Feeling Scrappy Holiday Give Away!

I am excited to announce our big Holiday give away! I think we could all use a little extra green this time of year! I have three prizes for this give away...drum roll please...

Grand Prize is $100.00 CASH!

Second Prize is $25.00 CASH!

Third Prize is one free Sketchapalooza 9 class for you to give away to anyone you would like!

How do you enter to win? Easy!

Just register for our Sketchapalooza 9 Class by Friday January 4th and you will be automatically entered into a random drawing held on January 5th! (Those that have already registered for class will also be included in the drawing!)

Would you like an extra chance to win? Here are a couple of ways:

1.) Ask a friend to join you. If anyone new to Feeling Scrappy registers for this class and gives your name (either in the memo section of the payment or via e-mail to me) I will enter you both into the drawing twice!

2.) Share this give away on your Facebook page to earn one additional chance to win (please comment here once you share.)

Good Luck and Happy Holidays!!

The Clock is Ticking...

Don't let time run out! You still have a few hours left to take advantage of our Cyber Monday special. The price will change back to $25.00 in the morning (at 8:30 am eastern) so you still have tonight and early tomorrow to save $5.00 on our January Sketch Class. :)

Cyber Monday Class Special!

Today only recieve a $5.00 discount on our January 2013 Sketchapalooza 9 class! To take advantage of this offer simply click the "buy now" button in the right hand sidebar and you will be given $5.00 off - making the class only $20.00 :)

Happy Shopping!

Sketchapalooza 9 - January 7th!

Ready for the new year? It will be here before you know it! We have a new Sketch Class all ready for 2013! Let's get all those holiday photos into scrapbooks :) During this class you will be provided with tons of brand new original sketches (5 per week!) with examples of finished pages from our talented designers during this month long course. This fast paced, exciting class is suitable for any level of scrapper and caters to both traditional and digital artists alike. This class is perfect for anyone who wants to get a tons of pages done and wants to have a ball doing it!

 

Here is what you can expect during this class:

 

• A full four weeks of class running from January 7th to February 4th
• Detailed sketches made exclusively for you by our designers
• 20 total sketches - 16 single page and 4 double page (5 per week!)
• Digital templates provided for each sketch in PS/PSE and SBC!!
• Tips and tid-bits to keep your creative juices flowing
• Fabulous creative examples for each sketch by our talented designers
• A private class forum with lots of support and friendly conversation
• A gallery filled with layout examples
• Self-paced class - do as much or as little as you like
• A PDF file including all the sketches from the class for you to keep for future reference
• Prizes - who doesn't love a chance to win?
• Plus a few surprises :)

The cost for this month long class is only $25.00.

Ready to sign up? Just click the "Buy Now" button to the right in the sidebar :)

 

2013 Class Schedule

Hello Scrappy Friends! I wanted to give you a heads up for our 2013 class schedule so you could mark your calendars. :) In addition to the classes list below, we will be offering some fun opportunities this fall to win prizes and get some scrapping done so be sure to "like" us on facebook and follow our blog to keep on top of the fun when it happens.

Here is the class schedule for 2013! (More information about each class will be posted closer to the date of the class.)

January 2013 Sketchapalooza 9 - Designers: Amanda Bay, Stacey Curry, and Brenda Molina

March 2013 Sketchapalooza 10 - Designers: Amanda Bay, Stacey Curry and Tricia Cox

June 2013 Sketchapalooza 11 - Designers: Julie Schmehl, Melissa Marti, Brenda Molina

October 2013 - Sketchapalooza 12 - Designers: Tracy Kosofsky, Stacey Reah

Looking forward to a great year here at Feeling Scrappy,

Scrappy Goodness

Wow - do we have a fantastic month lined up for our Sketchapalooza 8 Class! I just posted our first double sketch along with two digital and two paper sample pages. Plus SBC and Photoshop templates for the sketch. Also, discount coupons for The DigiChick and The Sherwood Studios. Plus don't forget about our prize package (yippy-skippy!) It is not to late to join us for what promises to be an awesome class.

Sketches, Fun, and Prizes - Oh My!

Sketchapalooza 8 is just around the corner - in fact we are opening up the classroom today! Along with all of the goodness that is usually involved with our classes  I am excited to say that we have 4 awesome grand prizes to give away and two digital discounts to give to every person who takes our class! A special thanks to Tracy Kosofsky for introducing me to a few wonderful ladies in digital scrapping!

The Digichick is providing $10.00 off anything in the store to one lucky winner! Also, each and every student who takes our class will receive a coupon that is good for 40% off of any of their Boutique Collab Kits! How cool is that?! You can check out the Boutique Collab Kits here.

And that is not all!!

The Sherwood Studio is providing $10.00 off anything in their store to one lucky scrapper! Also, all students will receive a coupon good for $3.00 off any purchase of $10.00. Sweet!! Check out Julie's blog - this is one talented lady! 

I will be providing a $25.00 gift certificate to Star Hitched Wagon to one lucky winner. You can check out her store here. We are lucky to have the owner - a multi-talented designer - Stacey on our team and I wanted one lucky winner to experience Star Hitched Wagon for themselves!

Last but not least, I will be providing a free $25.00 Feeling Scrappy class to one lucky winner.

Hope to see you in class!

FS Designers: Amanda Bay

The newest member of our design team is Amanda Bay. I am super excited to be working with her! I was impressed not only by Amanda's creative layouts but by the kind spirit that she exudes and I have no doubt you will be too! Below is a little more about Amanda in her own words.

Amanda Bay

"I created my first scrapbook at the tender age of 5, carefully using Elmer's glue, tape, pictures, magazines, and a trash bag to create a masterpiece. Almost 35 years later, I am still creating scrapbook art one page at a time. I was a happy and successful Creative Memories Sr. Consultant for 8 years before the pull of all things blingy, bumpy, lumpy, textured and more became too great. I am a hybrid scrapper using both traditional and digital techniques. I use many mediums in my scrapbooking and while still loving CM, I use many other brands as well. Digitally I have used SBC for several years and most recently added PSE10 to my skill set. I enjoy learning new techniques and trying new new things while also holding on to the basic tradition of the art we know as scrapbooking. I have been married for 12 years and have two awesome daughters and a dog named Benji. When not scrapbooking I am a stay at home mom, who rarely stays at home! I love to read, write, draw, paint, and well basically try my hand at all things creative. I am very excited for this opportunity and look forward to joining the Feeling Scrappy team of amazing designers."

Here are a few of Amanda's recent layouts:

We hope you will join us for Sketchapalooza 8 to see more of Amanda's work!

FS Designer: Tracy Kosofsky

Time to meet our next designer. I am sure many of our readers know Tracy well. :) She is super talented and we are so thankful to have her on our team. Tracy not only provides beautiful sample pages to inspire our students but also designs the Photoshop elements digital templates for all of our sketches. She has come up with some amazing sketches for our next class - Sketchapalooza 8. For those of you that don't know Tracy, here is a bit about her in her own words: 

Tracy Kosofsky

"After moving around the country since getting married to my wonderful DH, Adam, in 1998, we settled in central Pennsylvania in early 2010 and we're here to stay! We have a diva-ish 8 year old daughter and a devil-ish 4 year old son, and when I'm not at my full-time job as a health care executive or indulging in my scrapbooking passion, you can usually find me enjoying my kids' activities, reading, baking, and either planning for or recovering from our most recent travels. I've been scrapbooking since 2000 and have been mostly digi since 2009, although I still enjoy getting my hands dirty with "real" mini albums, cards and other paper crafts."

Here are a few of Tracy's recent layouts. Pretty awesome huh?!

Thanks for visiting!

FS Designers: Stacey Curry

We are gearing up for our next class, Sketchapalooza 8, the sketches are all ready to go and our designers are busy creating beautiful samples for each and every sketch. I would like to take some time to introduce you to our designers. I will be highlighting each one here over the next few posts.
First up is Stacey Curry!

Stacey Curry

Stacey and I met when we both lived in Omaha, Nebraska through our love of scrapbooking. I instantly liked her and you would too! She is super talented, sweet, goofy and on top of that, has a cool edge to her. I encourage you to visit her business here to see just how multi-talented she really is
Here is a little about Stacey in her own words:  

"Hi everyone! I'm Stacey, and I am hopelessly addicted to all things creative! :) I am passionate about creating. I have been at it for so long I can't imagine what life would be like without it. Mom inspired the passion of creativity, she crocheted, did ceramics, and baked, and she was wonderful about including my sisters and I when we were younger. Dad let us create in the garage with his tools and scraps of wood. There wasn't really a right or wrong way - they just let us do what we were inspired to do. So I feel I have always been creatively awake. My very first scrapbook project was in 1992. I made a scrapbook for my boyfriend (now hubby) as a graduation gift. It was a magnetic page album complete with bookmarks with sweet poems and stickers from the Hallmark section at Kmart. Even then with as few supplies as I had access to I was hooked, and have been at it ever since.

I was born and raised in rural Montana, and am very proud of it. I still consider myself a Montana girl. I now live just south of it’s border in Wyoming. I live with my hubby , Steve, our three beautiful children, Macey, Conor and Xander, and our sweet pups Sadie and Gregor. In addition to creating as much as possible just for the fun of it, I also have a creative business, Star Hitched Wagon™, where I create bath and body products from scratch and design one of a kind jewelry pieces. I enjoy running, camping, hiking, fishing, cheering for our local hockey teams in the winter and spending time with my family and the pups!!"

Here are a few of the layouts that Stacey created for our last class:

Want to see more of Stacey's scrapbook pages? Join us for Sketchapalooza 8 starting September 1st!
 

Sketchapalooza 8 - Doubles!

Sketchapalooza 8 is ready to roll! By popular request - this all new sketch class will feature double page sketches! During this month long course you will be provided with tons of brand new original sketches along with both paper and digital examples of finished pages from our talented designers and digital templates will be provided (both PS and SBC!)  This fast paced, exciting class is suitable for any level of scrapper and caters to both traditional and digital artists alike. This class is perfect for anyone who wants to get a lots of pages done and have a ball doing it!

Here is what you can expect during this class:

• A full five weeks of class running from September 1st to October 6th
• Detailed sketches made exclusively for you by our designers
• 12 Double pages sketches plus several bonus single page sketches
• At least 26 total page sketches!
• Digital templates provided for each sketch in PS/PSE and SBC!
• Fabulous creative examples for each sketch in both paper and digital by our talented designers
• A private class forum with lots of support and friendly conversation
• A gallery filled with layout examples (in the last class over 450 pages were posted!)
• Self-paced class - do as much or as little as you like
• A PDF file including all the sketches from the class for you to keep for future reference (plus digital scrappers can use the templates over and over again)
• Prizes - who doesn't love a chance to win?
• Plus a few surprises :)

The cost for this month long class is only $25.00.                

Ready to sign up? Just click the "Buy Now" button to the right in the sidebar :)

Give Away :)

We are giving away this cute Basic Grey stamp set on our facebook page today. Come on over! I will be drawing a random winner tonight from the comments :) Have a great Monday!

Random Kindness Winners

I am so excited about this! Congratulations to Kyla Hunzinger and Jennifer Grass! You each won a free class to gift to a friend that needs a helping hand! Please contact me with who you would like to gift the class to and we will get them all set up! Yay!

Sketchapalooza 7 start Monday and the classroom is already open and filled with fun, creative ladies. You should come and join us :)

The Classroom is Open!

The Feeling Scrappy classroom is officially open! It is not to late to join us, we start class on Monday with our first sketch and templates (PS/PSE and SBC) being posted.

The photo above? Just a little peek at one of the prizes up for grabs during the class! Who couldn't use an amazon gift card?!

Oh and don't forget - if you register for class by midnight tonight and know someone who would like to take it but can't afford the cost right now you can win it for them! Details here.

Random Kindness - A Give Away!

I know there are always fun, creative people out there who would love to take one of our classes but just can't swing it financial at the moment. Well - I would like to give TWO spots in our upcoming Sketchapalooza class to two such ladies. The question is how to find these people and protect their privacy at the same time?

This is what I have come up with: Anyone who has registered for our class already or plans to register by midnight on Friday can enter one friend to win. No need to share their name just yet - all you need to do is to leave a comment here that you have a friend you would like to help out. On Saturday morning I will draw two winners - I will then get the contact information for the friend you would like to invite to attend for free! Sound good?

I will ask that if you plan to enter the drawing that you please have someone in mind that 1.) really wants to take the class and that you think will participate and 2.) they are in financial need.

Thanks for your help in sharing a little kindness by giving these class away!

Attention Digital Scrappers!

Did you know that Feeling Scrappy will be offering PS/PSE layered templates and SBC+ (.page) templates with every single sketch during our Sketchapalooza 7 Sketch Class? That is 20 templates (some double page) posted 5 per week over the month! Yours to keep and use over and over again. That will make for some super quick and super cute (if I do say so myself) pages! Check out all the details here.

It won't be long now...

Sketchapalooza 7 starts two weeks from today! For those of you that have signed up already, we will be sending out the class details early next week. For those of you that haven't registered for class yet - what are you waiting for?! ;) I am really excited about this class - we have all been busy working behind the scenes to bring you a month filled with awesome sketches and sample layouts.

See you in class soon! Hope today is a great start to the week for you :)

WW Pistachio Dessert

This is one of those - what can I toss together types of dishes. I remembered something like this from when I was a kid but had no idea what the exact recipe was so this is what I came up with. 

Ingredients

1 20 oz can crushed pineapple in pineapple juice
1 pack of fat free, sugar free pistachio pudding
1/2 container of lite whipped topping (you can use the whole thing if you like it fluffier)
1 16 oz container of fat free cottage cheese
1/4 cup chopped nuts (pistachios are great - I use pecans) *optional*

Mix all ingredients together. Serve cold.

This makes a big batch and for those doing weight watchers it clocks in at 2 points plus per 3/4 cup. It is not pretty but it is yummy and sweet for a nice low cal dessert :)

Enjoy!

:o)

We just gave away a free spot in our June 2012 Sketch Class on our Facebook page. (Congratulations Julie Schmehl!) If you haven't check it out yet - you should - you never know when we will sneak in another surprise ;) Hint: very soon!

We are also working on some fun stuff for the blog which we will be unveiling over the next couple of weeks.

And the winner is....

Thanks for playing along with me! The winner of our little give away is Laura C. Please e-mail me at feeling scrappy at yahoo dot com with your mailing information. I hope everyone has a wonderful Mother's day weekend!

A mid-week pick me up!

I don't know about you but for me some weeks just seem to drag by - and this happens to be one of them. So while I wait for the weekend to arrive, I thought it might be fun to have a little mid-week give away. I have this beautiful My Mind's Eye stamp set just waiting to be used by one of you creative scrappers. 

Just leave a comment here and I will draw a random winner on Friday. That is all you have to do to be entered but I would love for you to help spread the word to about Feeling Scrappy your friends or check out our facebook page.

Happy Wednesday!  :) 

Drum Roll Please...

I wish I didn't have to pick a winner and I could give the free class to everyone that posted a layout!How about this? As my thank you to anyone who shared a layout as of this post, I will give you a $5 discount on the June Sketch Class! Just e-mail me and I will send you a discounted invoice. :)

Now without further adieu, the randomly selected winner of the free June sketch class is Megan Smith! Please send me an e-mail and we will get you all set up for class. Here is the layout that Megan posted.  

Have a great weekend!

Let's start the week off right!

We are starting the week off with another chance to win a spot in our upcoming Sketch Class! It is super easy to enter just look through your layouts and pick your favorite one made during at a Feeling Scrappy class. Post a link here in the comments or better yet - post a photo of the layout on our facebook page so everyone can see it!

Never taken a Feeling Scrappy class? Well -  we will have to work on that ;) In the mean time here is an oldie but a goodie from May 2010 - we invite you to do a new page based on this sketch and enter to win. (Past class members are also welcome to do a new page and enter for an additional chance in the drawing.) I will also post a free digital (PS/PSE) template of this sketch on the facebook page.

Here is a sample page by Tracy Kosofsky:

You have until this Thursday (May 3rd at midnight your time) to post your layout. I will pick a winner at random on Friday and post the winning layout here. Can't wait to see your beautiful pages.
Good Luck!