These white Nikes are painted with “Hope,” “Change,” “Yes We Can” and a variety of quotations and musings.

You can check out a color version over here.

Rachel gave us the heads up about these sweet Chucks that are for sale on Etsy right now. (We don’t normally feature for-sale items, but these are totally fresh.)

(Shout-out to Modern Craft for spotting this one.)

One of my favorite crafting blogs is Peacock Chic, so imagine my delight yesterday when this post popped up in my RSS reader. She made this necklace for her niece, using PhotoShop, some shrinky dink and spraypaint. Lucky niece. Apparently, it was a big hit at school.

Click on the picture above for Peacock Chic’s 365 Days of Photos post about Inauguration Day.

Iri5‘s beautiful portrait of President Obama is comprised of photographs documenting Barack Obama’s journey to the presidency. I love the way the photos blends together to create a really joyous expression in the face.

Nancy was kind enought to both convert Kathy’s design into all of the popular machine embroidery formats, as well as create a version of her own design with a “Yes We Did” tagline. For Kathy’s design, Nancy offers the following advice:

The finished design should be about 3”H x 2.5”W and approximately 57,000 stitches, so I would advise home embroiderers to use a good stabilizer and that this will take a little while to complete, but worth it, because it is a great item.

Right click here to download a zip file of both designs, in all formats.

And not to beat a dead horse, but I’ve got to remind you that, as with this first embroidery patterns, please do not use these files for commercial purposes. This is the honor system, folks, and we have to trust you here. This is design is not available anywhere else, and Kathy has provided it here on the Obama Craft Project site so that machine embroidery enthusiasts and Obama supporters can enjoy it for their own personal use. By clicking the download link below, you agree to these terms. Thanks for understanding.

When I saw this beautiful stencilled skateboard photo by STENZSKULL pop up in the Obama Craft Project flickr pool, I could hardly contain my excitement. You see, while I’m not a skateboarder myself (although I do own a sweet longboard that I can stay upright on, believe it or not), I believe deeply in supporting facilities for skateboarders, and eliminating the ridiculous anti-skateboarding laws which abound in many, many cities and towns across the U.S. Really, skateboarding is not a crime, and skateboarders are very often the victims of harassment and stereotyping. Skateboarding, like my other favorite sport of basketball, can be a very healthy, lifelong activity that is particularly special because its very nature encourages self-expression and creativity. I could go on and on, which wouldn’t be appropriate for this venue, but just think about this skateboard if you see a group of skaters and find yourself jumping to conclusions (as I used to do).

Anyway, on to the piece. It was created using Montana spraypraint and layers of stencils. It’s very impressive how much shading was achieving using this technique. STENZSKULLS created this awesome board for a contest sponsored by Coalition Skate Shop in San Luis Obispo, California.

STENZSKULLS will also be showing the above piece–created with multi-layer stencil work, wood staining, adhesived on stencil on paper then distressed and wood carving–at the Manifest Hope show in D.C., opening this weekend. I love this one because it really shows a moment of quiet introspection, completely different from the design on the skateboard.

Can you believe that inauguration is only a few days away? Wow!

Check out CubeCraft‘s fun paper toy, available for a free download–no glue required. You can download, cut and fold your very own using the free template right here.

Via Obama Art Report

It was announced this morning that President-Elect Barack Obama is Time‘s Person of the Year. (Was it ever really a competition?) Among Time’s many interesting features, is one on artwork created about Barack Obama. One piece was featured here on The Obama Craft Project prior to the election–Arty Magee’s “Change” in change.

(Does this mean we scooped Time? Hmmmmm…)

While we’d seen nearly every one of the pieces that was featured already, there were three works that we hadn’t seen before, and are certainly worth mentioning.

Udronotto‘s Barack Obama in Legos.

Zillycakes in Buffalo, NY made this Barack Obama out of 1,240 cupcakes.

And I can’t post it here because of copyright, but please do check out this newspaper mosaic from lumis. Time says that it was pieced together–although it may actually be digitized.

(Yes, we know… Not a “craft” really, but the bands are so awesome, we think they count!)

Yes We Can!