Scrapbook & Cards Today Blog

December 31st - Special Announcement!

We interrupt this regularly scheduled blog post to make a very special announcement ...

As people all over the world are preparing to ring in the new year, the Scrapbook & Cards Today team is getting ready to celebrate the life of a very special person!  Can you guess whose birthday is today? 

I will give you a few hints ...

• She is one of my very best friends!
• She is a great person to work for and to work with!
• She is constantly going out of her way to help others!
• She is a very astute business woman!
• She created a magazine that makes us all smile!

If you guessed the lovely Catherine Tachdjian you are correct!

To celebrate her birthday, please join the SCT team in wishing Catherine a very Happy Birthday and a wonderful 2012!  (click on the card to see the full size version of the card with all the teams wishes for Catherine)

Now back to our regularly scheduled blog post ...

From all of us at Scrapbook & Cards Today, we wish you the most spectacular 2012!

~ Jen & the SCT team

Mystery box giveaway!!!

Yes, sometimes we all need a little mystery in our lives!  Good morning SCT friends!  This is the last Friday of the year which always means a fun giveaway.  It has been such an extraordinary year and for the last time this year we want to THANK YOU for being the BEST and most supportive blog readers out there.  Your comments always leave us smiling so today, we want to leave you smiling with this...

A mystery box which is chock full of some fabulous products from some of our AMAZING sponsors!  I took a little stroll around the office yesterday picking out all sorts of wonderful goodies that would be PERFECT in your scrap space...if I do say so myself  :)    Peeking in the box I see some Bazzill, American Crafts, Maya Road, Bo Bunny, Studio Calico, Doodlebug, Jillibean Soup, Stampin' Up! and Core'dinations too!  Oh and what's that I see some Xyron adhesive too?   To quote my favourite movie it's "a brown paper package tied up with...twine...these are a few of my favourite things!"

If you would like to win this great mystery box, just leave a comment below!  You have until January 5th at 6:00 p.m. EST to leave your comment and we'll randomly choose a winner and announce it on January 6th. Good luck!

Don't forget we have a new challenge starting on January 1st!  And for all our Project 12 followers that have written to us about how sad you are that it was coming to an end...stay tuned...we are working on something!

~  Catherine

Crop & Create sneak peek!

Today is a wonderfully quiet day around the SCT office.  We are packing up the goody bags for Crop & Create Markham and can I just say OH MY!  Our attendees are going to love all the wonderful goodies from companies like American Crafts, Maya Road, Jillibean Soup, Studio Calico, Imaginisce, Bazzill, Core'dinations, Xyron and more!   It will be like Christmas all over again when we hand these beauties out! (of course they will be in an exclusive SCT bag too!) 

We also received a great sneak peek from Angela's "LifeBook 101" class and not only will the students take home a double page layout, but a second layout and a card along with...are you ready for it...a brand new, exclusive stamp set not yet seen.  Here is just a peek...

If you are ready for an event celebrating papercrafting with some amazing teachers and some great on site shopping with The Scrapping Turtle and the Memory Keeper, be sure to register for Crop & Create Markham TODAY! (You can also register for Crop & Create Winnipeg which is filling up very fast and for those on the east coast, Crop & Create Moncton opens on January 23rd!)  You can learn more about this one-of-a-kind event and register here.  For those already registered for Markham...it's only two weeks away!!!  Hurray!  What a perfect way to cap off the holiday season with a little something just for you.

So, back to packing goody bags and while we're at it, maybe we'll put together one of our famous mystery boxes for tomorrow.  What do you think?  Join us tomorrow for our last giveaway Friday for 2011!  We've got to make it big right?

~ Catherine

More of your flower favourites...

We received some great emails about yesterday's post so we thought we would have just one more day of sharing your favourite posts!  Flowers always seem to be a popular embellishment so here are three popular tutorials for you...

 

Crochet a 5 petal flower with Becky Fleck

Flower tutorial with Aly Dosdall

 

Accordian Flower with Becky Fleck

Also today is the last day to submit your November Project 12 layouts!  Send them to ideas@scrapbookandcards.com.

Have a great day!

Some of your favourites!

Good morning!  We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday!  It seemed to go so fast didn't it?  A month of prep and in just a couple of days it's over!   I don't know about you but after seeing some of the fun projects in our December Countdown and on Pinterest, I am already planning some things for next year!

Today, we thought it might be fun to share some of your favourite posts from this past year again. 

Using Christmas punches in a whole new way

Core'dinations and embossing folders

printing on a journaling tag

Shimmer and glitter technique

Hopefully you have a little time during the holidays to spend some time in your scrap space and put your punches, embossing folders and glitter to work!  We'll see you tomorrow with a few more links to your favourite posts!

Also we've got a fun new challenge starting on January 1st!  Here's another clue...

 

 

Happy Holidays from your friends at SCT!

From all of us here at SCT, we wish you and your families a happy, healthy and full filled holiday!