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12 Days of Holiday Giving - SCT Style winners!!!

Good afternoon!  Are you excited to see if your name is on our "12 days of holiday giving" list?  This is always an exciting day for us too!  While playing Santa has been fun, the best part of the "12 days of holiday giving" is reading ALL of your comments and seeing the excitement grow each day.  As much as you could not wait to get to your computers each day, neither could we.  It has been an extraordinary year for us at SCT and we could not be more grateful to YOU for your readership and for the support of each and every one of our advertising partners and our distributing retailers!  You all make our job such a happy one! 

So as not to leave you waiting any longer and with special thanks to all who participated, our "12 days of holiday giving" winners are...

 

Day One ... American Crafts - 5th & Frolic & Crate Paper - On Trend & Pebbles - Seen & Noted & Studio Calico - Yearbook Collection

What a generous and fantastic first day prize! Looking forward to this......It's got to be an incredible "12 days of holiday giving...SCT style!" You guys are such inspiration all year long! Thanks to everyone for the giveaway!

Posted by: Beverly Lane | December 11, 2012 at 06:29 AM

 

Day Two ... Spellbinders - Resplendent Rectangles and the Layered Poinsetta Nestabilities & Pink Paislee - City Sidewalks collection

I can see myself creating some wonderful pointsettias for the tree next year...

Thanks to SCT, Spellbinders, and Pink Paislee.  Keep those tuorials coming Becky, I've got a few more gifts that need finishing touches. Cute tree!

Posted by: Marlene | December 11, 2012 at 11:01 AM

 

Day Three ... Doodlebug - Holiday Package & Core'dinations - 11 6x6 paper pads & Scrapbook & Cards - one year subscription

Awesome prize package...DB always has the most fun colors! And Core'dinations CS is the best! I just received my first 'in-my-hands' copy of the SCT mag...it totally rocks!!!

Posted by: Kathy P | December 13, 2012 at 10:11 AM

 

Day Four ... Bo Bunny - Love Notes, Power Mountain & Snow Day collections & Stampin' Up - Trimmer & Idea Book

This is an amazing prize package!! Drool, drool, and drool some more!! Thanks for chance to win such a fab scrappy bunch of awesomeness!

Posted by: Aurelie | December 23, 2012 at 01:41 PM

 

Day Five ... Carta Bella - Merry & Bright & Winter Fun collections & Penny Black Stamps - Valentine collection

You guys always have the best stuff to give away. I'm lovin' the Carta Bella Winter Fun collection & the Penny Black Typewriter & a surprise box... oohhhh, you send it, I'll wrap it & put it under the tree! Merry Xmas SCT!

Posted by: Pamela McGillin | December 15, 2012 at 07:35 PM

 

Day Six ... Xyron - Teresa Collins Mega Runner and the Teresa Collins sticker maker & Studio Calico - Project Life kit

I am so happy you postponed the contest for the weekend- it shows what big hearts you all have at SCT!! Love and respect you ALL!! Hoping this goodie- or any of your give-aways will be in the mailbox!

Posted by: Michelle Tidd | December 17, 2012 at 11:32 AM

 

Day Seven ... Webster's Pages - Royal Christmas collection & Queen & Co. Valentine Trendy Tape collection & embellshment prize package

Each day I think....this is it....this is the one I wish I could win.....then the next day arrives and it is even better. Hard to believe it could get better. Seriously, this is an amazing giveaway and I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to enter and a chance at winning!

Posted by: Anita Holmes | December 18, 2012 at 11:44 AM

 

Day Eight ... Bazzill - Believe collection & Kelly Purkey - Signature Series Kelly Purkey Issue

I BELIEVE I love Bazzill and Kelly Purkey. Thanks for having such a fabulous giveaway and I BELIEVE iwould be happy with any of the prize package, so pick me. :) pammejo1@yahoo.com

Posted by: Pam Bray | December 19, 2012 at 08:07 PM

 

Day Nine ... Jillibean Soup - Jill's Favourite Things & BasicGrey - True Love kit

awww make my heart sing. jillibean is one of my faaaavve companies and I love the true love from basic grey too! i like snowflakes, will have to try those!

Posted by: Victoria in OHio | December 24, 2012 at 09:15 PM

 

Day Ten ... Maya Road - 6 Colours of Twine cording & cute spools & Fancy Pants - Home for Christmas collection & Scrapbook & Cards 2013 PageMaps Sketch calendar

This giveaway is beyond spectacular! All those fun FP papers and embellishments and that MR twine will make for wonderful pages! And then some inspiration from calendar - who could ask for more?

Posted by: Ann Jobes | December 21, 2012 at 12:19 PM

 

Day Eleven ... Simple Stories - SN@P! Handmade Holiday Line

This is the best day yet. Love the Christmas Wish donation to make a child's wish come true. That's the best gift you could give anyone. Adding the Simple Stories collection makes it even super fantastic. Thanks for such a fun giveaway and for the 12 days of giving.

Posted by: Dorina D | December 22, 2012 at 09:06 PM

 

Day Twelve ... We R Memory Keepers - Lucky 8 Punch, Mini 8 Punch, Tab Punch and Crop-A-Dile & Bella Blvd - Kiss Me collection & a one year subscription to Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine and a 2013 Pagemaps Sketch calendar!

I just want to say thank you for an AMAZING 12 days!!! It has been so fun to see all the wonderful sponsors...this industry is so incredibly giving. It makes me feel so proud to be among such AWESOME people on a daily basis. Becky's ornaments have been a highlight of my holiday season and I would like to say THANK YOU to her for such incredibly inspiring projects. I am so glad that I have discovered this blog. It really is one of my favorite places on the www! MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU. May you have a blessed holiday season...because of you...I already have.  HUGS!!!

Posted by: Michelle Liimatainen | December 23, 2012 at 07:53 PM

 

Day Thirteen - Mystery Prize - Spellbinders - Grand Calibur Die Cutting Machine & PageMaps - 6 sets of dies -  enter via SCT contest on Facebook or blog

Diane Standish

 

Congratulations to all our winners!  Most prizes will ship out early in the new year directly from our sponsors.  We will contact you for your mailing information over the next few days however, if you don't hear from us before the 31st, please send us an email to jen@scrapbookandcards.com with "12 days of holiday giving" in your reference line.

 

** Don't forget that we are hosting a 19K Giveaway party on Facebook! And, there is a fun little twist! The more people who share the FB post announcing the contest, the more items we will put in the prize.

On December 31st at noon EST, we will randomly pick 1 lucky Facebook winner to win this mystery prize!

To be entered to win this fabulous mystery prize, enter your name, email address and country in the form here:  http://www.facebook.com/ScrapbookAndCardsToday/app_208195102528120.

Contest runs until December 31, 2012 at 11:45am EST. The winner will be announced on the blog and notified by email.

 

From all of us here we wish you and your families a wonderful holiday and a new year filled with laughter, good times and great memories to share!

All the best,

~ Catherine & the SCT team

Surprise! Day 13 mystery prize revealed!

And you thought the fun was over right?   It's Christmas Eve and I don't know about in your house but in ours that means you get to open one present so it seems only fitting that we should reveal our mystery Day 13 prize on Christmas Eve!  Are you ready?  Drumroll please....

 

A Spellbinders™ Grand Calibur® Die Cutting Machine !  The Spellbinders™ Grand Calibur® Die Cutting Machine cuts and embosses die templates with plates measuring 8½ x 12¼.  Using a 2-step process, cut then emboss, the Spellbinders Grand Calibur machine makes die cutting fast, fun, and easy! This versatile machine is perfect for all crafters!  But wait there's more!  With this amazing machine, you must have some AMAZING dies too!  Our Editor, Becky Fleck, has offered today's mystery prize winner not one, not two but SIX SETS of her beautiful PageMaps dies!

 

Isn't this an exciting prize?  I'm pretty sure I can hear your squeals of delight from here!  What a wonderful prize to finish off our annual "12 days of holiday giving...SCT style" event!  For all our friends that have entered to win this mystery prize on our Facebook page HERE, you will have a second opportunity to win by leaving a comment below.  For our friends that don't have Facebook, we certainly could not leave you out so be sure to leave a comment below too!

And another surprise?  If you haven't left a comment on any of our "12 days of holiday giving" posts yet, we are going to extend the deadline until noon on December 27th!  So if you are just joining us now you still have an opportunity to win!  Click here for all the links to enter.  All winners will be announced on December 28th at 3:00 p.m. EST on our website and announced here too. GOOD LUCK friends!  

Please take a moment to thank our friends at Spellbinders and PageMaps on their facebook pages!  This truly was a wonderful way to end our season of giving!

I hope you love surprises as much as I love surprising YOU!  Merry Christmas!  xoxoxo

~  Catherine

12 days of holiday giving...SCT style! Day Twelve!!!

All good things come to an end my friends...but only until next year!  It's Day Twelve of our annual "12 days of holiday giving...SCT style" and we could not be more thrilled with the response from around the world!  Thank you so much for making this your first stop each day and for all your kind comments for our AMAZING sponsors!  Without them...this does not happen!  Before we give them a more formal thank you, let's get to today's fantastic grand prize.  Sing our favourite song one last time my friends....

On the 12th day of the annual "12 days of holiday giving...SCT style" SCT gave to me...ready??? 

I think we hear your squeals from here!!!  We R Memory Keepers has long been renowned as the scrapbook industry’s pioneer in innovative tools for the scrapbooker and crafter alike to build layouts, cards, home décor projects, and so much more. Here is your chance to win their most popular Lucky 8 Punch, Mini 8 Punch, Tab Punch and the oh so loved Crop-A-Dile!!   You will be the envy of all your creative friends!  And did you know that We R Memory Keepers is 90 years old this year?  To honour that we did a really fun interview with the President, Andrew Hiller you can read about here.  Great guy!

Of course it's Day Twelve so we've got something to really sweeten the deal today!!!

It is the sweet and adorable "Kiss Me" collection from our friends at Bella Blvd!  This playful collection is FULL of kisses and hugs!  Perfect for all your Valentine's pages and products!  You can see the entire collection here and keep watching Bella Blvd. blog for sneak peeks of the new spring lines releasing soon!

Last but not least, we would love to offer today's winner a one year subscription to Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine and a 2013 Pagemaps Sketch calendar!  Inspiration the whole year through!

How is that for a final grand prize day valued at over $150 of scrappy goodness!  Tools, papers, inspiration...OH MY!  Would YOU like to be today's grand prize winner?  Be sure to leave a comment below by tomorrow,  December 24th at midnight EST!  Easy!  All winners will be announced at noon on December 28th on our website.

We would also love you to give a huge "SCT thank you" to We R Memory Keepers and to Bella Blvd. on their facebook pages - We R Memory Keepers and Bella Blvd!  I know I have told everyone all week how much our sponsors love hearing from you, but each day I hear from them and they love all their new SCT friends.   We R is also about 150 away from 20K so SCT friends, let's help them get there!Thank you for letting them know how much they are appreciated!

Don't forget we have a special "mystery" prize for Day 13!!!   To win this "mystery prize" be sure to enter on our facebook contest page HERE!  It is very "grand!"  :)

Today is also the last day of Becky Fleck's  "12 days of ornaments" tutorials!  Check out today's final ornament...

Visit the PageMaps blog HERE to see how she made each of her beautiful 12 ornaments including this great banner! 

Thank you so much for having such fun with us these past 12 days!!!  It's always hard to wrap it up, but this year my heart is full from all the love you have shown to us.  Thank you for being the best readers and for continuing to support all that we do.  At the end of the day, it really is all about YOU and our team strives to always deliver their best to inspire you. 

We hope you all have a warm and wonderful holiday with your family and friends.  Hold them close!  Watch for our winner's to be announced on December 28th and then we will be taking a hiatus for a few days to be with our families. 

All the best for 2013 my friends.  We have an amazing year lined up for YOU!  xoxoxox

~ Catherine & the fabulous SCT team

12 days of holiday giving! Day ELEVEN!!

Wow!  Day Eleven already!!!  We hope you are loving our annual "12 days of holiday giving...SCT style!" as much as our sponsors are!  And let me just say, thank you SO MUCH for all the "thank you's" you have sent to our sponsors.  They are LOVING it!  So get ready to say start singing our favourite holiday tune...

On the eleventh day of the "12 days of holiday giving...SCT style" SCT gave to me...

Did you see that?  The SN@P! Handmade Holiday Line from Simple Stories!  Have you heard of SN@P?  It is scrapbooking made simple and a fantastic way of documenting your everyday memories!!!  Simple Stories has done just that...made it simple...and great!  The Handmade Holiday collection includes some of the most beautiful papers we have seen this season and you are going to love it!  Today's prize also includes the great coordinating binder!  To view this entire collection and learn more about SN@P!, be sure to click here. 

So let's thank Simple Stories on their facebook page for today's fabulous prize and for the great support they provide to Scrapbook & Cards Today throughout the year!  Make it nice and loud friends...SCT style!   LOL!

And to keep in the spirit of giving but in a different way, we are going to make a $25 donation to the Children's Wish Foundation in the name of today's winner!   WIth all the tragedy of recent weeks, let's make a child's wish come true together! 

So would YOU like to be today's winner?  All you have to do is just leave a comment below by December 24th at midnight EST!  Easy!  All winners will be announced at noon on December 28th on our website.

Surprise!  We have a special prize for Day 13 (it's REALLY GOOD!!!!)  We all love a little mystery right?  It is a great prize that everyone will want in their scrap space!  To win this "mystery prize" be sure to enter on our facebook contest page HERE! 

Today is also Day Eleven in Becky Fleck's  "12 days of ornaments" tutorials!  We are loving these beautiful ornaments WITH the directions!  Oh ya!

You can visit the PageMaps blog HERE each day to see how she made each of her beautiful 12 ornaments including this beautiful one!

Hope you are having a wonderful start to the weekend friends!  Tomorrow we wrap up the "12 days of holiday giving...SCT style!"   And yesterday, we had the biggest day on the blog ever!  Thank you so much!!!!   xoxoxox

~ Catherine & the fabulous SCT team  (that I love so much!!!)

12 days of holiday giving! DAY TEN!!!

It's Day Ten of our fantastic "12 days of holiday giving...SCT style!" and we have another amazing day lined up for you.  While it's not 10 lords a leaping as the song goes (love that visual don't you?), it's still pretty special!  I know you're humming our song already, so let's go!

On the 10th day of the "12 days of holiday giving...SCT style" SCT gave to me...get ready...

Not one, not two, but six colours of Maya Road twine cording and cute spools too!  The Maya Road twine is so wonderfully thick, you will LOVE it!  Caroline, the owner of Maya Road, is one of my dearest friends in the industry and if you have ever attended one of our Crop & Create events, then you know what a HUGE sponsor Maya Road is to them.  We love Maya's innovative products and I've been lucky to see some amazing sneaks of what is coming out in the spring.  You are in for a treat my friends! 

We also have a second prize today from another fabulous company...Fancy Pants!  This Home for Christmas collection is jam packed with goodness!  With papers, glittered alphas, stamps, stickers, buttons, brads and so much more!  Although a box of this "might" have been delivered to our office for our team, I might have "borrowed" just a little :)  I couldn't resist!  Just feast your eyes on this....

And would you like one more?  How about a copy of our brand new 2013 PageMaps Sketch calendar?  I say, why not! 

A pretty spectacular day ten right?   We thought so too!  Would you like to win all this?  Just leave a comment below by December 24th at midnight EST!  Easy!  All winners will be announced at noon on December 28th on our website.

Surprise!  We have a special prize for Day 13 (wait until you hear about this one!!!!)  We all love a little mystery right?  It is a great prize that everyone will want in their scrap space!  To win this "mystery prize" be sure to enter on our facebook contest page HERE! 

So let's thank each of our partners today, not only for this prize but for all the support they provide to Scrapbook & Cards Today throughout the year!  Let's give an ENORMOUS "SCT thank you" to Maya Road and Fancy Pants on their facebook pages - Maya Road and Fancy Pants!

Today is also Day Ten in Becky Fleck's  "12 days of ornaments" tutorials! 

You can visit the PageMaps blog HERE each day to see how she made each of her beautiful 12 ornaments including this beautiful one!

Have a wonderful Friday!  Do something extra special just for you today.  xoxoxox

~ Catherine & the SCT team

12 days of holiday giving...SCT style! Day NINE!!!

It's DAY NINE of our giveaways!  Are you having a great time?  Is there a favourite prize you are secretly (or not so secretly) hoping lands on your doorstep?  Have you shared the "12 days of holiday giving...SCT style" with your friends?  If you put in the comments that you have shared, we are going to randomly choose one person to receive a Starbuck's gift card!  Sound like a reason to share?  It is the season of sharing good things....and the "12 days of giving" is a good thing!  

On that note, let's get to Day Nine!!!   On the ninth day of the "12 days of holiday giving...SCT style" SCT gave to me...

Our dear friend Jill, owner of Jillibean Soup, put together a fantastic box of all of her favourite things to share with YOU!  And friends, Jill is VERY generous!  Today's winner will love diving into this box and creating all sorts of fantastic projects and from the looks of it, you'll be creating for awhile!

We also know that you love projects so we have another fabulous prize for you!  Have a peek at this...

Today's winner will receive the "True Love" kit from BasicGrey!  This beautiful kit is perfect to get you started on your Valentine's projects!  Imagine being one step ahead with this sweet kit!  And knowing how wonderful our friends at BasicGrey are, they might just add a sweet embellishment or two! 

Are these worth playing for? <said in my best "Survivor" voice>  Then just leave a comment below by December 24th at midnight EST!  Easy!  All winners will be announced at noon on December 28th on our website.

But wait, there's more!  We have a special prize for Day 13!  We all love a little mystery right?  And you know if it's an SCT mystery box...it's going to be great!  To win this "mystery prize" be sure to enter on our facebook contest page HERE! 

So let's thank each of our partners today, not only for this prize but for all the support they provide to Scrapbook & Cards Today throughout the year!  Let's give an ENORMOUS "SCT thank you" to Jillibean Soup and BasicGrey on their facebook pages - Jillibean Soup and BasicGrey (let's get them to 20K today!!!)  

Today is also Day Nine in Becky Fleck's  "12 days of ornaments" tutorials!  Today Becky shares how to make these beautiful snowflakes...

You can visit the PageMaps blog HERE each day to see how she made each of her beautiful 12 ornaments!  

I am off to have coffee with a girlfriend at Starbucks this afternoon where I will be picking up a giftcard for one lucky reader who shares today's post with a friend!  It may just be a RAK kind of day too :) 

~ Catherine & the SCT team