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Magazine Magic at Studio Crescendoh!

In January I taught my two-day workshop, Magazine Magic!

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We had a ton of fun ripping apart magazines and turning them into all sorts of things!

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The bad news is that once you know all the amazing things you can do with magazines, you can never ever throw another magazine away!  Eeek!  (This is my excuse for being a hoarder. Hee Hee!)

If you'd like to take an in-person class with me, there are still some seats in these upcoming classes: 

  • March 14 & 15, 2015 (at Papercraft Clubhouse in Westbrook, CT): Art Journal Playground & Painted Paper Collage
  • April 17, 18 & 19, 2015 (at Scrapbook Centrale in Quebec, Canada): The Stenciled Face, Stamp Carving 101, Art Journal Playground, & Painted Paper Collage

Thanks for stopping by!

Julie Fei-Fan Balzer

Based outside of Boston, Julie Fei-Fan Balzer is a painter, printmaker, and collage artist who constructs vibrant compositions. Her artwork investigates the interplay of identity and perception, inviting viewers to take a longer look. Julie works in layers, both physically and metaphorically, exploring what is visible and what is concealed. Passionate about connecting with and inspiring other artists, she shares her expertise through in-person workshops and her online classroom at MyArtPractice.com. Julie's achievements include high-profile clients, multiple publications - including her book, β€œCarve Stamp Play” - and exhibits in New York City and throughout Massachusetts. She is a graduate of Brown University.

60 thoughts on “Magazine Magic at Studio Crescendoh!

  • Amazing work by everyone! I’m salivating!

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  • Amazing work by everyone! I’m salivating!

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  • Amazing work by everyone! I’m salivating!

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  • Amazing work by everyone! I’m salivating!

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  • Amazing work by everyone! I’m salivating!

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  • Your classes look absolutely amazing – however… I think you should look up Bucks County PA and teach a class here!!!! I would be willing to help you orchestrate where and there are too many wonderful places to choose from. It is the county with the “Covered bridges” and New Hope and Rices flea market and so many wonderful things – I bet you and your mom would love to come and explore!!!! Truly a one of a kind place!!!! PLEASE????? PLEASE?????? Did I say PLEASE?

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  • Your classes look absolutely amazing – however… I think you should look up Bucks County PA and teach a class here!!!! I would be willing to help you orchestrate where and there are too many wonderful places to choose from. It is the county with the “Covered bridges” and New Hope and Rices flea market and so many wonderful things – I bet you and your mom would love to come and explore!!!! Truly a one of a kind place!!!! PLEASE????? PLEASE?????? Did I say PLEASE?

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  • Your classes look absolutely amazing – however… I think you should look up Bucks County PA and teach a class here!!!! I would be willing to help you orchestrate where and there are too many wonderful places to choose from. It is the county with the “Covered bridges” and New Hope and Rices flea market and so many wonderful things – I bet you and your mom would love to come and explore!!!! Truly a one of a kind place!!!! PLEASE????? PLEASE?????? Did I say PLEASE?

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  • Your classes look absolutely amazing – however… I think you should look up Bucks County PA and teach a class here!!!! I would be willing to help you orchestrate where and there are too many wonderful places to choose from. It is the county with the “Covered bridges” and New Hope and Rices flea market and so many wonderful things – I bet you and your mom would love to come and explore!!!! Truly a one of a kind place!!!! PLEASE????? PLEASE?????? Did I say PLEASE?

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  • Your classes look absolutely amazing – however… I think you should look up Bucks County PA and teach a class here!!!! I would be willing to help you orchestrate where and there are too many wonderful places to choose from. It is the county with the “Covered bridges” and New Hope and Rices flea market and so many wonderful things – I bet you and your mom would love to come and explore!!!! Truly a one of a kind place!!!! PLEASE????? PLEASE?????? Did I say PLEASE?

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  • Oh, my goodness! I don’t know when I have been soooo excited! Julie make this into some sort of on-line course or something, I wanna to do this. Will try out some of the ideas on my own, but the whole class would be even better!

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  • Oh, my goodness! I don’t know when I have been soooo excited! Julie make this into some sort of on-line course or something, I wanna to do this. Will try out some of the ideas on my own, but the whole class would be even better!

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  • Oh, my goodness! I don’t know when I have been soooo excited! Julie make this into some sort of on-line course or something, I wanna to do this. Will try out some of the ideas on my own, but the whole class would be even better!

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  • Oh, my goodness! I don’t know when I have been soooo excited! Julie make this into some sort of on-line course or something, I wanna to do this. Will try out some of the ideas on my own, but the whole class would be even better!

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  • Oh, my goodness! I don’t know when I have been soooo excited! Julie make this into some sort of on-line course or something, I wanna to do this. Will try out some of the ideas on my own, but the whole class would be even better!

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  • I agree with Elsie!! I would love to take this class. So, online or Chicago, take your pick!!! I’m in!!

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  • I agree with Elsie!! I would love to take this class. So, online or Chicago, take your pick!!! I’m in!!

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  • I agree with Elsie!! I would love to take this class. So, online or Chicago, take your pick!!! I’m in!!

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  • I agree with Elsie!! I would love to take this class. So, online or Chicago, take your pick!!! I’m in!!

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  • I agree with Elsie!! I would love to take this class. So, online or Chicago, take your pick!!! I’m in!!

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  • Tell me about not throwing magazines away! I still have magazines I got for a class I taught in collaging paper dolls seven years ago! EEK! Now I am inspired to start ripping again! And using the results!

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  • Tell me about not throwing magazines away! I still have magazines I got for a class I taught in collaging paper dolls seven years ago! EEK! Now I am inspired to start ripping again! And using the results!

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  • Tell me about not throwing magazines away! I still have magazines I got for a class I taught in collaging paper dolls seven years ago! EEK! Now I am inspired to start ripping again! And using the results!

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  • Tell me about not throwing magazines away! I still have magazines I got for a class I taught in collaging paper dolls seven years ago! EEK! Now I am inspired to start ripping again! And using the results!

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  • Tell me about not throwing magazines away! I still have magazines I got for a class I taught in collaging paper dolls seven years ago! EEK! Now I am inspired to start ripping again! And using the results!

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  • Hi Julie,
    Please make a online class for this!!! I’m not even on the same continent!!!
    Shanti from Holland

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  • Hi Julie,
    Please make a online class for this!!! I’m not even on the same continent!!!
    Shanti from Holland

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  • Hi Julie,
    Please make a online class for this!!! I’m not even on the same continent!!!
    Shanti from Holland

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  • Hi Julie,
    Please make a online class for this!!! I’m not even on the same continent!!!
    Shanti from Holland

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  • Hi Julie,
    Please make a online class for this!!! I’m not even on the same continent!!!
    Shanti from Holland

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  • There,s no way I will ever be able to take a class from you in person. Anyway you can make an online class out of parts of the magazine class? It looks like projects and techniques i would love to do.

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  • There,s no way I will ever be able to take a class from you in person. Anyway you can make an online class out of parts of the magazine class? It looks like projects and techniques i would love to do.

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  • There,s no way I will ever be able to take a class from you in person. Anyway you can make an online class out of parts of the magazine class? It looks like projects and techniques i would love to do.

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  • There,s no way I will ever be able to take a class from you in person. Anyway you can make an online class out of parts of the magazine class? It looks like projects and techniques i would love to do.

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  • There,s no way I will ever be able to take a class from you in person. Anyway you can make an online class out of parts of the magazine class? It looks like projects and techniques i would love to do.

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  • Looks like it was a fun class. I especially like the stencils of the people in action with one bright color surrounding them. Magazines are fun and I’ve started to go through and pull out the few images that I think that I’ll use and recycle the rest of the mag so that I don’t totally drive my hubby cray cray with stuff everywhere.

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  • Looks like it was a fun class. I especially like the stencils of the people in action with one bright color surrounding them. Magazines are fun and I’ve started to go through and pull out the few images that I think that I’ll use and recycle the rest of the mag so that I don’t totally drive my hubby cray cray with stuff everywhere.

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  • Looks like it was a fun class. I especially like the stencils of the people in action with one bright color surrounding them. Magazines are fun and I’ve started to go through and pull out the few images that I think that I’ll use and recycle the rest of the mag so that I don’t totally drive my hubby cray cray with stuff everywhere.

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  • Looks like it was a fun class. I especially like the stencils of the people in action with one bright color surrounding them. Magazines are fun and I’ve started to go through and pull out the few images that I think that I’ll use and recycle the rest of the mag so that I don’t totally drive my hubby cray cray with stuff everywhere.

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  • Looks like it was a fun class. I especially like the stencils of the people in action with one bright color surrounding them. Magazines are fun and I’ve started to go through and pull out the few images that I think that I’ll use and recycle the rest of the mag so that I don’t totally drive my hubby cray cray with stuff everywhere.

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  • Fabulous – it looks like your students had a creative blast. Yes, on line class for sure.

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  • Fabulous – it looks like your students had a creative blast. Yes, on line class for sure.

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  • Fabulous – it looks like your students had a creative blast. Yes, on line class for sure.

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  • Fabulous – it looks like your students had a creative blast. Yes, on line class for sure.

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  • Fabulous – it looks like your students had a creative blast. Yes, on line class for sure.

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  • This looks like a fantastic class! I especially like the butterflies that were shown. Is there a tutorial for those?

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  • This looks like a fantastic class! I especially like the butterflies that were shown. Is there a tutorial for those?

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  • This looks like a fantastic class! I especially like the butterflies that were shown. Is there a tutorial for those?

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  • This looks like a fantastic class! I especially like the butterflies that were shown. Is there a tutorial for those?

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  • This looks like a fantastic class! I especially like the butterflies that were shown. Is there a tutorial for those?

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  • I would love you to teach this online pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee πŸ˜€

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  • I would love you to teach this online pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee πŸ˜€

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  • I would love you to teach this online pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee πŸ˜€

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  • I would love you to teach this online pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee πŸ˜€

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  • I would love you to teach this online pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee πŸ˜€

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  • Julie, I found a book at a yard sale called “Lessons in Lipgloss and Happiness” by Thalia. It has tons of pictures of women’s faces and shows how to apply make up. I have been using this book like a magazine and tracing, or copying and changing the images for my journals. It is also great for showing where to add highlights to faces. I found the book used very inexpensively on Amazon as well. It comes printed in Spanish and English. I have both copies, as I frequently use some of the phrses in spanish just as writing filler for journaling.

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  • Julie, I found a book at a yard sale called “Lessons in Lipgloss and Happiness” by Thalia. It has tons of pictures of women’s faces and shows how to apply make up. I have been using this book like a magazine and tracing, or copying and changing the images for my journals. It is also great for showing where to add highlights to faces. I found the book used very inexpensively on Amazon as well. It comes printed in Spanish and English. I have both copies, as I frequently use some of the phrses in spanish just as writing filler for journaling.

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  • Julie, I found a book at a yard sale called “Lessons in Lipgloss and Happiness” by Thalia. It has tons of pictures of women’s faces and shows how to apply make up. I have been using this book like a magazine and tracing, or copying and changing the images for my journals. It is also great for showing where to add highlights to faces. I found the book used very inexpensively on Amazon as well. It comes printed in Spanish and English. I have both copies, as I frequently use some of the phrses in spanish just as writing filler for journaling.

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  • Julie, I found a book at a yard sale called “Lessons in Lipgloss and Happiness” by Thalia. It has tons of pictures of women’s faces and shows how to apply make up. I have been using this book like a magazine and tracing, or copying and changing the images for my journals. It is also great for showing where to add highlights to faces. I found the book used very inexpensively on Amazon as well. It comes printed in Spanish and English. I have both copies, as I frequently use some of the phrses in spanish just as writing filler for journaling.

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  • Julie, I found a book at a yard sale called “Lessons in Lipgloss and Happiness” by Thalia. It has tons of pictures of women’s faces and shows how to apply make up. I have been using this book like a magazine and tracing, or copying and changing the images for my journals. It is also great for showing where to add highlights to faces. I found the book used very inexpensively on Amazon as well. It comes printed in Spanish and English. I have both copies, as I frequently use some of the phrses in spanish just as writing filler for journaling.

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