GingerScraps: New FREE with Purchase Collab, New Monthly Mix, New Buffet & More!!

December 1, 2024 by Leave a Comment

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, and a New Daily Download at GingerScraps!

Don’t forget to check out the Buffet Bundles. One easy click to add bundles of Buffet goodies to your cart.

I’m feeling all the Christmas kits with these colors. I can’t wait to see what our designers have come up with for these colors. Remember you can mix and match the buffet kit contents to get what you need.

Remember any $10 spent in the store gets you this great collab.

“Winter Is Coming” by The GingerBread Ladies captures the magic of the season with a serene winter theme. Featuring snowy elements, frosty accents, and a cool palette of blue, green, and white, this kit is perfect for documenting chilly days, cozy moments, and winter adventures!

This collab includes: 1 Alpha {Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 61 Papers, and 106 Elements.

This Free With Purchase was created by Connie Prince, Key Lime Digi Design, Lindsay Jane, Memory Mosaic, and ScrapChat Designs.

Celebrate the magic of the season with “Christmas Momento” by The GingerBread Ladies. Packed with festive elements, seasonal patterns, and a classic holiday palette, this kit is perfect for preserving your cherished Christmas memories!

This kit includes: 3 Alpha {Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 44 Papers, 85 Elements, and 4 12×12 Template {page, png, psd, tif file formats}.

This Monthly Mix was created by ADB Designs, Alexis Design Studio, Karen Schulz, Tami Miller Designs, and Tinci Designs.

Now to the December Daily Download Sneak Peek. This month’s Daily Download is from Neia Scraps! 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! (Or a variety of other choices, visit the forum for all the details).

“Vintage Holiday” by The GingerBread Ladies brings nostalgic charm to your holiday projects. Featuring festive elements in a unique palette of pink, teal, and red, this kit is perfect for creating layouts with a timeless and whimsical holiday feel. Celebrate the season with vintage-inspired style!

This kit includes: 1 Alpha {Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 55 Papers, and 96 Elements.

This Challenge Reward was created by Adrienne Skelton, Cutie Pie Scraps, Magical Scraps Galore, Scraps N Pieces, and The Scrappy Kat.

Here are a few layouts from our store CT using the December Free With Purchase.

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Black Friday SALES! $2.00 Flash Sales & MORE!

November 29, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Hello my wonderful scrappers! I hope you had a wonderful week!
During this season of gratitude, we want to take a moment to express our sincere appreciation for your ongoing support. While Thanksgiving may not be a part of everyone’s tradition, the spirit of gratitude is universal, and we are incredibly thankful for YOU!

In the spirit of giving, we are excited to share our gratitude with exclusive Black Friday deals just for you!

  • 50% Off Site-Wide Spectacular! (Some restrictions apply.)
    Your wish-list is about to get a whole lot shorter! Enjoy a jaw-dropping 50% off on all your favorites.
  • Daily $2.00 Flash Sales from 11/29-12/2!
    Hold onto your shopping carts! Our daily $2.00 Flash Sales from 11/24 to 11/28 promise sizzling steals you won’t want to miss. Swing by each day to discover the treasures up for grabs.
  • Special Black Friday Deals, Grab Bags, Build Your Own, and More! The excitement doesn’t stop there! Brace yourself for our Special Black Friday Deals, irresistible Grab Bags, Build Your Own bundles, and exclusive coupon offers. This is your chance to curate a shopping experience tailored just for you!

Who is ready to SHOP?!!?

 

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Tutorial Tuesday (Photoshop Elements)

November 26, 2024 by 1 Comment

Quick Trick: Templates Without Drop Shadows

Templates are real time-savers (once you decide which of your hundreds of options you’ll use… speaking for myself) by literally telling you want to do. Many of them have integrated drop shadow Styles, which are super-easy to Copy and Paste onto your papers and elements, no great effort required. But some designers choose not to apply drop shadow Styles to their templates… which makes then less attractive to me, especially for repeat use. But I’ve come up with a bit of a hack for that! It only takes a few minutes and sets me up for even more options. Let’s talk about it.

For this tip to work, I’ll be using commercially-available drop shadow Styles, rather than creating a bunch of custom shadows. I can always change that up as I go along later. I’ll show you some options that are available in the GingerScraps Store:

Aimee Harrison‘s are pretty realistic. [Click on her name to be transported right to the Store!]

Scraps-N-Pieces has a simplified set.

Karen Schulz has LOTS of Styles and Actions in her bag of tricks.

Karen even has an Action that customizes your shadows for you! I haven’t tried it, but it’s been tested with Photoshop Elements 2018, 2019, 2020 using Windows, Photoshop Elements 2018 using a Mac and CC2020 in Windows so I have no doubt it would work for me. [Note to self: TRY THIS!!]

Okay, so now that’s been set up, I open my shadow-less template [Connie Prince Unwind 1]. I’m going to add shadows to ALL the layers, in batches by type. I’ll activate all the paper layers by click>CTRL/CMD>clicking on them one after the other until they’re all lit up. I start at the bottom, background layer and work my way up, but the other direction would also work.

Once I’ve got them all active, I’ll click on the Styles button at the bottom of the Layers Panel. Then using the Style Set Selector button, I’ll choose the Shadow Styles set I want to use. [Karen Schulz’] Hovering the cursor over the thumbnails, the type of shadow will appear so I can select a Paper Shadow. Then I click on it.

All the paper layers are now shadowed!

Working systematically, I’ll activate all the element types in the same way, adding the most appropriate shadow Style to each of them. For example, I’d activate all the flowers next, then use a flower shadow Style to add shadows to all of them at once. Then I could move on to leaves, flair, whatever layers remain unshadowed, until the whole template has a shadow on every layer. It really only takes a couple of minutes! Once that’s done, I’ll Save the shadowed version of the template in the same folder, with a new name [Connie Prince Unwind 1 shadowed] so I know which is which. Then I can go ahead and create my layout, knowing I can reuse the template later and the shadows will be there for me.

This may not be something you’d ever use, but now you know you have options.

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Fresh Baked Friday at GingerScraps! November 22, 2024

November 22, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Welcome to another Friday! I hope you have all had a great week.

Remember any $10 spent in the store gets you this great collab.

Now let’s see what new items are in the store this week.

If you complete any 10 challenges this month, you get this gorgeous collab as a reward! (Or a variety of other choices, visit the forum for all the details).

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Fresh Baked Friday at GingerScraps! November 7, 2024

November 8, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Good Morning and Happy Friday! I hope you have a great week of capturing memories to scrap.

Remember any $10 spent in the store gets you this great collab.

Now let’s see what new items are in the store you can use on those new (or old) memories.

If you complete any 10 challenges this month, you get this gorgeous collab as a reward! (Or a variety of other choices, visit the forum for all the details).

Filed Under: Digital Scrapbooking, Fresh Baked, GingerBread Ladies Tagged With: , ,

Tutorial Tuesday (Potpourri)

November 5, 2024 by Leave a Comment

History in the Making

Today is Election Day in the United States. I think the whole world is holding our collective breath, waiting to see which direction history will take. As a Canadian, I feel confident in stating that we want the very best for our neighbours to the south, our most improtant trading partner with whom we share the longest undefended border in the world. I have a daughter, a son-in-law and three grandchildren who will be more directly affected by the outcome of this election, and the stakes are ever so much higher for many of you. The stress of it is palpable! To distract myself, I went Windows shopping in the GingerScraps store for coordinating kits. These are the ones I found.

This was the only election-specific kit in the store. But I found some others that could definitely apply…

There’s a decent chance America will elect its first woman President, and how much more appropriate could this kit be? Check out the title word art that is part of the bundle.

I do declare, that silhouette looks remarkably familiar.

Women have only had the right to vote in the US since 1920. Canada wasn’t that far ahead, granting suffrage to women in 1917. France waited until 1944 and Lichtenstein until 1984! Many people are saying it will be women who decide this election. Go get it, girls!!

I feel like this kit ticks a lot of patriotic boxes, as a reminder of how the United States came to be.

And almost every word in this word strip pack has been spoken at campaign rallies over the last few months.

I love this kit, which so ably defines the entire 248-year experiment that is the United States. It also epitomizes what should be the focus of every voter – freedom. Whatever that means to you, I pray you’ll have every opportunity to have the freedoms you deserve.

If you want to see more related kits, the search feature in the store will show you ALL the things! Just type in a key word and go.

Tomorrow, while everyone waits for the final word on the future of the nation, my son will be undergoing an urgent procedure related to his transplanted liver, so I’ll be a little distracted. But I’ll be keeping an eye on the outcomes of both!

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Designer Spotlight: November 2024

November 3, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Twin Mom Scraps!

It’s my great pleasure to introduce to you Rebecca, aka Twin Mom Scraps. This is her first Spotlight!

One thing quickly became apparent when I was chatting with Rebecca… she doesn’t much like talking about her creative process, so we glossed over that stuff. Check it out…

J: Tell us about your path to designing.

R: I started designing back in 2008 (I think) and continued through 2013. Life got busy with young twin daughters and a booming business, so I took a 10 year retirement. Once my girls graduated high school, I decided to come back in 2023 (although, I never stopped scrapping and have completed albums for every year since they were born!)

J: Wow, I didn’t even start digiscrapping until 2010. Late to the party, as always. What are the colours you love to design with? Do you have one you really don’t like?

R: BLUE is definitely my favorite color. I don’t really have a least favorite, but I guess I am least likely to use the color ORANGE in my designs.

J: So all the “fall” kits are really hard for you, Got it! It’s funny though… I don’t love orange or yellow, but I LOVE scrapping autumn photos. While we’re talking about colour, do you have a green thumb?

R: I have a BROWN thumb. LOL. No matter how hard I try. Things go great for the first few weeks, but then always seem to take a turn…in the wrong direction.

J: I love growing plants, indoors and out. I get lots of compliments for my flowerbeds, and it’s a good feeling. Do I love the workload spring and fall? Not so much. What’s the best compliment you’ve ever received?

R: It is a huge compliment when people say nice things about my kids.

J: I know what you mean! I like hearing nice things about my kids too, although I can’t really take credit for their greatness. None of them went the career direction I expected them to, but ended up being wonderful humans. What did you want to be when you grew up?

R: I think I wanted to be a veterinarian.

J: My oldest wanted to be a doctor, and she is… a PhD-type doctor in a related field. Second wanted to do something with athletes, and instead is a criminal behaviours analyst. Youngest was determined to be an engineer until his brain injury. Now he’s just the light of everyone’s life. We all end up where we’re supposed to, I think. If time travel was possible, would you go back in time or ahead? Why?

R: Probably BACK in time, to give my mom a proper goodbye ☹

J: This time of year will always be difficult for you; it’s barely been a year since she joined your dad in the next world. I wasn’t there when my dad died, but I’m okay with that. He wouldn’t have wanted me there anyway. May I give you a hug? I’m a hugger. I can’t help it. I should put that on a t-shirt, like a warning to unsuspecting strangers. If you had a warning label, what would it say?

R: Don’t ask me a question, if you don’t want an honest answer. I often don’t have a filter.

J: That’s actually a super-power. People will always know where they stand with you. Kinda like Bette Midler. I admire her for that. Do you have a celebrity crush?

R: Paul Walker

J: Ooh, yeah! I can see why. Another one gone too soon. He was a fine actor… I know there are a lot of adjectives we could use describing him. What one word would your family and friends use to describe you?

R: Perfectionist.

J: Ouch. That’s gotta sting! But would you change that?

R: No, I’d worry less if I could

J: I can relate to that too. Thanks for the meet-and-greet, Rebecca. I’m just going to tell everybody about the business side of all this now. Safe home, ‘k?

As part of her Spotlight, Rebecca is providing this month’s Daily Download. Have you checked it out? Every one of us with kids will find it useful. 😉 She’s also hosting this month’s Designer Spotlight Challenge in addition to her usual Memory Mix-Up Challenge. She has generously provided a HUGE discount code for her GS store too!

Filed Under: Be Inspired, Behind the Scrapbook, Creative Style, Daily Download, Digital Scrapbooking, Digital Scrapbooking Freebies, Feature Designer, GingerBread Ladies, Product/Designer Spotlight Tagged With:

GingerScraps: New FREE with Purchase Collab, New Monthly Mix, New Guest Designer, Fresh Baked & More!!

November 1, 2024 by Leave a Comment

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, a New Daily Download, and a New Guest Designer at GingerScraps!  Plus it’s Friday so we have Fresh Baked goodness as well.

Don’t forget to check out the Buffet Bundles. One easy click to add bundles of Buffet goodies to your cart.

These colors are beautiful. I can’t wait to see what our designers have come up with for these colors. Remember you can mix and match the buffet kit contents to get what you need.

Remember any $10 spent in the store gets you this great collab.

Cozy Things by The GingerBread Ladies captures the essence of outdoor autumn adventures and all the delightful little comforts that come with the season. Perfect for documenting crisp, windy days, this kit is packed with seasonal elements like pumpkin spice lattes, pinecones, cozy sweaters, and warm slices of pie. With its vibrant fall colors and whimsical touches, you’ll feel the breeze and hear the crunch of leaves with every layout. Whether you’re scrapbooking a day at the pumpkin patch, a fall picnic, or simply enjoying the beauty of nature in autumn, this kit will add a cozy, outdoorsy charm to your projects. Cozy Things is the perfect companion for capturing all your favorite autumn moments!

This collab includes: 1 Alpha {Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 72 Papers, and 78 Elements.

This Free With Purchase was created by Kristmess, Miss Fish Templates, Neia Scraps, and Scrappin’ Serenity.

November Mornings by The GingerBread Ladies is the perfect digital scrapbooking kit for capturing the warmth and comfort of cozy fall mornings. Perfect for fall photos, whether you’re sipping tea, reading your favorite book, or simply enjoying the crisp November air, this kit has everything you need to bring those moments to life. Filled with rich autumn tones, soft textures, and delicate elements like steaming mugs, books, and falling leaves, this collection evokes the gentle serenity of a peaceful morning. With an array of patterned papers, embellishments, word art, and more, you’ll be able to craft layouts that feel as snug as a morning wrapped in a blanket with a good story. Perfect for documenting fall memories, journaling, or creating seasonal projects!

This kit includes: 1 Alpha {Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 59 Papers, and 97 Elements.

This Monthly Mix was created by Aprilisa Designs, CathyK Designs, J. Conlon and Sons, Jumpstart Designs, and WM[squared] Designs.

Now to the November Daily Download Sneak Peek. This month’s Daily Download is from Twin Mom Scraps! Make sure you are checking the blog every day to get all the pieces of this kit!

Not only do we have the wonderful Buffet and other first of the month goodies, it’s also Friday and that means Fresh Baked goodies too!

We are excited to announce we have a new Guest Designer starting in November.

Designs by Hilde

BIO:
My name is Hilde, and I am the proud mom of 4 beautiful boys almost man already. They mean the world to me, and they are my biggest inspiration to scrap. I also get a lot of inspiration out of nature. I love to hike and take my camera with me. I love to create layouts, and making albums and have been digital scrapbooking since several years. After a while I started to wonder how they make such beautiful goodies, and that’s when I started to create. I stopped for a while, but I am now fully engaged in designing again. I hope you enjoy scrapbooking with my goodies as much as I enjoyed making them. Please don’t hesitate to leave comments or give me a little feedback about my designs!
Enjoy,
Kind Regards, Hilde

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! (Or a variety of other choices, visit the forum for all the details).

Going Green by The GingerBread Ladies is the ultimate digital scrapbooking kit for all things fresh and veggie-filled! Bursting with vibrant greens, earthy tones, and garden-inspired elements, this kit is perfect for celebrating your love of nature, gardening, or healthy living. Featuring adorable veggies like carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, and leafy greens, this kit brings the farm-to-table experience to life. Whether you’re documenting your garden’s harvest, a trip to the farmers’ market, or whipping up a favorite healthy recipe, Going Green has everything you need to craft layouts that are bursting with fresh energy and vibrant life!

This kit includes: 1 Alpha {Uppercase, Lowercase, Numbers & Punctuation}, 49 Papers, and 76 Elements.

This Challenge Reward was created by JB Studio, Lisa Rosa Designs, Twin Mom Scraps, and Sweet Pea Designs.

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Fresh Baked Friday at GingerScraps! October 25, 2024

October 25, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Welcome to Fresh Baked Friday at GingerScraps! We hope your week has been everything you wanted it to be and that you had many memories to capture.

Remember, if you spend $10 in the store, you get this great collab for free.

Now let’s see what is new in the store this week.

How are your challenges going? If you complete any 10 challenges, you get this gorgeous collab as a reward! (Or a variety of other choices, visit the forum for all the details).

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October 11 2024: Fresh Baked Friday at GingerScraps

October 11, 2024 by Leave a Comment

Did everyone have a great time with DSD? I hope you scored some great deals and played some of the games in the forum.

Remember, if you spend $10 in the store, you get this great collab for free.

Now let’s see what is new in the store this week.

Have you started on your challenges? Are you using any of the goodies you got during DSD? If you complete any 10 challenges, you get this gorgeous collab as a reward! (Or a variety of other choices, visit the forum for all the details).

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