We're a group of artists & crafters who met through our individual shops on Etsy. This blog, along with our Facebook Page, were created out of a desire to help each other flourish & gain recognition as well as to attract & showcase some of the truly beautiful handcrafted work other artists are creating.
Nine artists comprise and administrate the Creative Collective so far. We may consider adding more later, but for now while we iron out the wrinkles and get comfortable in this venture, nine seems like a good manageable number. The links to our individual shops and/or websites are in the right hand column and you can click HERE to read a short bio about each of us.
I'm Jak, and I'm the captain of this group, but there's very little steering to be done on my part. All of us share equally as admins on our Facebook Page, and although I'm writing this first blog, you'll see each Creative Collective member contributing blog articles along the way. Maybe you'll read about one of our favorite coffee shops, or our favorite recipes. Another member may share a relaxing bike ride to visit a museum. Or maybe someone will try to explain why they think art is so important in life and what compels them to create. We also hope to feature occasional guest artists and guest bloggers here as well. There's no formula for this, so we're just going to show you the things we do and love and hope that you like them too.
We're going to kick off our Fan Page grand opening with a couple of ideas we had that we hope will really WOW you. First, for a limited time, our new fans will receive 10% off of purchases in any of our shops. Just visit our shops, choose your favorite items, and enter promo code CCGO10 at checkout. You can see samples of our work with links to our shops in the photo section of our fan page. This offer will expire on April 30, 2011 and is only offered to fans of our page, so be sure to LIKE us when you visit.
AND.... (drumroll please!)
We're going to have a CONTEST for you fellow artists out there! If you create, you can enter. We think this is one way cool gnarly idea, so read on for how to participate...
Submit ONE photo that you think best represents your work to TheCre8tiveCollective@gmail.com no later than midnight on April 14, 2012. Use APRIL CC CONTEST ENTRY as your subject line. We will post all entries into an album on The Creative Collective Facebook fan page and voting will begin. Votes will be the number of fans who LIKE the image, and the photo with the most LIKES when the contest ends on May 5th, 2012 will be the winner. The winning artist will have their work featured in our next blog.
Entries for the contest start NOW! Be sure to share us with your friends and ask them to LIKE us so they'll be ready to vote once the photos are posted.
Click here to visit The Creative Collective on Facebook.
Thank you so much for checking us out!
~CPN JAK
