Thank you to everyone who left comments in the Show CCAS Some Love Contest.  I am thrilled that so many of you took the time to post.  Tara and Ally do a wonderful job of updating the blog and I am glad to be able to help share your love with them.

Congratulations to Alesha!  You are the winner of the Show CCAS Some Love Contest.

Alesha Says:
April 26th, 2008 at 11:39 am

this is my first time to your site and it is truly inspiring. keep up the good work……

Please email your mailing address to me at jen@creativecraftsandstickers.com and I will get your prize into the mail.

Congratulations!

~ Jen 

National Scrapbooking Day is this coming Saturday May 3, 2008. 

In order to celebrate our love for scrapbooking, Tara, Ally and I will be hosting a weekend full of challenges that will hopefully inspire you and help you to get some serious scrapping accomplished.

Our challenges will start on Friday and run throughout National Scrapbooking Weekend.

Tell us what you want to get accomplished this weekend and be entered in a draw to win a mini coaster album.  Winner to be announced on Wednesday.

I hope you will join us this weekend!

Happy Scrapping!

~ Jen

Have you ever heard of a blog carnival?

Until recently, I had not.  I have now learned that a blog carnival is “where someone takes the time to find really good blog posts on a given topic, and then puts all those posts together in a blog post called a “carnival”.” (from blogcarnival.com)

Jacqueline, a CCAS friend, has started the Canadian Scrapbookers Blog Carnival.

It sounds like a really cool idea, so go ahead and check it out and send your blog information to Jacqueline.

Have a fantastic Sunday!

~ Jen

I have a wide assortment of the new and super cool Core-dinations coloured core cardstock to share and I’ll love to give it away as a prize for participating in our NSD challenges!

You could win an assortment of colours from their Black Magic Line and their Vintage Line of cardstock. Very cool product here everyone!!!

To increase your chances of winning some of this awesome new product, leave a comment below and tell me what kind of scrapbook challenges are your favorite and why? For leaving a comment, we will add your name into the prize draw (even before we have started to celebrate!). Cool eh?

Don’t forget the “Show CCAS Some Love Contest” (Soooooooooo easy to enter… check it out here.). You could win a brand new Cosmo Cricket Black Album.

Good luck!!!!

Good Morning Everyone!

This weekend I am challenging you to show CCAS some love.  

I know that you are visiting the blog and checking out the amazing posts by Ally and Tara.  While you are online this weekend, I want you to drop by the CCAS blog and say hello.  Tell the lovely ladies how much you enjoy their posts.  Show them some LOVE!

This contest will run until Sunday at midnight EST.  On Monday morning I will draw a name to win one of the brand new Cosmo Cricket Black Albums!  They are so cool!  Don’t miss this opportunity!

Drop by today and leave a comment for your chance to win.

Remember that the comments are moderated to avoid spam posts, so if this is the first time you are commenting, we will need to moderate the comment before it shows up on the blog.

Have a wonderful day!

~ Jen

I have this wonderful tutorial for you from the Resource Section of the site. I fell in love with it the first I saw it and I love it to this day.

Mini Teabag Album by Melody Zahara

For instructions on how to make this adorable teabag album check out the CCAS Resources: Teabag Tutorial

I would love to see what you create from this tutorial. Please email me at: thynner5@yahoo.ca and put “teabag album” in the subject line to get a ballot for this months draw! Good luck.

~Tara~

“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”
~Christopher Reeve

Howdy everyone!  Happy Monday!

This week’s challenge is to is all about pockets!  Yup… I want to see a page where you use a pocket on it to store something… maybe your journaling tag, a letter someone wrote to you, maybe a card you received or like my example below, some postcards from a trip you took.

I created this page using the Scrapperie’s April kit, “Spring Break”.  I just love all the blues and reds in this kit!  And the amount of felt, grungeboard and chipboard embellishments are out of this world!

Create a page using a pocket and share it with us.  Link us up in the comments section of this post or email Tara at thynner5@yahoo.ca with a picture of your image.  Please put “CCAS Pocket Challenge” in your subject line.  All creations will earn you a ballot into the Monthly Blog Draw!  Here’s a sneak peek of April’s winnings here.

Good luck!  Let’s see what you can put in your pocket!!!

 This week’s sketch has been chosen from Becky Fleck’s April Pagemaps. You can check out some of Becky’s other amazing sketches here: Pagemaps 

I have made a medium version and a hard version for you to solve. Please note that they are both of the same sketch.

medium version

hard version

If you have any problems printing this sketch off just send me a pm or email me at: thynner5@yahoo.ca and I will send you the sketch. Please put: “Sketch” in the subject line.

Also, if you use this sketch as the foundation for your next layout and email it to me or provide a link you will be entered in this month’s Blog Prize Draw!!

Have fun!

~Tara~