Hi everyone! Tena Sprenger here, and I have some really good news. I get to teach summer school again at Big Picture Scrapbooking - and it's the good kind of summer school! I'm teaching 52 Card Pick Up again, and I'm so excited. This is going to be really fun.

For those of you who aren't familiar with 52 Card Pick Up, it's a great class for anyone interested in learning a lot of fun techniques without a lot of stress, and really sort of building up your technique how-to inventory.

The way the class works is we create a little card deck that hangs on a 3-inch hinge ring, and for 11 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 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 super doable. Most of the projects that we do you can do in an hour or an hour and a half at most. 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-round. Students from previous classes have e-mailed me many times and said, "I just 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 super fun - 52 Card Pick Up coming soon to Big Picture Scrapbooking. I would love to have you in class. This is Tena Sprenger signing off.