Are you as crazy about faces as we are? Balzar Designs and Crafter's Workshop have partnered to make a signature line. Julie's inspiration to create these face stencils came from whenever she was teaching classes involving faces, some of the students were so frustrated by basic construction that they were unable to focus on their own artistic expression. These stencils are meant to be a help to teachers and students alike and allow you to focus on the fun of creating.
So let's meet the girls and watch some demonstration videos from Julie Fan-Fei Balzer herself:
Julie Fei-Fan Balzer is a self-taught mixed media collage artist and avid scrapbooker. She has been making art for as long as she can remember and loves the process of creating. “I believe that mistakes are creative opportunities and hold fast to the notion that enjoyment of the process is just as important as the finished product! I like to think outside of the box — experimenting with paper, paint, and fabric — always trying to find a way to push my supplies further and see all the possibilities.”
Julie has been published in many magazines including Cloth Paper Scissors, Quilting Arts Gifts, Quilt Scene (upcoming), Creating Keepsakes, Better Homes & Gardens’ Scrapbooks Etc., Memory Makers, Scrapbook Trends, Somerset Memories, Somerset Digital, scrapbooking m.m. (Sweden), Scrap Art Zine (Germany - upcoming), Scrapbooking & Beyond, Simple Scrapbooks, Histories de Pages (France), books by Leisure Arts, F&W Publications, and Quarry (upcoming), as well as multiple e-zines.
Julie is currently the co-host of Scrapbook Soup TV (PBS) and has appeared several times on Quilting Arts TV (PBS) and hosted the “Artist to Artist” segment on Scrapbook Memories TV (PBS). She will also be appearing on the upcoming season of Crafting at The Spotted Canary (PBS). Julie’s hour-long instructional DVD “Collage Fast & Furious” was released in July 2010 by Interweave.
Julie and her husband live in a tiny apartment with a big art studio in the middle of New York City. She is a graduate of Brown University. To learn more about Julie or to read her blog, visit www.balzerdesigns.typepad.com.