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Come Chat with Featured Designer Valorie Wibbens

Everybody attending tonight's chat will receive this FREE Gift:

We will also be offering a 20% discount on our 3-month Guild membership and memberhsip renewals during the chat ONLY.

A "Look Back" Sale on the September 2009 Artisan Notebook (tm)

We offer you an opportunity to take a "look back" at what the Artisan Notebook was up to a year ago this month by offering a 20% discount on the September 2009 issue. Normally $3.50 now you can get this back issue for JUST $2.80. Here is a look at what is included in this issue:

Before and After" is the theme of this month's Artisan Notebook, and we showcase several "Before" layouts and the revisions and "After" layout. In addition, the layout artist shares what design principles she learned along the way from her coach.

 

Our designer spotlight is on Sine and she shares her love of layered templates with us. Our own Becky Cutshaw is interviewed and she has a lovely layered template as a gift for our readers.

 

Our new first feature this month is Organize U, an article that shows us how to organize our digital files for maximum efficiency. You'll love what we've cooked up in our second new feature, Recipe For Design, and what our Design Chefs have created to inspire you. Two hybrid projects and several hybrid cards are featured in our Hybrid Corner article, and as always we have our Photo Editing tutorial by Julie Mead and our Portraits Plus article that focuses on portraits photography and a tutorial on creating a unique layout. Enjoy our Project 365 journey, the Hot Trend, our Photo Clinic, Stretch a Sketch, heritage scrapping with Lifelines, and a Happy Ending. 

Our other free gift to our readers is a beautiful mini kit by Dee Bee Designs.

Here is a sneak peek at just a few of the articles included in this issue:

The Artisan Notebook is available at 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

The Guild Encore kit, "Best Laid Plans" is featured in the September 2009 issue. We are offering a 20% discount on this kit:

Guild Encore kits are available at these fine stores:

E-Scape and Scrap

NDISB

Pickleberry Pop

September Inspiration Challenges Posted at the Guild

We invite you to join us for some fun inspiration challenges based on the gifts and articles in the September 2010 issue of the Artisan Notebook. Participation in these challenges includes discount coupons and FREE Gifts!

Photo Editing Challenges

In the September issue of the Artisan Notebook I share an article on using Adobe's Camera Raw to edit your photos:

Julie Mead shares a tutorial on how to use your photo-editing program to give your portraits a fashion look.

Our challenge to you is to use on of the articles to edit one of your photos. Show us the before and after photo and then use the after photo in a layout. Post the before & after photos and your finished layout to the Artisan Notebook Challenge gallery and link the post in this thread.

Everybody who participates in this challenge will receive their choice of a FREE issue of any one back issue of the Artisan Notebook.

The Artisan Notebook is available at 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

September Issue of the Artisan Notebook

We had so much fun putting this issue together that we didn’t stop with ONE theme – we have three: Home, garden and fashion!

Have fun completing Julie Mead’s High Fashion Tutorial and Sheri Malcolm’s tutorial of a high-fashion style layout. Meet Ruth Jackson and her two daughters as they journeyed on their own “Eat, Pray and Love” trip to the Mediterranean.

Enjoy the fun challenges and see each of our creative team member’s take on each of them: journaling, title, song lyric, color, scraplift and Recipe for Design. As always we have our Project 365, Photo Clinic and Portraits Plus articles to stretch your photography skills. Debb Cozzi shares a tutorial on how to use Adobe Camera Raw to edit your photos. You’ll love the template that Cheryl Ashcraft provides our readers and see her creative team use it in a variety of ways. Sarah Barber shows off her amazing painting skills in her art journaling article.

Meet Valorie Wibbens and get to know her and her creative team.

Free Gifts this month include Cheryl's template, a Ready Made Album and a fun "bits and pieces" element set by Dee Bee Designs. Exclusive discount coupons are also available from Cheryl Ashcraft, Sarah Barber, Valorie Wibbens and Creations by Tinamarie.

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

Here is a sneak peek at just a few of the articles included in this issue. (Please note the text has been deliberatly blurred to protect content.)