{"id":6480,"date":"2012-06-24T07:51:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T14:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/?p=6480"},"modified":"2012-06-24T07:53:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T14:53:02","slug":"weekly-wrap-up-banner-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/2012\/06\/weekly-wrap-up-banner-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Wrap-Up: Banner Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Weekly Wrap-up! \" src=\"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/images\/Blog\/Headers\/GS_blog_WeeklyWrapUp_Header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"88\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Good morning scrappy friends!<\/p>\n<p>Can you believe June is almost over? One more week! I really can&#8217;t. Where is the time going? I swear, it&#8217;s just getting up and walking away, unannounced and unnoticed. Soon we&#8217;ll all be celebrating the Fourth (those of us in the United States, that is \ud83d\ude09 )! \u00a0Now since I don&#8217;t have any clever transitions, I&#8217;ll just come out and say it, I LOVE BANNERS! I&#8217;ve been oohing and ahhing for a while now at all the delicious banners out there, so really, the next step in my addiction is to go hybrid, right?<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve got to share with you this gem I found in our store,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.gingerscraps.net\/Hybrid-I-3-USA-Banner-Templates.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"USA Banner\" src=\"https:\/\/store.gingerscraps.net\/images\/P\/folder-135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be honest, I&#8217;ve been eyeing it up for a while, now is as good a time as ever to jump on the hybrid bandwagon- with July 4th a little over a week away! It looks too cute and EASY to pass up! \u00a0There are some great kits in the store you could use to create your banner! I want to share with you a new one by Connie Prince and an older (but still absolutely beautiful!) kit by Kathy Winters Designs!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.gingerscraps.net\/Let-Freedom-Ring-Kit.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Let Freedom Ring\" src=\"https:\/\/store.gingerscraps.net\/images\/P\/cap_letfreedomringGS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.gingerscraps.net\/Independence-by-Kathy-Winters-Designs.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Independence\" src=\"https:\/\/store.gingerscraps.net\/images\/P\/kwd_Independence_Prvw_GS-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have yet to grab Connie&#8217;s but I am TOTALLY loving that banner! \ud83d\ude09 (see, addicted) I<em> have<\/em> used Kathy&#8217;s and it&#8217;s VERY awesome. I love all the stars and buttons and word art and&#8230; well, go grab it now and see for yourself! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>To stray a bit from scrap-talk, there is a fascinating and insightful thread hoppin&#8217; in the forum right now. Sara (Tree City) asked, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/forums.gingerscraps.net\/showthread.php?18186-Top-5-Decisions-in-Your-Life\" target=\"_blank\">What are the Top 5 Most Important Decisions You&#8217;ve Made in Your Life?<\/a>&#8221; \u00a0Responses are so different from each person, sad, happy, ongoing challenges. It really makes you sit back and think, what <em>ARE <\/em>\u00a0the 5 most important decision you&#8217;ve made in your life? I&#8217;ve yet to answer but that&#8217;s because it <em>really does<\/em>\u00a0make you think! \u00a0So, tell me, what are YOUR five?<\/p>\n<p>Have you finished reading our June read, The Lucky One for book club? You&#8217;ve got a few days left before the book chat! You can find the information on The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forums.gingerscraps.net\/showthread.php?17686-Our-Read-For-June-The-Lucky-One-by-Nicholas-Sparks!\" target=\"_blank\">in this thread<\/a>. The forum discussion <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.gingerscraps.net\/showthread.php?18032-June-s-Book-Discussion-quot-The-Lucky-One-quot-by-Nicholas-Sparks\" target=\"_blank\">can be found here in this thread<\/a>\u00a0and the chat is on June 28th.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6482\" title=\"JuneChat\" src=\"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/2012\/06\/JuneChat1-500x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JuneChat1-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JuneChat1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JuneChat1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We hope to see you there!<\/p>\n<p>Remember to get your June challenges in, you&#8217;ve got one week left! I know I&#8217;ve got to finish up a few, which is what I plan to do today! Make sure to check out this past Friday&#8217;s new releases in the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.gingerscraps.net\/FreshBaked-6-22\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh Baked<\/a> section, there are some great new kits in the store! A few in particular I am oogling, that&#8217;s for sure!<\/p>\n<p>Have a scrap happy Sunday my friends!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&lt;3 April<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning scrappy friends! Can you believe June is almost over? One more week! I really can&#8217;t. Where is the time going? I swear, it&#8217;s just getting up and walking away, unannounced and unnoticed. Soon we&#8217;ll all be celebrating the Fourth (those of us in the United States, that is \ud83d\ude09 )! \u00a0Now since I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[203],"tags":[175,93,176],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-04 06:36:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"private","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6480"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6486,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions\/6486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}