Registration for our January Certification Classes & Workshops is Now OPEN!

 Register HERE for January Classes

• Papercrafting Standard Certification – Jan 7th
• Papercrafting Intermediate Certification- Jan 8th
• More Whimsical Faces & Hair – Jan 9th
• Vintage Values & Mono-Tones – Jan 9th
• Clothing & Accessories – Jan 10th
• *Coloring Flowers – Jan 11th
• *Coloring Photo Line Art – Jan 11th

2015 Class & Workshop Locations Announced

Enrollment for each class will open at least 60 days in advance

Certification Courses: Standard and Intermediate

• Anaheim, California
• Phoenix, Arizona
• Orlando, Florida
• Chicago, Illinois
• Hanover, Maryland
• Charlotte, North Carolina
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Dallas, Texas
• Houston, Texas
• Vancouver, Washington // Portland, Oregon

Workshop Color-Along Series

This year we are introducing three NEW workshops!

Dress for Success – Clothing and Accessories

Learn how to dress your images with this coloring intensive workshop. In Dress for Success – Clothing and Accessories you will learn how to illustrate a variety of fabrics, patterns, surfaces and clothing styles.

More Whimsical Faces & Hair

In this intensive coloring workshop, you will learn how our expert instructors approach coloring some of the most popular stamp images on the market. Starting with cute and simple and working our way up to detailed and advanced, we will walk you through the process of coloring faces and hair for each level and style.

Vintage Values & Mono-Tones

Take color out of the picture with this hands-on coloring workshop. Focus on tone and value while coloring a variety of images in both sepia, black and white. Color along with your instructor as you learn tips and tricks for these advanced techniques using images supplies by top stamp artists and manufacturers.

2015 Workshop Locations:

– East –

Hanover, Maryland

Boston, Massachusetts
Lyndhurst, New Jersey
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Alexandria, Virginia

– South East –
Miami, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Charlotte, North Carolina

– Central Midwest –
Chicago, Illinois
Indianapolis, Indiana
Detroit, Michigan
Minneapolis, Minnesota
St. Louis, Missouri
Dallas, Texas
Houston, Texas
Columbus, Ohio

– West –
Anaheim, California
Phoenix, Arizona
San Francisco, California
Sacramento, California
Los Angeles, California
Seattle, Washington
Vancouver, Washington – Portland, Oregon

– Canada –
Calgary, Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Vancouver, British Columbia
Toronto, Ontario
Ottawa, Ontario

Such exciting news!  Make sure to sign up for the Copic Newsletter so you know when the location nearest you becomes available!  Registration for all classes will open 60 days prior to the class dates.

 

I am thrilled to announce that I have been asked to join the amazingly talented team at Imagination International Inc. to teach Copic workshops.  I love Copic and all that the markers and inks can do.  I have been teaching live and on-line Copic classes and tutorials for several years now and could not be more tickled to be joining the amazing team that shares this amazing product.

If you have not been to my blog or seen my work before here are a couple recent pieces that I love:

I enjoy mixing Copics with other mediums.  On this card the stained glass window is Copic ink on pearl velum, the stamp is colored with Copic and then foil and chunky glitter was added on top.

 

You might have seen my doodled apron in the past, I have been a doodler for years and adding Copic over gesso on fabric has given amazing results.

I have even dabbled in jewelry making with Copic and doodling again.

Of course what probably brought you here was my welcoming party that the Copic Team is throwing me!  So on with the festivities here are the details and the links to all the team member’s blogs so you can keep hopping and having fun!

The Copic Papercrafting Instructor and Design Teams would like to give a colorful “WELCOME” to the newest instructor joining us… Michelle Houghton!
Michelle has done a number of special events and demos for us over the years and we are thrilled to finally have her on our teaching team. Michelle has a BS in Fine Arts and an MA in Teaching with years of experience teaching high school art, live workshops, and online crafting classes.
Michelle likes to work with a variety of mediums and styles, often experimenting and looking for unique and interesting ways to use them. We look forward to working with her and can’t wait to see her in action!
And of course we can’t have a celebration without gifts… so we are giving away some great Copic prizes!
Join us in welcoming Michelle by visiting each of the blogs listed below for a chance to win. Don’t forget to leave some love at each blog because EACH TEAM MEMBER will be giving away a Copic T-Shirt and a 7-piece Doodle Kit to one lucky winner.
Commenting will close at midnight on Sunday, July 6th and winners announced on
individual blogs on Monday, July 7th.

Michele Boyer http://papercuts.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/
Lori Craig http://loricraig.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/
Sharon Harnist http://paperfections.typepad.com/
Michelle Houghton https://scrapweaver.com/  You are here!  Keep Hopping!
Cindy Lawrence http://onehappystamper.typepad.com/
Debbie Olson http://debbiedesigns.typepad.com/muse_and_amuse/
Colleen Schaan http://www.distinctivetouches.com/
Sherrie Siemens http://sherrie-cardcreme.blogspot.com/
Marianne Walker http://ilikemarkers.blogspot.com/

Welcome back me!  I have been out of town for a week visiting the beautiful Levenworth, Washington area with my Mom and Dad.  We had a spectacular week with Pike’s Place market, river rafting, horseback riding, hiking, shopping and lots of spectacular food!  The weather could not have been more beautiful and we soaked in the family time!

SO being out of town now I have a little catch up work to do!  BUT first let’s start with what is going live today!  I have 2 tidbits to share that popped up on the internet today.  The first is a new tutorial over at RubberMoon.  I have to say it have been fun getting some stamp time in again.  It had been way too long and RubberMoon stamps are beautiful and lend themselves to creativity.  For this particular tutorial I decided to do a little cleaning and playing all in one.  Check out the details HERE.

 

Then I was featured in a little post at the Copic in the Craft Room Facebook page.  You can check it out HERE.  The work that was featured was the Bokeh technique that I used for a layout at Get It Scrapped.  You can see that particular article HERE and If you want to see my post about how it was created check HERE.