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Oh my gosh! This is THE biggest sales event we have ever had! If you have been with us for a while, you'll know that this is no joke. We have never had a 41% general Boutique sale before. It will not be repeated for at least a year... if at all... Almost everything in the Scrap Girls Boutique is on sale - even our commercial products. So now that you are collecting a whole bunch of neat holiday photos, this is a chance to get a whole bunch of great supplies to create your digital scrapbooking layouts with! This 41% off sale WILL be over at Midnight MST on December 31, 2011. Order now, while there's still time!
But WAIT! There's more! We've created a wonderful Christmas treat for you - an eBook version of Ro's popular Christmas story, The Christmas Story Jar. Angie Briggs has created a wonderful Nano Collection with bonus craft templates to go with it. With this set, you'll be able to make digital scrapbooking layouts, recipe cards, and even your own Christmas Story Jar! Only available during our annual Christmas sales event (December 24-31), The Christmas Story Jar ebook and Nano Collection is a FREE gift to customers who make a purchase of $25.00 or more. Plus, if you make ANY purchase in our boutique from now until the end of the year, we'll add in the complete set of Burlap and Twine Embellishments for FREE! This is the perfect way to catch up if you happened to miss a gift during our celebration.
Scrap Girls' 12 Days of Christmas!
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12 Days of Christmas Games! Christmas Tree of Doom The Christmas Tree of Doom is here! For those of you who are new to this game, the object is simple. You must correctly identify the items shown in the Christmas tree card image, created from products found in the Scrap Girls Boutique! Send your guesses for this game to [email protected]. Use the subject line "Christmas Tree of Doom" for your email entry; include your name and your Scrap Girls Forum user name, if available. Please include the product name and its web address link for each item you find in this Christmas Tree of Doom! You have until 11:59pm MST on Saturday, December 31st to enter. The Christmas tree card above is made using 14 different papers. The paper designers include:
The Christmas tree card has 27 embellishments. Those designers include:
Now don't panic! You don't have to find them all to play the game. (Whew!) But anyone who DOES get them all correct will automatically win a $10 Gift Certificate! No problem. You've got it. This means more than one person can win a $10 Gift Certificate. (Anyone this motivated deserves a prize!) The winners of these gift certificates can get in on the rest of the game, too! For all players:
Does that sound possible? Hope so! HINTS: The background paper and the star paper are both included; the drop shadows are not. Everything is very straight-forward: papers and embellishments only. There are no ScrapSimple products, brushes or tools. Even if you aren't up to playing the game, look at the pretty Christmas card that was made for you and see if you can recreate it using your favorite papers and embellishments! Have fun! |
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The Inn Made Room
Saturday, December 24, 2011
IN TODAY'S ISSUE:
- Save 41% off with the Biggest Sale of the Year!
- Gifts Galore!
- 12 Days of Christmas
- 12 Days of Christmas Stories
- Cute Stuff
- ScrapSimple Club
- Just Because It's Fun
- 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 Inn Made Room
Christmas has always been a favorite holiday in my family, filled with children, presents, food, decorations, and lots of love, all at the home of my parents in Pennsylvania. But 1976 was to be a bit different. There would be no children in the family home that year. It was my first Christmas way from family because my husband was in the U.S. military, and we were stationed overseas. My older brother was living in upstate New York and going through a divorce. Between the two of us, there were four grandchildren between the ages of 3 months and 13 years - all missing out on Christmas at Grandma's.
When I received my "Merry Christmas" phone call from my mother, she relayed this story of Christmas, a truly memorable story of hope, love, and joy:
Nan, you just won't believe what happened to us last night. It snowed - we got about four inches, and it was very, very cold and windy. We had gone to bed early, leaving the outside lights on. The Christmas lights always look so pretty on Christmas Eve, especially when it snows.
Anyway, there was a loud knock on our door about 11:00 p.m. It really scared me as I couldn't imagine who could be knocking. I woke up your dad. He pulled on his clothes as I slipped into my robe and turned on the house lights.
At the door stood a young man, a very pregnant woman, and a small boy about two years old. Their car had broken down, and they could see our house's Christmas lights from the highway. They walked to our house - through the snow - in the hopes that they could use the phone.
They looked so cold. They said they had walked about half a mile. We invited them in, and Daddy made some hot chocolate for them. It seems they were on their way home to New York when their car broke down. Well, you know how scary things are these days. All kinds of bad things happening to people, but I told your daddy I needed to talk to him in the other room. I just felt we should do something for these "kids" – after all, our own children were far from home – what if our own kids needed some kind of help and no one would give them any?
We asked them to stay the night in your old bedroom and told them to call home in the morning to let their family know they were okay. I was still a little scared; after all, they were strangers and we didn't know anything about them.
As I got back into bed, it occurred to me that we were like the inn in Bethlehem, but we had room in our home and our hearts for this family. I cried to myself, relaxed, trusted in God, and went back to sleep. The next morning, we got up and cooked breakfast for our guests, then spoke with the young woman's parents on the phone to assure them everything was okay. We didn't plan a big Christmas dinner as it was only your daddy and I, but we asked them to stay and share our meal. After dinner and the clean-up, Daddy and I drove them to the bus station and bought them tickets home. They called us to let us know they made it home to New York.
Although my parents never saw the young family again, my parents received a letter the following June with a picture of the young couple, their son, and an infant girl. The couple expressed their gratitude for the old couple who took them in on a cold Christmas Eve.
Both my parents are long deceased, but I will never forget my mother telling this story of her special Christmas, a cold night that ended up being filled with the true meaning of the holidays.
- Nan Davis
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The three 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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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:
December's ScrapSimple Club has been created for you by
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Saturday Newsletter Challenge Winner
Congratulations to AnnB! Her layout was chosen to be featured in the Newsletter from the entries in last week's Saturday Challenge to create a layout using the title "Everyone Smiles in the Same Language." Please email [email protected] to claim your $10 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique!
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Weekly Layout Winners
Layout by ArizonaAngel
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Want to see your layouts make an appearance in the Scrap Girls newsletter?
Simply post your digital or paper layouts that use Scrap Girls products in our online Gallery, and if we choose your layout to be featured in the Saturday Newsletter, you'll win a prize! To be considered, don't forget to list the Scrap Girls products that you used in your layout.
Congratulations to this week's selectees. Please email [email protected] to receive your gift!
Want to see past winners of the Weekly Layout Contest? Visit the Weekly Layout Winners Gallery on our Message Board!
December's Scrap Girls Club Concepts Layout Contest Winner
Layout by Tinkelbel
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The product listed below is 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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Congratulations, Tinkelbel!! We loved your layout so much we had to share it with everybody! She receives a $5 Gift Certificate for her layout using December's Scrap Girls Club! Congratulations!
Congratulations to this Club's winner. Please email [email protected] to receive your gift!
Want to see past winners of the Scrap Girls Club Concepts Contest? Visit the Scrap Girls Club Concepts Winners Gallery on our Message Board!
Surprise! Surprise! More Gifts Galore!
We have TWO designer freebies for you each day until Christmas Eve!
Card by Amanda Fraijo-Tobin
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Today's freebie designed by Amanda Fraijo-Tobin
Calendar Layout by Brandy Murry
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Commercial license versions of Dynamic Brush Set: Background Blenders, ScrapSimple Calendar Templates: 11x17 Blenders 2012 and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Colored Pencils 5702 Biggie are also available. |
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Today's freebie designed by Brandy Murry
* 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.
New Member Chat
Tuesday, December 27th - 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 28th - 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 28th, we'll do a photo challenge! Create a layout using your favorite recent photo(s)! 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!
Speed Scrap Crop
Wednesday, December 28th - 6:00PM MST
It's time for some Speed! Join Carla (CRS) and Shannon (tinkerbell11) at 6pm MT for the Speed Scrap Crop! We'll give you some tasks, spread out over an hour, and you create the layout! You can check out some of the past Crops in the Speed Scrap Gallery!
Ad Inspiration Chat
Thursday, December 29th - 7:00PM MST
Join Pat (PBarnes) at 7pm MT for an Ad Inspiration Challenge and Chat. A few hours before the chat, a magazine, newspaper or online ad will be posted on the message board to use as inspiration for a layout. You can use whatever you want to from the ad - the colors, the shapes, the composition. There are no wrong answers!
What's New in the Scrap Girls Boutique Chat
Friday, December 30th - 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!