instructors

Ali

An advocate for not making things more complicated than they need to be & embracing imperfection, Ali shares cool concepts, design, and project ideas in her idea books: A Designer's Eye for Scrapbooking, A Designer's Eye for Scrapbooking with Patterned Paper, Life Artist, and Sharing Your Story: Recording Life's Details with Mini Books.

You can also find Ali's monthly column in Creating Keepsakes magazine: Studio A (see the archives here).

"I started scrapbooking in 2002 as a way to organize all the stuff I collected after the birth of my son. It has become so much more than an organizational process for me - it has let me find my own personal passion and voice. It has become all about the process of capturing life and creating art."

Read a post about why she scrapbooks here.

Ali licenses her designs with two leading creative companies to create products for both digital scrapbookers (Designer Digitals) and paper crafters (stamps for Technique Tuesday).

Ali lives in Eugene, Oregon. She enjoys travel, reading, politics from the sidelines, and spending time with her husband and two children.

Class Title:
Scrapbook On The Road
Ali believes in telling your story, and what better story could there be then that of your scrapbook adventure in Greece? Join Ali to create a "Scrapbook On The Road" which will be perfect for documenting this adventure to Greece (or another trip you may have planned in the future). Emphasis will be on telling your story while you are experiencing the trip and creating a home for the pieces of this and that you may be collecting along the way.

Karen

Karen Russell started scrapbooking back in 2001, developing her own line of scrapbooking products, Narratives (produced by Creative Imaginations) a few years later. She has taught scrapbooking classes from Grants Pass, Oregon to Munich, Germany, with quite a few stops in- between. While teaching, Karen realized that her real passion came from teaching photography and has since developed her own online photography workshop which has taught over 1000 aspiring photographers both the technical and personal aspects of documenting their lives through photos. Karen also keeps quite busy documenting the lives of her own family of six in Central Point, Oregon. You can view Karen's blog at www.karenrussell.typepad.com and her website at www.snapshotsofagoodlife.com.

Class description:

Get ready for a whirlwind (a good whirlwind) of information. I'm packing everything I know about photography in a two part, nine hour workshop to share with all of you in Greece!

Bring your camera, any lenses you have, your camera manual and your thinking caps! I'll provide the pens, the paper, the workbooks and all the information you need to start taking the photos you've been dreaming of taking. Looking forward to it!

Jenni

Jenni Bowlin resides in Nashville, TN with her husband and two young sons. She is the owner and the creative force behind Jenni Bowlin Studio - a boutique papercrafting manufacturer with a “Vintage Fresh” attitude. Everything she creates has a vintage edge and a general “re-invention” theme. She is also the owner of Mercantile, a web-based company offering monthly papercrafting, project and jewelry kits. A published designer, Jenni’s work has landed on the pages of Creating Keepsakes, Autumn Leaves Publications, Family Circle, Country Living and Mary Engelbreit Home Companion. Jenni is also an accomplished teacher, offering classes at stores and conventions across the country and the web.

You can find Jenni’s work and products at www.jbsmercantile.com or visit her blog at www.jennibowlin.blogspot.com.

Class Title:
Home Matters
No matter where we go (even in a beautiful location!), our hearts always yearn for home. In this class we will highlight the very things that make a house a home (people, things and emotions) in a fun and funky project packed with altered techniques and unique materials.

Daisy Divas

To make this event even more amazing, 3 of our very talented Daisy Daisies will be joining us in Mykonos. You can look forward to Christine, Ronda and Sue teaching mini-workshops and Make-n-Takes as well as being there in general to help meet any needs you might have.

Ronda Palazzari

Ronda has been into art since she was a child and has always loved it. In high school she was editor of her high school paper and layouts were her specialty. When her daughter came along, scrapbooking seemed like a natural to Ronda. She got to play with paper, write stories, and capture memories. She loves being able to incorporate all her art loves into scrapbooking. Some of her proudest scrapbook moments are starting the One Little Word Scrapbook challenge blog, being named a Memory Makers Master, becoming part of the Fancy Pants, Purple Onion, and Cocoa Daisy Design Teams. Ronda has also been published in various magazines, Memory Makers, Scrapbook Trends, Artful Blogger as well as some idea books.

Ronda calls her style “Uptown Antique Brie” -- a little class, a little vintage, and a lot of good cheese. She loves the new, flashy stuff but has an appreciation for vintage items. She loves to push the edge of products and use them in unconventional ways. She loves using bold colors and combining colors that surprise people.

Christine Drumheller

Christine has been scrapbooking for 9 years and has been published in several magazine and idea books. She was a Making Memories Master 2009 and was a Creating Keepsakes HOF honorable mention two years in a row. She is currently a member of the Cocoa Daisy Design Team.

Christine's background is in fine arts and graphic design, this comes through in her scrapbooking style: bold and graphic with a touch of whimsy. She loves to have all the elements on a layout support it's theme in some way, and to draw people in and have them take a minute to discover all the little details.

Being artistic is a driving force in Christine's life – she does something creative everyday, whether it's gardening, decorating, sewing or scrapbooking!

Lisa Pace

Lisa was on the Cocoa Daisy Design Team from 2006 - 2008 and is presently the Special Projects Coordinator for Maya Road. Lisa is also the author of Delight In The Details a technique based book that incorporates a variety of materials, from simple paper and fabric scraps to glitter, ink, modeling paste and of course vintage finds. Lisa loves to shop thrift stores and antique shops for any and all kinds of items that can be added to her projects.

In May of 2007, Lisa was picked as one of 5 master scrapbookers in Martha Stewart’s scrapbooking contest and August of 2007, was chosen as a 2008 Memory Makers Master.

Her work has been published in magazines such as Memory Makers, Scrapbooks etc., Better Homes and Gardens and Scrapbooking & Cards Today as well as numerous idea books like Holiday Home, Scrapbook Trends, Paper Trends, Paper Creations and Scrapbooking & Beyond.