Layout Spotlight

Oh, wow. Boy am I late. I was looking the gallery last night to find the perfect layout to share with you all. I somehow got distracted. But anyways here’s the layout of the week:

I just love the photos that Lynette used, they make me smile everytime I see them.

She used “Sweet Tooth” and “Notebook Alpha” to make this layout perfect.

I’ll be back next Thursday with a new layout to spotlight, so be sure to get your layouts using Blue Heart Scraps Products uploaded to the gallery over at GingerScraps.

New Release & Coupon!

Happy Friday morning, all.  My family is finally starting to get back onto a normal schedule after the holidays.  The oldest is back in Kindergarten and my next college semester starts on Monday (hold on while I try to fake excitement about that, lol).

Other exciting news?  I’m loving it at Ginger Scraps so much, I’m making it my home.  And because of that YOU get to benefit!  Check out the pretty ad below to see how you can save an extra 30% off anything in my store all month long, in celebration of my exclusive Ginger Scraps store.  🙂

I have one new release this week – Notebook Alpha.

Beautiful, basic notebook alpha pack, the perfect finishing touch to any type of layout. Comes with uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers and some punctuation.  And, like all of my new releases, it’s on sale for 25% off all weekend long.  (Add that discount to the coupon provided above and you can snag this adorably useful alpha for just over $1!)

A few CT layouts created with Notebook Alpha (to help show its awesomeness in full effect):

by Ginger Scraps CT member Tricia:

by Lynette (using my kit Sweet Tooth)

by Emma (using my kit Showing Thanks)

adorable layout and hybrid from Crystal (both using an older kit, Little Monster, no longer available)

Beautiful, eh?  🙂

And, that’s just the beautiful layouts with my new release.  There are tons more gorgeous releases at Ginger Scraps today.  You can sneak a peek at all of the awesomeness by clicking here.

Hope you all have an incredibly wonderful weekend!  🙂

Layout Spotlight

Hi, it’s Crystal here, with today’s layout spotlight. I know, I haven’t posted in a while, but December was a very stressful and busy month.

I’d like to spotlight a layout by MommyScrapper called “Big Sister“:

…and I’m pretty that it was those beautiful pictures that drew me to it, and the sweet journaling.

She used “Showing Thanks” by Blue Heart Scraps (of course):

I’ll be back next Thursday with a new layout to spotlight, so be sure to get your layouts using Blue Heart Scraps Products uploaded to the gallery over at GingerScraps.

Fan Submitted Freebie

I love to see the download numbers rise when I offer freebies here on my blog.  It makes me happy to know that you’re enjoying the things I create enough to download them.  What makes me even happier?  When I see things that you all have created with my freebies (and with the products you purchase from my store).  Most of the time they’re beautiful layouts that you upload to store galleries (or email to me).  But, every once in a while I get an extra special treat – a freebie that you’ve created using some of my goodies.

And today, I have one of those freebies.  This is a QP Freebie created by Tonisha of Simply Stated Scrap Designs using my portion of the December DST Blog Train.  That mini kit freebie is still available for download here for those of you interested.

A huge thanks to Tonisha for sending me today’s QP Freebie so that I can share it with all of you.  Hope you enjoy!  🙂

Download Tonisha’s QP Freebie Here

January Buffet & Bake Sale! :)

Happy New Year!  I hope you enjoyed a wonderful time last night saying goodbye to 2011 and welcoming 2012 with open arms.  Though my family and I had a lot to be thankful for last year, I’m quite glad to see it gone and a new year started.  Hopefully 2012 will be much kinder to us all.  🙂

With the first of the new year comes GingerScraps’ January Buffet – and this month was dedicated to getting you all well prepared to tackle those P52/P365 scrapping goals!  Tons of basic items, in a rainbow of colors, this month’s “Colors of My Life” is a must add to any scrapping collection.  And, what’s better?  They’re on sale for just $1 per pack through January 5th!  My portion is below, but be sure to click here to check out the entire January Buffet collection!

I’ve also got several other goodies available for just $1 through January 5th as part of the GingerScraps $1 January Bake Sale!

Those goodies are linked below:

And, that, my dears, is a whole lot of awesomeness packed into one big sale.  If you use my coupon (posted in the previous post), you can save even more!  It’s like Christmas all over again!  🙂

I have some wonderful things planned for this year, and some new designing goals I’m working, a sale and opportunity to win planned for later this month (and a CT call planned for very soon!), so I hope you’re ready!  🙂

Brownie Scraps Store Closed & Coupon

It is with sadness in my heart that I inform you that my Brownie Scraps store was closed earlier this morning.  Though it was not my intention or my desire to have the store close so abruptly, and without warning to all of you, some things are just beyond my control.

I’d like to send out a special apology to those who may not have had the opportunity to shop at my kit retirement sale at Brownie Scraps (that was supposed to run through tonight).  I wish I could do something to change that, but those kits were never uploaded to my Ginger Scraps store, so I have no way to direct you elsewhere to purchase them.

However, in an attempt to make it up to you some, I’d like to offer you a 40% off coupon to my GingerScraps store.


You can find my GingerScraps store by clicking here (or by clicking the image above).

And, since my store there is already 30% off (through tomorrow), what better opportunity than now to stock up and save!

I hope you have an incredible (and safe!) New Year’s Eve.

I’ll be back with some wonderful new goodies (and a great sale) tomorrow!  🙂

Stacked Paper Freebie & $1 Kit Sale Reminder!

First, have you checked out the new Facebook Exclusive Freebie available on the GingerScraps Facebook Page?

Well, I’ve seen it…and I happen to think it’s pretty awesome!  🙂

Click Here to visit the GingerScraps facebook page and download today!
(Note: you must “Like” the GingerScraps Facebook Fan Page, if you don’t already)

My latest new release, Glam, hit the store at Brownie Scraps this morning (and, like always, is 25% off for Tuesday’s Fresh Baked Brownies)

Plus, don’t forget I have 23 products retiring at Brownie Scraps at the end of this year.  They’re all priced at $1 each, and when the year is over, the products will be gone for good!  Check out the Retiring Soon section of the Brownie Scraps store to see what’s available!

And, last but not least – I completely forgot to include a freebie in Friday’s New Release post.  Oops!  But, have no fear, I’m making up for it today with a gorgeous stacked paper freebie created by my CT gal, Manda!

Download Here

New Release & Winner! :)

Good Friday morning to you!  It’s the last day of Kindergarten for my oldest until after the New Year…and can I just say how extremely excited I am about that?!  It will be so nice not to have to hear my alarm clock go off so early each morning for a few weeks!  Doesn’t mean I’ll actually get to sleep in, of course (my boys are 5 and 3, early mornings are pretty normal around here), but at least I’ll have the luxury of waking up to a sweet chant of ‘mommy, mommy’ instead of that loud annoying ‘beep, beep, beep’.   🙂

Besides, that also means Christmas Day is almost here…and around my house?  That is a very good thing!  😀

I have one new release for you today, available at my wonderful GingerScraps store.  Friday mornings there are always packed with such gorgeous new goodies, it sometimes feels a bit intimidating.  But, I happen to think today’s new release is positively adorable, so it fits in perfectly there!  🙂

All little girls love dress-up and enjoy playing with mommy’s make-up – and Glam is the perfect opportunity to memorialize all of those adorable photos!

Kit comes complete with 2 full alphas, 14 papers and 40 elements.

A few spectacular layouts created with this week’s new release (aren’t they GORGEOUS!):

Thanks to those of you who commented on Wednesday’s Sneak Peek thread.  I let random.org pick a winner…congrats mskinsey!  🙂  I’ll contact you later today to let you know how to pick up your free copy of this kit.  I hope you enjoy!

Sneak Peek! :D

Hi everyone! I hope you are all having a fantastic holiday season so far! Guess what? I’ve got a new sneak for you today, and it is SUCH an awesome kit! I love it, my girls love it, and we did a special photo shoot yesterday just to go with it! I know you are all going to love this one. 🙂

And, as always, you can win the new kit! Just leave a comment below by tomorrow, Thursday December 14th at midnight. Make sure and leave your email so we 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. JoyLynn will be back on Friday to announce the lucky winner!!

$1 Kit Retirement Sale!

The new year will be here before we know it.  Time to move out some of my previous kits to make way for new ones. What does that mean for all of you? SALE!

23 different products – just $1 each – through December 31st – After that, they’re gone for good!

Check out all retiring products here: BHS Kit Retirement Sale

And, for all of you Brownie Scraps lovers, my latest release, Winter Chill, is now available for sale:

Another gorgeous layout from my CT member Emma using Winter Chill:

And, last but not least – not one, but two FREEBIES!  My CT gals are so incredibly amazing, stockpiling my freebie stash on nearly every new release.  Makes spoiling all of you lovely blog and newsletter readers so. very. easy.  🙂

Today’s freebies – a stacked paper freebie and a border cluster freebie…because it’s all about making your job of scrapping your memories easier!  🙂

Be sure to scroll down for both download links…and enjoy!  😀

Download the Winter Chill Border Cluster Freebie

Download the Winter Chill Page Starter Freebie