Kristine Mckay Designs

Tim Holtz

I Love Tim Holtz. I was so excited when I was asked to do a segment that show cased some of his products. Check it out!

My Craft Channel the first on-line Craft TV Network

My Craft Channel has been a personal mission years in the making. Crafting has been an important part of my life for many years. I was always creative, yet I never considered myself “crafty” until one day (many years ago), when my husband was in law school. I had a one year old, and another [...]

Paint Chips!

Paint Chip Galore! This was a tough challenge for me. I remember about 8 years ago this was all the rage. I realized how old I was when I was actually still around for a trend came back for a second time. Paint chips are great because they are realatively free . . . let [...]

Rope . . . A new Trend

Rope . . . typically I picture cowboys or some type of nautical setting. Neither one particularly my style. So, this Studio 5 challenge was kind of fun. It was interesting trying to come up with ways to carry out this trend with my style preference. Here are a few things I came up with. [...]

Shoe Embellishments

My Studio 5 assignment this month was to come up with some ideas for “shoe embellishments”. My first thought was the Bella Lane collection from Gimme Clips. These were actually made to be used as hair-clips. However, I LOVE using them for shoe clips, purse clips, broaches, and more! Check out this video to see [...]

Re-paint, Re-purpose, Re-pot

Right off the top I need to give a disclaimer: I AM NOT A GARDENER. In-fact, I pretty much kill anything I touch. So, the following ideas are for inspirational purposes only lol. Studio 5 asked me to put together some ideas for unique ideas for potting plants. So, here you go.

Drawer Pull Decor

This month on Studio 5 I was asked to take an “Inspiration Challenge”. I was shown several pictures and told to create a project using those photos as inspiration, I was actually really excited about this segment because I LOVE drawer pulls. It gave me a chance to experiment on an epoxy mold technique that [...]

Elegant Easter Eggs

My Studio 5 task this week was to do a segment on Easter eggs. I turned to my all-time favorite Easter Egg decorator Martha Stewart. She always has amazing ideas. I think my favorite one was the “silk dyed” eggs. Check it out.

Butterfly Trend

Before you watch this, just know that we were laughing so hard that we could barely talk. On the segment right before mine the guest told Darin (the short red haired male host) that he looked like a Leprechaun. It got us giggling uncontrollably. The only way we could get through the segment was to [...]

Do it yourself “vintage spool” decor

I love spools. I have collected them for years. I didn’t really know what I was going to do with them, I just knew that I liked them. So, you can imagine how excited I was when Studio 5 gave me this challenge. I had seen several cool pieces at Pottery Barn and Anthropologie and [...]