There is no beating around the bush right now…  I am just too excited!

On April 9th and 10th I will be teaching a 4 course session on mixed media for CreativeLive!!!!!!

I cannot even begin to explain how nervous and excited I am about this opportunity!

And here is the coolest part – I will have a few people live in the audience, making along with me!

If you are at all interested in being in the San Francisco audience, you can check out the info ***HERE***!

Class registration for the live streaming event will be coming soon and I will share that as soon as I can.

Now, I am off to pinch myself and finish prepping the materials for the class!

They are up, live, and now even have the pics of the final projects on them!

This is seriously a dream come true and I hope that some of you will log in for the live event, even for just a little bit!  I would love to know friendly faces are out in the audience!

The 2 day session streams live for free or you can individually purchase each class.  I am doing 4 projects all that are mixed media…

Here is the link to my first class and an image of what we will be making:

https://www.creativelive.com/courses/introduction-mixed-media-stephenie-hamen

You can find info on the other three classes there, plus I will continue to share info here!

Well spring has sprung and you can tell by the types of projects we have this week!

First up is a video I did for favecrafts, creating fun party poppers using toilet paper tubes and Hazel & Ruby DIY Decor Tape!

Next up is a tutorial from Margot Potter that helps you identify what you need to get started in metal stamping.

Next up, Cathie and Steve show us how to make Easter ready crackled eggs!

Mark Montano shares a DIY on how to create bright and festive Mexican tin folk art!

Margot then shares the cutest bunch of Peeps this side of the Mississippi, destined to add a touch of fun to your Easter table this year!

Cathy Attix of Trinkets in Bloom shares an adorable flowered Easter basket project with us!

And finally, I am sharing information about my upcoming class with CreativeLive in early April!

I hope you are feeling as ready for spring as we are here today and that we have your weekend crafty juices ready to rock!

I have been blessed to be able to not only be friends with the fabulous Ken Oliver, but I also have gotten to work with him and help him launch his new products.

This week we are partnering up with The Stencil Girl for a little blog hop action to help spread the love of Ken’s Color Burst products and The Stencil Girl stencils.

This is the project I put together… I hope you like it.

Oh, and  be sure to leave a comment – I have 6 prize packs of products to give away…  SIX!!!!!  I will pick the winners on Sunday, 3/29/15 at noon CST.

So this might seem like a lot steps, but really it is just adding different layers of color – the technique for mixing and applying is always the same.  The layers are the thing…

Here are the supplies you will need:

• Color burst:
  • Pthalo Green
  • Orange
  • Lemon Yellow
  • Violet
  • Ultramarine Blue
• Stencils
  • Circles Circles
  • Journal Texture Stencil #2
  • Doodle It Tornado Flowers Stencil
• White Gesso
• Clear Gesso
• F&W Liquid Acrylic Ink
• Mixing surface – I used foil sheets
• Popsicle sticks and foam brushes
• Artist Board
• Wine cork
• Paper towels
• Spray bottle
• Heat gun
• Stamps
• Ink

How to put it all together:

1.  Put white gesso onto your mixing surface, add in your first color burst color.  Mix until color is evenly distributed and the shade that you want.

2.  Using your first stencil, add your gesso to the canvas.  Pick it up and move it several times for added thickness and textures.  Don’t be afraid to experiment.

3.  Let this layer dry.

4.  This time mix your color into clear gesso.  This will give you a translucent result rather than an opaque result which is what you get from the white gesso.  You can even mix colors to create a custom shade!

5.  Let this layer dry as well.

6.  Do another color and layer…  I chose yellow.

7.  Dry.

8.  Mix a contracting color and then dab it on using a wine cork.  Simple, but it adds a different shape and texture to the piece.

9.  Dry.

10.  Add gesso straight to the board now.  Then sprinkle in a color and swirl it until you like it.

11.  Next reduce this with a paper towel and some water…  you will wipe part of it away, leaving it as more of a shadow than a bold statement…

12.  Dry.

13.  Using your ink and your stamps, add your sentiment.

14.  All that is left is to add some bright swirls using your liquid acrylic ink and you are all set and done!

Here are some final images…

Now, for more inspiration, be sure to visit our other blog hoppers:

Stencil Girl Talk

Kirsten Reed

and

Maria McGuire

This past week was absolutely amazing.

It was truly one of the coolest weeks that I have had in a long, long time and after all of the prep and planning, it was over.  Just like that.  And I was left with time to reflect, process, and react to a lot of what has happened over the last few months…  so I did.

For the last few months I have been busily putting together my four classes for CreativeLive, which was an opportunity that I could not be more grateful to Lain Ehmann for.

That was my first reflection – to be grateful.  I am grateful to Lain for introducing me to their team.  I am grateful to whomever it was that backed out of their taping, leaving a hole in the schedule that I could fill.  I am grateful to the supremely organized and well-oiled machine that is CreativeLive.  I am grateful to the sponsors that so generously sent product – Walnut Hollow, iLovetoCreate, Ranger, Faber-Castell, and Tonic.  I am grateful to my husband for supporting me in chasing these crazy dreams of mine.  I am just filled with gratitude…  it bubbles over in tears I am so full.

For weeks, we have been on phone calls, planning, talking, and organizing these classes.  I have been furiously making, typing, kitting, shipping, and prepping.  When we were done with day one, Elizabeth, my producer, equated the experience to planning a wedding.  And it kind of felt that way.  Tons and tons of work, and then, it is just here and over before you know it.

By the end of day two, I was feeling great about how it all went, but sad that it was over so soon…  it was over as fast as it had started.  We toasted with a wrap party.  We hugged.  We took pics.  We traded contact info.  And then everyone went on their way…  me included.

I ventured out for dinner and then back to the hotel for an early night.

My hotel was very old school chic.  The Hotel Mark Twain.  Billie Holiday was once arrested for opium there.  It is full of character and inspiration and charm.

That last night in San Fransisco I ventured to the hidden hummingbird garden.  Immediately upon opening the door to this secret garden, my eyes filled with tears and my body was overcome.  I began shaking, crying, and just collapsed into a chair out there, all alone.

Luckily no one else was out there and as I walked the little path of reclaimed wood, beyond blooming flowers, two fountains, ferns, and twinkle lights, I felt myself breathe.  I mean really, truly breathe.  I found a little seat, put myself in it and I just let the tears come.  They ran down my cheeks, warm and salty, and I just let myself melt into that spot.

This was the view from my seat.  I could faintly hear the sounds of the city, but all of the walls muffled most of it out.  The fountain was bubbling away and I sat there.

All of the other reflections started, beyond just gratitude.

I felt relief.  A sense that everything was alright for the first time in a really long time.

I felt peace.  I sat there and let this immense and intense peace wash over me.  I closed my eyes, put my head back, and it just filled my heart and soul.

I felt joy.  I not only had just completed this amazing task and journey, but I had done it well (I think… I hope!)  I got to visit a city I had never been to before.  I met awesome, talented, and kind people – creatives – like me.  I smiled from ear to ear.

I talked to God.  I thanked Him, reflecting on what just happened these past few months.  I asked Him to continue to speak to my heart…  to continue to guide my path.  I thanked Him for leading me to this secret oasis in the middle of the city.  I asked for strength, courage, and determination.  I prayed.  I meditated.  I listened.

I felt my life in a way I never had before.  I was in the moment.  I was wholly in the moment, letting every emotion and thought in, acknowledging it, and feeling it.

There was something magical about this little place that I realized had been under my window, below my fire escape the entire time.  I just hadn’t looked…

How many things do we miss because we just don’t look, really look?

I guess I can sum up the last week like this…

Life moves on.  There are these big, bad, scary moments that we think define us and make us who we are.  We think we won’t get beyond their borders.  We are sure that this is the end of the road.  We feel like we are pushed into a corner and trapped, never to escape.

If we just turn around, the path is there.  It might not be straight.  It might not be smooth.  It might have spots to stop, meditate, and reflect, but it is there.  We just have to open our eyes and our hearts to it.

There is life beyond what was your life for years.

And often, it is better than anything you could have imagined.

Take a chance.

Take a step.

Have faith.

Life can be pretty damn amazing if you just believe you deserve for it to be…

The last month has been insane.

After returning home from San Fran, life got nutty.  I have been working and fighting my fibro, visiting my building for a walk through and applying for grant money, and getting ready for art fair season.

Tonight I have the Artful Wine Walk here in Sun Prairie and then we kick into the last few weeks of school, Owen’s birthday, and baseball season.  Needless to say, life is moving pretty darn fast.

That said, I also had time to get some new pieces of art done and added to the store…

Hopefully next week I will have time to write a real blog post and to chat with all of you about what is all going on around here!

Happy Spring everyone!

I love getting to play and create for a living – it truly reminds me how blessed I am.

Getting to create this project made me even more happy because I got to create, not only with the fabulousness that Hazel & Ruby provides, but I got to use some fun products from UmWow too!

Here’s what you will need:

• Hazel & Ruby Pass the Tissue in Mod Gray/White Polka Dot
• UmWow From the Heart Flair
• UmWow Hexagon Background
• UmWow Chevron Arrow
• UmWow Border and Backer
• Decoupage
• Paint Brushes
• Adhesive
• Glitter
• Photo
• Scissors
• Acrylic Paint

How to put it together:

1.  Paint the base of the frame white so that when you add the tissue paper you get a good result.

2.  Paint the rest of the UmWow pieces and let them dry.

3.  Decoupage on a single sheet of the Hazel & Ruby tissue paper.  Let that dry completely.  Trim off any excess.

4.  Add glitter to arrow and let that dry.

5.  Begin layering pieces.

6.  Use pop dots on the photo to add extra dimension and depth.

7.  Finish adding additional pieces over the photo to complete the project!

Now you can display this lovely little piece anywhere in the house!

I am thrilled to tell you that creativelive will be rebroadcasting my Photo Transfers for Mixed Media class on November 6th!  You can watch it for free during that broadcast or you can purchase it for only $29.00 up until then – after that it is $39.00.

This is one of my favorite classes and I hope you have time to check it out!

First off – My 3D Mixed Media Class will be available for FREE on December 22nd – so be sure to check it out!

Additionally, they are hosting a HUGE Holiday sale, so get to CreativeLive before the end of the year to get the best deals out there!

Today was all about getting set and started on my 40 days of intention.

I decided to do a day of cleansing and purging to help start the year and this process of intention off with a clean slate.

So, I cleansed.  Everything.

• I cleaned the house.
• I smudged the house.  This was a new endeavor for me.  I have never done this before.  It was intense and wonderful.  Matt had taken the kids out for the morning, so I was able to full commit to a walking meditation while smudging the house.  It was a very comforting and spiritual feeling.  I felt lighter and like the house was somehow more blessed and free…  it was great.
• Then I did a cleansing bath: Epsom salt, lavender essential oil, joy essential oil, and baking soda.  Hot water, soaking and listening to music, relaxing and detoxing myself.  It was wonderful.
• Then I began to purge some of the “stuff” in our house, pairing down what was going back after the holiday decorations and starting to create my purge pile for this year.  We will be doing a lot of this throughout the year.  I want to let go of the “stuff” but keep the memories.  They are not mutually exclusive.

Now, I got to thinking about some other ways that I could cleanse the house and myself, that maybe would be additional ways to help clear out and reset the slate.

• Neti Pot it up…  clean out the sinuses!
• Detox tea – which I will be drinking later.  A great way to just continue to get the toxins out.
• Steam clean the carpets – too much work for me today, but maybe I will get Matt on that!
• Facial mask/facial – clear out the skin.
• Burning ritual – write out things that you want to let go of – feelings, relationships, junk that’s stuck…  then burn it (carefully!).  A great way to let go of bottled up bits you need to move on.

There are so many more, but these are just a few that I particularly like.

Today that meditation and cleansing was a focus of my mind – I truly gave myself over to that task, fully engaging in every aspect of it.  I felt completely refreshed, rejuvenated, and ready to start a new journey in my life.

Now that the slate is clean and I am ready to be more attentive and intentional, I am off to play Monopoly with my boys – no tv, no phone – just music, family, and laughter.

The first day of my 40 day journey has set the pace for the rest of this journey and I am so excited to see where this goes!

Intention is an awesome thing.  Then life kicks in, you get sick, and you lose a week on the couch and in a pile of Kleenex.

Here’s where I am on my 40 days of intentional living and what I have learned so far:

• I hug a little longer.
• I laugh a little more.
• I also cry a little more because I feel everything a little more.
• I am making strides to address my fibro in new ways with a new doc and being intentional on treatment follow-ups, etc…
• I put my phone down and engage a little more.
• I try to speak a little less and listen a little more.
• No matter what YOUR intention is, LIFE has other ideas – ie days of the crud invading my body…
• I am flawed in lots and lots and lots of ways, but I am also making positive steps to change some of those flaws.
• I don’t have time for drama – I am a no drama mama, as I tell the boys.  I’m too old for that high school crap.  And, my cup is empty – I have no more F*&%$ left to give.
• I am braver than I knew.
• I am stronger than I knew.

It isn’t much, I know, but it is a start…

I hope that your first month of 2016 has been good and that you remember to be true to yourself, your heart, your art, and your vision.

Recently I have been working on some pieces that are different for me.  They aren’t the normal bright colors I typically use, nor are they little whimsical doodles.

These pieces are the kind of project that wake you up in the middle of the night, needle you to be made, and continue to grow in scope as you go.

As a reader of “Big Magic” by Elizabeth Gilbert, her thoughts on how inspiration can strike, take hold, and want to be born is something that I have actually felt.  This collection of pieces is that.

Now, I am not done.  I have several more pieces in progress – all part of this “Sticks and Stones: 2016 The Year of the Woman” collection/idea.  And more keep rolling through my brain.  I write them down on little scraps of paper – whatever is handy – and add them to the growing pile at home.

Here’s a bit of one that is a work in progress…

I am not sure what has moved me this direction – to assemblage and the telling of women’s stories from across the globe – but something has.  And it is a powerful force, pulling and pushing on me with all of its might, begging to be made.

So here are the first few in the collection:

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Mixed media assemblage – wood, sticks, stones, fabric, yarn, acrylic paint, metal, embossing powders

12: #proudtobleed

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mixed media assemblage: wood box, sticks, stones, acrylic paints, inks, vintage papers, map, metal

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superwoman: aka The Kragel

Mixed Media Assemblage: Wood, acrylic paint, sticks, stones, adhesive, vintage paper, ink, wire

superwoman: AKA The Kragel

In case you missed it last year, Introduction to Mixed Media will be airing again on the 25th for free on CreativeLive!

In addition, it is currently on sale for only $29!  With this, you get the bonus materials and unlimited access to the class whenever you want!

I hope that you will take the time to check it out!

Up// Pen and watercolor on bristol paper by Stephenie Hamen, The Vintage Prairie

This quote has been bugging me ever since someone shared it on facebook as a pretty, eye-catching, soul-crushing photo…

“Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do” – Oprah Winfrey

I took my normal screen grab picture of it and filed it away with all of the other little quotes that I tend to save, but it has been needling me and needling me, over and over again.

There is just something about it that has crawled under my skin.

She is the go-to for living your dreams, following your soul, envisioning your future, etc…

“Do what you have to” seems so out of line with her normally lofty, idyllic frame of reference, that it threw me for a loop.

I decided to take a step back and truly think about it.  I meditated on it.  I prayed on it.  I tried my best to figure out why it was getting me so riled up.  And then I figured it out.

It is a truth.

It is a 100% honest-to-goodness, no-holds-barred, like-it-or-not truth.

And it is upsetting, terrifying, unsettling, and disappointing on some level.

We talk so much these days about living our dreams, going after what we want, striving to do what makes us happy, work should be our passion, and all that jazz.  Reading this quote shakes that happy-go-lucky belief right down to its candy-coated core.

Now, I am not saying that living your dreams is easy either – it is hard work – but it is also passion-centered work which is different from the typical daily grind and it is something we all want to do with loving, dedicated hearts.  Several of us know what it is, we want it desperately, and we work hard for it every single day after the grind is over.

This quote, this one simple line of truth…  it rings out loud that, while we strive for our dreams, there is a level of responsibility that we have to keep in check – we have to work the grind and “do what you have to do” while laying the plans, the foundation, and part of the net in order to be able to “do what you want to do.”

And that is actually a bit disheartening when all you want to do is leap over the chasm into the net, leaving the grind in the dust.

If you don’t build the net, however, what catches you when you finally make the leap?

And, how do you know it is time?  How long is it “until”?  What if “until” comes and you miss it, worried about building the net, the foundation, and working the grind, preparing?

How do not let “until” pass you by?

This…  this is the question that keeps coming back into my heart, into my head, and into my meditation.  When does “until” become today?  When does “have to do” go away and “want to do” take over?

Oh Oprah…  the question and the dilemma is real.

Flare//Watercolor and Ink on Bristol paper by Stephenie Purl Hamen

I’ve always loved science.

I have.

What I like about it is the predictability at one level, but the complete surprise at another level.  Meaning that you go into something – an experiment or problem – with a theory, an idea of how it will all turn out in the end.  You run your experiment or trial and you get an outcome.  Sometimes it is what you predicted it would be.  Other times it is so far removed from what you thought you were doing that you are shocked by the end result.

Life is also this way.  We think we know, but we don’t.  We try and either succeed or we fail.  Either way, however, we have learned something.

And now I have started to apply this to my art.  I am trying new things, different things from what I have done in the past.  I am reaching inside, rather than just scraping my surface, and trying to create pieces with a bit more depth and meaning behind them.

I think that as humans and as artists, it is critical that we continue to try new things, different things, and fail so that we can learn and later succeed.

That is how we grow.  And, with art, you get the chance to just “do.”  Trying a new art form isn’t going to drastically damage anything.  It is a chance to experiment, to try, to play, to explore, and to create.  If it is a successful experiment, awesome.  If it is a result that is less than stellar, so what?

The point it to continue to evolve, tell your story, make your art.  As I start my 40th year I am realizing that I have to make art for me. Not for other people or because I think it will sell well.  I have to be authentic and make pieces that reflect who I am, what I believe, what I live, and where I want to go.  Not that other works I have done haven’t done that, but when I look at some of what I have been doing lately, I see a difference.

I am working in different media, on different surfaces, with different thoughts in my mind or no thoughts at all…  it is just about creating, playing, experimenting.

It is also about following my muse, or that creative genius force that Elizabeth Gilbert talks about in Big Magic.  Sometimes lightning strikes and you have to go with it, grab it, harness it, and create the thing born from the strike.  If you don’t, then someone else will.  It is an idea that needs to be created.  It came to you.  If you ignore it, don’t nurture it, or completely refuse it, it will not belong to you.

That is what I am doing often now – creating pieces that hit me like a burst. Paintings that I saw while crying my way through physical therapy one afternoon.  Assemblage pieces that I saw in the dreams you have right before you wake up that illustrate a story I read in the news one day.

These are the trial and error pieces that I am following and working on.  I have no idea where they will go or if anyone will respond to them – and I honestly don’t care.  I just know in my soul that these pieces called out to me to be made.  And I listened.

So, are you willing to take a gamble, try a little artful experiment of your own?

I am writing this as a reminder to myself, to prop myself up a bit you could say.

Recently two different art proposals that I applied for were rejected.  One was a large one that I knew was a long shot, but I knew if I didn’t at least try I would be kicking myself. The other was for an artist in residence opportunity.

Both were solid “no’s” – respectful and nice, but form letter no’s.

Nothing personal addressing my body of work.

Nothing to help guide me to improvements.

Just a form letter no.

Rejection stings…  it really does.  It makes a person second-guess what they are doing, judge themselves, and look at their work with a hyper-critical eye while staring at a large, beautiful door that is closed in your face.

But then, the clouds part, the light begins to shine, and you start to realize that the door did not open for a reason.

It wasn’t your door or at least not right now.  It might open a few years from now… maybe the timing was just off.

Or maybe another door to another opportunity will open instead.  You have the key, but that was just the wrong lock.

So you pull yourself back up, strap on your big girl pants, put on that pair of boots that makes you feel invincible, and you keep going.  You apply for another gallery exhibition, another event, another class…  you just move forward.

If we let rejection kick us down and we just stay there, hidden among the tall grass, we will never succeed.

We have to get up and try again.

And get knocked down all over again…  Only to repeat this process.

No one ever said success was easy – if it was, everyone would be successful.

No one ever said working for yourself, living creatively, or putting yourself out there for the world was easy either, because it is not.

You have to have thick skin and a resilience that only the successful know because they have tried and failed, over and over again, never giving up because they knew that the next attempt could be “the one.”

Think about authors – how many of them do you think sent their first draft to one editor and had it accepted?  Hmmmm?  Not many at all.

Most spend YEARS sending and re-sending out manuscripts, outlines, and ideas before someone bites.  It is an exhausting, yet ultimately rewarding endeavor.  Some never make it to publication, but that doesn’t mean that it was wasted – it just meant that they had something else to learn.  And successful writers learn this and continue to write without giving up.

As an artist that wants to do more than make pretty stuff for myself, I get this.  If I want to find success as an artist, I have to take the bad with the good, the failure with the success, and the hard knocks.  Failure and rejection are often the key to the future – they are opportunities to learn, to grow, and to become a better version of ourselves which shapes, influences, and changes our art.

So, my first few attempts at spreading beyond my comfort zone didn’t take…  so what?

I am not about to throw my hands up in the air and give up.  Nope.

I am moving forward…  towards the right door for me.

I might not yet know what that might be or what it might look like, but as long as I keep working hard I will always know that I gave it my all, and, for me, rejection is significantly better than the regret of never trying at all and living with “what if…”

A few months ago, Mary reached out, asking for me to do a custom piece for her, based off of a quote that she loved and wanted to be incorporated into the work.  She had seen my work at a local shop, The Regal Find, and asked for my contact info.

Needless to say, I was thrilled to do a custom piece for her and it was great fun getting back to what I love to do – make art.

While it was slow going at first and nerve racking…  I always worry about disappointing someone when I do something like this…  it was a true joy to get to do this for her.

After delivering it to her home, she said I could share it with all of you.  I hope you love it as much as Mary does and as much as I do as well!

And, as a bonus, I have created an 8×10 free download for you of this piece!  Here’s the link to get to get yours!

This piece has long been one of my favorites, for several reasons.

• It was one of my first mixed media projects.
• It includes the boat I created in a national collaboration with other artists.
• It makes me smile every single time I look at it.

That said, I am currently starting to clean out some of the art that has started to live in my house to make way for new…

Out with the old – in with the new as they say.

I am in this mode right now of moving out, pairing down, and cleaning up in order to allow new ideas, new art, and new opportunities to flow into my life from every direction.

And while I love this piece – it has been hanging in my living room for a few years now – it is time to create space to allow for the next phase of my creative journey to begin.

There is something to be said of editing.  It allows us to see where we were, where we have been, and acknowledge it.  This piece represents an important phase in my artistic career and I value it as such.  That said, I want to be able to replace with something from THIS phase of my career, something that represents where I am now and where I hope to be going in the future.

So – my house cleaning is your opportunity to purchase some of my original artworks that have either never been up for sale, or pieces that have been up for sale at reduced prices!

Keep an eye out as I will be listing new pieces of art each day!

Thank you for your ongoing support and for your love of my artwork!!!!

“Sail”  Mixed Media on canvas 24″x36″

"sail" original mixed media on canvas

mixed media on canvas 24"x26" acrylic paint, wax, ephemera, handcrafted paper boat, pen
Available Qty: 1

I have written about this more times than I care to.

I have been writing it in my head, in my art journals, and on my computer over and over.

Each time the story changes slightly… each time I was in a different stage of dealing with a 2 year lock down. (Don’t know the story – that’s okay.  I used to work at Fiskars.)

Each time I was feeling sorry for myself.  Each time I was not taking action.  Each time I was blaming and shaming at some level.

Two years came and went.  October 2^nd will be forever known as liberation day at my house and it was over and done with before I knew it.

Life went on.

It keeps moving on.

I had planned to tell the full tale of how things came to be… then I realized I didn’t need to and didn’t want to.  Things happened.

Life happened.

And now that it is all over and done with without any real fanfare or earth-shattering issues, I am moving on.

Quickly and excitedly, I am moving on.

It is funny how things change, evolve, and adjust in life.  How loyalty that only runs one way can upset the apple cart so profoundly, yet quietly.  You find yourself in a position of making an announcement that you never dreamed of just 2 years ago… and yet you are beyond thrilled to be making it.

Today I am announcing a HUGE change in my crafting professional life.

Just days after my October 2^nd release date, I was in contact with a colleague in the UK and by Friday of this past week, he and I, along with another colleague from California were on the phone and I was on a brand new path.

I am back in the craft world, officially.

I will be working, starting immediately, part-time as an Engagement Marketer for the US market for Tonic Studios.

I am blessed, happy, and ready to get started.

The Tonic team has been soooo amazing to work with these last few weeks and I could not be more ready to jump in and help them grow their market share and their brand recognition in the US.

I will be helping them with social media engagement, product launches, and so much more…

I am going to be creating, playing, sharing, blogging, and curating projects, ideas, tips, and tricks for several of their products here in the US.

I cannot wait to get started and I hope that you will come along on this adventure with me!!

There is no beating around the bush right now…  I am just too excited!

On April 9th and 10th I will be teaching a 4 course session on mixed media for CreativeLive!!!!!!

I cannot even begin to explain how nervous and excited I am about this opportunity!

And here is the coolest part – I will have a few people live in the audience, making along with me!

If you are at all interested in being in the San Francisco audience, you can check out the info ***HERE***!

Class registration for the live streaming event will be coming soon and I will share that as soon as I can.

Now, I am off to pinch myself and finish prepping the materials for the class!