Tuesday's Challenge~ Spin it-to win it!

Hi everyone! This week was off to a slow start and I am already hoping for Friday to come LOL! Anyone ever have weeks like that?!? Today I am bringing you a fun little challenge called Spin it-to win it! The object of the game is to take this beautiful LO created by Sarah8914 and spin it! You can go any way that you choose. Post a link back to your LO here in the comment section to win a GC to Kristin's store! I will close this contest on Tuesday October 26th!

Here is the layout to spin and lift!

and here is what I did with it! Spun 90 degrees to the right:

using Remember this by Kristin Cronin-Barrow & Meghan Mullens

Come play along! I can't wait to see everyone's lift!

KCB's Celebration Continues - Mash Up!!

It's mashup time...KCB style
"A mashup or blend (also mash up and mash-up) is a song or composition created by blending two or more songs, usually by overlaying the vocal track of one song seamlessly over the music track of another...."

Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to take 2 different KCB kits and make them into 1 AMAZING layout.

An example of this would be to use All Star with Blossom. 2 totally different kits that would still mesh well together.

Be sure to post your enteries in this thread at SSD and the CT will vote on the entries. The winner gets a $30 gc to KCB's store!
Deadline to enter is Saturday September 25th at midnight EST.


Here are some amazing examples from the CT...

from Laura using My Wish For Him and Sugar and Spice

from Sara using All-Star and Days of Summer (with extra alpha from Dear Diary)

from me using These Days and Cast A Spell

from Sheana using Whimisical Garden and Mayberry

from Jacinda using Cherry Sweet and Love is in the Air

from Majda using Bad Day Blues and Days of Summer

KCB's Celebration Continues - Scavenger Hunt!!

It's day two in our week long birthday celebration for Kristin!! Today we are having a scavenger hunt. I've numbered the elements (and one alpha) 1 through 12. Go through Kristin's store and find which kits I've taken the elements from! Email your answers along with your SSD user name to

kjerstiwoods at sbcglobal dot net

Type carefully - my name is tricky!

All correct entries will be submitted into a drawing for a free KCB kit!! Each correct entry will get a little surprise I'm not giving any hints to what it is! You have to play to find out.


Scavenger hunt entries must be submitted by Friday, September 24th at Midnight (Eastern time).

Good luck!!!!

Original post by Kjersti here!

Mondays Challenge~ Guest CT Spot!

So, I'm sure you've seen the announcement that Kristin's 30th birthday is this weekend, and that we're all having various little giveaways/contests throughout the week, right? well, miss Kristin has flat out lost her mind. she's decided that the winner of this week long contest will win a month long guest spot on her team!!! Is that not the best prize, EVER?




here's the dealio...

you need to create a layout with either 30 flower OR 30 buttons. it can not be a mixture of both, you have to have 30 flowers OR 30 buttons. you can incorporate anything else that you want in the layout but you have to use all kcb products. collab's are allowed but only if you use kristin's stuff. Templates will not be allowed because it would be something other than kristin's designs.



you will have until Friday night (September 24th) to submit your entries to the contest and the winners will be announced Monday morning!



in case you're looking for some inspiration, here is some from our WONDERFUL CT ladies.

by Shannon

by Sara

by Kjersti

By Laura

Please post your entries in this thread at SSD! Good Luck!

(Original challenge posted by Laura at SSD)

Are you ready for a challenge?

Summer is finally here and that always means one thing for me.... ROAD TRIP! So here's a challenge for you. What's up for grabs? A GC to Kristin's store of course!

So here's your challenge. Using her new kit, Going Places, create a layout about a memorable vacation moment you had on the road, at a hotel pool, at the airport, wherever. Just show us your vacation memory using that kit.

Here are some layouts to inspire you and get you thinking about your vacation:

by KayM:

by pomi:

So get going with those layouts. Post them here by June 23rd and I'll choose a random layout as the winner! Good luck and have fun!

Gallery Standouts and a challenge! Are you up for it???

Browsing thru Kristin's gallery at SSD I came across some absolutely beautiful layouts that I just wanted to share with you all. These layouts are all about journaling! No photos...I know, I know some of you shy away from the journaling aspect of digiscrapping, I know I have been guilty of that! But I am getting better, and I am challenging you to try it out!

I do not want to do this by leila

Candid moments by jacinda

I dream of sleep by joana1n

What's in a name? by irish_eyes22

Dream home by itarbox

Elizabeth by mummytothree

39 by amystoffel

So here is the official challenge: and I will participate as well! Please create a layout with no photos, where your journaling will be the main focus, and your topic is: Fathers! Can be your father, your grandfather, your husband ( if he is or is going to be a father!) Father Christmas hehehe! I think you get it, LOL! And here is what's up for grabs...

A $5.00 coupon to Kristin's store

and

A spotlight here on the blog!!!

You will have till Friday June 11th to post a link to your layout here in the comment section below!

Good Luck!

Aren't Fridays terrific?

I absolutely love Fridays, don't you? They signify the end of the work week and the beginning of the weekend. And once we hit the weekend I feel like I can handle whatever life has to throw at me. It's like a fresh start....hmmmm, Fresh Start, now where have I heard that before? Oh, right! That's Kristin's new kit that she released!

Have you had a chance to use it yet? It's absolutely terrific to work with. If you haven't worked with it yet, here's your chance to have fun with it and get in a draw for a gift certificate for Kristin's products:

Create a layout using the theme A Fresh Start, using Kristin's kit of the same name, and come back and post a link to your layout. I'll pick someone at random to win the gift certificate in about one week.

And congratulations go to Stace, who won a gift certificate to Kristin's store from posting her link to her layout using the Warm theme. Be sure to get in touch with me so that I can send you your gift certificate code!

Well have a great weekend everyone!

Warm up with this fun challenge!

Well I think everyone in North America would venture to say that this has been a hard winter and it's only January. I think people need some warming up, wouldn't you say? So a simple, quick post and challenge for you on this cold Friday...

Make a layout with the theme "What warms my heart", using KCB's products and come back and post a link to the layout. The winner gets a GC to Kristin's store, and I'll select a winner in one week.

Have a great weekend!

Write With Me - January's challenge!

I'm ba-a-a-ack! Monique here back with this month's journaling challenge!

This month I would like to challenge you to...

Swap a photo from a template or scraplift inspiration for a journaling space.

This is something I love doing. I love using templates and scraplifts as jumping off points to get my layouts going (otherwise I spend days working on just one layout). I'll pick a template that requires one more photo than what I was planning on using, and use one of the spaces for journaling.

It's also another way of getting more out of your templates :-)

Here's a recent layout I creating doing just this, the journaling card was supposed to be a large photo...

Layout created using SSD's Potluck Collab

(Kristin made the journaling card!)

for full credits:

http://www.sweetshoppecommunity.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=116135&ppuser=861

I'll be back next week with my own template to help you along with this one ;-)

See you then!

Write with me ~ December challenge!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Tis the season for a lot of us to be putting up our Christmas tree, decorating the house, baking cookies and decorating the yard! So to celebrate I want you to create a layout about a Christmas ornament, and of course be sure to include lots of journaling about it!

Now you can take this challenge and write about a single ornament, a fave or special ornament, maybe a collection of ornaments. And if you don’t celebrate Christmas, see if you can interpret this in another way, do you have some other kind of holiday ornament or memory that you can journal about?

Challenge Layout Requirements:

Create a layout about one (or more) Christmas (or other holiday) ornament. Be sure to include journaling (maybe aim to write 3 or more lines of journaling?) in your layout explaining or describing what it is and what it means to you. Photos are optional.

Create your layout using 75% KCB products.

Post your layout at the Sweet Shoppe Gallery or at DST’s Gallery and leave a link to your layout in the comments here so the KCB CT can oooh and aaah over your layout and leave you some love!

If you post a link to your layout by December 17th you will have a chance to win a free kit from Kristin! One layout will be chosen by the CT by the end of the month to win the kit of your choice.

Good luck and have fun!

I’ll be back next week with some journaling prompts, ideas to help you along…and the week after I’ll show you my layout for this challenge! The fourth Thursday this month is Christmas Eve so I’ll be taking a blogging break. And I’ll be back the final Thursday in December with a journaling freebie for you all!

Have a happy scrappy day KCB fans!

Happy Black Friday!!

Are you all going crazy shopping like me? Mind you, I don't have to brave the crowds, because being Canadian, we aren't having special sales here today. Doesn't mean that I won't take advantage of the amazing online deals though, like the 40% at Sweet Shoppe Designs! Have you been yet today? If not, GO! Wait until you see what KCB's got new in store! I'll post the previews in a minute.

Now, we have some business to attend to. I have a recipe challenge winner from last week. The winner is ~Angie! I'll be getting in touch with you to get your prize!

And for today's challenge here's the recipe:

3 papers
3 photos
2 flowers
2 ribbons
1 frame
1 tag

Follow this recipe using Kristin's products and post a link to your layout to qualify for the draw.

Now, check this gorgeousness out! Kristin has pulled out all the stops and released a new collection for your winter and Christmas layouts. Introducing the Holiday Classics Collection:





You save big when you buy all 5 kits together, and especially today, since they are 40% off! But they are available separately if you don't need all five kits. Not that I know anyone who wouldn't.

Have a great long weekend to our American friends and get to the store today before midnight to get KCB's wonderful goodies on sale!

Write With Me ~ a challenge!

Hey all you KCB fans! It’s Monique here with my first weekly post on Kristin’s new blog! I hope you will join me each week while I challenge myself to journal more.

If you’ve seen any of my layouts, you’ll know I don’t journal much… as a matter of fact, I’m usually lucky if I manage to think of adding the date to a layout! So I’m hoping to do at least one layout per month with a bit more journaling on it – are you with me?

Here’s a break down of what I’m hoping to do on this blog each month…

Week 1- a challenge.

Week 2- provide you with some journaling prompts to help you get your layout done.

Week 3- show you my layout inspired by the challenge.

Week 4- thank you for joining me with a journaling freebie!

 

So if you’re ready to do some journaling, here’s this month’s challenge!

November Write With Me Challenge: Simple Pleasures.

Requirements:

• Create a layout about one (or more) of your life’s simple pleasures. Be sure to include journaling (maybe aim to write 3 or more lines of journaling?) in your layout explaining or describing what it is and what it means to you. Photos are optional.
• Create your layout using 75% KCB products.
• Post your layout at the Sweet Shoppe Gallery or at DST’s Gallery and leave a link to your layout in the comments here so the KCB CT can oooh and aaah over your layout and leave you some love!
• If you post a link to your layout by November 19th you will have a chance to win a free kit from Kristin! One layout will be chosen by the CT by the end of the month to win the kit of your choice.
• Good luck and have fun!

See you all next week- I’ll bring you some ideas to help you along with your layout just in case you’re having trouble getting started.