Lessons in the Metro-Detroit Area

If you live in the Metro-Detroit area, call or visit me for information about my education services! Specializations include, music, art and elementary tutoring. 

Judikins!

I had the pleasure a few weeks ago of spending time with Judy Watanabe of Judikins at the Heirloom Rubber Stamp convention in Novi! This is the third year I have had the opportunity to learn from her demos at her product booth. She is gracious as well as creative and I absolutely LOVE her inking and stamping techniques. One product that definitely needs mentioning is her MicroGlaze. MicroGlaze is a product that protects your paper art from water. You take a bit of it and rub it on to your paper then buff to a shine. Most use it after working with ink but I wanted to use it after coloring with my Prismacolor pencils. I colored a cute digital stamp bug but wanted to color the background with shimmer spray. So I applied the MicroGlaze with a fine-tipped paint brush and my fingers on the bug only. Afterwards I sprayed the image with Glimmer Mist and low and behold my image resisted the water-based spray! It also did not disturb my coloring with the Prismacolor pencils. Here are pics of the process and a photo of me and Judy.

My Memories Suite Digital Scrapbooking and Giveaway!

Hello, all! Recently I was introduced to My Memories Suite digital scrapbooking software. Being the  traditionalist that I am, I have always preferred the hands-on use of the tons of scrapbooking products to create physical photo albums. I've tried digital scrapbooking programs in the past but never had a real use for it. But I'm also a tech-savvy person and enjoy creating posters, flyers and such for my papercraft classes. So I was thinking, "How could using digital scrapbooking software benefit me and suit my scrapbooking needs?" Well, as my family has grown up and nieces and nephews have their own families, I have found the best way to communicate with them, share photos and still be creative is using digital scrapbooking software. This is where My Memories Suite comes in. I have found it to be the most user-friendly and feature-rich program I have tried on the market. You can print at home, prepare your albums for professional printing, or share them as multi-media presentations-even to be shared on an iPod. You can include narration, music and include hotspot links to web-sites or other files. Its many creative features suit many styles and occasions. The page you see below is of my niece, Jada that I will send to her parents as an iPod-ready file. Their page will include background music it is a multi-media file. From start to finish it took about 10 minutes. As a thank you to all who read my blog, I am offering a discount code for $10 off the purchase of the software and $10 coupon for the store. That's a $20 value! Use the code STMMMS40669 and visit http://mymemories.com/ to purchase and redeem your coupon! Also as a bonus, I am giving away a free copy of the software to a lucky person who visits the site and leaves a comment on my page telling me your favorite digital paper pack. The winner will be randomly chosen. It's that easy! I will email the winner with the code for their free My Memories Suite. The winner will be announced the week of August 20th.

My Michaels Paper-Ed Flyer!

 
Hello, all! Please check out the Michaels Event Calendar link on the right to download the latest class schedule for store #9454 in Farmington Hills, MI! Also added is a video bar that takes you to all of my art videos on YouTube without having to search my blog. Detailed info and pics will be coming soon for the projects you see in my flyer.