ScrapScene

A Million Memories is giving away a kit!  One ScrapScene reader will win the July AMM kit called, "Summer Passport."  (Click photo to enlarge.)  Please read below for details on how to qualify for this giveaway.

This kit contains all of the following:

Papers:
5 Making Memories Passport Papers
2 Daisy D’s Chloe Marie Papers
2 Jenni Bowlin Trendy Papers

Embellishments:
1 Scenic Route Chipboard Alphabet - Red
1 pack Basic Grey Boxer 12 x 12 Stickers
1 pack Hambly Red Flourish Rubons
1 pack Scenic Route Chipboard Arrows
4 Making Memories Passport Tags/Postcards (assortment varies)
Coordinating Prima Flowers
1 Teresa Collins Journaling Stamp
1 yard red Velvet Ribbon
1 yard Hemp trim

For your chance to win this great prize, please comment to this post.  We would love to hear your thoughts on the new releases from CHA.  Was there anything that caught your eye?  Anything on your must-have list?  We will leave the comments open until midnight EST on Saturday night, July 26th.  A winner will be selected via an online number generator and announced on Sunday, July 27th.

Before all the wonderful new scrapbooking products arrive in the stores, there are some great deals to be had!  Some stores are offering sales on existing merchandise to make room for the new things coming in. Now is your chance to get some items you may have had your eye on.  Below is a summary of some great scrapbooking sales you will want to check out!

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Memory Mania

FREE SCRAPBOOK GIFT, a $20 value with the purchase of Memory Mania Masterpiece Sketch Books.  This book is available only through Memory Mania online (or mention it to our local scrapbook store).  This awesome scrapbook TOOL (not just an idea book) can be used for years!!!!  The sketches are so versatile, check our blog for comments from readers.   There are over 65 NEW Sketches and over 200 layouts using 3 photos-20+ photos per layout.  Click here to order MASTERPIECES TODAY & don’t forget to put FREE Scrapbook Gift (Scrapscene) in the notes.

Go. Be Creative

Go. Be Creative, one of the fastest growing, highest rated kit clubs on the web, is having a super summer blow out sale.  We need to make room for all of our new stock, so for a limited time only we are featuring a giant, special 50% off section including must haves from companies such as Basic Grey, Pink Paislee, Fancy Pants, and more!  Drop by our online store and pick up some Bazzill card stock which is always 4 for just $1.00!!!  Right now you can receive an additional 10% off on top of the 50% off sale items using the special coupon code scrapscene.  While you’re there, swing by our message board to chat or take a peak at some of our free online classes.  Go. Stop by our website. Go. Be creative. 

Serendipity Scrapbooks

Christmas in July at Serendipity Scrapbooks 1st-31st. American Crafts paper, Basic Grey paper, Dream Street paper, and Crate paper all 20 % off. All Basic Grey product other than paper 15% off. PLUS, Entire store except clearance and custom wordbooks an additional 10% off at checkout. July kits 15% off,  all other kits an additional 10% off at checkout. Hurry, you won’t want to miss out.  5 July orders will be chosen to have $30 from their wishlist sent to them. So shop now, and fill up that wishlist!!

Keep in Touch Card Shop

Keep in Touch has six pages of items up for sale!  There are tons of gorgeous scrapbooking and paper crafting kits, chipboard and epoxy stickers, rub-ons, fibers, stamps, magazines, idea books, beautiful patterned papers, and even a DreamKuts by Zutter!  You won’t want to miss out on this sale -  first come first serve, so hurry on over to the online store and get it while it’s still there!

Scrapbook Bakery

Scrapbook Bakery is having a huge SUPER SALE to make room for incoming CHA products. Hurry to their site to save on over 75 products! Lots of Heidi Swapp, KI Memories, Autumn Leaves, Daisy D’s, and even some of Scrapbook Bakery popular kits are on clearance!  Also, with any purchase of $50.00 or more, you receive FREE SHIPPING! Go grab these deals fresh from the oven because they won’t last long!

A Walk Down Memory Lane

At A Walk Down Memory Lane, our clearance has already started!  We have hundreds of products on clearance in order to make way for all of the newly released goodies from the summer show.  You can find paper collection packs, embellishments, and more on sale in our store.  PLUS, save yourself some shipping with our $5 flat rate on any order!  If you spend more than $75 your order ships for FREE!

Scrapbook.com: Thousands of scrapbooking supplies. HUGE daily discounts!

A Million Memories - Giveaways for New Products

We are doing a few giveaways on our message boards.  One is for the NEW SEI Paper collection called Poppy. You just need to post a layout in our gallery and a link to it in this thread.  Also, we are doing a giveaway of the new OFFBEAT Collection by Basic Grey here.  This is just to celebrate our CHA trip and all of the new fun products that we will begin to see in our store in the next few days, weeks and months ahead.

Freckle Friends - September Guest Designer Call

Ever want to be on a Design Team but not sure if it’s for you? Try it out! Freckle Friends is hosting a call for a guest designer for September.

What’s in it for you?
- A chance to see what it’s like to be on a design team
- A monthly collection valued at $29.95
- A chance to make lots of new friends
- Exposure on the Freckle Friends gallery, blog and message board
- An excuse to do something scrap related everyday

What do I have to do if I’m chosen?
- Create at least 3 layouts/ projects from the Freckle Friends September collection
- Be a daily presence on the message board
- Participate in weekly Design Team challenges
- Scrap and have fun!!

How do I apply?
Please send the following to designteam@frecklefriends.com
-Name, address, email address and phone number
- List of current design teams (if any) that you are on (members of other kit clubs, online or brick and mortar store design teams are not eligible to apply).
- Link to your blog (if you have one)
- Why you would like to be a guest designer for Freckle Friends?
- Short Bio
- And 3-5 of your favorite layouts that haven’t been published elsewhere

Applications are due August 15th….the September Guest Designer will be announced August 18th on our blog and message board.

If you have any questions please email Susan at susan@frecklefriends.com. Good Luck!!

Scrapblog - Scrapblog Your CHA Experience Challenge

Scrapblog is hosting a “Scrapblog Your CHA Experience” challenge. Even if you were not at CHA, you can still create a Scrapblog about your favorite scrapbook designer or a cool technique that you may have discovered through the grapevine of scrapbookers that were at CHA. Whatever you think fits the bill. There are going be some celebrity judges for this challenge, so you don’t want to pass up the opportunity to have your work reviewed by Anna Griffin or Julie Comstock from Cosmo Cricket.

Prize - The winner will receive a Nikon D60 and the top 10 scrapblogs will receive a keepsake photobook of one of their Scrapblogs.

Get cracking on those Scrapblogs, you don’t want to miss out on winning that Nikon!  For more details, please click here.

Virigina Nebel, Design Team Coordinator for Scrapalicious, is our Guest Poster for today’s article.  Virginia’s work can be seen at The Cupcake Blog which she authors as well as in many upcoming publications, the list of which is shown in the sidebar of her blog. 

(Note: click any of the photos of Virginia’s projects to enlarge.)

So I’ve been working with this new material lately.  Well it’s not actually new… it’s been around for ages- foam board. Otherwise known as foam core. You know, the stuff  that kids use for presentations at school.  

When I was helping my daughter, Anna,  put together her school presentation we used foam board (by Elmer’s).  The light bulb went on in my head.  Here is a material that’s been around for so long. It’s lightweight, you can cut it, paint it, glue paper to it… why can’t we use it for scrapbooking or papercrafts? 

Chipboard is still pretty popular, but foam board could be used in the same manner.  The main difference is it has a nice chunky quality to it.  The great thing is that it’s super light and you can also use your regular scrapbook adhesive to adhere it to your projects.  I haven’t seen foam board used in any of the magazines or scrapbooking sites, so I hope this might open up a bunch of creative possibilities for papercrafters that would like to experiment with something new.  (Sort of like what the lunch bag did for making paperbag books!). 

Foam board is so versatile.  You can make ‘board books’,  raise the level (literally) of your card and much more. You can cut foam board with a craft knife or you can roll them through heavy-duty die cuts for fun shapes.  Pictured here are a few examples I’ve tried.  I already have plans to make a few more books and maybe a baby book too!

- Virginia Nebel

Beatriz (Bety) Jennings inspires us today.  Take a look at a few of her cards shown in this post.  They have a sort of shabby chic feel to them, but at the same time bring something new by the addition of retro elements.  Take a look at the strawberries card, "Sweet," for example.  The realistic-looking strawberries give this card a retro feel which is such a fresh style!  Bety made this hybrid card using papers from Shabby Miss Jenn for a Scrappinerie challenge. Here’s another retro-looking strawberry card using fabric.

I love the details and texture to this next card, "Adorable." Bety made this card using a kit from Scrapbook Heaven.

Another card made for Scrapbook Heaven is this one at right, "Cherish."  I love how Bety took a die cut scalloped circle and cut it to fit a portion of the card shape.

Also, take a look at the tulle used on this pretty card.

Last, but not least, we have to draw your attention to this puffy heart card. Bety cleverly used a chipboard heart to create a puffy heart from fabric for her card. See one photo at left.  See more of this card here.

Bety is an interior designer by trade, but loves cardmaking and scrapbooking too.  She is on the design team for Rose Moka, Say it with Letters, Scrapinerie, Scrapbook Heaven, and Your Scrapbook Stash.  Bety is originally from Mexico, but now resides in the U.S.A.  Take a look at her blog here for more of her work.

Making Memories for You - Contest

Dt will NOT be eligible to participate since they get kits already, this is a contest for board members.

Do you suffer from Simplicity Syndrome or are you an Embellishment over loader?  This is the contest for you at Making Memories for You.

What you do is decide if you are you in love with the simple look or you love to embellish your creations. You have till July 28th 6 pm MMFY time to sign up here on the thread. You must say what side you are on. Simple or Embellishment.

Then you create a layout for this contest MUST BE NEW NEVER SEEN Anywhere. All pages MUST BE 12×12 if you do a card it must be a 12×12 card. It must be uploaded in the Simple or Embellish Gallery and on the Thread I will start and then we will let the members vote. I will have a voting poll, stay or go is all it will say by your name. And the stays will move on till we have ONE stay.

The contest officially starts Aug. 1st with your first upload on Aug. 3rd and ends Aug. 31st.  Upload dates will be on Aug. 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th and the winner announced on the 31st - NO EARLY UPLOADS or will be disqualified. Voting will be done by NOON Eastern time on Fridays Aug. 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th.

I will put your challenges up to scrap on the board for you after each voting round has closed. First challenge will be on the board on July 28th. Prize will be given

Memories from the Attic - Farewell Crop

Farewell Crop July 20th thru the 29th, saying Good Bye to the past Dt at Memories from the Attic.

Cornish Heritage Farms - Design Team Member Call

Cornish Heritage Farms is looking for a new Design Team member who is good at colouring to work with two specific stamp lines.  Deadline is August 1st.  For details, please click here.

The Creative Cafe blog will be posting a different story and Creative Cafe store from all over the world each Saturday.  Watch for the first one which will be on a store in Singapore.

Sandie Downey has opened up an Etsy shop to sell her handmade paper string daisies.  One photo is shown above.  Aren’t they cute!

Look at this 3D tree on a layout by Mascha van DijkZimmerman on the Buzz and Bloom blog.  She also shows step-by-step photos on how it was made.

Heather Bailey has a free download for a couple of beautiful recipe cards.  The PDF can be accessed here.

Big Picture Scrapbooking has partnered up with Shutterfly to create a Digital Studio.

Google Docs has launched some new templates for their online document storage system.  Including are a few digital scrapbooking album templates as well.  Shown above right is a thumbnail of the "Baby Soft" album template.

Flea Market Studio has put up the cutest little paper doll tags.  They even have little ruffles for dresses and flowers in their hair!

Deanna Koontz made the sweetest crocheted butterflies.  One photo is shown above left.

Paula’s Kit Club

The "Fruit Stand" kit, the July kit ,was sold out to only kit members…maybe you should join the club or clubs!! This kit has elements from 15 different companies and countless eBay/flea market finds: 8 sheets of paper from 4 different companies, 6 vintage fruit labels, a sheet of German fruit scrap, Victorian scrap of purple grape corners and gold grape borders, 5 vintage glass cabochons from Japan, circa 1940 with little charming fruits, puffy, vinyl green and yellow alphabet stickers, glazed brads in fruity colors, 4 1/2 yards of ribbon in 5 fruity designs, Giant bag of GLASS (and a couple of plastic ones, too) fruit charms, 5 cards and coordinating envelopes, 2 (TWO!) fruit collage sheets, and a beautiful cherry rubber stamp! To see a ton of ideas for this kit, click here! Cick here to join the club or clubs!!

Label Tulip

Label Tulip has turned ONE year old this month & they’re having a blast over there! Check out the July kit, "First Date", and the 4 add-ons, which are the perfect kits to capture your summertime memories!  These kits are full of colorful new goodies, including Heather Bailey, SEI and Creative Imaginations, and much, much more.  The special guest designer for July is a talented photographer who turned scrapbooker - Candice Stringham.  Be sure to check out her simple, yet classic style, as well as the TGs’ gallery!   You can also get this Label Tulip exclusive tote bag, which is the perfect bag to bring to a crop - for FREE!  For more information, click here!  Discover inspiring designs & get a slice of fresh creativity at Label Tulip!

Scrapbooking from the Inside Out 

Check out the July FREEDOM kit from Scrapbooking From The Inside Out, an inspirational source, kit club, and online community for scrapbookers who want to explore their inner lives and deepest thoughts and dreams. The ‘FREEDOM’ kit includes up-to-the-minute products from Chatterbox, Scenic Route, Kaisercraft, American Crafts, Pink Paislee and more… there’s even a custom Maya Road Butterfly album - half sheer and half chipboard – you won’t find it anywhere else! This kit is all about freedom of expression, heart and spirit. Blues, greens and a touch of orange will light up your world as you fly away with birds and butterflies. SFTIO offers inspiration, motivation and connection so you can create from deep in your heart. This month, explore everything about FREEDOM through photos, music, quotes, links, journaling prompts and Design Team layouts. Subscribers get a discount, a password for the Subscribers-only forum for amazing tips and techniques, and free bonuses. For more details, please click here.

Color Me Miki

Color Me Miki is a brand new kit club, offering new kits every 6-8 weeks.  The kits include a mix of paper and products, items that will hopefully get you to venture a little bit outside of your comfort zone.  The kits are priced in the $20-$25 range.  Shipping cost will vary with the size and weight of the kits. The first two kits are now available. "Cherry Cobbler" is a blend of reds, greens and blues. It includes papers and embellishments from Kaiser Craft, K&Company, and May Arts, and is priced at $22. "Strawberry Shortcake" is a bright fun kit, with lots of pinks, yellows and greens. (See photo at left.) There are some fun little trinkets thrown into this kit, and it sells for $20. There is also a paper add-on available with both kits. Go check out the fun over at Color Me Miki!