Are you coming?

Yes, that's right -- Fall in LOVE with your handwriting!!
Joanne Sharpe is coming to the studio to teach 3 Fabulous Artful Lettering classes for font enthusiasts and art journalers alike!  Can't wait to have Joanne here with her infectious personality and great lettering passion!!

I can't think of a better way to spend my Valentines weekend then to learn to fall in love with my writing!  *wink*  think of all the love notes I can send my sweetie!   hehe

Hope you can join us!!
CLICK HERE to view her classes and register

New Crafter's Workshop Templates are now IN STOCK

And I HAD to break them out and play!!!
Here's a little 6x12 Canvas I did using Dina Wakley's new templates!

LOVE her art ... her signature silhouettes....   See which one I used? *smile*

So fabulous!  I can see me using these templates all throughout my art journal!!  For Sure!!
can you see some other new templates in there???  How many can you count?  Here's a hint...

Have a creative day!!

A little mermaid on USTREAM

Last's night's broadcast was a fun adventure :)  Thanks to all who joined me on a Saturday night!

I love how this mermaid piece turned out!   I need to sneak peek it for you "just in case" it's used for Art Waves' course catalog.  I need to do some font work and logo stuff to it but if it's used I'll be happy to show all  *smile*

Here's the USTREAM of me creating it ...


Have a fantastic day!!

Jen's All Heart

Here you go, USTREAM watchers..  this is Jen's Heart Canvas that she created online when I was at CHA.   Didn't she do a great job?

Jen had a little bit of technical difficulties (no sound) - we got it fixed up did then she didn't hit the record.  Bummer!  I really would have loved to see her do this...  and hear what she "spilled"  hehe

I promised on my show last Friday that I'd post this for you all to see.

Her canvas can be seen IRL in my studio window!  Perfect for a Valentine's display, don't you think?

Have a creative day!!

CropFest Registration goes LIVE tonight!

Are you ready, Barrie??  CropFest is coming to you and I am so please to announce that I will be teaching 2 classes at the event!  YAY!

These are my classes:
Note to Self 
A 12x12 Layout Class (Saturday May 4 - 10am - 11:30am)

Class Description
Join Karen to create this layered and textural 12x12 scrapbook layout using some pretty fabulous 7 Dots Studio Papers! Designed by the talented Anna Dabrowska, these papers from "7 Dots" come all the way from Poland and lend themselves extremely well to some "feminine grunge" techniques. They are so fun to work with and I hope you enjoy this class as much as I enjoyed creating it.  

Make Your Mark
Monoprinting Card Class  (Saturday May 4 - 2pm- 3:30pm)

Class Description

Create gorgeous monoprinted backgrounds for some pretty fabulous greeting cards. Karen will introduce you to the wonderful world of Gelli Printing where you will make colourful backgrounds to use instead of patterned paper on some stamped cards. You'll be using stencils and a variety of items you'll find around your home. Come have some fun experimenting with colour and texture and make some one of a kind cards.

Karen will provide the paper, mini Gelli plates and items to make impressions including foam stamps, embossing folders, bubble wrap, plastic wrap, stencils, and more

For more information about CropFest...   please check out their website.
ONLY 85 Crop Spaces are available.   Class Registrations will be OPEN TO THE PUBLIC in March!!

Hope you're having a Creative Day!  Stay warm!

A little bit of Plastered Luminescence.....

Today we had some pretty FABULOUS ladies in the studio for the launch of "Plastered Luminescence" a class that uses LuminArte's SILKS on an etched plaster canvas board.

This class was available to take here in the studio today (and I have been getting requests to run it again) and as an ONLINE CLASS.   Didn't these ladies do an AWESOME job??   I can't believe I didn't take more photos before the last step so you can see the details.  I wish I could show you them all!!  We'll have to wait for these girls to email me pics of their finished (DRY) projects!!  Eeks!!  So exciting!

THANK YOU ladies for coming in to participate in the class and I hope all of you who registered for this online class have as much fun playing with the SILKS as we did!!

Online students should have their emails now.  If you don't, please let me know (it looks like you've all received them okay).   Look for some supplement videos coming your way next week too!!  I want to share some more tips that we discussed in class today.  HAPPY PAINTING!

Can you imagine....

...taking a class with the Fabulous Joanne Sharpe?
Registrations are coming in ...   Hope you can join us at the studio for a GREAT weekend painting and playing!!

CLASS INFORMATION....

Have a creative day -- I'm off to the CHA show floor!!!