CTU Instructors Profile

Linda Peterson is our CTU Administrator and founder. She has been a designer in the Arts & Crafts industry for the past 18 years, written over 10 craft related books, appeared on numerous TV shows such as the Carol Duval show on HGTV, Beads Baubles and Jewels on PBS, is a weekly guest on  Cool2Craft Live and currently hosts Friendly Plastic TV on Youtube. 

Linda launched CrafTECH University with the desire to bring crafters together with the best designers, tv personalities and best instructors in the industry. She is married to husband, Dana, who's her number one cheerleader.  Together they have four kids and live in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri.
 Visit Linda's personal blog.

Tiffany Windsor is best known in the arts and crafts industry as producer and host of Aleene's Creative Living Television show and the author of over 10 hard-cover and soft-cover craft titles. Tiffany has made appearances on both the Home Shopping Network and QVC, Lifetime and HGTV demonstrating craft products. She has extensive experience in designing and teaching in the craft industry and is passionate about her creativity coaching. In 2008, Tiffany moved from California to join her sister Candace at Wye River Designs Studio in Grasonville on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. As an artist, she expresses her creative endeavors in many different craft mediums.

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Ann Butler is a mixed media artist, designer and instructor for the creative industries. She works with a variety of mediums and loves to mix mediums within a project. Her designs appear in multi-authored books, magazines, booklets, manufacturer tradeshow booths and websites. She is the Editor for Earth Safe Finishes blog - Art of Green Mixed Media www.artofgreenmixedmedia.blogspot.com and has her own blog - Creativity Stirs the Soul - www.creativitystirsthesoul.com. She has been teaching classes of every kind for the past 20 years through stores, trade shows, home parties, churches, her studio, on-line and private lessons.

Ann is married to husband, Mark, who is very supportive of her creative dreams.  Together they also have 5 wonderful children.

Visit Ann's Creative Blog 

Born in Montreal, Samantha Star studied creative arts and Interior design before setting her sights on scrapbooking.  She opened Scrapbook Star in February of 2006, and has enjoyed every minute since. The store has given her a platform to do what she enjoys most: teaching. 

"Ideally I’d like to do mixed media, which I find allows me to be the most creative. Shadow boxes, hand bound journals etc. The less boundaries I have, the messier (and better in my opinion) the projects are" Samantha relates.

She has been featured on CBC Living Montreal and Global TV This Morning Live.  Her published projects have been featured in Legacy and The Canadian Scrapbooker.

Samantha will be teaching Altered Arts and Mixed Media projects at CrafTECH University. 

Atlanta resident Ken Oliver is the accidental crafter.  Throughout his education he studied art and design, but ultimately followed a career path in sales and marketing that led him literally around the world working with clients and factories in Asia, Europe, Canada and the United States.  It was after he joined Unibind, that he discovered he could combine the love of his career with art, design and crafting.  He is accomplished in paper crafting, altered art, mixed media book and craft projects.  And, what you might not know, Ken loves to craft with other peoples trash.  You would most likely find him looking for

discarded boxes, packaging, unusual paper and found objects to use in his creations.

You can see more of Ken's work on his blog:

http://www.kensworldinprogress.blogspot.com/