10 Reasons to Love Summer Inspiration and GIVEAWAY

As I mentioned before, I'm currently completely immersed in prep for my 10 Reasons to Love Summer class. This week it's all about putting kits together and working on the website. So. much. left. to. do.  Ahem.

When I started working on the concept for this class, I decided to use my smashbook (black) to play around with ideas. I found the use of one single location for my visual workbook to be super inspiring and useful. Here's the actual page spread:

This has definitely been a useful exercise that I'm applying to other projects being worked on. But  you can see a bit how some of the ideas translated into the actual work.

Here's a bit of a preview of some class content that was inspired by the smashbook ideas:

I also wanted to take the opportunity to share a few more photos of the finished book details:

Please note that you can still sign up for a spot at the Tukwila class for this Saturday 08/13 or the University Village class on 08/27. Please call the store directly to sign up. It's going to be super fun.

If you are attending live and in person, we're going to be making the book without photos, so please don't worry about that. The companion journaling prompt workbook you'll receive (and it's five pages long, btw) is intended to help you select your photos for the book AFTER you've made it. :)

However, if you are attending and you don't like to share tools, I'd recommend you bring your own adhesive, scissors, and hole punch. Other than that, I've pretty much got ya covered.  

And seriously, if you can get over here, for a class, you totally should. I mean, look how much fun we had at the Bellevue store last weekend? My students got so much done and I am SO proud of them!

Thank you so much ladies! You inspired ME. :)

And  for my non-local peeps, I promise that there will be some kits going in the Etsy on 08/15. A companion blog with the instructions, journaling prompts, sketches, and more will also be made available, as soon as I can get all of the hundreds of photos edited and coded. Oy.

And now, for reading this far down the post, I think you get a treat!

I'm going to give away either an unfinished kit or a finished class sample book (your choice) to one of my lucky readers! Please leave a comment on this post to tell me what your favorite summer treat is and I'll randomly pick a winner by EOD Saturday 08/13.

Thanks for reading and hope you are having a happy summer!

10 Reasons to Love Summer

I am super excited to share the details of an upcoming class I am teaching for Impress Rubber Stamps in August! The class is called 10 Reasons to Love Summer and is all about documenting ten things you love about this time of year. We're going to make a 6x6 minibook using some very cool products (American Crafts, Memory Box, October Afternoon, Tim Holtz, Hambly, Catslife Press and more).

In this class we are going to be playing with stamping, layered cardstock embellishments, transparencies, tissue tape, tags, journaling promtps, and page sketches. The kit will include almost 150 individual items (lots of little details), most  of which are assembled and hand-crafted by me (I do most of the work, and the scrapping goes easier for the student).

Here are a few of the details:

Please contact your local Impress Store (I'm doing one class at each of the three locations) if you'd like to sign up. The cost is $35.00 and class dates are August 06, August 13, and August 27.

And if you go into a store between now and the class date, you can actually get to handle a physical sample of the class minibook, if you need any help deciding. :)

For my non-local folks, extra kits will be going up for sale on the etsy as of August 15, and I'm working on a companion class blog for all the instructions to be saved online. Prices will be TBD, depending on actual sign ups.

I have to say, this is probably my best class project yet. There's been a lot of care and consideration put into making this as easy as possible for a new scrapper (or a really busy one). There's plenty of room for customization, and you get to play with some pretty cute product.

I'm really excited to be teaching this (and nervous too, of course). 

Questions? Comments? Feeback? 

Love to hear it. 

Happy Friday!