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Even Santa knows that Scrap Girls is the best spot on earth to get digital scrapbooking supplies! Santa is stocking up his workshop with everything his elves need to make albums, Christmas cards, and other gifts! We're giving Santa - and you - a great sale to help you get your shopping done! But he will be headed for the North Pole at Midnight (ET) on December 15th. And when Santa leaves, the sale is over for everyone!
Gifts Galore!
12 Days of Christmas Special
This gift tag will give you digital scrapbooking layouts and printable craft projects a special touch. Be sure to collect the entire set of gift tags over Scrap Girls' 12 Days of Christmas celebration!
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 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 your entry to [email protected] with the product name and web address link for each item you find. Use the subject line: "Star Treasure Hunt" and 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 11:59 p.m. (ET), Sunday, December 16, will be entered into a drawing to win the prize.
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Commercial license versions of Lettering Delights Bostonian are also available. |
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Layout by April Martell
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This delicate pearl and vibrant red rose digital scrapbooking collection will be sure to capture everyone's attention. Elegant pearl arrangements with red rose accents will compliment all of your Wedding, Valentine or Romance themed digital scrapbooking layouts.
Layout by Amanda Fraijo-Tobin
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A chic and non traditional holiday collection. Colored pearls, textured golds, and rich looking papers coordinate in a kit suitable for any celebration.
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Layout by Jacqui Smith
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digiDoer emotiCookies Embellishment Mini
Have some fun with these yummy emotiCookie embellishments as you capture life's treasured memories. Coordinate with other digiDo•er products and make celebrating life digiDone!
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Digital Layout Album Templates: digiDoer pageGrids 02 and ScrapSimple Type Paths: Shapes Plus are also available. |
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Layout by Jan Ransley
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ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Puffy Paint Biggie 12001
Really 3-Dimensional effects in nine luscious colours.
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Layout by Durin Eberhart
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Here is a charming digital scrapbooking collection with natural elements including rocks, bricks, birds, butterflies and moths. Perfect for nature and fantasy altered art projects and paper crafts as well as digital and traditional scrapbooking.
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 Forum? It's easy!
If you are a registered user of the Forum, 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 Scrap Girls team layouts, visit the Scrap Girls Design Team section and the Scrap Girls Layout Artist Team section of the Layout Gallery.
12 Days of Christmas
Thursday, December 13, 2012
IN TODAY'S ISSUE:
- 31% off Even Santa Shops Here Sale!
- Gifts Galore!
- 12 Days of Christmas Special & Games
- What's New in the Boutique
- 12 Days of Christmas Story
- Scrap Girls Club
- ScrapSimple Club
- Designer Freebies
- What's Happening at Scrap Girls
- Ongoing Opportunities for YOU
GENERAL INFORMATION
Contact Scrap Girls
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While one girl's picture appears here on the Newsletter, Scrap Girls is really a community of talented designers, techy gals, thoughtful contributors and fantastic customers. We are ALL so happy to have you as part of the Scrap Girls community and we are very grateful for your support. Debbie OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUSuggest 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 receive because birthday presents should alway be a surprise! Make sure your Forum email address is current and that you have the correct birthdate entered into your profile to participate. |
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Story Winner #1: Christmas Morning Surprise
Things were looking pretty bleak for Santa's visit to the Gray house in 1956. Mom and Dad had recently moved back to the sand hills of Nebraska to raise us in the Midwest. Short on money during those lean years, they rented an old farm house and bought a couple of milk cows with a dream to expand in a few years.
However, our sixth sibling was still-born in the fall and the winter proved to be drafty in the big old house. Mumps and measles made several visits, and all of us spent weeks sleeping downstairs by the coal stove in our tiny living room. Mom and Dad decided no more winters for little kids in that cold farm house, so we moved to an old stucco place in town. Daily, we made the trip back and forth to the farm, six miles out, to milk the cows, fix fences, feed chickens, and tend our vegetable garden.
With all of us under nine years of age, Mom was busy canning, cooking, mending – surviving. Doctor and hospital bills went unpaid. Only one door remained on the old Jeep, so we bundled up as if we were going for sleigh rides. As winter set in, we were aware that Santa probably wouldn't be leaving much for the little Grays.
Imagine our surprise and delight on Christmas morning when we descended the stairs to find huge (to us) and beautiful bride dolls for my sisters and me. Mom was crying, and I couldn't understand why she would cry when we were so happy. She explained they were "tears of joy."
VaReane and her sisters with their bride dolls, Christmas 1956
It was several years later when I found out that my aunts had purchased the dolls for us, plus a toy car garage for my brother. These dear ladies knew how much their gifts would be appreciated by our parents as well as the recipients.
We loved those dolls and took special care of them. Three years ago, I gave my doll to my granddaughters and told them this Christmas story of caring and generosity.
- VaReane C. Heese
About the Author:
VaReane C. Heese: I have been an elementary school teacher – my dream job – for over 40 years. Currently, I substitute teach almost every day. My husband and I live in Omaha, Nebraska, with our playful yellow lab, Lexi. We love to visit our children and grandchildren who all live out of state. Even more, we enjoy having them visit us from time to time.
Reading, walking, and crafts, especially card making, fill many of my after-school hours. A special joy is making cozy sock cupcakes for people in hospitals and local shelters.
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Join the Scrap Girls Monthly Club and you can have fun with the newest traditional digital and printable scrapbooking looks while saving! (A $40.87 value for $9.99 or less!) The Scrap Girls Club contents are released on the 1st day of the month (or the closest business day to the 1st). With the Scrap Girls Club, you will receive:
December's Scrap Girls Club designed for you by Melissa Renfro |
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November's ScrapSimple Club has been created for you by |
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:
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Surprise! Surprise! Gifts Galore!
We have TWO designer freebies for you each day until Christmas Eve!
Layout by Jan Ransley
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Designer Freebie by
Jan Ransley coordinates
with her A Partridge in a Pear Tree Collection
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Today's freebie designed by Jan Ransley
Layout by Cheri Thieleke
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Designer Freebie by
Cheri Thieleke coordinates
with her ScrapSimple Card Templates: 5x7 Card Shark 2012
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Today's freebie designed by Cheri Thieleke
* 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.
ScrapSimple Club Chat
Tuesday, December 18th - 8:00 p.m. ET
Join Shannon (Tinkerbell11) for a chat about this month's SS Club. Share ideas with one another about how to use the club and ScrapSimple products in general. Don't be afraid to use these versatile products
High Noon Crop
Wednesday, December 19th - 12 Noon ET
Join April (April Showers) each Wednesday at 12 Noon ET for the 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 19th we'll do a Font Challenge! Create a layout on any theme, any topic, and any colors using at least 2 different fonts! Mix it up!
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!
Heritage Crop and Chat
Thursday, December 20th - 9:00 p.m. ET
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) at 9 PM ET for the Heritage Crop and Chat and learn ways to use Antique Edges Paper Biggie to dress up your heritage pages. We'll help you get motivated to scrap those heritage photos and record your family stories for future generations to enjoy.
December's Forum Game: BINGO!
Join us for an exciting game of December BINGO on the Scrap Girls Forum!! 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 Forum username" by Sunday, December 2nd (Midnight EDT) in order to play in the first round. The first round will begin on Monday, 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 Forum Games folder on the Scrap Girls Forum.
December Monthly Layout Contest: December is here and that means Family Time! During the holidays, we spend more time with each of our families... and we'd love for you to share your families with us! Post your layouts in the December Monthly Layout Gallery before Midnight ET on December 31st and you could one of the two people who will win a $10 Gift Certificate to the Scrap Girls Boutique! Please be sure to list your layout's product credits in the description or under the EXIF Properties.
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 Forum calendar if you have any questions about what is happening at Scrap Girls. All event times are given in the Eastern Time Zone unless otherwise noted. Need help converting time zones? Check out the World Clock - Time Zone Converter. (Use 'USA-New York-New York' as the location for the Eastern time zone.)