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Copic College 2020!

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Are you ready?! It is that time again, I have many of my next year of Copic College weekends all lined up. I am waiting on two more locations, but in the meantime 6 locations are open for registration including a new stop for Copic College, Mount Forest, Ontario. I am. headed north of the border! I am super excited to see a few of my Canadian friends!

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Here is a list of dates and locations:

My First Copic College is:

Powell, OH – April 17-19, 2020 – Legacy Paper Arts Store 

My Second Copic College is:

Anaheim/Chino, CA – May 15-17, 2020 – This and That Scrapbooking 

My Third Copic College is:

 Mount Forest, Ontario Canada – June 12-14 – Younique Scrapbook Store

My Fourth Copic College is:

Ankeny, IA – August 28-30, 2020 – Memory Bound Scrapbook Store

My Fifth Copic College is:

Washington, IL – October 2-4, 2020 – The Paper Forest 

My Sixth Copic College is:

Sacramento/Dixon, CA – November 13-15, 2020 – It’s All About The Scrapbook

If you would like all the nitty gritty jump over to the Copic College page. You can click the tab at the top of the blog or tap on the link here;

Copic College 2020 Information

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And if you are ready to register (and come play with me) hop over to the registration page, tab at the top of the page or here is another direct link;

Registration

If you have any questions you can shoot me an e-mail or post a comment here! Thank you to all of you who joined me in the 2018 and 2019 seasons. I can’t wait to see you all again and meet all of my first time Copic College friends!

Have a Happy Colorful Day!

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Copic College 2019!

I know a few of you have been waiting patiently for this, I have posted the 2019 Copic College season. As of today I have 6 locations lined up and scheduled. There is a chance there will be two more added in the next few weeks. 

Important note: This is a brand new manual with all new images for 2019 so if you were able to attend in 2018 I have all new techniques and images for you, so plan on attending again!

Here is a list of the dates and locations for more details check the Copic College page using the tab at the top of the blog ?

My First Copic College is:

Powell, OH – February 1-3, 2019 – Legacy Paper Arts Store

My Second Copic College is:

Ankeny, IA – March 1-3, 2019 – Memory Bound Scrapbook Store

My Third Copic College is:

Saint Petersburg, FL – March 29-31 – Whim So Doodle Store

My Fourth Copic College is:

Anaheim, CA – September 13-15 – Salvation Army Anaheim Red Sheild

* Note this location will have an optional evening of open coloring you may add at any time

My Fifth Copic College is:

Washington, IL – October 4-6 – The Paper Forest

My Sixth Copic College is:

Sacramento/Dixon, CA – October 25-27 – It’s All About The Scrapbook

Registration has opened for the first 3 locations!

Hope I will be seeing YOU in 2019!

Have a Happy Colorful Day!

 

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Copic College 2019 in the works!

Just a little info so you know the “plan”. I have two Copic Colleges left for the 2018 season, one in Washington, IL and the last in Kennesaw, GA (near Atlanta). In the midst of those, I am working on my Copic College schedule for 2019. I have had a lot of requests and although I would like to accommodate them all there is only one of me and I still have a family and home to manage. 

I am also pulling together images for the new manual, lining up the techniques we will be working on and making sure this manual lives up to the quality bar I set with the first one! 

My goal is to have locations and dates set with in the next couple weeks and then get things set up on my blog. If all goes smoothly…

November 12th I will announce locations and dates for the 2019 Copic Colleges and open at least all the Winter/Spring weekends for registration. I am still deciding if I will open the entire year for registration.

 As a reminder you will register here at my blog not at locations EVEN if the event is being held in a store. You can call them but they will not be able to get you signed up. Here is a link to the information page that will update with the new schedule in November. Or you can just click on the Copic College tab above 
https://scrapweaver.com/copic-college

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New Copic College Added to the 2018 Schedule

Some of you might have seen on Facebook earlier in the week that I have added an additional Copic College weekend to the 2108 schedule. After the success of the first weekend of classes I was invited to run Copic College at The Paper Forest Scrapbook Boutique in Washington, IL. I will be sending out news letters to the surrounding areas shortly, but for those of you that are regulars on one of my sites registration is open and ready for students. As always never hesitate to shoot me a question or concern. I am always willing to try and make it work!

The scheduled date for Copic College in Washington, IL is October 5-7. 

Thank you so much to The Paper Forest Scrapbook Boutique for helping me add this to my calendar!

Have a Happy Colorful Weekend!

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Copic College Who’s Who

As we close in on the first Copic College April 6-8 in Ankeny, IA I thought you might all like to know who your instructors will be!

I will be doing the main teaching and if you are here you might be familiar with my back ground, but if not here is a little synopsis, plus a little extra 🙂

Hi! Michelle Houghton here.  I am the wife to an amazing husband and the mother of two beautiful girls in Iowa.  I am a busy stay-at-home mom, teaching doodling and Copic classes both on-line and across the US and Canada.

Prior to motherhood, I was an art teacher and I love being able to continue sharing my art through card making and scrapbooking techniques.  I have been scrapbooking for about 20 years and coloring with Copic markers for the last 10 years.  When I first tried Copics I fell in love and have since gotten both my Certification and Intermediate Certification from Imagination International Inc., the United States distributor of Copic Markers. After about 5 years of teaching Copic classes on-line I began teaching for III as a Regional Instructor, I also ran their Copic In The Craft Room site and helped create new curriculum for their Certification Team.  

This past year III discontinued their Copic Certifications and Workshops leaving me to decide what was next. I decided that I am not ready to stop teaching this art form that I love, so I am off on my latest adventure of my own small business and Copic coloring weekends. I was given the amazing gift of being allowed to continue running Copic In The Craft Room on-line with it’s video tutorials and inspiration. And have created Copic College currently I am frantically putting the manual together and planning games, raffles, food and fun for amazing weekends.

Bottom line: I love to teach! Teaching live and on-line has been an amazing adventure!

Then I have 3 amazing instructors joining me for these weekends to make sure everyone gets the individual attention they need and want to really push your coloring skills, no matter what level you are starting at!

Next the lovely Katie Belding will be joining me in Ankeny, IA!

Hello! I have been crafting since I was in elementary school and have yet to meet a paper craft that I didn’t love!  As an elementary teacher for 15 years, I found one of my passions was to create for the classroom. When I decided to leave teaching, I discovered I could continue my creative outlet by working and teaching classes at Memory Bound, where I have now been for 10 years.  I was introduced to Copic markers about six years ago, fell in love with them and became a Copic certified instructor. Copics are definitely my go to marker when creating cards or memory keeping!

In Minneapolis, MN the wonderful Stephen Kromp will be hanging out with us!

Hello! I’m Stephen, professional dog groomer by day – card maker by night, living in Ontario, Canada. I accidentally fell into the wonderful word of card making in 2014 and I never looked back. Stamping and Copic colouring are a passion of mine and I enjoy sharing that passion with others. I’m excited to be working on the Design Teams for Stamp AnnieThing, Stamping Bella, and Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps.

Last but certainly not least my dear friend Amanda Farhang is joining us in both Anaheim, CA and Atlanta, GA in the fall.

Hi from Southern California!  My name is Amanda and I live a quiet life with my handsome hubby and our fur princess. By day, I work on mastering Microsoft Excel, and by night I play with inky things.  

For as long as I can remember I have been making and baking. I grew up surrounded by creative people. My family is made up of do-it-yourselfers, quilters and leatherworkers, bakers and flower arrangers. We have always jumped into creative opportunities feet first, and we’ve learned as we went.  The true pleasure is in making something with our own hands for those we love.

I first started coloring with copic markers in 2011 (ish?).  I saw a video on YouTube and my first reaction was: “Cool, but I’m not sure I’ll be any good at it….  Besides, they cost so much!”   And then I saw another YouTube video, and another, and another…   And almost overnight, alcohol ink markers didn’t sound like an unreasonable “hobby”. Famous last words?  Yep. That was the beginning of my obsession.

My collection of markers has slowly grown over the last few years, and I still don’t have all of them! I have taken every opportunity to play, scribble, and experiment.  I have learned by coloring in and outside of the lines! I have approached every image with the thought that “It’s just paper, and I like to color.”    90% of the time that I sit down with my markers, I have no “end project” in mind.  I color just for the enjoyment of seeing color transform a page.  If I don’t like something, no big deal, I’ll try something different next time.  Its. Just. Paper.   You could say that is my “crafty mantra”.  

If I had to offer advice to a new colorist, I would say: Play with it. Enjoy it.  It’s. Just. Paper. The more you play with your crafty tools, the more you experiment with color combinations and fun techniques, the better your final images will be.  Sometimes it will look like a hot mess before it starts to look half way decent.  Work through the ugly to get to the pretty.  It’s a process.  

I have to tell you this is a talented group! If you have not checked out the Copic College information do that next! We are going to have a blast with 20 hours of coloring, games, food, and fun!