Heart of the Holidays {a giveaway}

‘Tis the Season

Tiffany Tillman’s popular 25 Days of Templates workshop is back and this season we will capture the Heart of the Holidays!

25 Days of Templates began as an online workshop in 2009, and each year since, it has helped hundreds of digital scrapbookers record their favorite December memories. This year’s focus presents weekly presentations featuring the best album strategy, photography, and digital technique lessons from previous editions. And new this year, are Monday - Friday journaling prompts by master storyteller, Sara Gleason of plant your story.

Heart of the Holidays | 60 Templates

Every participant will receive 60 coordinating templates separated into three album sizes – a $72 value! Twenty 12×12 templates, twenty letter-sized templates, and twenty 8×8 templates.

 PLUS- you'll get this digital mega-kit by Karla Dudley and Mye De Leon!
 You’ll have everything you need to complete a fabulous album!

Enter to win a seat in this class! ($45 value)

Share one favorite December memory or tradition in the comments below. 
What you share may spark a new tradition for another reader!

WE LOVE Christmas Traditions! We're thinking about compiling these ideas into a Printable PDF available for a quick download. If you don't want your "tradition" included- let us know.
Traditions are memories, and they can live on for generations! Thank you for sharing yours.

One entry per person. 
Contest closes Monday November 26, 5:00pm MST. 
Winner will be contacted and posted here.
Sign up for this class now! Winner will be reimbursed if necessary. 


>> contest closed <<
congrats to Tammy! Our randomly selected winner for the Heart of the Holidays workshop!

Less is Best with Paislee Press

Life is busy. 
I'm trying to focus on simplifying. Dumping the clutter. Less is more, and with Paislee Press... less is AmaZing!!

Over the past 5 years, I've played with various digital scrapbooking design styles. At the end of the day- I always seem to come back to this: the minimalist. 
Clean, aesthetically pleasing, and simple.
Liz Tamanaha, the creative genius behind Paislee Press is just that.

Liz's latest release is to die for.
The 5x7 Mosiac Card.
This is the card that can tell a story with over 30 photos, yet not look "cluttered". 
I would suggest using photos that blend, all black and white or run a color enhancing action to give it more of an appealing look. 
 
Enter below to win, or grab it today at the Lilipad for only $3.19

  XO
-Chari 
 

Modern and sophisticated card design, with a touch of the unexpected.

• templates are 5x7 PSD files  
• includes both front + back designs  
• all layers are fully editable so you can customize (change colors, change text, etc.) to suit your needs

On sale now for only $3.19!  >>> 

You've got a chance to win it here! 
(2 winners) 

TO ENTER: Simply sign up for Paislee News 
like Paislee Press on Facebook 
or follow Paislee Press on Twitter. 
Come back here, leave a comment & you're entered! 

Contest ends Sunday November 18th at 5pm MST

2 lucky winners will be chosen at random.

THEN: Visit Paislee Press for a chance to win a Persnickety 25 Card Pack! 
Printed on Pearl 110# cover cardstock or other fine paper, envelopes are included (retails at $34.99).

Designing your own Cards this year? We've got you covered. Photographic and Digital Press Prints are available. Learn more here >

 >> Contest Closed << 

Winner's are:
congrats! 

 

Instagram Photo Contest

This week, in honor of Saint Valentine, we are hosting an Instagram Photo Contest!

(Instagram is currently only avail on the iPhone platform- we will run another contest as soon as it becomes avail to all smartphones)

Don't have Instagram? Install it on your iPhone here.

1. This week (Feb 13-18)- take an iPhone photo of something/someone you love.
2. Post it to Instagram with hashtag #persnicketyprints
3. In the caption- tell the story of why you chose this subject.

> EXAMPLE:

It is important to enjoy my working environment. I love our team. #persnicketyprints

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PROJECT RULES: Please only submit photos you yourself have taken this week. One entry per day is eligible for winning. 4 Winners, chosen by our staff, will be posted here on our blog, Sunday February 19th. 

First Place: $50 gift certificate to Persnickety Prints 

Second Place: $25 gift certificate to Persnickety Prints 

Third Place: $10 gift certificate to Persnickety Prints

GRAND PRIZE: A spot in Molly Newmans, iShot That! class
{The art of iPhone photography}

James and Molly Newman are a husband & wife team based in Portland, Oregon. James is a longtime photography junkie who’s recently all but retired his bulky DSLR in favor of the lightweight, virtually invisible, infinitely inspiring iPhone. Molly is a former editor of Digital Scrapbooking and a regular instructor at reneepearson.com.  

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> CHECK IT OUT....

 

FREE 2x2 and 3x3 .psd templates

Perfect for Instagram, Hipstamatic, or any other small photo!

Big Picture Giveaway

 Big Picture Class  G I V E A W A Y

Did you know that 99% of professional photographers post-process their photos? Post-processing has dramatically changed over the years. Back in the non-digital age, post-processing meant taking a photo into the darkroom and adjusting exposure, color, contrast and more to get the best photo possible. In the digital world, post-processing means uploading your photos to a computer, opening them in a post-processing program and adjusting little sliders to get AMAZING results! Little changes can have the biggest impact!

One lucky commenter will recieve a seat to Elisha Snow's Post Processing Workshop.

      

Photo Finishing with Elisha Snow

4 week workshop

Post-Processing your Photos for Professional Results

ABOUT THIS CLASS: You will learn how to upload any digital photo into Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Adobe Lightroom, and adjust it to get the perfect exposure, color, white balance and more. You’ll learn many post-processing tricks such as smoothing skin, swapping heads, getting the best black-and-white effect, adding texture, creating vignettes, preparing a photo for printing.

read more.
Class starts 11/24/2011

New to Big Picture Classes? Learn more here

How it works

TO ENTER:  Post a C O M M E N T 
  "What is your favorite subject to shoot?" (with a camera silly!)

{one winner will be chosen at random. giveaway ends Friday November 18. 12 noon MST.}

Giveaway is CLOSED! 
Thanks to all who entered! Even if you aren't our lucky winner- you can STILL take this self-paced class! Starts November 24th.
We have our winner! LUCKY number 21! -BERNADETTE!

2011 Calendars- it's not too late!

We have seen some very unique calendars come through the lab! If you haven't made your 2011 calendar yet-

it's not too late! 

Especially because we are giving away this quick and easy 

2011 Calendar Template set from Graham Like the Cracker

(TWO WINNERS will be chosen at random)

This set includes January through December of 2011 png toppers and jpg bottoms. Each page is 8.5x11. You can add your own events, holidays, birthdays and anniversaries to make this calendar set your own. 

At Persnickety Prints, we can print your calendar "topper" within our software program using our standard bottoms -OR- you can merge these top and bottoms in your software program and order Persnickety premium fuji paper as one top bound 12x18 wall calendar!

 

To ENTER:

Comment below telling us what your FAVORITE month of the year is! 

(mine is September- kids back in school + fall kicks in:)

Check out this cute September layout!

Love it!

You can grab the entire template collection HERE at ScrapMatters

Remember it is a .png and .jpg template- perfect for all of you Creative Memories and Memory Mixer users!

Giveaway ends Sunday December 19th 12:00 Noon

2 Winners will be chosen at random and posted here! We will email you if your email address is accessible.

CONTEST CLOSED!

 

And our TWO Winners!...

If this is YOU- email us for your prize!!!

thanks for playing everyone

Template Album Giveaway

These templates are lifesavers! 

Molly designed "Around the Way No.1" with journaling in mind. Journaling your moments is so important, we think we will remember the little things in life, but I am here to tell you, I can barely remember what happened yesterday!

If you aren't really into journaling, underneath each text path is another "block" or clipping mask for a picture, paper, what have you.

{Sample pages: collaboration kit from Paislee Press + One Little Bird called "Storyteller"}

IMAGINE the possibilities with this Around the Way No.1 Template Album!

You can grab this new album now @Oscraps for 20% off.  Sale ends Thursday @ 11:59 MST.
  ...AND...

We are giving one away!

1) To enter please leave a comment below. The giveaway ends on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @ 9:00 PM MST. Our winner will be announced here by Thursday morning. If you facebook, blog or tweet about this giveaway you can increase your chances of winning. Just come back here and leave a new comment with your link.

2) Amazing Molly aka Biograffiti is giving away one album. Please visit her blog for details. Check out all of her other incredible templates here!

3) The crazy talented Liz of Paislee Press is also giving away one album.  Please visit her blog for a chance to win.  You can see more of the amazingness of her Storyteller collab kit here.

Good luck!

*WINNER*

We wish that we could give this amazing album away to everyone... really... we appreciate your comments + participation! Biograffiti is an upcoming "Persnickety Designer of the Month" so check back for more freebies and big contests from Molly!


Around the Way Template Album #1: WINNER via random.org is DigiVickie!
 (email us for your download keys)

 

  digiVickie said...

Love it! Thank you for the chance to win :)

If you didn't win you can still grab this album thru Thursday 8/19 on sale for 20% off at OScraps.