Hi there, I'm Nic Howard and I'm thrilled to be working with Big Picture Scrapbooking as one of the 4Experts teachers for 2010.

I am looking forward to teaching during the second three months of the year with a technique based class! Scrapbooking is a whole lot of different things to me and I personally enjoy getting photos and stories on to a project but I also love the whole creative process and this is what I'd like to share with you.

Let's talk more about my process and what I hope to share.

It's layering, it's gathering papers and products together to create backgrounds, it's dimension and it's detail. It's clusters of embellishments and creative titles: I enjoy looking for the embellishment opportunities in patterned papers and bringing those into a layout. It's messy stuff, a little paint, a little glitter. Masking and building. Most of all though, my favourite part of the creative process is pulling all of this together into something that makes me sit back and think wow, that really was fun!

One of the benefits of this class is the sheer amount of techniques you will receive step by step instruction for. From start to finish, we are going to break down the most complex of detailed pages and work on the smaller things. Whether you go ahead and apply these techniques to wildly extravagant pages or whether you use these techniques as smaller detail on more simple pages… that will be up to you. Each and every one of you in the class will have free rein to take the technique to whichever level suits your personal scrapbooking style.

As we work through the workshop there will opportunity to participate in two 'gala' weeks. These will be extra fun weeks full of challenges, manufacturer giveaways, sponsored techniques and the occasional chat. It'll be a time to share and be inspired. As always, the content of this workshop will be downloadable, so you can participate in all the message board and gallery fun and interaction, or work at your own pace. It's entirely up to you.

I'm excited to be spending the second three months teaching this technique workshop, it's something I so enjoy. It's about creating a page that will make people look and look again, but it's letting the photo and story continue to shine. That's my goal, anyway. I hope you can join me bring it all together with Big Picture Scrapbooking.