Scrapbook & Cards Today Blog

The Spring issue is here ... and a giveaway!

Hello SCT Friends! The team is currently getting ready for the doors of the Moncton Crop & Create to open.  While we prepared for this event and the next two events that are happening very soon, we have also been very busy working on not one but two and actually three different projects.  We recently launched and shipped out the very first Crop & Create:Delivered Spring kits.  Next on our agenda are the Spring issue and the special CardMaps Vol.3 issue that we can FINALLY share with you!

While it feels like it has taken forever, the day has finally arrived and we can now share the complete Spring 2013 issue with you!  This issue boasts a beautiful assortment of seasonal layouts, fresh cards and our most wanted, as well as lots of tips, tricks and techniques! 

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Along with the Spring 2013 issue, today is also the official launch of CardMaps Vol. 3. This beautiful special issue is brimming with inspiration, techniques and creative ideas for your next cardmaking adventure. It features over 70 gorgeous cards from some of today’s top designers, more than 40 card sketches, step-by-step instructions for every card, and eight photo technique how-to’s!

To celebrate these issues, we are going to giveaway a one year subscription beginning with the Spring 2013 issue as well as a copy of CardMaps Vol. 3.  Would you like to win these issues and receive scappy mail for the next year?  Leave a comment below telling us what you like about the magazine or CardMaps. Contest runs until midnight EST on Thursday, March 28th.

But don't leave yet.  There is more to come.  Do you know what next week is?  Here is a little hint ....

You guessed it!  Next week we will be spending the entire week celebrating the 7th birthday of Scrapbook & Cards Today.  Providing inspiration, prizes and the kind of fun you have come to expect from the SCT team, we hope you will join us each and every day.

And, we are getting very close to hitting 25K on Facebook.  If we hit this goal sometime during the birthday celebration, we may just have to add in a little something extra for one lucky winner.  Can you help us reach our goal?  Visit our Facebook page and tell us your favourite thing about SCT from the last 7 years.  Spread the word.  Let's see if we can make this celebration some super special!

Until then, have a wonderful weekend, enjoy the Spring issue and see you on Monday!

~ Jen

Which cover? Can you help us decide?

It's rare when the editing team is undecided on which way to go with our cover but this is one of those times!  The obvious choice was to ask our readers!  So what say you - pink or green?  Tell us in the comments below which one you love more.

....or green....

Doesn't it just feel like spring!  The beautiful cover was designed by Laura Vegas and that sweet similng face is Devyn, Vicki Boutin's daughter!   And wait until you see what's inside this great issue!  it will start shipping on the 14th of March so if you would love for it to arrive in your mailbox, be sure to subscribe here.   Also shipping with the Spring issue is our brand new CardMaps Vol. 3 (order here)! 

So much fun and inspiration headed your way just in time for spring!  Thank you for your help on this one SCT friends.  We can't wait to hear if it's pink or green!

~  Catherine  

Just a peek...

of something fun we're working on!  Join us right here Tuesday to learn all about it!  We are SO EXCITED to share it with you!

 

~ Catherine & The SCT Team

A Bella Blvd. giveaway and...CardMaps Vol. 3!

Good morning SCT friends!  So glad you joined us as we've got fun things to share with you all today!  Have you been following the blog this week and the beautiful work Laura Vegas did with the new Bella Blvd. feathers? 

Laura also shared several tips on how to work with feathers on a layout in Wednesday's post here!  Brilliant girl!  Can you imagine what we have to give away today?  Why some feathers of course!  Our friends at Bella Blvd. would love to share, not one, not two but ALL18 colours with one lucky SCT reader!

As Laura showed these feathers are incredibly versatile and add wonderful dimension to your projects!  If you would like to be the lucky winner of these fabulous feathers from Bella Blvd., just leave a comment below by February 28th!  We would also love you take a second and send Bella Blvd. a big SCT THANK YOU on facebook here! 

Last week our friends at Webster's Pages introduced beautiful new stamps from Allison Kreft.  We were beyond thrilled to be able to offer these three winners not one but two stamp sets of their choice!

What a gorgeous feast of goodies! Thanks for the chance to win!   Posted by: Marianne Grimbly | February 15, 2013 at 11:17 AM

Oh. My. Gosh.   I have been waiting SO LONG for the new WP lines to come out, I think that I am going to BURST!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! for the chance to win these beautiful stamps and overlays!!   Posted by: Marie | February 15, 2013 at 07:48 PM

These are amazing stamps.. would love any of them!   Posted by: Victoria in OHio | February 19, 2013 at 02:10 AM

Congratulations ladies!  Please send us your mailing address to ideas@scrapbookandcards.com with "blog winner" in your reference line and Webster's Pages will get those right out to you. 

We would also love to leave you on a little surprise today.  Please help us to welcome CardMaps Vol. 3 to the Scrapbook & Cards Today family!  

Filled to the brim with seasonally inspired cards from some of today's best card designers!  It includes 45 exclusive CardMaps sketches from Becky Fleck, over 70 cards with instructions and beautifully photographed technique step outs!  We could not be more thrilled to introduce this special resource guide to our readers!  We have limited quantities of this issue available so please be sure to preorder before it's gone!  CardMaps Vol. 3 will ship on March 18th.   Preorder HERE!

Of course, life around the SCT offices are never dull so please join us tomorrow for a very special announcement!  I'm not sure we'll sleep tonight as we are pretty excited about this one  :)  Any guesses?

~ Catherine

The Winter issue is here...and a giveway or two...or three!!!

Good morning!  The entire SCT team have been like kids at Christmas and the anticipation for the release of this beautiful winter issue has been killing us...LOL!  Wait until you see it!  Layouts, cards, projects, OH MY!  With over 200 amazing ideas packed into this issue, there is something for every single papercrafter out there. 

I always like to take a moment at this time of the year to thank the SCT team for their extraordinary work and for always giving us their very best.  They knock it out of the park every single time and 2012 has been no exception.  I'm sure you'll agree that our editor, Becky Fleck, has a vision and eye for design that is legendary.  She raises that bar and delivers an amazing issue each season.  To all our contributors and contributing writers, thank you for sending in your artwork and trusting us with it.  And of course, Scrapbook & Cards Today would not be where it is without the amazing support of our ad partners.  Please be sure to shop for their products as they are what allows us to do what we do and offer it TO YOU for free!  Last, thank YOU for being the best readers out there.  YOU are the reason why we do what we do and we always love hearing from you!

So without further adieu, (but keep reading friends...it is Friday you know!) we present our brand new winter issue...

  

DOWNLOAD/VIEW HERE

Would you like to hold this issue in your hands?  Would you love some happy mail at this time of year?  We can do that!  For every 100 comments we have on this post, we will give away not one but two copies.  One for you and one to share with your best scrappy friend.  It is the season of giving right?  So tell all your friends to stop by and leave their comment too!  And if you go and "like" us on facebook or leave a comment there on the post that shows this cover, we'll chose winners there too!  It's just a winning day!

Want even more exciting news? 

The 2013 PageMaps Sketch calendar released today!  More inspiration to last you the whole year...and only $9.95!  Order one for you and a friend today HERE as copies are now very limited.

Last piece of great news today, this INCREDIBLE event starts on Monday....

We have 12 days of giveaways from all of our partners!  You will be THRILLED when you see what they have in store for you!   Our amazing partners have once again outdone themselves for the third year in a row.  Don't miss it right here. Monday at 10:00 a.m. EST!

Go grab a cup of something you love, put your feet up (on your desk is fine for today if you're at work...we won't tell!) and enjoy our latest issue prepared with you in mind  :)

~  Catherine

Publisher, Scrapbook & Card Today magazine 

Pssst...look what's coming and a sale!!!

As Becky is preparing her Thanksgiving dinner I thought I would share with you what we've been working on!!!

(cover layout by Kimber McGray)

Wait until you see the projects in this issue!  We've got the holidays, winter and Valentine's covered!  And truly one of our best and most beautiful issues ever.  To celebrate the upcoming release of this issue and to show how thankful we are, from now through Sunday midnight you can save $2.00 on a one year subscription (Canada $14.95 and US $17.95)!!!  A portion of the proceeds of this sale will go to Relay For Life, a charity very near and dear to Becky's heart. (psst..she has no idea I've planned this!) Subscribing is quick and easy, just click HERE.

You can also place your preorder for our new 2013 PageMaps Sketch calendar too!  The winter issue and the calendar will ship on November 30th!

(cover layout by Kelly Goree)

For all our US friends, readers and industry partners, have a wonderful Thanksgiving.  Create some very special memories today!

~  Catherine