I’m a huge fan of Ronda for a long time and when I was finally able to meet her for the funniest dinner ever last CHA it was as awesome as I expected.

1. What do you do to get into your creative zone?

First I pump up the music. I love music in the background. It’s got to have a good beat too. I mostly listen to alternative rock. There is usually a chai tea latte involved too, from Starbucks preferably. If I am scrapping I start with my photos and a story to tell. I need that emotional attachment. If I am starting with altered art/canvases…its color. It’s all about the color. And then I see where it leads me.

2. Do you ever create hidden meanings or messages in your work?

I don’t know if they are hidden or just subtle messages. I am very deliberate. So there will be little pieces in my art that may not mean much to others but to me represent my world.

The “Real” layout is about my sister untimely death. On that page you will find a 7 (she was number 7, the baby of our family) a C, & a butterfly…all to represent her.

In the “memories of you” art journal page.. this about me missing my husband who is living in Qatar at the moment. the memories encased in waxed…it’s like time is standing still, the key (he is the one who unlocks me & sees me completely for who I am), me in the flower encased in wax but apart from the title…separated.

3. If your creative work were edible, what would it taste like?

Taste the Rainbow….a bag of skittles. And not the whimpy bag, we’re talking the at least the 1 lb if not a bit bigger.

4. What is your favorite creation?

I have a canvas I created lately that I cannot share right now that I totally love. It was one of those pieces that came together the way I envisioned it. But I have two others I can share.

First is my Colors layout. I love the rainbow ordered colors on the page with all the bits & baubles on it…paint, mists, ribbon, buttons…oh my.

My altered piece would be my Accept Mini Album.

It’s mostly mists & gesso mixed together with quotes revolving around the word Accept. I love getting messing & tucking things into layers.

5. What is your biggest creative success so far and why?

I have recently announced a book deal with F&W media. I am beyond honored & thrilled to create this book. It is a technique book that reflects who I am as a mixed media artist. I have a tentative publishing date of May 2012.

Thank you so much Ronda :)

Nat

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Linda Elbourne is the funniest person I have met :) At PACS- I was constantly laughing- she is so amazingly talented and I love her lots…she is one of my favorites- LOL (little insider ;) )

1.What do you do to get into your creative zone?

At this point I would really like to show you pictures of my fabulous and tidy studio … but sadly I can’t … because I don’t have one!

Basically I work in 15ft X 12ft room stuffed to the rafters with crafty stash. The truth is … the minute I am in there I feel like creating … even if it is a little messy … Okay … Okay … a lot messy! I hang a lot of my art work on the walls … so if I am stuck for inspiration … my eye usually falls on something I can use!

2.    Do you ever create hidden meanings or messages in your work?

I don’t really do hidden anything … I am not that subtle … but in a way … all my work has a meaning … I am either listening to music while I create or my mind is wandering and usually somewhere in the clouds … I think this is probably reflected in all of the work I do!

3.    If your creative work were edible, what would it taste like?

If my work was edible … it would taste like an omelet made from leftovers! And some people probably think that is what it looks like :0) Proper artists will shudder at this next phrase … “my style is eclectic” … I am not sure I really have a style and certainly don’t consider myself to be an artist! People often say they can recognize my work as mine … but I still don’t understand how! I take a bit from here and a thing from that … and I make stuff. … The joy of rubber stamping is that an artist has already done the clever stuff for you!

4.    What is your favorite creation?

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My favourite creation usually changes from week to week … this little altered book box is my current favourite!

One piece that always makes me smile is my first ever magazine cover … I was sooooooo chuffed!

5.    What is your biggest creative success so far and why?

In the past 18 months I have gone from being a full-time Bank Manager to a full-time craft designer. Everything that allows me to play all day and earn from it feels like a big creative success to me. My highlights include … Being asked to teach at LB Crafts. Being selected as a regular designer for the largest UK stamping magazine … Craft Stamper. Being accepted and then attending Ranger U and sitting next to THE Wendy Vecchi. Setting up and running the challenge blog for Simon Says Stamp. Being put in Tim Holtz’s blog list! Being featured on Wendy Vecchi’s blog! Teaching alongside uber talented artsists like Nathalie Kalbach at the Paper& Co show in Paris. Being invited to teach in Holland! Every single time someone clicks on that comment button on my blog and says something … it all feels like one big creative success and I never want it to end.

Thank you Linda!!!

Nat

So my pleasure today to have Julie Fei Fan Balzer as a guestblogger today. You all know how much I love her :) And I’m more than excited about our upcoming workshops in Hamburg, Germany.

1. What do you do to get into your creative zone?

)Sometimes it’s as easy as sitting down to create. Other times I’ll surf through my “inspiration” folder, reorganize (and therefore re-discover lots of fun supplies), play along with a challenge, or try out a new technique. Super no fail technique is to grab a paintbrush and just get going. But because I create every single day I find that most of the time I’m naturally in a creative zone. It’s getting rest of my life together that’s the problem! :) In all seriousness, I do really believe that having a dedicated, organized space makes a huge difference in getting into the zone. And I usually find that if I’m stifled it’s because there’s too much stuff. So I’ll give away a couple boxes of stuff, clean up all the garbage, organize the drawers, wipe down my table…and all of a sudden I’m feeling creative again!

2. Do you ever create hidden meanings or messages in your work?

I often cover up or paint over private journaling. And of course, as anyone whose main inspiration is their own personal journey, I have artwork that means something very personal to me but likely means something totally different to a random viewer. It’s not so much hidden as abstracted.

3. If your creative work were edible, what would it taste like?

Diet Coke. In fact, it probably does! I’ve spilled enough Diet Coke on my projects and drunk enough that I’m pretty sure it has saturated everything!

4. What is your favorite creation?

This is like making me choose between my (hypothetical) children! My most favorite creation is almost always my most recent. I can’t help it! I’ve included two photos for this question. The first is, my most recent. It’s a painting done with a mixture of acrylic paint and watercolor crayons. The second is the largest quilt I’ve ever made — and probably not coincidentally also the first. It hangs above our bed and it’s a very personal piece. I worked on it for months — I don’t usually have that kind of sustained interest in a project. And it really cemented my love affair with stitching.

5. What is your biggest creative success so far and why?

Probably valuing myself and my art highly enough to ask to be paid. That’s a really hard thing for me to do. But I’m proud to say that I discovered that if you value yourself, others will too! How awesome is that? But this question is kind of like the favorite artwork question for me. It’s always going to be the most recent hurdle that feels the most satisfying. But I remember squealing into the phone and calling everyone I knew the first time I had a layout published; the first time I had an article published too! I literally danced around my living room for an hour after receiving the call that I had made it onto Prima’s design team. I gloated for a month after my quilt won a ribbon, after Cloth Paper Scissors named me a finalist in their Artisan of the Year search, after I got offered a deal to make an hour-long instructional DVD. My joy was irrepressible the first time I went on TV, taught a class, taught an online class, taught an international class…the list just goes on. This has been (and continues to be) a joyful journey and each success (though I’m sure they seem small to many others) feels like standing on top of a mountain!

Blog: www.balzerdesigns.typepad.com
I’m currently teaching a six-week online class in mixed media stitch. Join anytime!

Thanks Julie :)

Nat

Felicitas Klink is one of the wonderful German Scrapbookers whose work I love a lot (there are others too :) )  There is something in her work that makes me happy  – might be the colors ;)

1. What do you do to get into your creative zone?

That is a good question…I get inspired by so many things, magazines, nature and my daily routines. Very often I see some color combinations or some graphic patterns and I am inspired. On the other side there is hubby (my favorite scrap motive)…he also can be inspiring: When we fool around or when we are on one of our geocaching hikes. That all gets me into my creative zone and helps me creating my art.

2. Do you ever create hidden meanings or messages in your work?

No, not as i know!?! At 80% I create projects for me and my family. I try to keep our daily memories and pictures and I create my layouts and projects as soon as possible when they happened. So I have the backstories about these moments in my mind. That’s because I’m not a big storyteller or journaling person. I try to express our story in pictures…that’s my message.

3. If your creative work were edible, what would it taste like?

Bild via pinterest (http://pinterest.com/pin/1579442/)

Hmm, maybe a mixture of spices and other cooking ingredients. Some spices, some grains, some crunchy things, some flexible. Different sizes, different colors, different textures, different tastes…mix it together and you get a completly new taste explosion!
4. What is your favorite creation?

I love this Layout. It combines my passion for regular scrapbooking and mixed media. I love bright colors and mixing different styles together. Thats why I started to pimp my scrap backgrounds and give them more color and texture. I do my pages in layers and I love that something catches the eye. I also love doodling and stitching. A few months ago, I had a crush on my new sewing machine, since then I use it on every project I make :)
5.What is your biggest creative success so far and why?

Uh that’s hard to choose. There is so much I can be proud of…
When I started scrapbooking/paper crafting I never thought that this will be such a big part of my life. I am proud to design for Scrapbook Werkstatt. They ask me to join their amazing team when I was a newbie in that business. I never thought that I start writing my own crafting blog  because in realife I am a very shy person. Now I blog for over a year now and I love it so much! Last summer I was asked to join the editors team of the austrian print magazine “Die Scrapperin” . I have so much fun to be involved in designing and creating this magazine. For the current issue I created different projects (layouts, cards and home decor) and I designed some downloads. You can find them on the download section on their website. And last but not least: This opportunity to share some sneak peeks of me and my creative work here at Nat’s. I love her so much and last month I met her in person…what a great women :) Thanks again, Nat.

Danke Felicitas :)

Nat

I know Birgit now for quite some while and we have met several times and share the room at Workshops and CHA :) Can’t ask for a better roomie and wonderful friend in the creative world :) And I’m looking forward teaching with her again this upcoming May at Scrapbook Werkstatt!

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First of all, thank you so much Nat for having me here as your guest blogger. I consider it a great honor and I really enjoyed answering your questions!

1.     What do you do to get into your creative zone?

To get into my creative zone I clean up my studio! Although I’m making a BIG mess when working on a project, I need to clean up my studio before starting a new one. A tidy studio makes me want to take out stuff and play! Make it a mess again :)

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Something else I discovered latelty that is making me want to create is browsing Pinterest! Seeing all the gorgeous stuff people are making makes me want to make something beautiful too! Oh and when the mailman comes with a box of new goodies! That makes me want to create instantly. Or a pile of new nice pictures, like after vacation. When I have so many that I hardly can choose which one to use first. This makes my head start spinning with ideas:

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2. Do you ever create hidden meanings or messages in your work?

Uhmmm nope, everything is clear on my projects, just like I am. No hidden meanings on my part, what you see is what you get! LOL!

3. If your creative work were edible, what would it taste like?

I love to use a lot of color and mix them all together on one project so I guess my work would be cup cakes J

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Picture by Lynette Horner

4. What is your favorite creation?

Ohhh, this is a hard one. There are a couple I like! J

I guess it’s the Tattered Angels mini album I made a couple of months ago. The title is I am blessed and it hold pictures of my children and me and my hubby. I am truly blessed and looking through this album makes me realize that even more! So therefor this has to be it!

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You can see the whole album here: I am blessed.

5. What is your biggest creative success so far and why?

The most exciting thing I creatively achieved was being asked to design a paperline for the French company Infocrea and getting it released last year. Revolution.com.

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If everything works out right the next paperline should be released soon! J

Thank you Birgit :)

Nat

Rachel is one of those people that after several months of business work a friendship developed. I cherish our friendship a lot :) Besides that she has an amazing hand with artsy and creative work too!

1. what do you do to get in your creative zone?

and it’s going to sound silly. i surround myself with my favorite inspiration, a polka dot rock found and given to me by my husband, a neat work space (as sick as that sounds), YES things need to be neat and organized, helps me envision calm and peace so that i can create great works. Sickening I know.

2. Do you ever create hidden meanings/messages in your work?

most recently YES. i used previous travel memorabilia and ephemera from road trips as a base layer for my canvas. it helped evoke a sense of gratitude for making an upcoming road trip possible. more of a hidden meaning to myself than the person that will receive it as a gift.

3. If your creative work were edible, what would it taste like?

A German-style beer (can I say that), ha. Tough question for me, all I ever think about is cupcakes and beer. Even when being creative. Ha.

4. What is my favorite creation?

There are many but a very recent one tops the charts right now. Tough times call for desperate measures. My mother-in-law is making it possible for a LOT of things, even the road trip that we are about to embark on, hence me using previous travel ephemera in her canvas. I adore this woman, she is my biggest fan. I hope she likes this gift.

5. What is your biggest creative success so far and why?

I’ve been published in books, magazines, online, etc. And I about came out of my skin when I was asked to join the 7 Gypsies creative team but nothing prides me more than my own will to take my creative life back most recently. Thanks to a recent creative workshop, I am going to be okay with time. Getting back to what I know and love is a huge success for me.

thanks Rachel :)

Nat

What is the Easter Bunny Blog Hop? Its a fun GIVEAWAY going on at Vintage Street Market! “Hop” around the Design Team’s blogs and gather their favorite color eggs. Fill your basket with these answers and enter to win a fun prize! Details can be found at www.vintagestreetmarket.com. What are you waiting for? Get hoppin’!

And here is my favorite egg color :)

Nat

Susan and I have been emailing back and forth for a while and I enjoyed our conversations a lot- and now finally I was able to also meet her at the CHA Winter Show :)

1. What do you do to get into your creative zone?  

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Why, yummy pie OFCOURSE!!!!! Every single KIND!!!! I LUV them all!

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I love these altered baby shoes that I created a year and a half ago. They weren’t the best thing that I every created, but they meant the most to me because they went to a good cause. They were auctioned off at the Crop for Kids to raise some money for the Alberta Children’s Hospital. That made me feel really good about these little baby shoes!

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I feel really blessed with a lot of things that are going on in my life. I got to be on a cooking Jean Pare ‘Company Cooking’ cooking show, I write for some awesome magazines & reviews, I am writing a book, and my husband & I created four wonderful children, but I guess my most exciting creative almost success(don’t want to jinx it), is the manufacturing of my own paper line this year!!!!  I am learning to believe in myself and to live my dreams!!!

Thank you so much Susan :)

Nat

So loving to have Erin, who I met last November at PACS and then also at the Winter CHA.  She is just one of the sweetest persons in the world! and check out her blog today-she is also doing a give away!

Erin Yamabe, is a Bay Area native, who is honored to be here on her dear friends’ blog! She is a SAHM to two little girls, who are the main subjects of her work. As Designer, Teacher, and DT Coordinator for My Little Shoebox, she finds her job very fun, challenging, and rewarding! Her work can be seen in Magazines in the U. S. and in Japan, on Scrapbook Memories TV Show, QVC UK and at CHA. She enjoys teaching locally, at CHA, and even abroad at PACS last Winter.

 1. What do you do to get into your creative zone?
My scrap space is the back of my kitchen…so when my little ones are in bed, I get out my goodies and scrap away! I love to listen to music and sometimes skype with scrappy friends while we are working away!

2. Do you ever create hidden meanings or messages in your work?

Yes- I search for script paper, and have been known to write a letter to the person I’m scrapping about across a 12×12. Then, I paint with gesso, and a light mist of some sort…and sometimes highlight certain words, to reveal part of the letter. In each of my daughter’s books, there are letters I wrote to them behind each layout. Sometimes, too personal to put onto my work if it is being shown publicly.

3. If your creative work were edible, what would it taste like?

Hmm, I would think like chocolate. Not necessarily because of the end result, but more due to the amount I could consume during a creative session! LOL!

4.What is your favorite creation?

To date, it is a canvas that I created for a recent DT call. Through Nathalie at the Paper and Co Show, where we taught together, I learned many amazing techniques, so I tried a few out!

5. What is your biggest creative success so far and why?

After enduring many miscarriages, I would say that having my two precious daughters would be my biggest success! If it weren’t for them, I wouldn’t have found scrapbooking…and been blessed with design and teaching opportunities around the world!

Blessings,

Erin Yamabe

Thank you so much Erin!

Nat