Traveling Class
Mireille Divjak
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Scrap a Ganza part 1
Meeting Cheryl Mezetti
After emailing back and forth for a long time
before this scrap a Ganza it was finally time to really really meet.
I looked forward to this for a long time. Scrap a Ganza started on a Friday and I was there early in the afternoon to get ready and help with unpacking.
I would be class assistant to Cheryl for this weekend.
I was one of the first to check in the hotel but it didn’t take too long until a few other girls of the design team arrived. We sat in the teachers lounge for a bit and had a soda and yapped a little.
When everybody caught their breath there was a lot of work to do. The shopping area had to be “built”. There were tons of big carriers with kits on it for all the workshops that weekend. Carriers with supplies for the shop. Everything had to be sorted, rolled to the right rooms and area’s and be unpacked. Of course it was hard, very hard, to help with the shopping area. We are all scrap addicts in heart and soul and just unpacking all these beautiful new goodies that we hadn’t seen in real life and place it where it belonged without drooling too much, was basically not completely pain free.
After a few hours we went to the main hall at the moment that Cheryl and Karen arrived.
From the beginning it was a lot of laughs, continuing jokes that we started in the email. Very fun.
At the beginning of the evening we all had dinner in the teachers lounge and then I had to run for the first classes of that evening.
After the first classes we met again in the lounge and the first pressure was off, time for a little relaxing, talking, joking, having a drink and more talking.
We tried not to go to bed too late because of the scheduled classes in the morning.
On Saturday morning we all met again in the restaurant and had breakfast together.
Cheryl was teaching two different classes that day. A double class and a single class, and both two gorgeous mini albums.
Cheryl has been scrapbooking for a long time and has been published in numerous idea books and magazines.
She is the design team coordinator for Creative Imaginations, and a product designer for Magistical
Memories. Cheryl has a lot of experience teaching
classes and that was something that was obvious when
she taught at the Scrap a Ganza.
The classes were totally full and everybody was eager to get started on that awesome mini. Cheryl was very relaxed, a fun teacher that took the time for each individual student. She taught a great class and entertained everyone with fun stories about traveling Europe.
In between stories and jokes she had some awesome tips and tricks.
I am not going to tell you what they are, you really should take a Cheryl – class to find out and I promise you, you won’t be disappointed.
Here are a few shots of the
album we made:
The book opens at different
levels for a totally cute look.
Papers that seem really bold
as a full sheet are fun on a book.
I love the mix of colors she
selected--Christmassy, but not obviously.
Using diecuts makes a book
go together in a snap.
If you go to Cheryl’s
blog you will find inspiring blog post filled with art (and the cutest set of twins I have ever seen!) In the sideline of her blog you will find her teaching schedule.
For now I will leave you with some pages of the mini album she taught. See you next month for part two.
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