A couple of weeks ago, I decided that free stuff may make Tuesdays a little better (This is the part where I get to quote myself, awesome, isn’t it?):

I dread- DREAD – Mondays. Tuesdays are much worse, however, as they tend to completely ruin the giddiness leftover by getting through a dreary Monday by still being four whole freaking days away from the weekend. Meh.

So, in order to make your Tuesdays a little less meh and a little more yeah [insert cheesy drum roll and cymbal clash here], I’m going to try to give you something nifty *each* week.

Now, for the handful of you who read my blog on a regular basis (the handful of all that is awesome and kickass in this world, of course), you totally know that I’m a complete flake and that the little asterisks around the “each” in that mouthful above were there for a reason…

Specifically-

To let anyone who is not aware of the flakiness of my being to become aware of said flakiness and not expect consistency of any sort whatsoever.

In other words, the word “each”  in this case could actually probably sometimes and most likely means…

“Every other week”

or

“Every three weeks”

or

“Look I gave you something that one time, didn’t I???”

And yet…

Here it is…

A Tuesday.

And I have something for you.

[How 'ya like them apples, Matt Damon?]

Last week, I was invited to join an online community and forum for amateur, hobbyist, and professional women photographers called ClickinMoms.  The site is super-cute (technical term), is a little over a year old, and has over 4,000 members who all share a love of photography—

That’s a lot of good minds in one place, I tell ‘ya.

So many good minds, in fact, that I’ve only just barely skimmed through the knowledge and support that such a like-minded community has to offer…

So far, I’ve found countless threads full of useful and fabulous information on how to start your own photography business, where to find the best post processing tools, exclusive vendor discounts and group buys, posing suggestions, photo critique, reviews and suggestions… Quite frankly, I think that you’d be pretty hard-pressed to find another site geared specifically to women and moms and PHOTOGRAPHY than this one.

I’m totally in love.

That said, I’ve got a one year membership to ClickinMoms to give away so that you can give it a go and perhaps fall in love as well.

Want it?

Of course, you do.

To enter for a chance to win one whole year of membership to ClickinMoms ($50), do any and/or all of the following:

• Leave a comment on this post letting me know what your least favorite day of the week is.
• Leave a comment that mentions Matt Damon.
• Leave a comment with a link to your Flickr, Photobucket, or latest post that contains a picture that you’ve taken.
• Leave a comment with a link to where you’ve Tweeted, Facebooked, Plurked (is plurking still acceptable?) or promoted the giveaway in any way.
• Tell me how pretty I look today. ( Tuesdays suck. What can I say?)

Each action counts as an entry and you can do any and all as often as you like between now and Friday.

Especially the telling me how pretty I look bit.

Seriously.

(ClickinMoms also has monthly plans as well if you’d like to jump in right away- I’m judithshakes- click here to join me.)

I dread- DREAD – Mondays. Tuesdays are much worse, however, as they tend to completely ruin the giddiness leftover by getting through a dreary Monday by still being four whole freaking days away from the weekend. Meh.

So, in order to make your Tuesdays a little less meh and a little more yeah [insert cheesy drum roll and cymbal clash here], I’m going to try to give you something nifty *each* week.

Since I will soon be opening up a special design shop inside JudithShakes Designs geared towards photographers, I thought that I’d give you a little taste of what I’ll be offering by giving you guys  my new “Little Snowflakes” Greeting Card Templates for Photoshop (CS2+).

This template pack has 4 different 5.25in x 7.25in holiday .psd designs that use clipping masks (if you don’t know how to use clipping masks (and, dude, they’re awesome, you should totally learn how to use clipping masks) there are a couple of really great tutorials here, here, and here (video, woo hoo!)).

They’re absolutely free, and you can use them in both your personal and professional projects as needed. I just ask that you give me a little feedback to let me know how they worked for you and whether or not you’d like me to keep posting things of this nature here on my personal blog (or if you’d prefer that I stick to sarcasm and senseless anecdotes).

Fonts are not included but can be downloaded here and here.

To download, click on the “Add to Cart” button below!