A Beautiful Mess

ANNOUNCING: Life Is Beautiful Art Journal E-Course

We are thrilled to announce our newest e-course release, Life Is Beautiful! This course celebrates everyday life. In this course we create three different journals. I created this course with Rachel from Smile and Wave. (One of the most talented ladies I know!) We are passionate about the process of putting our memories into big messy books. If this is something you'd like to learn about, read on...

Life Is Beautiful E-Course includes: 

-Instructions for creating unique and personal art journal covers. 

-Inspiration for art journal pages with lots of photos from our personal art journals. 

-27 downloadable journaling pages that you can print at home, plus ideas for how to use them. 

-Three themed books (Everyday Moments, Personal Stories and Loved Ones) with examples from our books for each theme. We share journaling, technique and topic ideas. 

-A bonus "Life Is Beautiful" printable designed by Elsie. 

-E-Course cost: $28 USD You will receive login information to the course after payment. Be sure to include your correct e-mail address when checking out.

Want to sign up, click here to register! We can't wait to see all of the art journals that this course inspires! Rachel and I love teaching about this topic together. This course was extra sentimental for us. We are so happy to share it with you! xo. elsie

E-COURSE SALE

Hi guys! We have a special summertime sale running on our e-courses right now! Use the code SUMMERSALE at check out to get 25% off any Red Velvet E-Course. We are retiring D.I.Y. Dress Up at the end of the month, so if you want to take that course sign up soon! (All past students will still have access) If you've been considering taking one of our e-courses, now is a great time! Read about each course here. XO. Elsie + Emma

*Offer good through Aug 1st 2012. 

Blog Love Update!

As some of you know, I wrote an e-course last year on the subject of blogging! It's called Blog Love. I have loved sharing personal advice based on my experiences through that course. We get e-mails from students on a regular basis and a common subject that comes up is advertising/sponsorship. This past week Emma wrote a new session called "All About Advertising" and added it to the course. It covers common questions about starting and managing an advertising program on a blog. Emma has been managing the advertising here on A Beautiful Mess for a year and a half and so she had tons of great tips to share! Of course, there are tons of other subjects covered in the course (full list here) but I throught I'd mention the brand new bonus section. :)If you have already taken the course you can simply log in and see the new bonus section! If you're interested in taking the course you can purchase it here. xoxo, elsie PS. you can read some reviews here too! 

Art Journal All Year E-Course is here!

I'm so so excited to release our newest e-course, Art Journal All Year! It's the most personal course we've written. It's filled with beautiful textures, photographs, colors and words. It's perfect for anyone wanting to get into the practice of making art journals! 

The course is broken up into 52 Challenges! It's a 'work at your own pace' course, so you choose whether you'd like to take on one challenge each week or they can be done one each day and completed in about two months! It's the perfect course to take with a friend! 

Each session has an Art Challenge and a Journal Challenge. You'll get inspired to dig deeper in your writing as well as the collage art aspect of art journaling. Some of the themes that we focused on throughout the course were vulnerability, self exploration, goals and reflection. 

I loved collaborating with Rachel Denbow on this course. We taught our first art journaling class together nearly ten years ago and we make a good team. Rachel is an incredible designer and what she brings to the course is beautiful. You'll love her use of color and textured elements as well as her thoughtful journaling. She really shared a piece of herself in the course.

We hope you enjoy the course. You can begin at any time, but this first week of the new year would be especially perfect, don't you think? Get more info here + sign up here! xo, elsie