Creative Crafting Uncles | By Suha
You heard it, UNCLES! Call all your men who have
been crafting behind the curtains and let them show up themselves proudly. You
see, we are so excited for many reasons; first, if you have a crafty husband or
boyfriend, then he understands your addiction. It is even better if he's
addicted. That might explain why he lets you buy all that stash! So why not
give him a big applause. I say, it is not enough if he doesn’t come forward clean
and say he loves crafting and that is where they should go,
Creative Crafting Uncles
Initial Start 15 January 2020
One brave man didn’t only announce his crafty
addiction, but also is the first to take the role to make something about it. And
when something crafty different happens, Swedish House Crafts is the first to
support!
“Creative Crafting Uncles, a new
challenge blog that will open its doors on 15th January 2020! The
challenges will be themed and only masculine projects are allowed. We like
to see all participants, no matter if female or male. The goal of the blog is
to get more males to the crafting table or let better say to show their crafts.”
Alexander Kretschmann, the founder and owner of Creative Crafting Uncles.
So the "Uncle of the Month" will be announced
Alexander Kretschmann
Since it is a brave step, we’re impressed by Alex
and since we are curious about how come this happened, I poured questions on him.
1.
When did you start
crafting and how did it come about?
As everybody I started crafting in
school. To be honest - this was not my world. For a long time, I did craft
nothing! When I met my wife, things changed slowly. I started with helping her
to decide colour combinations or embellishing. The next step was cutting
decoupage. Then I started with my first easy cards.
2.
Why did you decide to
start a blog and when?
Since December 2016 I have my own blog
to show my crafted projects. I decided to start it to step out of shadow and not
'only' be the man aside. And now I decided to have my own challenge blog.
3.
What obstacles did
you face during your crafting journey?
Obstacles? Myself! My wife has always
encouraged me to craft with her. My answer was always that I am to clumsy or I cannot
do this with my big hands and fingers. But
then we got the solution... tweezers!
4.
You encourage other
male crafters to join the community, why?
What
I want to show is especially that men can craft, too. I see a lot of challenge
blogs with female crafters but only a few with a male crafter in their team. I
like to encourage males to show their creative side and I want to
take it up with a prejudice. Being creative is nothing gay related and even
when you are - that is fine for me! We are living in 21st century - be what you
want to be!
5.
What would you like
to tell us “dominant ladies crafters”?
I have nothing special to say. I love
seeing all crafts. And when you look on my personal blog you can see that I
have no problem to show my soft and
female side. Same I hope to see the other way around. I hope to see a lot of
females showing their masculine projects on the blog.
We know the importance of getting family involved
in activities together, could be a sport, a dog walk, watching favourite tv, or
even eating at your favourite family restaurant. I can never imagine that men
don’t like creating using papers, cutters, stamping, colouring… just we’re
picturing all the time that crafting is for women, some businesses see it as
crafting is only for older women and those who doesn’t have anything else to do,
harsh to hear, but that is not how I see it. Everyone can create, we are born curious,
creative, imaginative creatures, but we grow to learn only “it’s just like that”.
It is wrong, let’s break this rule and tell the world that crafting is for everyone.
Get your man involved.
Well, just to let you know, Creative Crafting Uncles
Design team are creative men. They all share the same love to crafting like us.
Go, have a look at their work:
Creative Crafting Uncles Design Team
There are some fabulous names in the team, but let's keep that to Alex to introduce. I can just say, welcome gentlemen to our crafty world. You certainly will inspire us.
Sponsorship
Continuing celebrating our 3 years and after all we have said above, Swedish House Crafts is
the official and only sponsor for CCU 2020. The 12 months of 2020 will be
crazy, I know, we’re very excited about it and we’re not only being sponsors
for another challenge blog, but the ONLY challenge blog that is dedicated to male DT creators! That is unique and special.
So ladies, grab the remote control off hubbies hands,
take them to your crafting table, and make them craft, let them get crafty and join Alex!
Join the challenge starting 15 January 2020, and the first "Uncle of the Month" will be announced in February 2020 due date. Looking forward for some exciting times.
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