Teachers
Tim Holtz
Tim Holtz is the Creative Director for Ranger Industries, one of the leading manufacturers of innovative inks, paints, and embossing products. Tim plays an integral part in the development and design of cutting edge paper crafting products. Tim has also teamed up with various key companies like Advantus/idea-ology, Tonic Studios, Stampers Anonymous, Sizzix/Alterations, and Coredinations to bring unique products that work hand in hand with Ranger’s extensive lines.
As a well known designer, Tim travels across the country and internationally to educate and introduce people to his world of ink techniques, clever projects, and so much more. His book “A Compendium of Curiosities” is filled with creative and inspiring ideas for beginner paper crafters and beyond. He truly lives his motto to live the life you’ve imagined. “In a world where the moments of our lives can be captured and created in art of the everyday, it’s important it reflects our own unique personality. Finding just the right objects, accents, and tools to use are most important. Whatever your artistic vision is, exploring the imaginative is a chance for our creativity to escape understanding and embrace imperfection. Remember life isn’t about finding yourself - life is about creating yourself…”
Margie Romney Asslet
Margie started her Scrapbooking career at a little scrapbook store in Mesa, Arizona, Scrabooks Etc. She loved working there and teaching her class Card Crazy! While working there Margie had the opportunity to be a contributing artist for 2 Bazzill books Bazzill Color and Eclectic! While living in Arizona Margie worked for Deluxe Designs where she taught all over the country, was a contributing artist for the book Card Crazy and designed her first paper line, Margie’s House. In 2004 Margie’s family moved to Utah, where she grew up and went to work for Making Memories as a product designer and eventually as the Style Director. Over the last several years working in the Scrapbooking industry, Margie has developed a keen sense of style and product design because she caters to what she knows ever “girl” wants. Margie’s first love is teaching! She has taught all over the United states and the world, including South Africa, Norway, Australia, France and Holland.
Margie LOVES getting out and meeting other women who share her passion for Scrapbooking and Paper crafting. If you have ever taken one of Margie’s classes you know she is a “closet” comedian, full of fun and laughs! Margie and her daughters Megan and Brooke own an online Kit of the Month Club the Girls’ Loft. Margie loves working with her daughters and loves that they have inherited her love for playing with paper. In 2010 Margie launched her newest adventure. The Girls’ Paperie with Advantus Corp.Margie is a hip hop Mom to 4 grown kids! Wife to Grant Aslett for 24 years. A friend to everyone she meets. Loves a good laugh, Drinks Diet Dr. Pepper like nobody's business. Makes stuff with paper, fabric, paint and glue. Glitter is her friend. The color pink is her favorite! Hates goodbyes. Margie has a passion for life and loves to share it Margie is just a girl loving life...
Ashlee Jorgensen
Ashlee is the International Account Manager for DCWV and is thrilled to represent their fabulous design team. She joined the DCWV family 4 years ago and absolutely loves her job! It was at DCWV that she found her love of scrapbooking and paper crafting. Ashlee is continually inspired by the creativity that abounds here at DCWV. Being a wife to her husband Dan and a mom to her 3 kids hasn’t left her with as much time as she would like to get creative with the marvelous products she’s surrounded with on a daily basis, but Ashlee manages to find time! In between working and crafting she loves spending time with her family and friends, dancing, and of course shopping.
This will be the first event of this magnitude for Ashlee and she is so excited to be bringing DCWV to Puerto Rico!!
Heidi Swapp
Heidi Swapp: in my own words…
I must confess… I am guilty of making the memories look better than they really were! It’sall about how you remember it… right? Your memories are, after all, yours! May as well remember the BEST part! My life is a little crazy. I have 5 energetic and active kids that keep me not only BUSY, but I am convinced they are causing me what Bill Cosby called “Brain Damage” (remember that?) My oldest is 13 and my youngest is 3 so we have all kinds of action to capture with a camera and document with paper and glue. I consider myself first and foremost a scrapbooker, but I like to use my ‘mad-crafting’ skills to create mind-blowing party invites and tear-jerking-mini-books as well as repurposed, one-of-a-kind home décor for every season and holiday!
I feel like the luckiest girl ever because I get to do what I love for work! I have written books and contributed to magazines. I have traveled the world teaching classes, and meeting scrapbookers…I will admit, my favorite thing to do is design product : I get to see the
process from just an idea, to a packaged item on a shelf…(my favorite item? Matchbook Jewels). 2 years ago, I put together a ‘dream team’ and we formed the House of 3… a website dedicated to lifestyle creating that pushes the possibilities of hybrid crafting. It’s SO much FUN! We put on a weekly LIVE webshow, where we teach and inspire and most of all laugh!
I guess at heart, I am a party-girl! I believe in “more the merrier” and love bringing people together- especially when it involves creating! I am so thankful for the daily crazy that overwhelms and inspires. I thankful for the undying support from my husband Eric and many, many friends- and of course, family. I love this little hobby that is Scrapbooking… whatever, however you do it, it’s FUN!
Stephanie Barnard
Everyone has their niche. For Stephanie Barnard that specialty is just being a regular everyday person who you can listen to, laugh out loud with and get to know and appreciate. She just happens to also be the official Sizzix spokesperson. “Basically, I’m an open book,” says the down-to-earth Stephanie. “I've shared with my video audiences why I wear a beanie when I take a nap, my husband eating a 7-week-old piece of pie from my fridge and leaving church without one of my kids.”
Stephanie begins every video with the same familiar three words, "Hello, my friends!" That’s because to Stephanie everyone is an automatic friend and friends are her life. And it’s a life she doesn’t mind sharing with fellow crafters.
Her passion for crafting and her role with the Sizzix product research and development team take on the same candid approach and tireless energy -- not even letting sleep get in the way of literally dreaming up a new die line for Sizzix. “My enthusiasm for life really shows my love for this craft. It's what makes people relate to me andstop to share a small moment.”
No wonder why her philosophy is, “Our creations don't need to be masterpieces to the world. Instead, they need to be a part of our own heart.”
http://stephaniebarnard.blogspot.com/
Donna Downey
Donna Downey is a bestselling author, instructor and all-around creative force in the crafting industry. In 2000, she got into scrapbooking as an extension of her paper product and photography addiction. This was only the beginning. From working as a popular columnist for Simple Scrapbooks magazine, to traveling the world inspiring women to push the boundaries of their own creativity, to developing her first fabric scrapbooking line with Prima Marketing Inc. Donna is consistently on the leading edge of all things cool related to memory preservation art.As a craft-media artist, Donna is a born experimenter, blending and transforming both traditional and unexpected items into meaningful pieces of self expression. A former elementary school teacher, she has synthesized her first love of teaching with her passion for craft and brings this to women via workshops at scrapbook stores and events, writing books, and through her popular blog and website.
Donna also hosts her own annual art and mixed media event called the Inspired Artist Workshop. Donna lives in North Carolina with her supportive husband and partner, and is a mother of three exceptionally blonde children, and two dogs.
Glitz Girls
Laura, Erin and Virginia
Our company, GLITZ Design, started out with one idea that has grown into a full-fledged Scrapbook company! We carry original paper, stickers, rub ons, stamps, rhinestone strips (we like to call it “Frosting”) and much more. We, Erin DeSpain, Ginger John and Laura Funk, started this company because we wanted to CREATE Exciting and Fabulous NEW scrapbooking products. We love working with the store owners and their customers on a regular basis. The most exciting part of all is that we get to CREATE for a living. We scrapbook for our Job! What more could you ask for?
Glitz Design has grown at a tremendously fast rate and we look forward to a very long and happy future together in the scrapbooking industry. We love traveling to teach in stores and attend industry conventions to witness all the innovative new designs and products (and share our own, of course!) We always remember to keep it fun even though the work can also be quite grueling. We try to sit down together every now and then and JUST scrapbook. Every time we come out with new products they are our NEW favorites. We hope they’re yours, too! What really matters to Glitz is that when you look back on a layout it tells you a story. It doesn’t just look pretty…it makes you cry or smile, or maybe even burst out laughing! We hope Glitz can help you achieve preserving your precious memories!
Trisha Ladouceur
Trisha has been an avid scrapbooker for nearly 13 years and has taught for more than 10 years. She has been married to her best friend, Drew for nearly 18 years and has 2 wild, but devilishly handsome boys, Logan andCarter who are more often than not, the source of her inspiration. She resides in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada where the long, cold winters provide plenty of scrapbooking time for her. Trisha's teaching abilities have taken her on numerous travel adventures in recent history. She has taught scrapbooking and paper crafting classes coast to coast in both Canada and the United States as well as in Norway and the Netherlands. She has had the good fortune to teach aboard three different cruises to date and looks forward to seeing where she will get to explore next in this wonderful journey called life. She feels blessed to combine her love of travel with her passion for teaching. Being able to share her scrapbooking addiction with paper crafters everywhere is a match made in heaven! To Trisha's credit, she is a Design Team Member for My Mind's Eye, Graphic 45 and Tattered Angels. She is also and Endorsed Educator for some of the leading manufacturers in the industry including not only the Design Teams she is a part of nut also Prima, Teresa Collins Designs, 7 Gypsies, Bazzill and Stix 2.
Trisha has had numerous projects and articles published in various magazines and is currently a Contributing Writer for Canadian Scrapooker Magazine. Trisha loves to create projects that are very detail oriented and incorporates texture and dimension wherever possible. You will not find a "flat" project anywhere in her portfolio! The best part of it all is that she shows her students that they too CAN create a work of art that they will be proud of. When the steps are broken down and simplified, any task can be accomplished by any level of scrapbooker.
Becky Cates
Becky's background as an elementary teacher and decorative painting instructor has prepared her well for creating and teaching in the scrapbooking industry. She loves the creative aspect of scrapbooking and has a real passion for teaching others. Becky began designing for EK Success as a freelance artist for the SDU program back in 2003 and joined the Creative Artist Team in 2005. Becky lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana with her husband Jim, and has two grown daughters, a son-in-law, and one grandchild.
Nana Campana
I am a daughter of Christ, a wife of a wonderful man and a mother of two gorgeous babies that are eleven months apart (call me crazy!).I began scrapbooking without realizing such a thing existed. I would create albums using magazine clippings and memorabillia ever since I can remember. I took every arts & crafts class under earth, and have always been very passionate about creating. It wasn't until I discovered the consulting route, 3-4 years ago, that I formally began to scrapbook. Since then I have been obsessed! :) I am secretly obsessed with mini-albums and with the paper-piecing technique and with anything that looks old but pretty, so the distress techniques make my heart beat a bit faster. When I craft, I am inspired by the fingerprints of God all around me. I am convinced that everything around me testifies of His Glory.
I have made it my mission in life to capture the Lord in my projects, so that future generations may come to know Him. I create for my children. I want to be able to capture the fact that they have been fearfully and wonderfully made by God, and that it is Him that guides their step. It is my hope that when my children see my work, their faith would be renewed and that other women would be inspired to do the same. This is me: a girl trapped in a 29-year old body in love with her Savior and family; desperate to leave His legacy through crafting...