Blue Heart Scraps

Happy Hump Day!  Wednesday again?! Boy, time sure is flying by!  Today I get the pleasure of showing you a super fun sneak peek of my new kit hitting the store on Friday.  This release is a collab with the ever wonderful (and talented!) Terra of Sugar Kissed Designs.

It’s been far too long since Terra graced us with her creative talent, so the fact that one of her first dips into the creative pool was a collab with me?  Talk about feeling honored! 🙂

To enter for a chance to win a copy of this great new collab, simply leave a comment here, on this blog post, by Thursday, January 21st at midnight to be entered.

When you comment, make sure and leave your email address so that you can be contacted if you are a winner. Your comment will earn you 1 entry into the drawing. You can earn extra entries by making a post to your Facebook, Twitter or Blog encouraging others to enter for their own chance to win.  Simply leave a separate comment, with corresponding links, for each entry.  I will be back on Friday to announce the lucky winner!

One of my personal goals for 2016 is to focus on scrapping a bit more – or, any at all.  I’ve spent the past few years heavily focused on the designing part of this adventure, and completely ignored what brought me into this digital world to begin with.  As I’ve worked more on creating my own layouts, I’ve attempted to fit myself into a specific scrapping style…but that’s hard (unless mommy scrapper is a style – because that’s certainly what I am!)

One thing I do know is that I LOVE the look of pocket scrapping, and wish (so, so hard) that I could effectively produce layouts in that genre.  I mean, the simplistic style, the gorgeous journal cards, the beautiful way the story of the layout is told more in pictures than words…which would work well for me, because I always struggle ridiculously with the journaling aspect of a layout.  And, if you follow the process through the entire year — one of the more popular pocket scrapping approaches is to do a double page each week, or month, showing the major and minor events of the week, but could easily be built around a specific category, etc — you wind up with an easily printable book!  How much more awesome could digital scrapping be?!

Only within the past few months did I begin to create some pocket scrapping template packs, so there’s not many in my store right now:

I do have LOTS of great journal card packs – a must when pocket scrapping, and have more packs of both cards AND templates planned for this year!

Just a few of my more recent journal card packs:

The rest of the GingerScraps designers have a ton of templates and cards in the store.  Check out the Pocket Scrapbooking store category to see the huge selection of goodies!

I try not to set too many yearly goals or resolutions for myself (I know I’ll wind up breaking most of them anyway, lol)…and I’m already off to a late start prepping for book this year.  But, that is my hope for 2016 – to finish the year with a fully printed pocket scrapping book.  I guess we’ll look back this time next year to see if I managed to complete it or not, right? 🙂

If you pocket scrap (or follow along with the P52/Project Life series), do you have any fun pointers?  Any tips to make it less stressful (ok, that’s probably all in my head, lol)

Anyone willing to take the year of pocket scrapping challenge with me? 🙂

For the sake of this post, I did manage to get my week 1 layout done for 2016 – I may wind up regret going with a double page style…but we’ll see.  I can already tell I don’t take enough pictures, though — must take many, many more in the coming year!

Check out some of the gorgeous pocket scrapping layouts from my GingerScraps designer gallery – fabulous examples of pocket scrapping at its finest:

It’s time for another Show Me Sunday, and I’m excited to not only show you the winner of last week’s game, but see what layouts you’ll link to this week!  However, I am sick with a pitifully miserable cold, so I’m going to make this short and sweet.
The winner of last week’s Show Me Game is Carla with this adorable layout (layout is linked so you can show her some love):

Congrats on winning $5 to my store, Carla!  I’ll email you later today with your coupon code!

For the rest of you, let’s see what layouts you have to show me this week! 🙂

Sunday Show Me is simple:

YOU show me a layout you’ve created with mostly Blue Heart Scraps products within the past two months by linking it in the comments of this blog post (be sure to leave your email address, so I can contact you if you win!)
Layouts can be created using any PURCHASED PRODUCT, BLOG FREEBIE or GINGERSCRAPS WELCOME WAGON goodie
LINKED LAYOUTS are due to the blog post by midnight CST on THURSDAY
I will let random.org pick a winner and announce it in the beginning of next week’s Sunday Show Me game.  The winner gets a $5 COUPON to my store!

Easy, right?!  Then let’s get those layouts linked already!

I am a font lover, always have fun. I’d spend hours each week doodling letters in different styles in school, and got in trouble many times in college for using the wrong fonts when turning in papers (Times New Roman is so boring, lol!).  I thought I’d share my love of fonts with you by sharing a few free font download links. Yah!

The right font can make a layout really pop – but sometimes, we have to throw in a little ‘fun’ fonts, too.
Today, I’m focusing a Winter theme – hope you find something worth adding to your layouts! 🙂

(click each image for the coordinating download link)

and a fun dingbat font, because look at those adorable snowflakes! 🙂

When you’re done downloading the great fonts, be sure to check out the $1 Bake Sale at GingerScraps:

It’s $1 Bake Sale time at GingerScraps, and that means tons of great products for a fantastic price!  But, this amazing deal is only available for 5 days each month, so don’t miss out!

This month, I have 3 fabulous, love-themed goodies featured in the $1 Bake Sale, because it’s never too early to start planning your Valentine’s Day themed layouts and crafts!

Perfect for Valentine’s Day and all year round, A Little Crush helps you celebrate all the loves in your life.
Contains 25 papers (8 plain and 17 patterned), and 64 elements

The coordinating A Little Crush Templates contains two 12×12 templates, saved as layered PSD & TIF files as well as individual PNG files

Also included in this month’s $1 Bake Sale is Me + You = Love.  Valentine’s Day is near and love is in the air. Celebrate those heart fluttering moments with Me + You = Love, the kit for fans of love everywhere! Kit includes 20 papers (7 plain, 13 patterned) and 70 elements

The $1 Bake Sale runs through January 20th. Don’t miss out!