registration will start on Friday November 4th, 7 pm (MET / CET Central European Time). you can check your timezone, to make sure you'll be on time!
i will try to share as much information about my REVolution event whenever i have it. please check back often!
please. WELCOME. the REVolution teachers:
Dina Wakley!
My blog is: http://dinastamps.typepad.com
I hate writing bios...eeks.
I am Dina Wakley and I live in the Arizona desert with my husband and three boys. I started scrapbooking in 1995, then a few years later I discovered stamping. I started art journaling in 2005. I love everything about art! I love bring colors and expressive techniques. I like to get messy--if I have inky hands it means I've had a great day. I am a good cook but a bad housekeeper. I love to travel and I love to teach--teaching is a passion of mine! My work has been on the cover of Art Journaling twice, and once on the cover of Somerset Memories. I recently released a line of art stamps, available through Stampington. I'm goofy and silly and I love to laugh. I'm a docent (tour guide) at the Phoenix Art Museum. I get to give tours to kids and to get them excited about art.
Ronda Palazzari.
My blog is: http://rondapalazzari.typepad.com/helpmeronda/
Hello everyone! My name is Ronda, like the Beach Boy's song, Help me Rhonda, only no “h" (which I have been saying my whole life). I currently live in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado with my husband Andy and two amazing teens, Lexi & Anthony. My house is ruled by three adorable Chihuahuas: Nina, Pedro, and Chloe. I love being a stay-at-home mom and I love all things crafty: scrapping, cooking, knitting, sewing, reading and photography. I love traveling with my family and hope to explore more of this great big world of ours. You can usually find me in my craft room creating, with my music blaring in the background, or in the kitchen baking for my kids.
I have been into art since I was a kid and have always loved it. In high school, I was editor of my high school paper and layouts were my specialty. I loved piecing together everything that had to go on the page and making sense of it all. So when my daughter came along, scrapbooking seemed to be the next natural step. I got to play with paper, write stories and capture memories. I love that scrapbooking allows me to incorporate all my art loves, be it messy or just working with my photography. Some of my proudest scrapbook moments are being named a Memory Makers Master in 2009, starting the One Little Word Scrapbook challenge blog and being a team member for Lily Bee, Maya Road, & Purple Onion design teams. I am also the Design Team coordinator for Cocoa Daisy Kits. I have been blessed with being published in books and magazines: Memory Makers, Scrapbook Trends, Creating Keepsakes, and Artful Blogging, as well as in some great idea books.
I like to call my style “Uptown Antique Brie”—a little class, a little vintage, and a lot of good cheese. I love the new, flashy stuff, but have an appreciation for vintage items. I love to push the envelope and use products in unconventional ways, and I love using bold colors and combining colors in ways that surprise people. Most of my layouts—if not all—are cheesy; emotions and everyday moments are among my favorite subjects to scrap.
Birgit Koopsen
My blog is: http://birgitkoopsen.typepad.com/my_weblog/
Hi! My name is Birgit Koopsen. I'm married to Erik and mom of 3 beautiful kids (Anne (girl) 1994, Lennart (boy)1995, Marlijn (girl) 2003). I live in a little village called Winsum in the north of the Netherlands.
I started scrapbooking officially when my youngest child was one year old but actually I've been doing it since I was a teenager. I always enjoyed photography and always "pimped" my photo albums, just didn't know there was a name for it and special products. I've tried several crafts before I started scrapbooking; oil painting, model drawing, sculpted and much more. But after a while I always got bored with using the same technique over and over again. I was so happy when I found scrapbooking and being able to use whatever technique I wanted in this hobby! Besides that I love how it keeps all the beautiful memories of special events and everyday life alive. Especially for my children!
In the last 7 years scrapbooking slowly turned into a job. I teach and demonstrate in my own studio at home as well as in scrapbook stores, at (international) scrapbook events and for the Dutch wholesales company Kars. I’m a Prima Endorsed Educator and a Certified Tattered Angels Designer and a Design Team member for Scrapbook Adhesives by 3Ltm and MyStamp BOXI do assignment work for magazines and last year released my first paper line with Infocrea.
My favorite colors are lime green, turquoise, pink and orange in combination with black and white. But basically I just love all colors. I love flowers in all shapes and sizes, border punches, letter stickers, (spray) paints, canvas, patterned paper, transparencies, stamps, bling bling and book paper (and much more).
My style goes from clean and geometric to “busy” layouts with lots of details and colors, I sometimes love to "go freestyle" and play with paints and inks and use non-scrapbooking products! Besides layouts I also love to make mini albums and altered projects.
Liesbeth Parlevliet
My blog is: http://liesbethsworld.wordpress.com/
Hello there!
I’m Liesbeth Parlevliet, approaching the age of 50 way more rapidly than I would love to see, married to my husband Johan of almost 20 years, mother of two teenagers and employee of three very nosy and naughty Siamese/Oriental Shorthair cats.
I started scrapbooking in 2003, and as soon as I got started I realized I had already been scrapbooking since I was a kid because I had already added receipts, tickets and colorful papers to my albums! Everything fell in place from then on and I love love LOVE every part of this hobby! My style has developed over the years and I’m not sure what you would name it. Graphical, linear I think? I love kraft cardstock (use it often), I love to combine it with patterned paper and my trusty sewing machine! I find myself having a hard time using pre-made embellishments – I’d rather make my own. Usually, I end up not using a lot of embellies at all – I don’t like my layouts or mini albums being overly busy. I’m definitely NOT a flower girl…
I love journaling though, I’m well known for being long winded… For me, a layout or mini album is not complete without the whole story being told. Most of the time, I use my hand writing.
I’ve had the opportunity to get my work published in the Dutch scrapbookers magazine Creatief met Foto’s and two issues of a UK magazine called Scrapbooking Inspiration. Currently I am a member of the ScrapClub design team, a monthly kit club.
Right now, I’m starting up my photography business. I’m adding to my portfolio all the time. I have always loved photography and I love how it combines with scrapbooking!
Revlie Schuit
37 years - blond gone red - live with hubby Arjan and our 2 muppets: Sanne (8, girl) and Ruben (4, boy) - Netherlands - company owner - stubborn but o so sweet - chocolate - Vichy handcream - imac - colors, lots of! - handmade - running - scrapbook - sew - crochet - paint - art journal - tulips- pinterest - blogging - i don't do well when i eat carbs - i should go to bed earlier than i do now - and i'm clumsy - that about sums it all up ...
During the day my hubby & i run our company Secretarial Services. And of course we chase after Sanne & Ruben trying to raise them :). But at night i work on REVolution. i'm working hard to become a fulltime creative business owner. i know i can reach all my dreams, i know i will be that fulltime artist. i'm going for it, and everyday i feel happier about where i'm at. Remember: you can be anything you want to be!
i love to create vibrant & colorful mini albums. In my Etsy shop you can find lots of fun tutorials for creating mini albums. The tutorials are usually over 40 pages with step-by-step how to instructions and filled with at least 50 pictures of the complete mini album. The tutorial is easy to use for beginners and the seasoned scrapper! i love to work with fabric, felt, embroidery floss, transparencies, scrapbooking supplies and crochet handmade embellishments. The kits are usually sold out within a day, but you can always email me to be on my waiting list or use the tutorial to work with the stash you already have on hand. On my blog you can find free tutorials, lots of projects, layouts, mini albums and fun video's of my progress.
i so love to teach other people so that they TOO can be creative. i get this a lot: "yes, YOU can make that, because you are very creative, but i'm not...". seriously peeps. STOP saying that. i'm NOT more creative than anybody else in this world. i simply nurture my creativity. i feed it. i embrace it. everybody is creative in their own unique way. You just HAVE TO LET GO of the feeling that you have to be perfect (what's perfect anyway?) GIVE yourself the beauty of creating. trust me, it's so worth it. let go of those negative feelings. just start and let the flow of creating take you places. it really is such a wonderful way of living.
Besides feeling the need to be creative on a daily basis, i'm a choc-aholic, i talk too much and i laugh too loud, i bite my nails when i'm nervous (yes I know...), i'm stubborn if i get something in my head, you will not get it out-- you can bribe me with wine & chocolate though ;)
