Design Your Life
Cathy Zielske | author, blogger and former art director of Simple Scrapbooks magazine

Back by popular demand, the one-and-only Cathy Zielske! Not only is she Clean and Simple two times over, she is a graphic designer, the former art director for Simple Scrapbooks magazine and a sought after, super-star instructor. Cathy's candor and humor have endeared her to thousands of magazine and blog readers, and the opportunity to spend three months under her influence will not only improve your ability to make pages that work but will also inspire you to look at design as the universal application that it is—in January, February and March we invite you to Design Your Life with Cathy.

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Dimensional Details
Nic Howard | author and blogger

Nic Howard is back, this time as a 4Experts instructor in 2010! Nic is known for her beautifully detailed layouts, and in her workshop "Dimensional Details" she'll teach you all of her favorite techniques! Nic will be teaching her own spin on techniques such as building backgrounds, creating embellishments, and working with photos, titles, frames, and borders! Nic will bring you this and more in step by step format with plenty of examples, tips and techniques, week after week. From the layout base to the smallest embellishment, if you love the detailed look of layered pages, you won't want to miss Nic's class!

During April, May and June, Nic will help you take your scrapbooking to a whole new level as she works from start to finish on getting more detail into your layouts!

Nic is from New Zealand, and we've heard time and time again how much students enjoy listening to her inspirational audios. To learn more, please listen to a message from Nic!

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@ Home with Claudine Hellmuth
Claudine Hellmuth | author, blogger and mixed media artist

Welcome to Claudine's at home studio! In this 12 week online class, you will learn a lifetime supply of mixed media techniques (really! That is a lot of techniques!) that you can easily incorporate into your scrapbooking layouts, journals or mixed media projects. Throughout the class, we'll be working to bring these techniques together into a few different projects so that you can display them in your home! For beginners through advanced crafters, this class is a perfect introduction to working with acrylic paints and mediums, complete with new and exciting techniques for those who are already familiar with these materials.

Claudine will be checking in to guide you through learning each of these new techniques: even if you have never touched a jar of paint before, you'll leave this class feeling like a pro!

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Focus on Fabric
Donna Downey | author, blogger, and product designer

When it comes to FAB (as in fabric), Donna is your girl. Donna essentially created fabric scrapbooking and this is why we're beyond excited to bring Donna back to Big Picture Scrapbooking as our final 4Experts teacher in 2010 with an exploration of the FABulous world of fabric. You'll learn fundamental fabric techniques while exploring the world of canvas, art quilts and fabric mini-books and albums. Fall is the perfect gift-making and gift-giving season, and Donna will deliver inspiration, ideas and instruction via video and colorful step-by-step handouts. You'll create everything from a fabric postcard to a fabric advent calendar that can be used to count down the days to Halloween or Christmas. Sounds like the only thing left to count down are the days to Donna's class!

Audio Message from Donna: