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Archive for April, 2010
Challenge Gallery and New Challenge!
April 30th, 2010 
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Another week has come and gone – hooray for weekends! The challenge this week was to share your most favorite card ever. Boy did I receive lots of submissions – it’s so very hard to narrow them down, talk about pressure! Plus this was a harder challenge than I thought it would be – as I was going through my own collection of cards there were four or five that topped my all-time favorite list, but obeying my own rules, here is my one all-time favorite card of mine:
Thanks by Paige Evans
And here are 37 of my favorites of your favorites – enjoy!
I’m Just a Shade Late by Vicky Sheridan
Hi by Melissa Sauls
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Paige Evans
Giveaway Friday – Xyron Creatopia
Imagine if you could have a machine that does it all. Die cutting, embossing, applying adhesive and laminate, and much more! Well, the wait is over, the Xyron Creatopia does all that and more.
Join us all weekend on our Facebook page as we celebrate National Scrapbooking Day for tips and projects using the Creatopia. Leave a comment below for a chance to win one of your very own! The winner will be announced next Friday, right here.
Winner’s Circle
The winner of the Making Memories prize is
The lucky winners of the Eco Green giveaway are
Winners, please email your full name and mailing address to acabrera@northridgepublishing.com to claim your prize!
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Ana Cabrera
Nat’l Scrapbooking Day Countdown – Making Memories
Ask any scrapbooker who their favorite manufacturer is, and Making Memories is sure to be high on that list. We just love the style and quality that Making Memories is famous for. They have been a favorite of mine as long as I have been scrapbooking.
Wilna Furstenberg created this adorable layout just for us to share with our readers.
Supplies: Slice; Slice cards: Think Pink (leaves) & Basic elements (words); Pitter patter paper: Patterned Dot Sophie, News Paper Sophy, Die-Cut Artisan Sophie, ABC Blocks Sophie; Design shop: Icons Pitter Patter Sophie and Tags Pitter Patter Sophie Pitter Patter Felt die cuts; Metal Label Holder Silver; Scrapbook colors: manilla; Ledge Paper: Die-Cut Ric Rac Ledger (or any will work)
To celebrate National Scrapbooking Day, Making Memories is giving away this Panorama Prize package.
Leave a comment below for your chance to win. And for even more Making Memories love. Visit their blog and mention that you saw them on Scrapbook Trends for a chance to win even more Making Memories goodies.
Winner’s Circle
The winners of the Bazzill App giveaway are…
Drop us a line with your full name and confirming your email address to acabrera@northridgepublishing.com to claim your prize.
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Ana Cabrera
Nat’l Scrapbooking Day Countdown – Bazzill
Every scrapbooker already knows that Bazzill is a scrapbooking staple. Their cardstock features every color imaginable and lucious textures. They almost have a cult following. Well they have done it again! Bazzill has released their new app available for iPhone and iPod Touch.
Features:
-Browse over 500 Bazzill cardstock colors alphabetically by name.
-Browse over 500 Bazzill cardstock colors visually by color family.
-Browse over 500 Bazzill cardstock colors grouped by texture family.
-Easy access to RGB and CMYK values for over 500 cardstock colors.
-Match your favorite photos to Bazzill cardstock.
-Create and save palettes based on colors picked from your photos.
-Create the perfect color palette with monochromatic, complementary, triadic, analogous and split-complementary color combinations for more than 500 Bazzill cardstock colors.
-Save your favorite color combinations as palettes to use later.
Bazzill is giving this app (normally $9.99) to two lucky winners! (you must have an iPhone or iPod touch to use the app) Leave a comment below for your chance to win. And don’t forget to check out the Scrapbook Trends Facebook page and Twitter feed for more chances to win, and NSD news from all your favorite manufacturers.
Winner’s Circle
The winner of the Kaisercraft prize package featuring Utopia is…
send your full name and address to acabrera@northridgepublishing.com to claim your prize!
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Ana Cabrera
WOW #42: Digital Frames
Recently I’ve started printing my photos with a thin white edge around them. It reminds me of the old photo albums at my Grandmother’s house. It also gives my photos more pop and presence on my own pages, which I really like.
So today, I’m going to show you a couple of different digital frame options for your photos that you can either use on a completely digital frame or that you can print out and use on a traditional layout.
To complete this project, you will need a photo or photos, the digital frame(s) of your choice, and a photo editing program (I’m using Adobe PS CS4).
Step 1: Open a new document in your photo editing program.
Step 2: Open up a photo.
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Jen Gallacher
Nat'l Scrapbooking Day Countdown – Kaisercraft
Want to take a tropical vacation to an island hideaway and enter a world of tranquility and euphoria? Escape with Kaisercraft’s NEW Utopia collection – it’s a rainforest filled with abundant plant life and a vast array of beautiful colors. Purples, blues, browns, and greens make the perfect combination to showcase your latest getaway. Inspired by exotic flora and fauna, rainforests, nature, and the feeling of peaceful serenity, the Utopia collection is the perfect combination of natural colors, vibrant designs, and patterns. It’s perfect to scrap just about anything!
“Personality Plus” by Christine Rumley: Utopia paper collection, 6×6 paper pad, avocado alpha stickers, RB801 Experience rub ons, RB820 Scratched Alpha rub ons.
“I can do it” by Melissa Kennedy: Utopia paper collection, Black Pearl strips, Utopia die cut elements, Black Pearls.
“Thank-you my friend” by Danielle Krivan: Floral Tags (SB2023), Utopia paper collection, die cut elements, colored rubons, Friendship rub ons.
The Utopia collection comprises 6 double-sided patterned papers and coordinating embellishments, including die cut elements, black and colored rub ons, clear stamps, and a 6” x 6” specialty paper pad. For more inspiring ideas, check out the Kaisercrafties blog.
Leave a comment for your chance to win a Kaisercraft prize package featuring The Utopia collection. The winner will be announced tomorrow, so check back to see if you’ve won!
Winner’s Circle
The winner of yesterday’s giveaway is
Email your full name and mailing address to acabrera@northridgepublishing.com to claim your prize.
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Ana Cabrera
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