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Today we get to know a little more about one of our CT Members, KairynLisa!
1. Your screen name? Your real name? KairynLisa/Karen
2. What is your main job/career? I am a stay-at-home/homeschooling mom
3. Are you married/children/pets? Yes… with seven children between us (hence my blog name: 7kids4me, lol), our Buddy dog died last summer 
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4. Where is home for you? Southern Maine, very near where the Bush’s summer home is )
5. What are your 3 favorite foods? Pizza (especially with meat!), Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Strawberries
6. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? Strawberry Ice Cream
7. Snacks…Salty or Sweet? Both! I love to mix M&Ms with Fritos! mmmm
8. Beverage of choice? I used to love Diet Mt. Dew until I realized how bad it was, so I quit (lost 25 pounds too!) And now I drink alot of water… but at a restaurant, my drink of choice is Strawberry Lemonade
9. What’s your least favorite food? veggies P
10. PC or Mac? What program do you use? I have a PC with XP
11. How long have you been digi-scrapping? How did you get started? Since the fall of 2008. I started with SmileBox and then realized I wanted to do so much more than I could… did a google search for more info, and found ScrapMatters… I’ve learned so much here!
12. What was your 1st LO about? It was about a local nursery and their fall festival:
14. What is the most challenging part of scrapbooking for you? Hmmm, I’d have to say shadowing, getting them to look real – I’m still working on that one!
15. What would you like to learn to do (or do better) not related to scrapbooking? Is photography an option? I’d like to learn how to use my dslr in manual mode for efficiently.
16. What are your favorite movies/TV shows? I don’t watch alot of TV anymore… I like Historical Romance in books and movies – Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Emma, Les Miserables, Mansfield Park… but I also love a good action/suspense flick such as Taken, Lord of the Rings Trilogy or Star Wars – guess I’m all over the place!
17. Describe your “scrapping” environment. Music? TV in the background? Drinks? Snacks? Where? Actually, I don’t have music or TV in the background, and I try not to snack at the computer (though I’ve been known to eat my meals here!) So my environment is pretty stark, ha!
18. If you only had 2 elements to use on a LO, what would they be? Only two… hmmm, that’s tough! a curly string or ribbon to show motion, and buttons I think… everything else I could recreate with paper (flowers, scallops, frames, etc. – even alphas!)
19. Would you like to share a little known fact about you…? I’m a big genealogy buff! (Guess, I forgot to mention that in the hobbies question.)
20. Can you tell us a little about your scrappin’ style? It’s pretty eclectic, like my movies! lol I like white or light colored backgrounds and lots of white space, but I also like bold backgrounds! I love a good bit of clustering, too!
21. Favorite LOs that you have done? Oy-vey! These could be numerous… any I don’t love I tend to redo! lol I’ll try to pick only 2 or 3…
This is such a sweet page! I simply adore the photo here…those moments are so precious! The colours are so soft and pretty and the paper strips really highlight the subject. The title and element placements are just perfect too! Congrats to Marlen for being this week’s winner!
Sandra (sberkan)
This month’s POTM Winner is krystlbear with this stunning hybrid card voted on by our ScrapMatters Girls team! Congrats!!
Lisa (kelseyll)
Each week our diligent ScrapMatters Girls (SMG) leave love in the gallery and come across some stunning layouts! One is selected each week and at the end of the month the team votes on which one of those weekly layouts will be the overall winner for the month! It is NOT an easy vote!! =)
So, this month our LOTM Winner is…….Marlen with this stunning LO!! Congrats!! =)
Lisa (kelseyll)
Our January collab, Snippets of Life, is just gorgeous. Perfect for documenting the everyday as well as the special events in your life.
Don’t forget our ScrapMatters’ Bingo Chat coming up on Feb 2nd at 9 pm EST. It’s still not too late to finish up your challenges to increase your chances of winning prizes.
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It’s Heather (snowdrop), and today’s challenge is my favorite, Travel Scraps! This month, your challenge is to wrap-up your holidays by scrapping a page about your Christmas or Winter Vacation! You don’t have to have traveled far, you can even scrap a staycation!
This December, I went to Florida. One of the things I did was go to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Here is my layout, using Wizarding Magic, a ScrapMatters collab and SMD Font: Kim by Stolen Moments.
For a full list of the January 2012 Bingo challenges head over to the forum and if you want all the details about our challenge system including the prizes check it out here!
Melissa (yzerbear19) here with today’s challenge prompt: January is the FIRST month of the year. Scrap a FIRST in your life…. FIRST date, first house, first job, first baby, etc.
I decided to scrap a very first in my life – My first niece
Kayla (keepscrappin) scrapped an adorable first photo shoot
Can’t wait to see what “firsts” you scrap. 
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*Manic Monday sales go into the shop early Monday morning and will “disappear” around midnight! HURRY! What are you waiting for!?! *
Yummy Scrummy Love by Stolen Moments
Hello Digifriends! Ramona of Memory Clips here to highlight one of our template challenges! I love double page layouts because of all the pictures and journaling they can contain! Nothing quite tells your family story like a double page layout! Every month, I provide a FREE template for you to scrap with. This month’s template has room for 7 photos and plenty of journaling! You can scrap a favorite event or a recent trip or maybe one of the recent holidays we have celebrated! If you haven’t had a chance to download the template, just click on the image below to download!
Look at this fabulous Birthday layout, done by Creative Team member, Kairyn:
I went through the gallery to look for an example using this template, and I fell in love with this layout! Click on the layout to go and leave her a little love!
I hope you enjoy the template and I can’t wait to see what you do with it! Just a few days left of January to get those cards completed!!
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