Painting of the Month Club is Now OPEN!!

Hey everybody, how's everything looking on your end? Are we good? So we're using StreamYard tonight to, um, go live. So if you want to make a comment, in order for me to see it, you have to, um, allow, um, their permissions. I think there's a link or something for you to click. Give me just a second. Okay. Go back to comments and see if I can— let me know where you guys are watching from. See if I can see these comments start coming through. Perfect, perfect, perfect. Miss Tiffany is excited tonight. It's so quiet in the house right now. All the kids are with Grandma. And oh good, no link required. Okay, that must be something on Stu's. We always have to click permissions before it shows our comments. So I'm glad you guys don't have to do that. I'm super excited. I'm sorry, I'm a little distracted getting used to new things right now. Um, But we have a new membership opening up that I'm really excited to share with you guys. So this came up because of— I had so many, so many emails from people saying, you know, I love painting with you and I love the stuff on Facebook, but I want more, but I can't do the Inner Tribe because the Inner Tribe is $47 a month. And I wanted to give you guys an option that was a little bit more budget-friendly and still gave you an opportunity to paint with me. And they're exclusive designs to this. So the only way you can paint these paintings is through the Painting of the Month Club. So I'm super excited about it. It is now open. So I am going to have— Becky is going to, I think, in the comments leave, um, let me jump over here to comments, leave the link for you guys to sign up, and then I am gonna explain to you what it is all about and how it works. Awesome, Linda said, I've already signed up, excited for it. Very cool. So the painting behind me is the Spring Bicycle. This is the first one that we are doing. This has been one of my most popular paintings to date, and it's on Pinterest a lot. You guys have seen lots and lots of posts with it, but there was no way to purchase it because it was from a previous boot camp that I taught. So this is kind of how everything works with it. Over— I've been teaching online for the past 2 years, and I've done boot camps and challenges and like so many different things, and I have these videos and I don't have them up in my store. Um, they're just, you know, I have them and I was trying to think of a way to get them out to you guys. And then everything just started falling into place and we decided to make the Painting of the Month Club. And it's only $20 a month. So this is super affordable. And for $20 a month, you get a new painting tutorial delivered to your membership website on the first of every single month. So every month it's going to be something new for me that you haven't done before. It could be from my Inner Tribe, which is my VIP level membership, or it could be from those previous boot camps or challenges. Um, you know, some— I will just give you a hint— some of the most popular paintings that I have ever done online that you probably see on Pinterest, that you've seen posted before, they're probably in the Painting of the Month Club. So, um, It's going to be so, so much fun. Becky has the link up so you can go to— it's social-easel-online-paint-studio.michaels.com/painting-of-the-month-club, but you can just click on her comments and get to that. Mary said she signed up the other night and she's so excited. So we did a little early bird peek for some of these. Um, oops, hold on, the comments are coming in too fast. There we go. I did a little early bird, um, open for the people who did abstract birds with me, and the ladies were so excited about it, and it was just fun to get to share that with them. So yes, there are some who got in a little bit early, so, um, they're, they're excited. Um, let's see, let's look at the comments over here. Cynthia, um, Cynthia said she signed up for something else and didn't get it. It was emailed directly to you as soon as you signed up, so if you didn't see it, make sure you check your junk and spam mail. And then if you still don't see it, you can email me, christie@thesocialeasel.com, and we'll get y'all taken care of. Sarah's a new member of the tribe, welcome! So do you guys want to see, um, Maureen is registered. Do you guys want to see kind of a sneak peek of— I can show you the sales page, um, so you can see all of the details. Oh, I forgot the best part too. Um, as a founding member, of course you lock in the price of $20 per month, but you also get the 4-part video series, um, as my gift to you. And this is something that I email out, um, when I launch, but again, it's not live. And it's $20 in my store, and you guys get that as a bonus for signing up. And this is just basic brushstrokes, blending, color mixing, all the things that you need to know when you get started with painting. And all of those are going to be included for you. So here's how it's going to work. If you sign up now, you'll get a welcome email from me, and then you're going to get an email on May 1st saying it's up, and then you're going to get access to the website. And this is what I love about it— you guys have your own membership website, so you don't have to find it in a Facebook group or anything like that. I love how streamlined and organized this is. So you'll log in and you'll have a library, and then each month you'll see it'll say May, June, July, and you'll just be able to go through your library and pick which tutorial you want to do, and then everything is in there for you. So the video is there, the template is there if it's needed, like this one has a template, um, your color and supply list are there, and then you have access to them 24/7 after that and lifetime access to them. So, um, if you cancel, you can cancel anytime. You're not in any kind of contract. Um, if you cancel, you keep access to the tutorials that were for the months that you signed up for, and then of course would lose the future ones. That came out. Um, so let me see if I have any questions here. Thank you for posting the email address. If you guys need anything, that's our support email. Yes, the bonus technique videos are— they are amazing. They're super, super helpful. Um, Mary, yes, you can sign up tonight or tomorrow. So we will actually keep this open. You have until May 20th to sign up to get this painting of the month. So that's the May painting of the month. On the 20th will be the last day we will cut it off, and then we will open up for the June painting of the month, and we will release what that one is. But I keep them a surprise. But I know you guys are going to like it because, again, I base all of these decisions that I make off of your feedback and what you give me. Thank you so much, Elizabeth. And if you are a Tribe sister and you're watching this, by the way, you do not have to sign up for this. It is included with your Tribe membership. Okay, so this was an added bonus to the, the membership is, uh, you get the Painting of the Month Club as part of it. And it means the same thing for you guys. When you log into the membership site, you'll see all those different paintings there for you. Yes, Chris, it is $20 a month. Yvonne, I think I just answered your question. So yeah, you'll, you'll log in, um, to the membership site, not the Facebook group, and it will all be there for you. You'll have a library. Thank you, girls. These are some of our tribe sisters. And you do have the opportunity to upgrade if you want to. So when you check out, it's $20 a month for the Painting of the Month Club, and that's one painting tutorial per month membership access, your template, your color list. I'm trying to make sure I'm not forgetting anything. And all of that for $20 a month. Or you can upgrade to the Inner Tribe, which I will also be closing on March 20th. We will close March— I may have said March earlier too. May. I don't even know what day it is. So that will also close on May 20th. That'll be your last chance to sign up for the Inner Tribe if you're wanting a little bit more. So I just wanted to give you guys two options. I wanted to give you a more budget-friendly way you can paint with me, and you get one painting per month, my exclusive designs that you can't find anywhere else. And if you want more, then you can upgrade to the Inner Tribe membership where you get three paintings per month with me, a guest artist or speaker, a Facebook community, and a membership website that has over 65 tutorials to choose from, and that's $47 a month. So you have two different options that you can do. Um, let's see here. Linda, the bow tutorial is inside the Inner Tribe Facebook group. Anything related to the Inner Tribe is always in our private Facebook group because that's a paid membership. All right. Yes, May— yes, May 20th is the deadline, um, to get this painting. And this is your only chance to get this. So you may, you know, you may not be sure if you want to stay in it. If you know you want this spring painting, then you want to sign up for the Painting of the Month Club, because I don't have it up for sale anywhere else. And you get it for only $20. And then in what, 20— almost 20 days from now, you'll find out what the next one is. Um, Oh, Kathy said she has to brag on her tribe sisters too. Oops. Yes, Shelly, I clicked on the wrong thing, but yes, this is for beginners. Um, I teach women at all levels. Most of the women who start painting with me have never painted before, maybe never even picked up a paintbrush. Um, so I break everything down into very simple, easy-to-follow steps so that it is not overwhelming. Um, and I give you the very basics, like how much paint to have in your paintbrush. And this one uses a little bit of palette knife to, to add the scrapes on there, and I'm going to show you how to do that. So you learn all the basic techniques so that you can complete your own paintings. And I love when new people come in because, like I said, that's most of the women who come to me and may think that they don't have an, you know, an artistic bone in their body, or they don't know how to paint. And then they do one of my tutorials and they can, and they're so proud of themselves. and they can't believe they did it. So yes, it is absolutely for beginners, and then everywhere in between. So I have some other women who teach paint parties, not right now, but when we open back up, or sell their paintings online through Etsy. So it's all different levels, and it's neat to see everyone's different paintings and how they all come together. Okay, Dee Dee said, I never painted before. You can do it. She has such a great story too. Um, they started with buying some of my individual tutorials, and, um, her daughter— correct me if I'm wrong, I think you said it was your daughter— um, was struggling a little bit with depression and anxiety. And I'm very open that, you know, I have had my own struggles with that too. Um, and she bought some of the single tutorials for to do together, and it just lit her up, and she just saw such a change in her, and she ended up joining the tribe after that. So very, very awesome, and now doing great. Um, let's see, Renee is asking, what are we allowed to do with the Painting of the Month Club? So as far as rights, you do have the rights to teach it locally. You do not have the rights to teach it online in any way, shape, or form. That means a kit in the mail with directions to my painting. That means reteaching it online in a private Facebook group. All things online are prohibited, but you can teach it locally in small groups. We're getting ready to be able— I don't know where you are, but in Missouri anyways, we're slowly starting to get back to a sense of normalcy. And hopefully those of you who have a paint party business are going to be able to start slowly getting back into that too, so you can teach them locally. Awesome. Denise said she joined earlier this week. You're gonna have fun. Um, Cynthia, if you scroll up in the comments, the link should be there for you, and either Becky or Tiffany can probably get that posted for you again. Thank you, Vita. That's awesome. She said I would recommend your teaching, but she is encouraged. Doesn't know nothing yet, but she's encouraged. Yes. So Pauline, May 1st is the bike painting. That is when it will go into the membership website and you'll be able to log in there and see everything. Awesome. Maureen said I'm still working on the first abstract birds. So excited about Painting with the Month Club. Awesome. Okay, let me see what other questions. Awesome. Dee Dee said it changed her life. So amazing. This is what I love. This is what art can do. It's so much more than just learning how to paint. This helps so many people in so many different ways, and especially in times like this. And that was one of the reasons I've been working so hard behind the scenes to get this out because so many people need some escape. And we have all this time on our hands at home. And it's such a, you know, you could use this time to do something for yourself. Like, what, what is it that you've always wanted to do? Maybe you've always wanted to paint, but you never had the time. And now you have the time. And so, and then, you know, I know for other people, especially my tribe sisters inside our community, it's just been a huge godsend for them to have painting in their life and have community in their life when we all feel a little bit isolated and maybe a little depressed, you know, because of what's going on in the world and we just don't know what to expect. So it's good to, it's good to have something to look forward to. Okay, Pam said, how can I join now and be able to have access? So that, Pam, is a separate link that we can get to you, uh, for— if you want to send me an email at christie@thesocialeasel.com, I can give you the link if you still want to sign up for the Whimsical Birds. I don't think I have that here right now. Um, Jennifer, the link is up, it's posted I think right below your comment, and you can go ahead and sign up. Okay, sometimes when I scroll over these I'm missing the comments. Oh, awesome, Janie! I'm so glad to have you back. Janie was in our tribe and she rejoined again today. Thank you so much. Awesome. Oh, and this reminds me, Kim said, I love showing your class on my TV. If you guys don't know this, um, you can watch the tutorials and, um, What's it called? I'm like not thinking right now, but you can project, basically project them. It's not projecting from your phone. AirPlay, I think, is what it's called, and you can AirPlay them on your TV. So I know a lot of people do that if they have their girlfriends over, or if they just want a big screen to watch the tutorial on. This is a really good way to do it. You can do it from your phone or your iPad if you have a smart TV and AirPlay it over there, and then you've got a really big version. Of the class. Awesome. Kathy says, I've just painted almost non-stop since last week. That's a good thing. Denise, you will have a welcome email. You should have seen a thank you screen. If you saw a thank you screen, then you know that your payment processed. If you did not get to a thank you screen, it may not have. But check your email before you resubmit anything just to make sure. And make sure you guys check your junk and your spam as well, because a lot of time— or promotions A lot of times emails from businesses like mine will end up going there. Um, let's see. Yes, Renee, these are the same as tutorials that I teach inside my tribe or the individual tutorials that I sell on my website. So the monthly one is available, um, it's video, um, it's an aerial view, so you're seeing an up close and personal view of all the brush strokes and everything, and you have access to it 24 7. Awesome, look at this! Tammy said, I have someone who is trying to buy 3 of my pictures that I learned from you. That is so awesome. Sherry said, does the membership automatically renew each month or do you need to sign up again? That's a good question. So the way memberships and subscriptions work is it is automatic renewal until you— excuse me— until you cancel. So it will come out the same day that you sign up for it. So like if you bought it today, say the 29th, um, then it would come out on the 29th of May and it would keep doing that until you cancel your subscription. Jody says it distracts her from her pain that she has continually. That's another thing, you know, a lot of people who struggle with, um, you know, health issues and stuff, it is, it's an escape away from things like that. Maureen, it is not a live video. It is a pre-recorded video that will go into the membership hub. So on May 1st, first thing in the morning, you're gonna go to the website. I'm gonna see if I can walk you guys through this on my screen, and you will see it see it there. Hang on just a second. Sorry, I feel like I'm missing some questions, so, um, there's a lot of comments coming in. I just want to double-check really quick. Thank you, Miss Marlis. Love this lady. I got to meet her down at, um, Heidi's thing in Fort Worth this last year. She's the sweetest. She is actually going to be a guest artist in our tribe. She's a tribe sister, and she's going to be one of the ladies that teaches inside of our tribe as well. Teresa keeps getting an error message, the postal code is wrong. I am not sure what to tell you. Maybe if you— maybe you can X out and refresh the page. Annette said she missed the bird painting. If you sign up, will that be included? Um, if you sign up for Inner Tribe, the $47 a month membership, it is included because that was from my Inner Tribe. The only thing included for this one right now is the spring painting. That's the first painting for the Painting of the Month Club. Marlis asked if you can skip a month if necessary. You can, you can cancel whenever you need to and then rejoin in a different month if you want to. You have, uh, Mary, you have until May 20th to sign up for this particular painting, and then the new painting will be released for June on May 21st. Awesome. Jody said she has— oh, I lost you. These comments are so fast. She sold 4, only been painting a couple months. Thank you. Yes, regular tribe members are just part of it. You guys get it as an added bonus to being a tribe sister. Okay, do we have any other questions? Um, I am gonna go see if I can show you Bear with me for just a second. I'm gonna see if I can show you what it's gonna look like when you log in. Hang on real quick. Well, I may not be able to— let me jump back over here and make sure I'm not missing anything. Um, Chandra said your painting is somewhat— this is a 16 by 20, so this is a really standard size canvas. Do you have the option of making it smaller to begin with? You can. The template that you get is made for a 16 by 20, though, so you would have to change your printer settings on that to get it, to get it smaller. Yes, Renee, everything is, everything is all included. So you're going to have a list that has your colors and supplies that you need, and then I also talk about it in the video, but it's all there for you in one spot. Karen, I am not painting tonight. We are just talking about the Painting with the Month Club, and it is $20 a month. Let me put that up here. There you go. And you have access 24/7, um, whenever, whenever you want to go to it. Um, I'm trying to log in and I think I have messed something up over here, so give me just a second. Gotta love it when technology does this. I don't know why it's not doing it for me. See, you guys aren't the only ones who have tech problems sometimes. Okay, so I'm gonna give you a sneak peek of what the website is gonna look like. Thank you, Shakita. Yeah, I have to get all dolled up for my Facebook Lives because I have nowhere else to go right now. So it's fun to get to curl your hair and put your makeup on, and I'm sure my husband appreciates it too instead of seeing me walk around in my pajamas all the time. Tammy, um, I've got that posted up here. It's $20 a month and that is a recurring payment. It comes out automatically each the day that you sign up. So if you sign up on the 20th, it comes out the 20th of the following month. Okay, so can you guys see this okay? This is what the website looks like. So you will have a login. The first thing is you're gonna get an email with a login link, and when you sign up, you're putting in your email address and creating a password at the same time. That is your login. If you ever forget it, it's super easy to fix. You're going to go to that login page and underneath where you would log in, it's just going to say forgot password or need password or something like that, and then you can reset it. So very easy to access, but this is what the website will look like. Now mine is going to look a little different than yours because I own everything, but it's going to say the SocialEasel online Paint Studio library, and then yours is going to have— see, I've got the empty spots for June Painting of the Month, July Painting of the Month, May Painting of the Month. So when you log in, this is what it's going to look like, and you're going to see each month staggered, and then you can go back to them. And then when you go inside, I'll give you a sneak peek in here, and hopefully my video doesn't Oh, you know what, I forgot about that. I haven't given myself access to that yet from a customer standpoint, so I can't show you. But when you click on View Product, that's where you're going to go, and everything's going to be layered there for you. So you'll see a video, you'll see a template, you'll see your color list, and everything's all in one spot. So it's going to be really easy when you log in to see all of that. Let me get back over here. Let's see. Thank you for posting that. All right, do you guys have any other questions for me before I log off? So I'm just going to do a quick recap of what painting of the, um, I'm having a hard time with my words tonight. Anyone else notice that? Painting of the Month Club is— I think it's because nothing is doing tech-wise what I need it to do. Okay, so Painting of the Month Club, the first one is the spring bicycle that is behind me. It's only $20 a month. These are exclusive videos from the Social Easel that you cannot get anywhere else. They are not for sale on my website, um, they're not, um, anywhere that you can purchase them right now. So the only way you get them is through this exclusive membership, and this is a founding members price. So you lock this price in. If the price increases next year, you still are locked in at your $20 a month as long as you are a paying customer. So it includes one video tutorial each month. It includes, um, easy step-by-step video instructions from an aerial standpoint, so you're seeing up close and personal all the brush strokes I'm making. All the techniques that I'm using. You can pause and rewind it, take it at your own pace, because you have access to it 24/7, and you don't lose access to it. So if you do cancel, you would still get to keep your May painting, your spring bicycle painting. It's got your color and supply list. It has your traceable template, and I've shown you in there how to do a template if you've never done one before. And you have your own private membership. Where you're going to log in and watch all of this. So it's— you don't have to keep up with another Facebook group or live teachings or anything like that. It's all in the membership hub. If you do teach paint parties, you do have the rights to teach this painting and other paintings inside the club at local events. You are not allowed to teach them online. So none of, none of my work is allowed to be retaught online. So that is everything that you get And it's all for $20 a month. If you sign up as a founding member, you also get my 4-part video series that does have another bonus tutorial in it. Um, you get my 4-part video series that's Basics in Acrylics, and it's going to walk you through basic brushstrokes, blending backgrounds, color mixing, palette knife painting. So it's going to give you some really good basic techniques that is going to help you in any painting that you do in the future. So I would recommend If you don't have one yet, to get a mixed media pad, I'm gonna post that link in the comments for you really quick. So you can get all my recommended supplies are in my Amazon store that I've just posted. So you'll just go to amazon.com forward slash the social— or forward slash shop forward slash the Social Easel. You can ignore all those other buttons. Or— but you click that link and it will take you to it, and you'll see the mixed media pad, the brushes, paints. Now I know paints are getting hard to come by right now, so mine may be unavailable in the store, but it will still give you an idea of what you need. These are just basic craft paints, so you don't need anything fancy— DecoArt, Apple Barrel, Michaels Craft Smart brand. They're just the little tubes. Of 2-ounce paint, craft paints that we use in the paintings. Diana, we've got the link in the comments, so you can just scroll down in the comments or scroll up in the comments, and then you should be able to access that. Yes, um, Elaine, you do not need to sign up if you're in Tribe. It is included with your membership. Let's see. Linda, your page is going to look different from mine because that's all my stuff and you're just doing the Painting of the Month Club, so it's, it's going to look a little bit different. Um, all right, Shirley, uh, it is not going to be a Facebook group. It is going to be added to your membership website every single month. So when you log in to your Kajabi login at The Social Easel, you have your Christie's Inner Tribe, which has all the older member videos, all your 65 videos to choose from there. And then underneath that, and this will be automatic, you'll just log in and you'll see it there on the first of every month when I release the new Painting of the Month Club painting, it will be in there in the library for you automatically. Theresa, this is a monthly membership, so it's $20 a month and it's on automatic renewal. So unless you cancel, it will keep doing $20 a month, and that allows you access to the next one. So you sign up now through May 20th, then it gives you access to the May painting. If you sign up after May 20th, then you will get access to the June painting. There is not one for April because this is a brand new membership, so that is, that is the very first one. Stacy, yes, um, the Inner Tribe is still open and you can choose that option and you can upgrade to the Inner Tribe. It will also be closing on May 20th, so that'll be your last chance to sign up to be in the Inner Tribe until we open it to the public again in September. Uh, Mary, not necessarily. She was asking if they will all be 16 by 20 paintings. Um, most of them are, but every once in a while I like to paint on squares also. So, um, square paintings will be in there, and anything that you do on a 16 by 20 can also be replicated on an 11 by 14 because they're the same dimensions. So if you need to paint smaller, you can. All right, I think that is it. I'm super excited. I hope you guys are too. Go to the page, go to our link to sign up, and if you have any questions, go there first because it will probably answer them. We've got all the details laid out there for you, and you can go ahead and sign up. And then on May 1st, just a few days away, um, on May 1st, you're going to have an email waiting for you in the morning, and your first painting is going to be up and ready for you to access. And you can paint it whenever you want. So that is all I've got. Thank you guys so much, and, uh, I will see you again soon. Bye!