Spark is for you if you've ever felt that quiet pull to create — but didn't know where to begin. It's for the creative dabblers ready to build a real practice. For the art journalers who want their pages to feel alive again.
Every single time you follow a recipe, you'll discover a new outcome.
Inside Get Messy's Idea Books live what we call Messy Recipes - a decade-tested format that prevents overthinking and hands you the permission to just… play. They have ingredients. They have a method. But the real magic? It's in following your joy.
Each book is its own world. Each lesson is a doorway. Together, they build something beautiful.

6 lessons + 6 live workshops.
Explore how color moves, mixes, and feels. Build confidence with palettes, blending, and bold, joyful choices on the page.

6 lessons + 6 live workshops.
Tear, layer, discover. Collage is the art of happy accidents - and your journal is the perfect place to let it happen.

6 lessons + 6 live workshops.
Loosen your grip. Find your hand. Play with letterforms in ways you never expected - layered, loose, and completely yours.

1 Open a book together
Each week, Claudette leads a live workshop walking you through one of the chapters from the Idea Books - gently, playfully, with zero pressure.
2 Follow the Messy Recipe
You'll get "ingredients" and a loose "method" - then you follow your curiosity from there. Adapt. Ignore. Branch out. That's the point.
3 Watch it become yours
Same recipe, wildly different results. That's the magic. Your pages will look like you - and that's the whole idea.

What's a Messy Recipe?
Think of it like baking a cake - it has ingredients and a method. But unlike baking a cake, you don't have to keep things exact. In fact, you're encouraged not to. Messy Recipes have magical properties: they prevent overthinking, teach new techniques, and hand you back your joy. One recipe. A thousand beautiful outcomes.

Light your spark. Start creating.
Lessons live inside of this class.
The workshops are part of the Get Messy membership and replays come into here too.
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Claudette Hasenjager is a mixed-media artist living in sunny South Africa. She firmly believes that art has the power to heal and nurture the soul. Her art reflects the many facets of her inner landscape and gives expression to her multi-passionate personality. It is this deep calling from within that has fueled her passion for exploring various forms of creative expression. Through her art and her creative process, she strives to inspire others to heed the call of their own unique creative yearning, free their artist soul, and find comfort and healing through developing their own art practice.
Hyperbolic journaler and imperfect artist, Caylee Grey is also a wife and mother from South Africa. Caylee is the Fairy Artmother of the Get Messy art journal community, book, and art supplies brand. She has sworn an oath to embrace the messy middle and believes that more than zero is enough.
Vanessa is a Canadian artist living abroad. She creates spaces for like-minded creatives to explore archetypes, art witchery and the self. Using her knowledge from her work as an archaeologist, she leads communal spaces to explore art and dig deep into ourselves at the same time.
This class is included in our Membership+ or available for purchase separately to anyone else! Class access will remain as long as your Membership+ is active, or long-term if purchased separately. Lifetime access is not tied to any of our current memberships.