GARY M.
BURLIN & COMPANY
3663 Carnegie Ave, Cleveland,
OH 44115
Telephone: (216) 361-3663, 800-659-PENS
FAX: (216) 361-3963
Presents
An Event Like NO Other ~ Classes, Demos, Make & Takes, Shopping and More
Beverly Anderson ~ Beverly’s enthusiasm for stamping and new products oozes from her soul. She has been stamping for eight years and teaching techniques is her specialty. She works closely with her favorite partners, the wonderful staff from Magenta, and makes sure that all the newest and most challenging products end up in her stamp room for development of new techniques. A passionate stamper, she has taken and taught classes all over the country, and has had the opportunity to indulge her other stamping passion: demonstrating at shows.
Magenta (Beverly Style) by: Beverly Anderson (Sunday 8:30 am)
Elegant and yet easy will be the theme for the weekend. If you adore the incredible Magenta images, or want to learn what all the fuss is about, this class is for you. Come join the fun with untraditional class that will give you a different approach to creating with Magenta Style. We will use all the newest products, while creating six to eight cards.
Batik Easy Scarves by: Beverly Anderson (Sunday 11:00 am)
You will be amazed at the beautiful, wearable artwork you create from stamping supplies. In this class, you will design and make a multi-functional silk panel to use as a great accent for just about anything. We will be working with Dyna – Flow, Lumiere Paints and even a beaded trim. Two sizes are available 9” x 45” and 9” x 54”, please specify which you prefer.
Stacey Caron ~ President of Spellbinders Paper Arts and Co- Creator of the Wizard Embossing System. Stacey has traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe teaching and sharing her passion for paper arts at national and international trade shows and conventions. She has appeared on national television and has been featured in numerous publications with the Wizard. Married to Jeff for twelve years and has two darling little boys Nathan and Justin. When she is not running the globe expanding her passion for paper arts, she enjoys four wheeling, mountain biking, and gardening.
Whimsical Star Book by: Stacey Caron (Saturday 8:30 am)
In this creative and whimsical class, you will create a star book while learning many techniques that include cutting, embossing, texturzing, flattening and inking ALL with the versatile Wizard Embossing and Cutting System. The brand new ATC die will be utilized in this class. This is a wonderful class to “get familiar” with the versatility of the Wizard.
Card Bonanza by: Stacey Caron (Saturday 2:45 pm)
What….? Six unique cards in two hours! Come join the fun while learning how to use the Wizard Embossing and Cutting System. Many interesting and unique techniques will be explored in this class such as flower pressing, distressing, using clay and the newly discovered reflections technique.
Michele Charles ~ One of the most sought after educators, designers, demonstrators and marketing specialists, Michele Charles conducts workshops and seminars on scrapbooking, rubber stamping, altered art, polymer clay, mixed media arts, calligraphy and general crafts to thousands of consumers all across the country. During her amazing in-store events, Michele combines the excitement of learning with key product promotions. Not only will you learn valuable “profit-making” information…ideas for demonstrations, classes, displays, make and takes, promotions, advertising, marketing and more, but it will be a fun and rewarding experience for your customers.
Clay Techniques to Dye For by: Michele Charles (Friday 8:30 am)
"Absolutely incredible" describes the techniques to be learned in this class. Michele teaches unbelievable uses for inks and embossing powders with polymer clay straight from Design Originals' new book Clay Techniques to Dye For. Create a unique necklace adorned with star shaped charms made from polymer clay, inks and other mediums. Take your store sales and classes to the next level with this one-of-a-kind book that sells products too numerous to name in this class description! This class will fill fast, so sign up quickly!
The Amazing Stampress by: Michele Charles (Friday 11:00 am)
It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's the amazing Stampress! Discover the incredible technique versatility of ClearSnap’s little machine that can produce big sales. Michele will guide you through the many Stampress uses. Great for many paper crafting projects such as cards, scrapbooks, altered books and more, the Stampress is a must have product for you store! Create a technique sample booklet to display in your store. Receive numerous, inspiring class ideas using the Stampress. Be sure to sign up for this unique product and technique learning experience!
Beaded Jewelry with Gift Cards by: Michele Charles (Saturday 8:30 am)
Want to know the latest trend for paper crafting stores everywhere? Beaded jewelry and other projects adorned with unique charms made from plastic gift cards. From one her latest books, Beaded Jewelry with Gift Cards, Michele teaches you techniques will creating two great projects. Color, cut and twist to create spiral shaped charms for a bracelet you will assemble in class. Learn how easy it is to color these cards with alcohol inks and effortlessly stamp designs on them. You will also die cut shapes and assemble for a decorative pin. Join Michele as she teaches from this great book that brings a new way to sell products in your store!
Chalk It Up with Cat's Eyes by: Michele Charles (Saturday 11:00 am)
One of the most popular choices for creative inking, Cat's Eye Chalk Inks add a beautiful creative element to projects. Create anything from a hot, bold retro flair to a soft, subtle vintage look with these fabulous inks. Create five fabulous cards as Michele teaches you Cat's Eye Chalk Ink techniques including stamping, coloring, and layering. During class, you will obtain great ideas for demonstrations and make-and-takes that sell these fabulous inks in your store. Reserve your spot today!
Ted & Michelle Cutts ~ Art Gone Wild!and Friends Michelle has always been an art stamp lover and scrapbooker...even before Ted came along. This is a combination made in stampin' heaven. Ted runs the show at AGW & Friends and wears many hats at the shop, one of which is to demonstrate for the Stampers Anonymous line. He learns as much as he can from Tim Holtz and then passes it on at the many trade shows while he is demonstrating. Michelle is usually busy with the Art Gone Wild line of stamps and also in the creating of the images with the various artists they have. Meeting and greeting their customers is a main part of their enjoyment of the business.
Creativity….Taking What’s New to Old Again ~ Ted Cutts (Saturday 8:30 am)
Using distress inks and Tim Holtz line of rubber stamps from Stampers Anonymous, use your creativity to make what’s new old again. Use his new Christmas line and other new images to create tags and artwork to take back to your store. They will surely cause a creative buzz in your customers on the wonderful ways to use all the new products being released. These ideas and samples will be sure to give more ideas on future classes for your store.
Stampers Anonymous StazOn Ink Technique by: Ted Cutts (Saturday 2:45 pm)
Using Stampers Anonymous stamps, create cards and a beautiful box necklace that will be sure to inspire the artistic side of you. Design cards that will stand out with bold colors and use StazOn Ink that you may not have tried. The necklace box will give you a great place for small tags, pictures, ATCs and the like. This class will be sure to inspire imaginative ideas and give you great samples to display in your stores that will move product.
Waterfalls Card by: Michelle Cutts (Saturday 11:00 am)
Fun just tumbles out of this card as it opens in a waterfall effect- with one tug on a string.
Learn how to make a fun, interactive card with Art Gone Wild's progression cube stamps and coordinating saying cube stamps. These cube stamps are progression images that create animation by transforming themselves over three panels on the waterfall card with the sayings appearing on the backside of the images and they tumble open when you pull the string on the card. You could make a cake, carve a pumpkin, trim a Christmas tree, bake a gingerbread man and more with our many designs. For this class you will make two cards using the gingerbread and pumpkin designs. We will have samples of all our other designs so you can see the many possibilities for any season or occasion.
Come and learn how to add magic and motion to your card projects.
"Rocks" Out of Sight Shaker Card by: Michelle Cutts (Saturday 5:15 pm)
In this class you will create a shaker card that will knock your socks off! This card is almost a mini-book. The shaker is a see-though—moving page—set between the front and back covers of the card. Using beads, buttons and colored images from the frame rocker—you will create an enclosed window scene that is view-able from the front or the back of that page. Then you will decorate the front of the card also using colored in images from the same frame rocker stamp adding ribbons and button embellishments. Finish with a mini-binding to tie the whole card together and you will have a card you won’t be able to part with. It’s a real gem! You will be using Art Gone Wild's one-of-a-kind rocker stamps (see how easy it is to stamp a large image and get a great impression!)
Tamila Darling ~ Tamila is a master Sculpey polymer clay artist working in the medium for more than 12 years. Her work has been featured in Polyform Products packaging and promotional literature, polymer clay books and magazines. She has authored dozens of projects for several magazines including Stamp & Scrap Art, Create N’ Decorate, Polymer Café along with numerous others. A designer of her own polymer clay tools, Tamila shows her enthusiasm for the medium through her classes, and the increasing popularity of the medium is due to her exceptional artistry. Her students often become polymer clay addicts once they find out that they can produce the same stunning results in their own project!
The 3 P’s – 2006 – Polymer, Pens & Paper by: Tamila Darling (Friday 2:45 pm)
Learn some super-fast and simple techniques to make your own stamped embellished ink pens and mini paper notebook. These are quick and easy to make, great for gifts when stamped with a special occasion or themed stamps too! With a customized holder for the pen, it will stay secure with the notebook and you or the recipient of the set won’t be looking for a pen when it’s needed. You will make two different styles, one modern with glamour, and one more vintage and old world in style.
Clever Clay Quickies by: Tamila Darling (Friday 5:15 pm)
These projects are clever and quick. Craving some cute Make N’ Take ideas? This class is filled with them! The projects are so simple we are going to do as many as we can in the time allotted. What we don’t get to, you receive the instruction sheet & supply list and can view the completed projects up close and personal! Great for beginners and fun for more advanced students; even a blast for school aged children. Valentines, St. Patrick’s Day, Halloween, winter, spring and a few other fun things are all covered in this short time.
Impressed by StamPress! by: Tamila Darling (Saturday 2:45 pm)
Impress yourself with stamping that goes from flat to All That! Flat sheets of clay and the impression left behind after running through the StamPress machine will impress you too! How do you use these perfectly uniform impressions ready for surface treatments? Come to this class and find out! It is so easy to make a wide variety of items. We will get you started with a decorative box and votive as your class samples, from there you will see the endless possibilities that the stamped veneers in clay create!
Potpourri of Polymer Clay Embellishments & Beads by: Tamila Darling (Saturday 5:15 pm)
Jam-packed with information on Polymer Clay from Polyform Products, this class includes the newest addition to the line - Sculpey Ultra Light! A mountain of techniques will be learned in this class using foils, powders, inks, chalks, acrylic paint, push molds, decorative edge scissors, and punches. You will even learn the ever-popular Ghost Image Stamping technique, which only requires some metallic Premo! clay, a blade and a stamp – no ink stamping that you have to see to believe! All of these will be used in combination to create embellishment pieces and beads that can be used to cover a composition journal, or you can save for assembly onto another object when you return to your store.
Cyndi Duncan ~ Cyndi is the founder and Editor-In-Chief of Altered Arts Magazine, and also owns and operates The Altered Book Club, a crafts by mail club recently featured on HGTV’s The Carol Duvall Show. She is a self-taught, mixed-media artist who has been an avid scrapbooker for nine years. Originally a high school Spanish teacher, Cyndi has a passion for teaching, and it shows in the scrapbooking and altered book classes she teaches around the country. Students in Cyndi’s classes have continually rated her classes with high marks.
Altered Wall Hanging by: Cyndi Duncan (Friday 8:30 am)
What to do with those mixed media collage pieces? Hang them on the wall! We will take a blank board book and create a mixed-media collage wall hanging that is sure to make a great gift or conversation piece. Are your customers predominantly scrapbookers? Then you’ll want to bring a couple of 4 x 6 black and white copies of photos (black and white copies from a color copier or laser printer) to include in your wall hanging. You will leave with one or more completed projects and extra pages to use at a later time.
Artistic ATC holder by: Cyndi Duncan (Friday 11:00 am)
In this class you will decoupage, stamp and embellish your way to an artistic tin to hold those popular ATC cards! You will leave class with a finished tin, and perhaps even a few ATCs to store inside it.
Coin Holder Books by: Cyndi Duncan (Sunday 11:00 am)
We will take a coin holder, disassemble it, and turn it into a wonderful artistic book. Your customers will be quite intrigued by this fun project. Are your customers predominantly scrapbookers? Bring a few black and white copies of photos – the main image should be the size of a quarter, and black and white copies from a color copier or laser printer work best. You will leave with one completed project.
Bonnie Egenton ~ Bonnie is the Marketing Director for Ranger Industries and has been stamping and paper crafting for over 10 years. She has been teaching classes at stamping and scrapbooking stores in and around New Jersey for several years. Bonnie also brings experience in marketing and education from the corporate world she has happily left behind. She is now enjoying sharing her enthusiasm for crafting and Ranger Products with others each and every day.
Distress Inks Across the Decades by: Bonnie Egenton (Friday 8:30 am)
Learn the latest Distress Ink techniques created by Tim Holtz! Use Distress Inks to create tags and cards with a unique twist no matter what your style – vintage, retro, or today. See how the Distress Inks chic colors can be used to create looks from any decade in this fun and fast-moving class.
Layers of Adirondack® by: Bonnie Egenton (Friday 11:00 am)
Play and learn all about Ranger’s new Adirondack® Acrylic Paint Dabbers! Learn innovative and versatile painting and stamping techniques to create a colorful book with the Lights, Brights and Earthtones palette. You will be wowed by how easy it is to coordinate tones using multiple Adirondack products to create layers of color in this book. Take the guesswork out of coordinating colors for your customers’ projects with Adirondack.
Amy Flowers ~ Ms. Flowers began freelance teaching of alternative art mediums in 1995, offering classes in local rubber stamp stores. A studio space was acquired in September 1996 and she began offering instruction through the studio. She now teaches throughout Ohio and the Midwest. On faculty at the Chautauqua Institute in Chautauqua, New York, she has been an instructor through the Special Studies program since 2000. Ms. Flowers has worked since 1998 for the Wexner Center for the Arts, keeping a hand in the contemporary art scene as well. She also organizes and hosts the New Mexico Art Adventure Workshop, a week-long alternative art seminar. Current stamp store clients include Paper Moon of Nashville, TN, Scrapbook Sisters of St. Clair, MI, For The Art of Kalamazoo, MI, Wishful Thinking, of Nashville, IN, Stamp Your Art Out of Cincinnati, OH (including teaching at their annual convention, StampAway), and Guadalupe’s Fun Rubber Stamps of Santa Fe, NM. Hallmarks of her classes include an informal and open style and use of rubber stamps as a fine art tool, enabling even the beginning artist to create and build artistic confidence.
Pearl Ex Primer by: Amy Flowers (Friday 2:45 pm)
Your have a bottle of every Pearl Ex color, and you’ve used them…once. Join us and explore everything Pearl Ex can do! We’ll play with the new Pearl Ex varnish, create fabulous background papers, make a faux enamel finish, create custom paints—the sky’s the limit in this class. You’ll leave with a pile of beautiful things and tons of useful tricks!
Walkabout Book by: Amy Flowers (Friday 5:15 pm)
Learn to make this easy collage book, and showcase your stamp and color style! Using Canvasette paper, we’ll create a spiffy little flat book that unfolds to reveal a wandering collage. Play with the latest Lumiere colors, stamps and collage papers on the pages, then use a wild collection of fibers, ribbon and eyelets to join your book together. Fast to make, these books are great for word and image playtime!
Alpha Bendi Doll by: Amy Flowers (Saturday 2:45 pm)
We’re back to the Bendi with this class! Using all those fabulous Lumiere colors, paint and stamp your Bendi doll ‘til she glows…then turn her into a poetic muse with all the newest alphabet embellishments! We’ll also play with tons of fibers, charms and add-ons—no sewing needed. Your Bendi doll will be the perfect muse to add to your art space or to inspire a friend!
Castaway Collage by: Amy Flowers (Saturday 5:15 pm)
Learn everything this new stamp pad from Jacquard can do! Made to mimic the effects of bleach on paper, this pad creates wonderful batik backgrounds and exotic stamp imagery. Explore all the ways to make this pad work for you, then put it all together to create a series of collage cards. Too cool for words!
Out of the Box by: Amy Flowers (Sunday 8:30 am)
Take a basic paper mache box and turn it into a work of art! Using stamp pads, collage papers, Lumiere and more, we’ll cover the box inside and out with a variety of color techniques. Give your box an artistic finish with beads, wire, charms, eyelets and anything else we can get our hands on…these boxes are great for gifts or artsy décor!
Dee Gruenig ~ Since 1979, Dee’s passion has remained the same – to take rubber stamping, memory albums and other crafts to a higher artistic level, always attempting something new while stretching her own abilities. She hopes she has provided some fresh innovation in design and function for crafts, with some entertaining and helpful instruction in books, videos, and television. Her contagious zeal is legendary! Known as ‘head cheerleader of rubber stamping’ and ‘Renoir of Rubber’, her quest is to take the art of stamping to a more innovative and exciting level.
Pastels on Black by: Dee Gruenig (Friday 5:15 pm)
Dee has never been a “Pastel” person until she discovered this technique! It’s so much faster & more spectacular than the rainbow embossing of the past. You will stamp & emboss with both her Clear & Unmounted Stamp Sets and learn some embellishment techniques with the “Freshly Picked Pastels” pen collection from Sailor. You will get to try out these fun new looks on a Tab-Latch card and a bookmark.
Paper Bag Album by: Dee Gruenig (Saturday 2:45 pm)
Learn to transform ordinary lunch bags into extraordinary mini-albums in this exciting class. You will start with a simple stitched & ribbon-embellished paper bag book. Using Dee’s popular Halloween Clear Stamps and a brand-new unmounted Halloween Vertical Inspirations set, along with Dee’s Signature Marvy Brush Markers & her Blending Blox (including some fabulous new colors), you will create an incredible unique work of art.
Vertical Inspiration Cards by: Dee Gruenig (Saturday 5:15 pm)
Make any occasion special using Dee’s Vertical Inspirations Stamps to make extra-special cards. Let Dee show you how simple the Easy Mount System is and how much fun it can be to create art without anxiety! You’ll get a chance to try out her Blending Blox mini multi-color stamp pads, her Signature Marvy Brush Art Markers and of course all the latest sets in the fabulous Vertical Inspirations line with dozens of interchangeable elements to make great art easier than ever!
Paula Hallinan ~ Owner and creator of the Heritage Handcrafts Stencil Line, Dimensional Paints, and many other tools Paula has been in the craft industry for over 16 years. She has appeared on numerous DIY (Do It Yourself) and PBS Scrapbook shows as well as other national and international TV shows. In addition to business, she has traveled the world with her husband John, and three children (ages 21, 19 and 16). Paula is an avid reader and loves to garden
Dimensional pig by: Paula Hallinan (Saturday 11:00 am and 5:15 pm)
Learn how to use the incredible Heritage Handcrafts Iridescent Dimensional Paints with brass stencils to give all your cards, pages and wood projects a whole new exciting look! The paint will air dry with dimension; you can sprinkle glitter/micro beads or other embellishments that will stick perfectly to the paint; or heat it to create an antiqued/weathered look! Also, see the fabulous “Pink Pig” heat tool in action and see why it won the “CHA 2006 Beat New Papercrafting Innovation”. This class will include everything you need to create one of kind dazzling cards that will have your customers “hog wild” about Heritage Handcrafts paints, stencils, and “Pink Pig”.
Susan Holton ~ Needing a relaxing outlet from her profession as a police officer, Susan began rubber stamping in 1987. Wanting to share the magic, she began teaching her fellow police officers, then students enrolled in the D. A. R. E. program and finally, stampers, and scrappers and paper artists. Her passion for stamping opened doors for her to become a demo artist and instructor in the paper arts industry. Susan has been published in trade magazines and after a few years working as a manufacturer’s representative doing demos, classes, and make & takes, Susan recently accepted a position in the Sales and Creativity Department of Tsukineko.
Ink Primer in a Box by: Susan Holton (Friday 2:45 pm)
Create your own “ink primer” in a little box! Use 8 different types of Tsukineko inks to see the differences and similarities. You’ll be using Walnut Ink, StazOn, VersaMagic, VersaColor, VersaFine, Opalite, VersaMark and Brillance. Students should bring scissors, paper trimmer and adhesive.
Autumn Abounds by: Susan Holton (Saturday 5:15 pm)
This class will be all about the splendor and colors of autumn! Get ready to dive into our newest colors as we create a scrapbook page, a coordinating card and tag… so rich it will make you want to jump into a pile of leaves!
Bev Kish ~ Bev has been stamping since the only magazine was Rubberstampmadness, and her passion for stamping shows no sign of abating! She specializes in training and teaching in her professional life, and loves to spread the work about stamping through demos and classes. As a part of the Gary Burlin team, she educates customers on new techniques and products as they hit Gary’s shelves. Part demonstrator, part innovator, Bev loves to break the rules and try new ways to use products, and knows that product knowledge is the key to sales, so she shares what she knows to help store owners succeed.
It’s Brand New! by: Bev Kish (Friday 5:15 pm)
Learn all about the newest products in the catalog and make four cards to showcase the latest, greatest stuff! We’ll learn how to use the products, answer your questions, and make four eye-catching cards that you can teach to your customers while educating them on product use to stimulate repeat sales. To know is to sell, so be sure to have the late-breaking stories on all the new items hitting the shelves.
Magical Metallical by: Bev Kish (Saturday 8:30 am)
Explore four exciting techniques that work well for in-store demos as well as make and take classes. Using Opalite inks, Pentel Metallic Brush Markers, Pearl-Ex Pads, and Brilliance inks, you’ll make four stunning cards to wow your customers. This class focuses on teaching you product knowledge and how to boost sales through quick and easy in-store demos that result in enthusiastic customers and increased sales.
Punch Possibilities by: Bev Kish (Saturday 11:00 am)
Make those punches a “must-have” item for your customers when you get their creative juices flowing! We’ll make four beautiful cards with great eye-appeal using a variety of punches that will open your eyes to punch possibilities. Creative and clever punch designs will excite your customers and give you four make and take classes to present to them. This class is perfect for a stamping novice and storeowners serving a large segment of beginner/intermediate skill levels.
Join us for a fun adventure into new uses for old stand-bys. We’ll make four cards using Ancient Page, Kaleidacolor, Fresco, and Versamark with direct-to-paper techniques that will get the buzz going for these tried-and-true products. We’ll discuss how to merchandize these products and send you home with four great cards to display so you can make sure all your customers see the inks in a brand new light!
Linda Mason ~ The owner of Cottage Stampers in Hartville, Ohio for 3 ½ years, Linda has been stamping for sixteen years and scrapbooking for ten. Her fingers are still inky and she enjoys every part of stamping! Her heart is deep into teaching as she finds it a great joy to share with others, especially the scrapbook cookbook groups who love the projects she creates for them.
Deboss Anyone by: Linda Mason (Friday 8:30 am)
This is a great class for beginners and advanced alike. If you love vellum like I do and are looking for new ways to use it, this is the class for you. Debossing turns your vellum a frost white, a fantastic look for any card, and you can always add a little color, plenty of trims, and layers, layers, layers! Five or more show-stopper cards will be made. Students must bring a Dove Blender.
Cookbook Scrapbook Frenzy by: Linda Mason (Saturday 8:30 a.m.)
If you love cooking and scrapbooking, you are going to love this class! No experience necessary, you’ll get on the job training. We will be making 8 x 8 scrapbook pages with a different theme for each recipe that make great gifts for wedding showers and or the holidays. You add recipes in a unique style and make several theme pages minus the recipe, which you can add at home. You will complete our themed double-page holiday cookies. Please bring one recipe no larger than 3 x 4 1/2”, scissors, and glue of your choice. Be prepared to have fun. This one might be so nice you won’t want to give it away, and your customers will love it!
Let’s Bleach by: Linda Mason (Saturday 11:00 am)
This quick-moving class will use unusual folds and envelopes along with bleach to make fantastic cards. We’ll add a little Adirondack ink and some trims and you will have works of art. We will do as many cards as time permits, so put on your running shoes and be ready to move! Please bring Tombow Adhesive and glue sticks.
Pat Niemuth ~ Along with her husband Paul own and operate Northwood’s Rubber Stamps, an original art line featuring wildlife and nature scenes inspired by her Wisconsin upbringing. Pat had a career as a physical therapist, but left her professional life in 1994 to start her business. Pat was a stamper back in the beginning, and has seen the industry develop along with her own stamping know-how. The Northwoods line of rubber stamps provide images and words that reflect Pat’s affinity for nature, family and friends.
A Family Fireplace by: Pat Niemuth (Friday 8:30 am)
Using Northwoods Rubber Stamps fireplace, stockings and present set, make a custom Christmas fireplace for your family. Using our special blending paper, Tombow markers and embellishments from Gary Burlin you can make a truly personalized, custom card to treasure and walk away with a perfect pre-holiday project to teach to your customers.
Spectacular Sunflowers by: Pat Niemuth (Friday 11:00 am)
Using our Northwoods sunflower stamps for fall, learn how to color and blend three sunflower cards using our special blending paper and Towbow markers. Add amazing accents and embellishments from Gary Burlin, and you’ve got masterpieces to share at your store.
Butterfly Beauty by: Pat Niemuth (Friday 5:15 pm)
Northwoods monarch butterfly stamps are featured on these three beautiful cards. We will use our special blending paper, Towbow markers and those awesome embellishments from Gary Burlin. When we 3-D the butterfly wings and apply the glitter, you’ll be amazed at how the images are transformed into unique cards.
Everything is Coming Up Roses by: Pat Niemuth (Saturday 8:30 am)
We promise you a rose garden! We’ll use our beautiful rose images to make three beautiful rose and garden of roses cards. With our special blending paper and Towbow markers, you will get expert watercolor results that will make your customers beg to know the secret! Embellish with accents from Gary Burlin and you’ll have cards to display or feature in classes.
It’s All About the Candy!!! by: Pat Niemuth (Saturday 11:00 am)
We’ve got new Halloween stamps for this fall, and you’ll make four special spook-tacular cards featuring our new images and our special blending paper. With Towbow markers and Gary’s wonderful embellishments, you’ll create eye-catching cards, and have so much fun, it’s scary!
Grids Galore by: Pat Niemuth (Saturday 2:45 pm)
Re-discover our grid stamps and all the possibilities you can do with our nine square grid and holiday cube stamps. In this class, you will make five cards that your customers will love using our nine square grid, and fall, Halloween and Christmas cubes. The grid stamp is great for beginning stampers up to advanced, so join us to learn how to introduce this basic stamp to your customers.
Stacy Rich ~ Stacy is the owner of Stacy Stamps, and been stamping for over 9 years. Stacy’s line of stamps are on the shelves of over 200 stores, throughout the United States and Canada, and her unique triangle designs have proven to be a hit everywhere. Stacy is a coloring master, and loves to bring her images to life with chalk, pencils, markers and watercolors. Along with her catalog, Stacy features her favorite techniques and images to fire up the creative juices on her web site (www.stacystamps.com) and she often travels to stamp stores around the country to demonstrate the versatility of her line.
Stamp and Punch Art by: Stacy Rich (Friday 8:30 am)
Punches, punches and more punches!!!! See how these little wonders can combine with stamped images can become a 3-D masterpiece! This class is NOT quick and easy – the projects take time, patience, and GLASSES. But the results are amazing!!
Together by: Stacy Rich (Friday 11:00 am)
StacyStamps, plain paper, embellishments and ink are all the tools you need to make beautiful cards and/or scrapbook pages. In this class we will do an A-2 card, 8 x 8 and 12 x 12 scrapbook pages, using only ink stamps and solid colored cardstock…. oh yes and YOUR IMAGINATION!!
The Marvelous Dove Blender by: Stacy Rich (Saturday 8:30 am)
The Dove Blender is one of the most versatile tools we have in stamping and scrapping. This tool can be used with watercolor pencils, crayons and markers to color highlight and add the illusion of dimension to our projects. Sit back, relax and COLOR!! Come let your inner child play with mine.
Templates Galore by: Stacy Rich (Saturday 11:00 am)
Gary is now carrying StacyStamp Templates and Die Cuts! Explore the FUN of creating something out of the ordinary with templates. Included will be quick and easy no tape triangle boxes, triangle envelopes, clever card closures and more!!
Judy Ross ~ A mixed media artist, Judy loves life and puts that zest for life into her classes. Judy has been a frequent guest on DIY TV and HGTV. Perhaps you have seen her showcasing rubber stamping and scrapbooking techniques. In fact, she was Tim Holtz's first rubber stamping teacher. She has been published in many Design Original's publications, Expression Magazine, and Rubber Stamper Magazine. She has a DVD and her own Design Original book on air-dried clay, and Judy travels extensively conducting paper arts workshops in the US and the UK.
Breaking the DaVinici Code by: Judy Ross (Friday 11:00 am)
Unravel the mysteries of France, Paris and Mona Lisa in this mixed media class. This will be done with Stamper's Anonymous stamps, Distress inks, and some mystery ingredients! Mona will be our starting point as we journey around France to finish our art creation. Your finished project will be a handmade book that will live in an altered container. Shhhhhhh! You'll love the mystery, intrigue, and discovery of the secret ingredient!
Distressing Isn't Just for Paper by: Judy Ross (Friday 2:45 pm)
Design unique artist trading cards while learning to turn papers into antique documents, change white card stock into leather, and alter air-dry clay into metal embellishments with patina. This will be fun, fun, fun with lots of stamping and altering.
Rochelle Schiffbauer ~The owner of Rubber Stamp Studio and Kidstamps knows that stampers come in all ages, shapes and sizes. She started stamping while still a kid herself with a set of Flintstone rubber stamps, and that love has lead to the designing and teaching she practices in her business. She completes as many as eight to ten “make and takes” per class, making sure that attendees walk away knowing they got a great value.
Sweet and Simple Cards by: Rochelle Schiffbauer (Friday 2:45 pm)
Don’t forget about the beginners or those customers who like quick and easy cards! Many people don't want to spend hours creating a card. This class is geared toward people who want lots of bang for their buck! You’ll leave with 10 fantastic cards loaded with great embellishments that will help you sell product! Cards will cover a variety of occasions, including Christmas since it’s time to really start pushing your holiday stamps! Don’t miss this fun and informative class!
Push That Product by: Rochelle Schiffbauer (Saturday 2:45 pm)
Have you ever had a well-attended class and at the end of the day the cash register did not reflect the fact that you had a store full of customers? This class will help you “push that product”! Gary carries a great variety of items that will enable you to increase your sales. We will be creating a variety of projects including a sun catcher, beaded pen, embellished box and more. All of these items are great gift items as well, just in time for the holidays!!!
Mara Shannon ~ Mara has been stamping for 16 years and scrapbooking for at least 10. She has taught many classes on card making, mini-albums, and beginning to advanced scrapbooking in several local stamping and scrapbooking stores. She has a Bachelor of Art degree in Graphic Design and likes to add an artistic flair to all of her projects. By working in the industry she knows the latest products and always comes up with unique ways to use multiple mediums. Her classes are jam packed with interesting techniques, helpful tips, and fun designs! Students find inspiration and confidence in their artistic genius after a class with Mara.
Rockin’ Ribbon by: Mara Shannon (Friday 2:45 pm)
There are so many really cool things you can do with ribbon on your scrapbook pages. Mara will show you some tips and techniques that will result in awesome pages that will have Gary’s new ribbons flying off your shelves. The ribbons will be rockin’ and you will be rollin’ out great pages!
Scrapbooking With Style by: Mara Shannon (Friday 5:15 pm)
These scrapbook pages will knock your socks off! Fun techniques and ways to use embellishments will surely stir you creative juices and send you home with super samples that will make you customer scramble to your store shelves.
Gary M. Burlin &
Stamping & Scrapping with Style
Phone: 800-659-PENS
FAX: 216-361-3963
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