Monthly Kit For December

Actually, there are two kits for December. Classic Christmas and Past & Presents.
A choice for you!



The first kit is classic green and reds with a little twist of blue. These papers have more traditional images like trees, poinsettias, etc. The colors are brighter and have a little contemporary look as well. There are many wonderfully fun things in this kit as well: A vintage Lay-Away tag, a glittered word, packages of felt hearts and rub-ons. Lots of buttons and little chipboard pieces as well as large tags.



The papers in this kit have been popular this year. The countdown paper and the journaling tag paper have really cute flip sides too! Below is a layout done with some of the pieces from the kit.



The second kit is a little more elegant and a more vintage styling. These papers do not have traditional images and although they would make lovely holiday pages and projects, but they could work for things all year long.



This kit has lots of fun things too though. It has lots of ribbons, vintage lace, vintage looking tinsel, metal key hole & metal sign. These are in addition to lovely rub-ons and letter stickers. These are all on top of the beautiful papers in this kit. Here is an idea for this kit. Using one of the Maya Road Pennant Books, you could make a fun banner. (The banner shown here has some things not in the kit)



Can you make up your mind? OK. Maybe you'll need both! These are in the store-online and in Waxahachie if you wish to purchase them. As usual, we'll do a give-away for project pictures sent to us. More on that later though!

Woo Hoo. We Have A Winner

Congratulations Linda. You are the winner of $25.00 worth of product from the Crafty Scrapper. Here is what Linda did with the October kit. I love the way she incorporated the map and little playing card so perfectly. The colors worked out really well for these pictures. Here is where the kit is displyed. You will see how Linda used these items so creatively.



So what's next? The November Kit named Autumn Treats is in the store (both online store and the brick & mortar store). The colors of this kit are more standard fall colors-browns, oranges, reds. The kit was put together keeping in mind all the activities that take place in the fall. Halloween, Hikes, Football, Thanksgiving, etc. You'll see that there are some fun fibers & ribbons, stamping tool, chipboard words and vintage items along with the papers.



For this kit, we'll do the same as we offered in October. Complete a project using this month's kit. Send pictures or link to us by midnight November 30, 2008. We will draw a name randomly & that person will win product from the Store. Hope you are enjoying some cooler weather and lots of fun activities.

The Winner of The September Kit Challenge

Five people joined in the challenge with the September kit. Participant number one is the winner of $40 worth of Maya Road product that was offered as a prize. Caroline Lau and her design team selected the winner. Caroline also personally picked out the prizes to be given. They said that they picked participant one. Who is participant one? It's SONIA. Congratulations Sonia. There is a package at the store for you with these items. Sonia did a 2 page layout, a one page layout and a tag. To see hers and all the entries, please check them out on the Gallery under Challenges, September Kit.

Thanks to all five of you who played this challenge. I will attempt to get the file names on the gallery changed to reflect the names of those who participated. Each month seems to grow a little bit more. Don't forget to check out the kit and challenge for October.

September & October Kit Challenges

We had to extend the deadline for the September Kit Challenge to October 13. See the full details of the challenge here. What this means is that many still have time to complete a project or layout and submit pictures to us. It also means that those who have already turned in project pictures have to wait another 10 days or so to find out who will win the Maya Road Products that are being given by Maya Road. Caroline Lau, co-owner of Maya Road picked out $40.00 worth of product to be given away to the person that the Maya Road design team chooses as the winner.

The October challenge is on track and is due the end of the month. The winner for that will be chosen by random number draw (generator). Thanks for participating in the challenges and just ask if there are any questions!

The October Challenge

Again, we have a kit for the month and are offering a prize for the winner of the challenge. To purchase your kit, go to the online store or the physical store. They are available in both places. For October, we will draw a random number to determine the winner. As with the other months, send pictures of your projects to us (Carolyn at thecraftyscrapper dot com or Sherri dot field at sbcglobal dot net).

They are due October 31 at Midnight. We will draw a number the next day and post all the entries out on our store gallery. The winner will receive $25.00 product from Crafty Scrapper!

This kit is called Finding My Way.....there are some fun vintage & repurposed items in the kit as well as several papers to hopefully stimulate your creativity.

Tuesday night is the deadline for the September challenge remember. Look forward to seeing your projects.

September Kit Challenge

Just a quick reminder about the Kit Challenge. Edited: The deadline has been extended, so go ahead and send in your projects!!

This Month's Challenge Kit

AWESOME NEWS!!. Maya Road is providing the prize for the winner of the challenge this month will receive $30.00 worth of Maya Road Product. Exciting, huh? Well, I thought so anyway.



So pick up a kit and send us a picture of your project. The Maya Road Design Team will judge the projects/layouts. (Yay, I like having that taken out of my hands too)
Send us the pictures by September 30 at midnight, we'll put out the winner by October 2nd. The kits are on sale both in the store and on-line. Supplies are limited though, so if you want one, get it soon! Thanks.

August Kit Challenge Winner

Only two brave scrappers decided to submit their projects. WOW. The projects are marvelous. They couldn't have had much better odds to win, unless only one of them had done it! (ha).

I put the two names in a bowl & swirled them around & then picked one up. The winner of a September kit is Dorothy Duff. Congratulations Dorothy.

I hope everyone will take a look at the submissions out here and see how wonderful these creations were.

The September kit will have a different process and prize. I will post that tomorrow so it doesn't take away from these ladies efforts. Thanks so much ladies for playing!

Reminder Regarding the Challenge

Don't miss your chance to win $25.00 worth of product from Crafty Scrapper! Only a few kits remain, and there is not a way to know how many people will participate, but I would say that the odds for winning are pretty good for entries. A name will be drawn from those who submit their project pictures. Turn them in by August 30 at midnight. Winner will be announced September 1st. Full details are in this post.

Thanks.

Kits, Challenges and Other Winning News

Although I know more people bought the kit than sent in pictures of projects, I am excited that three people chose to submit their project for the challenge. I can see from the pictures sent and comments made with them, that you guys really did find this out of your norm and it did stimulate you to do something different. I find it thrilling to think that it did that.

The pictures of the challenge submissions have been posted in the gallery on the store's website. When you click the link, it will give you thumbnail pictures. Open the first one and then you can select 'next' and go through each page of the submissions.

I'm glad I was not the judge. I would have had a REALLY hard time deciding. I found it interesting that everyone did an album of some sort. I guess with that many papers in the kit, it lends itself to those. We asked someone who is not affiliated with the store, doesn't know any of the participants but is a scrapbooking person to judge.

The winner (you thought I'd never get to this didn't you) is KIMBERLY. She is participant 1 in the gallery. CONGRATULATIONS Kim! The gift certificate will be waiting at the store for you! Thanks to all who did the challenge!

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The Kit for August has a theme of Celebrating Summer. The colors remind me of summer. They would work for any type of layout or project, but to me the colors look like summer times: back yard bar-b-ques, family get-togethers, a day at the lake, celebrating a special person or a birthday or an anniversary. I hope the kit inspires you to make something...maybe to even make something you haven't made before.


For August, we will do a give-a-way of a September Kit (approximate value $25.00) to the winner. I will draw a name from all of those who submit their project or layouts. I want to remove the excuse some people might use-thinking "oh it is not good enough & will never win". All submissions have an equal chance of winning.:) Stop by the store and pick up a kit or buy it on line here. Submit your pictures to us by midnight August 30, we will draw the name and announce the winner September first right here on this blog. (there are a couple of the July kits left too, if you wanted one) Here is a picture of the August Kit.


This time, we will post some ideas the design team came up with to use elements of the kit. I hope they will spark some ideas for you. Feel free to use any ideas from these in your projects if you want. Come up with something totally new if you want.
by Brook


by Joanna


by Sherri

For September, we will be putting together actual project kits as well as the paper kits, so stay tuned. Also, there are a BUNCH of classes and crops going on in August and September. Check them out here. Hope to see you soon! Hope to see a creation made by you soon as well! Email them to carolyn@thecraftyscrapper.com.

Thanks & Happy Scrappin'!

Store Kit Challenge

Pictures of projects have begun to come in. I can't wait until we can reveal them and announce a winner of $25.00 at the Crafty Scrapper. Kits for August are ready too, and those will be shown on the first as well as the projects from July's kit. There is still time to pick up a kit and participate in the challenge. All details are right here. Check it out and Stay Tuned for exciting news coming Friday.

Update on Challenge

There are only 4 kits left -- so if you were wanting one, you might want to head on down to the store or call and order it for shipping. The response has been even better than we hoped, so next month we'll up the amount of kits we make. We will continue to have kits and hopefully, have some more challenges with them. I hope it is a fun way for people to combine things they might not have before, find papers they didn't know about and to learn techniques from each other. Read the details here for this month's challenge.

Something Fun

Last week we told you that we would have a challenge of sorts and details would come out on the 15th. Today is the day!

We have put together a summer Summer Birds and Butterflies Kit of 8 papers, 5 ribbons, letter stickers, a stamp, buttons, brads Maya Road jewels and birds on branches. Also included is a vintage fold a note and bird cards. All of this is packaged and for sale at the store. Most of it is also available separately at the store as well. We are hoping that something in this broad array of items will call to you. It looks much better in person, but if you cannot pop by the store-the picture is here. If you want to order the kit-send an email to the store indicating you would like to purchase the July kit. Cost is $18.99. Shipping would be additional and is actual shipping costs.

What we would like to do is to challenge anyone/everyone to use this group of supplies and show us what the end result is. A couple of the design team members will also participate, but will not be eligible to win the prize we have set up. I didn't want them to post their ideas at this point, because I'm anxious to see what everyone comes up with for this individually-I think that it is so fun to see what everyone comes up with using similar/same supplies.


To show us your work either put a comment here with a link to your work or email it to carolyn@thecraftyscrapper.com. Put 'July Challenge' in the subject line of the email. We will review all submissions on July 31 (so have your picture to us or tell us where to find it by Midnight July 30)and announce the winner of a $25.00 gift certificate to the Crafty Scrapper on August 1, 2008.

The Fine Print: Projects may be layouts, altered work, books, etc. Decision made by the judges is final. By submitting you allow us to post your work on our blog and you allow us to ooo and ahhh as necessary.

Thanks! Have FUN.

Team Challenge

Isn't it interesting how each person sees things so differently. For a fun challenge three of us took the same products to see what we would come up with. The direction we set was that we were to do a layout, we had to use all of these products and we could not add products to the layout. We would allow use of a pen or something like that to work on the layout.


The products chosen by one of us (ok, me) was a sheet of the Simply Luxe red polka dot paper--one side is red with white dots and the other side is white with red dots. There was a sheet of the Daisy D paper with the little monkey faces on one side and taller monkeys on the other side. There were Creative Imagination (Creative Cafe) sticker sheet with the alphabet and other stickers and two ribbons from American Craft. Also put in the mix was one chipboard tag from a Maya Road Album and 3 black buttons. These items were not patterns that are often put together and so it made them a little more difficult to use, or so the plan was.

A couple things happened that affected the results, one bag did not end up with the tag in it, so it didn't get used. one of the sticker sheets was short a 'y' and an 'o', which was corrected, but the picture I took didn't have those on it, you'll see where that was. Anyway, here are the three layouts.






Each is very unique in the styling. Not a surprise was that each of us used a picture of a child in the layout. I think the monkeys called for that. Anyway, we had fun doing it. Hope it inspires you to do new things---1) try some papers that don't fit your normal scheme for layouts 2) try something new with the style, 3) have fun. You can see there is no right or wrong, just our own style.

To try to help with motivation, we are going to do another design team challenge with specific products to be used-like we did here. There will be packets of the products at the store to allow anyone else to join in that wants to. At the end of the time allowed, we will post all of the different layouts and will vote on our favorite done by someone not on the design team. This person will win an awesome prize! All of the details will be announced next week (July 15), so Stay TUNED!