Your Story Matters

A class with Lain - name your price!

I'm excited to share that I'm participating in Your Story Matters next week.

It's a week long course with video and email prompts from Lain Ehmann to help ease you into recording your memories, life and beliefs. It going to be a lot of fun  - it always si with Lain!

Lain's band of happy scrapbookers are just the most encouraging and sharing people too, so come and meet them

Join me and name your own price for the class.

That's right - attend the class for free, 1c, $1 or $100, whatever you think it is worth to document your story.

I hope to see you inside!
Melissa
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Free Class at Big Picture Classes: Creative Crop

 

Looking for something free, online and scrappy for interNational Scrapbooking Day?

Big Picture Classes and Creating Keepsakes Magazine are teaming up to bring you our 2nd annual, fun-filled Creative Crop for National Scrapbook Day! The online event will kick-off Saturday, May 5th at 9am PST. You can look forward to 12 jam-packed hours offering creative challenges every hour, live chats with industry professionals, amazing giveaways, and constant inspiration and interaction!

The best part? It's all FREE!

You’ll receive challenge from:

 

Ali Edwards	Cindy Tobey	Deena Boese
Stacy Julian	Mou Saha	Nic Howard
Megan Hoeppner	Tami Morrison	Lisa Day
Kim Watson	May Flaum	Nicole Harper

Plus you’ll be able to spend the day (or as much of it as you can spare) chatting with the experts and fellow scrappy people!
So sign up today!

PS You can still to enter my Design Challenges giveaway

Last few hours to join me at True Scrap

True Scrap registration is closing in a few short days and I don’t want you to miss out!

Last year I was so excited to attend True Scrap, I loved having access to awesome instructors who would never visit our city all that way over in Australia. I was able to attend several classes live, while my little girl was napping in the next room. Being a busy mum, I did miss some of the classes - but of course I had access to all the handouts and recordings to watch later.

The Student...

I learnt so much - from how to create embellishment gatherings, to photography tips, to information on earning money from scrapbooking. In fact, the site you see today is part of the October 2011 True Scrap fallout!

Becomes the Teacher...

I'm so excited to share that I'll be teaching at True Scrap 3! I have been working on a variety of classes for my own website over the last year and have had a lot of positive feedback so this year I approach Lain Ehmann with a new class idea and she was keen! I've been working furiously on the class since January and can't wait to share it with you.    

Finish What you Start: My Class

Did you start scrapbooking with dreams of rows of finished albums?

Is the reality more like a cupboard of unfinished objects (UFOs)?

In Finish what you Start I help you learn how you can actually finish a project, and get the results you want by focusing on what motivates you in your scrapbooking.

• Prevent writer's block by using journalling you have already
• Finish pages faster by keeping your process simple
• Rescue half-finished projects by repurposing or finishing them with rediscovered motivation.
• Get a headstart on your own project using printable worksheets
• Have fun and get the project done!

Join me for plenty of inspiration for your next project, or that little extra kick to get those UFOs done!

I'm so thrilled to be teaching at True Scrap, and know it is well worth the price you pay to get in no matter what kind of memory keeper, scrapper, crafter or photographer you are!

Why True Scrap?

If you want to get the best value for your crafting dollar (don't we all?) I say True Scrap is well worth the price tag of $147.

Special Offer just for you!

if you register for True Scrap using my link I'm able to earn a commission, which is how I'm paid for my work as a teacher. I know that it is such an awesome event that I don't want you to miss, I got so much out of True Scrap, that I want to share a BONUS to encourage you to sign up. If you register for True Scrap using my link come back email your reciept to me at melissa@mshanhun.com I will give you FREE access to my BRAND NEW Digital Scrapbooking Primer! This is an awesome set of tutorials, videos and ebooks that will get you started digital scrapbooking. Over 5 hours of video training, 35 pages of printable guides, plus a one on one Skype call with me to answer your trickiest questions! I guide you through:

• Getting started with digital scrapbooking
• Photoshop Elements basics to get you up and running
• Using templates to help you finish pages faster
• Organising your supplies to get the most out of your digital scrapbooking stash
• Creating photobooks to share your pages with friends and family
• Sharing your work online
• and more!

Interested? The Digital Scrapbooking Primer will be for sale shortly - get on the waiting list today!

What is True Scrap?

• Inspiration and Education from 15 A-list instructors…
• Five virtual project make-and-takes…
• 300+ keen scrapbookers, cardmakers, photographers and digital scrapbookers to meet and greet...
• All from YOUR computer!
• All for one low price… $147

 

Register now to secure your $147 all access pass + bonus Digital Scrapbooking Primer

Find out more and Register today!

Don't forget to email your receipt to me to redeem your bonus Digital Scrapbooking Primer

Not sure if True Scrap is for You?

You need to listen to my exclusive interviews!

• Learn to turn your house into a home with the Midas touch
• A Photoshop "Cheat" shares her Secrets
• Meet happiest scrapbooker in the world
• Dip into a well of Endless Inspiration Secrets with a Prolific Crafter
• Meet the photography teacher who launched her new career on a bus!

Head over to iTunes and subscribe to my new Scrapbooking Inspiration podcast to hear more from these other inspirational artisans and crafters.

Or you can listen on the web now.

Design Challenges Class Giveaway

Do you ever feel like your design skills aren’t quite getting the workout they need?

Head over to my Digital Scrapbooking HQ site and jump in on the giveaway I’m running this week!

I’m always looking for new ways to grow my scrapbooking skills and though I’m more than happy to share my digital know-how I sometimes feel less than confident in my design skills for scrapbooking.

So when I got the opportunity to participate inElizabeth Dillow’s latest class starting April 29, I was thrilled! I’m so excited that I’ll have 12 concrete ways to put my skills into action.

So what has this all got to do with you?

I’ve been given one free spot in the Design Challenges class to YOU.

Head over and enter to win now!

Spring Training: Want to get into shape for free?

Are you ready for another giveaway?

I’ve got one place in Ella Publishing’s Spring Training Event to give to a reader!

Why I’m excited about Spring Training

Spring Training is a video based training week that will give us bite-sized exercises (that are totally achievable) and will help get us all scrapbooking.

I totally love video classes – easy to watch on my computer while I craft on the table (or lately the floor!) and watch. I also love that they never expire so I can catch up in my own time.

Of course I’m excited to be learning and I love that the challenges will be practical and help me create meaningful layouts… did I mention I managed 29 layouts in February thanks to challenges?

We will also get to meet and greet participants and coaches at the four chats throughout the week.

Oh and how much is it? Just $44.99

So who’s involved

Ella has put together a great team of coaches to take us through the week until International Scrapbooking Day!

• Erin Cobb, Your Photography Coach
• Wendy Smedley, Your Organization Coach
• Nichol Magouirk, Your Techniques Coach
• Lisa Dickinson, Your Design Coach
• Tami Morrison, Your Scrapbooking Fitness Coach

The Giveaway!

I’ve got one place to give away. So spill… what do you want to get out of a scrapbooking event? Socialising? Completed layouts? New techniques?

Share in the comments by April 6 and I’ll announce a winner on April 7 – my 30th birthday!

Want extra chances to win?

You can earn an extra entry for:

• Liking Digital Scrapbooking HQ on Facebook - ask your burning digital scrapbooking and photobook questions
• Following DigiScrapHQ on Twitter - watch for digital scrapbooking tips, offers and inspirational links! Follow @digiscraphq
• Tweeting about this giveaway

  GIVEAWAY @ellapuablishing Spring Training: Want to get into shape for free? bit.ly/HgtQni

  — Melissa S (@digiscraphq) April 2, 2012

Just add another comment to let me know you which ones you did and I'll tally up the entries.

 

Are you ready for Spring Training 2012?

Affiliate links included: I’m so excited to an Ella Friend this year – it means I get to bring you lot of information and giveaways. Plus if you use my links you’ll be supporting my blogging efforts!

True Scrap GIVEAWAY: Win an all access pass!

So this is the month for giveaways right?

I am so excited to share this great giveaway with you – you can win an all access pass to True Scrap 3 – valued at $147!

Read on over at Digital Scrapbooking HQ to hear why I am so thrilled to be involved this year, and how you can win!

http://www.digitalscrapbookinghq.com/ts3giveaway

Good luck!

Melissa
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What's coming up for me

So apart from being wife, mum and working hard growing our new baby due in May, what am I up to?

Lots of teaching!

2012 Schedule

Photobook Perfection: Free Webinar!

18th March 8:30pm EST

Register here

Best Photo Forward: Refining Photos of Fine Embroidery

Read more and register here

Scrapbooking Shortcuts: Free Workshop

• Want to scrapbook more quickly?
• Want perfect photobooks every time?
• Tired of resizing to share online?
• Wish you knew all the insider shortcuts?

Join me to learn about shortcuts, scripts and actions that will get you finishing pages in no time!

Date: Sunday, March 25

Time: 9:30 PM – 10:30 PM (Eastern Time) (view and register in your timezone)

Please note due to the fact I’m in Australia, if you don’t change the timezone the event will appear on the 26th March.

Cost – Free!

Finish What You Start: Project Planning and Completion

20-21st April 2012

Find out more and Register today!

Part of the awesome True Scrap event!

 Then in May, June and July I'll be taking a well-earned break, but will hopefully still pop in here with new baby pictures!

Melissa

It’s your lucky day: Ella Publishing Offer

I’m back again with another great deal from Ella Publishing.

Lucky 3-day scrapbook inspiration sale!

Save some green this St. Patrick's Day, why don'tcha?

You've uncovered a Lucky 3-Day sale from Ella Publishing! Here are TWO coupon codes to save you some green this weekend.

The first coupon (LUCKY17) can be used to get 17% off any three* items, inlcuding the Take Twelve Guided Inspiration Kit, the coordinating Take Twelve Templates for digital scrapbooking, and the new Stamping Secrets eBook)
And if you're not already registered for Spring Training, now is definitely the time to register for the best value! Add Spring Training and any eBook (valued up to $5.99) to your cart, then apply the code POTOGOLD to get the $5 pre-registration discount and one free eBook of your choice!
Both offers expire at midnight on Monday, March 19. Note: you must use each coupon code in a separate purchase.
*Excludes Spring Training and gift certificates.
p.s. If you're ALREADY registered for Spring Training 2012, watch your email for a coupon code for a free eBook, too. As always, those who register earliest get the best deal!
p.p.s. And if you're a returning Spring Training or Boot Camp attendee, you'll get an email this weekend explaining how you can save 20% off of Spring Training 2012 registration PLUS get a free eBook.

Finish What You Start: My True Scrap Class

Did you start scrapbooking with dreams of rows of finished albums?

Is the reality more like a cupboard of unfinished objects (UFOs)?

In Finish what you Start I help you learn how you can actually finish a project, and get the results you want by focussing on what motivates you in your scrapbooking.

• Prevent writer's block by using journalling you have already
• Finish pages faster by keeping your process simple
• Rescue half-finished projects by repurposing or finishing them with rediscovered motivation.
• Get a headstart on your own project using printable worksheets
• Have fun and get the project done!

Join me for plenty of inspiration for your next project, or that little extra kick to get those UFOs done!

I'm so thrilled to be teaching at True Scrap, and know it is well worth the price you pay to get in no matter what kind of memory keeper, scrapper, crafter or photographer you are!

Join me for the most awesome scrapbooking event EVER!

I'm so excited to share with you that I've been invited to teach a class at True Scrap 3!

Find out what's coming in True Scrap 3 and join the mailing list for all the news I'll be sharing much more about this event in the coming weeks, but in the mean time, here's the basics:

What is True Scrap?

• Inspiration and Education from 15 A-list instructors…
• Five virtual project make-and-takes…
• All from YOUR computer!
• All for one low price… $127 (if you register by April 15)

On April 20-21, fifteen instructors will share high-def video classes with you, live, in our state-of-the-art webroom. By signing up for True Scrap 3, you’ll receive access to our state-of-the-art webroom where you can hobnob with the rich and famous (okay, the not-so-rich and kind of famous!) and hundreds of other fanatical papercrafters, just like you!

Be the first to know about teacher and class updates, special announcements, and more…

Join the True Scrap “Early Notification” Email list here: Sign up today!

Melissa
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Scrapbooking Classes Galore!

If you’ve even joined me for a free scrapbooking webinar, you know how much fun it is to learn live!

I know that being based in Perth, WA we have buckley’s of ever seeing the likes of Noell Hyman, Lain Ehmann and Cathy Zielske  grace our shores for one event.

But never fear…. Lain is coming to the rescue!

Spawn of True Scrap brings papercrafting inspiration right to your desktop. No need to change out of your PJs because you’re logging on, right from home!

17 high-quality instructors strut their stuff…

Virtual make-and-takes offer you project inspiration…

All from YOUR computer!

What you’ll get:

• Pre-event virtual crop the week of Oct. 10 (for those enrolled by 10/10)
• Live access to all 17 classes
• Five virtual make-and-takes
• Interview with Cathy Zielske
• Eternal access to class recordings and chat transcripts
• More fun than you can shake a stick at AND extra goodies!

…All for the low price of $127!
(that’s less than $8 per class!)

Don’t miss it!

Melissa

PS for those of us down under – recordings mean that while we sleep we won’t miss all the fun!

*If you sign up with my link you help support my blog and site! More free goodies for you!*

Big Idea Festival Words to Live By: Wonder, Less, Give, Enjoy

Today I was inspired by Kim to document the words for the the Big Idea Festival.

Wonder

Having a little toddler in the house reminds me of the wonder in our life. Each day is a gift.

Less

We are certainly living with less right now as the sale of our old home fell though.

Give

I want to give my passion and enthusiam to helping others. I want to give my time to productive things. I want to give my love to my family.

Enjoy

I enjoy time alone, time with people, time creating and time organising. I want to enjoy my life every day.

So these are my thoughts so far.

The festival is free, so why not join in?

Melissa

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Digital Scrapbooking Layout: This I believe

This week’s challenge in the Memory Logbook is about sharing your personal truth, which was also similar to the topic in Week 10 of the Yesterday and Today class at Big Picture Classes.

Here’s my take on it:

This I what I believe. I believe in God, I believe His plans for me are beyond my wildest dreams. I believe He is in control. I believe I can be joyful in all situations, I believe I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I believe God's timing is perfect and He is never late. I believe that my emotion can be a part of my life without ruling it. I believe God designed me to live with passion. I believe I can be loving wife and mother, I believe I can run a successful business to share my love of art. I believe I can serve others in practical ways. I believe I can lead by example and speak wise words when they are needed. I believe my creativity is a vital part of my gift to this world. I believe my positive outlook on life can encourage others. I have learnt that to be good does not mean I have to be boring. I have learnt I can hold my tongue, I have learnt to laugh at myself. I have learnt to allow the tears to come and with God's help they will turn into joy in the morning. I have learnt that each day is a new day with no mistakes in it.

Template – Ali Edwards from the Yesterday and Today Workshop Week 10

Fonts Melissa’s hand and 1942 Report

Kit Impressions of Comfort at Home and Anna Aspnes Yesterday and Today Kit from the class.

I love it when something comes back around to inspire me. And now I’ve got another layout for my Yesterday and Today Album.

• Yesterday and Today–Day in our life
• Yesterday and Today–Random Childhood Memories
• Yesterday and Today–Album cover

I’d love to see your layouts – link me up in the comments!

Melissa

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Power scrapping with Katie: my work in progress

I’m working along with Katie in her workshop over at Big Picture Classes. It’s all about using your time effectively to make more scrapbook pages, you can read more about Power Scrapping here.
So far I have a few sets of photos together for layouts I’m working on:

My 29th Birthday

I’ll turn this on into 2 pages for this I think, it was an eventful birthday.

Emily’s words

This is actually a few more pages album that is already 1/2 done, I just have to add embellishments to most of the pages
Moving to Perth
Emily’s 2nd birthday (still rounding up a few more photos for that one from other camera)
I just starred some photos I liked:

Selecting Photos to use

As I see more photos I want to scrap I’m adding them to new albums in Picasa, so then I can come back to them later, and concentrate on the pages I’m ready to scrap right now.
I’m just about ready to layout the photos and then I get to start adding digital goodies – and I know a lot of them will be coming from the Digi Game (which really is the best deal in digital scrapbooking!)

More about The Digi Game

Want to see my progress in the other classes I’m working on over at Big Picture? Here’s a sampling:

• One Little Word (I’ve been doing monthly posts about my progress)
• Yesterday and Today – A day in our life

I’m enjoying blogging about these classes – it helps me remember to actually make the pages too! Do you have system to remind you of classes that you are yet to complete?
Melissa

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You can stamp, mist and more without making a mess!

If you have ever wanted to add more fun with ink and pain to your scrapbook pages, I have a fun live Photoshop Elements workshop coming up next week.

In case you aren’t a subscriber over at my Learn Photoshop Elements site, here’s the scoop!

Are you inspired by all the fun scrapbookers have with their misting, stamping, embossing and more?

Do you want to learn techniques to use them on a digital page?

Join me for a fun and (digitally) messy hour-long workshop! During this class you'll have a chance to see digital techniques in action and ask your questions live. Can't wait to see you there!

May 09, 2011 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM (May 08, 2011 9:30PM EST) Show in My Timezone

Register now to secure your seat - you'll be able to peek over my shoulder and even see me using my tablet and mouse to create these effects live.

Even if you are a paper scrapper, why not come along – I’ll show you how to add these effects to your photos, before you print them, as well as how to use them in an all digital page.

See you there!

Melissa

PS Sign up to get notified of new Photoshop Elements workshops and receive a free digital scrapbook template!