Fresh Baked: August 01
Aug
1
2012
Strike! You’re out. It’s out of here! Penalty! Slam dunk! Check! The stay-cations are over, and it’s time to get back into the swing of things. It’s time to start prepping for back to school, the time for practices and running around, always in a hurry.
The buffet for August is “GO TEAM” completely centered around sports! It’s been a big request, and the designers literally knocked it out of the park!! The designers went above and beyond and did an amazing job!! It’s just perfect, I’d say, to honor the Olympics!!
It’s a new month, and that means, OF COURSE!! A BAKE SALE!!
https://store.gingerscraps.net/-1.00-BakeSale-Aug-1-5
Come and see what the designers have cooked up for sale!!
See!! I wasn’t kidding!! They went to TOWN working on these amazing pieces!! They all work so well together, and coordinate so beautifully!!
See!! They work SO beautifully together!!
Remember, when you spend $10 in the store, you get an amazing grab bag. August’s was created by JoyLynn of Blue Heart Scraps! It’s Back to School time, and this grab bag is PERFECT for it!!
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Make-The-Grade-August-FWP-Grab-Bag.html
SO much fun, right!! 😀
A new month means a new guest designer!! This month, it’s Ana of Sugary Fancy!! As always, we ask our guests to tell us a little about themselves, and this is what Ana had to share with us:
I’m Ana and I live in Brazil with my eternal love and our couple of doggies that are our joy!
We are connected to the love of technology, watching good movies, shopping, meeting friends, taking photos… well we love the same things! 😉
I worked as a teacher for 11 years but in 2007/8 I found out the digital scrapbook and felt in love (of course!). Art was always part of my life and I have the best job of the world for 3 years now!
I love doodling and you’ll see my doodles in almost all my designs! It’s truly my mark <3 Actually creating is a BIG passion… I love to create and I hope you love my creations!
xo Ana
Here are a few of the items she has for everyone to play with!!
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Little-Miss-Jolly-Kit-by-Sugary-Fancy.html
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Little-Miss-Jolly-Scatters-by-Sugary-Fancy.html
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Little-Miss-Jolly-Words-and-Swirls-by-Sugary-Fancy.html
I’m SO excited to see what else she has in store for us!!
That’s not it for those joining the team!! This one has been in the wings for awhile. I’m SO excited to welcome Wendy, of Neverland Scraps to the Gingerscraps team!!!
Here’s what Wendy had to tell us about herself:
My name is Wendy. I am the name behind Neverland Scraps. I started digiscrapping in May of 2005. One day during the month of May (sounds like a song, huh?) I needed an element that I couldn’t find in my digistash so I did a Google search and found a tutorial. After walking myself through the tutorial, It didn’t take me long to realize that I too could make the things that I was buying from designing. In June of 2005, a friend asked me to consider selling my products in her store. I designed through my husband’s deployment (talk about therapy!), through many military moves, breaking my leg in eleven places and many up’s and downs. However, in November of 2009, I decided it was time to close shop and focus on scrapbooking, which is what I thought was my true passion. While scrapbooking has been my passion in the past, I realized that I really enjoyed all aspects of designing. I jump head-first in to doing quality control in hopes that it would keep me away from designing. But I continued to design things for friends who had requests for kits that they couldn’t find! Or I’d find an ISO thread that no one bothered to pay attention (never here!!). I tried to ignore the buzz it as much as I could until I couldn’t help creating something new, learning something new with Photoshop and now Adobe Illustrator and sharing it with my blog readers. It was then that a bug, or a best friend, whispered in my ear, "I think you want to sell in a store again" I denied it, fought it, ignored it as much as possible, all while creating things for my blog! Then one day it hit me like a ton of bricks. I missed designing a lot!! I finally broke down and applied to GingerScraps where Ginger graciously brought me on board (Thank you Ginger!). I am very excited at the thought of being part of a store again, the camaraderie that designers, team members and community members have with one another. I have missed that aspect while sitting on the sidelines these past few years.
I do believe she’ll fit in just fine, just fine indeed!!
Make sure you check out her stuff in the Go Team buffet section!! And keep a look-out! She’s got some great stuff coming out on Friday, during the regular scheduled newsletter time!!
Oooh, I think I’m done. Oh wait, I’m not!! I didn’t reveal the daily download!! First off, I have to show off July’s.
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Chill-Kit.html
Beautiful, right? I love it!!
Kathy Winters created August’s Daily Download and it just turned out SO perfect!
https://gingerscraps.net/gsblog/2012/08/daily-download-aug-01/
So, grab your bat and ball, and head on down to the store!! Before you leave, though, make sure you check out the new challenges as well!
Have a great Wednesday, and I hope you enjoy your August!!
Daily Download – Aug 01
Aug
1
2012
Well, hello! Welcome to August. Can you believe it? NUTS! Right?
It’s time for the new daily download!! Before I do, I thought I’d let you know that we’re changing things up with the daily download.
No, don’t worry, we’re not doing anything major, just how we’re going to show it off!!
With the preview, sometimes you don’t know if you’re going to like the kit. Well, now, we’re going to show off some layouts, at least once a week! You’ll be able to see exactly what’s coming, based on the layouts.
We hope you enjoy!!
Now, I can’t show you August’s amazing kit, I have to show off July’s, in full!!
Terra, of Sugar Kissed Designs did an amazing job on July’s kit. I’ve been craving ice cream since I saw it, and well, you might too!!
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Chill-Kit.html
Some of the amazing layouts created using it:
Created by mamaape
Created by Terra
Created by catgoddess
See, the kit is SO much cuter than that sneak peek could ever do justice for!!
Now! What you’ve truly been waiting for!! Kathy Winters has created August’s Daily Download! Oh my goodness! It’s GORGEOUS!!
It’s so bright, sunny, and airy. Just beautiful!!
And a couple layouts her CT made with it 😀
Challenge Spotlight–Signature Challenge
Jul
31
2012
Good morning ladies! Sorry this is a little late; I am going on vacation this week and I’ve been swamped trying to get all the “little things” done before I go! Eep!
Today is the LAST DAY OF JULY–what?! That means you have to get all your monthly challenge points in tonight! Make sure you visit the July Challenge Points Tracking thread and get everything in so you can be the winner of a shiny new buffet kit or store gift certificate! 🙂
I will do a quick spotlight of an easy challenge you can do to get your last point in! This is one you can snap together in a few minutes and enjoy all month: the Signature Challenge hosted by JoyLynn of Blue Heart Scraps!
This month’s siggy challenge was simply to make one representing you country’s colors! With 4th of July in the US and Canada Day in Canada (of course), the forum has been swamped with patriotic pride in digiscrap form! Let’s peek at a few of the cute siggies the girls have been sporting over the last month!
By kandiced
By BriannasScrapper
By Zanthia
Cuteness! I just love the cute little maple leafs on the Canada siggy and all the stars on the USA ones! The old red, white and blue has never looked better! 🙂
If you haven’t done this challenge and you need an extra point, DO IT! It’s super easy and you can sport your siggy for a bit before you come up with something new for August. 🙂
Remember, the new challenge rewards system started in July; stop by the thread and read up before you hit the tracking thread and tally up your points! Again I say: TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO GET YOUR JULY POINTS IN! Make sure you’ve got everything posted in the challenge threads and in your tracking thread for credit!
If you have any question about this or any of our monthly challenge, please direct your queries to the Cookie Jar and someone fabulous will be along shortly to help you. 🙂
Tomorrow is the first day August–AHH! Fall, fairs, football, back to school: I can’t wait! I’ll be back next week with a new challenge for the new month. Have a wonderful week, ladies! 🙂
Jul
30
2012
Congratulations to modgee for winning LOTW! I adore her beautiful layout. The soft colors, the layers of papers and the colors make me smile. It’s a fabulous LO to say the least. Click the image to leave her some love or click here to view her entire Gingerscraps Gallery.
You can pick outstanding gallery layouts which become the next LOTW nominee’s by posting in the “Baker’s Best” thread. Check out the rules here.
As always your vote counts so head over the the forum to vote for the next LOTW winner. You can be a LOTW winner too, all you have to do is scrap! Happy Scrapping.
Weekly Wrap-Up: Got your eyes on the prize?
Jul
29
2012
Good morning ya’ll!
Late start for me this Sunday, woke up with a crick in the neck and while I was putting away clean dishes I suddenly needed to reorganize my Tupperware cupboard. Yup. So, now I’m here, with my fresh cup of Butter Toffee flavored coffee (just a quick splutz [that’s a word, I promise] of milk) and ready to dawdle on through what will undoubtedly be a very lazy Sunday.
Enough about me!
Let’s talk scrap!
The biggest thing happening around here is our Christmas in July celebration! Please kindly crawl out from your rock if you were unaware of this. 😉 We’ve been so excited about all the activities and PRIZES – OH THE PRIZES! – that it’s been quite difficult to contain our exuberance. Today wraps up our celebrations, so if you’ve got any last minute layouts to finish for the special challenges, or want to pop into one last chat (a story speed scrap!) with Pixels by Jen (2:00PM EST!) then now is your chance! Have you been keeping track of your event points? Got your eyes on the BIG prize?
If you earn a total of 10 points by Sunday July 29th at midnight EST, you will receive this special gift from our GingerScraps Designers!!
Check out the Christmas in July thread for all the details!
One of the challenges you can complete for our Christmas in July(CiJ) celebration is the Hybrid Ornament – which I am working on making several of for Holiday gifts! Simple, personal and, obviously, awesome.
Even after the CiJ has wrapped up there is no reason NOT to get a jump on your Holiday gifts! I know with the endless supply of goodies that GingerScraps creates for us I’m certain to actually get my gifts completed BEFORE December 24th this year. You know, like December 23rd. 😉
December will be here before you know it- yes summer is still in full swing, and I am expecting some very warm August days to come but yes, AUGUST! There are only three days left of July! HOLY MOLY! I’ve come to the conclusion that there is indeed a time thief among us. Get ready though, August is bringing some phenomenal things to GingerScraps (as if any other day doesn’t already 😉 ). However, soak up the last few days of July by shopping PsychoZoe’s Retiring Sale.
For example, the must-have Fun With Tulle Templates
Don’t miss these, get them now before they are gone! Don’t forget to browse our ENTIRE store either, so many of our Designers having many items on sale through today. If you’re new to us (HELLO!) totally take advantage of our Christmas in July extravaganza!
And remember if you spend $10 in our store you get this HUGE Grab-bag for FREE!
Speaking of new, I’ve seen so many fresh smiling faces (emoticons 😉 )in the forum that it warms my scrappy heart! WELCOME WELCOME! I hope each and every one of you gets your fluffy bunny slippers on and makes GingerScraps your cozy little corner of the web. We LOVE having you here!
With that, I’m wrapping up this wrap-up to go and get scrappy with it.
Have a scrap happy Sunday my friends!
