The Bella Crafts Holiday Craft-a-Thon is a 3-day Virtual Crafting Event October 23–25, 2024, with 16+ Workshops filled with Tips & Techniques… Presented Awesome Instructors and Give-a-ways Galore from our Sponsors!

We wanted to share some details ahead of registration, next week, so that you have all the info and can register with ease. Today’s post shares all of the instructors with you.

What makes the Bella Crafts Holiday Craft-a-Thon unique is that each registered attedee will have access to all the workshops not just a selection of them. Bella Crafts Holiday Craft-a-Thon will feature 18+ Classes, Quick Projects, Tips & Tricks, and a Q&A time with the instructors. There are many amazing people and companies that are supporting this event with their time, talents and amazing products…we are beyond grateful!

Our confirmed instructors are:

Eileen is a maker, teacher, influencer and creative community builder. She licenses her art with leading craft manufacturers, including a 15 year partnership with Sizzix, resulting in hundreds of innovative die designs.

Eileen educates her community (and anyone else who will listen!) on how to use her products on twice-weekly interactive livestreams, social media posts featuring inspiration by her talented design team and on line workshops and events.

Her favorite creative adventure was purchasing Scotty, her vintage trailer, on eBay and outfitting it as a mobile studio in 2013. She travel taught throughout the US and Canada, logging 62,000 miles through thirty-five states. Eileen continues to teach in stores, at retreats, trade shows and events and is always looking for new places to share her love of creating.

Eileen has been featured in Where Women Create, Creative Scrapbooker and many other magazines and has authored six books.

Julianna is an Award-Winning Innovator, Business Development Expert, Best Selling Amazon Author, Product Developer and Social Media Micro Influencer, she has turned millions on to the joys of creating with arts and crafts materials from all over the world. Julianna’s sincerity, compassion and genuine enthusiasm for the creative arts have built a loyal viewing and shopping audience for over 25 years. She became a household name through her thousands of appearances on shows such as Aleene’s Creative Living, The Carol Duvall Show, Home Shoping Network and more.

In 2019 Julianna launched the Wisdom WarriorÔ collection of beading and fiber looms on the Jewelry Television network. The line was a huge hit with sell outs and continues to flourish on her ecommerce site JewelLoom.com

Julianna also known as “Jewels” to friends and family is “momma” to Josh and Marlin Brando her constant companion Frenchie.

In her own words, “I am beyond grateful for each and every day that I wake up and am given another opportunity to serve and love on my creative community”.

Amanda Stevens is one of the founders of Pear Blossom Press, a company focused on offering unique and innovative products for papercrafters. As a long time crafter, she has worked with all types of mediums across many genres, but her favorite of all is papercrafting. She especially loves interactive cardmaking. She also enjoys taking tools and techniques from other fields and developing them specifically for papercrafts. When she isn’t teaching in person, or through videos, she is busy developing new products.

Sara Naumann’s mantra is: Let’s make it easy! Through her books, blog, videos and television appearances, Sara’s goal is to make paper crafting and resin jewelry techniques easy and accessible for crafters of all experience levels. She’s a Bella Crafts author of two books on stamping (Sara’s Stamping Techniques, and Sara’s Embossing Techniques), and teaches online at Paper Wishes. She’s the author of Resin Jewellery and Modern Resin Jewellery, both published by Search Press. She also designs stamps and stencils for PaperArtsy, a UK manufacturer.

Sara is an American designer who creates from her home studio in Germany. When she’s not designing, writing or dreaming up new classes, she volunteers with the American Women’s Club and negotiates screen time with her tween daughter.

Tiffany Windsor embodies creativity in everything she does. Growing up as the daughter of the renowned inventor of Aleene’s Tacky Glue, Tiffany developed a passion for crafting that has stayed with her throughout her life. Her impressive career includes producing and hosting over 2,000 episodes of Aleene’s Creative Living TV show, authoring several hard and soft-cover craft books, and creating the Cool2Craft YouTube channel, which has garnered over 15 million views and 90,000 followers.

Cheryl Boglioli is a mixed-media artist and owner of Powertex Products USA, serving as the exclusive US Distributor for Powertex International. Known for her innovative approach, Cheryl collaborates with leading art material manufacturers as a Creative Professional, Designer, and Educator. Passionate about teaching, she travels extensively, offering workshops through her online art school, Learning the Art Life™, and at in-person events.

Meg Daves has been sharing her love for papercrafts for over 20 years now!  Her favorite kinds of cards are clean and simple, but she loves to mix it up.  Meg loves when she hears back from a stamper that they watched a video of hers, tried something, and loved the outcome.  That totally makes her day.

When Meg is not in her stamp room, she is spending time with her husband of 21 years, Matt.  Their only daughter is now in college out of state, so Meg await phone calls and texts while she is living her best life.  

Megs goal for this next year is to push herself even further out of her comfort zone with her crafts!

Karen Hightower started her crafty journey when she was a little girl. Always making something for her mom. Soon she was painting ceramics, making jewelry, painting ceramics and throwing pottery. She did some scrapbooking for a very short period before making some simple Christmas cards. Karen found Gina K. Designs on Youtube and was hooked on the idea of making cards for her family. After creating for a year and a half she entered a contest for a guest designer spot for Gina K. Designs.  Shortly after she was asked to join the Gina K. Design Team where she is still creating cards10 years later. 

Julie McGuffee is originally from Englad and has been professionally involved in the Arts & Crafts Industry since 1988.  She hosted Scrapbook Memories TV show for 15 years and has appeared as a guest and guest host on numerous other craft shows over the past 20+ years, including popular shopping channels.  

As an all-round crafter/designer, Julie has authored over 50 “how to” craft books on a wide variety of crafts ranging from Decorative Painting to silk ribbon embroidery. She now works with leading manufacturers on product development, marketing and project design.

Kim is the Creative Force behind Emeral Creek Craft Supplies. Her company Emerald Creek Craft Supplies make everything in small batches when ordered…Embossing Powders. Glitters, Stamps, Water Colors and so much more.

Lisa Rojas is a designer and instructor for the creative industries. Her designs been featured in magazines, manufacturer trade show booths and websites. She has been creating and teaching workshops for the past 20+ years.

Lisa’s love of crafting has always been with her, it brings back fond memories of time spent with her mother crafting projects for a yearly bazzar that was held in her mom’s home. Rubber stamping is Lisa’s first love and she trys to use it on as many different surfaces as she can that are not paper!

Ann Butler is a licensed artist, social media influencer, instructor, and consultant for the creative industries. Her designs appear in multi-authored books, magazines, booklets, manufacturer trade show booths and websites. She has been teaching workshops and conducting seminars locally and internationally for the past 20+ years. She regularly is a guest artist on TV and web TV shows.

Additionally, Ann has a patented line of rubber stamps and licensed products with Rhinestone Genie, Earth Safe Finishes, Emerald Creek,  Unity Stamp Company, StencilGirl and ArtFoamies. She also has her own branded Paper Line, Die Cut Sentiments and Rubber Stamps. You can see projects using her product lines on the Bella blog and her Ann Butler Designs website.

Also…as a Bonus…some of our Wonderful Sponsors will be doing LIVES during the event…some will share thier newest products while others will share a project!

Workshops begin on Wednesday October 23 at 9am (CST) and go through Friday October 25.

The event will conclude Friday evening (time TBD) with closing remarks, recognitions, and additional prize giveaways.

Please be aware that in the event an instructor becomes unavailable through no fault of their own, as we all know Life Happens…a substitute instructor will teach the workshop or a substitute workshop will be added. This has never happened at one of our events but needs to be put out there as I said Life Happens and we all do the best we can!

Frequently Asked Questions

• How do I get a refund? Sorry, there are no refunds. If your unable to be at the event Virtually during the event, everything will be available to rewatch when you are able.
• Will I be able to get a class supply list or buy a kit? Class supply lists will be available in the Facebook Group, which you will be invited to, at least two weeks prior to the event. Limited kits will be available from most of the instructors, these will also be listed in the Facebook Group and on the workshop post.
• Can I make partial payments? No, payment has to be made in full at time of registration.
• I don’t have a PayPal account.  Will I still be able to register and pay for the event?  Yes.  You do not have to have a PayPal account.  You can still pay through PayPal using a credit card without establishing an account.

Early Bird Registration for Bella Crafts Holiday Craft-a-Thon is Open!

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