Photoshop Elements 10 is half price today!

Photoshop Elements 10 is half price!

Photoshop Elements 10 is on sale for 50 percent off! So for around $50 you can enjoy text on a path, quick photo fixes, masking and more.
Want to learn more about PSE10? Check out my Photoshop Elements 10 Review here.
This sale ends 29th of November (US time) so jump on it now!
See all the Adobe Cyber Monday deals here

Melissa

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The Perfect Day

20101025 Perfect day_3600, a photo by mshanhun on Flickr.

Log Your Memory: Logbook Challenge #48
Scrapbookgraphics Songbird Mix 8
Nearly every day In Kalgoorlie I saw a still blue sky like this... even in winter!Who knew I would miss this so much? Each sunny day in Perth I’m thankful and try to make the most of it.
Of course I can't go without saying Perth *is* sunny most of the time, but Kalgoorlie winters were so beautiful but for a week or two.

December Daily Inspiration Podcast 2011

I just wanted to let you know about my new December Daily Inspiration Podcast.

Between now and January I'll be sharing episodes every few days with a few minutes of audio tips and inspiration for your Christmas scrapbooking projects.

Why not head over to December Daily and check it out? Or you can subscribe to December Daily Inspiration in iTunes now

Episodes so far:

• December Daily Inspiration: Episode 1 (digitalscrapbookinghq.com)
• Why December Daily? 5 Reasons I Scrapbook Every Day in December (digitalscrapbookinghq.com)
• Episode 3 is about simple journalling ideas and will be coming out later today.

Melissa

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Free Holiday Class 2011 with Jessica Sprague

Free Holiday Class 2011:

Thanks to the Digi Show I just hear about Jessica Sprague's latest free class:

Each year Jessica does a free class and they are so awesome! Want to see what I did with the free class last year?

Here's more from Jessica!

Hi there! Welcome to the signup page for my annual FREE holiday class.

Every year, I take the opportunity to give back to the community by offering a free class. Not only does it give you a chance to make a cute project and record some special holiday memories, but it will also give you a chance to take a look inside the online class environment available in ALL of the classes here at JessicaSprague.com.

In our class, we'll be using cardstock and digital patterned paper to create a stunning, but EASY and REPEATABLE garland you can hang from your ceiling, drape around your tree, or hang on the wall. Each year as you create December memories, you can create a new garland. Even the storage box is a keepsake!

In addition to our amazing project, our week-long class will be filled with ideas to make your holiday memory making, and memory-keeping a little brighter and a little more fun!

I can't wait for class! Please join me!

I hope to see you there!

Melissa
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Playgroup WA Annual Fun Day

Annual Fun Day:


Emily and I headed down to Whitford Nodes Park (oh the water looked stunning!) and joined a couple of thousand Mums, Dads and children for the Annual Playgroup WA fun day.

We parked on the north side of the park at just after 10am, and got a lovely spot in the shade.

After waiting around putting on sunscreen, playing 'tee-ball' and on the balance beams, I finally spotted other friends from playgroup coming out from the Baby Animal Farm. Emily was keen to go in so we queued up and she got to pat the sheep, pigs, chickens and goats.

We then rejoined the group over at the Water Play area. The children loved playing with the water toys in the big trough. We headed to the Scitech display, where Emily enjoyed the maze and playing with some soft toys that were there. We stopped for morning tea under a tree and then queued up for the bouncy castle.
Emily loved the bouncy castle so much that after the rest of our playgroup left she and I queued up for another 20 minutes to have another turn!

We didn't make it to the Bubble Station, Sandpit, African Drums or Jungle Sports - but after 2 and a bit hours both Mummy and daughter were feeling tired.

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Melissa

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Emily watching...

Emily watching...:

Emily watching Peppa Pig's tooth fairy episode... Mummy: Is the tooth fairy real or pretend? Emily: Pretend. Now I wonder if someone told her that already?? She usually calls fairies teddy bear butterflies (since the Teddy Bear Teddy Bear book has some in it)

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This morning 9/11/11 Emily said:
Don't save the bracelet for Christmas present. I wonder what that meant?

Melissa

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My Top 10 Paperclipping Episodes

Earlier this year I splashed out to get a Paperclipping Membership. I jumped on a special deal so got a whole bundle of goodies together. It was well worth the money, and I just renewed my membership. Every month you get 2 new video tutorials and occasionally Noell sends members other special goodies. Plus, now I'm a non-schmo... (PRT inside joke there)

Every month I look forward to the new videos and I've almost watched all 170 videos in the library. Noell has a unique was of explaining things.

Today I'm sharing with you my top 10 Episodes.

I'm mostly a digital scrapbooker but I look forward to the videos and always learn something new! Noell's a great presenter with a fresh take on design principles.

Let’s start with my all time favourite episode. I used this to help create Emily’s words book!

1. Paperclipping 150 – Task Batch Minibooking

2. Paperclipping 162 – A Mini-Book in Two Hours

3. Paperclipping 163 – Layer and Texture with Color

4. Vintage Supplies for Modern Pages – Paperclipping 180

5. Paperclipping 149 – Repurpose Your Old Items

6. Paperclipping 152 – One Product, Multiple Ways and Styles

7. Easier Intricate Mini-Books – Paperclipping 174

8. Paperclipping 147 – Fix Your Journaling Disasters

9. Paperclipping 145 – Gather Your Old Products

10. Paperclipping 142 – Scrapbooking with Everyday Items

As you can see I love Noell’s minibooks, they inspire me to create.
Now I'm sure you want to sign up!

My previous 10 things posts:

• Counting my blessings
• 10 Photoshop Elements tutorials
• 10 cards and some how-tos
• 10 to dos

Melissa
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Katie's Roundup Class!

I was so excited to see Katie's new class Roundup Your Memories over at Big Picture Classes.

I took Katie’s Powerscrapping workshop and I can tell you she is an awesome teacher!

Here's some details about the class from Big Picture Classes:

Roundup Your Memories You are constantly making memories. Now’s the time to learn how to round them up and turn them into keepsakes! The really important memories in our lives are often a culmination of the small, everyday routines and events that shape our daily life. This two-week workshop will teach you to document and use your experiences to create unique and meaningful journals, blog entries and scrapbook projects. Katie (also known as “Katie the Scrapbook Lady”) is the creator of scrapbookladypages.com, a contributing writer atThe Daily Digi, and the co-host of The Digi Show podcast. She has been a scrapbooker since 1983 and a digital scrapbooker and blogger since 2005. She has been published in Memory Makers Magazine and several Memory Makers books, as well as in Digital Scrapbooking Magazine. You will learn about Katie’s monthly blog roundup tool, and ten other different types of roundup-based inspiration to use for your own projects. Each week of the workshop comes with a video presentation, PDF handouts, a forum for questions and answers, and a live chat with Katie. As an added bonus, you will receive printable checklists, idea sheets, and free downloadable templates to help you with your own roundups. NOTE FROM KATIE: I started my well-known monthly roundup exercise on my blog back in January of 2006 and I haven’t missed a roundup in over 70 months! Even if you are one of my loyal roundup followers, this workshop will give you the opportunity to fully explore the roundup process, learn my best tips and tricks, and find brand NEW ways to roundup your own memories. Whether or not you’ve ever tried a roundup, you will be inspired by hundreds of scrapbooking ideas in this two-week workshop with me

Hop over and check out Katie's class!

Melissa
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Introducing the 2012 Design Team… & A Preview! | Log Your Memory

I'm so excited to share some big news I've been keeping under my hat for a while now! I'm part of the Memory Logbook design team!

Here's more about the team from Kristin at Log Your Memory:

They’ve been in hiding for more than two months, creating amazing Weekly Challenge layouts, writing behind-the-scenes blog posts, filling out questionnaires, and anxiously waiting for the day when their identities could be revealed.

Today’s that day!

Introducing the 31 members of the 2012 Log Your Memory Design Team!! This talented group of paper and digital scrapbookers from 10 different countries around the globe has gone above and beyond to provide some truly awesome content for us for the 2012 Memory Logbook line.

I can’t wait to share the fruits of their labor, but first… a whole lot of pretty faces and the names that go with them:

2012 Log Your Memory Design Team

Stacey Ashby		Aggie Aviso		Andrea Boyer		Caroline Brown
Sarah Brown		Jennifer DeLorenzo		Kerri Dobbeck		Shannon Dombkowski
Andrea Friebus		Suzie Griffith		Jaime Grove		Alyson Hall
Patti Hamil		Erika Harris		Margrethe Aas Johnsen		Amanda Kremer
Rebecca Kuchenbecker		Kate Lewis		Rachel McPeek		Leontine Meijer-Tisseur
Rachel Minick		Melanie Ritchie		Sara Schiller		Lara Scott
Melissa Shanhun		Lisa Spiegel		Chantal Stober		Heather Topich
Cindy Turner		Miranda Wedekind		Yvonne Yam

Want more details about the Memory Logbook?

Now that you’ve met the team, we’ve got even bigger news for you…

The 2012 Memory Logbook product line will be released this WEDNESDAY right here on our site!!

You’ll have to wait until Wednesday morning to get all the nitty-gritty details, but here’s a little preview of what you’ll find when we open our virtual doors …

• Not just one, but TWO books for 2012! That’s right … what used to be the Memory Logbook has been split into two separate books for 2012 – the 2012 Memory Logbook, which continues to be the journaling/calendar tool, and Real Life Scrapbooking Weekly Challenges: Time Capsule, which is where you’ll find the newest batch of Weekly Challenges. Creating two separate books means we are able to offer some other cool new features, which we’ll tell you more about on Wednesday!
• A new theme to help you find memory keeping inspiration from your everyday life! Our new Weekly Challenge theme is Time Capsule, through which we’ll give you lots of practice choosing & using items from your everyday life to provide storytelling inspiration for your memory keeping during 2012 and beyond.
• Special Members-Only benefits! Purchase of our new Memory Logbook and/or Weekly Challenges book will now include additional resources on our site accessible only by the book owners, including new blog and email features which will help you make the most of your new books!
• A brand new shop! In order to accommodate our new membership benefits and provide more personalized service to our customers, we have moved into a brand new shop right here on our site. Though we were unable to transfer customer records from the old shop to the new, we hope the advantages we’ll gain by making this move will be more than worth the small hassle of re-registering.

We’ll go into much greater detail about all of these features and more on Wednesday, so stay tuned!! In the meantime, feel free to register as a new member on the blog and sign up for the customer newsletter (you’ll get a link after you sign up) so you’ll be all set when the doors open!

Introducing the 2012 Design Team… & A Preview! | Log Your Memory:

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Melissa