Hello!

This is Elizabeth Dillow for Big Picture Scrapbooking and I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to offer a companion class to my book, The Scrapbooker's Almanac. In that book, my contributors and I showcased 103 scrapbook pages and projects that were inspired by red letter days--an old term dating back to medieval times to signify important dates on the calendar.

We all have ideas for Christmas and Halloween, Easter and the 4th of July--but what about all the other celebrations out there? Historical events, anniversaries, and observances provide order and meaning to our lives, and every time those dates come around each year they're just screaming to be turned into meaningful scrapbook pages. Arbor Day? Julia Child's birthday? National Family Week? Even... the invention of zip codes?? Absolutely. I'll help you discover hundreds of ways to find inspiration hidden in the calendar. If you haven't read my book yet, don't worry. While this class will spend some time focusing on some of the projects found inside, it is not required reading. Highly encouraged reading, maybe, but then I'm a little biased.

During our four weeks together, I have some exciting things in store for you: a behind-the-scenes look at some of the pages and albums featured in my book, new variation projects, a reunion of book contributors Laura Kurz, Mi'Chelle Larsen, Mary MacAskill, Anna Aspnes, and Margaret Scarbrough who will be sharing five of their brand-new pages and some of their favorite sources for inspiration, an interview with an award-winning illustrator and children's book author, a few fun giveaways, journaling starters and album schemes, daily emails, and so many new ideas for finding and using red letter days that your head will spin with excitement in anticipation of your next available opportunity to scrapbook. Well, I hope it will. That's my plan.

Mark your calendars and register today! This is big!