I just got the advance copy of my new book The Scrapbooker's Creativity Kit! I am so excited to be able to share it with you! This book isn't like my other books, it's based on an idea generation process that we did when I was in art college. I loved working in this method when I was in college and I still use it today I am excited to be sharing with you my variation of it with this new kit. Here are a few photos so you can see what it's like:

This is the front of the kit, it's a box that you open up and all the goodies are inside. I love the packaging! 

When you open the kit, this is what you'll see! At the top left there is a deck of word prompt cards and on the right there are the color prompt cards. Opened up for you to see here - is the book part of the kit. Which explains the process, and is loaded with examples from designers in each section.

This is the back of the kit with the blurb!The book isn't available until January but you can pre-order it now!

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At CHA I demoed a new transfer technique that I discovered using the Ranger Adirondack Acrylic Paint dabbers in metallic colors. The video demo was just uploaded to YouTube so now you can see! here you go!

Products used in demo: Adirondack Acrylic Paint dabbers, Craft Scraper, Mini Mister

I have big news that I can finally share! It has been killing me keeping this a secret! Ok here goes!

I am super excited to announce that I am going to have a product line with Ranger Industries.

The line will be called Claudine Hellmuth Studio and will be unveiled this summer at the CHA Summer Show in Chicago! That's all I can reveal at this point so I'll have to keep you in suspense a little longer what it is all about.

It is incredibly thrilling to be working side by side with Ranger's chemists to create the products just how I want them to be! I can't wait to share more with you as it gets closer to the CHA Summer Show!

I have been feeling little burnt out lately and wanted to try something new, so this is a first animation for me using my drawings. When I started the project this afternoon, I wanted to make a little flip book to animate the drawings but then I couldn't figure out how to show them on my blog. So I scanned in the drawings and played with Windows Movie Maker. Fun fun fun!!

Keep in mind it is a very short and very rudimentary animation but I had fun doing it!!

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CLAUDINE HELLMUTH -- hip art for playful hearts!

CUSTOM ARTWORKS CREATED USING YOUR PHOTOS:
http://www.collageartist.com/commissions.htm

WEB: http://www.collageartist.com
BLOG: http://claudinehellmuth.blogspot.com
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