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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 digiDoer Planner Collection Biggie are also available. |
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Layout by Angie Briggs
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JIFFY Easy Page Album: 12x12 So This Is Christmas
The JIFFY Easy Page Album: 12x12 So This Is Christmas album kit contains five lovely digital scrapbooking layouts from the So This Is Christmas Collection. Easily start creating a Christmas album your whole family will enjoy.
Layout by Durin Eberhart
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ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Hidden Beauty
Create unique textured digital background paper with this set of highly distressed paper templates. The stone, brick and canvas textures are perfect for nature as well as urban altered art, mixed media and paper craft projects.
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Hidden Beauty, A Little Bit of Holly Collection Mini, Value Pack: Gesso Paper and ScrapSimple Paper Templates: Realms of Glory Biggie are also available. |
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Kitschy Christmas Collection Mini
Have a kitschy Christmas with this fun retro style digital scrapbooking kit! Bright holiday colors are sure to bring a smile to your face! Paper designs include: red chevron, retro bells and holly berries, green and white dots, jingle bells sheet music, blue snowflakes and pink candy canes. Red rub-on alpha includes uppercase, lowercase and numbers.
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Commercial license versions of ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Butterfly Shadows 6301 Mini are also available. |
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Layout by Jan Ransley
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ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Touch of Metal 12001
Six beautiful metallic styles to add panache to your layouts.
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Layout by Angie Briggs
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This fun font has a variety of styles for each letter and lets you add a fun touch to your journaling on all your digital scrapbooking layouts and crafts.
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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 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.
Nanna's Christmas Bread
Friday, December 14, 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
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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 #2: Nanna's Christmas Bread
When I was little, my favorite part of Christmas was waiting for the big box from Nanna. It wasn't presents I wanted, but the rich, aromatic breads she sent all the way from "Up North." My favorite place to visit each summer was where my father's mother lived. In 1888, she came from Vasa, Finland, to Michigan's Copper Country (the northernmost place in Michigan, way up in Lake Superior) when she was seven years old.
Though Nanna was a Finn-Swede, no one mentioned that around her more than once! She was Swede, pure and simple. All the family Christmas traditions were Swedish. In the box were fruit bread, Julekage, and Limpa (Swedish rye bread). She sent loaves and loaves to us. I wonder how she did it in her little kitchen with no power tools, plus she sent loaves to my aunt and uncle as well.
Each morning from the time the box arrived until there were no crumbs left, we had toasted fruit bread, dripping with butter, for breakfast. Limpa was saved for Christmas Eve. There's nothing like a Limpa turkey sandwich! I liked it much better than lutfisk (an air-dried whitefish).
As I grew older, the number of loaves we received were fewer. My disappointment was unfettered because of my lack of understanding of aging.
Then, when I was 14, no box came at all. I was indignant. My favorite part of Christmas! How could she?! My father explained that Nanna was 83 and had slowed down a bit. When we arrived for our usual summer visit, she forgot we were coming. Our arrival in the dark confused her, so we found a motel. In the next few days, I learned more about aging than I wanted to know. Though she was fine in the middle of the day when she expected us, Dad said our staying with her was just too much.
During that visit, my Christmas indignation came full circle. While I still wanted the breads, I loved Nanna and didn't want to hurt her. So I asked if she could teach me to make the breads, and she did, joyfully: "One cake of yeast, about this much flour, and a pinch of salt, and a big spoon of cardamom."
After that day, I made the breads and sent some to her.
Though Nanna has been gone many years, every time I smell cardamom, I still see her in the kitchen, in her house dress with her braided hair in a net.
- Sherry Mattson
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About the Author:
Sherry Mattson: I live in the Copper Country, way up north. I've always loved it here, and we were fortunate to find 20 beautiful acres on Lake Superior. "We" includes my husband, Rick, and our rescue dog, Cwyfan. We are both retired Episcopal priests and live in a 480-square-foot cabin. We are finishing studios for each of us. Mine is for quilting, photography, and scrapping, with a meditation space and beautiful view of the lake. We have three children and one grandson (who will be two years old on December 19). The digital scrapbooking layout is part of a recipe book that I made for my daughter.
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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 Jennifer Ziegler
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Designer Freebie by
Jennifer Ziegler coordinates
with her Old News Mini Paper
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Commercial license versions of Just Be You Collection Biggie are also available. |
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Today's freebie designed by Jennifer Ziegler
Layout by Cindy Rohrbough
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Designer Freebie by
Cindy Rohrbough coordinates
with her Old Fashioned Christmas Collection Mini
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Commercial license versions of Treasured Heirlooms Collection Mini and ScrapSimple Tools - Styles: Aged Photos 6301 are also available. |
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Today's freebie designed by Cindy Rohrbough
* 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.)