Archives for August 2025

DD: AUG 22

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DD: AUG 21

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DD: AUG 20

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Tutorial Tuesday (Individual Style)

Challenge Spotlight: That’s Entertainment

It’s that time again when the GingerScraps Blog celebrates YOU… the reason we’re here… by shining the spotlight on your creativity. And boy howdy, are you all being creative! With Scrap-a-Thon going this month, the Gallery is literally hopping with layouts. Choosing a Challenge to feature was a challenge in itself. Enter Boomers Girl’s That’s Entertainment. The prompt Lori gave us is as follows: “For the month’s challenge, let’s talk about commercials. I know, most aren’t widely entertaining, but there are some that are. I’d love to see you create a layout with the title being a slogan for a product used in a commercial.” What a fantastic prompt! Let’s see how it’s been put in play.

Layouts will appear in the order they were uploaded. As usual, each layout is linked to the Gallery so you can get a better look, and maybe leave a comment on the ones you really like. Just click on the Scrapper‘s name and you’ll zip to it.

First up is a layout from photocrazy. That background paper adds a sense of explosive movement that plays well with the Red Bull tag line.

To be totally honest, I had to look this one up – I didn’t recall it at all until I heard the music. But let me tell you, ktmoonblue has used the PERFECT textured paper for her title. It looks good enough to eat! The cookie elements are pretty darned realistic, too.

Formby Girl went super-simple for her MasterCard layout. Who could resist that face? (I’m kinda cracking up over the very feminine little girl holding a Batman umbrella, but that’s just my terrible sense of humour.)

I haven’t worn make-up in what feels like a lifetime, but I can recognize a great product when I see one. These artificial lashes and this mascara! Keeping the glamour aspect front-and-centre, dj_w reinforces it with her great photos.

Okay, who hasn’t got a favourite McDonalds jingle? My 42-year old son still likes a Happy Meal! I think dkane‘s layout could easily be a print ad.

KAPOH typically doesn’t “scrap” in the traditional way. I love that she took Clara Peller’s Burger King slogan from the 70s and created a little farm vignette.

So, imafishtank has gone quite obscure for her layout. I don’t recognize an advertising slogan here at all. Her journaling helped me make sense of the photo series.

Overachiever msbrad used two different, more recent product taglines, Energizer and Burger King. I love how she’s blended her focal photo and embellished with fun, summer elements.

Katherine Woodin is another over-achiever. She used both the tagline from a British cooking show and an older Burger King jingle for her memoir.

This was the main McDonalds message back in the day when I worked for them. (We won’t mention how long ago that was…) The photo stater used looks like a much nicer break that the ones I took in the basement of the Duluth (Minnesota) McDonalds back in the day.

Connie – Gerbera is of the same vintage as me, and she too liked the 70s McDonalds jingle. Her photo sets the tone for the patterned papers she chose to layer behind it, and she’s created a lovely memory.

I used to love the Kool-Aid man! (Sometimes I feel like I married him… my husband is about the clumsiest human I know.) I like how beccasue incorporated a photo of a partially-demolished wall as a nod to the ad.

Last, but not least, Briannasscrapper went with that golden oldie, Campbell’s Soup. She’s also got their signature red, gold and white colour scheme in there!

Now my brain is just humming with ideas for this Challenge! If I can find the photo I’m seeing in my mind’s eye, I’ll be back!

DD: AUG 19

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DD: AUG 18

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Post expires at 10:00am on Sunday August 24th, 2025

DD: AUG 17

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Remember, the download is kept up for 5 days, and then it is taken down. If you miss pieces, the kit will be available for purchase on the first day of the following month.

Post expires at 10:00am on Saturday August 23rd, 2025

DD: AUG 16

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Remember, the download is kept up for 5 days, and then it is taken down. If you miss pieces, the kit will be available for purchase on the first day of the following month.

Post expires at 10:00am on Friday August 22nd, 2025

August 15: Fresh Baked and $1.50 BAKE SALE @ Gingerscraps

Welcome to Friday. We have another treat for you today.

First we have our Fresh Baked Friday releases. I’m starting to see some fall kits work their way into the new releases.

It’s also the 15th, so we have the August Bake Sale.

Remember if you spend $10, you get this great collab free. I love the golden colors in this preparing us for fall.

Make sure to check out all the kits in the $1.50 August Bake Sale.

How are your challenges going? If you complete any 10 challenges this month, you get this gorgeous collab (or a variety of other choices from previous challenge collabs) as a reward!

Tutorial Tuesday (Fonts)

Back-to-School

If you live anywhere in North America, you can’t escape the back-to-school frenzy, even if you have nobody in your life who’s in school. It worked out well for us though… our son’s backpack came home from his day program last week with a totally fubar zipper. Walmart had a wide variety of options and I grabbed him one that holds everything he needs on a day-to-day basis. Score one for Jan!! I managed NOT to buy any pens, paper and paint this year, so that’s another point for me. So how did we end up looking at back-to-school fonts, you’re thinking. Well, when my mom came to see me on my birthday back in May, she brought me a bag full of things she found when cleaning her house after my dad died. They were all things I’d saved from high school. I KNOW, right?! Looking through them was a real walk down memory lane. One thing that really struck me is how much my handwriting has changed over the course of my life. That bag had half a dozen different variations! So that led me to thinking about how much it bothers me that schools aren’t teaching kids cursive writing any more and how that will severely hobble them in the future. But I digress. I’ve rounded up a baker’s dozen of schoolish fonts, from learning basic printing to more “sophisticated” teenage girl script. (I don’t have to describe that one, do I?) 😀 They’re all from dafont.com and 100% free for personal use. Just click on the font’s name and you’ll go right to the download screen. Oh, yeah… they’re not in any particular order. You’ll see.

First one up is KG Perfect Penmanship. Many of you already know Kim Geswein‘s fonts… she’s a machine! This one is the most perfect example of grade-school printing ever. You’ll see a couple more of Kim‘s fonts in a minute.

This isn’t one of them. 😉 Learning Curve BV is exactly how I remember being taught cursive writing. Very controlled, perfectly shaped and spaced letters, easily legible.

Kindergarten looks a lot like a real child trying very hard to make every letter perfectly. I love it!

Makes You Stronger is Kim‘s controlled middle-school cursive. My handwriting looked a lot like this when I as about 12.

I liked Second Son School for the notebook lining. Doesn’t it bring back memories?

I feel like English Essay is an evolution of a typical girly cursive hand from the basic to beginning to add some personality. Remember writing big, loopy, widely-spaced letters to fill up the page faster? 😉

Why do I think this could be a serial killer’s first printing? Just kidding. The Writer is definitely a beginner’s hand.

Very Simple Chalk is exactly that. It’s an all-caps font, with two sizes to represent upper and lower case characters. It includes numerals and a wide range of punctuation, as well as multilingual characters.

When I saw this, I HAD to share it with you. The crayon shape is part of the character map and you can point the business end in either direction. To point to the left, use the { and } at each end of your word. To point right, use the [ and ]. Each of the letters in Crayonized has the lines above and below, so they all connect up. It’s pretty cool!

Then, if you want your journaling to look like you wrote it with a wax crayon… Crayon Hand.

Ooh, teenage boy time! Most of the guys I’ve ever known mix printing and cursive, with small letters – Random Handwritten. My husband’s writing is so tiny and tight it’s hard to read; it’s like he has to pay for the ink. And he likes superfine pens, to make it worse.

Here’s another must-conform-avoid-attention-and-meet-expectations-at-all-costs late middle-school girly hand. Ironic name, though: The Only Exception.

And last… the tween girl who wants to assert some individuality but still craves the approval of her teachers……. Simplify Notation Single Line is tidy, controlled but has little circle tittles. How many of us dotted our I’s with hearts at some time in our lives? 😉

Did you see one that you might use for the Journaling Challenge this month? I hope so!