“Beautifully Handmade” self-paced classes with Tania Willis
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Color and over-the-top handmade touches are the hallmarks of the pages Tania Willis makes for her family and for manufacturers like Karen Foster Designs and Little Yellow Bicycle. Tania Willis is the author of several how-to books and has been teaching papercrafting in stores and in written tutorials for years. She knows how to inspire and teach crafters at all levels. We’re offering three self-paced classes from Tania. Each is in a pdf file with over 100 pages of beautifully-illustrated how-tos and inspiration. These e-books/self-paced classes are great for printing and spiral binding at home or your local copy shop. Every one of them will become a go-to resource for you and your loved ones who want to keep their hands busy while making beautiful embellishments, cards, scrapbook projects, accessories, and more.
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20% “bundle” discount
Bundle Price: $48
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Embellishments:
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Scrapbooking
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Spend less money and add beautiful, original hand-made touches. The embellishments Tania teaches in Embellishments: Beautifully Handmade are not JUST fun, unique, and beautiful: their cost is a fraction of what you’d pay for ready-mades. You’ll make flowers from fabrics, felt, dollar store finds, patterned paper scraps, buttons and brads. Tania will take you through the process of paper piecing, making the ever-popular epoxy buttons, your own journaling spots and much much more! Learn to select and prepare your materials for beautiful results and maxium yield. Tania doesn’t want you wasting any bit of your supplies. Additionally, her crafting instructions show novices exactly how to proceed while revealing new tips and tricks to the more experienced crafter.
Embellish scrapbook pages, clothing, accessories–anything you want. Tania will even give you tips for projects you can tuck into your purse and work on while you’re waiting at appointments. These lessons immediately get the mojo flowing and the ideas popping. Work with textiles, dollar-store finds, chipboard, buttons, brads, inks, papers, diamond glaze, watercolors, and more. Use techniques that include: masking, hand-sewing, texturing, painting, glazing, stamping, and imagining your own original embellishments.
10 lessons/chapters 1) All Things Textile 2) Embellishing with Felt 3) Epoxy Buttons 4) Paper Piecing 5) Embellishing Buttons 6) Pleated Rosettes 7) With Thread and Needle 8) Paper Posies 9) Dollar Store Finds 10) Medallions and Journaling Cards
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Get the warmth and texture of textiles on your scrapbook pages starting today. Add fabric to your projects in both big and small ways with the techniques you’ll learn here and use again and again. Over 150 scrapbook pages using fabric illustrate these lessons.
Tania will have you pushing the boundaries of your creativity and she will show you exactly how to reduce, reuse, and recycle castoff fabrics. These lessons are packed with detailed instructions and great ideas for adding fabric to your layouts. Even if you think you “know” fabric, you will find new ideas for using it on your pages and projects in this class. In “Scrapbooking with Fabric” you’ll be taking more than needle and thread to page–you’ll be working with stiffeners, inks, stablilizers, adhesives . . . and even crayons! 6 lessons/chapters 1) In Raw Form: focusing on the basics of fabric shopping, appropriate adhesives, and incorporation of fabric onto your pages in raw form–without any extra fuss.
2) Perfectly Polished: focusing on a variety of ways to stabilize fabric, substitute it for paper, and give it a a polished look that brings it center stage. 3) Embellish It!: focusing on embellishing with fabric, making fabric embellishments, and recycling clothing. 4) Ink it Up: focusing on ways to alter your fabric with ink, stamps, glitter and more, including tips on printing photos on fabric. 5) Once Upon A Time: focusing on ideas for incorporating meaningful fabrics as memorabilia on your layouts and recycling appliqués and embroidery segments from clothing. 6) How Do You Do? focusing on ideas for creating fabric greeting cards and envelopes that are suitable for mailing. Download this class today–we promise you’ll come out on the other side with an increased knowledge of all things textile, the confidence to start shopping for supplies in the fabric store, and plenty of new ideas. (We really do promise!–with a 30-day money-back guarantee!)
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Never be without a card again. Use up your scraps and make greetings that will touch the hearts of your friends and family. Postal service regulations to envelope ideas: Tania covers everything you need to know about making and sending cards — beginning with USPS postal regulations for size and shape of standard cards vs. non-standard cards, moving on to unique folding techniques, and then getting funky with envelope décor that is sure to make your recipient smile! The unexpected value in this class is that Tania shares with you her creative process and formula for QUICKLY making LOTS of cards that are all DIFFERENT. It’s her “secret formula” – that won’t be secret to you any more. Learn a diverse range of card making techniques in these 6 jam-packed lessons. Improve your card making skills and increase your stash of ‘ready to be used’ cards for every occasion along the way.
6 lessons/chapters 1) Basic Card Making: focusing on the basic sizes of card making, deciphering envelope sizes, basic US postal regulations, and making envelopes from templates. Also, tips and ideas for how to make your cards look beautifully finished inside and out. 2) It’s in the Fold: focusing on a variety of folding techniques, including, but not limited to: gatefold, accordion folds, flip and folds, and gift wrap fold. 3) Staying in Shape: focusing on shaped cards for all occasions, including holidays/birthdays. 4) Getting Edgy: focusing on cards with unique edges (i.e. wavy, scalloped, rounded, etc.) 5) Clearly Spoken: focusing on cards with transparent qualities (i.e. cards from transparencies, cards with vellum overlays, using acetate recycled from embellishments for peek-a-boo cards) 6) All Tucked In: focusing on ideas to jazz up the envelopes–inside and out–that your cards are being mailed in.
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