Your December Story Blog Hop and Giveaway

***EDITED***

The giveaway is now closed.

You can still register to the class though using the link on the left side of my blog. And you can still get the die cuts and printable files though if you register to my blog and send me an e-mail. See below for more details. Thanks for your support everyone!

Hi everyone! 

(Read until the end for participating in the giveaway and to know how to get your free die cut files!)

Today I got a peek at "Your December Story" (that's the December class thought by Debbie Hodge) and I'm giving away a free pass to the class!! 

As I told you earlier this month, I am doing a December Daily type of album this year again and since it is my 4th year of doing it, it has become a little repetitive so I wanted to mix things up a bit this year!!

I checked out lesson 1 of Debbie Hodge's Your December Story this weekend, and I LOVED it!

Your December Story is shaped around the Hero's Journey

This December, like Dorothy dropped into Oz or Alice tumbled into Wonderland, you will receive a call to adventure. You will move from the ordinary world into a one of magic and tests as the holiday season arrives.

Many of the most-loved and best remembered stories play out in a story form described by Joseph Campbell as "the hero's journey." This class has prompts and page ideas for visual storytelling that have you telling Your December Journey, from the heralds, to the challenges, mentors, special tools and the return to the known world and what you take forward.

This is what I think of the class and how it inspired me

The lesson came with 20 prompts, lots of ideas of stories that could be told right now, even before December has arrived, different ways of telling each of the stories, layout design ideas and even ideas for possible titles!

After answering the prompts (it took me about 20 minutes to do that) I started going through the lesson and I had to stop several times to jot ideas down. My head was spinning!! In a (very) good way!! :)

Since it's still very early in November, I tried to limit myself to two pages of my story "leading to December". I'm pretty pleased with my pages which are setting the tone and helping the reader to embark IN THE STORY with me. Here are my first two pages:

 The first page is our November everyday life. I chose to make a mosaic of small moments that shape our everyday life at the moment.

 These small moments include: the bedtime story, the evening bath, weekends activities with daddy, the girls playing together, Maya alone with mommy, pick-up from school on dance days. I could have put many more photos, but these are the one I chose to go with.

I added more details in my journaling.

 And small embellishment clusters + lots of gold!! :)

My second page is all about welcoming the Spirit of Christmas into our lives. Lesson 1 invites you to look around and see what is already there, at this time of the year. I was pleased that I could include all these moments in my album. In my classic December Daily album, I would have probably left them out. Sadly.

 Even my Christmas card made it in the album! :)

And Santa is already sitting at the mall, waiting for us and waving and chanting Ho!Ho!Ho!

(you can go here to check the front page of my album and to check the supplies I am using)

I am definitely in the spirit of Christmas and I am ready to document our December story in a new way and in a more global way than just documenting one moment a day. Are you in?! :)

If you like what you read and saw here and if you are interested in joining me on this December journey, please register to the class using this link:

Click here to visit Get It Scrapped.

(Keep in mind that I am earning a commission on this so your support is truly appreciated if you decide to join us on the journey! :)

Registering here and now will give you a 10$ gift card!***

This offer is only good through midnight Wednesday, November 20th. When you purchase "Your December Story" by midnight PT, Wednesday, November 20, you also get a $10 gift card that you can use for Get It Scrapped and Masterful Scrapbook Design classes.


**GIVEAWAY!!!

Put your name in the drawing to win the class

Leave a comment telling me if you are planing on documenting your December story this year. I will draw a winner on Thursday, November 21, 2013.

(If you already purchased the class, you'll get a $24 gift card good for any other GIS/MSD classes.)

**FREE Die cut and Printable files

While working on my December album, I wanted to try my hand at making some customized files and I came up with a couple of die cut files that will work perfectly with your Silhouette:

And some overlays for your photos (or you could print them onto card stock or patterned papers):

It is likely that I will make more and share them as I go, but for now you can get these for free. All I ask is that you become a member of my blog. When it's done, send me an e-mail: mariepierre_c(at)hotmail(dot)com. 

Write "Die cut files" in the subject line and I'll send them to you shortly after per e-mail.

If you are already a member and want the files, send me an e-mail and I'll be happy to send them your way!! :)

**BONUS

If you register to "your December story" using my link

Click here to visit Get It Scrapped.

I'll have a bonus file for you which is the title of the class in a cut file. Just send me an e-mail. If you already registered through me and want the file, send me an e-mail too! :)

And on that, I thank you so much for stopping by!!
Make sure you add my blog address to your Feedly or that you become a member of the blog to follow me on my December journey and to know when I'll share more cut files. I still have no concrete plans, but I'm pretty sure I'll get to play more with my Silhouette during the month of December when I do so, you'll know it first! :)


Your next stop on the blog hop will be:


Have fun!! :)

Sincerely,

Marie-Pierre

See how the rest of the blog hoppers are using this class (and get 20+ more chances to win)

• Anna Aspnes
• Betsy Sammarco
• Christy Strickler
• Marie-Pierre Capistran <- are="" here="" li="" you="">
• Katrina Kennedy
• Carrie Arick
• Doris Sander
• Melissa Shanhun
• Michelle Houghton
• Sue Althouse
• Terry Billman
• Kiki Kougioumtzi
• Susanne Brauer
• Sian Fair
• Jana Morton
• Paula Gilarde
• Kristin Tweedale
• Katie Scott
• Amy Kingsford
• Tami Taylor
• Stefanie Semple
• Katie Nelson