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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.

 

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.

October 2010 Issue of the Artisan Notebook on Newstands Now!

It’s our first ever Photography themed issue and we have oodles of photo tutorials, challenges based on photos and special and regular contributors with articles on photography.

Meet Tina O’Flynn and her creative team of Creations by Tina Marie and also Kitty Chen who shares her photo secrets and photobooks. Julie Mead shares a fun tutorial on how to achieve a tilt-shift effect and Stacey Jewell Stahl writes her Portraits Plus article to include tips on portrait photography and a quick tutorial. Learn about using kits that contrast with your photos for maximum impact, and enjoy a tutorial by Debb Cozzi on how to effectively change your photos to black and white.

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

FREE GIFTS include: A Mini Kit from Dee Bee Designs, a layered template by Fiddle Dee Dee Designs and a mini-kit add-on by Creations by Tinamarie. Have fun shopping with coupons from Tina Marie, Fiddle Dee Designs and Sarah Barber Designs.

Here is a sneak peek at just a few of the features in this jam-packed issue (a total of 103 pages!):

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

August Issue of the Artisan Notebook Now Available!

This month our focus is on both The Art of Clustering and The Art of Minimalism. Learn design principles of both in style articles written by Debb Cozzi and Stacey Jewell Stahl. We focus on "Less is More" and "More is More" throughout all of our challenges: journaling, title, song lyrics, scraplift, recipe and color. Learn how to make a silhouette layout with photos in a tutorial. We round out our articles with Sarah Barber's Art Journal contribution, Mary Jameson's Heritage article, Susan Reynold's Lifelines article, Sheryl Cody's Project 365 photos, our Hot Trend and Happy Ending.

Meet Amanda Taylor of Taylormade Designs and her amazing creative team and peruse their beautiful minimalistic layouts.

COUPONS: 40% off Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs, 30% off Taylormade Designs, 25% off Sarah Barber Designs

FREE GIFTS: Template and quick page by Taylormade Designs, template by Fiddle-Dee-Dee Designs, kit by Dee Bee Designs.

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
My Life and Scrap
Natural Designs in Scrapbooking
Pickleberry Pop
Polka Dot Plum
Scrappity Doo-Dah
Sunshine Studio Scrap

July Issue of the Artisan Notebook is FILLED with Inspiration!

Text is a wonderful design element of our pages; both in content and appearance. Amazing titles add so much interest to our page, and meaningful journaling is fun to look at years later when the details get fuzzy. Stacey Jewell Stahl shares an in-depth article that is sure to inspire you in your journaling and Debb Cozzi has a feature that will help you create "Terrific Titles." Our Inspiration Station focus is on the art of title creation and journaling. In addition, we have several art journal pages for you to nudge you to begin your own art journal as an expression of your creativity. We are very excited to add a new team of artists and a new feature article, "Live the Lyrics." Our Song Writers team will inspire you to express yourself in song lyrics combined with amazing layouts. As always, our regular features include "Recipe for Design" "Making Headlines" "Sarah Barber's Artistic Journey" our color article, "Pigment of Your Imagination" our "Just Write" Challenge, photo clinics and our heritage features with Susan Reynold's "Life Lines" and Mary Jameson's "Linens, Lace & Legacy." We are also pleased to feature designer Audrey Neal and her very talented creative team.

Designers Audrey Neal, Sarah Barber and Fiddle Dee Dee all provide our readers with exclusive store discounts for their products.

The FREE Gifts this month include a mini kit and word art set by Guild designer Dee Bee Designs and a FREE template by Fiddle Dee Dee Designs.

Purchase Information:
1) You can purchase a 3-month Guild Membership (Normally $15.00 on sale this weekend for just $12.00) 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 ($3.50) 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
Scrap Orchard
Scrappity Doo-Dah
Sunshine Studio Scrap

May Issue of Artisan Notebook Available May 1!

A favorite digital scrapping technique is the use of extracted photos and this month we celebration EXCITING EXTRACTIONS. From fantasy layouts to out of bounds to combination layouts, we have incredible layouts to inspire you.

This month meet the talented Sylvie of Sausan Designs and learn from the master of extractions, Miss Behaving, in her multi-page tutorial. Enjoy a tutorial on duotones by co-editor Amy Head and an amazing tutorial using the pen tool by Julie Mead. We have two tutorials from our editor, Stacey Jewell Stahl – one that includes a free gift and another that gives step-by-step instructions on creating a digital pop-up book complete with tips on perspective shadowing.

Our challenges this month include: Just Write (journaling), Making Headlines (title), Pigment of your Imagination (color), Scraplift Tag (paper to digi) and Recipe for Design (photo/layout challenge). Our creative teams rocked their extractions in all of these while focusing on the theme of the challenge.

Sarah Barber is back with another article on Artist Trading Cards and Mary Jamieson provides another Memory Jog for your album. Our hybrid project is wonderful, and so are all of the exciting layouts in our Inspiration Station article. This month is the final Stretch A Sketch article by the talented ChrissyW. We wrap up our coverage of the Amazing Digi Scrap Race – Season 5.

Our photography section includes Project 365 photos, a fun photo chain, a fun twist in Nancy Morin’s Photo Clinic and portrait tips in our Portraits Plus article.

GOODIES: Sarah Barber provides a coupon for a May purchase, Stacey Jewell Stahl provides a background paper for her tutorial and Dee Bee Designs gives our readers a mini kit.

Sample layouts made with this kit:

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:

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

April Issue of the Artisan Notebook Now Available

We love every issue of the Artisan Notebook but the April issue is especially "WOW-worthy!" With more than 90 pages this is our largest issue ever and it is jam-packed with inspirational layouts, tutorials and a very cool FREE Kit! All this is yours for JUST $3.50!

April's theme is POP ART, a style of scrapping that provides many people with opportunities to stretch and try new techniques. This issue is jammed with tutorials on how to create amazing contemporary pop art from our regular columnists and creative team members. You will be amazed at the work our teams have done to inspire you to stretch!

Julie Mead provides a tutorial on creating pop art dots, Stacey Jewell Stahl has two tutorials - one on creating a beloved pop art CD cover by Elton John and the other an all-digital 3D pop art book. Amy Head's first tutorial will teach you how to make your favorite photo into pop art, and her second will teach you to make an incredible graphic style pop art layout.

Meet Sarah Barber as she begins a monthly column on altered art and vintage layouts and get to know our featured designer, Ashalee Wall and her amazing creative team. Ashalee offers readers a coupon good through June 30, 2010.

Mary Jameson provides another Memory Jog for her album for her granddaughter, and Susan Reynolds gives us a history of Pop Art and how to apply that information to our heritage layouts. Play Photo Tag with the Guild Creative Team members. Be inspired by our Just Write feature and our new Making Headlines feature for your title work and journaling. This month's spotlight color is Aqua, and Chrissy W's sketch invites you to make a page about someone you love. Tina O'Flynn has made an adorable hybrid project for us, and our featured Recipe for Design has some incredible comic book layouts. Beautiful flowers and colors abound in the paper layout that is scraplifted by our creative team, and rev up your engines for part 2 of 3 in our feature of The Amazing DigiScrap Race - Season 5.

Try your hand at pop art layouts with our incredible free gift, Pop Art Palooza, by Guild Designers, Dee Bee Designs, Amy Head and Stacey Jewell Stahl.

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:

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

March Issue of the Artisan Notebook Now Available

March is the end of Winter and the beginning of Spring, and the Artisan Notebook is here to bring you a touch of both seasons! Whether the layouts be brimming with snowflakes and swelling with flowers, each and every layout will inspire you with unique ways to enhance your own pages. Our theme this month is Brushes & Overlays and our pages are just overflowing with new ideas, fun techniques and striking designs. Our featured designer this month is a true treasure in the digital scrapbooking world, ScrapShana.

We welcome Lisa Carter with her amazing tutorial on how to create your very own brushes in Photoshop. Julie Mead is back with us again with her article about grunging up your photos, it truly is a must read that will get you hopping for Easter! Our Design Chefs have cooked up a fun recipe for a little Hand Jive, and our Color Cuties have gone "down town" with rich brown in their Pigment of Your Imagination layouts. "Just Write" this month is getting in trouble! Play Scraplift Tag with inspiration from a beautiful paper layout by Stacy Cohen. Inspiration Station will certainly not have you brushing over the pages, or will it? Our Hybrid Corner project is beautiful home decor item to show off your layouts, and ChrissyW's sketch is so versatile for any themed layout. Our heritage articles include a lesson on keeping clean and mothering throughout the times. We take a look at the Amazing Digi-Scrap Race in its fifth run! As always, we have our Hot Trend and Happy Ending. Our photography articles include Photo Clinic where Nancy asks, "What inspires you," and Portraits Plus talks about Blending.

The FREE Gifts include a clustered frame and word art set and a set of two Ready Made Pages (tm) all created by Dee Bee Designs.

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:

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

February Issue of the Artisan Notebook Features "Fun & Games"

February is a season of love and we have some "love"ly layouts in this issue, but this month at The Artisan Notebook we are also focusing on FUN & GAMES! This issue is jam-packed with layouts featuring stories of board games, sports, dress up, puzzles, game shows and family game time. Our featured designer is the talented and whimsical Jen Yurko. We welcome back former regular contributor Tracy Little in a special article she wrote on her process for creating a sports album for her son's rowing season and show you her favorite pages from the album. The very creative Julie Mead provides a fun tutorial on creating a Superman layout and a Tender Rose layout. Our Design Chefs have cooked up a fun recipe for Love, and our Color Cuties have used the classic combination of black and white in their Pigment of Your Imagination layouts. "Just Write" a layout with a candy theme. play Scraplift Tag with inspiration from a beautiful paper layout and enjoy all of the fun and games in our Inspiration Station. Our Hybrid Corner project is great for little kids on long trips, and ChrissyW's sketch is great for a Project 365 week-in-the life layout. Our heritage articles include a lesson on vintage toys and free word art for a Valentine's card. As always, we have our Hot Trend and Happy ending.

Our photography articles include Photo Clinic (kid-friendly cameras), Portraits Plus (motion blur), Project 365 (everyday inspiration).

The FREE Gifts include a lovely frame set and a Ready Made Page (tm) created by Artisan Notebook editor Stacey Jewell Stahl as well as a layered template created by Guild designer Becky Cutshaw:

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:

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