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Happy Monday Fellow Scrapbloggers!

I hope everyone had an exciting or relaxing weekend, depending on what you were in the mood for! Today it is my pleasure to announce the winner of Challenge 17 - Vintage Family Photos. I spent a lot of time reviewing all the entries for this challenge. I found myself getting lost in the stories told about generations past. You are all wonderful documentarians! I feel inspired to create a heritage project of my own. Before I announce the winner, I want to share with you two other wonderful entries. I’m sure they will delight and inspire you as much as they did me!

First up is Abe and Anita created by rbtaylor. Like many of our entries, this scrapblog tells the story of rbtaylor’s grandparents. It stands out to me because of all the beautiful photos that include many details. I also found the story through pictures quite sentimental.

Next I want to share with you an amazing story of family. This scrapblog spoke to me in so many ways. First of all, BigRedssw is an active part of our community and I see her bopping all over leaving comments and saying “howdy” - she warms my heart! The story told in this scrapblog reminded me of how small the world really can be. Sally’s family inhabited an estate just outside of Georgetown, Kentucky. My husband and I went to college in Georgetown and we often wondered about the mysterious “Cardome.” I feel connected to her now through this scrapblog as it represents pieces of our past that somehow are woven together. I know you will enjoy this story of drama, seduction and family history!

And the winner of Challenge 17 - Vintage Family Photos is trilogymom!! Her scrapblog titled Life in Tomahawk, WI 1950s1980s is simply superb! I love the family history told through her journaling and photos. Page 28 is hauntingly awesome. I am so inspired by her pages. Truly an exceptional scrapblog. Congratulations!!

Check out all the challenges in the forum and be sure to participate in Challenge 18: Create a Fantasy/Magical scrapblog.

Cheers!
Rebecca

Hello Fellow Scrapbloggers!

How are you this week? Things are busy around the Scrapblog offices as usual. We are looking forward to the long weekend and we wanted to share a fun project with you. Perhaps you are a military mom, wife or family member, or maybe you want to give back to the troops over seas. Here at Scrapblog, we want to give you a way to do that. Beginning Monday and throughout the summer, you have the chance to send a soldier a card using Scrapblog.

We’ve teamed up with Cards for Heroes to inspire you to take your creativity and caring spirit to give back to our troops.

Cards for Heroes mission: To support our nation’s armed forces by sending blank greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to encourage them.

How can you send your Scrapblog card?

1. Choose your card, click on any of the pictures below to choose your card!
2. Leave it Blank or include a personal message
3. We’ll cover the shipping - enter promocode MILITARY09
4. Ship your card directly to Cards For Heroes, use the addresses below:

Sandy Allnock
35205 13th PL SW
Federal Way, WA 98023
sandy@cardsforheroes.org

Have a wonderful Memorial Day and don’t forget to tell yours friends and family about sending a card to our troops!

Rebecca

Scrapbook your favorite main dish! Doesn’t that sound yummy? You will be inspired to create some tasty dishes after viewing these challenge 16 favorites! Enjoy!

Scrapblog: Isn’t It Appetizing
Creator: Aynzan

Scrapblog: Pancake Day
Creator: Cazjane

And the winner of Challenge 16? MOMMY VICTORY!!!!! CONGRATS!

Scrapblog: Is it Soup Yet?
Creator: Mommyvictory

Hello Fellow Scrapbloggers!

Our Mother’s Day Card challenge is in full swing and I thought I’d share some inspiring, beautiful cards from our community. Don’t forget that we are giving away some prizes for the top Mom’s Scrapblogs. Just tag your creation Mom2009.

Mother’s Day by LoveMeForever:

Being a MOM by RockerChick

Now that you’ve seen some inspiration here, have you made your Mom a card for Mother’s Day yet? We’ve added two new card themes from Disney’s Baby Einstein. How cute, right? Thanks to everyone participating in the challenge, this week & next, we will share even more inspiration and design.

Baby Einstein Beautiful Mom

Baby Einstein M is for…

Did you think we had forgotten about Challenge 14? Well, we didn’t! Today is a treat, you will get two posts!

As usual, the Challenge 14 didn’t dissapoint! There were many beautiful pages, inspired by some amazing photographers! Here are the top three. Enjoy all of these and leave the creators some comments!

Long Lost Family by helpmerhonda61 shows off her love of antique photos. Wouldn’t it be great if we knew the stories of the people in these photos?

My Fave Photographer by JLuck is a journal of her favorite pictures taken by her mom. Isn’t that the sweetest?

And the winner of Challenge 14 is Trogfoot’s Salgado. Her scrapblog highlights some of Salgado’s work, showing off his ability to highlight heavy concepts and human stories. Congratulations Trogfoot!

Great job to everyone that participated in this challenge! Happy Friday!