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Welcome to {creative chick}

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New Website!

I can not even express how wicked excited I am to be posting this! I have wanted to blow up shurkus.com for awhile now and finally decided to jump in and DO IT! In March this blog will celebrate it’s 10 year anniversary. TEN YEARS. I figured it was time to take it to the next level and really make shurkus.com more a website with a blog instead of just a blog. When I graduated college in 2001 as a gift to myself I purchased shurkus.com. It was the cool thing to do, buy a domain. Man do I wish I knew how valuable domains are now- I would be rich!

Main reasons for blowing up the site:
I wanted to have better shopping cart capabilities. I realized I needed this when I started my Loft Art Retreats.
I wanted to rebrand the look of shurkus.com with a focus on “creative chick” and making it more my style.
I wanted to be able to organize content better for you, so you can find projects that inspire you and tutorials that make you want to create stuff, because that’s what it’s really all about right?


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Online Classes!

Not only am I launching the new site I am also wicked excited to be launching online classes! I love teaching. I really do. It inspires me. I get so excited when someone shows me something they created using techniques or ideas I taught them in a class. I have been actively teaching classes around New England for almost 15 years now, even traveling to Maryland, Ohio, Utah and Newfoundland! Unfortunately, as more independent stores close I have less places to teach. I also hear all the time how people would love to take my class but they live too far, or it’s not on a day/time that they can. So why not take the classes in your crafty space when it’s convenient for you!?

Taking into consideration what I know people like about my classes, I think I have come up with a solution. For my classes- people enjoy attending the class and having most supplies provided for them and then going home with completed cards or a project right? You don’t want to have to come up with the designs or figure out the “how” –  to you just want to play!

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That is definitely what this first class will be all about! Sign up for my Valentine & Friendship Card Class before January 29th and you will get a class kit that was built specifically for this class shipped right to you! Heidi, the owner of Simon Says Stamp has been AWESOME to work with and make this possible! Kits will ship on/around February 3rd straight from Simon Says Stamp to you! You will then be able to watch the 6 tutorial videos I have created walking you through the creation of all 5 cards! How great is that?

Afraid you aren’t techie enough to do an online class? I promise if you can click play on a video you will be able to navigate to the information you need to “attend” this class. And I’ll be here to help! Any questions just drop me an email!
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Prizes!

OK, Because this is a BIG deal, I thought there should be some BIG prizes! Ready for this? I have 2 AWESOME prize packs to give away!

The first prize pack valued at over $40 – will go to one lucky person that signs up for my class by January 29th. The winner will be chosen at random and will win the following goodies:

  • Lawn Fawn Bugs & Kisses
  • Lawn Fawn Sending Hedgehugs
  • Lawn Fawn Scripty Love
  • Lawn Fawn Spruce Woodgrain Notecards
  • Lawn Fawn Let’s Polka 6×6 Paper Pad
  • Lawn Fawn Peppermint Lawn Trimmings
  • “Wicked” stamp
  • Faber Castell Double Scoop Gelato, red cherry
  • Faber Castell Gelato, Metallic Gold

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For the next prize pack valued at over $25 – I am asking you, my blog readers, to help spread the word about my new website and online class. Post about it on facebook, instagram, pinterest, twitter or all of the above and leave a comment below telling me where you posted. The winner will be chosen at random and will win the following goodies:

  • Lawn Fawn Milk and Cookies
  • Lawn Fawn Monster Mash
  • Lawn Fawn Whale You Be Mine
  • Lawn Fawn Pink Lemonade Lawn Trimmings
  • “Wicked” stamp

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Both winners will be chosen and posted on January 30th so be sure to sign up for the class and share my site by January 29th! Don’t forget to leave me a comment so I know to put you in the drawing!

Are you still with me?

Make sure you don’t miss the AWESOME video that Chris Judge put together for me, to give you a glimpse into my studio

Also check out some of the amazing photos that Sarah Kristiansen from Sweet Jane Photography took at one of the Loft Art Retreats, while you are there SAVE THE DATES! Sarah also shot my new headshots for me!

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Please Note

I am aware that you may find broken links, or missing photos. Chris and I have spent many hours working on and designing this site but we’re only human. Feel free to send me an email if you encounter anything. We will also be working behind the scenes to find and fix issues.

Thank you

I’m looking forward to a bunch of new things to share with you in the coming months – classes, products, blog series etc. I’ve been working hard behind the scenes for a long time, to see it all finally come to together is so very cool! Thank you for joining me on this journey and for all your support!

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