Sponsor Giveaways | JessicaSprague.com, Cocoa Daisy, Willette Designs

Three people will receive a "Storyteller's Toolkit" from JessicaSprague.com. The "Storyteller's Toolkit" includes free tuition to a beginning photo editing class ("Good-to-Great Workflow") and a free copy of Jessica's new personal/family history book, Stories in Hand.

JessicaSprague.com offers online classes and products designed to help crafters use their computers to tell their stories. From photo editing, to digital and hybrid scrapbooking, from beginner through professional level, Jessica is your guide in both technique and inspiration for personal and family history.

As a special bonus, Jessica is offering a FREE online class called Inspiration Everywhere, starting on November 29. This class is open to all creative souls, and will help us capture and organize the inspiration we find as we're going about our regular life. No digital/Photoshop skill is required for this class - just a desire to join a few thousand fellow crafters on a journey of inspiration!

Visit Jessica's family of sites:
JessicaSprague.com
Storiesinhand.com | home of the Stories in Hand book
DigiLovely.com | daily digital inspiration
MousePaperLovely.com | daily hybrid inspiration

One person will receive Countdown To Christmas kit from Cocoa Daisy.

Cocoa Daisy is a monthly scrapbooking kit club that will fit all your creative needs. We offer monthly subscriptions as well as one time purchases. Aside from our main kit this month we are offering a special "Countdown to Christmas" project kit. This kit features an 8x8 album from 7 gypsies, a beautiful mix of papers and embellishments from Basic Grey, Making Memories, Fancy Pants, Jenni Bowlin and Hambly just to name a few.

Two people will receive a spot in the brand new finding the HOLIDAY joy class at Willette Designs.

woo hoo! be the first to sign up for finding the HOLIDAY joy and learn how to get ROCKIN’ photos this holiday season.

this is a two week mini e-journey (an online photography class) that continues with the original “finding the joy” class concepts (it is not necessary for you to have taken the other classes). lessons for this class will be posted on line in a forum setting and will consist of tutorials (written and video), downloads, shot lists, how-to set up shots to best capture your holiday festivities, a calendar to help you make sure you best capture your holidays on “film.”

class begins november 26th and continues until december 10th - with a timeline and calendar to help you continue through christmas. class concludes with a 10×10 coffee table album template for you to compile all of your gorgeous photos. the class fee is $50.

this is a self-paced class with no deadlines, and the class forum will be available until March 2011 for you to refer back to.

recommended materials:


  • camera (p+s or dslr),

  • tripod (not required)

  • photoshop elements or photoshop (you can download a free trial version on line) (but this is NOT required)

  • if you have a dslr, then i recommend a prime lens such as: 30mm 2.0 or 35mm 2.0 or 50mm 1.4 or 50mm 1.8 (but this is NOT required)

  • you will leave this holiday season with TONS of awesome photos of your family’s celebration!


a welcome packet will be emailed out to you the week before Thanksgiving to help you get ready, and the first lesson will arrive in your email inbox the morning after Thanksgiving

sign up here: this is one online photo course you do NOT want to miss!


TO BE ENTERED into this giveaway please leave a comment below sharing your favorite holiday song (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 winners 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. Have a great weekend!

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  1. Ang says…
    11/21/2010

    Come on Ring Those Bells
    This song has been special to me since I was very young.

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  2. Laura L says…
    11/21/2010

    Well, I don't know that I have one favorite Christmas song, but one of the top ones would be I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.

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  3. peggy says…
    11/21/2010

    roger whitaker christmas! non traditional as well as traditional songs. first one i listen to each season. Mama Mary is one of my favorites. it's on vinyl!:-)

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  4. Liz Oram says…
    11/21/2010

    I love the soundtrack to Elf

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  5. Catherin G. says…
    11/21/2010

    What Child Is This might very well be my favorite. I am a sucker for Greensleaves apparently.

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  6. Kim (Cocoa) says…
    11/21/2010

    Oh Holy Night by anyone is the favorite at our house. Reminds us of Christmas Eve midnight mass.

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  7. Phyllis says…
    11/21/2010

    Carol of the Bells - love it being sung or instrumental.

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  8. Samantha F says…
    11/21/2010

    I love so many! Silver Bells ~ I'll be Home for Christmas gets me too emotional but I love it! Thanks for another awesome drawing! Happy Thanksgiving!

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  9. Amy says…
    11/21/2010

    O Holy night is one of my favorites11 Thanks for the chance Ali

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  10. Rheanne says…
    11/21/2010

    what great giveaways. this is great season that I love to tell stories about. The album that starts and ends my season is Kenny G's Faith

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  11. Sally Manlove says…
    11/21/2010

    Thanks Ali!

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  12. alise says…
    11/21/2010

    I love any song by Johnny Mathis.....thanks for the chance to win and Happy Thanksgiving.

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  13. Olessya says…
    11/21/2010

    Let It Snow & Christmas Wonderland alwas make me feel christmasy :)

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  14. Jill S. says…
    11/21/2010

    Great giveaways as usual...My two favorite Christmas songs are Angels We Have Heard on High and A Baby Changes Everything

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  15. Mel says…
    11/21/2010

    Fab prizes - especially the Cocoa Daisy kit, YUM!

    I absolutely love Oh Holy Night :) The church choir I'm in each Christmas is singing it this year, and I'm SO happy about that!!

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  16. jackie v says…
    11/21/2010

    My favorite holiday song is most definitely... O Holy Night by Josh Groban. His voice is so strong and powerful in it. It's amazing :D

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  17. DebbieL says…
    11/21/2010

    I love the Christmas Canon song.

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  18. Jana says…
    11/21/2010

    Love singing Silent Night in harmony with my daughter... Thanks Ali!

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  19. Sarah says…
    11/21/2010

    My favorite carol is "O Holy Night". But, my kids and I LOVE Aly and AJ's "It's the Greatest Time of Year" that song makes us dance all around the house! One of our local radio stations started playing all christmas music November 1(till Christmas)...which seemed early, but it didn't take long for us to LOVE it. Thanks Ali!

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  20. Tiffany says…
    11/21/2010

    My favorite song is O Holy Night, can just picture listening to is sipping some hot cocoa!

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  21. Sue I says…
    11/21/2010

    Grandma got run over by a reindeer makes me laugh every time I hear it. I can not wait until Dev to take out my Christmas music. I have 2 favs - Christmas in Manhattan and Harry Connick Jr. Christmas albumn.

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  22. suzann Northup says…
    11/21/2010

    Sleigh ride!! I love it or baby it's cold outside.

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  23. Helene says…
    11/21/2010

    My favorite is O holy night.

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  24. Skrapkitty says…
    11/21/2010

    I have not made it through a holiday season yet without shedding tears over "O Holy Night". This song just seems to sum up every emotion about the joyous and humble birth of our savior - the true spirit of Christmas Eve is wrapped up like a little package in its verses.

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  25. Lori Saoud says…
    11/21/2010

    Definitely "Oh Holy Night", brings tears to my eyes every time.

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