Hi everyone! Tena Sprenger here, and I have some really good news. I get to teach summer school again at Big Picture Scrapbooking - the good kind of summer school! We're teaching 52 Card Pick Up again, just like we did last summer. So, I'm so excited! It was such a blast.

For those of you who aren't familiar with 52 Card Pick Up, it's a great class for those of you who would like to learn a lot of fun techniques without a lot of stress, and really sort of build up your crafting arsenal.

The way the class works is we create a little card deck that hangs on a 2-inch hinge ring, and for 10 weeks, Monday through Friday, you get a fun creativity jump start e-mail from me in the morning that shares a mini handout on how to create a technique. It shows you my example of the technique, and gives you a supply list, which are usually things you have pretty readily available on hand, and shows you how to create the technique. So, every day of the week, Monday through Friday, you get to try out a new technique and create a mini project. Doesn't that sound like fun? And it's so doable. Most of the projects that we do you can do in an hour or an hour and a half. If you're super busy that day, save them up and do them on the weekend. If you go on vacation, no sweat! Catch up on them when you come home. It's a non-stressful, super fun way to recharge your creative batteries over the summer and build up a reference card deck that you can hang on your scrapbooking bulletin board and refer to year around. Students from last year's class have e-mailed me so many times and told me, "Tena, I love my 52 Card Pick Up deck. It's always on my scrapbook bag, it's always on my bulletin board. I pop it out, and when I can't remember how to do one of the techniques we learned, I look on the back of my tag and I've got the instructions."

So, if you are looking for a class with a lot of inspiration, a lot of great camaraderie and a lot of technique, please come join me this summer. It's going to be a blast - 52 Card Pick Up coming soon to Big Picture Scrapbooking. I would love to have you in class. I'll be talking to you soon. This is Tena Sprenger signing off!