Excited....

I am heading over to Right at Home Scrapbooking this afternoon to take their Home Study Cards Book Club class. Doesn't that sound like fun? I'll report back on how it goes!

This class looks neat:

Pernickety Prints is giving away a spot in Tiffany Tillman's Scraphic Design Core Class!

{There is no class meeting time, so you're free to view the videos at your own pace. Class discussion takes place via a private forum with a gallery for sharing your work with the instructor and other students. The class forum is moderated by the instructor. Support is provided via weekly live Q&A video chats, email and the forum.}

THIS CLASS INCLUDES:

• 22 in-depth video lessons in the areas of color theory, pattern mixing, element clustering according to style type, text works, and realistic depth + more.
• Class workbook with video lesson steps outs + additional challenges and case studies not featured in the video lessons
• TIffany's secrets for building wow pages!
• This exclusive digital kit by One Little Bird
• Free 12×12 page prints of your projects courtesy of yours truly- Persnickety Prints!
• and a final, personalized PDF critique of your completed projects with suggestions for strengths, areas of improvement and goal sheet by Tiffany.

Been a while....

It's been a rough spring - losing my sister hit all of us really hard, and I don't think I understood just how hard it hit me until I realized how much of my life I had put aside. I made a scrapbook about Liz for my parents shortly after she died, and had the pages copied so I could make replicas for other family members. I finally put those books together last weekend, and it was like unlocking a door - I cried again, and suddenly felt ready to venture into my creative side. So hopefully, I'll have some stuff to post soon - I started Noah's birthday book yesterday.

NSD- YourScrapbookStash.com sketches

I love YSS for my online scrappy shopping trips, and they are hosting sketch challenges all week for National Scrapbook Day. Thanks to my wonderful husband, I have had some time this weekend to play, and here are my takes on two of their sketches (check them all out here on the YSS blog):

Both are made with SEI papers from my classes at CKC Manchester last week, plus the Bubble Bath layout has yummy Melissa Frances crepe paper and mica flakes, both new products and techniques I learned in her class there!

Happy Mother's Day!

To my wonderful mom, mother of 3 children and grandmother to two; patient, loving, giving beyond measure. Thank you for everything you do and you are. Have a day filled with peace.

Miss Art's is open!!

I am a huge fan of online crafting classes, since I have very little free time to actually go to live classes. The same people who brought us one of my fave sites, Stash to Treasure, have opened a new site, Miss Art's, and the grand opening is today! Check it out!

Elisabeth Sarah Ebert April 4, 1969-March 15, 2011

Beloved daughter, sister, aunt. We miss you so much.