I have a cool Guest Designer Contest to share with you! Would you like to design with me at Scrapdango?? Here is a cool contest for you to enter:

Scrapdango Guest Designer Contest

Good luck to everyone who enters. I am excited to see who I get to work with. Maybe, it will be you??

~Tara~

I am excited to share a great way to combine our love of Scrapbooking and helping a great cause!!

Ally has an amazing contest posted on her So Sketchy Blog where you make cards for the “Bring a Smile to a Child” campaign that was started by Scrapbook and Cards Today magazine. She is offering up some prizes for everyone who participates.

Check out her blog for more details!!

~Tara~

I have a couple DT Calls I would like to share with you today. I have been privledged to work with both of these wonderful sites and I wanted to let you know that both The Scrapping Bug and Scrapdango have a Design Team Call right now.

You can find the info for The Scrapping Bug DT Call at their site here: DT Call

Scrapdango is combining thier call with a fun contest where you are issued challenges weekly. It is going to be alot of fun! You can find the info here: DT Contest

I also wanted to give you a peek at the new kits at Scrapdango. They are awesome!

Sugar Kit

Spice KIt

For more info on these great kits please check out Scrapdango!

Happy Scrapping!

~Tara~

I had placed all the names in a John Deer hat that hangs in the hallway. The girls love to pick winners for me. Yes…. sometime’s it’s easier and faster to just use an online generator but, to see their faces light up as they pick a winner is worth the extra work!

So this month’s blog prize winner is……………………………

Lindsey Krauss!!

Please email your address to me at: thynner5@yahoo.ca

Remember that a new blog prize is up for grabs!! Thanks to everyone who sent me thier tips and techniques, layouts and fonts. Keep them coming!

~Tara~

This week’s sketch has been chosen from Becky Fleck’s May Pagemaps. You can check out some of Becky’s other amazing sketches here: Pagemaps . I also wanted to let everyone know that Becky is celebrating her two year anniversary with an amazing contest. All you have to do is send her a creation using one of her wonderful sketches! I’d love for everyone to send one in.

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 Draw!!

Have fun!

~Tara~

Nope… no cooking involved here!

Today’s challenge is all about using the items listed below. Please use the following items on a single page, any size will do.

• use something red
• minimum 3 brads
• minimum 1 sticker (letters count!)
• only 1 piece of ribbon
• a piece or two of raw chipboard

ANYTHING else goes…. you can add anything else as long as the items above are on your page!

Here is my page… “Nature Lovers”:

So let’s see what you can cook up for this challenge! Good luck!!!

For challenge #4 I want to see some birthday cards! Yup… birthday cards! They can be any size, any shape, any colours or made for any age or gender…. make them fun!

Now since Catherine at Scrapbook and Cards Today has been SO extremely generous and donating some AWESOME prizes for our celebration here at CCAS, I’d like to help her out too!!! I’d like to add a BONUS challenge to this one…… I challenge you to create at least ONE birthday card and send it to Catherine for her to share with the kids who can’t be at home during their birthdays. You see, recently Catherine has been collecting birthday cards to give to local Children’s Hospitals. And I’d like to help her out by contributing to her cause!

So to be eligible for a BONUS randomly drawn prize from me, create a minimum of ONE birthday card to send, take a photo of the card with an addressed envelope to SCT and link/email your photo to the CCAS blog. If you create more than 4 cards for the cause, I will enter your name twice into my BONUS draw!

Here’s the address to send your card to:

Catherine Tachdjian,
c/o Scrapbook and Cards Today,
139 Church Street,
Markham, ON
L3P 2M2

Here’s a few birthday cards to inspire you…

So let’s see ‘em everyone!!!

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

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!!!!