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.
Ever since we launched the Marketplace we have been receiving emails with the simple question, “When will I be able to get themes from all the new content partners?”. We are happy to announce that today is the day!
Starting today you can now access premium themes from our amazing content partners. These new themes are all gorgeous and are a great way to explore each providers unique style. We will continue to add new themes at an even faster rate than we have in the past, so make sure to check back often for the latest and greatest!
Not only do you now have access to premium themes, we have also made improvements to the way you browse and preview themes. You can now sort themes by categories to hone in on the particular type of scrapblog you want to create. Previewing a theme is also better than ever, because you can now see what stickers, backgrounds, and frames are included with any theme with just a click!
We hope you enjoy the new way to browse and explore themes as well as access to premium themes from our content partners. As always, let us know what you think, we love hearing from you!
I wanted to take a few moments to tell you about a really sweet new feature we added to Scrapblog today. We have made it much easier to really see what a sticker or background looks like before you click it.
Many of you told us how the small previews were preventing you form appreciating the details of all the cool content, so we wanted to fix that. Now, anytime you hover over an element for a second, it auto-magically expands and shows a gorgeous high resolution version of that element.
Here is what a background looks like when it is expanded,
We hope you find this improvement makes finding the perfect elements for you scrapblog a lot easier.
I know that the blog has been a bit quiet lately. As you now know from our latest additions to the Scrapblog Builder, we have been hard at work getting you some really awesome content. Last week, Carlos, Caleb, Megan, Stefy, Jordan & I traveled to California for the Craft & Hobby Association’s winter trade show. We enjoyed so much showing off Scrapblog and the community! Here is the Scrapblog I made of our pictures. As you can see, we had a fantastic time. There are many wonderful things to come from Scrapblog this year and we look forward as always, getting your feedback and implementing your ideas. Thank you for being part of our fabulous family!
You will be seeing many more updates from us here on the blog, we will be showcasing your scrapblogs and chatting about challenges and contests, so leave a comment about what you want to see featured here on the blog and we will make it happen!
