Show and Tell Artists Announced

Hi everyone!

I want to introduce you to some of our Friday Studio Show & Tell artists (barring any unforeseen catastrophe), we're so so thrilled and excited about each and every one of them. You can see a blinkie-linkie to each of their site over on the sidebar.

So in no particular order here we go....

Laura Jarman designer and owner of "Dear Lizzie",

"Amy Redden" of Vintage Fern, textile artist

Robin Wade , altered jewelry artist and brightsmith

Robyn Werlich, creative stamping

Melissa Blackburn, fine dressmaking

Jen Sorensen, Book Arts, of the Rookery

Maren Ogden, paper artist and stationier (well, i don't know if stationier's a real word but it sounds good...)

Megan Faulkner Brown, baker and owner of Sweet Tooth Fairy Bake Shop

April Meeker stamp carver and jewelry designer

Emily Sparks, crocheter and owner of Emily Sparks Handmade

Sassifras Paper Company

The Pink Chandelier

as well as some bigger companies:

Canon

Quickcutz

Fiskars

&

Yudu
We're so excited about each and every one of these artisans and can't wait for you to see what they've got up their sleeve. We will have a "Meet The Artists" night at the Dear Lizzie Bistro coming up later this month.

and the winner is...

I used the cute random number generator at Tara Frey's blog (Rhonna's graphic!) to find our lucky winner... drum roll... and the Spark winner is:

Mandi Medford said...

Wahoo sounds like fun!

Lets get sparks flying!

- Mandi Medford

Wahoo! Email me your addy at elizabeth.kartchner (at) gmail.com and pack your bags cause your comin' to Spark!

free ticket

Hi ladies! Liz here, reporting to you live from my laptop...

A while ago my sweet friend Stephanie Nielson posted this quote on her blog. It's so powerful and really spoke to me...

There is in every true woman's heart

a spark of heavenly fire,

which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity;

but which kindles up and

beams and blazes

in the dark hour of adversity.

-Washington Irving

Every one of us has a Spark and that's why we're so excited about this event... to be inspired by other creative woman... by you.

Leave a comment with your name to be entered to win a FREE TiCkEt to SPARK!!

Oh Sweet Sadie

ETA: Thanks to those of you who are linking from Nie Nie's site. We are so happy to see you here at Spark. Please, Go here for all the fun information... :)

Meet April Meeker!

April is one of our fantastic teachers for Spark! She's teaming up with Margie for the Gather your Spark class! She will also be one of our artists during the Show & Tell we'll be having on Friday. She'll be showing her wares (which will be for sale) as well as telling about her technique she uses in her jewelry making: hand stamping. Part of her process is actually hand carving the art in the stamp and then using it to create her jewelry! She's a very skilled & talented silversmith artisan! Isn't that fab?

I mean...check out this amazing SPARK stamp she made!


I can't wait to see her Show & Tell! One really cool thing about the Show & Tell time is: Each artist will not only showing & telling about their process, but they'll be sharing little pieces of their work with us to use in our classes on Saturday! Each Spark girl will have a ticket that they'll get punched as they go to each artists' area so they can gather fabulous things, gather them in a special Spark bag & then create with them in the classes on Saturday!

We are so thrilled to have April join us for the Spark journey & feel honored to have such an amazingly talented artist & business woman Showing & Telling about her art!

And...locals: We invite you to come and meet us at the Oh Sweet Sadie Art & Gift Show! We'll have a table there with some info about Spark!
WHEN:
Thurs. Sept. 17: Invitation Only Pre-Sale
Friday Sept. 18:
Saturday Sept. 19:

WHERE:
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see you there!
R

Margie's BIG day!!

spark teachers

Announcing the Spark teacher line up! ( You can see the class run down here)

Kelly McCaleb is our girl to Spark it up with the fantastic fabric class: Feel your Spark.

(photo credit: Tara Whitney)

Kelly is
a happy mama, homemaker, and wife who loves to create with and re-purpose vintage goods. When she's not collecting fabric, vintage trims, yarn, buttons, cookware (you get the idea), she is home working on projects and blogging about them at kellymccaleb.typepad.com. She also sells her goods in her etsy shop, kellymccaleb.etsy.com.

The creative duo: April Meeker & Margie Romney-Aslett will be teaching a hands-on jewelry class: Gather your Spark .

(photo credit: Tara Whitney)
April is
the type of girl that likes to get her hands dirty. On any given day, one might find a mixure of paint, dirt, ink, tarnish and tomato sauce smeared on her apron. She has the annoying habit of loosing pens and pencils in her hair.

April lives by the sea with her small brood of two little chicks and one crazy Rooster, all of whom she is madly in love with . She goes by the aliases of Mommy and Secondsister. You can find her blogging away at www.suaviloquy.blogspot.com and peddling her sundries at www.secondsister.etsty.com.

(photo credit: Jefra Linn)

Margie is
a hip hop Mom to 4 grown kids!
Wife to Grant Aslett for 23 years and counting!
Friend to everyone she meets
Loves a good laugh
Drinks Diet Dr. Pepper like nobody's business
Makes stuff with paper, fabric, paint, and glue
Glitter is her friend
The color pink is her favorite
Hates goodbyes
Loves to teach all over the world
Busy with a business with her daughters
Has a passion for life and loves to share it
Margie is just a girl loving life...
You can read her blog "just a girl"
www.margieromney-aslett.typepad.com

The amazingly creative Jefra Linn will be teaching the photography class: Capture your Spark.

(photo credit: Tara Whitney)

Jefra is
an amazing artist & photographer.
She sees things in a different light.
I have learned so much from her.
I'll wait to tell you more about her, but wanted to introduce her with all
of the teachers.

Jefra Starr Linn was born in Chicago in 1975 and grew up in New Canaan, CT. Her earliest memories of creative passion involved collecting sparkly rocks while walking to the school bus, for which she was often late (sparkly rock collecting is very time-consuming).

She studied art College at BYU-I and UVU – narrowly escaping from the College of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Design.

She studied photography in high school and college, becoming acquainted with darkroom technique, and also served as

a popular photography model .
She has been an award-winning floral designer.
She is an almost avid embroiderer, sculptor, knitter, crotchetier,
She is a maker of mix tapes, an official Master Gardener, a freewheeling sewing fiend, and has been known to weave a mean friendship bracelet.

She does Scrapbooking, although it takes her forever to finish a page.

Jefra self-published a book of her photography- “The Road Less Traveled.”
Her work has been sought out by galleries in Utah and Santa Fe, NM, as well as Getty Images.
She has been involved in nearly every type of photography, except war documentary or crime scene. She even shot a major politician.

Jefra has taught photography workshops around the country.

“I love the instantaneous reward of photography. I love how it reveals a person and a moment. I love how it can tell a

story in one frame. I love how it grabs an instant in time that will never been seen again.”

Jefra is mother to three kids and wife to a pretty amazing guy - David Linn

Elizabeth Kartchner & Rhonna Farrer team up for the mixed media book class: Remember your Spark.

(photo credit: Jefra Linn)

Elizabeth (or Liz) is
Momma to 2 silly sprouts
Wifey to my best friend
Sucker for colorful shoes
Loves to play with paper and glue
Cries easily but laughs even easier
Enjoys monthly column 'Dear Lizzy' in CK
Travels all over the world sharing my passion with others
Deprived of sleep
Ignores the fact that brownies aren't good for you
Seeks to inspire others
Listens to Zee Avi
Adores laughter, a clean home, minimallows & vintage cameras.
Loves to blog: www.elizabethkartchner.blogspot.com

Elizabeth has been a crafter for many years and has worked for numerous manufacturers (American Crafts, Close To My Heart & Pebbles). In 2007 she was named 'Scrapbooker of the Year' by Creating Keepsakes Magazine. Since then she enjoys her column "Dear Lizzy" that is featured monthly in Creating Keepsakes. In the March issue of Utah Valley Magazine she was named one of the '50 Most Fabulous People.' She also is a frequent guest on Channel 5 morning show "Studio 5." She will be a guest coming up on October 2nd.

(photo credit: Jefra Linn)

Rhonna is
a short, spunky mom to 3 fab kids.
Loves being with her soul mate, Jeff.
Ignores the laundry when there's a creative Spark!
Seeks peace & happiness through running, laughing, and sharing her faith.
Captures her happy art & designs in House of 3
Adores blogging here.
Remembers nothing, & therefore must record.
Gathers those around her that make her happy.

Currently:

I am 1/3 of House of 3, my business with Heidi Swapp & Janet Hopkins.

**As part of House of 3: I am owner, designer, creator & product developer! We all 3 work together great as a team & we'll be sure to have some of our products at Spark!

I work with Wacom as a Penscrapper.

I work with Shutterfly on their Creative Board Advisors.

I work with Scrapblog & sell Rhonna DESIGNS & House of 3 elements there.

I work with several companies designing greeting cards, gift wrap, gift bags & tags!

Previously:

2004-2008 I worked with Two Peas in a Bucket as a Garden Girl & Digital Designer Team Director.

2007: I was on Better Homes & Gardens' Scrapbooks, Etc. Magazine team.

2004-2008: Worked with Autumn Leaves where I had my own product line & was involved in several of the Designing With...books/projects.

2004: Won Creating Keepsakes' Hall of Fame & worked with them for a year.

1997-present: Designs for greeting cards, gift wrap, gift bags & other paper products.

We'll have sneak peeks of what we've got in store for you, but trust us...it'll Spark your creativity! We are just so excited to have FUN with you all!

Some of you have asked about a yahoo group or something to get to know each other before the event. Great idea! That's why we have this blog! Go ahead & leave comments here with your info so we can start a running list on our sidebar of WHO is coming & their info!

And...be watching for our feature presentation...coming soon!

enjoy the process,
R

Spark goes to ....Star Mill

Some of these were over on my blog the other day...hope you all don't mind...



Fun times by all of us at Star Mill in Lehi this past Friday.



Rhonna, Liz, Margie and I went to Star Mill for a little video making fun and to ride bikes and play around together. We had a blast. After we went to Dear Lizzy in Alpine (where my amazing event planner cousin, Karli is in charge of all events that happen there - and many other places) for lunch with Heidi Swapp. There was much laughter and much fun had there in The Bistro that day.

HUGS



I about died over this darling "E" they had there and I made E-lizabeth hold it up for me.




It was so cute (I know Rhon, there's that word 'cute') how Rhonna's feet couldn't touch the ground, even in high heeled platforms.







Wooooooaaaaah!






Thanks to Meg, Brooke and Margie for letting us use the bikes!! Hope we didn't beat them up too much in our nuttiness.

ps - i have more pics that i'll put up later...

Sparking together

our Spark meetings are always loaded with excitement, chills and laughter.

This was some of what happened at our last meeting...




margie tweeting...
lizzie messing with the lensbaby.

and we're live...registration is OPEN!

We are so excited! Today is the day....Registration is OPEN & the first 50 people to sign up get $50 off! You'll see the Registration Button up on the right side of our side bar. look. up there! see it?

Now...you can click on it & you'll be taken to PayPal where we will be accepting all funds. **remember, this is a non-refundable ticket.**
If you've never used PayPal before, here's a screen shot so you can see what it will look like & what you'll need to do.

As you can see, you can pay with any credit card & you're set!
We know you may have some questions, so please feel free to ask us: thesparkevent@gmail.com and...a customer service number: 801.369.4764

Please include this in your Message To Sender in PayPal:
Name
Address
Phone
email
(we'll have a more detailed questionaire we'll send out to you once we get registration finished!)

For a review on everything the $300 includes:

-Yummy Goodie Bag at registration. Not goodies to eat (though those will be there too), but sparky, amazing, fun, eye-candy goodies... :)

-Ticket price also includes Full Kits with all the supplies for the classes and let me tell you, they will be fabulous! (You will only be asked to bring your basic tools and a list of those will be given to you after you've bought your ticket to the event. These tools will, mostly likely, be stuff you already have on hand)

-And it also includes your food, which is:

Friday:
Registration begins at 12:00 where we will have finger foods and drinks
Dinner
Snacks and drinks through out the day

Saturday:
Mid-morning snack
Lunch
Dinner
Snacks and drinks though out the day
(your hotel stay is extra.)

**Note: if you have any dietary restrictions, please let us know so we can make sure we are feeding you the kind of energy you need!

So, your Event Ticket will get you everything you need aside from travel.
If you are local, you're set.

If you are coming from out of town, you'll have some extra costs:

• You will need to get a hotel: Marriott has a great deal ONLINE only at $79.99 a night. (if you call it's $89.99.) They will have a shuttle from the airport to the hotel & then a shuttle from the hotel to This is The Place. So, you wouldn't need a car unless you really wanted one!
• Air or car travel...gotta get you here somehow!

Cancellation policy: This is non-refundable so no cancellations. Make sure you can come, want to come, & it's all good!

Pay 1/2 now, rest by October 1st Policy:
We are accepting $150 now with a 'pay the last $150' by October 1st. **Note: the $50 off for the 1st 50 people does not apply with this policy. It only applies to the full $300.

ok. so I think that's it. Like I said..once you are signed up we'll be giving you more specifics on things.

Sparks,
R

Spark Event Ticket

First 50 get $50 off $250.00 Spark Ticket $300.00 1/2 down 1/2 by OCT 1st $150.00