Fun Things Going On at ScrapMatters

I've been busy playing with some awesome kits from ScrapMatters this month!  They are so many new releases every week and it is hard to resist buying them all up!!

This weekend, SM released a set of six grab bags called Mixed Matters.  Each one contains awesome goodies from different designers and they are great on their own or by mixing them up.  This is using ScrapMatters Mixed Matters #6 for this LO of my 4yo daughter

 This is using  Off to School by Creations by Rachael and geniaBeana for this LO about some of my favorite teachers growing up.

I used the following parts of the ScrapMatters August Mix-A-Kits
Summer Wedding Cardstock (MAK) by Adorable Pixels
Carefree Elements by Alissa Jones (MAK)
Carefree Papers by Alissa Jones (MAK)
Summer Breeze - The Alphas by WM[squared] DesignssTemplate- Love Bursts by Crossbone Cuts Designs

 Kit - Under the Boardwalk from Clever Monkey Graphics  and Template - Bliss Layers from Find Your Bliss

Kit - Waterpark Wonderland by Elise's Pieces & Clever Monkey Graphics

I used the kit Precious Baby Boy from Designs by CRK for this LO of my youngest daughter at 3 months old Despite the fact that it is a boy kit, I knew I could use it for these photos of her!!
You can get the kit in the ScrapMatters Shop

Orchard Fun!

The Build-A-Kits for August are totally fun, especially in anticipation for Fall and apple picking!! HD Creations has 3 parts and they are just adorable!! Images are linked to the store and gallery







Here's what I did with them

ScrapMatters Birthday Celebration Giveaway

To celebrate ScrapMatters 5th birthday, we wanted to give back, and in a big way.  Check out these amazing sponsors and the prizes they’ve offered:

1-year membership – only available to a NEW member

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$50 gift certificate

Unless you live under a rock, you’ve heard about the fantastic quality and amazing customer service that Persnickety is known for.  Their prints are always spot-on for color, and their full bleed set-up means you never have white edges or cut-off edges.  Your pages print just exactly like you see them on your screen.  In addition to their generous prize for the winner, they’ve also offered 10% off coupon for ALL our fans:

Coupon Code: scrapmatters
Good for 10% Off your entire order.
One use per customer
Expires: September 5, 2012

Winner’s choice of:
Up & Running With Photoshop – Beginning Digital Scrapbooking,
Now We’re Rockin’ in Photoshop – Intermediate Digital Scrapbooking
Photo Editing 1: Good-to-Great!
Photo Editing 2: Frame-ups & Special Effects

Want to improve your digi scrapping skills? How about learning how to editing all of those digital photos that are sitting on your computer? If your answer is yes then JessicaSprague.com is the place for you! Over 60 video-based, online classes in everything from digital scrapbooking, photo editing, Silhouette and now videography are offered.  And once you buy a class, you can access it forever – love that!  And, if you are totally new to JessicaSprague.com and want to get a taste of what they are about, they offer a FREE Photoshop class – The Photoshop Top 5! For the month of August, JessicaSprague.com is also offering ALL ScrapMatters fans 20% off any of the classes offered in the giveaway.

Coupon Code: ScrapMatters20
Good for 20% off any classes listed above
One use per customer
Expires: August 31, 2012

digital download of Everyday Storyteller

Everyday Storyteller helps scrapbookers bring their stories to life with simple ideas for the practice of memory keeping.  With advice for paper, digital and hybrid scrapbooking, the book takes the reader behind-the-scenes with real world storytellers. It includes more than 100 tips, tricks and techniques for capturing moments, telling stories and creating memories.

 
hand-crafted camera necklace

When I’m not sucked into Pinterest, I love to spend time browsing all the beautiful creations available on Etsy.  I came across this beautiful camera necklace and just knew it had to be included in this giveaway – isn’t it stunning!  Leigh has so many beautifully hand-crafted and vintage-inspired goodies in her shop, you’ll definitely want to check it out. Mustache necklace, anyone? 

6 months of  The Fix
-OR-
3 months of banner advertising

The folks at DSA have been so generous in their contribution, and will customize it based on the winner being a designer or a scrapper – you choose what you want!

bag of your choice from JoTotes

“We have been creating and sending camera bags to women photographers around the world since 2009. Our bags provide a fashionable way for women to safely carry their camera bodies and lenses, along with regular purse items, every day—whether it be to a photo shoot, while traveling, or just while out on a regular day.”  I think all of these bags from JoTotes are SO cute, but my personal fave is the Betsy – how can you not love something with a name like that?

1-yr membership

Here at THE DAILY DIGI, we are dedicated to bringing you the best in digital scrapbooking on a daily basis.  The best quality products, the best resources, information, tutorials, and more so you don’t have to spend your time surfing and navigating the internet looking for it.

$25 Gift Certificate

Who doesn’t love free product from their favorite store? 

Isn’t that prize list incredible?!?  Do you want to know something even MORE incredible?  ALL of those goodies are going to a single winner!  That’s right – YOU could be the lucky lad or lass that snatches up each and every one of those offers!  So how do you enter?  Simply use the widget at the bottom of the SM Blog Post to track your entries.  You can enter as many times as you like, and some of them you can do more than once for even more entries!  The deadline to enter is 11:59pm EDT on August 14, and the winner will be announced shortly thereafter.  Good luck!!!

Open Positions at Stuff to Scrap

Stuff to Scrap is looking to fill some open positions & it’s a ton of fun to work here. Take a look at the positions listed below and then fill out this application  STS_Team Application!

 

 

August Happenings at Stuff to Scrap

I am so excited to be back at Stuff to Scrap on their Creative Team.  There are so many wonderful designers there and lots of fun stuff going on!  August is full of exciting and new things over at Stuff to Scrap!

Check out this month's STS Designer Mega Collab!

For the first week of August, if you purchase the mega collab, you'll get the quick pages for free!

This month's Build-a-Kit was around the theme "Harvest Time". A great, fun kit for summer or fall! Check out all these juicy packs!

Don't forget to use that coupon code! AUGUST_BUY3_SAVEHALF will save you 50% off when you purchase 3 or more packs (priced at 1.99 or more).

The Designer Darlings have also put together a great Commercial Use Grab Bag! this one has a general theme of the "Basics" so it's great for any kit!

The whole month of August, they will be having a HUGE Back 2 School Retirement Sale at Stuff to Scrap! Each designer will put products from their store in the Retirement Bin with HUGE markdowns! Grab these items before they are gone forever!!  There are also several designers that are either retiring from STS or from designing altogether and their stores are on sale for 60% off or more until the 15th, so hurry!!

 Kit used for ad is Back 2 School by Scraps by Andrea and 

is NOT included in the retirement sale.

For August 1-15th, when you make a purchase of $5 or more, you will get this super cute mini from Scraps by Andrea!

Be sure to check out the forum where every month there are new challenges and fun chats and events!

Freebie Alert!! ScrapMatters Blog Train

It is ScapMatters' 5th Birthday, so we're celebrating all weekend long!!  Head to the forums for fun and games, with great prizes!!  Head to the SM shop, where almost everything is on sale for 40% off!!  This kind of sale doesn't happen often, so make sure you hit it before it is gone Sunday!



BTW you can get this awesome kit FREE with a $15 purchase..



And here's a little freebie from me with it..

You probably came from Geniabeana Scraps and you'll head to Jenn's Blog next.  You can head to the ScrapMatters blog for a FULL listing of the participants.


 And here is the link to my freebie!  Enjoy!

Shake Rattle & Roll!!

Exciting things happening at ScrapMatters this month!!!

Image is linked to the forum at SM :)

Some more layouts

I participated in a challenge at Stuff to Scrap over the past 5 weeks and boy was it challenging!!  I made it to the end, but unfortunately I wasn't in the top three :(  That's okay, though...the other ladies in the final 6 were amazing and it must have been hard to choose!  Here are my layouts for the 5 challenges.

Week One was the toughest for me as it was about ME and it also followed a recipe with A LOT of stuff on the page, which I don't normally do.  This layout used a bunch of items from the Daily Digi.  Image is linked for credits.

Week 2 we had to take a template (which was really a bunch of shapes not really in a LO format) they gave us and rearrange it to form our own template.  We could only use those pieces, too...tough.  This LO uses Created by Jill Scraps' kit Denim Blues.  Image is linked to gallery

Week three was to use an ad for inspiration.  I used Created by Jill Scraps' portion of the July Build A Kit (from STS) called Sweet and Simple - the kit  the solids  and the labels

Week 4 was a photo-less layout with at least 150 words!!  This was a challenge for me because I don't normally journal on my pages and I've never done one without a photo!!  This time I used I Heart the 4th from Crossbone Cuts Designs which you can get in the ScrapMatters Shop

For the final week, we were given a collab kit from the Stuff to Scrap design team and were instructed to created a 2-page layout..  I really liked being able to see how much Alexa changed her first year.

REALLY Bad Blogger :(

So much for my resolution of blogging every day...I've been busy doing layouts for ScrapMatters and here are a few of them

 I Heart the 4th from Crossbone Cuts Designs
You can get I Heart the 4th in the ScrapMatters Shop

I used Cluster Queen Creations’ kit Proud to Be, which is part of a collab with Amy Stoffel. I used all of CQC’s part. Proud to Be can also be purchased as part of a bundle, The Heartland Collection. I also used a template from Gimme Layers Lite Vol. 14 by Cluster Queen Creations as my base for the layout.  I also used a staple from Mye De Leon's Blondie Tower

 I used the kits I Love to Read and Movie Night which are both part of a collab bundle from Alissa Jones and Agnesingap Designs. Buy the bundle and get the Seaside kit for free!!!

You can get the bundle in the ScrapMatters Shop

 

I used the kit Movie Night which is part of a collab bundle from Alissa Jones and Agnesingap Designs. Buy the bundle and get the Seaside kit for free!!!
You can get the bundle in the ScrapMatters Shop

I used the kit Pasted and Pinned: Entertainment Bundle from Amy Stoffel for this LO of my daughter playing with her sister's Minnie Mouse ears.
You can get the kit here at ScrapMatters

 I used the kit Fashion Doll from Clever Monkey Graphics and Kaye Winiecki for this layout of my youngest getting her first haircut, manicure and ears pierced at a local salon during her sister's birthday party. I also used the June 2012 Challenge Template from Shabby Abby
You can get the kit here at ScrapMatters http://shop.scrapmatters.com/product...t=0&page=1

I used the kit Girly Girl and the Girly Girl Alpha from MHK Scraps and Template number 2 from Down This Road's Road Map Volume 5 set

 I used the kit Girly Girl and the Girly Girl Alpha both by MHK Scraps

I used the kit Music is Love and Music is Love Alpha from Blue Umbrella Designsl for this LO of my daughter playing the flute in the county middle school honor band.

You can get the kit here at ScrapMatters http://shop.scrapmatters.com/product...8&cat=0&page=1 and the alpha here http://shop.scrapmatters.com/product...9&cat=0&page=1

 I used the collab Splash Into Summer from the ScrapMatters Design Team
You can get the kit in the ScrapMatters Shop