Designer Highlight: Julie Schmehl

One more week until our Sketchapalooza 12 class begins! The last designer I will be highlighting for this class is Julie Schmehl. We are thrilled to have her back to deign for this class. Her fresh, quirky style is always filled with fun surprises and she has a personality to match. So fun! You can read more about Julie HERE from her first Feeling Scrappy highlight.

Below are a few pages she made during our last Sketchapalooza class. Be sure to stop by Facebook today for another cute layout and for a hint at an upcoming class special!

Hope you will join us next Monday for another fun class!
 

FS Designer Highlight: Stacey Rhea

It is almost time for our next Feeling Scrappy class! Sketchapalooza 12 starts October 7th. I am excited to introduce you to another one of our designers. Stacey Rhea has been a part of the Feeling Scrappy family for awhile now and I have long wanted her to design for a class. Her digital pages are amazing and she keeps the focus on the photos. She is sweet and funny and I know you will love her sketches too! Below is a little about Stacey in her own words:

Stacey Rhea

I started paper scrapbooking almost 15 years ago.  I completed over 90 traditional scrapbooks until two years ago when I switched to digital scrapbooking.  I instant fell in love and have not looked back.  I love the "no mess" part of digital, just minimize my program and come back to my page when I have time. :) I am a "bad" influence on my friends and am converting many of them into digital scrapbookers.

 

I am a divorced mom of three who loves photography. I am the team photographer for our high school football team.  LOVE IT!  I am very privileged to have a photograph hanging in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Even more excited that the photograph is of one of my children.  Justin (20) is now a junior in college studying mechanical engineering but played football in high school.  Josh (17) is a senior in high school and an avid football player. I am enjoying his senior year with lots of pictures.  My baby-girl is Jenn (15).  She is my cheerleader/volleyball player.  I also have two golden retrievers, Jake and Jazzy.  Most of my pages revolve around my kids and keeping up their books so you will see many sports pages from me.

I am so looking forward to adding my clean simple line pages to this class.

Here are a few of Stacey's pages from our last class:

Hope to see you in class!

FS Designers: Amanda Bay

As we gear up for Sketchapalooza 12 that starts this October, I thought you might like to meet the designers for the class. I will be posting each one here over the next few days with a few sample pages they did in our last class. First up is Amanda Bay!

Amanda has become an old friend of Feeling Scrappy. She has designed for several of our classes now and always has such a fresh, happy approach! You can read more about her HERE from her first Feeling Scrappy "highlight". She has already created some fabulous sketches and samples for our October class plus all of the PDF templates of the sketches. Below are a few pages she made during Sketchapalooza 11. Be sure to stop by our Facebook page to see more!

Three weeks until class starts! Can't wait!

Sketch Challenge

Happy Summer! I hope you have been enjoying every last moment of warm weather and sunshine :) As we start to prepare for our next Sketchapalooza Class, we thought it would be fun to have a little sketch challenge.

Just complete a page based on the sketch below by Julie Schmehl, one of our talented designers. You have until Friday, August 9 to post a link to your page here in the comment section or to post your layout on Feeling Scrappy's Facebook Page. We will draw a random winner on Saturday the 10th of August. Of course we need a little prize! How about 1/2 off the price of our October sketch class? :)

Here is the sketch:

 

 

Sketchapalooza 12 - October 7, 2013

We are excited to announce our next class - Sketchapalooza 12! Class will start on October 7, 2013 and run for over 5 weeks. This will be a perfect time of year to devote to your memory keeping! School is back in session and the holiday rush has not yet begun. Let's spend the month together creating beautiful scrapbook pages :)

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. It 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:

• Over a month of class time starting on October 7th
• Detailed sketches made exclusively for you by our designers
• A wide variety of sketch styles with some from each of our four designers
• 20+ total sketches - 16 single page and 4 double page (5 per week!) 
• A  pre-class "classic" bonus sketch from our early classes
• Digital templates provided for each sketch in both Photoshop and Storybook Creator!
• 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 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 :)

Class Layouts: Digital

Sketchapalooza 11 is in full swing and everyone is busy posting beautiful layouts. It is not to late to  still join in the fun! (Super easy to catch up especially if you are a digital scrapper as we provide all the templates for both Photoshop and Storybook Creator!) Today I wanted to share a few digital layouts from our classroom gallery with you :)

This bright, sunny layout is by Amanda Bay:

Loved this perfectly color coordinated layout by Tricia Kleber:

What a great way to include lots of photos! This awesome layout is by Barbara Sanchez:

 

Kim Clark adds lots of fun and color with this layout:

 

 

Last one for today is from Char O'Hara and has a warm, rustic feel :)

 

I will post more layout gems from class soon! Have a great Sunday :)

FS Designer Highlight: Brenda Molina

Sketchalappoza 11 started off with a bang yesterday and it is not to late for you to join in the fun!

The last class designer that I am introducing you too is a long time friend of Feeling Scrappy. Brenda Molina has shared her talents with us both as a participant in our classes and a designer. We are lucky to have her!

Brenda Molina

I was reluctant to get into scrapbooking thinking it would suck me in. It's one of the very few things I've predicted about my life that was entirely accurate. I started out with Creative Memories in 2002, and then branched out slowly. Attending many scrapbook retreats and seeing what everyone else was doing - not to mention the field trips to local scrapbook stores - broke me of my CM-only requirement. I started digitally scrapbooking in 2007. Prior to that, I'd been pretty up-to-date with my picture printing, so anything already printed at that time still gets scrapped traditionally. Anything since about mid 2007 gets scrapped digitally.

I've been married for 21 years and have a 18 year old boy, Isaac, and a 16 year old girl, Sarah. I've been a stay-at-home mom since Isaac was a year old, which was one of those things I've predicted about my life that was entirely NOT accurate. I started back to work January 2013 and am loving it. We moved from Naperville, IL to Tampa, FL in 2005, and we currently plan to stay here forever.