I crossed county lines to visit Oregon City last week so I could check out my friend Kathy Cano Murillo’s new Crafty Chica line at Michaels — so cool to see it in person!

She has a list of all the stores that carry it nationwide if you’re looking for it, too. It’s also on her site and on Amazon.

Here’s the rest of the display of her cool colorful stuff… I snapped up some fun things!

Here’s my favorite project I’ve made with Kathy’s Crafty Chica line — an embellished collage piece for my Day of the Dead altar (how-to here on CraftStylish).

I used her Crafty Chica paints, glitter, cards and glue (along with rhinestones and a small blank canvas) to make the collage — more about it all here.

I had one more cool friend’s-crafts-sighting at the store too:

Yay Amy! I wish I were in Seattle right now…