Many of you are getting ready for PaperLove: Clearing a space to work….gathering kit together….finding that ruler….just like going back to school.
Oooh it’s a good feeling, being all set to go: Sharp pencils. A rainbow of felt-tips. A new rubber (eraser!) Everything poised for creation.
Are you ready? If you haven’t yet booked your seat, hop on board here. Class begins on MONDAY!
Oh my. This time next week we’ll be getting stuck in to all things paper for five whole weeks.
Apart from the bone folder this knife gets most points for dead-good-usefulness. Faced with a pile of paper to cut down in to book-sized pages it is invaluable. The resulting edges are softer. This knife is your friend.
How many tools do you have to hand? Which are your favourites? Are you ready for PaperLove? If you haven’t yet registered you can still jump on board here.
Do you love labels and paper tickets of all kinds? Does finding a scuffed and worn luggage tag make your day? Simple pleasures eh? PaperLove is for those people who feel the same.
Labels are included in the special limited edition PaperLove kit. The perfect finishing touch for a personal parcel…or book project….or collage…
All around the world, paperlovers are gathering their materials together: PaperLove the e-course starts November 3. Not yet booked your spot? Join us here!
For measuring and aligning. Lining up and drawing with a pencil or cutting along with a sharp scalpel.
Neat straight lines have their place amongst the ripped edges and chaos of creativity.
Can you measure how much you would get from five weeks of making with our beautiful course PaperLove? Connect online with other PaperLovers from around the world, surprise yourself with your creations, and discover a little bit more about the real you.
Class starts on November 3. Book your spot here!
Only 10 sleeps until the papery mischief begins. Join us for a very beautiful, very inspiring creative course which will light you up in unexpected ways. PaperLove – the world’s first online course about paper – starts on November 3. Book your spot now.
The Do What You Love e-course is open for registration! This acclaimed transformational online course is for people like you who want to find financial and personal freedom, living a full and happy life.
Do What You Love is about re-opening doors that you thought were locked shut… re-opening possibilities that you thought were long gone… and illuminating possibilities you never knew existed.
It’s about discovering what you really want to do, and giving you practical exercises and tools to do more of it, get paid to do it (if that’s what you want) and generally have a more balanced and fulfilling life.
Sounds like something you need?
Class begins on Monday October 13 and runs for five weeks. Hurry and register now. Don’t miss this chance – it could change everything.
I hope you will choose to be a part of this adventure with us!
Beth
Join ‘7 Days of PaperLove’ to be in with the chance to win this kit and a free place on PaperLove: the e-course (starting in November) [Image: Uli Schade]
Join us and our friends at Paperphilia for seven consecutive days of PaperLove to celebrate papery goodness and ignite your own paper passion. Challenge yourself to fold, cut, collect and see paper in a whole new way. It’s free and it starts Tuesday 7 October. Register HERE for “7 days of Paper Love” and see below for the chance to win a free place on our upcoming online course PaperLove.
For a chance to be featured on the Paperphilia blog and to be entered into the draw to receive a gift voucher for the next PaperLove class, please follow the instructions below to sign up.
Here’s how to take part:
(1) Register HERE for “7 days of Paper Love” to have the challenge posts sent directly to your inbox each morning (from Tues 7 Oct to Mon 13 Oct) and officially sign up for the challenge.
(2) Join the challenge and share your images on facebook, twitter, instagram and pinterest using the hashtag #PaperLovechallenge
(3) If you would like to be entered into the draw to win a free place on the PaperLove e-course (including a delicious kit!), please be sure to use the hashtag in as many places as possible when you post your image. You will be entered each time you post to twitter, facebook, instagram & pinterest using hashtag #PaperLovechallenge.
If you write a blog post about the challenge be sure to add a link to the bottom of your post and email us a link to your blog. This will also be counted as an entry to the giveaway and you can enter as many times as you wish.
(4) We will also gather images to showcase on our blog and facebook albums once the challenge is over with a link to you/your website or blog and send this out to our subscribers.
(5) The winner of the free place on the upcoming online course PaperLove, including a delicious kit of stationery goodies, will be announced on the Paperphilia blog on Friday 17 October.
Please be aware that by joining Seven Days of PaperLove you give your permission to be added to the mailing lists of Paperphilia and Do What You Love. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Any questions? Drop our friends a line at [email protected]
Happy new year! We have a feeling that 2014 is going to be a very exciting year, and hope it is a great one for you. Why not make this the year you commit to your art career, invest in yourself and pour everything into making a living from your talent? If you are ready to take your art from good to great, and start to truly flourish as a professional artist, we have some special things in store for you. Read on…
Make Art That Sells Part A& B is back! Registration is now open for the March 2014 class (begins March 31). These are two 5-week e-courses which give you everything you need to know to make and sell commercially-viable art in the hottest markets, learning from someone who has sold art for products worth over $100 million! Find out more and register here.
Want to know what kind of impact this course can have on your career? Here is what alumnus Emily Balsley had to say about it:
“I went into the course a fairly “green” illustrator and I have come out of it ready to take on the world one illustration at a time – with new skills, self-confidence, focus and drive.
When I first signed up for the course, it was hard for me to justify paying so much for this class when I was hardly making any money as an illustrator! But that was the point of the course, right?!? With encouragement from my husband, I decided it was time to do something for myself and look at it as an investment for my career. And now that it’s over, it was worth every penny. I can’t imagine how many hours of planning went into this class, but thank you so much for putting in all the effort. It really shows.
This is what I’m supposed to be doing, and I couldn’t be more excited about what opportunities lie ahead.”
Read Emily’s full review of the course here. Find out more about the course and book your place here!
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Our brand new online experience Make Art That Sells: Assignment Bootcamp is filling up fast, ahead of class beginning on February 3. This is a structured six-month program of monthly assignments to help you build a strong body of work. You will get five professional-level art assignments over six months to help you create great pieces that are ready to sell. Each month you will have three weeks to complete the assignment. You will then have the option to post your work to a public gallery where it can be viewed by peers, art buyers and industry experts. Find out more and register here.
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The Global Talent Search will soon be back – this is your opportunity to win two years’ representation from top art agent Lilla Rogers, along with a host of licensing deals. This is a highly regarded and fiercely contested opportunity, so if you want to maximize your chances of winning we would strongly encourage you to take one of our Make Art That Sells classes to help you understand what sells, how to present your work, and how to create great art that is commercially viable. More details on the Global Talent Search coming in the Spring…
So what are you waiting for? Take the leap, make the commitment, and get cracking!
This is one of my favourite ever quotes, because it puts the power in your hands. It reminds us that if we have the capacity to dream of something, we have the capability to make it happen, if only we begin…
Back in 2010 I went on my first art retreat, and when I was there I distinctly remember picking up a copy of ‘Somerset Studio’, one of the beautiful magazines from American publishing house Stampington, and thinking “Just imagine getting published in a magazine like that.” Four years on and I am now a columnist for Stampington’s brilliant magazine ‘Where Women Create Business‘, and have been featured in several of their other titles in between.
If I think about how it happened, it was a combination of…
However big or small the dream, it can often be made a reality through a combination of the things above.
What steps do you find help you make your ideas happen?
PS: The column in Where Women Create Business is jointly-authored with Kelly Rae Roberts. In this third of four articles we talk about the importance of choosing to deliver products and services which serve your audience and support your purpose. It is a fab magazine – you can get a copy in all major US bookshops or via the Stampington site here.
