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Jodi Levine

Jodi Levine


Name: Jodi Levine
Job Title: Kids Editorial Director and Designer for Martha Stewart Crafts
Date started at company: October 1994
First story you worked on: Good Things, a handmade paper clip idea (which I made as bribes for my job interview here!)
Hometown: Queens, NY
School and Degree: Rhode Island School of Design, BFA, Painting
First Job: Teacher’s assistant at a cooking and crafts class for toddlers while I was in high school. I was in charge of potty trips!
Astrological sign: Libra
Personal crafting/artwork: making jewelry, crafting with food, making cards, invites, and little drawings and collages, and crafting and cooking with my kids, my etsy shop: jlevine.etsy.com
First craft memory: Making doll clothes with my mom out of my outgrown clothes (my favorite was a tiny sundress made from my old corduroy pants, using the elastic waistband as the "smocked" bodice and a handmade greeting card business with my brother (our parents were our best/only customers!)

FAVORITE . . .
Color (Pantone #): pink, 1777
Holiday: I like them all...but if I have to choose I guess it would be Valentines Day for the pinks and reds and candy and cards.
Pizza topping: spinach
Kind of Fabric: felt
Dessert: chocolate chip cookies
Things you collect: paper bags, vintage wrapping paper and other paper odds and ends: chop holders, toothpick frills., paper plates, candy (specifically cut rock candy that looks like glass),
Source: Metalliferrous, Tinsel Trading, Kinokuniya for books
Martha Stewart Craft: Cookie Cottages Cookie Cottage

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Make It : Homemade Storybook for Dad!

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Last year on Mother’s Day, my kids gave me what is perhaps my all-time favorite gift. With the help of my husband, they made a little storybook called “Superhero Mommy”. Knowing that this would make an equally fantastic Father’s Day gift, I copied him and had our boys make a “Superhero Daddy” version for their dad for …

Inspiration Board : Handmade Gifts for Father's Day

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Father’s Day is on Sunday June 16th.  There’s still time to make a handmade gift or card for dad! Print this fill-in-the-blanks Father’s Day card onto nice card stock or heavyweight paper (using our free clip art) and give to your kid to fill out. Their description of dad’s traits will make him laugh!   …

Make It : Bubble Printing

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Bubble printing is a fun kid-friendly technique using materials that you most likely already have in the house. In Good Things this month I bubble-printed paper to make tags, cards and wrapping paper. I love activities that entertain the kids while producing something useful. I think this year my kid’s grandmas will be receiving their …

Behind the Scenes : Super Make It

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I am thrilled to share a project in our May issue from a craft book that I’ve been working on with my friend Amy Gropp Forbes called Super Make It.  In it we’ve used a wide variety of materials from the supermarket: cookies, candy and cereal, coffee filters, things you will find in your recycling …

Inspiration Board : Passover Crafts and Treats!

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Passover is in three days! In this month’s Good Things, we shared a Passover craft idea from Assistant Managing Editor, Paulie Dibner. Last year Paulie made bookmark placecards for her family’s seder. “I was trying to think of something creative for my placecards last year (I like to do something new every year. Placecards are …

Make It : Easy Necklaces

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I love bold jewelry and I also love making necklaces out of non-jewelry materials. I’ve used towels, kids lacing beads, pom-poms and more. Using these (big) materials rather than delicate beads or chains gives you a lot of bang for low effort. The ropey necklaces above (except for the polka-dot one) were made from metallic …

Celebrate : David Stark's Map-Inspired Party!

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Celebrated event designer (and my old college pal!) David Stark is known for his use and elevation of everyday materials in creating whimsical, memorable, creative, artful, and innovative events for art museums, foundations, and corporations. For our March issue, we got to peek in on a party he threw at home to see how he celebrates …

Make It : Assembly Line Valentines Gifts!

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Many years ago my friend, Page Marchese Norman, and I started a tradition of hand making Valentines gifts for our coworkers. I think we had originally meant for them to be holiday gifts but with the December craziness, Valentines seemed like a more reasonable deadline! Since we needed to make around 200 gifts, we came up …