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\"Claudine\"Meet Claudine Hellmuth<\/a> of Orlando Florida… collage artist extraordinaire.  She creates mixed media collages that incorporate paper, paint, fabric, pen and photocopies.  She describes her work as whimsical and colorful with a dash of retro.<\/p>\n

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Claudine is a very busy girl… writing books<\/a>, putting together instructional dvds<\/a>, teaching workshops<\/a>, creating artwork for companies<\/a> PLUS she still has time to create personalized artwork<\/a> (as seen above).  You just send her your photographs and she creates a magical portrait of your family.<\/p>\n

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I think this composition is so funny… just add a couple of cats and it’d be the perfect layout for my furry family portrait. (just in case you were wondering – Steve, my husband isn’t furry… just the pets:)\"Sitting_pretty_poppet\" <\/p>\n

Just recently Claudine was featured on Martha Stewart’s TV Show<\/a>.  She demonstrated how to make these oh-so-adorable sitting pretty poppets<\/a>.  She wrote all about her experience on her blog<\/a> (very interesting and entertaining)<\/p>\n

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I personally really<\/em> love Claudine’s work, so when I found out she was teaching a 3 day workshop<\/a> this spring in Alpena, Michigan, I had to sign up.  It’s been a while since I made art just for myself.  I find it’s really easy to get wrapped up in the business side of it all and it’s time to remind myself where it all started.  I can’t wait to introduce Samson<\/a> to the world of pretty poppets.<\/p>\n

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