Fresh Baked: There’s a LOT Going On

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It’s February! Time to break out all the reds, pinks, hearts, cards and flowers! The month of love is upon us!

Whether it’s a pet, a family member, or a spouse, everyone has someone that they care about, and this month, the theme of love is running strong.

This month’s buffet is Listen to Your Heart. If you’re like me, your brain immediately starts singing “Listen With Your Heart, you will understand,” but no, it’s not Pocahontas. It’s a beautiful theme full of pinks, oranges, and yellows. They remind me of the conversation hearts, and yes, one designer did make a few packs of conversation hearts!

The designers did such a great job, didn’t they?

The CT had a lot of fun. The biggest complaint that I’ve read was that they had to choose. To me, that speaks of how wonderfully the designers did!

Since it’s a new month, it’s time for a BAKE SALE! I don’t know about you, but I just LOVE the bake sale! You never know what you’re going to find in there, but it’s always something that you just can’t live without!


https://store.gingerscraps.net/-1.00-Bake-Sale-Feb-1-5/

Remember, that when you spend $10 in the store, you get an amazing grab bag created by one of our amazing designers.


https://store.gingerscraps.net/February-Free-With-Purchase.html

Today, we have TWO guest designers and a NEW designer joining the team! Help me welcome Szabina, Dúnia, and Aga!

First up is our new designer, Szabina, of Sabee’s Creative World.

Here’s how she describes herself:

My name is Szabina Korsos, 26. I live in Hungary.
I always loved drawing, painting and doing creative things. I first learned about digital scrapbooking in 2008. I was fascinated by this hobby. I collected all my designing knowledge with no professional help and I learned how to use Photoshop on my own as well.
In my free time I like designing not only kits but putting my memories on digital or traditional pages. At the beginning I used to create 5-10 digital layouts per week, but I also became interested in traditional paper scrapbooking. During that time I was learning more and more about the newest techniques through online foreign courses and I started to combine these two methods into hybrid projects. Nowadays I do less digital pages than when I started, and if I feel like creating I turn to hybrid or traditional scrapbooks.
I love hand-made painted elements. Drawing and painting have been an important part of my life since my childhood. I attended art faculty at the high school and had private lessons by well-known painters. So I try to use my professional knowledge as much as I can in designing. The most important thing about my work is that 90% of my kits are made without commercial elements. I think many drawings and individual style make my designs unique.
Unfortunately digital scrapbook designing is not full time job for me. At present I’m a desktop publisher. It’s a creative job, and I like doing it.

Professionally trained in art. That’s really cool, in my opinion.

Here are just a few of the amazing items available in her store:


https://store.gingerscraps.net/Womens-Silhouettes.html


https://store.gingerscraps.net/Kraft-Papers.html


https://store.gingerscraps.net/Once-Upon-a-Time-collab.html

One of our guest designers is Dunia, of Dunia Designs.

Our guest designer, Dunia had this to share with us:

My name is Dúnia, 36 years old, I live in Brazil, with my husband, my son Yuri, my girls twins Eduarda and Rafaela and my two dogs Floquinho and Pantufa.
I’m addicted to scrapbooking, I’m a scrapper since 2006 and designer since 2009, but nowadays I’m so addicted to Project Life, I made it last year and I’m making this year too, it’s so great to see all the memories in a book.
I’m also addicted to books, tv series and coca-cola.

Project Life! I’m doing Project Life! I love Project Life. Okay, calming down, so I can show you something she has available in her store:


https://store.gingerscraps.net/I-is-for-Inspiration-Take-Three.html

Our other guest designer is Aga of Jimbo Jambo Designs. Make sure you check out her store! She has some great things in there!

While you’re checking it out, make sure you check out her sale for you:

Wow! It’s time to reveal February’s Daily Download!

Last month’s Daily Download was brought to you by Connie Prince, and OH GOODNESS, after January here, it was a perfect kit!


https://store.gingerscraps.net/Ice-Ice-Baby.html

Thank you, Connie for your beautiful kit! Remember, if you missed a download, you can purchase all of the pieces now.

This month, Monica, of ViolaMoni had provided a SERIOUSLY cute kit!


https://gingerscraps.net/gsblog/2013/02/daily-download-feb-01/

Remember, the links are only up for about 5 days. After that, they’re removed, so if you miss a download, you’ll have to wait until the next month to buy the kit!

Make sure you come back every day!

Oh, don’t go away just yet! I’m not done. It’s Friday, so we have some official Fresh Baked stuff as well! The designers were serious busy bees this week!


KIT: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Lovely-Tweets-KIT.html
BORDERS: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Lovely-Tweets-BORDERS.html
BORDER TEMPLATES: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Lovely-Tweets-BORDER-TEMPLATES.html
CLUSTERS: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Lovely-Tweets-CLUSTERS.html
CLUSTER TEMPLATES: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Lovely-Tweets-CLUSTER-TEMPLATES.html
DECO PAGE TEMPLATES: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Lovely-Tweets-DECO-PAGE-TEMPLATES.html
BUNDLE: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Lovely-Tweets-BUNDLE.html


https://store.gingerscraps.net/Good-Morning.html


https://store.gingerscraps.net/angelclaudartroom-p365febtemp.html


https://store.gingerscraps.net/Template-Grab-Bag-4.html


https://store.gingerscraps.net/February-2013-GrabBag-Sale.html


Word Art: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Celebrate-Life-WordArt.html
Flairs: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Celebrate-Life-Flair-Pack.html
Clusters: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Celebrate-Life-Cluster-Pack.html
Alpha Add-On: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Celebrate-Life-Alpha-Pack-AddOn.html
QP Album: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Celebrate-Life-QuickPage-Album.html


https://store.gingerscraps.net/February-2013-Templatetopia.html


https://store.gingerscraps.net/I-Heart-You-Luv-Ewe-Designs.html


https://store.gingerscraps.net/Love-My-Boy.html

Before I let you go, I want to let you know about an awesome sale. Ryan, of Roseytoes, is celebrating her digi-versary with a SALE!!


https://store.gingerscraps.net/Roseytoes/

I think that’s it! Feel free to share with us what you create, what you purchase, and how you plan to spend your Valentine’s Day, if you celebrate it! Here at Gingerscraps, we love to hear how our visitors live their lives. It’s so fun to learn about other people!

Sneak Peek

 

Good Morning!!  Can you believe it is the last day of January?  Where did this month go?   I don’t know about you but,  time is just flying by way too fast.  In my neck of the woods we are getting ready for the Super Bowl   and I’m looking forward to getting some good pictures of my loved ones and all the yummy food .  The new items that are coming out tomorrow will be perfect for those photo’s.  Here is some eye candy for you to drool over until Friday.

Inspired Designs has some grand templates.  I  love all the circles and the word strips.  They look Perfect!!

The vibrant colors in Connie Prince’s new kit is dazzling.  Check out these layouts:)

Pretty in Green is getting us ready for Valentine’s Day.  YAY!! These pages are amazing.

Angelcluad Artroom has new templates coming (Woohoo) and the new kit by Pretty in Green looks adorable in this layout as well! (LOVE that mustache)

 

Well, I am thinking Friday is going to be a shopping day for me.  With all of this wonderfulness in the store it’s good thing it will all be on sale.  I hope everyone has a great weekend and enjoy the game if you watch football and don’t forget to take some pictures.

Sneak Peeks

Hello!!  fellow scrappers I hope everyone is doing well and having a great week.  It has been bitter cold the last few days here.  I can’t complain this week though at least the sun is shining.  I have

a few beautiful layouts to show you that will be available on Friday.

The first kit is full of beautiful shades of yellows and wonderful printed papers by Keep in Touch Designs .  These layouts look  gorgeous !!

Next I have a lovely layout that is bright and cheerful. Neverland Scraps did a beautiful with this kit.  I love every color in it and the masking is stunning. Super job!

Connie Prince has really outdone herself with this kit coming up they are beautiful with the pinks, turquoise, and green. Gorgeous layouts ladies:)

 

 

Well, ladies that is all I have for you at the moment.  Make sure you check back in on Friday to see the full kits and remember they will be on sale.

Have a great day and wonderful weekend and I will see ya next week:)

 

 

Sneak Peeks

 

Good morning scrappers!!!  I hope you all are doing well.  Here on the East Coast of the states we are getting ready for some snow.  I guess winter time is really here.

Well our designers here at Gingerscraps  have been busy!! I have some beautiful eye candy to share with you this morning.  If you love templates then you are going to love these by Angelclaud Art Room.

I love templates with a bunch of photo openings. These will be perfect for our snow pictures:)

Neverland Scraps has done a awesome job  with this new kit.  I love the western feel to it.  It is completely adorable and perfect for all your cowboy pictures.

I know I will be putting this kit to some good use.

Connie Prince has some cute kits coming out tomorrow and will just be perfect for those special pictures of your little ones doing what they do best, playing.

 Here is something new from Pixelily Designs it is just beautiful.  I can’t wait to see the entire thing

revealed tomorrow. I have a few ideas popping around in my head for this one:)

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to see all these goodies tomorrow.  I hope everyone stays warm and I’ll see ya next week.

Challenge Spotlight – Desktop Challenge

Good morning, all.  Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend! It was a rainy, cool weekend here in Texas and I was finally able to get some scrapping and crafting done. It’s mid-month and I’m trying to get some more challenges done. This week’s challenge spotlight is on the January 2013 Desktop Challenge hosted by Ivonne of Craft-tastrophic Designs! Next month will be Valentine’s and Ivonne has created a lovely desktop template to celebrate the holiday of love:

I just love pink and hearts, so decorating for Valentine’s is one of my favorite things.  Might as well decorate my desktop, while I’m at it! 🙂 If you’re not a Valentine’s fan or a pink and hearts kind of gal, here’s some inspiration for you:

By scrappinbella

By yabby

By Sarah

Beautiful takes on this template. I of course love Lydia’s hot pink and glitter desktop! I also like the boy-ish direction Yavonn went in and the cool, wintery blues Sarah used. There are a lot more lovely desktops already completed, so stop by the thread if you want some more inspiration or just want to leave some love for the talented scrappers. 🙂

If you haven’t already, you’ll need to swing by the January 2013 Challenge Tracking thread and start your tracking post. All your completed challenges will be tallied at the end of the month and you’ll get a reward based on how many you complete! Completing just one challenge gets you a reward, so make sure you jump in soon. If you want more info or have a question about any of our monthly challenges, you can post in the Cookie Jar and someone will get back to you as soon as possible.

That’s it for this week’s challenge spotlight. See you next Tuesday! 🙂

LOTW Winner!!

Congratulations to dotcomkari for winning LOTW! What an adorable LO! I love the wood background, journaling and the cute title work. I adore cute LO with owls!  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.

Sneak Peeks

Hello Scrappers!  I can’t believe it’s Thursday already.   Our designers have been really busy and they have really out done themselves.  I have a few kits to show you and can’t wait for you to see them.

The first one is from Luv Ewe Designs.  I am loving the  big polka dots and the patterns of all the papers.  The  colors are bright and cheerful and will be perfect for these cold January days.

If you love templates then your in luck.  Pixelily Designs is releasing new templates that look just wonderful.  Isn’t this BEAUTIFUL!!!

Here is another layout that is stunning when you combine these templates from Pixelily Designs and the new kit from Luv Ewe Designs…

If you like the blocking technique then you don’t want to miss the new templates from Sandy Pie Creations it would be terrific for those 365 day challenges or

multi photo layouts.

 

 That’s all I have for now, but make sure you check back on Friday for all the new releases.  You really don’t want to miss them!!!

 

Challenge Spotlight – Buffet Challenge

Hey there and good morning, all! Hope everyone’s week is off to a fabulous start! This week I am spotlighting an easy challenge that should get you scrapping: the buffet challenge hosted by Rachel of Harmony Star! This month’s buffet is called Hopes and Dreams and it evokes thoughts of a new year, a fresh start and looking forward. I simply love the palette and all the unique packs the designer came up with for the buffet. Here are a few of my favorite pieces:

All such gorgeous work and I love how each designer had a different take! This buffet should make for some fun, creative and of course, beautiful layouts. Here’s some inspiration from the ladies who are participating in this challenge!

By Lisa

By justpennys

By nickala27

I had to stop myself at my usual 3 layout highlights because they’re all so pretty! You really must head over to the forum and see for yourself because everyone done a great job with this buffet challenge!

Now you should go make the gallery even awesomer! 😉 Scrap a page using this month’s buffet, post it and start earning points towards a reward! You’ll need to snag yourself a post in the January Challenge Points Tracking thread and keep track of your completed challenges throughout the month so we can reward you after January 31st.  If you have any questions about any of the challenges, drop by the Cookie Jar and ask away! 🙂

That’s it for this Tuesday; have a fantastic week and see y’all here next week! 🙂

LOTW Winner

Congratulations goes out to emmyxlou for winning LOTW! Her snowy LO is absolutely adorable. I love the pattern snowflake paper in the background and the awesome cluster.  Click the image to leave her some love or click here to view her entire Gingerscraps Gallery.

Her winning LO was created using Winter Wonderland by Keep in Touch Designs and ViolaMoni. 

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.

Sneak Peeks

 

Happy Thursday GingerScrappers! I’ve got a couple sneak peeks of just a few of the great new kits coming out this Friday! I’ve been away a couple weeks, and coming back to see so much awesomeness by our team of designers gets me all sorts of giddy. I sure hope you are excited because they (our designers) are starting 2013 off with a BANG!

First, I’m super thrilled about this new kit from Sugar Kissed Designs. The colors are crisp, fresh and GREEN! Oh how I love the green!

I really like how muted, yet at the same time, crisp all the elements are. That feisty green is just perfect!

The second kit I’ve got to share with you is by Pixelily Designs. Another fun kit to start of the year right, no matter what your scrapping preference (whether it be 365/52 or more casual!).

I am totally digging all the word bits and art in Pixelily’s kit! Especially since I’m not one to journal I tend to covet any kind of wordy fun in a kit.

There are also some great templates coming tomorrow! A fun and funky blocked set by Pretty in Green:

As a newb (newbie)  to the 365/52 scrapping world this year, I like Pretty in Green’s templates as a great start for weekly pages!

That’s all I’ve got for you today, but I promise all this and more tomorrow in the store! You’ll only be sorry if you don’t  check out the store Friday morning!