Archives for March 2018

Fresh Baked: March 09, 2018

March 9, 2018 by Sarah

Tomorrow is Mario Day. Like Super Mario Bros Mario Day! That is awesome! Childhood has been recovered! Time to get some pics of the family playing some Nintendo! What’s your favorite Mario game? While you’re thinking of that, make sure you check out the amazing new items from the designer! And when you’re done, make sure you celebrate Napping Day on Monday!

Can you believe that next Saturday is St. Patrick’s Day? To celebrate, the designers are having a special fun chance to win FREE KITS! Check the forum for more information!

https://forums.gingerscraps.net/showthread.php?42045-WIN-YOUR-WISHLIST-2018-Are-you-feeling-lucky-)&p=490399

Remember when you spend $10 in the store, you get a great new collab! It’s time for Spring and all the Spring Things!

https://store.gingerscraps.net/GingerBread-Ladies-Collab-Spring-Things.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Miracle-of-spring-1..html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Singular-1-Templates-Set-by-Aimee-Harrison.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Duality-1-Templates-Set-by-Aimee-Harrison.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Lucky-Me-6-Grab-Bag.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Lucky-Charm-BGD.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Woodland-Spring-Bundle.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/March-2018-Grab-Bag-Forever-Young-by-Connie-Prince.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/March-2018-Template-Bundle-by-Connie-Prince.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Sweet-Pea-Digital-Scrapbook-Kit-By-Dandelion-Dust-Designs.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/It-Is-Wonderful.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/A-Little-Bit-Arty-11-Templates-HSA-a-little-bit-arty-11.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Monkey-See-KIT-by-Heather-Z-Scraps.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Oh-Girl-Grab-Bag.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Wonderful-World-Page-kit-by-Kakleidesigns.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Kristmess/

https://https//store.gingerscraps.net/Sick-Day-GrabBag.html

Bundle: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Let-It-Rain-Bundle.html

Bundle: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Cake-and-Balloons-collection.html
Page kit: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Cake-and-Balloons-page-kit.html
Journaling Cards: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Cake-and-Balloons-journaling-cards.html
Graffiti Pack: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Cake-and-Balloons-graffiti-pack.html
Word Bits: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Cake-and-Balloons-word-bits.html
Glitter Pack: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Cake-and-Balloons-glitter-pack.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Lotsa-Photos-6-Templates-by-Miss-Fish.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Neia-Scraps

https://bit.ly/2tyxU5v

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Blue-Heart-Scraps/

https://goo.gl/DQK8T

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Neia-Scraps

Remember, if you complete 10 challenges, just ten, you get a free kit as well!!

Who else is ready for spring? This makes the wait a little better!

Filed Under: Fresh Baked, Fresh News, GingerBread Ladies, Party/ Event, sales, Site News

Designer Spotlight: Luv Ewe Designs

March 8, 2018 by Jan

Do you know Jennifer? No? Well, let me introduce you! Jennifer is the genius behind Luv Ewe Designs. She’s one half of this month’s Featured Designers. Jennifer graciously allowed me to “interview” her recently. Here’s a transcript.

JiA: How long have you been designing?

LED: Nearly 10 years.

JiA: What is your design process?

LED: I love looking at Pinterest for colors! Then I usually make my papers first. They come easy to me. I love to preview at the end and see how it all comes together. Sometimes I surprise myself. But better yet is when my CT (creative team) does an awesome job at showcasing the kit! They are a great group of girls!

JiA: What do you use to create your designs (software, hardware etc)?

LED: PS CC

JiA: Describe your design work space.

LED: Quite a small area, really. I really like my desk though. It belonged to my great-grandparents. My grandmother used to do her homework on it. There are inkstains on it from the dip pens they used to use. My grandmother asked me to never cover up the stains, they give it character.

JiA: What a fantastic heirloom that is! What motivates and inspires your designs?

LED: Weird things inspire me. Sometimes I just see a quote on Pinterest and BAM! There is an idea for a kit. Happened to me last night… now to start creating it!

JiA: What kit currently available in your GingerScraps store is your favourite? Why?

LED: That is a hard one. I think it might be the Grateful kit I did with Blue Heart Scraps. I love doing collabs with her! The colors are soft and cute, and it’s all girly! I like all-girly kits because I have all boys.

JiA: Do you craft outside of the digital world?

LED: Not as much as I used to. I love to decorate my home. Does that count?

JiA: Of course it counts! What is the last book you read?

LED: She Believes by Debbie Lindell. It is written by the pastor of my church. It’s very inspirational towards women. I don’t read much but I definitely loved this one!

JiA: How appropriate… it’s International Women’s Day! Tea, or coffee?

LED: Tea! Hubby is brewing some strawberry chocolate green tea right now. Yum!

JiA: Sounds… different. Do you have a guilty pleasure?

LED: Doctor Pepper and anything caramel.

JiA: I’m so glad I don’t have to answer that question. If time travel were possible, where would you go and why?

LED: I don’t want to go to the future. I will just wait and see what happens. Something may end up being depressing and then I’d just worry about it. Maybe go back to see Da Vinci paint the Mona Lisa.

JiA: What’s your favourite thing about GingerScraps?

LED: The gals are sweet and helpful there. I’ve been in other stores and there just was not much communication between everyone. I just felt like I was on my own.

JiA: If you could have any super power what would it be?

LED: Probably to be a fly on the wall and spy on people.

JiA: Invisibility would let you do that too! But you know what they say about eavesdroppers… they never hear anything good about themselves. Thank you for chatting with me, Jennifer.

Ladies, before we sign off here, Jennifer has a terrific special sale for us! Let’s show our appreciation by shopping with her.

Filed Under: Digital Scrapbooking

Sneak Peeks March 8th 2017

March 8, 2018 by Shellby JB

Happy Thursday!!! Don’t forget the dreaded time change happens this weekend in the states. I always hate the spring forward! I don’t like my hour of sleep taken away!! Also if you are playing Scrapping Survivor don’t miss the deadline! Maybe some of the oodles of new releases might help you out with you page! Let’s take a look at some of what’s releasing tomorrow!

From Tinci

From Neia Scraps

From Heather Z

From JoCee

From Aimee Harrison

From Miss Fish

Have a wonderful weekend!

Filed Under: Digital Scrapbooking

Tutorial Tuesday (Facebook Timeline Covers)

March 6, 2018 by Jan

Here we are into March already! Time is flying, and as I get older, the faster it goes. (Retirement can’t get here soon enough though.) This week I thought we could talk about one of the new GingerScraps monthly challenges. This one, the Facebook Timeline Cover challenge, was suggested by one of our wonderful members and Ginger thought it was brilliant. In some ways it’s like the Signature challenge, not a full-sized layout, and with some specific limitations. I’m an inherently lazy person, so I decided I would make myself a little template to make it easier. And now I’m sharing it with you! (Of course, if you’re not on Facebook it’s essentially useless to you and you’ve probably already quit reading…) You can grab the template HERE and as you can see in the image below there are two layers. One is the photo spot and one is the background, which includes a stroke outline, if you like that sort of thing. I measured everything for you so you can just fill ‘er up!

Here’s a caveat for you. This template works really nicely on the desktop/laptop version of Facebook, but on your phone or tablet the photo will be centered on the background. Isn’t it great then that I’ve made the photo spot moveable? It’s on its own layer! You can see in the image below that the paper layer is on top of that stroked layer. I’m going to move it up my stack later.

I chose Kristmess‘ Happy Go Lucky kit – I LOVE it! I decided I wanted a frame around my photo and it looks great! It will hang off the template at the bottom and that’s okay. When you’ve got your Timeline Cover finished you can crop that bit off using the Crop tool. (CTRL/CMD>C) You might also notice I’ve thrown a scatter on there underneath the photo layer.

This month’s challenge was to create a Cover that reflects March to us. Some people might be already deep into spring, some might have a birthday (both my daughters are March babies), some might be into basketball and March Madness, and some might have special holidays to commemorate. For me, March is always about St Paddy’s Day. My very Irish grandfather lived for that day each year (it was the only day Grandma didn’t limit his pints) and he actually died on March 17 the year I turned 4. So my Timeline Cover is all about that. I added a few Irish elements then moved the stroked layer right on top of the paper layer so I could apply a glitter-gloss stroke to it. I used that dark green from Miss Mis Designs‘ March Buffet Sunshine and Rain style pack. I made the stroke a little wider first though.

Don’t forget to shadow your elements. The dimension and realism they provide will really elevate your cover.

After I put my finished cover up on my Facebook profile, I noticed there were a couple of tiny little tweaks needed to give it a perfect fit, so I adjusted your template to be just right for all of you.

Have some fun with this one! Make sure you keep a plain copy for next month and the month after that!

Filed Under: Challenge Spotlight, Digital Scrapbooking, Tutorials Tagged With: Tutorial Tuesday

Fresh Baked: March 02, 2018

March 2, 2018 by Sarah

Do you know what today is? Today is Seuss Day! The author of The Cat in the Hat, Hop on Pop, etc! It was such a big part of, I think, most everyone’s childhood. Childhood is such a magical time! There are some great kits coming out that are perfect for scrapping those childhood memories! Can’t figure out the perfect way to do everything? Check out a template series or two! Something is sure to catch your eye!

Remember when you spend $10 in the store, you get a great new collab! It’s time for Spring and all the Spring Things!

https://store.gingerscraps.net/GingerBread-Ladies-Collab-Spring-Things.html

Bundle – https://store.gingerscraps.net/Sail-Away-by-Scraps-N-Pieces.html
Templates – https://store.gingerscraps.net/Template-Pack-36-Inspired-by-Kristal-by-Scraps-N-Pieces.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Bless-This-Home-BGD.html

Collection: https://bit.ly/2FElyN3
Kit: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Woodland-Spring-Kit.html
Papers: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Woodland-Spring-Papers.html
Elements: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Woodland-Spring-Elements.html
Extra Papers: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Woodland-Spring-Extra-Papers.html
Alphas: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Woodland-Spring-Alphas.html

Bundle: https://store.gingerscraps.net/My-Guy-Bundle-by-Connie-Prince.html
Kit: https://store.gingerscraps.net/My-Guy-Kit-by-Connie-Prince.html
Templates: https://store.gingerscraps.net/My-Guy-12×12-Templates-CU-Ok-by-Connie-Prince.html
Border Clusters: https://store.gingerscraps.net/My-Guy-Border-Clusters-by-Connie-Prince.html
Alpha Pack AddOn: https://store.gingerscraps.net/My-Guy-Alpha-Pack-AddOn-by-Connie-Prince.html
Word Art Pack: https://store.gingerscraps.net/My-Guy-Word-Art-Pack-by-Connie-Prince.html
Extra Papers: https://store.gingerscraps.net/My-Guy-Extra-Papers-by-Connie-Prince.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Springtime-Digital-Scrapbook-Kit-By-Dandelion-Dust-Designs.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Bring-on-Spring-Templates-by-Dear-Friends-Designs.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Heart-and-Soul-HSA-Templates.html

Bundle: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Oh-Boy-Bundle.html
Kit: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Oh-Boy-Kit.html
Elements: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Oh-Boy-Elements.html
Papers: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Oh-Boy-Papers.html
Alpha: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Oh-Boy-Alpha.html
Cards: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Oh-Boy-Cards.html
Glitters: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Oh-Boy-Glitters.html
Basic Papers: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Oh-Boy-Basic-Papers.html

Bundle: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Here-comes-the-sun-bundle-by-Kakleidesigns.html
Kit: https://https//store.gingerscraps.net/Here-comes-the-sun-kit-by-Kakleidesigns.html
Solids: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Here-comes-the-sun-solids-by-Kakleidesigns.html
Collages: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Here-comes-the-sun-Collages-stamps-by-Kakleidesigns.html
Word Art: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Here-comes-the-sun-Word-art-by-Kakleidesigns.html
Cards: https://https//store.gingerscraps.net/Here-comes-the-sun-cards-by-Kakleidesigns.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Kristmess/

Bundle: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Let-It-Rain-Bundle.html
Kit: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Let-It-Rain-PageKit.html
Flairs: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Let-It-Rain-Flairs.html
Grunge: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Let-It-Rain-Grunge.html
Ombre Papers: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Let-It-Rain-OmbrePapers.html
Titles: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Let-It-Rain-Titles.html
Journal Cards: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Let-It-Rain-JournalCards.html

Bundle: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Just-Married-Bundle.html
Kit: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Just-Married-PageKit.html
Flairs: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Just-Married-Flairs.html
Grunge: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Just-Married-Grunge.html
Ombre Papers: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Just-Married-OmbrePapers.html
Titles: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Just-Married-Titles.html
Journal Cards: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Just-Married-JournalCards.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Lindsay-Jane/

https://bit.ly/2tyxU5v

Remember, if you complete 10 challenges, just ten, you get a free kit as well!!

Who else is ready for spring? This makes the wait a little better!

Filed Under: Fresh Baked, Fresh News, GingerBread Ladies, sales, Site News

It’s the Lucky Month at Gingerscraps!

March 1, 2018 by Sarah

March is all about the Irish appreciation and the color green! Though, I will say, the buffet colors? They’re all about the spring that’s also coming! Am I the only one just ready for something besides the browns that winter bring? It’s time to open those windows, smell some fresh air, and get some pretty pictures of all the new blooms!

It is the First of the month, and that means the revel of our new Buffet!!

Don’t forget to check out the Buffet Bundles, one easy click to add bundles of Buffet goodies to your cart, and an amazing value too!