Hi all 🙂
Do you remember a while ago – that awesome designer contest over at Sunshine Studios?
From the contest a batch of new Sunflowers was chosen. And I (as well as few others) was offered a spot as a Sunflower!!
We have been working very hard to sharpen out designing skills .. and with the help of the wonderful Sunshine girls we are finally ready for our debut!!!!
We all teamed up to offer you some GREAT collabs!!!

Girl Talk by Katherine of Flutter Expressions with Scraps by Jenn

All Who Wander by Chris Greiser and Mandi of AE Designs.They are all on sale now at Sunshine Studios!!! 🙂 And stay tuned .. we have a few other fun things up our sleeves 🙂

And your participation prize is this quick page that I made from my newest kit that comes out next week, The Seaweed is Always Greener, a collab with my digi-BFF Charmaine of Wyld Web Designs. This kit won’t even be out for a while, so this QP is an easy way to get the goods sooner. 🙂

See you there!

Let’s meet CT member extroardinaire, Barbara!

What’s your name and digiscrap blog address? My name is Barbara and my blog address is https://ascraptoremember.blogspot.com/
Tell us a little about your family. I’m a 31 year old married mom with one child. My husband and I were wed in Hawaii in 2004 and we welcomed our son Gabe in June of 2007. We are Red Sox fans and live and breath baseball during baseball season! We are currently living in Kentucky, but are planning our move back to Connecticut.
Do you work outside the home & if so what do you do? I work for a company outside of my home, but I work IN my home. I am a techincal support analyst for an insurance company and provide support for 300+ nurses in 6 different states.
What other hobbies do you have besides scrapping? Reading and photography. I also love to cook and bake, but I pretty much have gotten to the point where I make something very simple because Gabe usually wants me to hold him while I am cooking.
When did you start Digi-scrapping and who taught you? I started digi-scrapping July 2008. I joined a few photography editing forums and then was introduced to the idea of digi-scrapping. My layouts were pretty lame when I first started so I browsed galleries to learn what layouts SHOULD look like.
Are you on any creative teams? I proudly scrap for Gingerscraps and Statements by Jodi. I was on a third, but felt overwhelmed trying to manage work, family and scrapping.
Do you design at all? I wouldn’t call what I do designing, but I have created a few alpha freebies and photo masks, but nothing else. I don’t see designing in my future.
What is your favorite challenge here at GingerScraps? My favorite challenge is the Scraplift Challenge. I love to see the way people interpret someone else’s layouts.
Who are your favorite three designers? I don’t have favorites, really, but I do like the work of Jofia Devoe, Gina Huff and of course all of the Gingerscraps Designers. If I didn’t love their designs I wouldn’t be hanging out here so much!
What are some of your must have elements? I love ribbons, stitching and string
Whose gallery here at GingerScraps do you just love? It’s pretty hard to narrow it down because there are so many great layouts. I am picking juliemomof4 because of all of the awesome hybrid stuff.
What’s your favorite kit in the store right now? Oh..there are so many that are cute. Right now I like “Fly Me to the Moon” by Spinky Dink Scraps. It’s just so cute especially for young children.
If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be? I’d relax and let my house be messy.
What is the one word that best describes you? detail-oriented (I hyphenated so that is really just one word, right?)
Out of all your LO’s so far, what are your favorite 2 & why? Wow…that is really tough. I have so many that I like right now, so I’ll just pick 2 of my favorites from my recent LO’s. I like “Starry Eyes” because of the angle of the photo and the bright colors in the kit really make the photo pop.

Barb used the Gingerscraps Collab kit, Blast Off! for this layout.

As for “Explore” I love how the colors in the paper really compliment the colors in the photos without overtaking the layout.

Barb used the Statements By Jodi Rainbow Paper pack for this layout.

Who is the most important person in your life? My husband
What is something that not many people know about you? When I was in my teens I asked my mom if she would have all of my children for me so I did not have to go through the pain. She doesn’t let me forget despite having my son without any pain meds. I guess it’s a mother’s job to remind you of silly things you did or said when you were younger!
If you could travel anywhere where would you go? Tahiti
When you were little what did you dream of being when you grew up? I don’t recall ever saying that I wanted to be anything in particular, but I haven’t grown up yet, so I guess I’ll say I want to be a chef when I grow up.
What is your favorite food? Eggplant Parmesan.
How did you pick you user name? My username is NutsAboutGabe and Gabe is my son’s name. I am nuts about the kid! Actually the day I was creating the account my son was wearing a onesie that read “My Mommy is nuts about me!” and there you have it.
What do you like doing with your family?Anything outside, especially going to the park, zoo, and baseball games.
Where is your favorite place to be? Anywhere with my husband and son.
What are three things that are important to you? Honesty, Family, and Baseball
Is there anything you would change about your life? No, it is what it is.
What are you afraid of? Bugs. There have been many instances where I have awoken my husband by hitting him or pulling the sheets off the bed because I am dreaming about bugs being on him or in our bed. Other times I just get up and turn the lights on in the room because I swear there are bugs in the room. All of this is while I am asleep!
Do you collect anything? Other than photos I collect Painted Ponies

Here is another one of Barb’s fabulous layouts!

She used the Graham Like the Cracker kit, Let’s Go Fly a Kite for it. Pssst! It’s on sale in the store right now!

She has a quick page of her layout for you. Click on the preview to download…. Get it while you can, the download link expires Sunday!

and here is her super cute participation prize!

There are three Speed Scraps in the next three days!

Tonight Barb is hosting one at 6PM Pacific (9 Eastern) and for the participation prize, she made an alpha that coordinates with Jen’s Let’s Go Fly a Kite kit. The preview is linked to take you to the speed scrap!

Tomorrow at 1 PM Pacific, Jen is hosting a speed scrap!

The participation prize is an add-on to Jen’s A Star Danced: In Space kit.

Then on Friday, Misty is hosting another one at 1 PM Pacific as well. She will have an awesome participation prize as well.

See you at the speed scraps!

Wow it was a scrap-tastic weekend! We have a lot of new layouts in the gallery, so I thought I would show you what people are doing with all of the new kits in the store.
(Each layout is linked to the store where you can buy the kit)

Gingerscraps (The Soldier)
Graham Like the Cracker (Let’s Go Fly a Kite)
Misty O’Brien (In the Spotlight)

Scrappy Cocoa (Subtle)

Spinky Dink Scraps (Keston Vol. II)

Statements by Jodi (Birds of Spring)

Wyld Web Designs (Good Clean Fun)

Be sure to check out the Gingerscraps shop. There are several kits on sale for this week only!

Have a wonderful day!

Jillian made this post REALLY easy for me. Enjoy!

And here are three of her layouts:

We had a wonderful grand opening weekend. Did you collect all the pieces to our fabulous blog train? Go get them while you can, the kit goes into the store on Friday!

We had 7 speed scraps this weekend, the world’s longest bingo game, a scavenger hunt, and a couple of VERY fun and revealing games of truth or dare. There are some pretty non-flattering, but highly amusing photos in there. Remind me not to play Truth or Dare with Steph (Scrappy Cocoa) again… 😉

During all those speed scraps, our forum members made some pretty awesome layouts. And, our featured designer from last week, Amanda Heimann made one too.

This is the layout Amanda Heimann did with our collab kit, Blast Off!
AZJakes

Becka

MandyMade

MandyMade again (this one REALLY made me giggle!)

Jen (This one is mine, don’t you love the way the kit matches his outfit? Charmaine accused me of cooking up the whole blog train just to get a kit to match these photos.)

Sarah-ICS

So Tara, my CT member has another Blast Off! freebie for you. A caboose for the blog train if you will. So head on over to her blog to pick up her freebie for you!

Head back here to get the rest of the train if you missed it!

Happy Scrapping! ~Jen

I hope you are all having fun collecting Blast Off!! It is a SUPER cute kit!!!
Did you go sign up for Bingo?? Hurry there is still time!! You have to get your words to me by Saturday April 4th at 9:00 am PST- You can win a $20.00 shopping spree in the GingerScraps Store!! Click HERE to get signed up:)

And the lovely Mary is hosting a Scavenger Hunt!! Check out the prize- an 8 page brag book!!!
Click here to begin your hunt!
We have lots of Speed Scraps this weekend!! ALL with fab participation prizes!!
AND
Don’t forget to head over to Truth or Dare after the nightly Saturday and Sunday Speed Scraps!!
It is soooo funny!!!

Here’s a little Speed Scrap FYI for this weekend at GingerScraps
Friday, April 3
Jen: 4 pm Eastern, 3 pm Central, 2 pm Mountain, 1 pm Pacific
Barb: 10 pm Eastern, 9 pm Central, 8 pm Mountain, 7 pm Pacific

Saturday, April 4
Erin: 11 am Eastern, 10 am Central, 9 am Mountain, 8 am Pacific
Steph: 5 pm Eastern, 4 pm Central, 3 pm Mountain, 2 pm Pacific
Misty: 9 pm Eastern, 8 pm Central, 7 pm Mountain, 6 pm Pacific

Sunday, April 5
Christie: 8 pm Eastern, 7 pm Central, 6 pm Mountain, 5 pm Pacific

Jen’s participation prize is going to be another coordinating plaid paper and a RED ROCKET to go with our freebie blog train Blast Off!

The other people hosting speed scraps have great PPs too! Check one out!