**Our events are hosted in Los Altos, San Jose (by Valley Fair), Santa Clara, Sunnyvale & Mountain View area, let us know if there are other location where it can accommodate large group of crafty ladies!! ** Meet other local Card Makers, rubber stampers and crafters. Making your own greeting cards is fun and easy, especially when you do it with a fun group of people. Gather, make cards, learn new techniques, try new projects, and have fun! Make new friends and have a good time with old friends …

Get your creative juices flowing at Craft Labs in San Francisco. Embellish your wardrobe or your home with unique custom crafts designed and made by you! All classes are held in a sunny artist’s studio space located in the Mission/Potrero Hill district, and taught by Susan Peterson, an artist and arts educator with more than 20 years of experience. Channel your inner craftiness with cool gadgets, jewelry, handmade books, paper, candleholders, wrist cuffs and cards. Feel good about yourself as yo …

Craft Flash Mob is a group that connects crafters and DIY enthusiasts of all ages with peers who like to do the same. This group is loosely based upon the idea of a flash mob, where people show up en masse to a location, participate in some (often unusual) activity, and then disperse. Crafting in coffee shops and cafes is a lot of fun to do with others and might be considered an "unusual activity" by some. So, join this group if you: are an adult over 21 years of age, have DIY/craft projects th …

We will be building things together. So get your dream hats on and your crafty paws ready to make the greatest thing ever! We'll use power tools and raw materials to make awesome creations.

This group is for all ages.For men and women. The activities are:game night,camping,pubs,dining out,listen to live music,comedy shows,events,picnics,magic shows,fishing,boating,pool,bowling,minature golf,and arts and crafts,movies,and cannabis fun.You should join my group to meet other people,make a new friend and have an awsome time.

I am an avid paper crafter and hobbyist Close to My Heart consultant.  Close to My Heart is a stamping company that offers a variety of clear stamps, inks, patterned papers, alterable items, and other paper crafting accessories.  Clear stamps are a wonderful alternative to the traditional red rubber stamps.  They allow you to see exactly where the stamp with go and they are also much smaller for storage. I plan to host regular open crop nights for working on your current projects and I can demon …

We gather in each other's homes to foster life-long friendships, while teaching each other how to make treasures from trash. Always $5 ~ ALL AGES WELCOME! ~ YELP REVIEWS:  http://www.yelp.com/biz/diamonds-in-the-rough-a-creative-cooperative-meetup-daly-city Past projects:   paper beads, records to bowls, earrings/bracelets/pins, clocks from objects, succulent living wreaths, coil baskets, shaggy rag rugs, no sew table runners, make a lamp, rain chains, starburst mirrors, garden candle lanterns, …

What in olden times was a sewing circle has turned into a vibrant online community--BurdaStyle, SewWeekly, blogs... But recently I've noticed local sewists reaching out to each other to connect in more personal ways. Let's start our own sewing circle, have a swap meet, go to the Alameda flea market, share inspiration and techniques, or oogle fabrics at Britex! This is a San Francisco Bay Area meetup for all people looking to meet up with other sewers. Learn more about who we are and what we'd li …

Interested in a once a month get together to use some of that creative energy without the interruption of your household? Do you want to learn how to scrapbook or are already long standing scrapper? Then this group if for you! Let's meet, do a few make and takes and get a few hours in to SCRAP SCRAP SCRAP!

Would you like to meet people in your area who share your love for scrapbooking, card making and paper crafts? Or have you wanted to get started, but haven't had the time or didn't know where to begin? This group is for all scrappers and paper crafters in the Silicon Valley area. (Saratoga, Los Gatos, Cupertino, San Jose, Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Hollister etc. Really you can come from anywhere in the Bay Area!) Whether you are an experienced .. a beginner .. traditional scrapper.. digital scrapper. …

Bay Area Vendors & Artists (Teach, Sell & People Connection) plus business connection. Since alot of us are being layoff, been stuck on umeployement, got your last check and don't know what to do. Don't panic or stress out. There another mean of making money. If you just looking to make extra cash or a steady income or to start a small business and don't have the money for it. Well you are lucky today. Please read on. We are looking for Artists, Vendors, start-up business owner, crafty artists, …

If you do any kind of Embroidery or needlework you are most welcome. We will be meeting monthly often with organised workshops for you to perfect your current skills or learn a new one.

Have you bought or sold items on Tophatter? Do you enjoy hanging out in the live auction rooms? Join our real-world meetups to meet other local Tophatters or create your own meetup! You: a Tophatter seller, buyer or even admirer. A lover of all things, from art to jewelry, from vintage to comics, from handmade to wholesale. Awesome. Meetups: a way to meet fellow Tophatters. Learn new tips & engage in exciting conversations with like-minded people. Activities & general fun. How it Works: our staf …

Leather art created the old fashioned way. Use cow hides to create leather belts, journals, guitar straps, leather paintings and much more. Colors and dyes used allowing for the most unique artistic expression.

This is a group for anyone who is interested in being creative and enjoying evenings of making cards or working on your scrapbooks! All levels are invited and our group enjoys meeting new people with different creative ideas!

Project Society is empowering makers, DIYers, crafters, artisans, tinkerers, etc... to come together and create and build crafting businesses. We are organizing meetups for individuals to demonstrate or instruct on how they craft, and people will be able to purchase the materials before or after to make that item. Or, crafters and makers can just come and mingle and make their own items. Host: Want to invite some friends or learn about something in particular? You can let us know, we'll find a …

Join with other creative souls to do some beading! These are free fun social events so you can make space and time for your creative spirit and be a part of a creative community! Beading gatherings can happen in the Bead Inspirations classroom when there are not classes scheduled. Check our calendar for the latest information. Bring your own tools, rent them from Bead Inspirations for $1/tool, or borrow tools for free with a $20 minimum purchase. Bring your own materials, or buy what you need t …

This group is for ladies that love to either stamp, scrapbook, make cards or paper crafts. Even occasionally play with a little fabric. I love to be crafty and help to bring that gift out in others. I would love to craft with you and show you some techniques and maybe you can show me some too! This group is for anyone in the Oakley, Brentwood, Discovery Bay or Antioch area. Most Meetups will either be in Oakley or Brentwood at a Round Table Pizza or my home. If you would like to have a FREE in-h …

Let's get together and create something beautiful! All fiber artists (knitters, crocheters, beaders, sewists, those who enjoy tatting, weaving and much more) at all levels are welcome to work on anything they'd like.  Feel free to ask for help, offer help or work on a project of your own.  It's very much unstructured. Location: Starbucks @ 1752 Decoto Rd Union City, CA 94587 Date/Time: Once/month on Saturdays @ 6:30 PM.

This is a group for us ladies who want to craft. Crafting being: knitting, crochet, polymer clay, decoupage, screen print, scrapbook, and on and on and on. I like to keep the craft groups small (3-6 people) due to space in my home, but if there is a growing demand I may be able to find a space to rent for each night. There will always be snacks and you are encouraged to bring something to share and something to drink... wine is fine! Please join us on facebook to suggest any crafts that you wou …

We LOVE Pinterest and this group is all about actually MAKING things we are inspired by on-line. Each month will have a special theme and a board everyone can vote on the project they most want to work on during our meet-up.

We are a group of gals (and guys, if there are any so inclined) who meet once a month in Dogpatch to do a fun craft and enjoy a matching "themed" cocktail. We may be working with paper, paints, stamps, sewing, bedazzling, making small gifts or ornaments. During or after our craft-making we can enjoy a hand-crafted cocktail! Whatever our craft, the cocktail will match!

The Swap-O-Rama-Rama is a world-wide event that helps a community explore creativity and re-use through a clothing swap and series of DIY craft and sewing workshops. Erin Scholl and Jennifer Alexander are the local coordinators of this amazing and inspirational event and every year Swap-O-Rama-Rama gathers for the ultimate celebration of creativity at Maker Faire in San Mateo in May. This group is a way to keep it going year round, bringing people who are interested in sharing and learning ideas …

Formerly a Scrapbooking instructor, i am interested in starting a group that brings together like minded people to create paper arts and have fun doing it. Whether you have never scrapbooked, or are an avid scrapper, there is something for everyone. I will show you how to incorporate beading, fabric, paints, and more onto cards and scrapbook pages. Paper folding, mosaic techniques and so much more. The first class is free...come and see if its for you. The classes will be limited to 8 seats. Com …

Do you love the smell of fabric? Do you buy more fabric than you know what to do with? Have you ever been asked what you plan to make with the 40 yards of fabric you have just bought? Do you love to sew? Do you ever dream of sewing projects? Are you passionate about arts and crafts is dying to learn how to sew? If you answered yes to any of the above questions we want you! The idea is to get together somewhere in Redwood City, meet like-minded people, mingle, perhaps have a cocktail or 2 and sew …

This is a meetup for people who would like to work with clay & learn more about creative clay & handbuilding. I've been teaching for a no. of years in the bay area & Santa Cruz, to children & adults. I am an advocate for the creative process. Through lessons you will be encouraged to bring your own imaginations, ideas, inspirations for your own unique sculptures. From traditional pottery to more wild figurative sculputres. The possibilities are endless.

Figamarole is devoted solely to providing women with a inspiriational & relaxing setting to gather, socialize, learn, teach, & create. Classes and Events are held for Stitch n' Bitch, Sewing, Cooking, Jewelry Making, Paper Crafts, Gardening, etc. Studio space is available by table or room or downstairs classroom space for those looking for a place to get away with a group or individual use. Monthly calendars are posted on website www.figamarole showing upcoming happenings, history, and general i …

The Origaminizers is a visionary collective that sees the world through a lens of folded space. Join us to discuss, create and invent outside of the grid, the cube, and matrix. We build anything with the music of the spheres, using point's, peaks and valleys. Our world is modular, organic, recyclable and always in motion. Are you a mechanical engineer with exotic linkages? ...an architect with non-Cartesian constraints? ...an artist with kinetic visions? ...a biologist with a knack for steering …