Happy Valentine’s Day! Today is a day of love, but it’s also a little of sorrow!

One of our designers suffered a house fire and is raising money through a sale! It’s amazing deal!

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Susan-Godfrey-Be-A-Hero-Buy-My-Store.html

For some happier news, Gingerscraps loves you all so much, and wants to give you a lovely Valentine’s gift.

 
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Monthly-Mix-Inner-Beauty.html

A full-size kit, free! Just to say how much we love our GS members!

Before I start with the beautiful kits and products that the designers have created for you, I just have to share this awesome news with you, a new Welcome Wagon kit has been released! If you do not know about our Welcome Wagon area, you should go check it out right away! Once you register in the forum, you will have access to the Welcome Wagon area. The designers create wonderful goodies and give them to you for FREE! The Welcome Wagon has been up and running, for over a year, so our designers are changing their goodies! New goodies, Free goodies!

Today, Little Rad Trio has a gift for you. It’s a bright little mini that will work for most any layout you want to do!

https://forums.gingerscraps.net/forumdisplay.php?499-The-GingerScraps-Welcome-Wagon

Keep an eye out, because she has a kit that coordinates PERFECTLY with it!

Today, we’re pleased to welcome two new designers to the Gingerscraps team!

Tracey, of Clever Monkey Graphics, is one of the new designers!

We asked her for a quick bio and this is what she told us:

I am Tracey Monette of Clever Monkey Graphics and I’ve been designing for digital scrapbookers for 7 1/2 years. Trained as a graphic designer I slowly let go of all other design work to concentrate on creating scrapbooking kits because this is truly where my passion lies. Growing up in Canada, I now live in Oregon with my husband Mike and daughter Taylor. She is the focus of most of my layouts. My kits are usually very colorful, often a bit quirky, and usually theme related. Often they are filled with my own doodles and graphic images and sometimes even contain hand cut felt items. I very much enjoy the digital community and have so loved becoming friends with women from New Zealand and Australia to Indonesia to England to South America and right here in North America. We all bond with our common love of preserving memories. I look forward to my time here at Gingerscraps to hosting some scraps to begin knowing the Gingerscraps community!

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Clever-Monkey-Graphics/

Our other new designer is Amy, of Amy Stoffel!

We asked for a little bit about her and this is what she had to share:

Hello, I’m Amy Stoffel. I live in the bustling town of (insert laughter here) Marana, Arizona with my husband Brandon and our two sons; Jacob and Braden as well as our dog Rex. I’m passionate about memory keeping and recording all the small details of my families lives. When I’m not at my computer designing or scrapping I also love cooking, jewelry making, collecting vintage bits, reading, I’m an avid fan-fic writer and rowdy UFC fan.
I started paper scrapbooking in 1996, when I stumbled across some products in a craft store. I was hooked instantly! After I had my first child in 2004, it became harder and harder to not only find the time to scrapbook, but to find the time to lug out all my products, cut and paste and make a page in between taking care of a baby. In 2008 my Dad gave me Photoshop to help me with my photos, and I discovered digital scrapbooking through online friends. I started out mainly with freebies that I found online, and once I found an actual online store…I never looked back! I became a regular fixture in scrapbooking, and was on some amazing creative teams, I loved it. In 2009, I really wanted to try my hand at designing, I am a very aspiring person, so to me it seemed like a very natural progression. With the help of one of my designers I CT’d for, I put out my first kit. The rest as they say, is history.

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Amy-Stoffel/

Make them feel welcome and show them how awesome the fans of Gingerscraps can be!

Remember, when you spend $10 in the store, you get a great grab bag! 

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Sweet-On-You.html

Kit: https://bit.ly/1dHECmA
Journal Cards: https://bit.ly/1dHEEej
coupon code: FREEspc_GoL14 (with both items in your cart)

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Love-My-Sister-by-Seatrout-Scraps.html

Play Ball Bundle: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Play-Ball-Bundle.html
Baseball Bundle: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Baseball-Bundle.html
Softball Bundle: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Softball-Bundle.html

Play Ball Templates: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Play-Ball-12×12-Templates-CU-OK.html
Play Ball Extra Paper Pack: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Play-Ball-Extra-Paper-Pack.html
Play Ball Alpha Add-On: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Play-Ball-Alpha-Pack-AddOn.html
Baseball Kit: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Baseball-Kit.html
Baseball Border Clusters: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Baseball-Border-Clusters.html
Baseball PreDeco Papers: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Baseball-PreDeco-Papers.html
Baseball Flair: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Baseball-Flair-Pack.html
Baseball QP: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Baseball-QuickPages.html
Baseball Printable Greeting Cards: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Baseball-Printable-Greeting-Cards.html
Baseball Cluster: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Baseball-Cluster-Pack.html
Softball Kit: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Softball-Kit.html
Softball Border Clusters: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Softball-Border-Clusters.html
Softball PreDeco Papers: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Softball-PreDeco-Papers.html
Softball Flair: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Softball-Flair-Pack.html
Softball QP: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Softball-QuickPages.html
Softball Printable Greeting Cards: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Softball-Printable-Greeting-Cards.html
Softball Clusters: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Softball-Cluster-Pack.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Mishmashed-Edges-1.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Memories-a-gingerbread-ladies-collab.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/My-Story-Volume-5-by-LissyKay-Designs.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/One-True-Love-by-LissyKay-Designs.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/BFF-full-kit.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Winter-Dreams-full-kit.html

Starting January 2014 we will have a new and very exciting challenge reward program!! Complete any 10 challenges within the month, and you will receive a brand new designer collab! Each month we will offer a brand new GingerBread Ladies collab as a reward for completing the GS challenges.

https://forums.gingerscraps.net/forumdisplay.php?459-Challenge-Yourself

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Seatrout-Scraps

https://store.gingerscraps.net/ConniePrince/

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Created-by-Jill-Scraps/

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Created-by-Jill-Scraps/

https://store.gingerscraps.net/CathyK-Designs/

See you in the forum!

Good morning, Scrappers!! This week, we have a new designer joining the team. The designers have also seemed to really fall “in love” with the upcoming holiday season! Lots of love-related kits! But they’re not all! There are a few fun surprises as well!

Enjoy the layouts created using January Buffet {Designer’s Choice} and Winter’s Lovesong. They’re gorgeous and so creative!

Created by gethane. The picture is what drew me in! I love the burst layer look!

Created by KatherineWoodin. So much journaling, beautifully written!

Created by sharjen. The cluster work is absolutely wonderful!

Now, I have the pleasure to introduce you to the newest member of the Gingerscraps design team! Melissa, of Lissykay Designs, is joining us! Help us welcome her!

We asked her to give us a little info on herself, and this is what she had to tell us:

Before I tell you about myself, I need to express my excitement over being a part of the GingerScraps family. It has been a whirlwind of a ride, but I am thrilled to have the chance to jump in share all the ideas swimming in my head.
My name is Melissa and I have been scrapbooking for 17 years. In that time I have taught lots of classes and for those classes I have designed many paper craft templates. Making the switch to digi was hard only because I thought my paper stash was vital to my creative process. When I finally made the switch, I berated myself for waiting so long.

A little about myself: I am a native Texan who now has to suffer through the cold of North Salt Lake, Utah. I am married to Alan, who is from New Zealand and hates the cold as much as I do. I have a 13-year old daughter Keziah — the subject of most my layouts — who keeps me on my toes and is responsible for a few of my gray hairs. I also have five amazing stepdaughters — Renee, Leanne, Lisa, Rachelle and Hayley — who all live in New Zealand with their own little families. (We also have a cat we just call Kitten, despite the fact she is 4 yrs old. She doesn’t like me much, unless she needs to be saved from my mother visiting.)

I got into template designing quite by accident. After posting creative team layouts for several months, I kept receiving requests for the names of templates I used for my layouts. Since they were my original designs, there were no names to give. Finally, one gal asked if I wouldn’t mind making a template. I thought it over, spoke to the designer whose kit I used. She encouraged me to make the template and give it away on my blog. I suppose this sounds cliché, but the rest is history.
The name LissyKay is one I used for my paper crafting designs. It is a nickname my family started. I did not like the name Missy. (There was a not so nice girl in my elementary school who went by Missy, and in my childish brain, I associated the name with her.) So my mother adopted the name Lissy. And being from the South, you always use your middle name. Thus, Lissy Kay stuck. Even to this day, all my nieces and nephews call me Lissy.

I don’t know if I can put into coherent words how I feel when I see others using something I created. First, I am honored someone liked it enough to pick it up. But to see what a scrapper creates with the foundation I provided is both exciting and humbling. Second, I truly am inspired by the world around me. I try to put my own interpretation onto paper — or my Photoshop canvas. Everything has both a purpose and a meaning. Hopefully there is a little bit of me in my work. What is quite important to me is that most of my templates are inspired from layouts I have made or from the hundreds of sketches I have drawn.
Enjoy the LissyKay designs. It is my wish you find them helpful and you are able to create digi masterpieces.

And here are just a few of the products that you will find in her store:

https://store.gingerscraps.net/My-Story-Volume-2.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Take-Three-Template-Pack.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Just-You.html

She’s having a sale, so go! I’m sure you’ll find something that you enjoy!

Remember, when you spend $10 in the store, you get a great grab bag! 

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Everyday-Moments.html

Bundle : https://store.gingerscraps.net/Everything-Has-Changed-Bundle-Pack.html
Kit : https://store.gingerscraps.net/Everything-Has-Changed.html
Journal Pack : https://store.gingerscraps.net/Everything-Has-Changed-Journal-Card-Pack.html
Stacked Paper : https://store.gingerscraps.net/Everything-Has-Changed-Stacked-Paper-Pack.html
Kraft Paper : https://store.gingerscraps.net/Everything-Has-Changed-Kraft-Paper-Pack.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Let-s-Stay-Fit.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Heart-Card-Hybrid-Template-and-Cutting-Files-by-SandyPie-Creations.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/You-Hold-the-Key-Bundle-by-Seatrout-Scraps-and-Two-Tiny-Turtles.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Travelogue-Bundle-by-Seatrout-Scraps.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Temptations-Remix-Vol-10.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Template-Grab-Bag-13.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Be-Still-My-Heart-Collab-with-Susan-Godfrey-Designs.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Boyish-Love.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/February-2014-Grab-Bag-Sale.html

QP Album: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Doh-Fun-QuickPage-Album.html
WordArt: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Doh-Fun-Word-Art.html
Flair Pack: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Doh-Fun-Flair-Pack.html
Alpha AddOn: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Doh-Fun-Alpha-Pack-AddOn.html
Cluster: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Doh-Fun-Cluster-Pack.html

Kit – https://store.gingerscraps.net/This-Can-t-Be-Happening-Kit.html
Word Bits – https://store.gingerscraps.net/This-Can-t-Be-Happening-Word-Bits.html
Smatters – https://store.gingerscraps.net/This-Can-t-Be-Happening-Smatter-Mix.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/This-Can-t-Be-Happening-Bundle.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Love-Letters-full-kit.html

word art: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Love-Letters-word-art.html
graffiti: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Love-Letters-graffiti.html
cards 1: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Love-Letters-cards-1.html
cards 2: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Love-Letters-cards-2.html
bonus alpha: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Love-Letters-bonus-alpha.html

https://store.gingerscraps.net/Love-Letters-collab.html

Starting January 2014, we have a new and very exciting challenge reward program!! Complete any 10 challenges within the month, and you will receive a brand new designer collab! Each month we will offer a brand new GingerBread Ladies collab as a reward for completing the GS challenges.

https://forums.gingerscraps.net/forumdisplay.php?459-Challenge-Yourself