Instructor Bios - Jill Hildebrand

Jill Hildebrand is back to Crop and Cruise by populer demand for her "life of the party" attitude and ability to put a smile on everyone's face especially as she guides them through the creative process of making "art"! Jill loves the emotion involved in the creative journey and is passionate about all the fun products available today... patterned paper, paint, ribbon, acrylic stamps, hand journaling & altered art are just a few of her many addictions! With an easy-going personality, she encourages scrappers to go a little CRAZY and become excited about the products in front of them firmly believing there are "NO MISTAKES – ONLY UNEXPECTED CREATIONS.”

Jill is currently a design team member of 5 years for Smalltown Scrappers in Manitoba, a published scrapbook artist in numerous Canadian Scrapbooker issues and one of last year's Crop and Cruise featured instructors. She lives on a grain farm in Crystal City, MB with husband Ron of 13 years and three beautiful children, Daria (10), Carter (7) & Asha (4). When not farming or scrapbooking, Jill uses her Bachelor of Education degree working as a substitute and enjoys home decorating & watching NBA games with her family!

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Instructor Bios - Leica Forrest

Leica (pronounced "Lisa") is back to Crop and Cruise by popular demand for her amazing powerhouse of creativity!! She has been scrapbooking for 10 years and with a degree in education, it was a natural progression to start teaching scrapbooking classes. Leica is currently part of the Canadian Scrapbooker Magazine as a designer and writer and is also on the design teams for Stix2, Tilano Fresco and was Luxe Designs November Pin Up girl!

Leica makes her home in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and is married to an awesome guy, Jim, and together they have 2 little boys; Riley & Jager, and a little baby on the way (we're praying for a girl)! She loves to travel and teach so joining the team on this cruise is the perfect adventure combining all of her loves!

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Instructor Bios - Trisha Ladouceur

Trisha comes to Crop and Cruise from Edmonton where the long, cold winters provide plenty of scrapbooking time for her! She has been an avid scrapbooker for nearly 10 years and has taught for nearly 9 years in Canada and at stores and conventions across North America representing some of the hottest companies in the scrapbooking industry.

Most recently, Trisha has been given the honour of becoming an official"Primadonna" which will enable all class attendees the unique opportunity to take Prima Endorsed classes! She is also thrilled to be a part of the duo, "FIRE AND ICE", releasing their first collection in February 2008 at CHA-Winter, the extremely popular "Build-A-Book". As a Clear Album expert, many of her classes incorporate tips and techniques for working with this fun medium and you will quickly learn that Trisha loves to create projects that are very detail oriented and incorporate texture and dimension wherever possible! The best part is that she shows her students that ANY level of scrapbooker CAN create beautiful works of art when the steps are broken down!

Trisha has been married to her best friend Drew for more than 15 years and has 2 wild, but devilishly handsome boys, Logan and Carter who are more often than not, the source of her inspiration.

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Instructor Bios - Deanna Hutchison

Deanna Hutchison from BC

Deanna comes to our team from beautiful British Columbia where she works as regional manager for Clipper Street Scrapbook Company (www.clipperstreet.com) and has been scrapbooking for just over 10 years. She considers scrapbooking her true passion and teaching pure joy as her classes regularly sell out with over 100 students per month! Deanna's approach ensures that every student has an amazing classroom experience full of energy and enthusiasm!

With over 155 projects published in various magazines, it is no wonder that Deanna has also been fortunate to work for many different design teams and on freelance projects for companies such as Canvas Concepts, Pebbles Inc, Memories Complete, EK Success and Sweetwater. Also, as a buyer for Clipper Street and their new online store (www.clipperstreetonline.com), she has travelled to shows like CHA where she gets to connect with super fun companies in the industry and do her favorite job - teach!! She feels truly blessed to be able to work in a job that is very fulfilling and rewarding and have a blast doing it—what could be a better combination?

Deanna has been married 19 years to an amazingly supportive husband, Geordie and has two Roller Hockey Stars—Aaron, 15 and Justin, 10 and is looking forward to being a featured instructor on our Crop and Cruise the Caribbean in February 2009!

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