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After Christmas sale!
Don't miss it!!! There are so many fabulous winter/Christmas/holiday goodies in the shoppe!!!
Happy shopping!
Happy Holidays!
Card made with Merry Memories Quick Page Album by Anna Russell, alpha from Merry & Bright collab kit
Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas! Happy Hannukah! Happy Kwanzaa! Feliz Navidad! Feliz Natal! Mele Kalikimaka! Maligayang Pasko! Joyeux Noel! Frohliche Weihnachten! God Jul!
Wherever you are ... however you are celebrating the holiday season ... we here at ScrapArtist wish you all happy holidays. Thank you for all your love and support of ScrapArtist. We're looking forward to seeing you all in 2008!
Feature Friday - Spunky!
This week's featured product is this great paper pack from GypsyChick - Spunky! I love the colors and the great grungy, funky style of these papers! And, as you can see from our creative team layouts below, they're really versatile! And, they're also a Fab Friday product so today you can pick them up for just $1! To give you some ideas for how to put these great papers to work, here's a few layouts from our CT!
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Well, the holidays are officially upon us! At my house the Christmas tree is up, the decorations are hung and I even have some presents wrapped. And, this year, with a baby on the way, this time of year really has me thinking about the importance of tradition and memory making. My husband and I have been talking about the things we did as children and the traditions our families had as we try to figure out how we want to observe this time of year when our little girl joins us next year. In my hunting around the internet for more holiday ideas, I ran into this article, which I thought was great to get you thinking about your traditions and the traditions you might like to start:
Christmas Traditions: Ways to Add Meaning and Continuity to the Holidays
Of course as a scrapbooker, I think it's also important to think about how you want to preserve all those great memories and traditions while still taking the time to enjoy them yourself. I find that doing a little planning so that I can take some of the photos I want to have goes a long ways - I snap shots of the tree, the dinner table, the presents and all those sorts of still-life things before any of the festivities get under way. That way I'm a little less glued to my camera as we start to have fun with family and I can relax and enjoy the time a little more.
Putting together the basics of an album ahead of time is a great idea too! If you haven't already been following Ali Edward's progress on her December Daily Album, I highly recommend stopping over at her blog to check it out - what a great idea! It's just a great way to make it easier to record all those important little moments during a hectic time.
Whatever traditions you choose to observe this year, I hope you enjoy some time with family and friends and have a truly blessed holiday season!
P.S. The really cool piece of ephemera at the top of the post is from Nancie Rowe-Janitz's Digital Ephemera No. 3: Vintage Christmas Images - I just love them!
Late Feature Friday - Quilled Whimsies
Hi!
Emilie here for a belated Feature Friday! The end of the year is always very busy with all the preparations and the shopping. Today, the featured product is not related to Christmas but you can use it on your Christmas layouts or cards of course, it's very versatile. Today we're featuring the cute Quilled Whimsies by Christine Honsinger and it's 30% off in the store.
Now, check out what our fabulous team members have done with it.
Don't forget to post your layouts in the Feature Product Gallery!
Have a good scrapping time! :)
Emilie
And the winners are.....
The 3 lucky winners of Mojo Monday challenge are:
Kim1
mil01
jindrucha
Congrats ladies!!! I'll PM you with your prize! Thank you for playing with me!
*Gabi*
Feature Friday - Neopolitan Summer
Hi!
Emilie here for a new Feature Friday! Today, I've decided to showcase a yummy, girly and fun kit by Amber Clegg called Neopolitan Summer. The colors of this kit really makes me want to go to the beach and eat an ice cream!
The kit is 30% off in the store, so go grab it! ;) Here's a preview:
And look what Kathy did with this kit.
Credits: here
Don't forget to post in the Feature Product Gallery @ ScrapArtist!
Have fun!!
Emilie
Drummmm Rolllll Please
How in the world is it December already?? It seems like this year has just flown by but lucky for the ScrapArtist team we get to end 2007 on a great note.........with the fabulously creative and just as sweet Catherine aka chud23 as our Guest Goddess for December. I asked Catherine to share her own 3 favorite layouts ...... and to be honest I have no idea how she chose only three because they are all absolutely amazing..oops I am rambling ... back to the topic, Catherine's favorite layouts......here they are.
and finally Magic Mirrors a beautiful heritage layout using a priceless photo!
What fun is it to have a guest if you can't get to know them a little better while they're hanging out with you?? So we asked Catherine to share a picture, so we have a face to put with the name and the gorgeous layouts and to answer just a few little questions so we can get to know what makes her "tick".
1. My full name is:
Catherine Paturet
2. My best friend calls me: Catherine
3. I scrap my children and my heritage photos because they inspire me
4. My favorite inspiration comes from: ? My children (and the pile of photos I have of them) and nature (especially for colors) are my main source of inspiration. Since I have quite grown up children, I am scanning all the photos I took of them when they were younger. I also love to look at magazines and galleries, online galleries are amazing sources of inspirational pages!
5. My computer is set up (where): in the family room downstairs where I have a wonderful view on the sea !
6. If I'm surfing the web I go check my e-mails and check my favorite digi sites and some of my fabulous creative team forums I belong to!
7. If I'm shopping I'm in Helsinki , probably at Stockham (Department store) but I don’t shop that often.
8. I've been scrapping digitally for 8 months.
9. My favorite element that I use on almost every layout is: Since I use many elements on my layouts I don’t have any favorite element but I will always use flowers, brushes, ribbons and staples.
10. My family consists
of my wonderful hubby and my three gorgeous children aged 19,18 and
12.
11. Don't look, I'm having a little snack and it is:
‘Daim’, a Nordic snack made of chocolate and some kind of
‘nougatine’. Discovered itin Finland and love it!
12.
My favorite travel destination is: The
Pyrénées mountains (South of France)
13.
My dream vacation is: visiting a new place or new country with my
family
14. I (love) (hate) to journal. Journaling is the hardest for me since I never know in which language
to journal and I am having a hard time to journal about private
matters on a layout that I know will be in a public gallery. I guess
I am quite shy about having my thoughts or family matters being read
by everyone. I really need to improve on that.
15. A movie that never
fails to make me cry is: Terms of Endearment
16. If I'm not
scrapping, I'm spending time with my family, or reading or doing some
Nordic Walking.
17. It takes me many hours to complete a layout. I think I spend too much time on my pages, but that’s because I like to use lots of elements and also because I am a perfectionist! I always admire the simpler pages but have a hard time to achieve that style, I always need to add more! Most of my pages have more than 50 layers. I spend a lot of time working on my photos and (now that I now how to do my shadows) on my shadows. I also like when I start a new page to try something new like a new type of effect on my pic, some blending, brush work, text on a path so I also take time to do some research for a good tutorial.
18. When I was ten, I saw myself as:a PE teacher
19. My biggest scrap success has been: I have had many times to rejoice lately about some scrapping success : my fifth place (in points) in the SUAS contest, being sweet treat of the month at SSD in October , having 2 pages being published in DSM and being a guest goddess at SA, which allows me to be part of a the fabulous SA team.
20. A little known fact about me is: I am a diet coke addict! I can drink several glasses of it per day.
AND the bonus
question-LOL
21. I'm famous in my family for: having the
hiccup too often (at least twice a day)
Ok, now we've learned all about Catherine so its time for the ScrapArtist Community to Lift that Goddess.....Scraplift anything from Catherine's ScrapArtist Gallery using 70% ScrapArtist products post it in the ScrapArtist Guest Goddess Scraplift Gallery and then link your layout here. One lucky lifter will win a gift from the ScrapArtist team.
Have a great December, I'll be back on the 19th to announce the winner of the Scraplift Challenge!
xoxo
anna
Twofer Tuesday is back!
It's Tuesday and that means time for another Twofer Tuesday challenges. Are you ready to play?!
ALTERED/ COLLAGE CHALLENGE ~ by Christine Honsinger (Fiddlette)
"Altered Self-Portraits"
It has been quite awhile since we have had an altered/collage challenge about ourselves! So this week, you can create an avatar, layout, AAM page, anything that features your own self portrait in an altered style. My inspiration for this challenge again came from my sister who recently created this really fun lo of herself for her personal journal... read more.
Layout by Erika (dancingscrapper). See credits here.
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HERITAGE CHALLENGE ~ by Gabi (Garynka)
" Meet your relatives"
Hello heritage lovers! After two-weeks brake I'm back with another
challenge. This time I would like to meet your relatives. It's what the
heritage is about, right? But it won't be so easy as it seems to be.I wanna see at least 3 generations on your layout! ... read more.
Layout by Garynka. See credits here.
Thank you to all of our Twofer Tuesday participants. We look forward to see your work!!!
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