Scrapbook & Cards Today Blog

Fancy Pants giveaway...and Crop & Create dates announced!

Good morning SCT friends!  Did you have a great week?  Around here we have been wrapped up in photo shoots for the summer issue and could not be more excited to share sneak peeks with you over the next few weeks.   Official release date is June 22nd! 

This week we also heard some great news that our friends at Fancy Pants will now be releasing a collection monthly!  How exciting!  We featured their first monthly release here on Tuesday, Time for Spring, and Fancy Pants has offered a collection package just for YOU!  One lucky SCT reader is going to win this beautiful prize...

Amazing right?  Just leave us a comment below by Thursday, May 31st at 6:00 p.m. EST for your chance to win!  One winner will be randomly selected and announced on Friday, June 1st.  Good luck!   Please take a moment to let Fancy Pants know how much you like this collection (and that we sent you!) on their facebook page.  They love that  ;)

Crop & Create dates for fall!!! 

We are very excited to announce that our next Crop & Create events will take place in Ottawa, Ontario on September 28/29 and we are returning to Saskatoon on November 9/10!    We are excited to have  the fabulous Kelly Purkey joining us along with our stellar line up of Kelly Goree, Vicki Boutin and Leica Forrest!  We are also excited to announce that Bo Bunny, Maya Road and Xyron will also be joining us in Saskatoon.   Crop & Create is an incredible weekend of education, inspiration, and fun - you won't want to miss it!  For more information regarding registration dates and locations, please click on the images below. 

    

We hope you can join us!  To see some photos from past events, check out our Crop & Create Facebook page here!  And remember, what happens at Crop & Create does not stay at Crop & Create, it goes on Facebook!!! Be sure to look at the pictures from our photo booth!  Please send any questions you may have to create@scrapbookandcards.com.

Before we leave you, let's announce last week's winner of the Girl Land collection from Webster's Pages...

This is my favorite collection that I've seen in a long time, I'd love to win!! I'm all about girly layouts :) Posted by: Kelly foster | May 21, 2012 at 10:41 PM

Congratulations Kelly, please send us your mailing information and put "Webster's Pages winner" in your reference line! 

Have a great Friday everyone and for our US friends, enjoy your long weekend!  See you here Monday when we have guest designer Sarah Webb joining us!  You're going to love what she has in store for you.

~  Catherine

Few more hours...

Hello SCT readers!  The team is hard at work in photo shoots today and tomorrow and getting ready to announce some details about our fall Crop & Create line up!  Exciting news so join us tomorrow.  In the meantime, you have a few more hours to leave your comment to win the beautiful Girl Land line from Webster's Pages here!

Oh and while you're here...we would love for you to share your favourite "scrapbooking" tip!  We may just choose one or two to feature in an upcoming post! 

 

Webster's Pages Girl Land Giveaway!

Hello SCT friends and can we just all say together...thank goodness it's Friday!  For most of us in Canada it's the first long weekend for the summer and as we speak many are packing up for the cottage or a little stay-cation in their backyard.  Our family is headed to Ottawa this weekend for a little business and pleasure (pssst...looking for a Crop & Create location!) and we can't wait for a little early summer fun! 

What are your plans this weekend?  Maybe it will be to make the beautiful mini album that Courtney Walsh showed us this week?  It was a beautiful album using the brand new Girl Land papers from Webster's Page so of course, guess what we have to give away today...

Girl Land is sweet, girly, simple and sophisticated...all wrapped in one fabulous collection!  The pinks are delicate and strong, the blues are a perfect hue and the collection as a whole is something everyone can use.  So, if you think this belongs in your scrap space, then just leave a comment below by Thursday, May 24th at 6:00 p.m.!  As always, we appreciate the opportunity our sponsors give us to offer something special to you each Friday, so if you have a minute please give Webster's Pages a big SCT thank you here!!!

Before we go of course we would like to announce our Mother's Day subscription winners!  April has won a subscription for herself and her best friend Cathy!

What an amazing giveaway! My best friend Cathy is the special mom I'd want to give a sub to. She's just recently started scrapping and she's loving it! She's had a rough year so it's kind of an outlet for her which I'm thankful for. :)   - April W  Posted by: April W | May 12, 2012 at 09:02 PM

And after reading this next comment from Leslie, we would like to send you a suprise copy of CardMaps 2 to share with your Mom and sister when you get together!

I would like nothing more than to win a subscription to Scrapbook & Cards Today for my mom. She is the BEST MOTHER!! Just as I completed radiation and chemotherapy in August 2011, my mom was diagnosed with cancer. She had surgery to remove her tumor and completed radiation therapy. Two months ago she broke her ankle which healed nicely except for the inflammation in her soft tissue which required 7 shots of cortisone. She still has lots of pain and finds it hard to get around. For an active person who volunteers this has put a damper on her lifestyle. Thank goodness my sister who lives next door is there to help her. If I were to win this subscription I would want to give my subscription to my sister. Both my mom and sister introduced me to card making and we have so much fun sharing new techniques and sending each our handcrafted cards. Happy Mother’s Day to all Moms out there.   Posted by: Leslie Hartzheim | May 12, 2012 at 01:50 PM

Ladies, please send us your mailing information to ideas@scrapbookandcards.com and put "Mother's Day winner" in the reference line.

Have a wonderful weekend and for our friends in Saskatoon and those that will travel, Crop & Create Saskatoon date has been announced for November 9 & 10th at the beautiful Delta Bessborough hotel!!!  Registration opens on June 18th!  Stay tuned for Ottawa dates too!

~  Catherine

A special "Mother's Day" giveaway!

Good morning SCT friends!  Have you had a great week?  Are you looking forward to a great Mother's Day weekend?  It's a nice day to celebrate all the moms in our lives and we have a way to help you do that!  Today we have not one, but two, one year subscriptions to Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine!  One for you and one for a special "mom" in your life!  Imagine happy mail all year long!  Just leave a comment below by Thursday, May 17th at 6:00 p.m. and tell us about the special "mom" that you would love to send a subscription too and we'll announce the winner next Friday!  Good luck!

Yesterday we asked our readers to send us an image of a Mother's Day card they were working on and we received some incredible cards!!!  We thought we would share some here today and we would love to share some tomorrow too.  Keep sending your cards to ideas@scrapbookandcards.com and check back tomorrow to see if your card is featured.

And here are some of the beautiful cards we received yesterday...

 

Card by Jennifer Grace

Card by Donna Rinckel

Card by Kathy Perry

Card by Sharon Finkbiner

Card by Karen Hanson

Cards by Laurel Geisbush

Check back on Monday too for all the winners of our National Scrapbook Day challenges and the winners of our Let's Make a Deal facebook contest!  What an amazing response! 

And on a personal note, SCT will be hosting a fundraising crop in the Markham-Stouffville area on June 9th at The Workshop.  Our daughter Erica has been asked to go on a mission to Kenya (more here!) and we are gathering together to support her.  Goody bags, prizes and make n' takes SCT style!  If you would like additional information, please email me at catherine@scrapbookandcards.com.  Registration will open on Wednesday morning at 10:00 a.m. and we have space for 35! 

Have a wonderful day!

~ Catherine

 

Jillibean Soup Giveaway!

Last week we had the opportunity to spend the weekend with Jill, owner of the amazing Jillibean Soup, at our Crop & Create Moncton event.  Jill did a million make n' takes with everyone, gave lots of goodies away, was all smiles and a whole lot of fun too!   Of course as she unpacked her pile of goodies when she arrived, I just could not help but notice this lovely collection pack and thought of YOU of course!  See, always thinking of our wonderful blog readers!

So how would you like the opportunity to win this beautiful collection from Jillibean Soup...

One of the cutest collections this spring and from what I understand, a little hard to find!  And if you want to thank Jill herself, leave a note saying SCT sent you on the Jillibean facebook wall!  To win this collection, just leave a comment below and tell us where you're from by Thursday, May 3rd at 6:00 p.m. EST.  Good luck!

Now, we have some prizes to announce!!! First we have this...

An exclusive Crop & Create goody bag which goes to:

Ohhhhh, goodie! I LOVE surprises! Especially if they come from S&CT! Have fun in Moncton this weekend! And thanks for the chance to win such a fun prize! Posted by: Melissa Joyes | April 20, 2012 at 10:32 AM

We also have the Xyron prize package shown in Beth Kingston's video here.  This prize package goes to:

Glitter without a mess, I'm hooked!!! Thanks for the chance to win this adorable machine :) Posted by: Renee VanEpps | April 12, 2012 at 02:47 PM

Thank you Melissa and Renee!  Please email us at ideas@scrapbookandcards.com and we'll send these prizes out to you. 

We are off to the Creativ Festival in Toronto today and would love to see you there!  If you plan to be there, please stop by and say hello and join us for a make n' take or two!

~  Catherine

Are you going to join us?  35 days to go!  Register here!

 

 

 

A special surprise giveaway!

The SCT  team is in Moncton putting the finishing touches for our Crop & Create event opening today at 3:00!  Of course we know with readers all over the world that not everyone could join us soooooo today's giveaway is a Crop & Create goody bag!  While we can't tell you what's in it and spoil the surprise, what we can tell you is...IT'S GOOD!  REAL GOOD! 

So if you would love to win this goody bag, please leave a comment below by 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 26th!  Good luck!!!!

We have some other winners to announce which we will do on Monday!  Be sure to check back then.  You can also visit our facebook page to see a video of what Darla Haverstock had in her box from a recent giveaway!

So from sunny Monton, New Brunswick, we wish you a wonderful weekend and for those joining us this weekend, get ready!

~ Catherine

We love our friends at Xyron...surprise!

 

Xyron has been a friend of SCT's for a long time now.  We love their products, we love their support (our Moncton Crop & Create attendees will all have the new Mega Runner in their goody bags...shhh, don't tell them!) and we love what an innovative company they are.  And, that's not all.  Last week we received a sweet surprise...a video just for our SCT readers...

 

 

These cute tags Beth Kingston created are absolutely perfect when you are in a rush and need something fast!   The Create-A-Sticker works magic with glitter as you will see in this quick video.  Thanks for sharing Beth! 

Would you like to win a Create-A-Sticker to make these cute tags?  Shall we do a giveaway today instead of tomorrow?  Since we are busy getting ready for ScrapFest this weekend, that seems like a perfect plan!  If you would like to win your very own Create-A-Sticker, just leave a comment below before April, 19th at 6:00 p.m. EST.  And don't forget that John from Xyron will be at ScrapFest with us so be sure to stop by and say "hello".  Also, we would love you to send an "SCT thank you!" to Xyron on their Facebook fanpage! They always love to hear from you!

Have a wonderful day!  Thank you for taking a few minutes to join us today.  It always means so much!

~ Catherine

 

Webster's Pages Blueprints...brand new!

 

Webster's Pages Blueprints are new.  Brand new this week.  And AMAZING! And with a thank you to Courtney Walsh, one lucky SCT reader is going to win one! 

What are Blueprints you ask?  It is a wonderful new journaling concept!  It starts with a spiral-bound journal made from Webster's Pages beautiful patterned papers. The journal also comes with an embellishment pack and an attached bookmark. Beginning April 12th, you can visit the Webster's Page website for a new journaling prompt each day. The journals are designed so that you can answer the prompts and add simple photos and memorabilia as you desire. They will also share some samples and complete their journals alongside you, creating a {blueprints*} community of people who are also looking for simple ways to tell their stories!  Regardless of how you scrapbook, this is a wonderful concept for everyone.

So would you like to win one?  Just leave a comment below!  Super easy!  Leave your comment by Thursday, April 12th at 6:00 p.m. EST.  Good luck!

We also have a list of all our 6th Birthday Celebration winners right HERE.  Are you a winner?  Be sure to check out our list!  We are going to have some happy, squealing ladies!

From the entire SCT team we wish those that celebrate a Happy Easter...and lots of chocolate!  Does anyone out there share my love of Cadbury Mini Eggs?  Please tell me I am not alone! I am secretly hoping the Easter Bunny leaves a few for me too  :)   See you Monday!

~  Catherine

A Spring issue AND CardMaps 2 giveaway!

 

Hello SCT readers!!! Can we just give a big "hip hip hooray" that it's Friday?  We're so excited to have the spring issue and CardMaps 2 in our hot little hands!  They are beautiful and are shipping out starting TODAY!!!  If you have not had an opportunity to take advantage of our special subscription/CardMaps offer, we are going to extend it through today.  We have never processed so many orders in one week and are thrilled to have CardMaps 2 shipping to 28 different countries.  That is so exciting!   And did you know we are turning 6 next week?  And that 6 subscribers will receive a few extra goodies with their spring issue?  Oh yes they will!  We have WeR Memory Keepers, Studio Calico and Jillibean Soup to thank for that! 

Of course since these are shipping today, I thought it would be perfect to offer a set to one lucky reader...maybe with a few goodies inside too!  That is over 150 pages of inspiration packed into two little issues!  Would you like to win a set, then just leave us a comment below by Thursday, March 22nd at 6:00 p.m. EST.  And if you have already ordered yours, imagine how much love you'll get when you pass these on to a friend!  Good luck!

Now, let's see who won last week's Creative Foundations book by Vicki Boutin...

oooh ahhhhh have been dying to see this book in person and to own a copy would make my day !!!  looking forward to seeing the Spring Issue :) Posted by: Kim Collee | March 09, 2012 at 11:56 AM

Congratulations Kim!!!  Please send your address to us at ideas@scrapbookandcards.com and we'll get that right out to you!

Have a wonderful day and be sure to check out Summer Fullerton's stunning Colour Suite challenge here. The colour palette is beautiful!  You may also want to mark your calendars because starting March 26 we have 6 days of celebrations in honour of our 6th birthday!  It's going to be fun, inspiring and of course, we'll have a few birthday suprises...wink, wink!

~  Catherine

Bo Bunny Giveaway! It's Friday!

Good morning friends!  We just had to end this exciting week with yet another giveaway!  Aren't you glad you stopped by?  We're sure glad you did!  And, if you happen to be buried in snow this morning, then you'll enjoy just sitting back and reading what we have in store for you this morning!

One of the companies we always love visiting with when we go to CHA is Bo Bunny!  This booth is one we are in for a while because there is just so much to look at.  Imagine all the double dot papers, ribbons, embellishments and more!  But this line is one we stopped and visited with for a long time and just knew we had to have it to giveaway...see we're always thinking about you!

Today's very lucky winner will receive a selection from the brand new Ambrosia collection from Bo Bunny!  With vibrant colours that are perfect for spring and a little whimsy mixed in, this beautiful collection will be a PERFECT addition to your craft space right?  We thought so too!

Just leave us a comment below, maybe tell us what you're up to today, and we'll randomly select a winner next Thursday, March 1st at 6:00 p.m. EST!  Good luck!

Would you like to know who won last weeks giveaway?  You remember the fabulous new book from Kimber McGray...

and the March Kit from The Card Kitchen courtesy of Jillibean Soup.  The winner of this amazing prize package is...

What a fantastic giveaway! I have never gotten a Card Kitchen kit, but from what I have seen they are fabulous!  Posted by: Amanda Coleman | February 17, 2012 at 11:49 AM

Congratulations Amanda!  Just send us your address to ideas@scrapbookandcards.com and put "I won Kimber's book!" in your reference line! 

Seriously though, if you have not checked out the Card Kitchen you should!  Fabulous product selection, great design inspiration and all delivered right to your door co-ordinated and ready to go.  What could be easier!  Go ahead, treat yourself.  I give you full permission  :)

If you have been joining us on Facebook this week, we posted all the winners from our 9,000 fan celebration here last night at 9:00 p.m. so be sure to check it out.  But here is the great part, we are only 140 people away from hitting 10,000 fans!  And we are ready to celebrate again!  If you have any crafty friends who have not joined us, be sure to send them over to our Facebook page so we can get the party started again!

Join us next week as we have another great week in store for you!  Enjoy your weekend and thank you again for a very exciting week!

~ Catherine