Butterflies are FLYING! So Cal Shop Hop 2012!

Look at the butterflies that are flying about at Stamping Details! We are celebrating Butterfly Day here for the So Cal Shop Hop!

Stamping Details is proud to be participating in the So Cal Shop Hop 2012 which starts TOMORROW July 20-August 5, 2012 — Passports are on sale NOW at Stamping Details and ONLINE! Here are the details...

It is a chance to shop at some some of the best Scrapbooking and Stamping stores in Southern California including STAMPING DETAILS, receive great discount, enjoy specialty themed Make N’ Takes, collect pins/buttons for your new cute purse-like bag and have a ton of fun. As you hop to the various stores, have your “Passport” stamped. If you visit enough stores, you’ll be entered into a drawing for great prizes.

Stop by to join in all the FUN!  See you at Stamping Details!

Sizzix Fun Buffet with Pat - July 23!

Sizzix Fun Buffet - with Pat

Monday, July 23, 2012 • 10:30 AM - 2:00 PM

 

Over 100 assorted die cuts and embossing folders plus a Make and Take included in the class fee.

In this class you will make the New Candy Jar by Sizzix that makes a fun gift for that special someone. You could also add a gift card with the candy for any occasion.

Then you will purchase your favorite papers from the large selection available at Stamping Details to emboss and die cut your favorites. Lots of dies and embossing folders for all occasions.

Pat will bring over 100 assorted die cuts and embossing folders plus the newest ones that just arrived. You will cut until you have an assortment to take home with you. This is a great way to try your favorites before purchasing and get a jump on future projects.

Please bring your regular class kit (see footnotes). Pat will bring five machines to share in class. Feel free to bring a die cut machine and plates if you have them. Remember to bring a folder or container to hold your embossing and die cut selections.

$12. Sign Up Required

• Classes have a limited enrollment to ensure comfort, maximum enjoyment and individualized instruction.
• Payment at time of registration reserves your spot and is required.
• Register in person or by calling (858-513-8024) during store hours.
• Store Cancellation: Classes with fewer than 2-3 students will be cancelled after consultation with the instructor. A full refund will be given.
• Student Cancellation: A refund will be available with 48-hour notice of cancellation. This gives the instructor enough time to modify the preparation kits accordingly. No refund when there is less than 48-hour notification; student will receive the class kit/instructor notes if applicable.
• Basic Class Kit: we recommend you bring adhesive, scissors, tweezers, X-Acto knife with fresh blade, pencil, black inkpad and personal paper cutter to all classes if you have these items. A stylus and light box is recommended for dry embossing classes if you have them. A wet embossing heat tool is recommended for embossing with powders.
• Class attendees receive 10% off non-sale product purchases on the day of the class. Class fees and gift certificates excluded.

Divide and Conquer: Mixed Media Canvas!

Divide and Conquer: Mixed Media Canvas
with Chris Cozen from Golden

Sunday, July 22, 2012 • 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Learn how to create mixed media with a fresh contemporary style using clean, crisp lines, a soft color palette and bold graphic elements. Chris will take you through the steps and share her hand-cut botanical and garden stamps with you for this delightful and refreshing mixed media piece.

You will need to bring an 8x8 or 10x10 pre-gessoed cradleboard with you. These are available through Ampersand or Dick Blick, either brand will work. Canvas does not work as well for this process.

About Chris Cozen
Chris Cozen has always had a creative streak, dabbling throughout her youth without any formal training, taking a few design courses over the years. Trained as an educator, Chris spent 30 years as teacher, administrator, college Instructor, and Seminar Leader doing art when the time and space allowed. When she retired from Education in 2000, she built a studio and focused her efforts full-time on her art.

Chris is essentially a self-taught artist with an innate understanding of color and design. Many of her pieces are "stories" of people and experiences, enriched with pieces of family history. She especially enjoys collage and assemblage as they allow her to incorporate into her work "treasures" she collects that help her tell a story. Both her mixed media canvases and her assemblages are colorful, whimsical, and intricate, building layer upon layer of meaning along with the color and collage elements. It is important to Chris that people engage with the story being told, even if they end up telling a different story than was in her mind when she began the piece.

Since 2000, Chris has exhibited in Memphis, Nashville, The A.E. Backus Gallery in Florida, and the Chapelle des Penitents in Callian, France. Her work is held in private collections in California, Maryland, Tennessee, Florida, Canada, Germany, France, Israel, and Norway. She has also written three books: Altered Surfaces, published in 2008, and Transfers & Altered Images, published in 2009, and Mixed Media and Color, published in 2010.

She is currently a member of Golden Artist Colors' Working Artist Program which was designed to provide artists with first hand experience of the variety of Golden acrylic products and their uses. Professional artists with extensive acrylic product training, such as Chris, conduct classes and demonstrations for artists and students working in acrylic or other media.

$75.

• Classes have a limited enrollment to ensure comfort, maximum enjoyment and individualized instruction.
• Payment at time of registration reserves your spot and is required.
• Register in person or by calling (858-513-8024) during store hours.
• Store Cancellation: Classes with fewer than 2-3 students will be cancelled after consultation with the instructor. A full refund will be given.
• Student Cancellation: A refund will be available with 48-hour notice of cancellation. This gives the instructor enough time to modify the preparation kits accordingly. No refund when there is less than 48-hour notification; student will receive the class kit/instructor notes if applicable.
• Basic Class Kit: we recommend you bring adhesive, scissors, tweezers, X-Acto knife with fresh blade, pencil, black inkpad and personal paper cutter to all classes if you have these items. A stylus and light box is recommended for dry embossing classes if you have them. A wet embossing heat tool is recommended for embossing with powders.
• Class attendees receive 10% off non-sale product purchases on the day of the class. Class fees and gift certificates excluded.

Chris Cozen Class - Saturday July 21st!

Telling Our Stories, Sharing Our Hearts: Family History Canvases
with Chris Cozen from Golden

Saturday, July 21, 2012 • 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

This class is a "classic" Chris Cozen collage experience! Why keep all your photos of family stuck in drawers, in boxes, or worse yet on a computer? Drag out those images of your favorite family members past or present, take the photos to your local copy store and have them printed out on medium weight non-recycled paper. Create a pile of mementos to go with those images (ticket stubs, old hand-written notes, a saying, wrapping paper from a cherished gift). Bring all of this to class and then Chris will guide you through the process of creating your story and making it into art! How cool will it be to gather up members of the family across a few generations and have them all together again?

What about a special wedding anniversary, life event, or the story of two friends? There are many layers to our lives, let's weave them together beautifully. We all have so many stories to tell, why not take the time now to share them in this unique way?

Bring two or three gallery wrapped canvases or ampersand type cradle boards for the stories you want to tell. We'll finish them with a "faux-encaustic" mixture!

Chris will bring cradle boards with her for students who don't bring in their own. You can purchase them from her for $8 each.

About Chris Cozen
Chris Cozen has always had a creative streak, dabbling throughout her youth without any formal training, taking a few design courses over the years. Trained as an educator, Chris spent 30 years as teacher, administrator, college Instructor, and Seminar Leader doing art when the time and space allowed. When she retired from Education in 2000, she built a studio and focused her efforts full-time on her art.

Chris is essentially a self-taught artist with an innate understanding of color and design. Many of her pieces are "stories" of people and experiences, enriched with pieces of family history. She especially enjoys collage and assemblage as they allow her to incorporate into her work "treasures" she collects that help her tell a story. Both her mixed media canvases and her assemblages are colorful, whimsical, and intricate, building layer upon layer of meaning along with the color and collage elements. It is important to Chris that people engage with the story being told, even if they end up telling a different story than was in her mind when she began the piece.

Since 2000, Chris has exhibited in Memphis, Nashville, The A.E. Backus Gallery in Florida, and the Chapelle des Penitents in Callian, France. Her work is held in private collections in California, Maryland, Tennessee, Florida, Canada, Germany, France, Israel, and Norway. She has also written three books: Altered Surfaces, published in 2008, and Transfers & Altered Images, published in 2009, and Mixed Media and Color, published in 2010.

She is currently a member of Golden Artist Colors' Working Artist Program which was designed to provide artists with first hand experience of the variety of Golden acrylic products and their uses. Professional artists with extensive acrylic product training, such as Chris, conduct classes and demonstrations for artists and students working in acrylic or other media.

$115.

• Classes have a limited enrollment to ensure comfort, maximum enjoyment and individualized instruction.
• Payment at time of registration reserves your spot and is required.
• Register in person or by calling (858-513-8024) during store hours.
• Store Cancellation: Classes with fewer than 2-3 students will be cancelled after consultation with the instructor. A full refund will be given.
• Student Cancellation: A refund will be available with 48-hour notice of cancellation. This gives the instructor enough time to modify the preparation kits accordingly. No refund when there is less than 48-hour notification; student will receive the class kit/instructor notes if applicable.
• Basic Class Kit: we recommend you bring adhesive, scissors, tweezers, X-Acto knife with fresh blade, pencil, black inkpad and personal paper cutter to all classes if you have these items. A stylus and light box is recommended for dry embossing classes if you have them. A wet embossing heat tool is recommended for embossing with powders.
• Class attendees receive 10% off non-sale product purchases on the day of the class. Class fees and gift certificates excluded.

Chris Cozen is coming to Stamping Details this weekend!!

The Abstract Garden: Contemporary Mixed Media Fun
with Chris Cozen from Golden

Friday, July 20, 2012 • 5:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Chris's garden is a constant inspiration to her and she plays with the shapes she sees in the flowers she grows there to develop simple and playful interpretations. We'll develop some rapid, colorful backgrounds then apply some paper elements, create our flower shapes and use our glazing techniques to refine and detail the piece.

You will need three 8x10 canvas boards and a white gel pen for this class.

About Chris Cozen
Chris Cozen has always had a creative streak, dabbling throughout her youth without any formal training, taking a few design courses over the years. Trained as an educator, Chris spent 30 years as teacher, administrator, college Instructor, and Seminar Leader doing art when the time and space allowed. When she retired from Education in 2000, she built a studio and focused her efforts full-time on her art.

Chris is essentially a self-taught artist with an innate understanding of color and design. Many of her pieces are "stories" of people and experiences, enriched with pieces of family history. She especially enjoys collage and assemblage as they allow her to incorporate into her work "treasures" she collects that help her tell a story. Both her mixed media canvases and her assemblages are colorful, whimsical, and intricate, building layer upon layer of meaning along with the color and collage elements. It is important to Chris that people engage with the story being told, even if they end up telling a different story than was in her mind when she began the piece.

Since 2000, Chris has exhibited in Memphis, Nashville, The A.E. Backus Gallery in Florida, and the Chapelle des Penitents in Callian, France. Her work is held in private collections in California, Maryland, Tennessee, Florida, Canada, Germany, France, Israel, and Norway. She has also written three books: Altered Surfaces, published in 2008, and Transfers & Altered Images, published in 2009, and Mixed Media and Color, published in 2010.

She is currently a member of Golden Artist Colors' Working Artist Program which was designed to provide artists with first hand experience of the variety of Golden acrylic products and their uses. Professional artists with extensive acrylic product training, such as Chris, conduct classes and demonstrations for artists and students working in acrylic or other media.

$68.

• Classes have a limited enrollment to ensure comfort, maximum enjoyment and individualized instruction.
• Payment at time of registration reserves your spot and is required.
• Register in person or by calling (858-513-8024) during store hours.
• Store Cancellation: Classes with fewer than 2-3 students will be cancelled after consultation with the instructor. A full refund will be given.
• Student Cancellation: A refund will be available with 48-hour notice of cancellation. This gives the instructor enough time to modify the preparation kits accordingly. No refund when there is less than 48-hour notification; student will receive the class kit/instructor notes if applicable.
• Basic Class Kit: we recommend you bring adhesive, scissors, tweezers, X-Acto knife with fresh blade, pencil, black inkpad and personal paper cutter to all classes if you have these items. A stylus and light box is recommended for dry embossing classes if you have them. A wet embossing heat tool is recommended for embossing with powders.
• Class attendees receive 10% off non-sale product purchases on the day of the class. Class fees and gift certificates excluded.

So Cal Shop Hop Make 'n Take

We are busy getting ready for the SoCal Shop Hop which starts July 20th! Passports are still available!  We also will be teaching a new technique using Dreamweavers Metallic F/X powders. Make 'n Takeis FREE with $10 purchase. The second side available for purchase $2.50.

Stamping Details is proud to be participating in the So Cal Shop Hop 2012 which starts July 20-August 5, 2012 — Passports are on sale NOW at Stamping Details and ONLINE! Here are the details...

It is a chance to shop at some some of the best Scrapbooking and Stamping stores in Southern California including STAMPING DETAILS, receive great discount, enjoy specialty themed Make N’ Takes, collect pins/buttons for your new cute purse-like bag and have a ton of fun. As you hop to the various stores, have your “Passport” stamped. If you visit enough stores, you’ll be entered into a drawing for great prizes.

With over 40 stores participating and more to be added, you’ll have fun for the whole event, hopping around Southern California, shopping for some of your favorite things: paper crafting supplies! CLICK HERE to view the Wacky Holidays you will experience and learn about on your Hop. Check out these deals:

Here at Stamping Details our whacky holiday is National Butterfly Day! Everyone loves butterflies and we are already stocking up the store with the lates butterfly products! We are busy making preparations and the store is filled with butterflies flying!

Purchase your Passport Package (including a Tote, So Cal Shop Hop Pin/Button and Shop Hop Passport) for only $13.00 at STAMPING DETAILS or online. Your So Cal Shop Hop Passport entitles you to a 20% discount* at all Participating Stores during the Shop Hop. Customer must be present, with their Shop Hop Passport, to receive the 20% discount and to have their Shop Hop Passport stamped. ID may be checked. *Exclusions may apply.

We are excited to get SHOP HOPPING with you!

Beginning Altered Book with Pat - Sunday July 15th

Beginning Altered Book Techniques with Pat is Sunday, July 15th at Stamping Details.  You won't want to miss this class:

 

Beginning Altered Book with PatSunday, July 15th - 11:00 to 4:00 pm

Sunday, July 15, 2012 • 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Get in on the latest creative craze – altered books. Learn the techniques you'll need to begin creating altered books of your own. Pat will teach you how to cut a niche, make a window, create special cover effects, give color to pages in several ways, use glass and wire, make pop-ups, add embellishment, do image transfers and more.

Almost everything you need will be provided: paints, chalks, gesso, mediums, ephemera and much more.

Tools to bring with you: cork-backed metal-edge ruler, X-Acto, cutting mat, and sharp blades, large Uhu glue stick, sharp scissors, laser photocopies of several family photos, two used hardcover books of at least 250 (sturdy!) pages for altering (can be bought at the Escondido Library shop, usually under $1), and any scrapbook supplies or tools you already have.

Optional: magazine pictures, ephemera, or novelty yarns or ribbons.

We will be using paints, glazes, etc., so please wear old clothes or bring an apron.

$48.

• Classes have a limited enrollment to ensure comfort, maximum enjoyment and individualized instruction.
• Payment at time of registration reserves your spot and is required.
• Register in person or by calling (858-513-8024) during store hours.
• Store Cancellation: Classes with fewer than 2-3 students will be cancelled after consultation with the instructor. A full refund will be given.
• Student Cancellation: A refund will be available with 48-hour notice of cancellation. This gives the instructor enough time to modify the preparation kits accordingly. No refund when there is less than 48-hour notification; student will receive the class kit/instructor notes if applicable.
• Basic Class Kit: we recommend you bring adhesive, scissors, tweezers, X-Acto knife with fresh blade, pencil, black inkpad and personal paper cutter to all classes if you have these items. A stylus and light box is recommended for dry embossing classes if you have them. A wet embossing heat tool is recommended for embossing with powders.
• Class attendees receive 10% off non-sale product purchases on the day of the class. Class fees and gift certificates excluded.