Digital Scrapbooking

Mystery Designer 4/6

April 6, 2012 by GingerScraps

It’s time to talk about the Mystery Designer!

Last week I showed you this sneak peek:

There were tons of guessees! Who did you guess? Did you happen to guess Jen Yurko? Yeah? Then you were RIGHT!! YAY! Let me show you the full kit called Any Given Wednesday!

Let’s see if you were one of our winners:

Facebook: Tanja Blaufelder

Blog: RJ

No one guessed correctly in the forum so we picked a random winner there and that is

Forum: khannen

I will be sending you coupons later today!

Let me show you our new Mystery Designer…remember no team members can win. Leave a guess as to who you think it is on Facebook, in the forum, or on the blog.

So….who made it?

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Happy April 1st! Look outside! Quick! There is a dinosaur! He’s walking in the 4 feet of snow! APRIL FOOLS! I know, it wasn’t funny, but I couldn’t think of anything else. I was afraid to joke about me leaving or even worse the store closing…that some of you would panic without reading more…I know I would have. I have so much I want to tell you that let’s just get right down to it!

I do have some sad news though, and this isn’t an April Fools Joke – Jen Yurko will no longer be with us as a non -exclusive designer anymore. We will sadly miss her in this role. Good things must always come to an end and well, Jen needs to do what is best for her and her family. She has decided that she will go…………

EXCLUSIVE here!! Did I get you? Maybe? Ok, how about a sale to make it up to you?

Man that is exciting or what? I have some more exciting news for you.

LauraMarie Scraps is going too….GOING EXCLUSIVE that is!

OH! Let me show you our new Grab Bag! This month’s grab bag was made by Jill DZines! You can get it for free when you spend $10 in our store!

There are so many more incredible things going on this month. Let’s start with our bake sale!

Check out our bake sale to see all the goodies you can get for only $1!!! This last from today until the 5th. So make sure you get there before you miss it! Another thing you don’t want to miss?

For today only most everything in Twin Mom Scraps’ store is $1! Seriously! I know right? I swear I’m totally serious. Don’t trust me? Well go have a look for yourself!.

Something else that is $1 is our new Buffet!!

Totally cute right? Well wait until you see the goodies!

Here are some inspiration for you

Gosh I have a lot of shopping to do today! Know what else I have to do today? I need to start reading. Why? For our book club of course!

Let’s see, what else did I have to tell you? How about our April Guest?

Please help me welcome our super nice, super talented, and just overall a great person…..

FIND YOUR BLISS DESIGNS!!!

*Facebook* *Store* *Blog* *Twitter*

I asked her to tell us a little bit about herself and this is what she had to say:

My name is Maaike, designer of Find Your Bliss Designs and I am 38, living in the Netherlands with my husband Pierre and our two sons, Damion and Quincy.(17 and 11)

I have been a paperscrapper for many years, worked in two paperscrapstores here in Holland, teached workshops, did it all…till I decided to go digi about 2 or 3 years ago and totally fell in love with it!

About a year ago I started thinking about becoming a designer, because that way I could mix up my digital creativity with my real life creations and since August 2011 , I started designing under the name Find Your Bliss Designs and I can’t imagine anything more fun than creating kits and templates!

Here are just some of her goodies! Make sure you check out her entire store for even more!

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Hey-Boy-by-Find-Your-Bliss-Designs.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/3-s-Company-by-Find-Your-Bliss-Designs.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Wondering-When-by-Find-Your-Bliss-Designs.html

I’m so glad she is here with us this month! I see great things ahead for all of you!

Speaking of great things (gosh, I’m the master of transitions) I have your new Daily Download for you! First let me show you the March Daily Download by GingerScraps!

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Man-Oh-Man.html

This month’s Daily Download is by Sugar Kissed Designs!!

Make sure you check the blog daily for each link.

We have such a great month ahead of us! I hope to see you all around the forum and I’ll definitely see you all on Friday for our new releases! (PS – I heard a rumor that there is a freebie in Valarie Ostrom’s store….)

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This Week’s Sneak Peeks

March 29, 2012 by GingerScraps

Hello everyone! I hope you are enjoying the last week of March wherever you are, and that you are as excited about our fabulous Gingerscraps designers are cooking up for us this week as I am! I am SOOO ready for some fresh springy colors and collections to add to my digi stash! With Easter right around the bend, I know I can’t have too many! So, what are you doing for Easter, anyway? I have two young children and we will be enjoying an egg hunt here at home, as well as one at our church. Our family will be together for a huge Easter dinner, and we will probably play outside until it gets dark, working off the feast! I am going to try to find some ways to include some hybrid projects in our Easter celebration, too. Like cards, and egg wrapper holder things, and I don’t know what else yet. Let me know if you have some ideas for me…better yet, post them on the Gingerscraps forum!

So here’s what’s cookin’ in the kitchen and will be ready for Friday, March 30th. I hate waiting!!!!!

A beauty by Sugar Kissed Designs….

and from Joyful Heart Designs..

Looks like Friday is going to be a Beautiful Day!!!! I can’t wait to see the rest of what’s been cookin’!

So stop on by, and come see what’s new!!! See you n the shop!

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LOTW Winner!

March 26, 2012 by GingerScraps

Congratulations to neenee for winning LOTW! What a gorgeous page!! So many clusters and so much to love. It’s perfectly adorable. Click the image to leave her some love or click here to view her entire Gingerscraps Gallery.

This LO was created using What I Like About You by Secret Stash (March guest designer).

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.

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Team Spotlight: Sugar Cookie Michelle

March 24, 2012 by GingerScraps

Good morning everyone! Happy Hunger Games! (I couldn’t resist! It’s finally here! We went and saw it first thing yesterday, and I LOVED IT!)

Lot’s of exclamations today, despite not getting much sleep (little one is sick) and being so gloomy weather wise.

So lets get to the fun! 🙂

This weeks Team Spotlight is on Michelle, but you may know her as MSPeeler in the forum. She is CT for so many of our great designers here at GingerScraps.

I’m Michelle (29). I’m married to Dave and we will be celebrating 10 years in April 2012, if you do the math, we got married when I was 19 & still going strong. We have 2 beautiful children, Priscilla (5) and Luke (3). We also have 1 dog, Zoe, a Siberian Husky (1 yr), and 1 cat, Yoko, a grumpy ol cat (8 yr). Our other dog, my first furbaby, Chino passed away in March 2011 of this year at the age of 8, he would have turned 9 last May I am a stay at home mom now, but before I decided to stay home, I worked at a Veterinary Hospital for nearly 8 years.

Aww, my pup’s birthday is in May. He’ll be 5. We’ll have to have a doggy toast to Chino. 🙂

She shared some lovely pictures of her beautiful family.

How long have you been scrapping?

I have been playing with Photoshop since 2002, but not digital scrapbooking till 2010. I started out making “siggies” for my mommy board, and decided to branch out for some challenges on this forum and got engulfed in fun!

What is your favorite element to scrap with?

Oh gosh! I don’t normally reuse elements, as I dont normally mix/match kits for layouts with the exception of the awesome Buffet items! I’d have to say Marie H’s shadow styles.

I’d ask you your favorite designer, but you’re on so many CT teams, that I’m sure it’d be hard for you to choose! So how about your favorite NON CT designer? Or even what other designer would you LOVE to work with?

LOL! Well, I would absolutely love to work with Jen Yurko.

Which do you think is your very best (favorite) LO (can be old or new)?

I think my very favorite layout would be this one. I just love it’s simplicity in colors and the small framed/unframed clustered photos.

I absolutely love it! The muted colors, and the clusters too. Of course baby pictures make everything perfect. 🙂

How about the one you wish you could makeover?

I’m just REALLY not happy with this one. It’s not the kit or pictures… it’s just over clustered I think! I will probably re-do it soon!

What’s your favorite challenge during each month, the one you always tend to finish first?
I always finish the Template challenges first. I love having a template to go with, releives the “stress” factor

You’re not alone there! I love doing the templates too (now that I had some help figuring out just HOW to do a template! 🙂 ).

What’s your favorite subject to scrap?

MY KIDS! Hands down.

If you could create a slogan for DigiScrapping, what would it be?

Oh gosh! Way to put me on the spot, haha! Probably “Visual Memories to Share”

Tell us something we don’t know, either about yourself or any one thing in particular that is a fun random factoid you know.

I met my husband on AOL back in 1997, when I was only 14 ½. He was 19, and we were just friends… for the next 5 years. When I turned 19, I came to visit him 500 miles away, and instantly felt the connection… it really was love at first sight. We married 4 months later and the rest is history!!

I love little stories like that!

What are you obsessed with?(besides digiscrap 😛 ) Can be a book, author, movie, TV show, hobby, anything. Something you just LOVE and totally geek out over all the time any time!
The Beatles! I just really, really love them. Grew up listening to them with my Daddy, and I just have fabulous memories Their music is an instant calm for me.

So there you have it, Michelle in a nutshell! (I’m such a poet, LOL!) Here is a link to her gallery. Go check out her BEAUTIFUL layouts and leave some love.

Before I leave you all today, I’ve got to share with you this AMAZING sale going on in the GS shop

I checked out the goods last night, and am definitely filling up my cart. It’s crazy awesomeness! Stock up on great kits before they are gone forever!

Hope everyone has a great weekend! May your coffee cups be bottomless and your children’s naps last all afternoon. 😉

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Mystery Designer #4 – 3/23

March 23, 2012 by GingerScraps

This week our sneak peek was made by … a designer! What? You thought I would tell you that easily?

Here was our Sneak Peek.

Who did you guess? This week’s designer was…..

HarmonyStar!!

Would you like to see the full kit?

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Forget-Me-Not.html

Did you guess her? Well actually, you didn’t. No one did. That’s ok because we’re glad you tried! Here are our 3 random winners!!

Facebook: Rachel DeVaughn

Blog: RJ

Forum: JSmith84

So let’s get right down to this week’s Sneek Peak!

You know what to do! Leave you guesses on Facebook, in the Forum, and on the blog! We’ll pick a winner and maybe it will be you!

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This Week’s Sneak Peeks!

March 22, 2012 by GingerScraps

Well, it’s been a rough night here at my house with the little one. He’s almost 2. Seems like he is dreaming and crying in his sleeep and won’t wake up when we go in to comfort him.

So, here I am, well before dawn, dreaming of the Sneak Peeks at Gingerscraps! No crying from me! I am so excited to show you glimpses of what is coming to the store this Friday! And dance dance dance! Friday will be here soon!!!! Yee haw!!!!

Let’s get started! Check out all these fabulous colors, tasty templates, and the great LOs the CT has been busy making for us! Yummm!!!! These are totally terrific!! I love each and every scrumptious one of them!

And here we go!

A truly colorful collab from craft-tastrophic designs and joyful heart designs…

Here’s a fun LO using a terrific and tempting template from our guest designer, Secret Stash!

Totally awesome Awesomeness by Wyld Web Designs & Kathy Winters Designs….

And a boisterous beauty from Keep In Touch Designs…

Pretty kit by Craft-tastrophic combined with Secret Stash’s template :

Please pull up a mouse, and a coffee, and join me as I dream of what the full kits will look like and how I can use them in my scrapping projects! I think I have a use for each one of these in mind.

Now, if only it were Friday and I could get my mouse on them!!!

Have a great week! See you at the friendliest Digi Place in the World!!! (I think the little guy is finally drifting off to sleep!)

Sweet Dreams,

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Announcing our next LOTW winner!

March 20, 2012 by GingerScraps

Congratulations to swastinadia for winning LOTW! Her layout is absolutely stunning. Great choice of colors and composition. Click the image to leave her some love or click here to view her entire Gingerscraps Gallery.

Her gorgeous LO was creating using Work of He{ART} by our guest designer, Secret Stash.

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.

Filed Under: Digital Scrapbooking

Fresh Baked! 3/16

March 16, 2012 by GingerScraps

It’s Friday. I’m not so sure I’m ready for it. I feel like this week flew by and I haven’t gotten too much done. Please don’t ask about the sheets from last week. I did change one bed, but that was as far as I got. Too much going on her at home. I did clean a bathroom….washed the floors and all. This must sound like my house is filthy, I promise that isn’t the case at all. I just like to do a deep clean a couple of times a year. Anyway, you don’t want to hear about my dust bunnies.

Let’s start with a CT Call for Luv Ewe Designs! This is one team you will want to join for sure!