Month: August 2009

Let the Celebrations Begin!!

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The Birthday Weekend is finally here and there’s many fun activities planned at ScrapMatters!
I’ll try to list them all here, but I’m bound to forget a few (there’s too many!! 😉 ) so just check out the special forum section for all the latest news.

First of all, there’s a 30% sale on personal use products, a 10% off commercial products, and a 20% off physical products (yes, those gorgeous Kaisercraft albums you’ve been eyeing!!)! It doesn’t get any better than this so take advantage of this huge sale!

There’s a NEW fabulous collab kit by the ScrapMatters design team, and it’s free if you spend at least $15!!


And using this collab, we got a blog train ready for you, full with goodies (QPs, element clusters, wordart)!!!! The blog train starts tomorrow morning (Saturday, 9AM EST) from Andrea’s blog and yes, one of the stops will be right here! 😀

There’s another free with purchase package, and it’s a great one! If you spend $20 or more, you’ll get this incredible party pack for free!


Next, there’s a speed scrap marathon 🙂 and you want to check out the partecipation prizes for all these speed scraps – they’re all just gorgeous! I hope you can make a few speed scraps!


What party would it be without a chat?? There’s a chat tomorrow (1PM EST) and lots of gift cards will be given away!!


Then there’s a TON of fun games planned: a comment game (sign up here and check out the fab partecipation prize!), a bingo (actually, there’s 2 rounds of that, starting tomorrow morning! Go get your card ready here!), an Eye Spy game, a Name that Kit game:


So much fun! And so many chances to win some gift cards, too!
To make sure you don’t miss out on all the fun activities planned, check out the forum!

Have a good weekend and I hope you enjoy the celebrations! I know I will! 🙂

New Kits and New Pages!

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Jill of Juno Designs has a new kit out and it’s the cutest kit ever!!!!!!


And it works out just perfectly that when DH came home last Friday after being gone all week, he brought home a delicious chocolate cake:

Credits:
Dessert by Juno Designs

Pure heaven! 😉

There’s lots of new gorgeous kits out today at ScrapMatters; here’s the one I picked up, by ScrapMuss Designs:


It’s such a romantic kit! I wanted to scrap pictures of DH and me, but didn’t have any (those are always the first to get scrapped! 😉 ) so last night we took some pictures. And since there was no special occasion, I just scrapped a page about a normal evening at our house. 😉
I did this for the Roadmap to Scrap challenge at SM, and these were the instructions:

  1. Use a template with an ODD number of photos.
  2. Include at least 2 patterned papers.
  3. Please use at least 3 out of the 5 following items: buttons, ribbons, staples, frames, journal strips or tags.
  4. Show me some shapes that aren’t squares, rectangles or circles.
  5. Add something blue to your page.
  6. Place something on your page that’s obviously upside down. It could be a photo, an element, anything, just be sure we can tell it’s not in it’s original and upright position.
  7. Use an alpha and a font for your title.
  8. Now select everything on your page except the background paper, and shrink it at least 10%.

Credits:
Inspired by Aly Templates by Britt-ish Designs
Countryside Harmony by Scrapmuss Designs
Family Ties by Jeni Hopewell
Fonts: Pea Olson, My Own Topher

I have another page to show off, for the Grand Theft LO challenge:


Lift of Cooling Off by jam1el33
Credits:
Secret Sage by Erica Zane
Font: Traveling Typewriter

I’m not so sure I like the selective coloring on the pic.. I don’t know, I just never seem to like b/w picture as much as I like the color version!

Sweetie Pie

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After the adorable blue/orange scheme of Luvbug, Mari has a new kit, this time a girlie one:


It’s 20% off today only! Here’s a page I did with it:

Paper to digi lift of Four by Gigi Kennedy.
Credits:
Sweetie Pie by Mari Koegelenberg Creations
Fonts: Pea Olson and Pea Madsen

I did this for a paper to digi scraplift challenge at the DigiChick: wow, I’m always in awe of the paper scrapbookers!

It’s a Party!

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Don’t make plans for the weekend, because there’s a PARTY, and you’re invited!!! 😀

ScrapMatters is turning 2 and we have a lot of fun activities planned (not to mention the sale!!)!!


OK, I know you want to know more! Well, there are many fun games planned, a ton of speed scraps (with great partecipation prizes), a great blog train, a huge collab that’s free with $15 purchase, an incredible sale..! You don’t want to miss this great party!
I’ll post more details closer to the weekend! 😉

Catching Up!

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I have a few pages to show from the weekend, all done for challenges at ScrapMatters.

Starting this month, SM is having monthly guest designers! For August, the guests are Amber of Stolen Moments and Minna of Mira Designs. I used some goodies from both of them for this page (for the Saturday Special challenge):

Credits:
Play All Day by Stolen Moments and Scraps by Jenn
Border Dates by Erica Zane
Stitched Newspaper Alpha by Mira Designs

Next up, the Inspiration Point challenge:

Credits:
The Key to Happiness by Happy Scrap Girl
Font: Dear Joe 1

the Word Up challenge (I wrote my own haiku! 🙂 ):

Credits:
Old Glory and Old Bead Board Alpha by GG Digital Designs
Font: Dear Joe 1 M&S

the Tuesday Template:

Credits:
Template by Scrapmuss Designs
Totally Buggin’ by Britt-ish Designs and Mira Designs
Label Tape Alpha by Britt-ish Designs
Label the Date vol. 5 and Stitched Newspaper Alpha by Mira Designs
Font: Pea Olson

and finally my favorite challenge at SM, the My Story Matters (this week we had to scrap about one of our relatives and I picked my grandmother):

Credits:
Kelly’s Apple Farm by Happy Scrap Girl
Family Ties by Jeni Hopewell
Fonts: Dear Joe 1 M&S, American Typewriter

OK, that’s it for now! 😉

$2 Tuesday

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It’s Tuesday again and I bet this is becoming your favorite day of the week, because it means many $2 deals! 😉

Check out what Mari has for sale today, and let me tell you: it’s 3 gorgeous kits so you don’t want to miss this deal!! Go to the $2 Tuesday section of her store here.

Vote, vote, vote!!

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It’s time to vote for Round 3 of the Battle of the CTs, so do support Amy Sumrall’s team of the Big Pimpins!! VOTE HERE (no registration needed, just select the Big Pimpins and click to vote!)

Here’s my entry for this round again:

Grab Bag TIme!

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It’s August and this means grab bag time!! 😀

Mari has a August Grab Bagnew grab bag that is packed full with goodies. It’s gorgeous and as you can see the colors are beautiful:
I played with it and some pictures from my test trip of the new lens:
Credits:

August Grab Bag and Remarks by Mari Koegelenberg Creations

Font: Dear Joe 4

Credits:

August Grab Bag by Mari Koegelenberg Creations
This bag is perfect for vintage pages, but as you can see it works beautifully for any kind of page!