It’s no secret that I love Ali Edwards’ style.  I’ve read all of her books and taken nearly all of her online classes.  So when I see a chance to learn from her for free, I’m there!  Scrapbook.com is offering a free mini-course by Ali Edwards called Journaling Techniques that is delivered by email.  You’ll receive a short video from Ali in each email teaching a different journaling prompt.  Ali’s shares 5 of her favorite journaling techniques in this class.  The mini-course is 6 days long and each day also includes a layout demonstrating the journaling technique.

You can read more about the Journaling Techniques mini-course on Ali’s blog and sign up at Scrapbook.com.

ScrapStash for iPhone is a new app designed to help you organize and manage your scrapbooking supplies. This free app allows you to scan the barcodes on any scrapbooking product and add it to a list of your scrapbooking stash. You can search and organize your stash within the app helping you to more easily manage your supplies.

Next time you are shopping for scrapbooking supplies, you’ll have an inventory of the supplies you already have right at your fingertips. No more accidently buying duplicate products.

ScrapStash even has sneak peeks of upcoming product releases, including those from CHA. This list allows you to manage your scrapbooking supply budget and plan before you shop.

You can download ScrapStash from the iTunes store and use either Facebook or Twitter to sign into your free ScrapStash account.

ScrapStash looks like a fun and easy way to organize and manage your scrapbooking stash!

(Note: It looks like ScrapStash is only available for iPhone at this time.)

Looking for ideas for family scrapbooking layouts?  Echo Park is offering a free digital download of their Celebrate Family Idea book.

The book includes scrapbooking ideas for layouts, cards, and altered projects that focus on the family. Create a beautiful Mother’s Day card. Design something special for Dad’s office. Document the relationship between siblings in a layout. Or celebrate Grandma and Grandpa. Design Team members from both Carta Bella Paper and Echo Park Paper show you how in this inspirational book! Projects feature the newest collections from both companies. This 28 page idea book is full of items you’ll love to make.

Projects include:

6 cards
11 layouts
4 altered projects
Tips, complete supply lists and step-by-step instructions are included for many of the projects in this book. Use the instructions provided to recreate your own projects or as a starting point for your own special work of art.

Download Echo Park’s Celebrate Family Idea book for FREE!