Excuse the brief blog silence. I was on the road. Last week I traveled to Nashville, TN to meet up with friends but to also do a live demo of Scrapblog. Me and about 100 other crafty-ladies spent the weekend working on projects that ranged from scrapbook layouts to painting and sewing. On Sunday, with the help of some awesome peeps, we gave a Scrapblog demo and showed how to create the keychains I showed you on the blog a couple of weeks ago (only we left off the chain and just made artist trading cards).
In addition to some pretty awesome Michael Jackson karaoke, the ladies from Scrapinstyle created an amazing event. If you haven’t hopped over to their site, there is OODLES of creativity over there. You can even launch the builder directly from their site!
As you can see from this scrapblog, we had a blast! Thanks to all the girls that helped and those who gave me feedback about Scrapblog. We heart the SISters!
Hello Fellow Scrapbloggers! -
Today begins our week of SCRPABOOKING! I know not everyone making scrapblogs is a “scrapbooker” but we feel like whenever you share a story or events of your life, you’ve created a “scrapbook”.
According to Wikipedia.org: Scrapbooking is a method for preserving personal and family history in the form of photographs, printed media, and memorabilia contained in decorated albums, or scrapbooks. The idea of keeping printed materials of personal interest probably dates to shortly after the invention of printing. This trend is probably similar for photographs.
This Saturday, May 2, 2009 is International Scrapbook Day. On Saturday, we will be giving away special prizes and every scrapblog made on Saturday will be entered into a drawing for a super-special prize. You won’t want to miss all the fun!
To give you a bit of inspiration, we have a winner announcement, a few ongoing challenges in the community, and Scrapblog on TV.
Challenge 15 was one of my absolute FAVORITES. I encourage you to look through all the entries for this challenge. Their pages are inspiring and heartfelt.
Best Mother’s Day Card Challenge - have you made your FREE mother’s day card yet? Don’t forget to tag your creation MOM2009, this challenge runs until Mother’s Day, May 10, 2009
Scrapblog on TV. Set your DVRs to record the Lifetime Channel tomorrow at 7am. Scrapblog is going to be the show The Balancing Act. We are very excited, tune in an leave us a comment tomorrow to tell us what you thought of the segment.
I’m SO excited to share with you an amazing promotion we are doing just in time for Mother’s Day. Create the ultimate Mother’s Day greeting card today! It’s easy to get started:
1. Choose a theme. We are providing over a dozen NEW card themes to help you get started, click here to see them all.
2. Make the theme your own (add your photos, change the stickers and backgrounds if you want and add your text)
3. Click the “Order Prints” button in the builder – printing your card is free, pay $1 for the shipping and handling just enter the Promocode MOM2009
Your mom will be so proud of you! You won’t have to resort to making a trip to the local card store, flipping through all the cheesy cards only to select the one that sort of captures your feelings and then paying $5. We are making it easy, breezy to make your mom feel special and all for only a buck!
Mom is not the only one getting something special this month! We will also be hosting some Mother’s Day Challenges and showing you some cool tricks to make your card extra-special. To kick things off, create your Mother’s Day card and tag it Mom2009.
Be sure to keep your eyes here on the blog for special challenge updates and winners.
We recently became aware of a special way in which scrapblogs were created to improve the quality of life for some amazing kids.
Sharon Duram from The Wish Connection has been creating Scrapblogs to tell the story of each wish that has been granted. Not only do these scrapblogs document the experience for the children, but the printed keepsake books serve as a reminder to the employees granting the wishes, how special these children are to them.
The Wish Connection is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that was formed in the fall of 2006 by AT&T employees in San Antonio who wanted to be directly involved in granting the wishes of children who have life-threatening or chronically-debilitating medical conditions. The Wish Connection is truly a unique wish-granting organization.
We are honored and humbled that The Wish Connection has chosen to use Scrapblog to keep the memory of these wishes alive. Thank you Sharon and all the employees of AT&T that make The Wish Connection happen.
To learn more about the work The Wish Foundation is doing, please visit their website. Enjoy this scrapblog about Kiley’s Wish.
