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Save 21.5% off almost everything in the Scrap Girls Boutique
Gifts Galore! Place an order totaling $10 or more before December 15th and
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Scrap Girls' 12 Days of Christmas!
Layout by Cheri Thieleke
Designer Freebie by Ro
12 Days of Christmas Games! Star Treasure Hunt Be a star and win this treasure hunt! The winner will get a $20 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique. The rules are simple... Use the clues below to find the correct products in the Scrap Girls Boutique. You will know when you have located them because you will see this star image on the product details page.
Please send the product name and its web address link for each item you find to [email protected]. Use the subject line: "Star Treasure Hunt" for your email entry; include your name and your Scrap Girls Forum user name, if available. Everyone who gets the correct answers to ALL of the questions in by 11:59pm MST on Friday, December 16th will be entered into a drawing to win the prize.
Today's Special of the Day!
Save 30% off this ScrapSimple Embellishment Template set today only! Each week on Tuesdays, we will be spotlighting one designer and one of their favorite products. This product will be on sale for one day only at 30% off! This week's designer spotlight is on Loni Harris. In a brief interview with Loni, she shared these comments with us... I love this product because the floral cluster templates make it easy to quickly throw together a great looking scrapbook page. Also, it goes well with a variety of collections so I can get a lot of use out of it! 1. When designing a collection what do you start with first? Papers, embellishments, word art? Definitely papers. 2. Are you an early morning designer or do you burn the midnight candle? Early morning! By the afternoon, I'm practically useless as far as designing goes, and I have to resort to doing the dishes if I want to get anything accomplished! |
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The Day the Gingerbread Men Disappeared
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
IN TODAY'S ISSUE:
- 21.5% off Even Santa Shops Here Sale!
- Gifts Galore!!
- 12 Days of Christmas
- Today's Special of the Day
- 12 Days of Christmas Stories
- What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique?
- ScrapSimple Club
- Tips from the Pros: Scrap Girls Club Craft
- Designer Freebies
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls?
- Ongoing Opportunities for YOU
GENERAL INFORMATION
Support Center We Accept:
The entire Scrap Girls team wants to say how grateful we are that you have chosen to participate with us. You'll never know just how much your support means to us and our families. Ro P.S. Your email address is safe with us. We never share, rent, sell, or loan our list with anyone! P.P.S. If you ever need any assistance, please email [email protected] or call IMPORTANT TO KNOWDon't forget to check out the Retirement Sale section of the Boutique. Items in this section are always on sale for 30% off. The items you will find during any particular month will be discontinued permanently on the 5th of the following month. So if you see something you like, grab it while you can! OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUCustomer Muses: Would you like to share your own Life Muse with our readers? To have your own essay considered for publication as a muse in the column for our special Saturday newsletter, send your essay to [email protected]. If your essay is selected, you will receive a $20 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique. Way Cool Scrap Girl: We are so excited to have all of you meet some of the amazing people that have become Scrap Girls! If you would like to be spotlighted and win a $25 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique, send the following items to [email protected]:
Project SG Challenge: Stay motivated to scrap your current photos! Post your 2011 layouts in the Project SG Challenge Gallery to earn one point per layout each month. You can earn up to four points per month this way! Earn a bonus point each month by attending the monthly Project SG Chat! Each point gives you an entry into a quarterly drawing for a special prize! And at the end of the year, each month that you participated in will earn you an entry into the Grand Prize drawing for a 12 X 12, 52 page Keepsakes photobook from Color, Inc! Our fourth quarterly drawing winner will be announced in the Saturday, January 7th Newsletter. Suggest a Challenge, Win a Prize! Have a great idea for a Gallery layout challenge? Submit it to [email protected]. If your challenge idea is chosen, you will win a prize! Friday will be Customer Challenge Day, so keep an eye out on the Message Board calendar. It will be fun to see what YOU come up with for us to do!
Of course, it is a surprise what you will get because birthday presents are always surprises! But you will like it for sure because most people like money.... Anyway, make sure your Message Board email address is current and that you have the correct date entered into your profile to participate. *ADVERTISEMENTS*
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12 Days of Christmas
Welcome to one of Scrap Girls' most cherished traditions - the 12 Days of Christmas newsletter celebration! We've been hosting this celebration since the beginning of Scrap Girls back in 2005. Back then, I was putting the newsletter together when I suddenly noticed that Christmas Eve was 12 days away.
Now, a 12-day event is something I love best about Christmas.
In some areas of the United States, people enjoy picking out a family in their neighborhood that they can secretly give little gifts to as a way of celebrating how grateful they are for the birth of Jesus Christ. Every evening after dark, some lucky person in the gift-giving family sneaks up to their target's front porch, deposits that day's gift, rings the doorbell, and takes off running with all their might. A successful 12-day campaign means that the receiving family never knows who has showered them with love.
Because I hadn't planned it out, the first Scrap Girls 12 Days of Christmas event was pretty simple - consisting of some extra freebies, a daily Christmas muse by me (this is when muses first appeared in the newsletter), and some neat layouts and samples. Angie Briggs quickly noticed that I needed a little help with this project – because, as I said, it was not pre-planned - and she started feeding me extra layouts for the newsletters. I'll always love her for that. She saved my bacon!
The second year (2006), without thinking through the ramifications of what it would mean for future celebrations, I decided to surprise our readers with a 12-part serial story. You know... like Charles Dickens used to write. (I'm a little nuts sometimes.) That first story – The Flight of Christmas - took me months to write and remains my favorite one to this day. (I have now written five serial stories for this annual event.)
The specially-designed set of 12 Days Embellishments first made their appearance in 2007. The games - including the Infamous Tree of Doom - made their debut in 2008.
So, as you can see, the 12 Days of Christmas event grew from me having a desire to share a little extra holiday spirit with you into an event that takes our team months to prepare for. We keep it going because it's just one small way we can let you know how grateful we are for you and your support of our company. When you refer your friends to us and share what we are doing, you help keep Scrap Girls going. Every time you shop with us, you help us maintain our Forum, our Gallery, our newsletters, our blog, and every other service we offer you. And, of course, you help us to be able to continue to provide you with the free daily downloads that you all enjoy so much!
We need you. We understand that completely. We want you to know that our team members and their families are sublimely grateful for you each and every time you choose Scrap Girls to be your source for the beautiful digital scrapbooking supplies you need to make your layouts and projects. Every time you make a purchase in our Boutique, you make a HUGE difference in many, many lives. You help keep this small business going!
This year's 12 Days of Christmas stories come from our readers who submitted them when we put out a call for amazing stories related to the holidays. Every day from now through Dec 24, you'll read a new story that will make you laugh heartily, think deeply, and maybe blink back a tear or two. We received lots of amazing stories and had a hard time picking just 12!
So here we go! This is the 2011 Scrap Girls 12 Days of Christmas event. I hope you have fun!
- Ro
The Day the Gingerbread Men Disappeared
To put it quite honestly, I had an epiphany the Christmas that my older kids were 1, 2, and 3 years old. I owe it all to my cousin whose simple but wise observation changed my way of thinking - and then, my life.
I'd always been driven to make our holidays perfect. Even with those three little ones tearing about back then, Christmas had to be just so. At that particular time, we lived in a storybook cottage, and I envisioned an enchanting storybook Christmas for my family.
We had a beautiful tree already decorated, but I felt it needed something more, that special touch to make it, well... perfect. Gingerbread men! That's what it needed! I tore into my kitchen and began the preparations. Darn, the only molasses I had on hand was blackstrap. There was no going to the store for something different, not with those three kids in tow. Besides, I was a woman on a mission; I couldn't allow myself to be sidetracked with such a trivial thing. I mixed; I rolled; I cut out; I baked. All day I worked on my little black gingerbread men, poking holes in their heads for ribbon hangers and lovingly decorating them with homemade royal icing.
At last, that evening I hung them all on our tree. Perfect! They weren't exactly traditional, certainly not the expected color, but I was proud of them. We all thought they were glorious.
By the next evening, though, almost every one of my precious gingerbread masterpieces was gone from the tree. My little rascals had devoured them! I was devastated. All that work. And for what?
My cousin, Jane, came by for a visit that week. She is ten years older than I am, and she has five children. We always have plenty to talk about. I told her the story of our little black gingerbread men and lamented their loss. After a hearty laugh, she patted my hand, smiled broadly and knowingly, and simply said, "You're making memories, aren't you, girl?"
I've thought about that statement many times over the last 20-something years. That everyday conversation had a profound impact on me, on the way I live my life, and the way that I preserve and document the goings-on within my family.
Indeed, that's what we were doing that Christmas, my family and I... making memories. And oh! The memories we have made over the years!
No matter how simple or chaotic, no matter how hard our lives might be, each day we are weaving the fabric that is our lives, creating precious memories. Each day we are creating the stories that might well be told to our descendants. So...
Pay attention! The best memories are not necessarily the ones that turn out the way we planned!
- Jennifer Schildknecht
Jennifer and her family have since moved on to more elaborate and outrageous gingerbread creations.
Layout by Jennifer Schildknecht
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Craft by Syndee Nuckles
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Craft Templates: Ornaments are also available. |
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Layout by Amanda Fraijo-Tobin
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Glowing Stained Glass 6401 Super Biggie, Just Be You Collection Biggie and ScrapSimple Embellishment Templates: Photo Masks Textured Tape are also available. |
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Layout by Cheri Thieleke
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Commercial license versions of Feeling Grateful Embellishments: Journaling Blocks are also available. |
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Layout by Katherine Weaver
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Christmas Blends, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Autumn Velvet 10301 Biggie, ScrapSimple Word Art Templates: Editable Text Christmas and White Christmas Collection Biggie are also available. |
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If you have praise, comments, or questions for any of our Product Designers or Layout Artists, did you know you can send them a PM (private message) using the Message Board? It's easy!
If you are a registered user of the Message Board, just click on the "PM" box at the bottom of any of their posts to send them a message. Or, to check out more of your favorite designer's layouts, visit the Scrap Girls Design Team section of the Layout Gallery.
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Join the ScrapSimple Monthly Club and you can enjoy the newest ScrapSimple looks while saving! (A $13.95 value for $6.99 or less!) The new ScrapSimple Club contents are released on the 15th day of the month (or the closest business day to the 15th). A commercially licensed version of the ScrapSimple Club is also available here. With the ScrapSimple Club, you will receive:
November's ScrapSimple Club has been created for you by Brandy Hackman and Keri Schueller
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The Scrap Girls Club allows you to get all of the newest looks while saving money! It is perfect for anyone who wants beautiful, coordinated digital scrapbooking supplies that are easy to use. You get all the products shown above a $40.59 value, for $9.99 or less! Plus, each month we will help you find new ways to use your club contents to the fullest with this article full of ideas, tips, and projects to get your creativity going!
Members-Only club content! Now Scrap Girls Club members receive three exclusive, members-only Club products every month! These new products include a JIFFY Easy Page Album - five layered PSD files of your favorite Club layouts designed by the professionals at Scrap Girls just for this Club, one Designer's Gift item - a product chosen by the Club's designer, and a Color Palette which you can use to coordinate your photos and ScrapSimple products with this month's Club to make it an even bigger value!
December's Scrap Girls Club's featured designer is Angie Briggs. Her club will make your digital scrapbooking layouts and altered projects feel like true masterpieces, no matter your subject!
Scrap Girls Club Craft: Dressing up a Pringles® Can
Note: Tutorial created using Adobe Photoshop CS3 with Windows 7
I love to give homemade treats during the holidays, so I am always on the lookout for fun and inexpensive ways to hand out my goodies. When surfing around on Pinterest recently, I came across a fun way to turn an empty Pringles® potato chip can into a gift-giving container. Best of all, you can do this with just a little bit of effort and only a few supplies.
To get started, I measured the height and circumference of the can so I made sure my layout was big enough. I sized my document at 11x17 inches, which allowed for some extra white space. I could also fit a gift tag on the page.
I decided to make two different - but similar - layouts to use for my can covers.
After my pages were printed, I used a paper cutter to trim down the paper to just the right size. I used double-sided photo adhesive squares to tape my paper to the can.
Within a matter of minutes, my empty cans were transformed into pretty gift-giving containers.
Once my goodies have been baked and put into the can, all I have to do is use a decorative ribbon to tie on my gift tag, and my treats are ready to give out.
This project started me thinking about all the potential containers my family uses throughout the year and how they could be turned into gift-giving containers during the holidays. We'll just have to see where this leads! Stay tuned!
Project by Heather Messmer
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The two products listed below are included in this month's Scrap Girls Club offering. Members receive a substantial discount on these club supplies. They are also available elsewhere in the Boutique at regular prices for those individuals who would rather not join a club.
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Article written by Heather Messmer
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Surprise! Surprise! More Gifts Galore!
We have TWO designer freebies for you each day until Christmas Eve!
Layout by Sarah Batdorf
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Designer Freebie by Sarah Batdorf coordinates with her Cheery Christmas Collection Mini
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Commercial license versions of Wonder and Joy Collection, ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Photo Borders 6501 and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Basic Shadows 6501 are also available. |
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Today's freebie designed by Sarah Batdorf
Card by Syndee Nuckles
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Designer Freebie by Syndee Nuckles coordinates with her Candy Cane Kisses Collection Mini
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Today's freebie designed by Syndee Nuckles
* There is a "free download" button on the details page for each gift. You don't need to put them in your shopping cart unless you are shopping for other items. Also note that if you are slow reading your newsletter, you may find this freebie has already been retired, as the freebies are only available as gifts for about two newsletter cycles.
Hybrid ATC Swap Crop
Tuesday, December 13th - 6:00PM MST
Please join Shannon (tinkerbell11) and Lei (Bride) on December 13th at 6pm MT as we host the chat for another round of our Hybrid ATC Swap. Didn't participate this round? Not sure what it is? Come join us to find out all of the particulars!!
New Member Chat
Tuesday, December 13th - 7:00PM MST
Join Pat (PBarnes) and Theresa (tiza126) for the New Member Chat at 7pm MT in the Live Chat room lobby. This is a great place to ask questions about getting around the Scrap Girls site or about digital scrapbooking in general - and a great place to make some new friends. All are welcome, new and long time members included. You do need to have Java installed on your computer to access the Live Chat.
East Coast High Noon Crop
Wednesday, December 14th - 10:00AM MST
Join April (April Showers) each Wednesday at 10am MT for the East Coast High Noon Crop. All coasts and time zones are welcome! These crops are designed to allow you to work on your own photos and themes simply giving participants a one hour goal and a fun, new challenge each week. On December 14th, we'll do a color challenge! Create a layout on any theme, any topic, using the color red. Create your layout and upload it to the special High Noon Crop Gallery. You'll be amazed what you can get done in just one hour, but there is no High Noon Sheriff timing you! Hope to see you in the chat room!
Hybrid Craft Chat
Wednesday, December 14th - 6:00PM MST
Join Carla (CRS) and Shannon (tinkerbell11) in the chat room at 6pm MT for this month's Hybrid Craft Chat. We will show you how to create a unique craft project with your digital supplies and goodies from your craft room.
Heritage Crop and Chat
Thursday, December 15th - 6:00PM MST
Do you have boxes of heritage photos just waiting to be restored and scrapped? Are there family stories just waiting for you to write down and preserve? Then this is the crop for you! Join April (April Showers) and Carla (CRS) at 6pm MT for the Heritage Crop and Chat! We'll help you get motivated to scrap those heritage photos and record your family stories for future generations to enjoy.
What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique Chat
Friday, December 16th - 9:00AM MST
Join April (April Showers) and Theresa (teecee) at 9am MT on Friday mornings to chat about all the wonderful new products in the Scrap Girls Boutique! What are your favorite new items? Is your shopping basket full? What did you kaboodle? Have you already done layouts or other projects with your new goodies? Come tell the designers how much you love their work! You never know who will show up. There's a thread every Thursday, and now there's a chat too!
December Message Board Game: BINGO!
Join us for an exciting game of BINGO on the Scrap Girls Forum during the month of December!! Pick 25 words from the list provided and send them in an email to [email protected] with a subject line that says "BINGO CARD - your Scrap Girls Message Board username" by Friday December 2 (Midnight MST) in order to play in the first round. The first round will begin on Saturday, December 3rd. If you miss the first round deadline, you can still play! Just send in your BINGO card at any time during the month, and you'll be eligible to begin playing when the next new round starts.
Each day (Monday through Saturday), a member of the Welcoming Committee will call five random words from the BINGO list. Match just 15 of those words to win a BINGO. You must be first to call "BINGO!" in the game thread to win that round. After a winner is called, the boards will be cleared and a new round will begin the following day.
Each winner will receive a $5 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique! We like to see lots of winners, so please remember that each person can only win one round during the month. Have fun!
For complete details, visit the Monthly Message Board Games folder on the Scrap Girls Forum.
December Monthly Layout Contest: For the December Monthly Layout Contest, it's all about the gifts! Scrap a layout about a gift that was extra special, either one you gave or received. Or you can scrap about something or someone you consider to be a gift in your life. Share with us what makes that gift special! Post your layouts in the December Monthly Layout Gallery before Midnight MST on December 31st. Be sure to list your credits in the description or under the EXIF Properties. Two layouts will be selected to win a $10 Gift Card to the Scrap Girls Boutique!
Club Concepts Layout Contest: Post your new layout using the current club selection (either the Scrap Girls Club or the ScrapSimple Club) in our Scrap Girls Club Members Gallery or the ScrapSimple Club Members' Gallery. Be sure to list all of the Scrap Girls products you used. If your layout is chosen, it will be showcased as a Club Concepts layout winner, and you will win a $5 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique!
Check our message board calendar if you have any questions about what is happening at Scrap Girls. All event times are given in Mountain Time Zone unless otherwise noted. Need help converting time zones? Check out the World Clock - Time Zone Converter. (Use 'USA-Utah-Salt Lake City' as the location for the Mountain time zone.)
Haven't received your prize as a contest winner? Please send an email to [email protected] and we'll get it out to you right away!