working on. I host workshops and crops for scrapbooking, card making and other papercraft projects. Once a quarter I host day of card making for Operation Write home, a group that supplies home made cards to our deployed troops. Most fun of all....I am part of a group of ladies who host a 3 or 4 day scrapbook retreat …

Hi! I wanted to start a group for all the people out there who are interested in learning to live a frugal, sustainable, self suffiecient type lifestyle in the Bay Area! I like to coupon, but have found that I want to clean out the chemicals in my home, use less paper goods, and learn how to garden organically in a small space, and perserve the fruits (wink) of my labors! I am a crochet and crafting person, so I'd also like to get together, with anyone interested, and do projects that center aro …