Meet our Newest Team Members

A big Plush Team welcome to the new plush artists joining the Team this quarter!

Joining us all the way from Patagonia, Chile is Daniela of Nuff Nuff Toys with her adorable mini plush creations like this one:

 Nichol of Pink Cheeks Studio hails from Indiana, where she creates wonderful mustachioed men among other plush goodies:

and Jen of Zooguu in Massachusetts, who makes all sorts of great plush like this super cute Fugu fish:

Welcome aboard Ladies! :D

Plushteam's Spring Challenge - Plush Art

Spring has sprung and so has a new challenge from the Plushteam!

Leeanna of PlushGoodness and Anne-Claire of HibouDesigns have been listening to their team members' desire to embrace their "artistic side" and came up with this idea for a challenge. It is titled:

"The Artful Stitch: Plush Art"

The members' guidelines were to create either A) a plush self portrait or B) a plush still life. The end result could be as literal or fantastical as they liked. The piece had to be made either as a 2D framed piece or as a 3D soft sculpture.

After lots of head scratching and hard work here are the entries submitted in both categories:

-Self Portrait category-

From top left to bottom: Eleventh Monkey, Happycloud Thunderhead, Fur Will Fly, Hibou Designs, and Yummy Pancake.

-Still life-

From top left to bottom right: Treacher Creatures, Prim and Plush, Plush Goodness, *Might, Raggy Rat, and Out of the Frame.

All the entries are pretty amazing (Find them in our Plushteam Etsy shop). Everybody really pushed the boundaries of plush making to explore the more uncharted territories of Plush Art. Mission accomplished!

We submitted these for a vote with our Plushteam members (since Leeanna and I organized the challenge we decided our pieces could not be voted on but we were very happy to make our own). The vote closed yesterday at midnight...

And now without further ado here are the winners....... drum rolls!

Self portrait category: Fur Will Fly

Still life category: *Might 

Congratulations to our winners!!!!!!!

They will both receive a signed copy of Mr. X Stitch's (Jamie Chalmers) fabulous book "Push: Stitchery"!

This was truly a great challenge! Leeanna and I thank you for participating and we are looking forward to many more challenges to come.

Go Plushteam!

Anne-Claire aka Hibou

A lovely Leap Day gift

 I'm so sorry for the lateness of this post. The Plush Team has been having trouble with our blog and I was having trouble logging in, but I think your patience will be worth meeting this lovely lady. 

She was a gift from our Leap Day exchange from Jen of FuzFrenzy. 

 Her hooded vest with bunny ears can be removed to show off her lovely dress. 

I think my favorite feature is her beautiful hair. It is plaited and mixes blues and purples in the brown. Such a lovely girl!

A plushy surprise

Hey gang! It's me Mary :) I too was so excited to be part of this years Plush Team Swap. Who doesn't love getting something fuzzy in the mail?

My new pal, which I've named George, arrived at my house with tons of goodies. Anytime FluffyFlowers is involved you know it's going to be an amazing, fluffy plushie. I feel he may need a brother in green someday! I must confess I find myself patting his head and smiling :)

OMG! There is a sloth in my mailbox!!!

I have been putting in some long hours at my day-job lately. After one particularly long day, I came home to find A SLOTH IN MY MAILBOX from Emily of Bluestar fuzzies!!!!!! It totally made my day!

Her name is Slothko, and just like me, she struggles with the demands of two disciplines - Art and Science. Ever since I was a little girl, I was in love with sloths. I have fond memories looking through our animal books and encyclopedia looking for pictures of friendly, happy sloths. They are such an interesting animal! They live most of their lives in the trees, only coming down once in awhile to poop.

Slothko is fitting in well at my house. Just today I caught her relaxing with her new freinds, McPuffypants and Guinness:

Thank you, Emily, for bringing this cute little sloth into my life ^_^

Leap Day present form eleventh monkey

This year is the 1^st year I join the team, and plush swap is mine 1^st join activities. It is fun and exited.

One day I received an envelope.  When I open the envelope, a red mouse is pop up from inside. He is just so cute and adorable. From the 1^st eye, I knew it is from eleventh monkey (http://www.etsy.com/shop/eleventhmonkey). Because he look so eleventh monkey, with her personality design, and the iconic big small button eye.

I named him as “eleventh mouse” and keep him with all mines plush together:) I appreciate team having this amazing activities, and Louana prepare this great mouse for me. 

Woot! My very own Sea Otter!

This adorable little guy was waiting for me when I got home last week; my Leap Day Swap from the fabulous Marcy of Moons Creations!

To make this swap even more fantastic, he came with 3 pieces of sushi, which just happens to be my favorite food:

I love his scruffy little muzzle, and how great is it that he can stand up on his own? It's all thanks to his tail of course. :D

Thanks so much for my Sea Otter, Marcy! I'm delighted to have him in my plush collection, especially since this is the closest I will come to having a real sea otter in my life. ;D
If you want to see more of the fantastic and utterly cute plush dreamed up by Moons Creations, check out her etsy shop!