Artist Trading Cards are all the rage in the artist community and what better way to share your creativity with your friends and fellow artists than trading a beautiful masterpiece with them. Learn the Ins and Outs of creating, sending and hosting swaps in this 4 week, 8 lesson class. We’ll start out the course with a unique binder to store your treasures in with each consecutive lesson featuring a new technique to adorn your ATC. We’ll learn techniques like: hand and machine sewing, a variety of image transfer, stamping, watercolor painting, using fabric on your cards and more.

INSTRUCTOR: Catherine Scanlon

COST: $30.00 USD

START: 23rd March, 2012

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Heidi’s class includes:

• Access to a pre-classroom immediately upon registration for class – including a slideshow presentation and observation journal assignment
  
• Supply list with live links to product resources
  
• Welcome notes from Heidi in the classroom
  
• One observation assignment per week
  
• 12 Projects – step-by-step instructions and a video tutorial for one project per week
  
• Additional audio and video messages from Heidi throughout class
  
• Two live-streaming web shows with Heidi
  
• Two online group chats with Heidi
  
• Bonus printables and digital cutting files
  
• Private classroom blog, where Heidi will be interacting with the class on a regular basis
  
• Private posting gallery to share your work and view the work of your classmates
  
• Message board to share your thoughts with your classmates
  
• Email access to Heidi Swapp

INSTRUCTOR: Heidi Swapp

COST: $99.00 USD

START: 5th April 2012

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This course will introduce you to the practice of cultivating gratitude. You will learn the benefits of “thinking thankfully” as we create a gratitude journal from scratch and set up a variety of unique pages perfectly suited for daily recordings of your blessings.   As we cultivate a habit of recording our gratitude in our new journals, we will soon see that it’s hard to keep our new “attitudes of gratitude” all to ourselves. With this in mind, the course will also include quick projects that are perfect for sharing and letting others know how thankful we are for them.

INSTRUCTOR: Karen Hunter

COST: $25.00 USD

START DATE: March 30, 2012

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In Creative Chemistry 101 Tim Holtz teaches the “science” behind it all. This class will give you the confidence to experiment with an abundance of techniques and give you ideas for ways to use all the creative mediums in your stash. This jam-packed online workshop is your front row seat to 100% technique know-how.

Complete with videos, downloadable tips and tricks, and printable technique labels – this is not your typical project based class. In fact it’s more of an artful exploration where our main objective is the mastering of technique as we focus on creating technique tag swatches with step by step instruction labels on the back. These handy tags will be a useful tool for you to reference on all of your future projects and take the guess work out of how to do it all.

INSTRUCTOR: Tim Holtz

COST: $35.00 USD

START: 19th March 2012

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Twinkling H2Os by Luminarte are luscious little pots of shimmering watercolors. Designed by Leslie Ohnstad at Dreaming in Color, the vibrancy and intensity of Twinks is spectacular. They are laced with the mineral mica and other proprietary minerals which refract light and give them their glorious shimmer.

This class is a journey with artist Dion Dior that explores Twinkling H2Os in many ways, with a mix of traditional methods and exciting new techniques. Your work will soon dance with light and sparkle. Each class will come to you in a PDF document. The pages will discuss theory, technique and application. Hands-on exercises and projects will let you test theories and explore.

The class has been designed for all skill levels, Dion makes it easy for the beginner to grasp while challenging the advanced student to push their limits. Dion will unlock the secrets behind the Twinkling H20s while making you feel at home.

Lesson 1: All About “Twinks”
In this lesson, we begin by discussing how this course will work and what to expect on a week-by-week basis. We discuss the structure and beauty of Twinkling H2O’s and look at some of the traditional uses for them. We will dive right in and explore their capabilities in a series of exercises by playing around with our favorite colors on a variety of surfaces.

a) Exercise: Stamping & Dabbing
b) Exercise: Spraying & Spritzing
c) Exercise: Brushing & Blending
d) Project: Beautiful Greeting Cards

Lesson 2: Twinkling Color
In this lesson, we will explore the staggering range of colors available in Twinkling H2O’s. We will play look at color theory and the color wheel to discover some incredible and unexpected results unique to Twinks. We will look at the bare essential color choices and what colors to choose when building your palette. We will explore in more detail the effects of “Twinks” on different background and using some of the techniques learned in lesson one, we will create a series of spectacular ATC’s (Artist Trading Cards) using different types of paper.

a) Exercise: Creating a Color Wheel
b) Exercise: Mixing Colors in Triads
c) Exercise: Building a Color Chart
d) Project: Shimmering ATC’s

Lesson 3: A Twinkling Masterpiece
In this lesson, we will go the next step and master painting with “Twinks”. We will apply traditional watercolor theory to attain rather untraditional results. We will learn about layering, shading and adding dimension and discover ways to enhance “Twinks” with acrylic, glitter and more in mixed media projects, with spectacular results.

a) Exercise: Wet on Wet, Wet on Dry
b) Exercise: Layering & Shading
c) Exercise: “Twinks” & Mixed Media
d) Project: “Fantasy Garden” Masterpiece

INSTRUCTOR: Dion Dior

COST:  $48.00, includes $10.00 for $25.00 gift card to purchase luminarte supplies

START: 13th April 2012

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Card Boot Camp, Boys to Men: Cardmakers, grab a stack of blank cards, put on some comfy clothes and join us for Card Boot Camp: Boys to Men. We’ll take the challenge and mystery out of creating masculine cards with inspiration from three MCC instructors and loads of examples. Show us just how tough you really are as we spend the next three weeks creating cards for the guys in your life…from Boys to Men.

Included in this three week class:

• 9 brand new, never seen before sketches.
• Tons of inspiration to help you use your supplies to create an army of cards.
• Card themes include birthday, congratulations, love, just because
• Weekly emphasis on specific topics and themes including: translating a feminine-looking sketch into a masculine card, color combinations, making your own embellishments, and more. (See course outline for more details and a list of weekly themes.)
• Simple instructions, supply list, and measurements for each card.

Instructors: Shirley Pando, Linda Dotterer and Jeri Parks

Cost: $25.00 USD

Start: April 3, 2012

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In this class, you will learn how to:

• Follow a sketch exactly or easily modify it to fit what works for you.
  
• Turn a single page sketch into a double page layout.
  
• Use the same sketch again and again to create unique pages.
  
• Modify sketches to work for different size layouts.
  
• Unleash your creative ability.
  
• Tell your stories.
  
• Use up some of your stash.
  
• Have fun and create beautiful pages!

INSTRUCTOR: Lisa Day

COST: $28.00 USD

START: 29th March 2012

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If you have been afraid to work with acrylic or love the look of acrylic but are unsure how to approach it- this is the class for you! If you simply want to make an amazing acrylic mini album, then you will love this class.

In this acrylic mini album class you will be learning all the tricks to working with acrylic while creating an amazing keepsake that will last a lifetime.

Techniques in this class:

• Trimming and properly cutting acrylic
• Stamping on acrylic
• Sewing through your acrylic
• Proper adhesive uses for acrylic
• Alcohol inks and acrylic
• How to glitter acrylic
• Adding embellishments that STAY on acrylic
• Embossing acrylic
• Heat molding your acrylic

INSTRUCTOR: Cristal Hobbs

COST: $25.00 USD

START: 13th March 2012

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In this class I will take you step by step to draw girls and flowers in my whimsical, doodle art style.
We will draw and the “color” our subjects and I’ll show you how to make these girls and flowers come alive.
This course is for everyone. For those of you with no drawing skills at all, to more experienced drawers who just want to try out a new style.
The course includes PDF files that will remind you of the pen strokes we used to make both the girls and the flowers.

INSTRUCTOR: Cathy Bluteau

COST: $30.00 USD

START: 26th March 2012

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Getting started with digital scrapbooking doesn’t have to be hard, and you don’t need to know all of the ins and outs of Photoshop to create something awesome! This workshop will introduce you to digital quick albums. Molly’s new quick album, Love Is, combines her love for simple scrapbook design with a modern splash of color. All the design work of the album is done for you. You’ll make it your own by adding photos and journaling.

Instead of overloading you with Photoshop tools and technical terms, you’ll learn only what’s applicable for this project. This is a great introduction to digital scrapbooking and you’re going to love your finished photo book!

INSTRUCTOR: Molly Weight

COST: $14.00 USD

START:  29th March 2012

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