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 ENTEREDinto 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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Fabulous stuff here! :) Thank you AE Sponsors!
Favorite Christmas song? O Holy Night
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Silent Night !!! Thanks Ali for the chance....
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My all time favorite Christmas song (especially for kids) is "I'm Gettin' Nothin' for Christmas" I learned the words in Kindergarted 43 years ago and I have loved it ever since! Thanks for the chance to win such frantastic items!
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I love a Christmas album from a while ago, made by Amy Grant and Paul Simon. Can't remember the name, but it's great!
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Christmas on the block by Alan Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zCaUeiuSx0
It was recorded about 20 years ago and was written about a blind family in Upper Darby PA that were so into the Christmas spirit that they decorated their house so brightly that people would come from all around to see it - even though they could not!
Thanks! and Merry Christmas!
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My current favorite is Pat-A-Pan, with Carol of the Bells a close second.
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Little Drummer Boy is my all time favorite, I don't know if you have ever heard of Brenda White but I have a Christmas CD of hers and she signs it beautifully!!!!! Then it would have to be Baby It's Cold Outside. Thanks for the chance to win. This is a great kit, my sister and I would have so many laughs creating with this one.
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silent night is my all time favorite christmas song
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Chris Tomlin has a song called Joy To The World/ Unspeakable Joy http://www.amazon.com/Glory-Highest-Christmas-Songs-Worship/dp/B002MOWA9G/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1288812447&sr=8-7
That I just LOVE. It's of course, a very JOYFUL song that's so perfect for Christmas.
I would LOVE to win that Jessica Sprague prize as it's way past time I learned PSE.
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2 years ago, a job change required my husband and I to move away from all our family and friends. "I'll be home for Christmas" takes on a whole new meaning as we can always go home :(
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Mary's Song makes me cry
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Our favorite is Silent Night... since three months premature I have been kangarooing and singing Silent Night EVERY night of my son's life. He calls it a lullabye. I will never forget when he was six, at the Christmas service while listening to silent night... "he looked up, touch with emotion and said " they are singing a lullabye". Now 8 years later, I still tear up at the "Mother and Child" part. SLEEEEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE..............
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The Christmas Song! Thanks. Julie
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"I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus" is one of our very favorites.
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I love Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer! I so love the JS products/website/blog . . . I'm so hooked! Been participating for just a few months now - but absolutely love it and tell everyone I know about it. Hope I win a class!
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I love Silver Bells. Classic Christmas. I have a clear memory of singing it at a holiday concert in third grade. This one gets me every time I hear it. But hands-down my favorite holiday CD is Harry Connick Jr.! Thanks for the great giveaways Ali!
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Hi ali, my favorite holiday song is "Baby, It's Cold Outside"-- no matter who is singing it-- it always makes me smile. Please pick me for that BEAUTIFUL Cocoa Daisy kit!!! It's Lovely!!
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i do love the classic christmas carols, but my favorite has become hallelujah (light has come) by barlow girl.
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Chris Tomlin version of Angels We Have Heard On High...and Merry Christmas Baby with Gretchen Wilson and Elvis Presley...anything by Elvis really! Thanks for the chance to win these great giveaways!
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As a singer I absolutley adore all the old Christmas carols and can't wait to start singing them every year. O Holy Night is incredibly stirring when sung by a choir but please don't make me pick just one - also love Gabriel's Message; The Coventry Carol; Silent Night; A Christmas Lullaby.........for more "modern" music I really love Bing Crosby and Sting singing together The Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKTHvW2JcAA
Oooo I really want to get all my CD's out but I make myself wait until Dec 1.
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