Learn It. Make It. Love It.

Isn't Crafty's tagline perfect for those of us who love crafting and learning new things: Learn It, Make It, Love It.  I'm excited because Craftsy is having a flash sale this weekend where they are offering up to 50% off many of their classes.

My Fast & Fun Scrapbooking Class and my Standout Titles and Creative Journaling Class are both included in the sale!

There are so many other classes that look inspiring. Here's a look at a few that look fantastic to me:

Travel Scrapbooking with Amy Tan

Scrapbook Design and Storytelling with Jen Gallacher

Sweet and Savory Food Gifts with Diana Morgan

Thank You Cards with Kimber McGray

Food Photography with Andrew Scrivani

Okay, there's my list of top class picks. I'm excited to choose a class and learn something.

Teaching at Craftsy was a highlight of last year. I love getting to share my memory keep passion with others!

Fast and Fun Scrapbooking @ Craftsy

Today my third Crafty class went live! I had such a great time flying to Denver in December to do the filming for this class. (You can read about my trip to Craftsy HERE.)

One thing I hear from people about not scrapbooking is that they just don't have time. Have you ever heard that or felt that way? That's why I developed this Fast and Fun Scrapbooking Class for Craftsy!

I share lots of great tips and tricks for streamlining the scrapbooking process and we also make a lot of layouts in the class. It's all about keeping the process simple while working in special and creative touches along the way.

You can check out a preview video for the class HERE.

You can checkout the class HERE. This link will give a $15 discount on the class. Sweet!

One of my favorite things about Craftsy classes is that they are video based and I can stop, rewind and watch on my own schedule. I've signed up for a few classes (card making, cupcake decorating and a food photography class) and I'm enjoying taking my time working through the classes.

I hope you'll take a minute and stop by and see what my class is all about. Enjoy the day!

Craftsy Class Giveaway!

Happy Friday! Hope your day is fun filled and productive. I'm working though my do to list and almost have everything marked off. Maybe there will even be a little time for some scrapbooking this afternoon.

I was just looking back through some photos and thought about how I seriously had so much fun in the fall creating all of the class content for my Creative Titles and Journaling Class for Craftsy. I feel like I haven't done a very good job sharing that with you, so I thought I should offer a class giveaway today on Instagram.

Over on the Scrapbook Circle Instagram feed (scrapbook_circle) we are giving away two spots in my class. You just tag your friends and then you and your friend and entered to and to take the class together. I thought it would be more exciting to have a friend along for the fun.

I guess I haven't mentioned a lot about the class because I definitely don't want to feel like I'm selling you something! But, I really do love everything that I created for the class - it really pushed me creatively and I'm so excited to have an outlet for helping people tell their stories.

Hope you'll stop by and enter the giveaway! You can check out the class HERE. The link will give you $15 off of the class if you are interested in signing up. We create a lot of layouts in the class with a focus on how the titles and journaling can help you tell your most important stories.

Please let me know if you have any questions about the class or the giveaway! Enjoy your weekend.

A Little MIA Thanks to Crafsty

Side note: My first Craftsy class, Creative Titles and Journaling, just launched this week. Use this link and take $15 off of the class.

Oh my goodness. I can't believe how neglectful I've been of this blog of mine. I love blogging and have really missed it, but with all of the demands on my time lately, something had to give and unfortunately one of those things was this blog. What have I been up to? One of my main time focuses has been prepping another class for Craftsy.

What is Craftsy? It's a super cool online crafting education site that creates video lessons on all sorts of topics ranging from cake decorating to quilting to gardening and woodworking. Of course, they have a paper crafting section too. I feel so blessed that they've asked me to teach about recording and telling our stories through scrapbooking.

The week after I returned home in October from filming my first two Craftsy classes, they called and asked if I'd be interested in coming back and teaching December 17 -19. Talk about a crazy time to leave, but I didn't want to pass up the opportunity. So I just wrapped up three really fantastic days in Denver filming another class.

We starting setting up the studio mid morning on Wednesday and then after lunch we started shooting the class. Side note: Craftsy truly spoils their instructors with a buffet breakfast at the hotel each morning and catered lunches at the studio each day. Oh, and they have a lot of chocolate around just in case a little treat is needed at any time throughout the day.

Before starting the first lesson of the class, I had to snap a selfie on the set.  We had a super productive afternoon and filmed 3 lessons when were were only slated to do two. Head start for the next day!

After an afternoon of shooting lessons, I meet up with three other instuctors who were also in studios filming classes this week and we took a short walk to Larimer Square and ate at a fantastic Mexican Restaurant.  It was great to get to chat with other instructors and make new friends.

Before heading out to dinner I had to bundle up and of course, I had to take a picture documenting that I had bundled up for the cold weather since it's not something that I usually get to do at home.

After fueling up at the hotel breakfast buffet with the other Craftsy instructors, we were picked up by our make up and hair stylist and we were off the the studios.

We filmed three more lessons yesterday and then wrapped early and decided to save the last lesson for this morning. We had to have some work left for today!

With my free afternoon, I spent a couple of hours at the Denver Art Museum. They have a fantastic special exhibit right now with Cartier Jewelry and that was definitely a highlight of my museum visit. The jewels were amazing, but I couldn't imagine ever really wearing most of them. I loved viewing jewelry as art!

I was dropped off at the museum right from Craftsy, so I didn't have a chance to change into my warm boots before trekking around downtown. You think these flats were warm enough? Ha! I found one small patch of snow, but luckily there wasn't snow anywhere else.

Last night I meet up with another Craftsy instructor for dinner and then headed off on a little walk (in my warm boots!) to a movie theater to see Hunger Games. A museum and a movie in one day. What a treat! Downtown at lit up beautifully.

Today it was back to the studio to finish up the last lesson for the class and we also took a bunch of photos of layouts and cleaned everything up. Just to be sure we were eating enough, they had homemade pop tarts for us for breakfast.

My team of producers, cameraman and tech guy were all so encouraging and kind. They love what they do and it really shows.

This was such a fantastic experience! It is so cool that I get to combine my love for teaching with my passion for scrapbooking. Can't wait to have my class launch in a couple of month!

Craftsy Class Giveaway!

A few weeks ago I flew to Denver to work with Craftsy videoing an online crafting education class. The class is all about creative titles and journaling techniques that can make story telling on your layouts more meaningful.

It was a seriously exciting week and I'm excited that the class will be ready to roll later this month.

To celebrate the upcoming class launch, I'm giving away a class to one lucky winner. Just go here to enter.

I spent weeks prepping for the class creating may new layouts that featured techniques and ideas that I was excited to share and teach in the class. Once I was there, it was so much fun having hair and makeup done, getting to have my own dressing room (there was even a star on the door!) The best part was finally getting to share my ideas and layouts on screen.

Of course, I'll share here once the class goes live, but for now please be sure to enter the giveaway for free enrollment in the class. 

Craftsy > Here I Come!

This blog space has been quite neglected for a few weeks. It certainly wasn’t intentional, but my time has been pulled to other places lately. My biggest project has been doing class prep for two Crafty classes that I will be filming for four days this week. Now that the work is finished and I’m on a plane to Denver, there is finally time to blog.

Have you heard of Craftsy? I’d heard of it, but hadn’t spent much time of the site until recently. It’s an online crafting education website filled with inspiring classes on all sorts of crafts such as quilting, sewing, photography, jewelry, woodworking, gardening, cake decorating and more. They have done a few paper crafting classes and plan on adding more. I'm excited to be part of their paper crafting class expansion.

I was contacted a couple of months ago by Cratfy to see if I would be interested in working on two upcoming classes for them. It was a great opportunity that I couldn’t pass up! I’ve worked on class outlines, materials and lots of demos and it’s all finally prepped and ready. I’ll be in the filming room at the Craftsy Studios in Denver for the rest of this week. Wish me luck!

Here’s a little peek at some of the pages I’ve been creating for the class.

Want to follow along with me on this adventure this week? I’ll be posting updates to my Instagram account (lisaandrewsaz) and I can’t wait to report back on how the week goes.