It’s Friday! I hope you have all had a great week!
We have a special treat for you, our 2023 Newsletter Hop!
You can hop around our designers newsletters and collect tons of fun free goodies!
Remember if you spend $10 in the store, you get this great kit for free.
Let get a peek at some of the new kits items in the store this week.
We also have the Bake Sale going on! A lot of great kits in this sale.
Happy Friday. We have big things for you today so we’ll just jump right in!
We have a special treat for you, our 2023 Newsletter Hop!
You can hop around our designers newsletters and collect tons of fun free goodies!
Remember if you spend $10 in the store, you get this great kit for free.
Let’s see all the new goodies in the store this week.
How are those challenges? Complete any 10 challenges and you’ll get this kit as a reward!
It’s Miss Fish!
Many of you will already know Juli, aka Miss Fish. Lately she’s moved past mainly template designing and is bringing more of her talent to entire kits. I know I’m happy to see that! She’s also been in the Designer Spotlight before, so we talked about some different things this time to keep it fresh. (Since we both have the same first initial, I’m going by “O” today.)
O: Let’s get the bread and butter out of the way. What motivates and inspires you as a designer?
J: I love designing templates that make me want to stop what I’m doing and scrap a page. I often will plus in my own photos
and some elements to make sure designs will look good for my customers.
O: Segué ahead… What one word would your friends and family use to describe you?
J: Busy! Lol…I work full time, plus I design and we like to have fun with friends and travel. I’m not one to just plop down and relax.
I go all the time!
O: It can be exhausting, right? I enjoy traveling too, so why don’t you describe your perfect vacation.
J: Anywhere in Europe close to a train station so I could go on different adventures every day.
O: So is that what you would do if you won the lottery?
J: YES! I’d quit my day job and travel full time. I’d bring along my laptop so I could design and scrap in my free time.
O: Oddball question, that I can probably guess the answer to: are you more likely to dance or sing in the shower?
J: Sing.
O: Yep, called it! Do you have a green thumb? What do you grow?
J: Yes. Currently growing Brussel sprouts, cherry tomatoes, peppers, arugula, and some herbs. Plus my cat’s favorite, carnations.
O: I’ve grown broccoli but never Brussels sprouts. Now I don’t have room for much but I have some flower boxes and a small bed in the front yard. Most of my blooms are purple, white or pink. What are your most favorite and least favorite colors?
J: My favorite color is blue. My least favorite color is orange.
O: Oh, I don’t like orange much either, or yellow. Hence they’re not prominent in my garden! {Except the Stella d’Oro lilies the developer planted. They can stay. What would your dream car be?
J: Something red and fast but in an SUV size, maybe a Porsche?
O: That would be amazing! My daughter had a BMW SUV, but didn’t love it so she’s driving a VW Tiguan now. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
J: I would make myself able to actually remember words and why I walked into a room.
O: I can definitely relate! Aside from necessities, what one thing could you not go a day without?
J: My phone. I’m embarrassed to say how attached I am to it.
O: I’m finding myself falling into that habit too, at least until my eyes start protesting. If you had a warning label, what would yours say?
J: Caution: probably crabby, feed for best results.
O: Hahahahaha!! Me too! Let me get you a snack, girl!
Before we disappear with our treats, I want to remind everybody that Juli is not just the IN the Designer Spotlight, she’s hosting the Designer Spotlight Challenge this month AND is providing the Daily Download on the Blog too. Each snippet of the Daily Download is available for 5 days; if you miss one or two and are heart-broken, don’t worry. The entire kit will be available for purchase in March. (Egad, did I really just say that?)
Welcome to Friday everyone! I hope your week has been good and your February is starting off well.
Remember if you spend $10 in the store, you get this great kit for free. I’m totally craving pancakes now.
Let’s see what the designers have this week.
Have you gotten a start on your challenges? Complete any 10 challenges and you’ll get this kit as a reward!
It is the 1st of the month and you know what that means, a huge, exciting newsletter! We have a New Buffet, New Monthly Mix, New Free With Purchase Collab, New Challenge Reward, New Daily Download on the GingerScraps Blog & TWO New Guest Designers!
Let’s start out with the January Buffet. Don’t forget to check out the Buffet Bundles. One easy click to add bundles of Buffet goodies to your cart.
These colors make you think of the month of love. Valentine’s Day will be here before we know it.
Remember any $10 spent in the store gets you this great collab. I think it’s {time for pancakes}.
This Free With Purchase was created by: Aprilisa Designs, JB Studio, Neia Scraps, and Scrapbookcrazy Creations by Robyn.
This collab includes 1 Alpha {Uppercase & Numbers}, 47 Papers, and 79 Elements.
Don’t you think {it’s a beautiful day}?
The Monthly Mix was create by: Adrienne Skelton, Just So Scrappy, Kristmess, Lisa Rosa Designs, and Miss Fish Templates.
This collab includes 3 Alphas {Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 68 Papers, 113 Elements, and Bonus Coordinating Photoshop Glitter Styles!
Now to the February Daily Download Sneak Peek. This month’s Daily Download is from Miss Fish Templates! Make sure you are checking the blog every day to get all the pieces of this kit!
We are excited to have a TWO guest designers join us this month.
Laura Burger’s Bio:
I never planned to be a designer, but it all started in 2006, and I have not looked back. I am self-taught in Photoshop, work a bit in Illustrator, and ProCreate, and I will say I believe I was born an artist at heart. I am thrilled to be teaming up with Marianne this year as she brings a different flair to the product. We have been best friends for 50 years, and I could not ask for a better partner in business. I have been married to my best buddy for the last 27 years, and we live in the country on 2 ½ acres in Northern Arizona. We ran a business that we have thus retired from after 25 years, and therefore I am free to design or play with my abstract art anytime, day or night. We each have grown adult children that have blessed us with four grandchildren. As for pets, we are a bit odd as we have a feral outdoor beautiful siamese cat, an indoor black kitty, one wild turkey (Lucy), two tamer turkeys, and one chicken that thinks she is a turkey.
Marianne’s Bio:
I have been an active graphic artist for 30+ years. Most of my experience has been designing packaging, logos, and creating websites. I am happily married to my best friend and I have a daughter that just graduated from UCLA in Graphic Design. I am lucky enough to be designing with my best friend of over 50 years and I look forward to this new venture!
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My name is Jenn and I design as Triple J Designs. I started designing in 2012 and opened my first store in 2015. Unfortunately, I had to retire in 2017 when life took an unexpected turn. Life is good now so I am back!
I live in West Texas with my husband and our teenagers (mine is 17 and his twins are 18) and work full time for a Private Pay Health Care Company as the scheduling coordinator.
In my spare time, I design, throw competition steel tip darts and I am the Madam Vice President of the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
Are you ready for the February challenges? Remember any 10 completed challenges gets you this great kit. It’s time to {rise and shine}!
This collab was created by: BoomersGirl Designs, Dear Friends Designs, Jumpstart Designs, ScrapChat Designs, and Sweet Pea Designs.
This collab includes 3 Alphas {Lowercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 61 Papers, 79 Elements, 3 Templates {2 12×12 & 1 12×24 Template} {png, psd, tif file formats}.
Happy Friday! I hope you have all had a great week. Can you believe we are at the end of January already? Do you have any plans for the weekend? If so, I hope you are doing something fun.
Remember, if you spend $10 in the store, you’ll get this great kit for free!
Let’s take a look at some of the items the designers have for us this week.
Are you finishing up your challenges? Any 10 completed challenges (out of over 35) gets you this great reward!
Happy Friday. Boy do we have a great newsletter for you today.
First up is the Retiring Products Sale. Select items are 65% off.
Remember, if you spend $10 in the store, you’ll get this great kit for free!
Let’s see what the designers have for us this week.
We are excited to announce that Adrienne Skelton Designs is permanently joining the GingerScraps family.
Remember, if you complete any 10 challenges, you’ll get this collab as a reward.
Challenge Spotlight: Real Moments
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Did you notice there are a couple of new Challenges for 2023? Today we’re going to check in on the Real Moments Challenge hosted by Cindy Ritter. This is how Cindy describes the Challenge: “There’s a quote that says “Life isn’t measured by time, it’s measured by moments.” and that’s what this new challenge is about, preserving those moments that stand out; the good, the bad and everything in between. Many of those moments in our lives are not accompanied by photos so feel free to experiment and think outside the box while making your layouts.
Each month I will give you a theme and prompt (it might be a quote, a song, a poem or something different) and you should create whatever you are moved to do.
This months theme is Change.
Please use the following quote to inspire your page.
“Sometimes change requires you to take a giant leap. But, you won’t be able to fly unless you are willing to transform.” ― Suzy Kassem”
I love the idea of scrapping REAL moments, even the ordinary ones. Each of us has our own idea of what that means, and our Individual Style will guide how we approach the Challenge. I think as memory-keepers we tend to scrap the happy stuff and pretend the no-so-happy stuff even happened. But we all have REAL moments, and we shouldn’t shy away from them. The layouts in the Challenge Gallery cover the gamut; there are a couple of them that might be too REAL for some of our readers; if that’s you, no one will know if you skip over those ones. The layouts will appear in the order they were uploaded to the Gallery. You may notice that a number of them have been created using Cindy’s Real Moments – Metamorphosis collection, and each participant will be gifted a matching mini-kit. As always, each layout is linked to its spot in the Gallery so you can drop by and leave some love; just click on the member’s name. Ready?
First up is a layout by lulutoo; her journaling, paired with that Pinterest-worthy photo would fit in well with our discussion on resolutions, wouldn’t it? I love her vertical cluster and how she’s combined all the papers she’s stacked behind it. Tucking elements between papers always adds interest.
As a former military spouse, I found 01lousmith‘s journaling to be very familiar. Change can be really hard, and not always good. She’s created a beautiful but haunting photoless artsy layout.
We’re all our own worst critic! AJsRandom proves it. The smiles in her photos and the cheery-ness of her clusters is a little at odds with her journaling. But I commend her for taking such a personal approach to the Challenge.
I really think I need to buy this collection! This beautiful, simple layout from dkane has me really convinced. There’s so much warmth and optimism here.
Talk about making lemonade outta lemons! Look at how mafrerichs has transformed that dorm room! The colour palette of the kit coordinates beautifully with the photos and those clusters… total thirst trap for me.
This simple but celebratory layout from twizzle made me smile. Congratulations! Feeling good about oneself is the key to happiness.
How gorgeous is this?? I love the way kabrak1207 has blended the gold border into the background paper and how that stitched heart is SO 3D. The quote from Wicked really captures the theme of the Challenge without needing a photo.
As dorannmwin says, change can be scary. Kudos to her for going back to school! She looks so confident in her photo, and the way she’s surrounded it with ephemera and clusters keeps the feel-good going.
NHSoxGirl has infused some humour into her layout. I knew instantly what she was going to focus on when I saw those photos. In keeping with the serious-but-still-funny-ish topic she kept her layout clean and linear.
Our own AimeeHarrison has chronicled a significant challenge that changed her whole life. Her layout reflects triumph and hope through the bouncy clustered swag and all the hearts. Strength is a good trait to have!
A-M kept her layout simple and clean. Downsizing is definitely a change! We UPsized… I can’t even imagine.
(Content-warning) Katherine Woodin has always been very open and comfortable with her journaling as she records daily life. She’s probably the most dedicated Project 365 scrapper I know. She doesn’t gloss over the tough stuff, and this layout is an example of that. Her beloved Fred passed on to his next life on Christmas Eve and she strips bare her feelings as she details the events of that day. My deepest condolences, Katherine.
I can’t even count all the ways basketladyaudrey has covered “change” in her layout. She chose the most perfect colour palette possible for her photos, which tell the story of becoming a grown-up. Love it!
Leaving home is one of the hardest changes we all go through. Blaise used a list as journaling, and her photo tells the rest of the story.
If you were to participate in this Challenge, what would be the change you feature? Seeing all these layouts has given me some ideas – on top of the absolute determination to acquire Cindy‘s kit. Off I go to sort through my photos…
Welcome to another Friday. I hope your week has been a good one.
Remember, if you spend $10 in the store, you’ll get this great kit for free! I love all the sparkles this kit has.
Let’s take a peek at some of the new items in the store this week.
I hope your challenges are going well. If you complete any 10 challenges, you’ll get this collab as a reward.
Welcome to the first Friday in 2023. Have you recovered from all the New Year’s celebrations? I was off of work for the holidays and it’s been rough getting back into the swing of things this week.
Spend $10 in the store and get this great kit for free! It’s perfect for all those photos from the New Year’s parties.
Now let’s see what goodies our designers have for us this week.
Have you started on your challenges? Complete 10 challenges and get this great kit as a reward.
