Rubber Stamp Madness

Check out the Spring 2009 Magazine Issue of Rubber Stamp Madness to get some creative ideas on rubber
stamping project using some great tools and designs.

Be sure not to miss an article in the Spring 2009 issue called, "Waxing Beautiful" which tells about the
beautiful and fun art of encausticrafting using Suze Weinberg's Signature Edition Hot Wax Stylus from
Kandi Corp!

To view Kandi Corp's line of Hot Wax Art and to view a Hot Wax Art demo video,
go to: http://www.i-kandi.com/HotWaxArt-Encaustic-Art-Supplies.asp

To view our full line of the highest quality in embellishments, please visit us
at http://www.i-kandi.com/!

Kandi Corp Unleashed at CHA Winter 2009! Newsletter January 2009

Check out Kandi Corp's CHA Newsletter Edition for January 2009 at: http://www.kandicorp.com/Newsletter/cha.html

Be sure to print out the coupon located at the bottom of the newsletter for 10% off and bring it along with you! See you at CHA!

Hot Wax Artists Exposed!

We at Kandi Corp are very excited about the beautiful projects that are coming in from our Hot Stuff Artists! This will be a great year at the CHA with so many wonderful projects to show off using Hot Wax Art! We also want to thank them for their beautiful creativity!

Kim Parkinson is one of our Hot Stuff Artists and she just posted her work on her blog, go check it out at: http://www.itsjustmekim.blogspot.com/ !

Karlene-Frances Salyers is another great talent! You can view her work at: http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/21006309!

Cindi Bisson refers to HotWax Art as her newest obsession! You can view her creative and inspiring work and read her feedback on working with HotWax Art at: http://fatcatcreations.blogspot.com/

To view Kandi Corp's line of Hot Wax Art and to view a Hot Wax Art demo video, go to: http://www.i-kandi.com/HotWaxArt-Encaustic-Art-Supplies.asp

To view our full line of the highest quality in embellishments, please visit us at http://www.i-kandi.com/!

Creativity using Hot Wax Art

One of our talented Hot Stuff Artists posted some beautiful projects on her blog using Kandi Corp's Hot Wax Art. She is very creative and I think that people can get some great ideas for Hot Wax Art by viewing her latest designs.

Check out her blog at: http://alteredbelly.blogspot.com/

To view Kandi Corp's line of Hot Wax Art and to view a Hot Wax Art demo video, go to: http://www.i-kandi.com/HotWaxArt-Encaustic-Art-Supplies.asp

Fun Embellishment Ideas

Pack-o-Fun.com just had this very cute & creative "BFF" and "BE MINE" tank tops featured this monthin their magazine using a variety of Kandi Corp's product line. The "BFF" project is a pink tank top with three adorable hearts shaped using Kandi Corp's crystal Style Stencils and embellished with Kandi Corp's HotFix crystals. The "BE MINE" is another fun look using Kandi Corp's stencils, HotFix Crystals and HotFix Applicator.

The article gives you step-by-step instructions, go check it out at: http://www.pack-o-fun.com

You can view our full line of embellishment products at: http://www.i-kandi.com

Lacking Ideas? No More....

Kandi Corp is sponsoring and encouraging the creative spirit of 13 designers. They are using our sparkling Crystals and our Professional Touch Applicator to add the "pizazz" to their original card ideas. This is just so fabulous! Their blog shows a variety of cards using our products.

No person has the same idea....these 13 designers are sharing their creative inspirations, with all of you, helping you to brainstorm unique cards to mail or give to a friend or family, or perhaps even frame one. Create a beautiful original work of art just from you! Wouldn't that be a perfect holiday gift? Our Crystals give the look of elegance whether its a simple, classic style or one full of whimsy!

Check out and view their creativity on their blog: http://cardpositioningsystems.blogspot.com
And wherever you shop look for our products or order from our website: www.I-Kandi.com

Wax ...Not Just for Candles,,,It's Hot!!!!

Being a painter, I have always wanted to do abstract, modern art, but it isn't my style with a brush. Now I can, with the New Suze Weinberg's Hot Wax Stylus from Kandi Corp. This great hand-held tool replaces the small, travel type iron for melting wax to apply to paper or fabric It's so easy, even a beginner can create a masterpiece!

The Hot Wax Stylus has a great safety feature too, an on and off switch right in the handle, plus the design is ergonomically correct and is really comfortable in my hand. I can now create for hours!

I simply heat the Stylus for a couple of minutes. Once the Stylus is heated up I use Kandi's all natural Beeswax Pigments . I place the heated stylus tip on top of a block of Beeswax Pigment, sliding it around some or using one color on one end and another on the other end of the flat spade shaped surface, then apply it to a glossy finish paper. The designs create themselves! Awesome. No thinking, just playing. When lifting the tip,(the set comes with a large spade, a brush tip, calligraphic tip and a cleaning brush) the most unusual designs appear, like magic.

EncaustiCrafting

Check out Kandi's Hot Wax Art Video on When Creativity Knocks! http://www.whencreativityknocks.com/craft-and-hobby-episodes/videodirectlink-14.html Watch an ancient art tecnique made modern with fun new idea and projects.

Embellish Your Style with NEW Crystal Style™ Stencils for HotFix Crystals from Kandi Corp

Portland, OR (May, 2008) Kandi Corp, an industry leader in embellishments for crafts, has introduced Crystal Style™ stencils. Using Crystal Style™ stencils, it is easy to precisely apply hotfix embellishments to garments, paper crafts and other surfaces.

In 2004 Kandi Corp introduced a line of templates with designs for placing iron-on crystals. Those templates were very successful and continued to sell well for years. However, ultimately supply issues caused the line to be discontinued. Based on the success of those iron-on templates, Kandi Corp developed the Crystal Style™ hotfix stencil program. Crystal Style™ is a fun and easy new product line that can be used on any material including paper crafts, fabric and much more. Just fill in the holes in the stencil with hotfix crystals, pearls, or metals and your design is complete! Using Crystal Style™ stencils, the consumer is guaranteed perfect placement every time. These reusable stencils are made out of a heat resistant material that will not melt or burn.

The initial Crystal Style™ stencil program consists of twenty four original designs. New designs will be introduced on a regular basis. In combination with Kandi’s best-selling Professional Touch® HotFix Applicator and Kandi’s popular embellishments, the Crystal Style™ stencils program makes it fun and easy to add your personal style to your favorite garment or paper craft.

For additional information on Crystal Style™ HotFix Stencils and other Kandi products, visit http://www.kandicorp.com/CrystalStyle-HotFix-Stencils.asp

GET CREATIVE!

Check out this video on Hot Wax Art. http://www.kandicorp.com/HotWaxArt-Encaustic-Art-Supplies.asp It shows all about Hot Wax Art products as well as how to use each tip. It also shows fantastic samples used with Hot Wax Art.

Kandi Corp introduces EncaustiCrafting™ - a new Earth Friendly Craft

HOT WAX ART^®

Anaheim, CA (February 2008) Kandi Corp, an industry leader in embellishments for crafts, has introduced a new earth friendly craft. EncaustiCrafting is a modern interpretation of ancient encaustic techniques, using all natural beeswax pigments to draw or paint on canvas, paper, fabric and more. CHA response to Kandi’s new line was overwhelmingly positive.

The Hot Wax Art^® Program consists of the Suze Weinberg’s Signature Edition Stylus and Pure BeesWax Pigments. Using the Hot Wax Art^® Stylus, beeswax pigments can be applied to many surfaces for beautiful new effects. Typical uses include Encaustic Art, Home Dec, Cards, Scrapbooks, Fabric, Quilts and much more. The Hot Wax Art^® Stylus has an integrated on-off switch, universal voltage, as well as being ergonomically correct. The Stylus includes three tips: Calligraphy, Brush and Flat, as well as a tip cleaning brush. The Hot Wax Art^® program also includes Pure BeesWax Pigments which are all natural, non-toxic, and earth-friendly. Kandi’s Pure BeesWax Pigments comes in a variety of assorted colors, as well as solids.

For additional information on EncaustiCrafting and Kandi’s Hot Wax Art Program, visit www.KandiCorp.com/HotWaxArt-Encaustic-Art-Supplies.asp

A Happy Sparkly Holiday to All

At this happy time of year, we would like to wish all of our readers a very happy holiday. This is a wonderful time of year, a time for family, a time to enjoy the blessings of the season. Everyone at Kandi Corp wishes you a most happy and sparkly holiday. We will be back soon with more bling, more sparkles, more news from Swarovski, and many new and exciting products and projects.

Enjoy!

Palace Green Opal

Swarovski^® dreams up many colors of rhinestones. Palace green opal is one wonderful example. Palace Green Opal is the newest color crystal from Swarovski^®. It is a beautiful jade green opal color. Bling up your accessories, paper and fabric with this wonderful new color! www.i-kandi.com

BRASS IT UP!

How amazing is this bag? Kandi Corp sells these embellishments, which are called Brass It Up^™! You can order them at http://www.i-kandi.com/brassitup.asp They are fun embellishments that come in copper, brass, and pearl. They are so easy to apply. They are pre-glued and it takes seconds to apply with Kandi’s HotFix Applicators. Now you can buy plain accessories and bling it up! Besides fabric, Brass It Up^™ is also great on cards and scrapbook pages.

THE BEST STOCKING STUFFER

Okay. Are you ready for the best stocking stuffer ever? Kandi's Holiday Sparkle Set. It includes a portable battery operated applicator, holiday template and alphabet template, and 144 pieces of 3mm each clear, light siam, and emerald HotFix crystals. What could be a better gift for a crafter on the go? You can bling up anything anywhere!

Quilt Festival 2007

Quilt Festival Houston, Texas 2007 is over. What a great time and such a wonderful experience. There are no words for how amazing some quilts were. The time and effort put into creating such a piece of art was breathtaking. There were many quilts that had hotfix crystals embellished on them. The shine and sparkle that come from the crystals make the quilt have an extra spark and look that make it look much more beautiful and special. Now I really want to put crystals on everything.

At Quilt Festival, I attended the Bernina Fashion Show. Diamond Odyssey, the 2007 edition of the Bernina Fashion Show, was a colorful runway show of exquisite design, mastery of the sewing arts, and unique embellishments. Kandi Corp congratulates Starr Hagenbring and Judith Baer, winners of the Crème de la Crème and Viewers Choice awards, respectively. For the fifth year in a row, both awards were given to designers who incorporated Kandi embellishments in their garments. For 2007, over 2/3 of the designers in the Bernina Fashion Show selected Kandi embellishments for the perfect finish to their runway entries. Kandi Corp has been selected to provide high fashion embellishments to the designers selected for the 2008 Bernina Fashion Show, Rendezvous. Looking forward to next year!

Welcome to Crystal Impressions!

Welcome to the Kandi Corp blog! You're probably thinking what is Kandi Corp? Well, let me tell you. Kandi Corp imports, packages, and distributes an extensive selection of crystals, pearls, nailheads, and rhinestuds. Our product focus is pre-glued ready to apply embellishments, commonly called hot-fix iron ons. We also manufacture several Applicator Wands which have been specifically designed to apply these items to a wide variety of surfaces. While the products were originally intended solely for the world of high fashion, we have seen a surge of interest in them from many different crafting interests.

Our retail product packages are produced under three labels -- Kandi^®, L' Orna^® and Crystal Crafter^®. The Kand^® line is our general purpose line. L' Orn^® is reserved for the bridal market, boutiques, and specialty retailers and Crystal Crafter^® is geared toward fun, at-home craft projects.

We are going to keep you informed with fun products as well as great project ideas.

How do you use Embellishments?

We are always interested in new and creative ways to embellish our craft projects. Do you have a favorite t-shirt that you have embellished with crystals or pearls? How about a scrapbook page or card? Are you "edgy" or "safe"? This is your forum to share ideas, tips, or ask questions.