Merry Christmas Eve Eve! It’s crazy that it is already Christmas. We here at GingerScraps hope you and your families have a wonderful holiday!
Spend $10 in the store and get this great kit for free!
There are so many Christmas kits in the store this week.
Are you getting those challenges done? Complete any 10 challenges and get this kit as your reward.
Happy Friday Everyone!! How is your Christmas shopping going? For the first time in years I think I’m almost done. I’m usually that crazy person out on Christmas Eve trying to find those things. Or utilizing my prime shipping on Amazon.
Have you gotten the Free With Purchase yet? Spend $10 in the store and get this great kit for free!
Let’s seet the new items in the store!
Have you grabbed the December Monthly Mix. I just love this kit!
And how are your challenges going? Complete any 10 challenges and get this kit as a reward.
Oh boy do we have fun for you! Today starts our big Buffet Blowout in the store! 50% off all buffets today through December 15!!
Remember spend $10 in the store and get this great kit for free!
Let’s see what our designers have for us this week!
How are your challenges going? Complete 10 challenges and get this kit as a reward!
It’s Friday again and that means more goodies in the store. Our wonderful designers have some really cute kits this week.
Remember, spent $10 in the store and you will receive this beautiful collab as a gift.
Now let’s get a peek at the new items in the store.
It’s early in December but have you jumped on those challenges yet? You get a reward for completing 10 challenges, but do you know how it all works? Check out this post in the forum for all the details and then start scrapping: Challenge Reward System Info
You get this great collab as a reward for completing those 10 challenges.
Goodness! Here we are at the beginning of December. How did that happen? If you like Christmas kits, you are going to love all the goodies in today’s newsletter.
Let’s start off this month with our Buffet Bundles. One easy click to add bundles of Buffet goodies to your cart.
There are so many great kits this month Remember with the Buffet, all kits use the same color palette so they can be mixed together to create your perfect kit.
Remember any $10 spent in the store gets you this great collab. Who loves all things {vintage christmas}?
This collab was created by: Craft-tastrophic, Cutie Pie Scraps, Memory Mosaic, and Polka Dot Chicks.
It includes: 1 Alpha {Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 62 Papers, and 94 Elements.
I love the colors in the December Monthly Mix. It’s always great to be {home for christmas}.
The Monthly Mix collab was created by: ADB Designs, Alexis Design Studio, Karen Schulz, Tami Miller Designs, and Tinci Designs.
It includes: 1 Alpha {Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 49 Papers, 75 Elements, and 4 12×12 Template {page, png, psd, tif file formats}.
Now to the December Daily Download Sneak Peek. This month’s Daily Download is from Scrappin Serenity! Make sure you are checking the blog every day to get all the pieces of this kit!
We are excited to have a new guest designer join us this month.
Bio:
I am a mom of two college-aged daughters. I began my scrapbooking journey while they were very young. I found myself constantly photographing their childhood and wanting to cherish every special moment. In doing so I learned of digital scrapbooking and became connected with it as I held a previous passion for art and was inspired by how I could combine my many photos with beautiful graphics to relive and preserve these memories. In later years I’ve ventured off into some other creative projects but I found myself missing my roots of digiscrap, so I’m very happy to be back as a guest here at GingerScraps.
Are you ready for the December challenges? Remember any 10 completed challenges gets you this great kit.
This collab was created by: Connie Prince, Lindsay Jane, Magical Scraps Galore, PrelestnayaP Design, and Trixie Scraps.
This collab includes: 1 Alpha {Uppercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 43 Papers, 105 Elements.
Let’s see a few layouts from our amazing store CT using the challenge reward collab.
Happy Black Friday. We’ve got a large newseltter for you today so we’ll just jump right in.
Remember if you spend $10 in the store, you get this great kit free.
Happy Shopping!!!
Happy Friday everyone! I hope you have all had a great week. I’ve been on vacation part of the week and it’s gone entirely too fast.
Remember if you spend $10 in the store, you get this great kit free.
Let’s see what our fabulous designers have for us this week.
Have you grabbed the November Monthly Mix yet? It’s perfect for those Thanksgiving or fall family gathering pictures.
How about those challenges? We’re just over halfway through the month. How are you doing. Remember if you complete any 10 challenges, you get this kit as a reward.
Challenge Spotlight: Created With Rewards
Here we are, at the third Tuesday of the month again. Crazy how time flies!! This month our Challenge Spotlight falls on Created With Rewards. For those unfamiliar, each month our GingerBread Ladies – the GingerScraps Design Team – work together to produce two Rewards kits, one for completing 10 Challenge layouts and one as a Free-with-Purchase. The Created With Rewards Challenge requires participants to use only the previous month’s Rewards kits; templates are the exception – they can come from anywhere. For October 2022, the Free With Purchase kit is called Bootiful; the Challenger Reward is We Are Family. Let’s see how our intrepid GingerScrappers have risen to the occasion. The layouts are in the order they were posted; each is linked to the Gallery – click on the scrapper’s nom de plume and you’ll jump right to the Gallery, where I hope you’ll leave some words of praise.
Our first layout is from Dovedesign. Her layout has a good portion of white space. She used Bootiful and took it off-theme, which is awesome!
Next up is this CUTE little Hallowe’en layout by Jill. I really like the spiderweb base for her paper cluster. She too used Bootiful.
For this layout, becky_a has used a block style to anchor her photos and added some seasonal clusters. Bootiful is getting lots of airtime!
Ah! Finally We Are Family makes an appearance. I like how hiddenartist has stacked papers in several ways and positioned her clusters to frame her photo.
I love how fontaine has used blended masks to such good effect here. The green and orange contrast beautifully and the little Bootiful witch and warlock are cute additions.
See how kabrak1207 has turned a very theme-specific kit into an all-purpose one? Without the word strip and sticker, it’s hard to tell this started out as a Hallowe’en kit.
This looks like greenfiend27 went to a lot of trouble adding all those little bats! I think they’ve been cut from the background paper and individually shadowed. Impressive!!
I love how Katherine Woodin used the Hallowe’eenie kit for a fall layout that has no Hallowe’en flavour at all.
What a clever riff on the donuts mum23ms has in her photos!
Here’s another mainly purple layout using Bootiful. The pops of orange breoni has added, along with vignetting some photos, give the layout depth.
Look at all the spookiness angbrey has injected into her layout! I love how the elements move the eye around and right back to the photos.
Here’s another look at We Are Family. The way gadawg83 has echoed the bluebonnets in her photo with her tiny-flower borders is perfection.
Tbear has used some incredibly inventive techniques here to give the impression that the beaker has bats painted onto the glass. And maybe I’ve been watching too much paranormal investigation TV, but I think I see a ghost flying out of the test tube!
Tamsin McAtee went for complementary colours here, with her orange and blue palette. I like how she picked out the brown from the ceiling in her photo and included it in the elements she used from We Are Family.
Our last layout comes from mom2triplets04. She too has used We Are Family and kept her layout simple, focusing on the photos and her journaling.
I find it fascinating that more than 75% of these layouts were created with the Free With Purchase kit. It tells me there was a lot of traffic in the shop in October, and that’s fantastic! It’s also really interesting to see how different scrappers’ visions are when it comes to using a single kit. It’s inspiring!!
See you next week for Quick Trick Tuesday.
Happy Friday! I hope everyone is enjoying the week. It’s been a fast one.
Remember if you spend $10 in the store, you get this great kit free.
Let’s see what our designers have for us this week. There is a lot of fall, thanksgiving and we’re starting to see a little Christmas mixed in.
How are your challenges going? Complete any 10 challenges and get this great kit as a reward.
Calling All Genealogist/Scrapbookers!
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At the end of this week, Commonwealth countries will be taking a moment to remember our war dead. November 11th is Remembrance Day. (In the US it’s Veteran’s Day, a slightly different theme.) This time of year I think about all the people I’m connected to who have served in the military, not just the ones who died, but all of them. That got me thinking about how scrapbookers are family historians, whether they chronicle the current generation or dig up bones many generations past. Reading some discussions in the Forum has told me there are a lot of GingerScrappers who are interested in genealogy, and I’m sure many of them have treasured family photos of long-deceased ancestors. So today I’m going to talk a bit about scrapping with heritage photos, and share some scrapbooking collections I think are especially suited.
Photography came into being almost 200 years ago, with the first permanent image captured by Nicéphore Niépce, but it wasn’t 1839 and the invention of the daguerrotype by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre that it really got attention. Over the next couple of decades, many innovations were developed that allowed photos to be taken more quickly and for them to be printed on paper. Long exposure times meant that people being photographed had to remain as still as humanly possible for several minutes – motion blur was a real problem. It’s harder to smile consistently for several minutes than it is to keep one’s features relaxed, so most early photos with people in them looked pretty grim. Then too, life in those days was pretty harsh for the average person, so maybe smiling didn’t come naturally. If a family had the financial means to be photographed in the mid-1800s, they viewed it as a status symbol. Matthew Brady changed the photographic world forever when he captured the horrors of the War Between the States (nothing civil about it!).
Very few of us can claim famous ancestors. Mine were labourers: farmers, thatchers, miners, factory-workers, servants. Days were long and they worked hard. Clothing was utilitarian; dark colours were preferred because doing the laundry was a HUGE chore. And many dyes were very expensive, so only the wealthy could wear bright colours. Even when they wore their Sunday best, most people’s clothing was plain. My 3x Great-grandmother Sarah Ann Rump was a dressmaker, so she was dressed a little more fancy. Here’s a swatch to help you see what I’m talking about.
Furnishings were handed down from generation to generation. Upholstered items typically were also darker in colour to conceal the day-to-day dinginess that came from not having a vacuum cleaner. All of these things can be used to help date a photo if there’s no information about it. It can be a lot of fun trying to decide when a photo was taken, and it helps narrow down who the people could be. Then… the real fun begins! Turning the photos into memories preserved.
GingerScraps is lucky to have a very talented pool of designers whose heritage collections are treasures in and of themselves. I’m going to introduce you to some of them, and show you some impressive kits they’ve created. I know you’ll love them!
First, Diane of ADB Designs is the QUEEN of historical collections. She has one for pretty much every era and facet of life in North America. In the interest of keeping it reasonably fair, I’m only going to show you three of her collections. Each of them will be linked to the store so if you see something you like, you can go right to it!
Aimee Harrison is another designer with a sizeable assortment of beautiful kits. Here are two that I particularly like.
Returning to GS after a few years’ hiatus, Cheré Kay Designs too has some very charming collections.
Connie Prince is prolific. She just cranks out amazing collections one after another!
Dani, aka JB Studio, is quickly becoming a favourite designer for me.
Kristina, whose designs are labelled Kristmess, has some very elegant kits in her store. This first one is a selfish inclusion – half of my DNA comes from Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
Memory Mosiac is Joy, one of our November Spotlight designers. I think I need this collection…
Ooh La La Scraps is one of the brands designed by Katie.
And finally, Tami Miller Designs has some beautiful choices too.
I’ve barely scratched the surface here! And I’ve got the scrapping itch. Excuse me while I go peruse my photos… I think Sarah Ann needs a layout.
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