Scrapbook & Cards Today Blog: Happy 9th birthday celebration

Hello SCT friends and welcome to day one of our 9th birthday celebration! If you have followed our blog for a while (or since 2008!) then you'll know we love to celebrate milestones, we love to celebrate our partners that help to make SCT magazine possible and we love to celebrate YOU. Today we bring all of these amazing things together and welcome you to this birthday party that is going to last for 9 fun and inspiration filled days! A lot has happened in 9 years and we have a lot to celebrate. Here are some fun stats we pulled together:

9 years in this papercraft industry
36 issues
10 special issues
3,504 printed pages of inspiration
75 shows/events
8 seasonal kits
100K facebook fans
3.9 million views on this blog
...and so much more!!!

We have laughed a lot, we have cried happy tears and we have made amazing memories in these nine years. We have connected with you through our print magazine, our digital magazine, our Crop & Create events, through Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest and our beautiful seasonal kits. You are a part of all that we do and for the next 9 days we hope you'll join our amazing team and our amazing partners who, like us, love to celebrate and LOVE to celebrate our readers! The very reason why we do what we do. Each day our team has come together with a fun celebratory project to share and our partners have provided a HUGE loot bag for one lucky reader each day. How fun is that? So thank you so much for coming, let's kick off the start of our 10th year in style and let's get this PARTY started with a free cute file from design team member Nicole Nowosad!!!

"It’s time to kick off the birthday celebration and we have a fun birthday cut file for our loyal readers and fans! Just a little something to say THANKS and our birthday gift to you for supporting us!

Download HERE

The SCT team was challenged to use this cut file to make something worthy of a celebration and here is what I came up with:

Supplies: Patterned paper: We R Memory Keepers; Enamel Dots: My Mind’s Eye; Glitter and double sided adhesive: Silhouette; Twine: May Arts; Mist: Heidi Swapp

I tried to use a few different images from this fun freebie, so I went with a simple cake and candles for the win!

I am so honored to be included in a talented group of people that make up this magazine, and so proud that Scrapbook and Cards Magazine has been so successful year over year… and proud to be in print! Congratulations and a big Happy Birthday to SCT!!!" ~ Nicole Nowosad

9th birthday loot bag - Day ONE!

"Happy Birthday Scrapbook & Cards Today! They say time flies when you are having fun and it must be true-we can't believe you are turning nine this year! We have loved your beautiful publication since the beginning! Thank you for all of the hard work that goes into making everything so special for the rest of us to enjoy! Our partnership and friendship will forever be cherished! We want to wish you many more successful years!" ~ Love, Doodlebug

This fun prize package is filled with an assortment of goodies from our new spring collection-"hello sunshine!" The lucky winner will receive a 12 x 12 paper pack which contains one each of all 11 new double-sided cardstocks and a "this & that" sticker sheet, an icon sticker sheet, a sticker frill, a spring flower craft kit, spring glitter sprinkles, flower shaped sprinkles, fun flower doodle-pop, a 6x6 paper pad, one package of our new lime mini doilies and two rolls of washi tape! What a perfect way to scrap a sunshiny spring day!

"Enjoy creating this Spring with a fun prize package of Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® supplies! Wishing our friends Scrapbook & Cards Today a very Happy Birthday! Congratulations on 9 inspiring and amazing years! We look forward to 'sticking' with you for many more!!!"

Thank you Doodlebug and Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® for these amazing prizes to kick off this fun celebration! For an opportunity to win each day's prize package, just leave one comment (only one!) each day before 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 4th and on and on Sunday, April 5th we will announce all the winners right here. Good luck!

As always, we love it when our readers hop on over to the Facebook pages of our partners to give a big "SCT thank you!" Our partners love hearing from our readers and love how much appreciation comes to them for the prizes they offer so please take a minute each day if you can to show them some love! Their loot bags are always the best around!

Doodlebug

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L®

We hope you'll join us for day two tomorrow!

~ The SCT team

Have you seen our new spring issue released yesterday! Filled with spring inspiration you can download it for FREE right here!

Comments

Happy Birthday SCT!!!! So happy you've been around for the last 9 years!

Posted by: Lisa Henderson | March 21, 2015 at 07:50 AM

Happy Anniversary!! Wishing you many more!

Posted by: Janine Rachau | March 21, 2015 at 07:50 AM

Great spring issue to mark SCT's 9th anniversary. Happy to celebrate with you.

Posted by: Janice | March 21, 2015 at 08:00 AM

HB SCT!

Posted by: debra | March 21, 2015 at 08:10 AM

Happy birthday! 9 Years..why, you're practically a new born! Looking forward to many, many more!!! Enjoy! And thanks for your generous "birthday gift" for your fans!

Posted by: Janet Cobb | March 21, 2015 at 08:11 AM

Happy birthday SCT and many, many more.

Posted by: Tami B | March 21, 2015 at 08:12 AM

Congratulations on your 9th Birthday! How awesome! Thank you for offering such great give-a-ways!

Posted by: Marilyn E | March 21, 2015 at 08:15 AM

I love your magazine and all the fun up to date articles you feature. Thanks SCT.

Posted by: Vicki | March 21, 2015 at 08:15 AM

Happy 9th birthday SCT!

Posted by: Terri W | March 21, 2015 at 08:16 AM

HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY! Congrats on 9 years! What great partners you have in Doodlebug and 3L! Together you all make this world fun! Birthday blessings, Amy Hanschen

Posted by: Amy Hanschen | March 21, 2015 at 08:19 AM

Happy 9th. I love all inspiration from the blog and magazine. Wishing you many more years of success. Love your designers and contributors, they keep me inspired.

Posted by: Joan VanCourt | March 21, 2015 at 08:21 AM

Thanks for the chance to win. Wish the postage was cheaper for overseas fans to get a hard copy of the magazine.

Posted by: Kerrie | March 21, 2015 at 08:22 AM

Love reading the magazine on-line and being inspired by all the articles.

Posted by: Margaret Crawford | March 21, 2015 at 08:25 AM

Happy Birthday!! Great cut file!!

Posted by: Dana W | March 21, 2015 at 08:35 AM

Happy Birthday,

Posted by: colleen F | March 21, 2015 at 08:36 AM

Happy birthday to many more. Your a fabulous company.

Jenn Z

Posted by: Jenn Zawadzki | March 21, 2015 at 08:36 AM

Congratulations! Here's wishing you many more years of creativity and FUN !!

Posted by: Vicki Young | March 21, 2015 at 08:43 AM

Happy, Happy Birthday SCT! And what a fabulous loot bag. Live the sunshiny colours. And who couldn't use more adhesives!

Posted by: Diane W | March 21, 2015 at 08:46 AM

Happy birthday and congratulations!!! I look forward to celebrating many more of these milestones with you.

Posted by: Glenna | March 21, 2015 at 08:47 AM

Happy 9th birthday! Best wishes for many more. ;-)

Posted by: diana | March 21, 2015 at 08:49 AM

Happy 9th Birthday to SCT, such a wonderful magazine so full of ideas, info and inspiration. Can't believe 9 years have past. WOW what a fantastic prize this is, the kit from Doodlebug is awesome and full of everything needed to make beautiful projects, and of course the most important item in any project, the glue from Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L. This is one sticky product and ever so reliable. Would love to win this prize. Happy 9th Birthday SCT and thanks for everything.

Posted by: Bevb | March 21, 2015 at 08:51 AM