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Meet Spotlight Designer Flergs at Thursday's Chat

Everybody attending the chat will receive this FREE Gift from Guild Designer Dee Bee Designs:

Publication Call: Looking for Hybrid Project Team Members

January Contests and Challenges from The Artisan Notebook

The Artisan Notebook has joined with this month's featured site, "E-scape and Scrap" to offer you some fun challenges and contests giving you a chance to win some great prizes!

Details of Scrapped Contest:

Term: January 1 through January 31, 2011

How to Enter: Download the ESS kit posted in the January 2011 issue of the Artisan Notebook. Create a layout utilizing every element in the kit. Modified elements must include a description. You may use additional elements or backgrounds from other kits. Photos used in layout must be your own (no stock photos allowed). Layouts must be posted in BOTH the E-Scape and Scrap gallery and the Artisan Notebook Gallery by 10:00 PM PST on January 31, 2011.

Contest Prizes: 1st Place:  $25.00 Gift Certificate at EscapeAndScrap.net, 2nd and 3rd Place: $5.00 Gift Certificate at EscapeAndScrap.net

Judging: Will be done by the designers at E-scape and Scrap based upon excellance of concept and execution as determined by the designers. Decisions of the designers are final and binding.

Winners List: Will be published in a future issue of the Artisan Notebook

Creative Team members of the E-scape and Scrap are not eligible to win, but may participate in the challenge.

Details of One Word Photo Contest:

Term: Take a photo between January 1 and Janaury 31 based on the word "Kindred"

How to Enter: Post the photo in the Artisan Notebook One Word Photo Contest Gallery by 10:00 PM PST on Janaury 31, 2011

Contest Prize: 1 $20.00 Gift Certificat to the Nifty Boutique at EscapeAndScrap.net

Judging: Will be done by the editor's of The Artisan Notebook based upon excellance of photo and concept as determined by the editors. Decisions of the Artisan Notebook Editors are final and binding.

Winners List: Will be published in a future issue of the Artisan Notebook

Creative Team members of the Artisan Notebook and Digital Scrapbook Artisan Guild are not eligible to win, but may participate in the challenge.

Limitation of Liability: By entering these contests, all entrants agree to release, discharge, and hold harmless The Artisan Notebook, Digital Scrapbook Artisan Guild, and MG Cozzi, Inc, Julie Mead, E-scape and Scrap its agents, employees, designers, and representatives from any claims, losses, and damages arising out of their participation in this contest or any contest-related activities and the acceptance and use, misuse, or possession of any prize awarded hereunder. The Artisan Notebook, Digital Scrapbook Artisan Guild and MG Cozzi,  Inc, Julie Mead, E-scape and Scrap assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, or delay or any combination thereof, as related to this contest.

By entering this contest, the entrant hereby grants to The Artisan Notebook, Digital Scrapbook Artisan Guild and MG Cozzi Inc a nonexclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute and publicly display the photographs submitted to The Artisan Notebook, Digital Scrapbook Artisan Guild and MG Cozzi, Inc.; with the right to use your name and photographs in any online promotions and/or print publications.

January 2011 Issue of the Artisan Notebook On Newstands Now

 

Our theme for January 2011 is HERITAGE, but our creative team members, guest layout artists and designer creative team members have provided inspiration for you that is relevant for your scrapping today.

January 2011 introduces five new features:

1. Site Spotlight - Meet the designers at E-scape and Scrap and participate in a couple of challenges for your chance to win valuable gift certificates. Details posted in the magazine.

2. Grow With Love: The Letters - Sara Gleason and Crystal Livesay have joined us to showcase their new challenge for 2011 that will provide so much meaning in your scrapbook.

3. Art Journal Caravan with Tangie Baxter - If you have followed Tangie's work in 2010, you will love her supplemental teaching in her new monthly article with us!

4. LifeBook Challenge with Vicky Pasterick - Join Victorian Rose Designs to begin an amazing challenge that will last all year and give you a very special album when you have completed her challenges.

5. The DigiDares are now being featured in our magazine, and we are thrilled to showcase special layouts by layout artists that dare to follow along!

As always, we have our Designer Spotlight, and this month RANDI OH has provided you with amazing inspiration from her creative team, plus previews of her beautiful products in addition to an exclusive FREE GIFT, a kit aptly called Cherish.

Each of our monthly challenges focuses on our Heritage theme, but sometimes with a twist! Enjoy our title challenge, our journaling challenge, our Recipe for Design challenge, a song lyric challenge, a color challenge and a hybrid project challenge.

Our Scraplift feature has been updated, and this month we are lifting a gorgeous design by Crystal Livesay. Cheryl Ashcraft of Fiddle Dee Dee Designs provides our readers with a template that has a contemporary spin on a family tree.

We have over 80 of inspiration for you, plus several FREE Gifts: Mini kit by Dee Bee Designs, Mini kit by Randi Oh, Mini kit by the designs at E-scape and Scrap, Layered Template by Fiddle Dee Dee Designs and a FREE sample background by Studio Tangie.

Purchase Information:

1) You can purchase a 3-month Guild Membership ($15.00) which includes BOTH the Artisan Notebook as well as the monthly Guild kit. Details can be found here.

2) You can purchase a 3-month stand-alone magazine subscription ($8.00). Details can be found here.


3) Single Issues of the magazine may be purchased at any of these fine stores:
Digiridoo Scraps
E-Scape And Scrap
My Life and Scrap
Natural Designs in Scrapbooking
Pickleberry Pop
Scrappity Doo-Dah
Sunshine Studio Scrap

Here is a sneak peek at just a few of the articles:

December Issue of the Artisan Notebook Now Available

Whatever your faith, December remains the "holiday" month of the year. Whether you are celebrating Christmas or Chanukah or Kwanza it is a time when families gather together, share traditions, exchange gifts and take the time to let people know how much they matter. Our December issue takes an in-depth look at different ways to scrap your holidays. We have our regular features: Hot Trends, Inspiration Station, Portraits Plus, Sheryl Cody's Project 365, Scraplift Tag, Recipe for Design and many more. In addition we have some wonderful hybrid projects to inspire you in your gift giving. We are thrilled to announce that Flergs is our spotlight designer this month.

To reflect the generosity of the season we have several FREE gifts that come with this issue: Flergs has created a beautiful Christmas mini kit, Dee Bee Designs shares a "Christmas Comfort" mini kit and an bonus photo mask and cluster element and Fiddle Dee Dee Designs brings us another wonderful layout template as part of her Template Challenge feature. (FREE Gifts valued at over $12.00)

 

 

 

 
Purchase Information:

1) You can purchase a 3-month Guild Membership ($15.00) which includes BOTH the Artisan Notebook as well as the monthly Guild kit. Details can be found here.

2) You can purchase a 3-month stand-alone magazine subscription ($8.00). Details can be found here.

3) Single Issues of the magazine may be purchased at any of these fine stores:
Digiridoo Scraps
E-Scape And Scrap
My Life and Scrap
Natural Designs in Scrapbooking
Pickleberry Pop
Polka Dot Plum
Scrappity Doo-Dah
Sunshine Studio Scrap

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our readers and members for their support throughout the year. May you all have a blessed and joyful holiday season.

 

A Note about the December 2010 Issue of the Artisan Notebook

To all of our readers and faithful subscribers....We want to thank you so much for your continued support and enthusiasm for our magazine. Due to some unexpected technical difficulties our December issue is going to be delayed for a few days. Please be assured that we are working diligently behind the scenes to put the finishing touches on this wonderful issue. We anticipate that the release date will be Friday, December 3rd. We apologize for this delay and thank you so much for your patience.

Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale 40% Off Individual Issues and Special Bundles

To help kick off the holiday shopping season we are offering 40% off all individual issues of the Artisan Notebook as well as on our bundled specials. Each issue of the magazine is jam packed with inspirational ideas, tutorials and challenges. In addition every issue offers at least one free gift. Many of the issues include free templates, mini kits and gifts from featured designers. Don't miss out on this opportunity to stock up on inspiration!

We have put together three new bundles:

January-April 2010 Bundle: A $14.00 value with an additional $14.25 worth of free gifts all for just $6.30

May-August 2010 Bundle: A $14.00 value with an additional $19.00 worth of free gifts all for just $6.30

August-November 2010 Bundle: A $14.00 value with an additional $27.00 worth of free gifts all for just $6.30

The Aritsan Notebook is available at these fine digital scrapbook stores:

Digiridoo Scraps
E-Scape And Scrap
My Life and Scrap
Natural Designs in Scrapbooking
Pickleberry Pop
Polka Dot Plum
Scrappity Doo-Dah
Sunshine Studio Scrap

Meet Designer Shabby Miss Jenn!

Everybody attending the chat will receive this FREE Gift from Guild Designer Dee Bee Designs:

(Ready-made layouts created with the November 2010 Guild Kit, "A Few of My Favorite Things" available with Guild Membership and Dee Bee Design's mini kit, "Lavender Mist" available as a Free Gift with the November issue of the Artisan Notebook.)

November Issue of the Artisan Notebook on Newstands Now

This month our special focus is taking a look at the many ways that we go about scrapping, "Our Favorite Things." Our challenges and regular features all take this idea as their theme.

Meet Shabby Miss Jenn and her creative team in this issue. Julie Mead shares a very original photo tutorial, Stacey Jewell Stahl writes her Portraits Plus article and also shares a special photography features on how to pose your subjects for terrific portrait shots. Debb Cozzi shares an article analyzing some of the emerging trends in digital scrapbooking and explores the design principles that make those trends work. We feature a series of "essential" products and creative ways to use them to expand your scrapping repertoire.

Our monthly challenges include a title challenge, journaling challenge, color challenge, scraplift challenge, and more.

Free Gifts include a beautiful mini kit designed by Dee Bee Designs, A wonderful quick page by Shabby Miss Jenn and as always a fantastic template from Fiddle Dee Dee designs.

FREE Gift for Everybody Who Attends Tonight's Chat

Joining us at our chat tonight to meet designer Tina Marie. All attendees will receive this FREE Ready Made (tm) Album created by Dee Bee Designs using her mini kit, "Moody Mornings." The kit is available as a FREE Gift with the October issue of the Artisan Notebook.