Sponsor Giveaways | The Mother Load, Summer Card Camp 2011

GIVEAWAY | One person will receive a spot in Lain Ehmann's upcoming 13-week online class at Big Picture Classes: The Mother LOAD: A Scrapbook Marathon

SPECIAL OFFER | In addition to receive $20 off of The Mother LOAD use code: load2011

Are you a marathon scrapbooker? Do you want to be? As crazy as it may sound, scrapbookers have a lot in common with runners. Both can run into the same problems – lack of time, isolation, a routine that has become more of a drudgery than a help. The good news? You can easily overcome these obstacles.

No, Lain won’t make you run 26.2 miles in just a few hours – but she will challenge you to scrapbook 26 layouts in 26 days! Through The Mother LOAD - A Scrapbook Marathon, part of the 4Experts series for 2011, Lain will show you how committing to making scrapbooking a priority in your life will help you:


  • Scrapbook faster

  • Love your pages more

  • Actually USE your stash

  • Connect with what you love best about this hobby of ours


The first two months of class will be spent on “basic training” to increase your stamina, refine your process, and get you mentally and physically ready for the ultimate challenge: creating a layout a day for the first 26 days of September. After you cross the finish line, there will be time for reflection – and celebration!

For more information, and to register, please visit The Mother LOAD.

GIVEAWAY | Three people will receive a spot in Jennifer McGuire & Kristina Werner's new online class: Summer Card Camp 2011

Get ready for a summer full of colorful cardmaking fun with Summer Card Camp 2011. Jennifer McGuire and Kristina Werner have teamed up to bring you a 4-week workshop loaded with fresh color combos, cutting edge techniques, and versatile sketches that will leave you feeling inspired to create!

Summer Card Camp is your all-access pass to 48 new card ideas, daily PDFs, twice weekly videos, guest designers (including me), huge prizes and access to a private blog where you can share your own creations. For more information and to register, visit http://onlinecardclasses.com/summercardcamp2011/classinfo.html. If you are picked as a winner and have already signed up, you will receive a full refund.



TO BE ENTERED into this giveaway please leave a comment below sharing a link to something that inspired you this past week (if you are reading this post on Facebook please come to my blog to leave a comment). Comments will be closed at 8pm Pacific on Sunday and the winner posted shortly after. Please be sure to check back or subscribe (click here to get posts delivered to your email box) to see if you are receiving one of the items this week.

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  1. Rosana says…
    06/12/2011

    What great giveaways... Thank you so much for the opportunity to win :)

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  2. Jill says…
    06/12/2011

    Would love the chance to win either class! I am inspired by you, Kristina Werner, Nichol M...and many others. Thanks for the chance!

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  3. Krystyn says…
    06/12/2011

    http://www.techniquetuesday.com/merchant2/merchant.mvc? your new stamp set and the awesome LO you created with them TOTALLY inspired me!!

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  4. Lori says…
    06/12/2011

    I am loving Lisa Storm's blog http://lisastorms.typepad.com/lisa-storms/. She has such great ideas. I hope to find the time for a few this summer.

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  5. Mary Sara P. says…
    06/12/2011

    I'm tring to find more inspiration these days and I too am loving Pinterest. So fun to see what everyone else likes and finds inspiring. Would love the Summer Card Camp. Thanks for the chance at a fun giveaway and hope you had a fun weekend.

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  6. Kristi says…
    06/12/2011

    I am so inspired by my friend Susan! She and her husband and their 13 year old daughter participated in the Edinburgh Moonwalk for breast cancer. Together they raised over 900 pounds - about $1,500! http://www.walkthewalk.org/Challenges/TheMoonWalkEdinburgh

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  7. Tracy O says…
    06/12/2011

    The scrapbooking marathon is defenitely what I need right now! I was inspired this week by so many wonderful blogs. Each day I find creative inspiration for my scrapbooks as well as wonderful projects to make my house a home...now if someone could just inspire me to stop finding the inspriation and actually work on my own projects that would be wonderful!

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  8. Cheryl Doss says…
    06/12/2011

    Now these sound like fun. I definitely need a jumpstart and these classes would be perfect!!!

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  9. Marcie L says…
    06/12/2011

    I was inspired by Laura Vegas this week, http://www.lauravegas.typepad.com/

    I have spent the entire day today (after church) purging and re-orgnaizing all my cardstock and patterned paper. I gave away (to a very good home) about 8 inches of paper and a bunch of embellishments. i am ready to rock/scrap!!

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  10. Bodil B says…
    06/12/2011

    Ooooh I am loving all these chances to win a place at the summer card camp, absolutely fabulous ideas ladies. Lately Ive been inspired by Becca at http://www.amazingpapergrace.com/ It doesnt help that I am obsessed with ribbons ... but she has motivated me to start using up some of my rather large stash! yay!

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  11. Cardcrazed (Karen G) says…
    06/12/2011

    Both classes sound inspiring!! I would really love to take Kristina's and Jennifer's classes.. I admire both of them so much.

    As for what inspired me this past week, on Tuesday, I was able to see my oldest daughter for a while!! It was way too short a visit, but she bought me my Mother's Day present, LawnFawn's Plus One set!! A lot of her friends are having babies, so it'll be perfect for me to make cards for her to give to her friends :)

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  12. Angi~Mistress of Mayhem says…
    06/12/2011

    http://pinterest.com/pin/39453440/

    Finally getting pictures on the walls of our home. Want to be surrounded with happy memories! I love the simplicity of this display and how easy it will be to change out the photos...

    I'm a wanna be scrapbooker that makes cards! :) Both of those classes sound like fun. Great links out there! Thanks, Ali!

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  13. Terri HP says…
    06/12/2011

    Lately I've mostly been inspired by you, Ali. I'm always checking out your site for something to inspire my scrapbooking. The other day it was the scrapbook you had made for your daughter. It had me looking at my son's school scrapbook in a whole new way. Thanks!

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  14. Suzanne Queen says…
    06/12/2011

    Both classes sound great! So many of the blogs I read, including yours, give me inspiration. But since we're supposed to share a link, here's a link to a card that I pinned recently from Julee Tillman's Poetic Artistry blog: http://pinterest.com/pin/14228597/
    Thanks for the chance to enter to try to win a class spot.

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  15. Carmel Keane says…
    06/12/2011

    I have recently signed up to receive emails from Katrina's blog - it is a wonderful resource for sparking ideas.

    http://captureyour365.com/category/blog/

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  16. fontucky princess says…
    06/12/2011

    I received my textbooks for the fall in the mail this week. I am so inspired to get started on anatomy/physiology!!

    These classes look fantastic!! Thanks Ali

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  17. Lisa cox says…
    06/12/2011

    All the blooming peonies in my yard inspired me. I would love to win thank for the giveaways.

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  18. Ashley says…
    06/12/2011

    This family and their little boy battling brain cancer has been inspirig to me all week. I am slowing down, looking at the clouds, hugging my kids linger and just lettin life be as it is so wonderfully presented to me without my incessant need to control every component of it.

    http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/Isaacsteiner/journal

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  19. Debbie P says…
    06/12/2011

    After reading this blog I was ready to get busy on some layouts!! http://www.yourmemoryconnection.com/

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  20. Raimi Krupp says…
    06/12/2011

    The girls at eighteen25 inspired me to start preparing for Father's Day. http://eighteen25.blogspot.com/. Love their site!
    Thanks for the chance to win!

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  21. Michele H says…
    06/12/2011

    I can't wait for the Summer Card Camp! This blog always inspires me even though it's in another language but her cards speak for themselves! http://toni-inspiration.blogspot.com/

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  22. Suzanne B. says…
    06/12/2011

    Awesome giveaway! Something that's inspired me? Well, I just got the new Somerset Studio Gallery magazine and it's really inspired me. Lots of amazing eye candy!

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  23. Sarah K says…
    06/12/2011

    All the colors of spring inspire me. My roses are just starting to bloom.

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  24. Debbie S. says…
    06/12/2011

    I finished a scrapbook for my daughter's kindergarten teacher, and it was inspiring to me watching people look at it. I was reminded that a couple photos and even a few words can be felt by the "rememberer," and it made me so proud that I did the book. We want to feel our memories again, especially the memories of an all-too-quick kindergarten year and a child that just one year ago was so different than today.

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  25. Charity says…
    06/12/2011

    What awesome giveaways, both sound amazing! Thanks for a chance to win.

    This week I've found tons of inspiration at http://thismamamakesstuff.com/. The projects on her site (more sewing) are free, easy to follow along, and pertain to boys. I've found so many things I want to do and have even found myself picking up the items I need to get them done. I can't wait until later this week when I have time to try them out.

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