Right Back at It!

Hello, Gorgeouses!

The kiddies have jumped on the bus for their first day back to school. It's now time for me to get right back to crafting . . . I mean work. Yes, work {Wink!}

I wanted to create a little special note to send off with the kids to acknowledge this special day. I was successful in getting this quick project done this morning while the babes were still sleeping ~

The Sizzix mini envelope was just the inspiration I needed. The fine tip of ScraPerfect's "Best Glue Ever" really was exceptional as I worked to adhere the tiny flaps of the envelope.

I hid the little treasures in the kids' snack bags. I wish I could have seen their faces when they found them!

Tell me, what projects did you accomplish in order to make the 2013 "back-to-school" experience special?

Happy Day, Laurel

Laurel Lee Pollard, Online Publisher, Promoter

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Catherine Scanlon's Name is in Lights!

Hello, Gorgeouses!

Today's our final installment of Maine mixed-media artist, Catherine Scanlon's, {NEW} product introduction with Art Gone Wild! & Friends.  It's due to debut at 2013 Craft and Hobby Association's summer trade show, Create-n-Connect.  You can find out more about Catherine HERE ~

As promised, here's the third and installment of Catherine Scanlon's "Just Add Color" catalogue for Art Gone Wild! & Friends (find our first installment HERE and second HERE):

Oh, the goodness that is Catherine Scanlon Designs that we can now use to create and call our own!    

You can work up designer pieces in NO time with these versatile elements!

Aren't Catherine's sample pieces glorious?

Now, TODAY, Catherine Scanlon Designs has officially and publically joined the commanding Art Gone Wild! team.  Her name "appears in lights" on Art Gone Wild's website - right along side industry notables, Tim Holtz, Wendy Vecchi, Dyan Reaveley and Claudine Helmuth! 

Retailers can order Catherine Scanlon Designs directly from Art Gone Wild! & Friends at Create-n-Connect starting TOMORROW in Booth #518.  Retailers: be sure to tweet a picture of you in the Art Gone Wild booth to us @NEPaperCrafts - we'd love to see you there!!

**If you missed it, don't forget to check out our first two installments of Catherine Scanlon Designs' "Just add Color" catalogue for Art Gone Wild! & Friends HERE and HERE ~

Happy Day, Laurel

Laurel Lee Pollard, Online Publisher, Promoter
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Catherine Scanlon Continues to WOW!

Hello, Gorgeouses!

We're following Maine mixed-media artist, Catherine Scanlon's, {NEW} product introduction with Art Gone Wild! & Friends.  It's due to debut at 2013 Craft and Hobby Association's summer trade show, Create-n-Connect.  You can find out more about Catherine HERE ~

As promised, here's the next installment of Catherine Scanlon's "Just Add Color" catalogue for Art Gone Wild! & Friends (find our first installment HERE):

C'mon - don't you just want to get your inks/markers/pan pastels/luminartes/paints and "Just add Color" to Catherine Scanlon's designer stamps??

I can't WAIT to see what you are able to create with these stamps!  If you're as crazy about them as I am, contact YOUR Local Scrapbook Store and as them to carry them - your feedback is important.

*Remember, there's still MORE to come - stop back tomorrow for the Grande Finale of "Just Add Color!"

Update: In case you missed it, the first installment of Catherine Scanlon Designs 2013 Catalogue for Art Gone Wild! & Friends can be found HERE and the third and final installment can be found HERE.

Happy Day, Laurel

Laurel Lee Pollard, Online Publisher, Promoter
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{HOT!} Off the Press with Catherine Scanlon

I've been keeping a little secret under my hat and it has been KILLING me not to be able to tell you . . .

Art Gone Wild! & Friends has signed the uber-talented Maine artist, Catherine Scanlon AND her designs will be debuting at the Craft and Hobby Association's summer show, Create-N-Connect, in Las Vegas next week!  Woo Hoo! (read more about Catherine HERE)

Art Gone Wild has a stand-alone catalogue of Catherine's collection, "Just Add Color" and New England Paper Crafts has an advance copy to share with YOU!

Catherine's latest work is on-trend and I can't get enough of it, can you?  Here are the first two pages of {NEW} Catherine Scanlon Designs 2013 product introductions for Art Gone Wild! & Friends:

Write on our Facebook wall and tell us what you think of this innovative work at: www.facebook.com/NEPaperCrafts ~

Thanks to Art Gone Wild, we can add Catherine's gorgeous work to a multitude of crafting projects!  Be sure to tell your Local Scrapbook Stores and art suppliers that you'd like them to carry Catherine Scanlon Designs. 

Retailers can order directly from Art Gone Wild! & Friends at Create-N-Connect next week in Booth #518.

** Now, there are FIVE more gorgeous pages of Art Gone Wild's Catherine Scanlon Designs catalogue available and I'll be sharing them over the next few days.  Be sure to stop on back, now, ya hear??

Update: Skip to second installment of "Just add Color" by clicking HERE ~

Happy Day, Laurel

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Catherine Scanlon Offers {NEW} Trend-Setting Mixed Media Product

I have been having a creative time exploring the world of mixed media lately!  The tools, paints, sprays, ink and . . the PAPER!

Recently, I have had the wonderful good fortune of working with renowned designer, Catherine Scanlon.  


A studied artist, Catherine is breaking out of her behind-the-scenes role at EK Success and is now blazing her own trail from her home studio in Topsham, Maine.  Here's a little lookie-loo:

You can find MORE Scanlon Studio piccies on our
facebook page at: www.facebook.com/NEPaperCrafts ~

Catherine Scanlon lends her talents to the Sizzix Design Team and is a member of the "Inspire! New England Paper Crafts" Cre8time Team.

During my visit with Catherine, I caught wind of her newest project.  Undoubtably, it's going to be a trend-setter!  Her mixed media Art Journal Coloring Book!

Wanting to drive this concept to market immediately, Catherine is self-publishing this amazing work.  It's lithograph-printed right in Brunswick, Maine on 9" X 12" 80lb paper and she's handling all the orders herself!  She has put her heart into this and she's determined to ensure that artists receive a premium product.

I have held the original art of these amazing sheets in my own hands.  I have to tell you, it was overwhelmingly inspiring - I just wanted to stash it in my purse and run home to work on it!!

Want a peek at a glorious example of these types of journal pages can look like?  Catherine has some great samples of her work on her instagram and facebook page, and here are a few examples of her work (keeping in mind that these two particular page designs are not the ones included in this first collection):

If you're looking for a way to get "straight to the good stuff" of mixed media art journaling, or are looking for a way to introduce the art form to others, Catherine Scanlon has the answer you're looking for! 

Now, Catherine Scanlon only has a very limited number of this first edition of her Art Journal Coloring Book.  After 100 are gone, they're GONE!  I have mine on order, and I suggest you do the same, too!

Catherine Scanlon has an upcoming personal appearance scheduled at Kept Creations in Whitman, Massachusetts, teaching her "Floral Image Transfer Canvas" class tomorrow, Saturday, July 13th, 11am - 5pm.  Contact Kept Creations to sign up NOW, because this 6 hour class just about sold out! **Catherine will have 20 Coloring Books on hand, so make sure you come prepared!

**And for those paper crafters, Catherine Scanlon has her {NEW} online class just for US!  Check out her "In + Out Embroidery for PaperCrafters" on My Creative Classroom.  It's coming up QUICK, beginning on July 22nd!

Again, Catherine has only 100 of this first edition of her Art Journal Coloring Book available and they're due to ship SOON.  Be sure to contact her directly at cmscanlon@comcast.net for your copies in advance, to ensure you receive them for yourself.  I did!

Happy Day, Laurel

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Boston Strong Flags are Flying at MFA

Boston Strong Flags are flying at Museum of Fine Arts Boston, thanks to the wonderful work coordinated by professional crafter, Amy Friend.

Following the 2013 Patriot's Day terror attack on participants and attendees of Boston, Massachusetts' signature event, The Boston Marathon, crafters from around the world felt motivated to show their support to the citizens of that great city.

One of the crafters inspired to reach out, Vancouver, Canada quilter Berene Campbell, contacted Boston-area artist, Amy Friend, with the concept of banding sewers together into a collaborative effort.

Amy Friend has a large following within the crafting community.  She's a design team member for Sizzix, Basic Grey and Therm-O-Web.  She has newly organized the popular Seacoast Modern Quilt Guild and supports the art community as a member of "Inspire! New England Paper Crafts" CRE8TIME team.

A former museum curator, Amy Friend has the professional experience and industry influence needed to spearhead a broad-based concept into a full reality.

Working hand-in-hand with multiple departments at the Museum of Fine Arts - from detailing the concept, promoting the opportunity to artisans to join the effort, handling press inquiries, to coordinating with the actual installation - this stay-at-home-mom worked tirelessly for a month to pull all the details of this enormous undertaking together on a remarkable short timeline.

The response was overwhelming.  Not only did Amy reach her goal of collecting 1,000 flags of support and peace, she singlehandedly opened, processed, delivered and helped install over 1,700 pieces of work that swamped her post office box in under a month!  Incredible!

To experience the "To Boston With Love" installation, it can be viewed at the Museum of Fine Arts through July 7th in the Shapiro Family Courtyard, with a reinstallation scheduled for April 2014.

To see more of Amy Friend, follow her blog, "During Quiet Time," at: duringquiettime.blogspot.com.

Our hats are off to a gleaming professional, Amy Friend.  She's Boston Strong!

Happy Day, Laurel

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Mixed Media Comes to the Seacoast

What a fantastic "Inspire! New England Paper Crafts" CRE8TIME event with Kim Schofield at the opening of online retailer, eclectic Paperie's, {NEW} Studio in Hampton Falls, NH! 

Our Cre8time was filled with Ranger Ink's Tim Holtz Distress and Dyan Reaveley - Dylusions Sprays, Claudine Hellmuth stencils and Unity Stamp Company.  We were layering color all OVER the place!

Why, YES, these "wings" ARE due to be one of Michelle Hill's upcoming classes at eclectic Paperie! Dramatic would be an understatement ~

Oh, eP's Design Team member, Mary-Ann Coulter Maldonado, is gettin' her color on! She's a natural! Check out her latest mixed media adventure on Mary-Ann's blog, "Lump, Bump and Clump."

Kim Schofield's generosity was CERTAINLY appreciated by MANY in attendance at the Grand Opening of eclectic Paperie's {NEW} studio ~

Cre8time was active ALL evening ~

I'm not afraid to admit it: We were literally PAWING eP's Design Team Member, Donna-Marie Cecere's, work!  Want to learn how to make journal pages like these?? Check out Donna-Marie's Youtube Channel at: http://www.youtube.com/user/donna50242 and sign up for one of inspiring classes at eP's studio: 

Can you believe Donna-Marie made this journal page with the Unity Stamp Company stamp? I'm looking at stamps with a whole new eye ~

Donna-Marie was singing the praises of this white Uni-ball pen.  It was quite dramatic when used with the Wplus9 paisley stamps ~

Are boutique craft supplies in demand in the Seacoast?? Oh, YES! at eclectic Paperie's {NEW} studio!

Oh, we were ALL smiling at eclectic Paperie's {NEW} Studio Opening in Hampton Falls, NH ~ with Donna-Marie Cecere, Laurel Lee Pollard, Kim Schofield and Julie Faulkner Masse.  Not shown (because she was TAKING this great photo): Mary-Ann Maldonado.

Happy Day, Laurel

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