What’s Your Angle?

I don’t know about you, but I am SO glad last week is over with, lol.

Thanks for the lovely comments on the Sneak Peek post, trying to win a copy of this week’s new release.  I’m a day behind, but I did let Random.org pick a winner.  Congrats, Brenda!  I’ll send you an email shortly telling you how you can pick up a copy of my new release for free! 🙂

That new release is the What’s Your Angle Template Pack.  Life doesn’t always come in nice, straight lines.  Sometimes it’s tilted and askew and we have to look at it from a different angle to truly find the beauty.  What’s Your Angle is perfect for scrapping all those memories…no matter what their angle.

Don’t forget about the birthday celebrations going on at GingerScraps.  I’ve got 2 great Birthday Bundles loaded into the store for this weekend ONLY!  It’s 3 full-sized kits for just $5 – talk about a steal! 🙂

And, last but not least, a quickpage freebie, created using one of the What’s Your Angle templates AND last week’s release, Your Story Begins:

Download the Quickpage Freebie here!

Layout Spotlight: Bundled Goodness!

It’s Thursday! Which FEELS like it should be Friday, at least to me. Last night I kept thinking, oh yeah, tomorrow is Friday – except it’s not.

So, happy layout spotlight day! We’re going to do something a little bit different today though, but still equally exciting! As many of you may already know, GingerScraps is celebrating their 4th birthday this weekend – YAY PARTY! Because of this celebration designers have bundled together goodies for one very low price, and Joy Lynn has put together some of her best kits!

Each bundle is three (3) previously released kits for just $5 each! You’re getting three kits for the price one ONE! AWESOME!

So, in honor of this super awesome deal, I’m sharing a few layouts that show off some of these bundled goodies- to whet your scrappin’ appetite!

Little Lady by dotcomkari, using Carefree Days

Unstoppable by rdjrneace, using Beep Boop

Winter Chill by Hildur, using Winter Chill

Playing in the dirt by mamaape, using Green Thumb

I love all of these layouts, and not just because I’m bias of the last one ;). Each one showing such lovely work of Blue Heart Scraps kits. Perfect little clusters, beautiful paper stacking! These kits (and a couple more not shown) are bundled up for this weekend only! If you don’t already have these in your Blue Hear Scraps stash, I HIGHLY recommend picking ’em up while the price is a STEAL!

But I get it, let’s say you have two out of the three in a bundle- well, that’s alright because the entire store is 30% OFF! So if you need to pick up just one of these fantastic designs, it’s already on sale! Can I get a double WOOT?!

WOOT WOOT!

Here are the previews to the bundles: you can view full kit previews in the store.

And just ONE more plug: you’ve got just a couple days left to get your page completed for the September Template Challenge here on the blog! You could win a little prize just for sharing your completed layout!  I’d say, win win.

That’s enough from me, I promise. 😉

Have a happy Thursday…Friday…weekend!

April

 

 

 

GingerScraps Turns 4 – Games, Sales & Specials

Yep, that’s right.  GingerScraps is turning 4, and that makes fun forum games, a 30% storewide sale for all the gorgeous goodies, new It’s My Birthday Buffet products, and great Birthday Bundles – 3 full sized kits bundled together for just $5 each! Talk about a deal, eh?  But, hurry, the fun only goes through the weekend! 🙂

And, while you’re scouring the store and forums, be sure to hop into the chatroom from time to time and enjoy a fun chat and/or speed scrap!

I have two great birthday bundles in the store this weekend.  Both previews below are linked to the bundle in the store, and the detailed images show the full size preview of each included kit:

Sneak Peek & Chance To Win! :)

This is been a positively crappy week so far (and it’s only Wednesday, oy!).  I’d love to be upbeat and optimistic and positive and all “hey, it’s ok, I’ll see the rainbow soon” or some misguided comment like that.  But, right now?  I don’t feel it, and despite the old adage that sometimes you have to fake it til you make it…well, I’d rather just make a big old jug of margarita mix and wallow in my sorrow just a tiny bit more, k?  Great, thanks! 🙂

I do have one bright spot today – a sneak peek of Friday’s new release AND a chance for someone to win a FREE copy of it.  That’s a good thing, right?  🙂  Here’s a sneak peek of what’s coming:

Would you love to win a copy of this new product for free? Just leave a comment below by tomorrow night, Thursday September 13th, at midnight. Make sure and leave your email address so that I can contact you if you are the 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. Simply leave a separate comment, with corresponding links, for each entry.  I’ll will be back on Friday to announce the lucky winner!  🙂

Ready?  Good – go comment!!! 😀

Your Story Begins and Make The Grade

Another Friday, another release day, another set of gorgeous new goodies in the GingerScraps store.  I think that makes Fridays just about the best day ever, don’t you? 🙂

I have two new goodies in the store this week.  First up?  Probably my favorite kit ever! (Yes, I say that a lot, and it’s always true)  Life is a series of short stories, with beginnings and endings. Memories we dog ear like pages in a book to always remember. Your Story Begins here. Settle into a quiet moment, reflect on your past, present and future. Start your first chapter and watch the rest unfold.

Each pack is available for sale individually (25% off this weekend!), or you can buy the bundle and save 50% off!  🙂

Bundled Pack  –  Kit  –  Alphas  –  Clusters  –  Stacked Papers  –  QuickPages

I’ve also opened up August FWP Grab Bag, Make The Grade, added some gorgeous coordinating packs and put it in the store.  It’s time to hit the books!  Summer’s over but that doesn’t mean the fun has to be! Brand new text books, freshly sharpened pencils, and an apple for the teacher. Celebrate first days, PTA’s and making the grade! Most likely to succeed? YOU!  Each pack is available for sale individually (25% off this weekend!), or you can buy the bundle and save 50% off!  🙂

Bundled Pack  –  Kit  –  Add-On Papers  –  Alpha  –  Clusters  –  QuickPages
Stacked Papers  –  Word Pieces

Some gorgeous layouts created with this week’s new goodies:

And, don’t forget about this month’s September Template Challenge here on the blog!  Download the free template, create a layout (using BHS goodies) and submit your layout on the blog post using the super handy blue button at the bottom of the post.  One random winner earns free money to my store! 🙂  This month’s free template:

Layout Spotlight: capture the moment!

I admit it, the fact that it’s Thursday did not register for me until just now. Sure it’s still early enough in the morning but I hate when that happens. I blame the recent extended holiday weekend (for us U S of A-er’s).

Well, here I am! With a lovely layout to share with you! A newer member of Blue Heart Scraps lovely Creative Team: Christina (Tinkay2 in the forum(s)) created this page and it jumped right out at me so I had to share it!

I love that everything is centered on the page, it really draws the eye in (well, it does mine!).  Her little clusters and layering behind the photos is awesome. I also love mixing alpha’s with fonts for a title. Super great page!

Christina used Blue Heart Scraps Life is Beautiful Buffet papers, elements, word strips and alpha.

(each image is linked, so make sure you check out all of Blue Heart Scraps Buffet pieces! AND give Christina some gallery love!)

I would love to spotlight  YOUR layout here! Just upload your pages to Blue Heart Scraps Gallery using any Blue Heart Scraps products and you could be featured! I must say it every week, but I do truly love looking at all the layouts everyone creates! So keep ’em coming!

 

Tuesday Treats Freebie!

Hey!  Guess what?  Today’s Tuesday!  (to which you’re probably thinking ‘yeah, so?’)  Want to know when I actually realized it was Tuesday?  About 2 hours ago.  *sigh*  I hate when I lose track of the days.  I mean, I’m sure in my head, I knew it had to be Tuesday.  After all, I was sitting in my Tuesday classes and preparing for Tuesday’s flag football practice.  But, having it actually sink in?  That took a bit longer, lol (maybe it was all the wonderful fun I had this weekend?)

Either way, I hope you had a fantastic Labor Day weekend (if you happen to be in a part of the world that celebrated that yesterday).  We had a low-key holiday here, but did manage to take the boys to see ParaNorman in 3D yesterday.  And, really?  I’m not sure what’s funnier, the comedy bits of the movie, or watching the boys wear their 3D glasses! 🙂

I have a fun little cluster frame freebie for you today, created with pieces of my September “Life Is Beautiful” Buffet Items.  I have 7 items in all, which you can see below (and there are only 2 days left to get them on sale, so hurry!).  The download link and preview of the freebie are below.  🙂

Download Here

September Template Challenge!

Hello lovelies!

I had so much fun hosting a blog challenge in July, that I wanted to do it again! So here I am, with another fun template for you to work all your scrappy magic on!

Just download the freebie template that Joy Lynn has created for you, create some super awesome pages using (100%) Blue Heart Scraps products, then upload and share!

Oh yes, and of course there will be a drawing for $3 coupon to Blue Heart Scraps store. 😉

First the template! You can click the image to download or click this.

Pretty sweet, huh? I totally think so. Once you create your layout, upload to your blog, Facebook page, or better still Blue Heart Scraps Gallery. Then share it here to be entered into a random drawing for $3 to Blue Heart Scraps store! WOOT! Now wait, if ten (10) or more people submit layouts (because who wouldn’t want to show off their work?) then there will be a drawing for TWO $3 coupons! HUZZAH!

To submit your layout into the (random.org) drawing, use our nifty link tool at the bottom of this post! If you have any questions, at all, don’t hesitate to ask.

Deadline? Why, yes, there is one. September 15th 11:59 CST. On September 16th, I’ll collect all your names and put them into a magical Internet hat and pull a random winner! It’s all so exciting!

Seriously, I cannot WAIT to see what ya’ll come up with!

 



<3 April

Life Is Beautiful, $1 Bake Sale & Freebie!

Happy September! 🙂  I know I say at the beginning of each month that I can’t believe how fast the year is going by, and how I can’t believe we’re already one month closer to the end of the year.  But, the truth is?  Every month, I can’t believe how fast the year has gone by so far, and every month I can’t believe we’re already one month closer to the end of the year!  And, this first day of September?  Absolutely the same.  If I’m not careful, I’ll blink and it will be Christmas already (*knocks on wood that does NOT happen*…I’m no where near ready to think about Christmas, yet, lol)

The first of the month means a new GingerScraps buffet, and the designers have flooded the store with bright, happy products.  After all, from where we sit?  Life Is Beautiful! 🙂  I have 7 fun new products to coordinate with this month’s buffet, and you can pick up all of them for just $1.50 each through September 5th! 🙂  Each pack individually linked for you below:

Alphas  –  Elements  –  Papers  –  Word Pieces

Clusters  –  Stacked Papers  –  QuickPages

But, new months aren’t just for buffet items – oh no!  They’re also for $1 Bake Sale items!  And, this month?  I may have gone just a tad bit overboard, lol, but there is a method to my madness, I promise.  And, sharing that method gives you just a small glimpse at how my creative mind works.  Enjoy!  😉

First, I think of how much has happened since August 1st.  With school starting at the end of August, we tried our best to cram lots of fun into our last few weeks of summer freebie.  That meant play dates, swimming, movies, and lots of outdoor fun in the sun.  If I’m guessing, there are probably lots of you who spent a good portion of August doing the same thing – which means you have a LOT of end-of-summer pictures just begging to be scrapped, right?  Well, why not tackle some of those layouts with my portions of the Happy Hopscotch Buffet?  After all, it was all about sun, outdoor summer fun!

Alpha  –  Elements  –  Plain Papers  –  Patterned Papers

But, those last few weeks of summer went by FAR too fast for my family.  Now Tyler’s firmly planted in his First Grade class, and I’m full swing into the new college semester.  That means out house is filled with new things to read – college textbooks, library books, a syllabus for each class, homework, vocabulary words, etc.  It’s ok, though.  We’re a family that kind of likes to read!  If you have a lover of reading in your family, then I have 4 great products from the Reading Room Buffet:

Elements  –  Papers  –  Polka Dot Papers  –  Templates

And last, but not least, my son asked about joining the Tiger Scouts (because, “Mommy!!!”, he yelled, “they shoot BB Guns and Bows and Arrows!”).  Now, I don’t know if we’ll actually let him join or not…the local den (is that what they call it?) meets on Monday nights – and Tyler has a flag football game every Monday night for the next few months. BUT, Tiger/Cub/Boy Scouts makes me think of the outdoors, and camping, and that made me think of By The Campfire:

Kit  –  Clusters  –  Stacked Papers  –  QuickPages

So, let’s recap.  Seven lovely new buffet items for the Life Is Beautiful Buffet.  Twelve products in the $1 Bake Sale.  Sounds like a GREAT blog post to me, right?  Know what would make it even better?  A freebie, of course!  And I have a GORGEOUS freebie for you – a pack of 2 clusters to coordinate with the new Life Is Beautiful buffet items

Download Cluster Freebies Here

Some Gorgeous CT Layouts to finish out a fantastic blog post:

Think Straight & Little Black Dot Alpha

It’s Friday! And, like always, Fridays mean New Releases at GingerScraps!  This week, I have two more goodies joining the fun in my GingerScraps store…a new template pack and a versatile little alpha.

Unfortunately, I don’t feel good this morning (stuffy head, sore throat, fever/chills), so I’m going to skip a lot of the chatter and go right to the goodies and gorgeous CT layouts.

New this week is the Think Straight Template Pack

and the Little Black Dot Alpha

Just some of the gorgeous CT Layouts:

And that’s it for me today.  I’m off to drop the oldest at school and crawl back in bed.  I’ll be back tomorrow with even more great new goodies, though, so don’t miss out! 🙂