Happy July everyone–Andrea here. So much is happening here at ScrapMatters this month, I thought it deserved a little blog post of it’s own.

Announcing the winners!
Thank you everyone for all your GREAT entries! It made picking a favorite WAY too hard! I had to just choose one of my very favorites since there were so many that I liked. Thanks again to everyone and be sure to play along this week too!
Winner of my favorite pick was The Werners with this LO:

I especially loved the circle border she used around all the photos and loved that she used both bw and color photos in the LO. The ribbon wrap around all the photos was especially cute and I thought it was really creative how she used paper blocks in place of some of the photos too. GREAT Lo! Loved how it turned out!

She even went back and re-did it to meet the requirements. I love the little scallop frame she used that matched the scallop border around all the pics. Great Lo!

Ladies, I’ll be PMing your your codes for the store!
Thanks again to those of your who participated – keep playing everyone and you could be one of our next winners!

Hello everyone SassyPixie here for the Tuesday Template Challenge! This is my first time hosting a challenge and I am very excited. I recently took my kids on vacation to my hometown American Fork, Utah. As usual, driving into town I was overcome with nostalgia. Memories always come pooring in. I happened to visit at the same time the neighboring towns were celebrating their summer celebrations. As I was thinking of the theme of my challenge I decided to challenge all of you to do a layout of your favorite summer tradition. It may be your town celebration, 4th of July or a family reunion. It can even be a childhood favorite tradition that you were always a part of growing up! This week template comes from the awesome Brittney. Have fun with it, make it your own and show me your favorite traditions. There will be one random winner and I will pick my favorite. Winners will receive a $5 GC to the ScrapMatters store.

http://www.4shared.com/file/52610127/c82cca83/brittdes_sassptch.html

Here are some layouts from our CT members to get your creative juices flowing…

here’s mine

ktkadoo

Zakirah

KateyPie

Mikelinz

and ldrag2000

Can’t wait to see what you come up with! Have a great week!

Yep, you know what the beginning of a new month means at ScrapMatters. It’s time for a new Quick Page Exchange.  Here in the States July is the month of red, white and blue so I have chosen my own MY INDEPENDENCE kit to use for our July quick pages.

I feel a little weird about spotlighting myself but we like to give all our designers a turn so I guess it’s my turn.  Since it’s my kit we are using I decided to add a little bonus for everyone. For a limited time when you buy MY INDEPENDENCE you will receive my brand new MY INDEPENDENCE ADD ON kit for free. It will be included with the download of the main kit so make sure you download all the included files.  You can use both kits for your quick page designs.  And don’t forget MY INDEPENDENCE will be 30% off for the entire month of July!!!

Now I don’t want our international members to think this quick page album is going to be an American only album. I would love to see a great variety of entries and if you check the gallery at ScrapMatters you will find there are already a great number of wonderful LO’s using MY INDEPENDENCE that have nothing to do with America or the 4th of July so please join us in what I’m hoping will be another wonderful exchange.  Jump on over to the forum and join us!!!