Happy Monday! 🙂 Here’s day #9 of this great kit from HarmonyStar:
May
9
2011
Wow! What a wonderful weekend that was. International Scrapbook Day with Mother’s Day. That’s like the cherry on top of an ice cream sundae!
I hope all the mom’s out there enjoyed their day and were able to scoop up some great scrapping deals in the meantime.
On to the winner…
This week’s LOTW winner is shawnbear with her sweet LO. This LO has a beautifully blended photo, an awesome cluster and story to tell! Click on the image to leave her some love or click here to view her entire Gingerscraps Gallery.
This lovely layout was created using goodies from the Mr. Robin Bundle by Marshmella Designs.
You can pick outstanding gallery layouts which become the next LOTW nominee’s by posting in the “Baker’s Best” thread. Check out the rules here.
As always your vote counts so head over the the forum to vote for the next LOTW winner. You can be a LOTW winner too, all you have to do is scrap! Happy Scrapping.
May Daily Download #8
May
8
2011
Hello all! Jacque here… typing this up from the hotel room! 🙂 Thank goodness for free wi-fi! Anyhow – first off I want to wish all the mom’s out there a very Happy Mother’s Day! I hope you all are having a fabulous iNSD weekend. If you missed the chat with Ginger last night – you missed out on lots of fun! (I even popped by for a little bit!) You can check HERE in the forum to see if you won prizes though!
Alrighty – we’re headed out the door to Fenway Park to watch the Boston Red Sox play this afternoon… so here’s your day #8 download of this great kit!
Have a great day and don’t forget to take advantage of the last day of the awesome iNSD sales in the store!!!
May Daily Download #6
May
6
2011
Hi there! It’s here – the weekend of all weekends!!! Well – at least for me! 🙂 I’ll be a busy bee but still hope to enjoy the fun of iNSD too! Be sure to check out this post to get the scoop on the happenings for this weekend at GingerScraps! And because I don’t want to hold you up from getting over to the store to check out the goodies…
Here’s day #6 of this awesome kit from HarmonyStar:
Have a great day!!!!
Fresh Baked and iNSD! 5/6
May
5
2011
It’s the most wonderful time of the year!! Ok, so it isn’t the winter season holidays, but this is just so much better. It is interNational Scrapbook Day!!!! We just have so many fun things planned that we should just get right into it!!
We have Speed Scraps and Chats over the entire weekend!
All Time Zones Are EST
Friday May 6 – 2:30pm – Melinda SS (sponsored by Pretty in Green)
Friday May 6 – 9pm – Speed Scrap with Cari Cruse Designs
Saturday May 7 – 11am- Progressive LO Chat with Connie Prince
Saturday May 7 – 5pm – SS w/ Jen (sponsored by Marshmella Designs)
Saturday May 7 – 8pm – Chat… time to grant wishes 
with GingerScraps
Sunday May 8 – 9pm – Speed Scrap with Pretty in Green
Make sure you add your the products you wish for most of all to your wish list!! While you are at it add it to the forum too for another chance to win! Ginger and our designers will be revealing the winners Saturday Night at 8pm EST.
Let me show you what our designers have for you just for iNSD! Everything in the store is 40% off this weekend too! Plus don’t forget if you spend $10 in the store you get this grabbag by Creations by Julie for free.
Before I show you the new stuff I just had to give you a little heads up. It would be real mean of me if I didn’t tell you. Our May Guest – Valarie Ostrom – has been working on building up her store. Keep an eye on her store to make sure you don’t miss anything she has!
This grab bag collab by Unforgettable Moments and Key Of D designs is one great deal! 6 brand NEW products, 2 designers, 1 cute alpha, 1 kit, 1 mini-kit, 1 acrylic word art pack, 2 FULL template packs, and 1 LOW price! This grab bag offers you so much amazing versatility. With this one grab bag you will have so many layout possibilities! This grab bag will be available through May. Once May is over the grab bag will be opened up and put into the perspective designers shops at full price. WARNING: If you like grab bags to be a big surprise than don’t look at the detailed images in the Unforgettable Moments shop! A full preview for each product is revealed in the detailed images in the shop.
https://store.gingerscraps.net/iNSD-Grab-Bag-Collab-with-Key-Of-D-Designs.html
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Get this iNSD Grab Bag from Wyld Web Designs for only $5 this week only! Exclusive to Gingerscraps, this grab bag contains four brand new products valued at more than $12! A savings of almost 60%, don’t miss this great deal!
https://store.gingerscraps.net/iNSD-Grab-Bag-by-Wyld-Web-Designs.html
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From Statements by Jodi, 4 all new CU products bundled together in this grab bag! Just in time for International Day of Scrap! Grab this grab bag before it’s gone! These CU items will only be bundled for a short time! $7 a $12 value!
https://store.gingerscraps.net/iNDS-Grab-Bag.html
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Silly, Fun, and Sophisticated! Just like Dad! Time To Shave is a Collaboration by Creations by Julie and Pretty in Green. This fun bundle includes a full kit with 54 elements with 39 being unique and 11 coordinating papers. A fun set of Word Art that includes 8 pieces. 1 Hybrid Shaped Card Template, 5 Handmade Felt Mustaches and 1 Handmade Felt Frame.
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Time-To-Shave-Collab-Bundle.html
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Beach Bum {the kit} by Cari Cruse :: How about a little *fun* on the beach??! This softly colored kit will scrap your tropical photos beautifully! Whether you’re surfing or building sand castles, or just relaxing in the sun, you will love accenting your pages with Beach Bum papers and elements! Contains: 12 papers + 38 elements + 1 alpha
Sale Price: $3.15 {Regular Price: $5.25}
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Beach-Bum-the-kit-by-Cari-Cruse.html
Beach Bum {the papers} – Sale Price $1.95 {Regular Price $3.25}
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Beach-Bum-the-papers-by-Cari-Cruse.html
Beach Bum {the elements} – Sale Price $1.95 {Regular Price $3.25}
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Beach-Bum-the-elements-by-Cari-Cruse.html
Beach Bum {the alpha} – Sale Price $1.35 {Regular Price $2.25}
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Beach-Bum-the-alpha-by-Cari-Cruse.html
Shimmering Summer {the kit} by Cari Cruse :: Soft, warm colors of summer with a hint of shimmer will make scrapping your summertime photos delightfully fun! Contains: 12 papers + 25 elements + 1 alpha
Sale Price $3.15 {Regular Price 5.25}
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Shimmering-Summer-the-kit-by-Cari-Cruse.html
Shimmering Summer {the papers} – Sale Price $1.95 {Regular Price: 3.25}
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Shimmering-Summer-the-papers-by-Cari-Cruse.html
Shimmering Summer {the elements} – Sale Price $1.95 {Regular Price: 3.25}
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Shimmering-Summer-the-elements-by-Cari-Cruse.html
Shimmering Summer {the alpha} – Sale Price $1.35 {Regular Price: 2.25}
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Shimmering-Summer-the-alpha-by-Cari-Cruse.html
Get the Summer & Beach Bundle, 2 full kits, at an amazing discount!
Sale Price: $5.04 {Regular Price: 8.40}
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Summer-and-Beach-the-bundle-by-Cari-Cruse.html
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Four (4) brand new products from Kathy Winters Designs at an incredible price to celebrate International Scrapooking Day! This grab bag contains products at a value of $14.50 but as part of the celebration, it’s only $5.00. Don’t like surprises? View the detailed images for a peek at the full reveal.
https://store.gingerscraps.net/iNSD-Grab-Bag-by-Kathy-Winter-Designs.html
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Big Boy Toys by Marshmella Designs.
Kit includes 50 elements and 14 papers.
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Big-Boy-Toys-Kit.html
Alphas include A-Z and 0-9.
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Big-Boy-Toys-Alphas.html
3 cluster frames
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Big-Boy-Toys-Cluster.html
4 psd file templates
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Big-Boy-Toys-Templates.html
and the bundle already on sale for $10.00 and you can grab it for an extra 40% off this weekend.
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Big-Boy-Toys-Bundle.html
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Spring Fling, a Flirty Spring Kit from Colie’s Corner Kit includes 20 papers|35 elements|2 alphas
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Spring-Fling.html
From Colie’s Corner, Let’s Renovate is a kit for all of those home improvement pictures. kit includes 20 papers|44 elements|1 alpha
https://store.gingerscraps.net/let-s-renovate.html
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You’ll love this bag, it’s packed full of brand new products from Connie Prince! Fully revealed in the additional images on the product page.
https://store.gingerscraps.net/May-GrabBag-1-by-Connie-Prince.html
Connie Prince has not one, but TWO bags this month and you will love what’s inside. The contents are erfect for your movie night photos! Fully revealed in the additional images on the product page.
https://store.gingerscraps.net/May-GrabBag-2-by-Connie-Prince.html
May Templatetopia is here and you will find FOUR full-size template packs inside, all CU ok, and fully revealed on the product page!
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Templatetopia-May-2011-CU-Ok.html
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Time-To-Plant-Blog-Wear.html
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Main-Street-Magic-Signature-Tags.html
https://store.gingerscraps.net/My-Wish-For-You-QuickPage-Album.html
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These super fun “Slightly Crooked Templates” by Creations by Julie make your photos shine!
Set of 4 layered 12×12 PSD and PNG Templates.
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Slighty-Crooked-Templates.html
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There you have it! Our big weekend has already started! Just don’t forget to make your wish!
Happy interNational Scrapbooking Day and to the mom’s out there — Happy Mother’s Day!
Challenge Spotlight – Daily Download
May
2
2011
Welcome to another week and another Challenge Spotlight! Before we go to far let give a cheer for last weeks challenge spotlight winner jabi with her adorable Bath Time LO! Here’s what she won:
It’s a new month which means new challenges! But to give a little time for some example LOs to show up I thought perhaps I we could use last months Daily Download from HK Designs. Here’s a couple LOs to get the juices flowing:
by waterlily_mc
by jbdolfin
by This Dixie Pixie
Lovely Right? And so versatile! What have you made with your April Daily Download? Haven’t used it yet? Well here’s the perfect chance!
Then come back here and post the link to your LO in the gallery and post it in a comment here. Next week I’ll randomly select one and that person will win a prize from ME! (Harmonystar).
CT & those who have already done a LO with this kit are elligable. Let me see those comments!
Oh! And don’t forget to keep coming back to pick up May’s Daily Download! This month it’s from ME! I worked super hard on it just for you! 🙂
May
1
2011
This week’s LOTW winner is This Dixie Pixie with her Cold Beauty LO. This LO contains a lovely collection of photos and fabulous clustering! Click on the image to leave her some love or click here to view her entire Gingerscraps Gallery.
This lovely layout was created using goodies from the After Snowfall bundle by Pretty In Green.
You can pick outstanding gallery layouts which become the next LOTW nominee’s by posting in the “Baker’s Best” thread. Check out the rules here.
As always your vote counts so head over the the forum to vote for the next LOTW winner. You can be a LOTW winner too, all you have to do is scrap! Happy Scrapping.
$1 Bake Sale, New Buffet, and Guest Designer, and More!! 5/1
May
1
2011
Hi GingerScraps Friends! This is Ginger here today, my lovely Shannon needed to step away from the computer for the weekend… How Dare She!! So please forgive typos and misspellings…. I always say, The mistakes give it character, but that is when they are my mistakes. haha. When I find typos or misspelling done by another, I judge and wag my finger disapprovingly. Hehehe. Didn’t you all miss me and my nonsense for the opener of our newsletter?
Ok now on to the Good Stuff!! And there is A LOT of it !!
Lets kick it off by welcoming our May Guest GingerBread Lady!! Valarie Ostrom!!
Here is a little bio from Valarie: I’m a 28 yr old stay at home mom during the week and I run a paper route on the weekends. I have been married almost 10 years to Blaine, who I met online. We have 2 girls Courtney (8) and Kelsey (5), a cat (Spyder) and a dog (Dixie). We live in eastern Kentucky. I have been designing steadily for about 4 years, off and on before that. I started out as a paper scrapper so my designs reflect that.
Are you ready to see her Yummy Goodies!! Here is a taste, be on the lookout for more and more as the month goes on.
Little girls laughter one of the greatest sounds on earth!
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Giggle-Box.html
Scrap your girls pictures with this adorable ladybug set
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Little-Bug.html
For all those times we wonder what our purpose really is
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Soul-Searching.html
Ready for some more exciting news??!! Our Guest Designer for April, Colie’s Courner, she loved GingerScraps so much- she has decided to make it her permanent home! You can now find her in our ever growing list of AMAZING GingerScraps Designers!!
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Colies-Corner/
I know you are all waiting for iNSD in just a few short days…. But you will want to make sure you snag up these deals while you can! Of course we will be having big sales and many fun events over the iNDS weekend, but the $1 Bake Sale is only for the next 24 hours! So much goodness and all for only $1.00!! Remember- the $1Bake Sale is on the 1st of each month, and lasts only 24 hours.
We have gotten such a huge positive responsive with The GingerScraps Buffet, you all just love it! We decided to keep that going and continue to offer you our Buffet items all included in the 24 hour Bake Sale price!! So For the next 24 hours you can get All the items in the Bake Sale for $1.00 AND all the *New* Buffet items for $1.00!
The May Buffet is …… The GingerScraps Puddle Jumpers ……
With all that goodness it will be easy to spend over $10.00! Our May Grab Bag is brought to your by Creations By Julie (awe my favorite sister in the whole wide world!) The Grab Bag she put together for May is AWESOME! You are going to LOVE IT!!
This set of FOUR brand new products can be yours for FREE this month! Simply make any $10 purchase in a single transaction in the month of May 2011 and you will receive this grab bag absolutely FREE! These four products will be broken up and sold at full price next month in Creations by Julie’s store, get this deal while you can!
**This product will be automatically added to your cart with any purchase of $10.00 or more! **
Here is a little sneak peek-
https://store.gingerscraps.net/May-ABC-Grab-Bag.html
Starting TODAY we have a new Daily Download Right here on the GingerScraps blog. A Wonderful and Whimsical kit by Harmonystar. Here is a little sneak peek. Click on the image to download Day one.
Don’t forget to head over to the GingerScrapsStreet Digital Magazine! It is jam packed with delectable Layouts! Savor every page. And Be sure to pick up the Monthly Features FREE kit! Our very own Colie’s Corner happens to be the May Feature! She is giving away a precious kit called Signs of Spring
iNSD will be here before you know it! Come celebrate this International holiday with us at GingerScraps!
Fresh Baked! 4/29
Apr
29
2011
One more week! That’s right! There is only one more week until inter National Scrapbooking Day! I’m just so excited about this weekend. We at GingerScraps have plans to make all your wishes come true that weekend. It starts with a sale. Not just any sale, a BIG sale. A 40% off sale! Add products to your wish list and our designers will grant them! Add them also to the forum for another chance to win. We will have chats, speed scraps, double entries into our challenge prize pot….the list goes on and on.
You are probably saying, “This is all great but it is still a week away. Why are you telling us now?” It is simple. I want to make sure you add us to your calendar so you don’t miss anything. Things will be crazy busy that weekend and you won’t want to miss it.
Want to know what else you won’t want to miss? The new Welcome Kit!! This week’s Welome Kit is by Pixie Keepsakes. Make sure you let your friends know about it! There are also others there in case you missed any! All you have to do is make sure you are a registered member in the forum. Enjoy and Welcome to GingerScraps.
Now for the new releases! This is your last couple of daya to get the FREE grab bag by PhotoCowGirl. Just spend $10 in the store and it is all yours! Another thing is the last couple of days to get Colie’s Corners products here as a guest.
Fun Splash {the mini} by Cari Cruse :: Splish Splash! Nothing “fishy” here, just a super little mini kit that will help you make a “splash” in your scrapping!
Contains: 5 papers + 10 elements
Sale Price: $1.95 (Regular Price: $3.25)
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Fun-Splash-the-mini-by-Cari-Cruse.html
Herbal Garden {the kit} by Cari Cruse: Fresh from the garden, the colors of nature shine through with a rustic elegance that is sure to light up your pages! Beautiful herbal plants along with rural elements like the water pump and birdhouse make a wonderful combination of the outdoors and a style that you will love using to scrap!
Contains: 13 papers + 32 elements
Sale Price: $3.15 (Regular: $5.25)
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Herbal-Garden-the-kit-by-Cari-Cruse.html
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Herbal-Garden-the-papers-by-Cari-Cruse.html
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Herbal-Garden-the-elements-by-Cari-Cruse.html
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The Dreaming Tree by Psychozoe
Where do you go to dream? to plan? to just be? I have a tree, I call it my Dreaming Tree.
https://store.gingerscraps.net/The-Dreaming-Tree.html
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Whew! It’s getting hot in here! Pretty in Green has a totally rad set of CU Flame Shapes. This set of Flames will be perfect for all those nights by the fire, or days your little fire fighter is going to work… maybe even your totally rad man and his love for cool flames! What ever it is this set is perfect. Included in this pack are 9 flame shapes in PNG and a Custom Shape file for Photoshop.
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Flames-Shapes.html
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A beautiful spring time kit that is so versatile. This kit is about letting your inner beauty shine. Everyone is beautiful and original in their own way and deserve to feel special. Shine by Scrappy Cocoa has 12 patterned papers, 6 solids, and 51 elements!
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Shine.html
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Statements by Jodi has some new Commercial Use textured overlays! Each one includes their original color and grayscaled overlay.
First she has these brown paper overlays. Regular price is $4.00 but this weekend only, snag them for 25% off!
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Brown-Paper-Overlays-volume-I.html
Next are these beautiful watercolored textured overlays. Regular price is $4.00 but this weekend only, snag them for 25% off!
https://store.gingerscraps.net/Watercolor-Overlays.html
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Everything is 25% off for the weekend. Don’t forget that Sunday is our $1 Bake Sale day!! You can’t beat those prices!!