Hi everyone,

Sylvia here to bring you some of the hybrid treasures I found recently in the hybrid gallery
We traditionally have lots of wonderful hybrid projects in our gallery but with our Hybrid Bootcamp going on in February even more gorgeous hybrid goodies are there to admire!
So it was really hard to show you just a few of many beautiful projects! So I would recommend to just pop on over to the hybrid gallery and browse through all the gorgeousness there, too

Ok… as said before here are only a few of the Hybrid Highlights uploaded in February:

Look at this super cute pillow box, made by leightheo – isn’t this the cutest gift package ever?

Or these super sweet Valentine’s pencils made by simply_j_studio aka ocmath:

And I’m drooling over these wonderful Valentine’s heart boxes created by the super talented Julie aka Juliemomof4
Even though Valentine’s Day is over now I think it’s always a nice package for a beloved friends treat, isn’t it?!

And -oh my gosh- look at these adorable pillow boxes from monsu – they are amazing!

markyzmom aka chelle’s creations created these adorable and unique blocks:

And last but not least, look at this sweet candy boquet Debra aka dbprc made *wow* – what a sweet(!) and unique idea:

Wow.. see .. I hardly can stop myself showing you more hybrid projects from our gallery :giggle: … our hybrid gallery is truly full of gorgeous, fun, unique, interesting, wonderful projects and cards!!!

And now I hope you are as enthusiastic about the hybrid projects as I am and you will try do do some yourself?!

If you have never done hybrid projects and don’t know where to start, maybe you want to head over to our HYBRID BOOTCAMP where the hybrid team shows you lots of basic and some easy advanced techniques to get you started

It’s not that difficult as it sometimes looks like! We have some GREAT hybrid goodies and templates in our shop to get you easily startet. I will list a few of them here.. but there are loooots more, just check out the hybrid section of our shop

I hope you have had the very same fun to gaze at all the hybrid goodies as I had and always have and hope to see some hybrid work from YOU, soon HAVE FUN!

Sylvia

Hello, all!  Tgmousechick Kim (Geeky Diva Designs) here, bringing you today’s Tuesday Template!  I’m going to get right to it:

Take advantage of that big block on the template!  Our Creative Team has provided a wealth of examples to inspire you!

Here’s mine, using Hawaiian Happy Hour by The ScrapMatters Team:

From Jen, using Storytime by Designs by Sarah Bennett, Stacy’s Backdoor Designs, and Lil Digi Bits by Jude:

Wendy (WM squared Designs) flipped it and modified it a bit.  She used 2 kits by Jenn Barrette, Chilled and Feeling Frosty:

Kimbytx went with its original intention, using Kiss the Frog, a new collab by Britt-ish Designs and DeCrow Designs:

SM_Amber (Stolen Moments Designs) was so clever!  She realized that the large spot was perfect for documents!  She used 2 products by Sahlin Studios- her Blessed kit and her Clear Pebble Alpha:

Next, QuiltyMom used Snowbound by Britt-ish Designs.  She used one of the photo spots for her journaling!

Finally, LoriBear maintained a lot of white space on this adorable layout, using Different Kind of Love by Juno Designs and Sya’s Blueprints:

I loved the sample layouts this week- such a display of diversity!  I can’t wait to see what you do with it!

A Reminder of the other Matter of Scrap Challenge rules:

Upload your layout to the gallery, and leave BOTH the image and a link in the challenge forum.

You will receive one point for completing the challenge. You can earn an additional point for using a new product from the ScrapMatters store (PLEASE indicate you have used something new when you leave us the link in the forum), and one lucky winner will receive one more point – I will be doing a random draw!)

If you post a layout for this template challenge, you cannot use the same layout to complete another challenge.  You have until February 28th to post!

Have fun and stay warm!

Kim (tgmousechick) (Geeky Diva Designs)

My layout was chosen Layout of the Week at ScrapMatters

First of all I owe everyone an apology. I totally forgot to come back and post the LOTW last week. So today we have 2 LOs First is a LO by bahamagirls called Suspect Grin. I love the bright colors of this LO and awesome title! Plus those baby pictures are just adorable!

Next we have a LO from alahnasmommy called I Love You. The patterned paper is what drew me in, and then I started notice all the little aspects of the page – the curled ribbon, the bracket, the paper strips under the photos, the fun photos, the fabulous journaling, the shadowing, the tiny sprinkle of roses and leaves. Just fabulous.

So congrats you two for your amazing LOs and for being choosen as last week’s and this week’s LOTW. Make sure you check out the forum and leave them some love.

and now it’s time for…

1. Your screen name? Your real name? My screen name is rxdawg97 (my name everywhere online since college) and my real name is Melissa.

2. What is your main job/career? My main job is SAHM to 3. I am also a Relief Pharmacist for a Mass Merchandiser on the weekends.

3. Are you married/children/pets? I have been married to my husband, Chris for ten years this November. We have three children: Nathan (5), Gillian (4), and Erin (2). We are also expecting our fourth child in the Spring of 2010-SURPRISE!

4. Where is home for you? We currently live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia-but I am originally a South Jersey girl (family still lives there)

5. What are your 3 favorite books? Oh..not much time to read these days. Some that stand out from my school days are Night by Elie Wiesel, Great Expectations, and Pride and Prejudice.

6. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? Definitely coffee (and it’s got to be Haagen-Daz)

7. Snacks…Salty or Sweet? I am more of a Sweet girl-I love my candy. Although pretzels are a favorite too!

8. Beverage of choice? Mountain Dew-not so much right now though!

9. What’s your least favorite food? Eggs-ick!

10. PC or Mac? What program do you use? I am a PC girl-I scrap in PSE 5.

11. How long have you been digi-scrapping? How did you get started? I have been digi-scrapping since May of 2008. I started out about 2 years ago designing logos with digital elements and progressed into full layouts. I have been a paper scrapper since 1999 – when I scrapped my honeymoon to Bora Bora.

12. What was your 1st LO about? My 1st layout was of my dd Erin. I thought I did such a great job with the photo enhancements back then. Looking at it now-it’s just frightening!
Cute Erin

13. Do you have any other hobbies besides digi-scrapping (are there other hobbies)? I like to cook and get a fabulous bargain!

14. What is the most challenging part of scrapbooking for you? With three little ones at home, my biggest challenge is finding TIME to scrap!

15. What would you like to learn to do (or do better) not related to scrapbooking? I would LOVE to learn to knit or crochet.

16. What are your favorite movies/TV shows? My two favorite movies are Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the original with Gene Wilder) and The Color Purple. I am pretty hooked on Grey’s Anatomy, Ghost Whisperer, Medium, American Idol, America’s Got Talent, Behind the Music (on VH1), The Good Wife, and Mercy. Most have to be TIVOed though!

17. Describe your “scrapping” environment. Music? TV in the background? Drinks? Snacks? Where? I scrap on my laptop on my dining room table. It’s centrally located so I can see the kids. The TV is usually on-Nickolodeon or PBS Kids. I do like to have a handful of swedish fish every now and then!

18. If you only had 2 elements to use on a LO, what would they be? Ribbons and Leaves

19. Would you like to share a little known fact about you…? When I was in college-I worked as a telephone operator on the graveyard shift at Trump Taja Mahal in Atlantic City. I had the chance to talk to lots of celebrities. I never did get to chat with the Donald though-just lots of disgruntled and intoxicated gamblers!

20. Can you tell us a little about your scrappin’ style? I tend to dabble in a little bit of everything-although simple layouts with lots of white space seem to be a favorite of mine right now.

21. Favorite LOs that you have done? Well of course to be fair- I had to choose one for each kid!
Over the Rainbow

My Sweetness

Bend Little Willow

Thanks Melissa for letting us get to know you better! You can see her full gallery HERE!

Andrea here letting you know some specifics about our 2nd Birthday Bash! We are looking forward to a fun, fab, fantastic party.
I hope you will join us tonight at 9pm Eastern for the first of seven Speed Scraps to be held this weekend to celebrate ScrapMatters’ Birthday Bash! It is sure to be a great time for all! Here’s a peek at the participation prize for tonight, remember there will be seven different participation prizes this weekend–gadzooks!

Also if you haven’t made your bingo card yet, hop on over to the forum to read all of the rules and peruse the word list and make your bingo card. There will be two bingo games tomorrow, the second one will start after the first one is finished. You need to have your card finished and posted to the gallery by 7am Pacific tomorrow morning. The first bingo game starts at 7:30 am Pacific and there will be new words every half hour.

Also I am having random drawings for people who introduce themselves in the welcome forum. If you haven’t taken the time to introduce yourself now is the time to do so. So click on over to the “Introduce Yourself” topic and say hi.

Plan to chat with our hostess VirginiaJen and the SM team tomorrow…

If you didn’t get the Special Edition Newsletter with the buzz on all the happenings this weekend, you can get a copy by clicking this link.

To make sure you never miss an issue of the SM newsletters subscribe now by clicking this link. Then you’ll receive the next edition and always have the latest scoop on what’s new and what’s happening at ScrapMatters.

Full-Time Hybrid CT:

Casey (Casey Krause)

Cristina

Desiree (Desi)

Krisi (Krisi616)

Sylvia (SylviaB)

Guest CT Members:

July: Heather (interstitchal)

August: Anne-Katrine (Tger)

September: LuAnn (wildblueeyez)

A big welcome to all of you, we are so excited to have you on our team!

Aloha everyone–Andrea here. Well we started our party a little early, so scroll down to read all about the happenings at SM! We’re having a fabulous blog train around the world filled with the SM team members ideas of paradise. There are 35 stops along the way. Each stop you’ll receive either an 8×8 quick page or a 5×7 brag book-sized quick page created from Hawaiian Happy Hour, SM’s newest collab filled with tropical colors. It’s free this week with a $15 purchase in the SM shop and with everything* on sale today for 40% and 30% through Thursday night you’re bound to be able to find lots of products you want to earn this beauty.

Hawaiian Happy Hour SM DT Mega Collab

I love our blog trains so much, it gives me a good reason to go visit everyone on the team’s blog all in one day!

So here’s the itinerary:

1. Andrea http://andilynn.wordpress.com
2. Britt http://brittishdesigns.blogspot.com
3. Heather L http://joyrevisited.blogspot.com
4. Denise http://www.denisebeattyoriginals.blogspot.com/
5. Tater http://taterscraps.blogspot.com/
6. Kimbytx http://kimbytx.blogspot.com/
7. Melanie http://melanie3boys.blogspot.com/
8. Kim http://geekydiva.wordpress.com
9. Emilee http://morelovemorejoy.blogspot.com
10.Chia http://keepingupwiththekunzs.blogspot.com/
11. Jaime http://jaimeward.blogspot.com
12. Krista http://sahlinstudio.blogspot.com/
13. Wendy http://wendys-craftycreations.blogspot.com/
14. Sya http://scrap-stuff.blogspot.com
15. Stacy H http://stacysbackdoor.blogspot.com/
16.Tracie http://traciescrapsofmylife.blogspot.com/
17. Michelle http://mickeybdesigns.blogspot.com
18. Christy http://thewerners.wordpress.com
19. Cyndi http://cyndi146.blogspot.com/
20. Natasha http://bcnatty.blogspot.com
21. Stefanie http://stefgonedigi.blogspot.com
22. Maria http://scrapmuss.blogspot.com/
23. Heather Nay http://haynay.blogspot.com
24. Mary http://plumdumplingdesigns.blogspot.com
25. Kari http://karistamps.blogspot.com
26. Dawn http://winkasheartscraps.blogspot.com
27. Heather B.http://heb1976.blogspot.com
28. Leslie http://ggdigitaldesigns.blogspot.com
29. Kelly http://insprink.blogspot.com/
30. Jeni http://www.jeniscraftyblog.blogspot.com
31. Anna http://annabvdesigns.blogspot.com/
32. Sharon http://www.digitalcreations.typepad.com
33. Kelly K http://kkklatt.blogspot.com/
34. Happy http://happyscrapgirldesigns.blogspot.com/
35. Rachelle http://www.chelles-creations.blogspot.com/

Have fun! Please report broken links in the comments here (hopefully there aren’t any, but you never know in this age of computers!)

ScrapMatters has so many terrific things planned for [inter]National Scrapbook Day (NSD) that I don’t know where to start. First off we are having a sale—40% off all personal use digital scrapbook products, except grab bags and clearance, on Friday, May 1st and Saturday, May 2nd. The sale continues at 30% off throughout Thursday, May 7th. Commercial use products will also be on sale for various discounts.

Did you notice the phrase, “except grab bags” in the above paragraph? Many of our designers have put together fabulous grab bags for you! We also have a new mega-collab kit called Hawaiian Happy Hour FREE with a $15 purchase in the shop. It is just fabulous—see for yourself:

Hawaiian Happy Hour Mega Kit

We are having a blog train featuring quick pages made by our CT/DT using Hawaiian Happy Hour as well. It will start on Saturday, May 2nd at 7am Pacific time on my blog: http://andilynn.wordpress.com. You might find some other little goodies as you hop on and off the blog train as well. ;D

We are having lots of speed scraps, challenges and games throughout the week as well. We had so much fun last year during NSD that I can hardly wait for the good times ahead starting this weekend.

We are announcing the winners of the Design Star Contest on Friday, May 1st. We are so excited with the talented new batch of apprentices that we have. It was such a great contest with so many good applications that it was really hard to choose who to take onto our team.

May 1st is also the start of the Queen of Scrap Competition (QOS).

Throughout the contest there will be chances for everyone to win free template sets, free kits and more. Natural Wonders, the mega kit pictured below, is one of the amazing participation prizes.

Denise Beatty, our reigning Queen, and Happy Scrap Girl are in charge of this year’s QOS competition and I know that they have lots more fun things planned. Look for additional details to be revealed soon!

The best part of NSD and QOS is getting to know and spend time with you! Hopefully you will take time to drop by, make some new friends and enjoy the fun.

Hi all, Andrea here. Thanks to our fabulous tech team at webSeitler our blog now looks like the rest of the site and is so much easier to navigate. So tell us what you think about our blogs new look. Do you like it? Did you even notice? I will draw one lucky winner from all of the comments on this post on Sunday night, April 19th and award one lucky winner a $5.00 gift code to the shop and two winner will each receive my latest kit for free. So three chances to win just for leaving a comment!

Also a heads up that we will be moving to a bigger, faster server starting around April 21st. We hope we won’t be down for long, but it could take a few days until we are all the way up and running. We will post the exact date and time on the blog as it gets closer. I am so stoked about getting a server that will speed things up during high volume times. This should also make downloads of products and freebies from the site less prone to errors.

Mark your calendars for our [inter]National Scrapbook Day extravaganza. We are starting our celebration on Friday, May 1st and the party will continue for a week. We’re having a free with purchase kit, a sale (gotta have a sale), a blog train, speed scraps, grab bags, challenges, games and more fun. Stayed tuned for more information.

The Queen of Scrap competition is coming soon too! We had a blast last year and are planning even more fun this year.

The SM newsletter was delivered yesterday to all of our subscribers. A special thanks to Jeni Hopewell and the newsletter team for working hard to get you another fabulous issue. If you didn’t receive yours in your email (check your spam) please sign up again here on this blog, your subscription will start with the next issue. You can also hop over to my blog and get links for the current issue.

The Design Star contest is coming to a close shortly, make sure that you go check out the freebies while they are still available. If you haven’t registered for the forum/gallery yet, now would be a fantastic time to do so, because that’s the only way you can see the freebies. Remember you have to be logged into the forum first, then click on the gallery tab. And once they’re gone you might not see them again! The 10 Design Star finalists have come up with some fabulous challenges with terrific participation prizes too.

Hopefully by now I’ve written enough for you to have something to comment on. I love hearing how you are inspired by each other and by our CT and DT. You are what makes the SM community so special! Thanks so much for being our inspiration.

Keep reading for Photography Phriday and What’s New at ScrapMatters!

Hello friends, Heather (hedderlee) here. I want to let you in on a fun little project that some of the ScrapMatters creative team members and designers were involved in recently. 20 of us participated in a worldwide Valentine’s Day Swap! From Malaysia to Australia, to all corners of the United States, we exchanged personalized hybrid gifts with a secret pal. As Valentine’s Day approached, each of us anxiously checked our mailboxes to see who our secret pal was, and what goodies she had sent. And every time a gift arrived at one home, photos were gleefully posted for the rest of us to marvel at. We really became more connected to one another through this act of friendship.

Mailboxes and love notebooks were the most popular gifts, as well as an overabundance of chocolate. Who can do without chocolate? Certainly not this group! There were also magnet sets, an address Rolodex, a Countdown to Valentine’s Day calendar, shirts, you name it! Take a peek at the amazing goodies – inspiration oozes from each lovingly created project.

This personal touch to gift giving is what I enjoy most about hybrid scrapping. Once paper meets pixel in your life, you may never be the same again.

Be sure to upload your hybrid projects to the ScrapMatters Gallery – who knows, it may be highlighted here soon!