Win a seat to a Tiffany Tillman Digital Class

WHERE WILL YOU BE JULY 25th? Hopefully with me, and the other hundreds of people who are registered for Tiffany Tillman's Scraphic Design Core Class!

{There is no class meeting time, so you're free to view the videos at your own pace. Class discussion takes place via a private forum with a gallery for sharing your work with the instructor and other students. The class forum is moderated by the instructor. Support is provided via weekly live Q&A video chats, email and the forum.}

THIS CLASS INCLUDES:

• 22 in-depth video lessons in the areas of color theory, pattern mixing, element clustering according to style type, text works, and realistic depth + more.
• Class workbook with video lesson steps outs + additional challenges and case studies not featured in the video lessons
• TIffany's secrets for building wow pages!
• This exclusive digital kit by One Little Bird
• Free 12×12 page prints of your projects courtesy of yours truly- Persnickety Prints!
• and a final, personalized PDF critique of your completed projects with suggestions for strengths, areas of improvement and goal sheet by Tiffany.

(this kit is only available as part of this class)

{What happens when you marry graphic design principles with scrapbooking? You create the Scraphic Design process, a set of steps beginning with blank canvas and finishing with a kick-butt, completed page using your polished design sense. Once you know the why’s and how’s of this process, you can readapt it to fit your crafting style.

Join Tiffany Tillman for the second part of the series, Scraphic Design: Core. For an additional four weeks, add the complexities of layering, color usage, pattern alchemy, element addition, text work and realistic shadowing to the journey. Class concludes with a final critique on your finished class assignments. As promised, you will end at the destination of kick-butt pages and have developed a new, polished design sense.}  Learn more about Tiffany

REGISTER TODAY & SAVE!
July 25 thru August 21
(3 weeks + bonus critique week)
$60.00
$50.00 early registration EXTENDED 'til July 7th! 

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ENTER TO WIN A SEAT-

To enter: Leave a comment here by Wednesday, July 13th at 11:59 PM Mountain Standard time. (Don’t worry, you’ll receive a full refund if you take advantage of the early bird price, purchase the class, and win). 

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The winner will be announced here on Friday, July 15th. 

WE HAVE A WINNER!!!

Kelly from Simply Kelly Designs 

congrats-

My Digital Conversion

Did you start scrapbooking with paper and scissors? Are you still?

I started in 1995, all thanks to my mother.

Here are my Scrap Books, handwritten spines and all. (yuck)

 Back then it was 8.5x11 binders- I converted to 12x12 in 2004. 

This photo is about 8 years old. See those 2 boys? They got into everything, still do. It was impossible to try and scrapbook with paper, glue, and scissors.

I wasn't ever a "3 hour -a- page" scrapper.
My focus was to document my kids lives.
Even a simple page like the one above would take me a good 1-2 hours from start to finish. I hand stamped the "rodeo" title, and then typed up journaling in a word processor, printed, cut and pasted it onto the page. The simplest layouts were still time consuming. I was never "caught up". I would create a book for my baby, and then a copy for me. Oh, how I wish I had digital back then!

When I look back at how horrible my scrapbooks are, I have to remind myself:
"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."  ~Confucius

The Conversion:

After the 3rd boy was born, I saw a friends 12x12 album filled with digital layouts popping off the pages. It looked so amazing! That was it, my turning point. Never again would I need an entire day to complete a layout.

In 2007 I bought a digital camera and took a community photoshop class at our local College. 

• Now I can create a page in 10-20 minutes.
• I don't have to have an entire room in the house dedicated to scrapbook supplies. 
• I can also print one layout multiple times, rather than cutting and pasting multiple pages!
• My digital "letters" don't come unglued and spell out odd words
• Taking the laptop on a road trip generates at least 10 layouts
• I can start a page, save it, and come back. No clean up required!

 Digital Scrapbooking saves me time AND money:

• I can fit up to 10 images on one 12x12 page. (10 4x6's costs $1.90)
• My digital supplies can be used over and over! (recoloring)
• I can fit at least 50 more pages in a 12x12 binder 
• I *could* charge my mother for the time it takes to now create her layouts digitally, but I don't. She is currently in digital training:)

Statistics show that when children see photo's of themselves, it foster's self-esteem. 

When we have down days, we can reminded of happy times through our photo's. 

All of my boys LOVE looking at photo's of themselves. (they are almost "too confident" at this point!)

Time to get your layouts OFF of your hard drive people! (you know who you are:)

My Goal: That my kids will have self-esteem. That they will remember the good times in life, and know how much they are loved.

Regardless of how you choose to document your memories, I hope you feel it is as valuable as I do!
(even I have to force people to look at my scrapbooks, but someday they will do so willingly!)

Happy Scrapping -Documenting -Designing -Creating
Chari

*Are you a digital convert? What was your turning point?