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.