Welcome to Friday. Has school started in your area? I know a lot of places started this week. Where I am, we don’t start until end of August. Both of my kids have been out of school for several years so I don’t keep up with it all.
Remember, if you spend $10 in the store, you get this great kit for free.
Let’s see what is new in the store this week.
How are those challenges going? We have a lot to choose from and you only need to complete 10 to get this great reward.
Hello fellow scrappers and welcome to the first Friday in August. We’ve got some really cute kits to share with you this week.
Remember, if you spend $10 in the store, you get this great kit for free.
Let’s see a sampling of what is new in the store this week.
Have you gotten a start on your challenges for August? Complete any 10 challenges and get this collab as a reward.
Magical Scraps Galore
The year is just winging by, isn’t it? It was my great pleasure to chat with Marina, aka Magical Scraps Galore, over a cold drink recently. It’s her turn in the GingerScraps Designer Spotlight so let’s get to know her better.
J: Let’s start with the bread-and-butter stuff. How long have you been designing?
M: I’ve been designing for 11 years now!
J: That’s a long time in the digi-world. What made you decide to design?
M: I started creating my own digital papers and embellishments for scrapping our second trip to Disney World, since the digital offerings were very limited back then. It didn’t take long to realize that scrapbook design was my passion, and I started participating in the design challenges hosted by MouseScrappers. I opened my first shop in 2013 and I’ve been part of the wonderful GingerScraps family since 2014.
J: There’s nothing better than creating exactly what you want but can’t find. What tools do you use to create your designs?
M: I use Photoshop, Illustrator, Procreate and ArtRage.
J: Kudos to you for blending all those platforms! I have enough trouble with just one. Can you describe your design workplace?
M: I design in my studio at home, with my two cats sleeping by my computer or on my lap. Sometimes they like to sleep ON my computer and they mess with my designs, LOL! I have to be very careful!
J: Too funny! My dogs see me pick up my laptop and go somewhere else. What kinds of things motivate and inspire you as a designer? I mean, other than Disney… 😉
M: My main motivation and inspiration are my kids and my trips around the world.
J: Those two things seem to be the launch pads for many of the designers I’ve chatted with. What is your favorite kit currently in your GS store and why?
M: It’s hard to pick just one, that’s mean, it’s like choosing your favorite child, LOL … I have several kits that I love, especially my travel collection, but one of my favorite kits is Magical Memories, it’s all about my happy place and it’s a reminder of all the magical moments I spent there with my family.
J: That’s how I feel about Ireland. I’d move there if I could! If you were given a super power, what would you like it to be?
M: Teleportation, so I can travel anywhere in no time and with no jet lag!
J: Wouldn’t that be amazing?! I used to wish I could teleport home from work after my 12 hour night shifts. Have you ever met anyone who’s famous?
M: Yes, I met Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films)
J: I’m not much of a HP fan, but I know who he is. That must have been a special moment. You clearly enjoy things that relate or appeal to children. What did you want to be when you were small?
M: I wanted to be a flight attendant or a rock star.
J: I can’t sing or play an instrument so I never dreamed of being a rock star, but I did want to be a flight attendant for awhile. They work pretty hard and put up with a lot. I think my sarcastic evil twin would take over and I’d be fired. If you had a warning label, what would yours say?
M: Warning: Crazy cat lady!! LOL! I’m a huge cat lover, and if my family would let me, I’d have 10 cats or more!
J: Ooh. That would be overwhelming to me. I have enough trouble keeping track of two dogs. Thank you so much for taking the time to visit with me; I’m just going to fill our readers in on all the awesome August goodies you’re a part of before I finish up.
Of course, Marina is hosting the Designer Spotlight Challenge this month. She’s also the Daily Download Diva for August, so make sure you look for the links here every day or two. (Links are active for 5 days, so you can condense your time:effort if you want to.) If you don’t have time or miss some pieces, the kit will be for sale next month in the Shop. AND… Marina is permanent host of the monthly Surprise Challenge! If all of that isn’t enough, she’s offering a lovely coupon that’s good for the whole month. Be sure to check all of this out. You won’t be disappointed, I promise.
Can you believe it’s August already. School will be s tarting before you know it and summer will be over.
Let’s start off with our Buffet Bundles. One easy click to add bundles of Buffet goodies to your cart.
I love these colors. The colors are refreshing and I love the way the peach stands out.
Remember any $10 spent in the store gets you this great collab. Are you ready to {be RAWRsome}? This Free With Purchase was created by: Aprilisa Designs, BoomersGirl Designs, Scraps N Pieces, and Sweet Pea Designs. It contains 1 Alpha {Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 48 Papers, 77 Elements.
Do you love music? Then the August Monthly Mix is for you. Make sure to grab {life’s playlist}. This Monthly Mix was created by: CathyK Designs, JB Studio, Jumpstart Designs, Neia Scraps, Dear Friends Designs, and Lisa Rosa Designs. This collab includes 1 Alpha {Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 63 Papers, 110 Elements, and 6 12×12 Template {png, psd, tif file formats}.
Now to the August Sneak Peek. This month’s Daily Download is from Magical Scraps Galore! Make sure you are checking the blog every day to get all the pieces of this kit!
Take a look at the new challenge reward kit. If you complete any 10 challenges this month, you get this gorgeous collab as a reward! This was created by Aimee Harrison, Scrapbookcrazy Creations by Robyn, Just So Scrappy, Kristmess, and Miss Fish. This collab includes 1 Alpha {Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 58 Papers, and 107 Elements.
Welcome to another Friday. We’re almost to the end of another month. The months are going so fast.
Remember if you spend $10 in the store, you get this great collab for free.
Now let’s check in on some of the new goodies that will be in the store this week.
Have you picked up the July Monthly Mix? Only a few more days left to grab it at this price.
Are you getting your challenges wrapped up? Any 10 completed challenges gets you this wonderful collab as a reward.
Challenge Spotlight: Daily Download
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GingerScraps is, without a doubt, the most generous digital scrapping store on the web. There are SO MANY freebies!!! The monthly Daily Download is just one of them. Each day for the entire month, pieces of a FREE kit are provided to readers on the GingerScraps Blog (right here!) so by the end of the month, you have a whole kit. (Don’t worry, If you missed a few days’ DLs, the kit will be available for purchase in the GS Store later.) But it gets even better… the following month, that same free kit is the basis for a GingerScraps Daily Download Challenge. For the month of July 2022, the kit in question is CarolW Designs‘s Way to Grow (linked to the bundle).
It looks to me like Carol‘s kit was a huge hit with our scrappers. There are 20 layouts in the Daily Download Gallery already and there are still 12 days in the month! Let’s check them out – in random order. (Each layout is linked to the Gallery via the scrapper’s user name so you can drop in a little praise for the ones you like best.)
Our first sample is from willow. I love all the white space here. She’s taken only a small handful of the elements in the kit and created a beautiful, calm layout.
I like how chigirl has melded some grunge via her choice of papers and paint splatters with the flowery prettiness of the elements into this loveliness.
wendeeds has pulled colour from her photos and used coordinating elements and papers to create her fun Date Night layout.
I salute the dedication of people like makeyesup who create a new themed desktop for their computer every month!
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How sweet is this? PixyGirl has used the Artsy Bits from the bundle to create a secret garden with a delightful little person in it.
This layout by NHSoxGirl is another gorgeous white space layout with a sparing use of elements. When you don’t have photos that work well with a kit, but you’re dying to use it anyway, you can always convert a fave photo into black and white.
Lucky for hiddenartist, she had a perfect photo! Her clusters and shadowing are top-drawer.
This layout from Danissa makes good use of the Artsy Bits and one of the grungy Edges in the bundle combined with a lovely cluster.
Sweetpea2020 lets the papers do the heavy lifting here. The stitching adds an earthy touch.
Look at how Alasandra has clustered these flowers so the kitty seems to be sniffing one. Beautiful!
The paper strips tie all of roxana‘s photos together and the clusters enhance them, leading the eye from photo to photo.
The vintage feel of this layout from kabrak1207 is quite pleasing. I’m such a sucker for old photos…
But then… bagheertje pops up with this brand-new photo of a brand-new human showcased by a lovely, grungy but extremely simple layout.
The kit’s palette seems tailor-made for this chipmunk’s portrait and bumblebeee has framed it exquisitely with papers.
For another delectable white space layout, look no farther! The photo dhariana chose pulls colour from the kit, her choice of background paper makes it pop, and her brush use enhances the overall image. Spectacular!
LidiaG has created another grungy-gorgeous-great-white-space layout here. The large cluster draws the viewer right to the eyes of that sweet child in the photo.
I’m at a loss for words when I look at this layout from Jill. She’s skillfully clustered the elements in a natural arrangement, and divided the photo over two frames in such a way that it’s the focus. There’s a lot going on, but in the BEST way!
Every picture tells a story, but sometimes it needs a little support from the wings. AJsRandom explains and balances her photo in a minimalist layout full of movement.
in her layout, wvsandy has created a beautiful frame for her prayer, and I’m pretty sure she’s used every element in the basic kit but the flair, bead spill and bottle cap.
Last but not least, alta2014 has pulled from various parts of the bundle to create a lovely, soft layout that enhances her photo. The messy stitching adds a nice casual touch.
Are you enjoying the monthly Individual Style/Challenge Spotlight posts? I find myself inspired every time I write one. Seeing how others interpret a challenge and use a defined set of tools so creatively really gets my mojo motor revving. Time to get some scrappin’ done!
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Welcome to another Friday. We have some big things going on today. When the Fresh Baked and Bake Sale fall on the same day, it’s a happy time at GS.
Remember if you spend $10 in the store you get this great kit for free.
Let’s see what we have for this week!
Who is ready for the $1.00 Bake Sale!? Here are the $1.00 deals we have for you this month:
How are are your challenges going? Only 10 completed challenges gets you this wonderful kit.
Welcome to another HOT Friday. Did someone crank up the heat for the oven and forget to turn it down? We have had heat indices above 100° this week. How many days until Fall?
Remember if you spend $10 in the store you get this great kit for free.
Let’s see what goodies we have available this week!
Have you gotten a good start on your challenges? Only 10 completed challenges gets you this wonderful kit.
Scrapcrazy Creations with Robyn
The second half of the year has begun. Anybody a little alarmed at how fast time’s flying, other than me?
I had the chance to chat with Robyn, Scrapcrazy Creations‘ creative arm. As usual, we started off with the mundane stuff… How long have you been designing?
R: This year I will have been designing for 6 years.
J: That’s a good long time. What made you decide to try your hand at it?
R: I was on 25 Creative Teams and decided that I would give designing a try.
J: Whoa!!! 25?! I had enough trouble with two. I can’t even imagine. What are your go-to tools for designing?
R: I use PSE11 (Photoshop Elements 11) to create and PSCC (Photoshop Creative Cloud) to quality check my designs.
J: I’d find that confusing, moving back and forth from two different platforms. Kudos! Where do you do your creating?
R: My design space is anywhere I can sit with my laptop. A comfy arm chair, desk and sometimes the beach.
J: That sounds sublime. I work in front of our floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook the mountains. Or like today, the clouds. Do you have anyone or anything that provides you with inspiration?
R: My children and their activities and photos that need scrapping inspire me to design.
J: I hear that a lot. 😉 Now, do you have a favourite kit in the GingerScraps store? What makes it your favourite?
R: I have many favourite kits but my current favourite is Flamingo Road because of the pretty pinks and I made some of the papers myself from scratch.
J: Ooh, paper-making sounds like a lot of fun! Is pink your preference? What colours do you prefer? Are there any you don’t love?
R: My favourite colour is purple and my least favourite colour is yellow. Give me anything purple and I am happy. Purple speaks to my soul. I love wearing purple tops, dresses and scarves. I also like receiving cut flowers and planting purple flowers like irises, roses, salvia, clematis, lavender and wisteria.
I do NOT wear yellow. As a child if I was given anything yellow I would pull a face and find it hard to say thank-you as I hate the colour yellow. As an adult I find that I do wear mustard but not bright yellow.
J: Same!! My garden is full of purples, blues and some pink and white. I didn’t plant the yellow Stella d’Oro daylilies, the developer did. [shudder] As for wearing yellow… gross. Working in an ICU, I wore a lot of isolation gowns. Guess what colour they are. So, before I completely ruin our appetites, if you could only eat one meal for the rest of your life, what would it be?
R: Roast lamb with roast pumpkin, sweet potato and onion and homemade lemon meringue pie.
J: You lost me with the lamb. I worked briefly in a nursing home kitchen. Pureed lamb smells so awful there’s no chance I’m putting lamb anything in my mouth. But the rest sounds scrumptious. Maybe I could substitute a nice prime rib? Aside from necessities, what one thing could you not exist without?
R: My Moconna freeze-dried coffee.
J: Hmm. I’ve never heard of that. Lemme look it up real quick. BRB… Ooh that’s quite the assortment of flavours! I’ve never developed a taste for instant coffee; I’ll stick to my Tim Hortons with a bit of Splenda. If you came with a warning label, what would it say?
R: BEWARE! Bites before morning coffee!
J: Got it! Well, thanks for chatting with me today. GingerScrappers, remember that Robyn is also hosting this month’s Daily Download (and the kit is awesome, y’all!) in addition to the Designer Spotlight Challenge. And… drumroll please… she has a coupon code for 30% off for almost everything in her store for the month of July.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have laundry to fold! See you all again on Tuesday.
Welcome to July all you wonderful scrappers. Grab a cup of coffee or tea or something else and pull up a chair. This post is packed with goodness.
Let’s start off with our Buffet Bundles. One easy click to add bundles of Buffet goodies to your cart.
Beautiful colors this month and a lot of patriotic kits! Remember, since they all use the same color theme, you can mix and match the kits to make whatever you need.
Remember any $10 spent in the store gets you this great {summer dance} collab. This Free With Purchase was created by: Dandelion Dust Designs, Designs by Lisa Minor, Ilonkas Designs, and Key Lime Digi Design. This collab includes: 2 Alphas {1 Uppercase Only & 1 Lowercase Only}, 44 Papers {Including 6 Glitter Papers}, and 90 Elements.
The July Monthly Mix will have you ready for that {summer holiday}. The Monthly Mix was created by: CarolW Designs, HeartMade Scrapbook, LDragDesigns, and Wimpychompers. It includes: 1 Alpha {Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 54 Papers, and 92 Elements.
Now to the July Sneak Peek. This month’s Daily Download is from Scrapbookcrazy Creations by Robyn! Make sure you are checking the blog every day to get all the pieces of this kit!
We have a new guest designer for July!!
Take a look at the new challenge reward kit. If you complete any 10 challenges this month, you get this gorgeous collab as a reward! It was designed by Chere Kaye Designs, Dagilicious, Heather Z Scraps, Luv Ewe Designs, Scrappin’ Serenity, and Laurie’s Scraps. It contains: Alpha {Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 57 Papers, 92 Elements, and 4 12×12 Template {page, png, psd, tif file formats}.
Have a great week!!!