One focus of IMAGINE Crafts for 2015 is to expand the role of education to both our wholesale accounts and retail customers. This commitment on education has two important factors:
- showing how to use our amazing line of diverse products in a variety of different applications
- sharing with you the latest and greatest techniques that use our products
IMAGINE Crafts offers a wealth of online resources for using our products, including general product information and project ideas. But we also realize that sometimes nothing beats that hands on experience of learning from an instructor in real time, getting your hands all inked up leaving class with a completed project.
We’d like to share with you some of our upcoming classes being offered around the country. We invite you to be a part of one of these classes if in your local area and see why our classes are so popular!
The Collins Group Education and Trade Show
This is a Wholesale only trade show
Friday, March 29th – Monday, March 31st Framingham MA
Artist In Residence Renee Zarate will be representing IMAGINE Crafts at the Spring Collins Group Show with two exciting classes, along with the Saturday Night Sample Making Frenzy Event. Be sure to sign up today to reserve your spot in one of Renee’s classes – space is limited!
Classes with John Creighton Petersen
Our in house Educator John Creighton Petersen is ready for some major road trips in the next few weeks and we’re sure that you would enjoy learning all there is to know about all of IMAGINE Crafts’ inks, sprays, texture pastes and tools while creating some fabulous projects! Registration for these classes are made directly with the hosting stores.
Are you a retailer who’d like to host one of John’s IMAGINE Crafts workshops? You can find the 2015 Menu of Classes that are currently being offered, or email John directly for more information or answers to your questions for having himself or one of our Artists In Residence teach at your store.
Wednesday, April 15th 2015
5668 West Ramsey, Banning CA 92220
(951)797-8891 to register
Both of these classes are EXCLUSIVE to Jollene’s Paperie!
Palette Art
10:30am – 12:30pm $30 + wood piece to use in class (purchase in store)
Take DIY to a whole new level with this mixed media adventure using a variety of IMAGINE Crafts inks, texture pastes and other supplies to learn how to create your own piece of art on wood. Choose your wood base for your project from the extensive choices of upcycled palettes that are custom made for Jollene’s Paperie.
Metal Art
2:30am – 4:30pm $30 + metal piece to use in class (purchase in store)
Staying with the DIY theme, select your metal base from a wide variety of shapes and sizes found in the store to bring to class. Discover just how easy it is to color and add texture to any metal project with IMAGINE Crafts supplies.
Thursday, April 16th 2015
9552 Hamilton Avenue, Huntington Beach CA 92646
(714)369-2862 to register
IMAGINE Art Board
5pm – 8pm $30 all supplies included
Whether new to mixed media or just looking for new techniques, this class will lay the ground work for your mixed media creativity! Learn how to create seamlessly blended backgrounds, work with texture pastes and sprays, and color your own SHEET Metal embellishment with IMAGINE Crafts products.
Saturday, April 18th 2015
NEW LOCATION 880 Hampshire Road Suite S, Westlake Village CA 91361
(805)379-4901 to register
Help come break in the classroom at the new store location with one of these great classes!
The Piano Hinged Book
9am – 1pm $40 all supplies included
This stunning book binding technique is sure to capture everyone’s eye! You’ll learn how to create a book cover from embossed metal, how to color the metal with IMAGINE Crafts inks, and then set the covers with resin. While the resin is curing, you will learn different texture and coloring techniques for the book pages with a variety of different IMAGINE Crafts inks, sprays and texture pastes.
IMAGINE Texture Journal
9am – 1pm $40 all supplies included
Built from scratch, you’ll master the basics of book making in this class with an easy to replicate formula for creating any seized book that you can use as a journal, photo album or more! Students will use texture pastes working with stencils and stamps to create the base layers and then begin to add layers of paper, die-cut metal that will be colored in class – all of this goodness topped with your own personalized bezel set with resin!
Sunday, April 19th 2015
916 North Citrus, Covina CA 91722
(626)967-9036 to register
IMAGINE Cards Spring/Summer 2015 Edition
12pm – 2pm $30 all supplies included
Create 5 cards in this card making extravaganza working with your favorite IMAGINE Crafts inks, texture pastes, sprays and mixed media supplies. This class will inspire you to add new textures, techniques and layers that can be incorporated into all your paper crafting projects!
IMAGINE Art Board
2:30pm – 5pm $30 all supplies included
Whether new to mixed media or just looking for new techniques, this class will lay the ground work for your mixed media creativity! Learn how to create seamlessly blended backgrounds, work with texture pastes and sprays, and color your own SHEET Metal embellishment with IMAGINE Crafts products.
May 1st and 2nd 2015
Class to be held @ The Crossville Outlet Center 228 Interstate Drive, Crossville TN 38555
Store Address: 66 Chelteham Lane, Fairfield Glade TN 38558
(931)456-6648 to register
Bezel Basics
Friday, May 1st 1:30pm – 5:30pm $35 all supplies included
Create two bezels in class while mastering how to work with IMAGINE Crafts inks and tools with resin and the endless possibilities for jewelry and other embellishments. While the bezels are setting, create a ball wrap chain for a necklace for one of the completed bezels.
IMAGINE Cards Spring/Summer 2015 Edition
9:30am – 11:30am $30 all supplies included
Create 5 cards in this card making extravaganza working with your favorite IMAGINE Crafts inks, texture pastes, sprays and mixed media supplies. This class will inspire you to add new textures, techniques and layers that can be incorporated into all your paper crafting projects!
Embossed Altered Journal
12pm – 3:30pm $40 Students will be asked to provide their own book with specific dimensions provided at time of registration. All other supplies are included.
Transform an old book into a wonderful work of art! Choose from a variety of different patterns to create the embossed metal book covers which will be colored and textured with IMAGINE Crafts inks and then set with resin. While the resin cures, the rest of the book will be constructed with an easy binding technique that can be used for any sized book.
IMAGINE Explosion Book
4pm – 7:30pm $40 all supplies included
One of IMAGINE Crafts most popular classes! You’ll start with a pre-cut and scored kit so you can spend your time exploring how to create textures, coloring with a variety of different inks and techniques, and working with metal and other embellishments from IMAGINE Crafts.
Save the Date! July 10th and 11th 2015
7600 Jefferson NE Suite 8, Albuquerque NM 87109
(505)858-1080 to register
IMAGINE Art Board
Whether new to mixed media or just looking for new techniques, this class will lay the ground work for your mixed media creativity! Learn how to create seamlessly blended backgrounds, work with texture pastes and sprays, and color your own SHEET Metal embellishment with IMAGINE Crafts products.
Bezel Basics
Create two bezels in class while mastering how to work with IMAGINE Crafts inks and tools with resin and the endless possibilities for jewelry and other embellishments. While the bezels are setting, create a ball wrap chain for a necklace for one of the completed bezels.
The Piano Hinged Book
This stunning book binding technique is sure to capture everyone’s eye! You’ll learn how to create a book cover from embossed metal, how to color the metal with IMAGINE Crafts inks, and then set the covers with resin. While the resin is curing, you will learn different texture and coloring techniques for the book pages with a variety of different IMAGINE Crafts inks, sprays and texture pastes.
Save the Date! July 21st 2015
Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center, Schaumburg IL
Registration will be online via the CHA website once registration has opened
IMAGINE Layers and Textures
1pm to 3pm
Use your favorite IMAGINE Crafts mixed media supplies to create captivating textures that will be used for building layers that can be incorporated into a variety of projects using our texture pastes, sprays, inks and tools This is the perfect class to introduce yourself to the world of mixed media or to learn new techniques.
DIY with IMAGINE Crafts
3:30pm to 5:30pm
Get inspired with these fabulous DIY projects hat can be taken back to your store and used as quick make-n-takes or classes. The versatility of these projects will allow you to incorporate them into paper and mixed media projects and as stand alone pieces for home decor and more.
I would love to be able to attend a class with Imagine Crafts products but none are being offered any where near me and since I don’t get out of the house that is an impossible dream! I will have to live vicariously through others and videos!