Hello Digi Friends!!!

Happy August to you all!  Wow! it’s the 9th already???!!  Geez oh man! This summer is flying by!!

I don’t know about you, but my kids and I are in back to school mode! It’s like this every summer here. I go back to my school job as a school counselor in August, well before the teachers and kids do, so I find myself shopping for school/ office supplies in August, and my daughter got her Kindergarten list of supplies she needs, so she is shopping with me. We’re both very excited to be back to school shopping this month!  I have been pondering ways to use my scrap supplies from Gingerscraps to embellish the back to school items we purchase. I love pinterest for ideas. So far, I am making cover sheets for the see through binders with GS papers, and am going to try to cover my scissor handles with them too. I am making a sign that says whether I am IN or OUT of my office to hang on my door, too. Yes, yes, yes. SOOOOO excited for back to school time! I will post the photos of my hybrids next week, so stay tuned!!!

As for this week, the designers have been busy cookin’ up some fabulous treats for us! 

Roseytoes Designs is giving us something sandy and fun to keep summer going a bit longer….

Kit from Roseytoes Designs! Template is already in the store: August Templatetopia by North Meets South Studios (Connie Prince’s store)

 Oh my! Look below!  Hello kitty! hee hee!!! So cute!!!

 Here is a yummy one coming from Z Pink Boudoir… I’m just lovin’ banners these days and this one is super cute!

Here is one coming from Keep In Touch Designs.  I think this is gorgeous, nicely nautical! I am simply stoked over this! I just love  how gentle it feels yet comes alive with pops of color.

 Ok, Keep In Touch, I am mesmerized….time to continue on though!! There’s more to show you!…

Shazam! Check out this new template from Find Your Bliss! The kit was released last week. LOVE this template!!!!

Gingerscraps designers make it so easy for me to get my scrap on!!!!

Well, I think I can find lots of things in this week’s sneak peeks to use with my back to school hybrid stuff making!  I can’t wait! I am sooo psyched for Friday! So join me, I’ll be sittin’ here, tapping my mouse, sippin my ice tea, thinkin’ of all I can do with these yumalicious goodies! Pull up a mouse and join me!!!! See you in the store on Friday!!!!! Until then, you will find me carting around a pile of binders, notebook paper, glue, crayons, folders, dividers, backpacks and lunch boxes at the local office supply store. 🙂 

Congratulations to franlk for winning LOTW! She created a super fun and cute layout for sure! I love the wood background paper, those awesome bubbles and all the bubble elements. 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.

The bases are loaded, and the score is tied. There are three balls and two strikes. Are you going to get walked, or are you going to strike-out?

Neither!! Why? Because it’s Fresh Baked Friday!! That means you’re going to knock it out of the PARK!! You’re going to score!

Some new kits, of course!!

Before I start, I just have to share this awesome news with you, a new Welcome Wagon kit has been released! If you do not know about our Welcome Wagon area, you should go check it out right away! Once you register in the forum, you will have access to the Welcome Wagon area. The designers create wonderful goodies and give them to you for FREE! The Welcome Wagon has been up and running, for over a year, so our designers are changing their goodies! New goodies, Free goodies! Keep checking the Welcome Wagon area, we will be reveling something new every few weeks!

Joyful Heart Designs has a great little mini. The colors are perfect for most anything you can think of!! All you have to do is register in the forum and you will have access!

https://forums.gingerscraps.net/forumdisplay.php?499-The-GingerScraps-Welcome-Wagon

Don’t make a run for that delicious concession stand called Gingerscraps just yet! Don’t forget that the Bake Sale is still going on!! It ends on Sunday!!

https://store.gingerscraps.net/-1.00-BakeSale-Aug-1-5

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

Now, the designers have been working hard, sweeping the bases, cleaning the benches, getting everything ready for this newsletter.

In other words, they’ve been working really hard at making some GORGEOUS kits for you to enjoy, some templates, even some commercial-use!!

Randomness #14: https://store.gingerscraps.net/full-on-randomness-14.html
Randomness #15: https://store.gingerscraps.net/full-on-randomness-15.html
Enchanting Autumn: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Enchanting-Autumn.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Journal-Cards-Vol-1.html

Grab Bag: https://store.gingerscraps.net/August-2012-GrabBag-Sale.html
WA: https://store.gingerscraps.net/School-Rules-WordArt.html
Add-On Alpha: https://store.gingerscraps.net/School-Rules-AddOn-Alpha.html
Flair Pack: https://store.gingerscraps.net/School-Rules-Flair-Pack.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/August-2012-Templatetopia.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/A-Day-At-The-Beach.html

Kit: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Monster-Mania-Kit.html
Borders: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Monster-Mania-Borders.html
Pre-Deco Pages: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Monster-Mania-Pre-Deco-Pages.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Out-Of-This-World-Kit.html

Splatters: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Cold-Wishes-Splatters.html
Deco Papers: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Cold-Wishes-Deco-papers.html
Kit: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Cold-Wishes-kit.html
Bundle: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Cold-Wishes-Bundle.html

Kit: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Blossom.html
Clusters: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Blossom-clusters.html
Alpha: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Blossom-alpha.html
Sampler: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Blossom-Sampler.html

Now, get out there, and play some ball.

Or, get your scrap on. Either one works.

Good Morning Digi Friends!

It’s a wet, rainy morning here in the Philly suburbs, a good day to stay indoors and scrap your socks off!

Hold on….where did July go?! Oh my goodness!! This summer is flying by! Whoosh! There it goes!!! Better catch the last few weeks of it and enjoy the rest of vacations, summer travel, kids in pools, beach bumming, or whatever it is that makes your summer enjoyable!

Not only is July gone, but here we are smack dab in the middle of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London! Whoo hoo!!! Loved that opening ceremony and the James Bond Queen Elizabeth spoof! Oh, and Mr. Bean!!!! Oh, he makes me laugh so hard!  Loved Paul McCartney at the end, too. Just a beautiful torch lighting event (and I do mean seeing David Beckham on that speed boat!!!). What a wonderful way to start the Games! Are any of you there right now, in London? I can’t wait to see your Layouts if you are! How cool!  For us, we are couch potatoes watching all sorts of sports that we don’t get to see everyday, like whitewater kayaking, table tennis (it will always be ping pong to me), synchronized diving, gymnastics, equestrian jumping, judo, swimming, and water polo, and so much more!

Ok, so the designers here at Gingerscraps have been busy, too! Busy again in the kitchen, cookin’ up some goodies for us all! I am certain you will go crazy over these designs coming to the store on Friday, August 3rd! I am so super excited to see what’s new in the Buffet this month, too! Cannot wait!! I love Fridays!!! Fridays and Gingerscraps = a GOLD MEDAL kinda day!

Here are some sneak peeks of the goodies comin’ our way this week….ready?? Set!! GO!!!!

From Amy Peck of Unforgettable Moments…

August Template Grab Bag: CU okay by Jen C Designs

I just love this! How cute this is! I want to use it in hybrid things for my BLAST group at school! It’s a peer leader sort of thing, but this kit suits it perfectly!

And look at the colors in this collection from Gingerscraps!  Can’t you just feel the end of summer and the beginning of fall here?! Love this! I have some winery photos that would look great with this collection.

Well, here I go again….a tappin’ my mouse and a sippin’ my java, waitin’ for  Friday at the Gingerscraps store! Pull up a chair and join me, we can catch some Olympics as we wait for our goodies!

Scrap On, Digi Friends! Have a Gold Medal week!

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.

https://gingerscraps.net/gsblog/2012/07/6769/

Congratulations to NMarti for winning LOTW! Her layout is absolutely adorable. I love the check list, the unique paper shapes and the cluster around the photo.  Be sure to check out her LO in the gallery to read the wonderful jounaling and leave her some love. Click the image to leave her some love or click here to view her entire Gingerscraps Gallery.

Her outstanding LO was created using Happy to be Me! by Joyful Heart Designs.

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.

Good Summer Morning, Digi Friends!!!

I don’t know about you, but the heat is ON here in Philly, and I am not happy about triple digit numbers with no breeze. Yikes!!! But it has given me a good reason to stay in the house and scrap a little here, scrap a little there, do some hybrids, check out the Gingerscraps forum, and get inspired again! The heat is also on me as I am  in the middle of planning a school counseling conference event happening next week, and scrapping seems to side track me easily! (Remind me to tell April I won’t be in town or on the blog next Wednesday! wink wink!)

As the summer continues, I find that I need to be better about taking pictures of the kids. I have two kids now. It was easier with one to bring the camera and putz around with it. Now that there are two young ones, I seem to forget the camera. And my second child has “second child syndrome” where there are very few photos of him! My goal for the rest of the summer will be to take more photos of both kids, at least on weekends, whether we are in the house or out and about.

And I will tell you, that this week’s sneak peeks are inspiring me to do just that, so I can use what is coming on Friday to the Gingerscraps Store! Whoo hoo!

Would ya like to see the Peeks? Give me the Peeks! Show me the Peeks! I hear ya! I hear ya!

Here we go!

From Luv Ewe Designs we have….

Just perfect for all my second child syndrome photos, huh?!  Yes, my second is a boy….He loves mud and grass and water and food. I think this kit will do his photos fine!

Now, from Twin Mom Scraps, we have this fun little collection! I love the banner in this!!! Yee haw! I have banner FEVER over here! Shazam! I am addicted to banners lately!!!!!

Oh! Did you catch that template used above? It is from the July 1-15 Template Challenge template by Luv Ewe Designs. If you haven’t gotten it, go on and get it, and get your Template Challenge on! You have until July 31 to rock that template to fill your cookie jar with points towards monthy awesomeness!

Blue Heart Scraps has been busy! Looks like this will be fun little number to use for my summer photos too!

I would LOVE to get out there in the wilderness, but you know, sometimes my house is a bit on the wild side….Loving these trees and camp gear in here!

As I type this, we have a storm a brewing and my lights are flickering. I just may need to grab that lantern you see up there!

Well, there you have it, friends! This week’s sneak peeks! Go grab yer mouse, a cup of cold joe, and pull up along side me and wait for their release on Friday in the Gingerscraps store! My favorite place in the universe!!!!

Stay Cool and Scrap on!

Congratulations to Rosemarythyme for winning LOTW! It’s a  inspirational layout for sure!  I love the grunge look of the of paper,  the dictionary meaning of the word moment  and the photo!  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.