Category: launch party
yesterday was a crazy fun day! who knew that we could have such a great party virtually! don’t you just love that about all the cool tech-y possibilities we have right at our fingertips! i loved seeing so many of you that i know, so many of you i recognize from classes and webshows and events!!
i want to thank you all SO MUCH for your support and for all the kind comments and excitement around this new little adventure! i really did have a blast putting together all the little videos ( the color magic video was probably my favorite) and the project slideshow… i learned a lot!
i thought you might like to see a little ‘behind the scenes’ as i created those videos and made an epic mess in my studio doing it!
now it’s time to announce our grand prize winner from our last giveaway from the launch party! Our randomly chosen winner for a seat in The Art of Observation class from Big Picture Classes is Jeannie Walsh. Congrats Jeannie! I’ll send you a note to share details about getting registered for the class!
now I better go clean-up from the party! time to get my studio back into order so that when we come back here on monday — i’ll be ready to talk about product storage and even show you some of my storage solutions here in my studio.
have a great weekend!
update: giveaway is now closed. congrats to Jeannie Walsh, our randomly selected winner!
Bringing back my own brand of products to the scrapbooking industry was not a decision that I took lightly. I tried some different things over the past couple years, and even tried to convince myself to try something else – maybe something entirely different?! cake decorating…floral arranging…even my long time dream of being a ‘wedding planner’! heck, maybe I could become a personal trainer, and have no excuse not to be fit and healthy!? But I kept coming back to scrapbooking. I can’t look at a cute shirt in J Crew and not see the pattern on scrapbook paper or a cute pair of earrings, and wonder if it would work as a brad or button on a mini-book. but it’s even more than that:
I believe in scrapbooking.
I love to scrapbook. I believe that it matters, and that it’s an amazing gift to everyone in our lives. I believe in it’s power to celebrate, to cherish, to heal and to share. I believe it’s a responsibility to remember. It’s not cause I need a job; it’s cause I can’t not do it.
5 years ago I taught a one year online class called ‘a year to remember’, which will still go down in history as my most memorable, crazy, difficult, challenging and REMEMBERED year of my life, as I gave birth to my 5th child and moved with our family overseas to home school and learn how to live in China. Big Picture Classes has invited me back this year, (well, I finally accepted the invitation this year) to teach as part of the FOUR EXPERTS series. It’s a 12 week course entitled “The Art of Observation”. In this class I will be sharing the very fundamentals of how to SEE, and notice things in the world around you, and how to document it, in a very new and interesting way using my brand new Memory File concepts.
We are wrapping up the launch party today with our last and final giveaway of the evening and it is a BIG ONE! Big Picture is sponsoring this giveaway and the total value is $99! Totally awesome and a great way to end this amazing day! i hope you’ve had as much fun as i have!
enter to win
fill out the registration form below to enter to win a free seat into The Art of Observation Class with Big Picture Classes.
giveaway is now closed. thanks for entering! winner announced soon!
** For this giveaway only, you have until tomorrow morning at 11am eastern to enter. we’ll announce the winner tomorrow night! see you then!
I am always on the look out for a fun new type of material to play with, or develop into a new product! This year, I have taken a simple scallop and playful fringe, and used a unique material that isn’t quite paper and not quite fabric… it’s soft and pliable, won’t rip easily –but you can sew it, glue it and ……MELT IT! Check out this little video I made showing you how to make the fringe go POP!
Heidi Swapp’s Trimmings from heidi swapp on Vimeo.
and now of course you’re dying to know WHO WON the MEMORY FILE giveaway? I hope it was you! our winner is … Amy Abbatoy. congrats! look for an email from us soon about shipping.
we’ve had so much fun today, haven’t we? just one more hour until the party is over. don’t be a party pooper, though, because our grand prize giveaway is our last call of the evening and is coming up at 10pm eastern. – back soon!
update: giveaway is now closed. congrats to Amy Abbatoy, our randomly selected winner!
don’t you just love the AMAZINGLY gorgeous Memory File box?! It’s so sleek, and fun… the storage box comes in 2 colors that coordinate with all of the file folders! Ok, you will be amazed with what you can do with these decorative file folders! The possibilities seem endless! While I have been building projects inside the files… I have also been cutting these folders and combining them together to create mini-books and cards! The unique shapes make them totally fun to play with! You might just be tempted to change out the boring old files in your file cabinet! That’s allowed!!
are you drooling over all of that memory file awesomeness?
GIVEAWAY
to enter to win the memory file prize package enter your name and email address into the fields below. (please be patient…our website is getting lots of traffic and the form might take a few minutes to submit and be sure to replace the text showing with your own.)
giveaway is now closed. thanks so much for participating!
and hurry! you just have ONE HOUR to enter!
be sure to come back next hour to find out the winner of the memory file giveaway AND see a super COOL technique video… one more ‘grand prize’ giveaway later tonight too!
i-phone wallpaper….How much do you love your ***insert favorite mobile device here***? I can’t even begin to imagine where I would be without my iphone! (and neither can my 4 & 5 year olds who want to play ‘jet pack joy ride’ all day)! Here is something to make you happy everytime you take a look at your phone or tablet! (have you ever wondered how many times a day that is??)
This freebie image is inspired by the Sugar Chic Pennants… and when you download it to your mobile device, it works just like a photo would for your wallpaper
CLICK HERE to download the full size image. Just right click the image and save it to your desktop or photo library then follow the instructions below.
I only have an iphone, and this method also works on an ipad… so here goes:
1. Download the Freebie Sparkle background
2. email it to yourself and open it on your phone.
3. tap the image to ‘save’; it will save in your ‘camera roll’
4. go to your ‘camera roll’ and select the iphone wallpaper
5. select the icon in bottom left and the menu will pop up; choose ‘use as wallpaper’
6. move and scale
7. select set
8. you can then choose as ‘lock’ screen or ‘home’ screen
that’s all! ENJOY! And … sparkle!
and congratulations to our NO LIMITS GIVEAWAY WINNER Sue Chaw! we’ll be sending you an email to get your address for shipping your prize
stay tuned …. did somebody say there was a MEMORY FILE giveaway up next??
