I was away the end of last week, in Phoenix at our Spellbinders design team training and what fun we had! Jeff & Stacey Caron, Spellbinders owners, were the most gracious hosts and the most fabulous people you'd ever want to meet! My deepest thanks to them, once again, for inviting me into their family, for all they've done for the team so far and what I know is yet to come . . . hang on to your seats, folks, because Spellbinders is going to be rocking the papercrafting industry this year!
It so much fun to get to know all the other designers and staff members and I wanted to share a few photos. First, my roommates for the trip:
L-R: Fabulous scrapbooker, Sally Lynn MacDonald * My Paper Salon & Paper Crafts stamping idol, Jennifer Ellefson * Fellow Splitcoast Dirty Girl Alumni, Linda Duke <== Click on their names to visit their blogs.
Me and Stacey Caron:
What a pleasure it was to meet Stacy (and Jeff!) -- It was amazing to see how similar our styles are, not only in stamping & papercrafting, but also in wardrobe and home decorating!
An amazing bonus to our Spellbinders training was a training session by Marianne Walker from Copic (yes, as in those fabulous markers we all know and love!). Marianne is a wonderful graphic artist and product specialist for Copic and she shared a lot of interesting techniques and color theories . . . I can't wait to try them out and show all of you some great tips I learned:
Above, Marianne was teaching us all how to use the Copic Airbrushing System and here I am giving it my best first shot:
I'll have to show you all later, what I came up with! On top of getting to play with all of our new toys, we are all Copic Certified Designers now!! It will be a fun year ahead, combining these wonderful tools together (Spellbinders & Copic) and I hope you all will join me in the journey!
Here's a group shot of all of us our last night together in Phoenix:
L-R: Stacey & Jeff Caron, Me, Sally Lynn MacDonald, Michelle Klomp, Jennifer Ellefson. Standing tall in back: Holly Craft & Jeni Calkins. Kim Hupke (design team coordinator in blue). Top right: Linda Duke & Cathy Chlebana (senior designer). Middle right: Wendy Weixler, Heidi Blankenship & Donya Schroeder. Bottom right: Beth Pingry (senior designer) & Eli Harlan (media relations editor). (<== Again, click on the highlighted names to visit these additional blogs)
As soon as my box of goodies arrives at my house tomorrow, I'll share a photo of all the loot we got from Spellbinders and our preferred product providers . . . it will blow your mind!! Also join us tomorrow morning for Beate's weekend sketch challenge. Until then . . .
