Sponsor Giveaways: a workshop from simplify 101 and two workshops from ReneePearson.com

simplify 101 is giving away one spot in their upcoming workshop Organize Your Paper Clutter with organizing expert Aby Garvey.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: Is your paper clutter getting in the way of your scrapbooking plans? If paper like bills, school papers, ideas for creative projects, memorabilia to scrapbook, recipes to try, to-do lists, magazines, and catalogs (to name a few) are piling up around you, it's hard to relax let alone be creative. There is a better way! With the right paper organizing systems in place—those created with you, your paper, and your home in mind—you can free yourself from paper clutter and the stress that comes with it.

 In Aby Garvey's online workshop Organize Your Paper Clutter, you'll learn a simple, step-by-step process to organize your paper. You'll find out how to decide if you need a piece of paper (and for how long) and how to organize it so you'll find it again when you need it. With easy to follow action steps, your paper clutter and your stress will be replaced by organizing systems you love and feelings of confidence, relief and peace of mind. (Which means you'll feel more creative, too!)

simplify 101 is offering my readers 15% off enrollment in Organize Your Paper Clutter! To take advantage of this offer and eliminate your paper clutter, enter coupon code CZSAVE15PC during checkout . This coupon is good through Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 11PM Eastern and may not be combined with any other offer. Class begins March 15, 2011. Click here to view the entire workshop syllabus.

ABOUT SIMPLIFY 101:  Founded by Aby Garvey, the co-author of The Organized and Inspired Scrapbooker, simplify 101's mission is to make getting organized fun! Get a taste of simplify 101—and the organized life—with their FREE, simple-to-follow guide How to Create a Command Central Binder. You'll put together a home reference binder that will help you get organized, save time, and minimize paper clutter and the stress that comes along with it!

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One blog reader will win a seat in Step-by-Step Design with Illustrator taught by Laura Coyle, a beginning Adobe Illustrator Class that runs March 25 through April 21.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: Back by popular demand! If you're ready to make your own frames and elements, get more savvy with type and edit stock illustrations for your layouts, then you're ready to dive into Adobe Illustrator! The waters run deep, but with a focus on steps that build from lesson to lesson this class will give you immediately useful techniques for working in this powerful vector graphics program.

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One blog reader will win a seat in Photo Preserves, taught by Laura Vanderbeek, a class to teach you how to digitize, restore, and display your old photos. This class runs March 31 - April 13 and there is an early registration discount through March 16.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: Another popular class returns to ReneePearson.com, Photo Preserves with Laura Vanderbeek! Do you have stacks of old photos? Are they decaying at a rapid rate? Do you want to learn how to preserve these precious family heirlooms for generations to come? Well, you've come to the right place. In this two-week class, beginning Photoshop and Photoshop Elements students will learn how to digitize and restore old color and black & white photographs. Laura will even share great ideas for sharing and displaying your beautifully restored images.

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TO ENTER: Leave a comment today and tell me something about yourself that people might not know. Sound good? I'll draw winners on Sunday night.

Here, I'll start: Group fitness classes frighten me. And I don't mean I'm afraid of the workout. I'm actually nervous to workout around people I don't know.

Good luck and have a great weekend.