Over the next two weeks, we're hoping to give back in a BIG way here at Big Picture Classes.

If you register for the brand-new (and fabulous) Self-Paced class: Grateful, Every Day between December 10th to the 25th, we will be donating 100% of the proceeds to the charity of your choice. On top of that, BPC will be matching up to $5000! Together, we have the potential to do a lot of good in the little time left before Christmas.

To participate, simply add Grateful, Every Day to your shopping cart, designate the charity of your choice, enjoy the fun new class from Mou, and know that $20.00 is going to a charity that you love!

Thank you for helping us make a difference in the world around us!

Check out this months featured student Maegan Birr, and look through her gallery. Cute stuff!

Behind the scenes at Big Picture Classes we have been hard at work coming up with awesome content for out blog. We still need you-- here is how you can get featured on our blog

1. Tuesday Tip

Do you have a tip for your fellow BPC friends? We’d love to hear it! Please email your Tuesday Tips to tips@bigpictureclasses.com. If your tip is featured here on our blog you’ll receive a $10 BPC gift certificate!

2. Beautiful Places

A beautiful place is a visual that  you find beautiful. To share yours attach the image to an email and include a brief description of the place, the location,  and why you find it beautiful. Send in to beautifulplaces@bigpictureclasses.com

3. From the Gallery

The BPC team is going to be perusing the galleries looking for cool visuals to share on the blog. We will send an email with our request then you respond with permission for us to share.

At BPC we know that you are makes this a great place to be and we want to tell the world about it!

If you see the movie New In Town this weekend (30th, 31st, & 1st) take a picture of yourself at the movies and send it to paula@bigpicturescrapbooking.com and you will be entered in a random drawing for two Regal cinema tickets!

Here is Christy and I at the premiere of the movie. Check out my blog post here.

It's a great movie to see with your favorite scrapbooking girlfriends! Can't wait to see your fun movie pictures -

Go check out my blog here. I am doing some product giveaways! The bags are filled with OLD, semi OLD and new product.

Yep, that's right. You can now put a BPS badge on your blog. There are TEN great designs to choose from (thanks Kayce!) and it's so easy to do ...

1. Visit our FUN Stuff page and click on "badges."

2. Select the badge (or badges) you want to add to the sidebar of your blog.

3. Copy the HTML code, listed under each design.

4. Embed this code into a "NOTES" style typelist and then select it to show up on your sidebar. You can also copy these codes into the body of any post!

How will you ever decide?

If you're an alumni of Library of Memories, you could choose this one ...

OR this one ...

OR this one ...

We LOVE YOU, our students.
Now YOU can show your blog readers that you LOVE us!!

Hi, everyone!  Thanks for your comments on May's class -- we appreciate your feedback, as we're learning a lot about what recipes you want for your pages!

Our randomly selected winner is comment #8:

I hope you've seen Stacy's blog today: if not, click here to see more of her present to herself -- an album that captures a present moment.  So many of our BPS friends have made minis today -- so check out their blogs, too!  Just click the links on the left to visit teacher blogs:  you might want to especially check out Georgana Hall, Kolette Hall,Lisa Cohen, Amy Sorensen, May Flaum, and Lisa Damrosch, as they have BPS classes coming up very soon, and I'd love for you to check their blogs and get to know them better.

Give yourself the gift of present-moment scrapbooking!
p.s. you can enter on many of these blogs to win a teeny album of your own, so check out the links on Stacy's page and in her comments! 

As the weather turns cooler, I'm realizing that some of my socks are looking a little thin, and that it's time for some new ones.  If you need some new socks too, why don't we break away from pairs of socks and visit Little Miss Matched for a fun trio of coordinating but non-matching socks?  Stacy Julian is a big fan of little Miss Matched -- so check out her interview with Jessica (the Miss Matched herself!) on the site! Now, Stacy wears these socks all the time...but I haven't branched out yet into not matching my socks -- after all, I'm the details gal at BPS.  But maybe these.....what do you think?

Have fun!

Have you been to the Big Wig Bash yet?  If not, don't delay!!  We've been having a wonderful time with make-and-takes from BPS teachers all week, and the BIG 30 hour live crop starts tomorrow!  It's hosted by the adorable duo from Key Lime Crops, Sue and Meredith (here sans wigs but with key lime chocolate treats!):

How could you not want to crop with these two gals?  They really know how to plan a party -- and I know that you'll be inspired to host a crop party of your own once you see what they can do.  You'll be able to download everything you need to host your very own Big Wig Crop (if you aren't having one this weekend), and on their website there are MORE fun themed parties available to you, too!  We're going to have so much fun, and it's free, so please join us!!

Sue and Meredith have been working so hard this week, putting the finishing touches on the party: you won't want to miss a moment, and not even Tropical Storm Fay (talk about a BIG party crasher at Meredith's house) is going to stop us, we promise! 

By the way, I've got a little crop-celebration giveaway for you!  Let me know which make-and-takes from our teachers you've created, and tell us your favorite part of the crop, too: and one randomly selected commenter will win a Mini is Big Prize Pack!  I've got another issue of (my favorite) Simple Scrapbooks special issue: Mini Albums in an Evening to inspire you to make some mini books, a super cute mini is BIG button, and a seat in Lisa Damrosch's Product Playground 2: The Albums, too!  If you don't know Lisa, be sure to check out her make-and-take challenge to see both of her upcoming classes(Product Playground 2 opens on August 28th, followed by Product Playground 2: The Albums on October 9th)! If you have a product stash, you won't want to miss either one of these. So check out the downloads and add a comment by Tuesday, August 26th, at noon Pacific (so you can take a nap after the 30 hour crop before you come back here) to be eligible!

Have fun!