Hi everybody! This is Kim K (kmkarayannis) I am SO EXCITED (and pretty nervous!) about hosting my first challenge EVER! I am so thrilled to be on the SM CT and I snatched up this challenge in my first month. I hope you enjoy the template I have for you this week! How about a little blocking?

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I made this template from one of my FAVORITE layouts, which I did for an old Inspiration Point Challenge back in the day, using Into the Night and In-Line-Out-Line Alpha by Stolen Moments.

Here is a NEW page I made with the template, using First Time Ever Kit and Word Art by Erica Zane and Second Spring by Stolen Moments and Captivated Visions

And here are some fantastic layouts from our CT! I am SO excited about how many CT members offered up example pages for my first challenge. Thank you all so much ladies, you are awesome!!

Check out this stunner from Andrea (andrea4376) using Erica Zane’s What’s Cooking? Bundle

This soft and pretty page from Mel (scrappymelly) uses March Guest Designer Linsday Jane’s Spring Symphony

Becca (becca372) made this beautiful page with First Time Ever Kit and Word Art and This Moment, all from Erica Zane.

Sandra (sberkan) made this adorable page using A Boy’s Perfect Birthday Bundle by Jady Day Studio, Essentials Collection by Jady Day Studio, Drift Away by Graham Like The Cracker and By Becca, Forget-Me-Not by Andilynn Designs, Preppy Alphabet and Antique Glass Alphabet by Inspirations by Day and Crazy Date Stamps by Plum Dumpling Designs

edited to include some late night gorgeousness from MORE CT ladies!

Here is one from Trista (scrappyt) with so many great colors, and an amazing list of credits!
foliage from Captivated by You from Amy Stoffel
Friday Flea Market a ScrapMatters Mega Collab
Chrome Typewriter alpha from Life’s Little Surprises a ScrapMatters Mega Collab
Prime Time photo action from M4H Photography
Fonts: Claudia Jean and HoneyScript

Here’s one from LeeAndra using Chelle’s EIEIO, love the bright bold blocks here!

And finally, some fall gorgeousness from Simona(lightmistress) using Autumn Hues by Creations by Rachael

Here are your rules!

* You will receive one point for posting in this thread & in the Tuesday Template gallery. You can receive an additional point for using new ScrapMatters products but, please add a note in your post here to say that you used a new product to ensure you receive the extra point. At the end of the month you’ll be entered into a random drawing that could earn you some bonus points!
* You have until the end of March to post this for March MOS points OR the entire month of April to complete this challenge for April MOS points.
* Remember no double dipping, your layout must be unique to this challenge.
* You don’t have to use Scrap Matters products, but we love it when you do!

I can’t WAIT to see what you create. Come on and play ladies!!

It’s Tuesday Template time!!! Hi – Cara (aka colson) here with today’s template.  I always struggle when I want to create a photoless layout and many other scrappers do too.  So here’s a template… let your stories shine!  Rotate it, flip it, move things around – I’ll even let you add a pic if you HAVE to :laugh: – just have fun and post them here and link ‘em up so we can leave you love.

Here’s the preview:

Template Preview

Here’s the link:

Here’s some inspiration from our awesome CT

From Amy (aka anrobe)

And here’s mine:

HSG here with a new Tuesday Tuesday Template Challenge for you!

You can grab the template here. No special rules for this one, just have fun with it!

Tuesday Template Challenge Freebie

Here is my layout that I used to base the template on, using Scent Of Romance by LDrag Designs

Are you ready to be inspired? Here are some BEAUTIFUL LO’s from the SM CT!

This beauty is from Annisa using “Month By Month: Pregnancy Bundle” by WM[squared] and “Tenderly” by Stolen Moments.

Bonnie put together some Disney Magic using Choo! Choo!, Choo! Choo! Christmas Add-On, Hangin’ Alpha, & Stamped Foam: Black & White Alpha by Chelle’s Creations

Bonnie’s showing off this “FUN” page using Boys in My Backyard by Stolen Moments and Stacy’s Backdoor Designs and Tuesday Template 2/22/11 by Happy Scrap Girl

Carina’s stunning photo’s make this LO just perfect. Created using Photograph kit bt Amy Stoffel

Karen makes me wish I could scrap like her with this beautiful birthday page using A Girl’s perfect Birthday by Jady Day Studio

Tronesia shows off her killer scrapping skills with this beauty using Great Escape and BFF by WM Squared and Connect Collab by ScrapMatters Design Team

Now that your inspired, grab your favorite pics and play along!

Just a few reminders…

-You will receive one point for posting in this thread & in the Tuesday Template gallery. You can receive an additional point for using new Scrap Matters products; please make a note of new products in your post. And at the end of the month you’ll be entered into a random drawing that could earn you some bonus points!

-You have until the end of February to complete this challenge for February MOS points or wait to post in March for March MOS points!

-Remember no double dipping…your photo and/or layout must be unique to this challenge.

-You don’t have to use Scrap Matters products, but we love it when you do!

We are happy to announce the new ScrapMatters Creative Team!

I hope you have been practicing your curtsy!  SM has just wrapped up our 3^rd annual Queen of Scrap Contest – it has been absolutely AMAZING to watch!

This year the contest was bigger than ever.  More contestants, more participation gifts, more pages and more prizes!  We had 157 scrappers enter our contest. Collectively they created 6765 pages and projects during the month of May! That is a LOT of scrapping!

There were brag books, hybrid projects, pages about kids and parents, pets and friends.  There were even pages about the contest itself!  There were many pages that made us laugh and just as many that made us cry.  Either way, they touched all of our hearts.

The QOS gallery was FULL of inspiration and artistic talent.  Everyone who entered should be so proud of themselves!  I am certain that most of them scrapped more LO’s this month than they ever dreamed possible.  We had 14 people scrap over 100 pages EACH during the contest!  56 people scrapped more than 50 pages each!  That is pretty amazing!

We had one incredible layout artist scrap 200 pages – on her own – in one month!!!  As our “Top Poster” (the person who created the MOST LO’s during the contest) , she will win a $50 gift card to the ScrapMatters shop!  She will also win prizes from our contest sponsors.  A one year Gold Membership from DigiShopTalk and a copy of List your Life – A Log Your Memory Journal List from Log Your Memory!

Congratulations citygurl08!  You are our Top Poster!

Now before I get to the second part of the contest and announcing the Queen of Scrap & the Princesses of Scrap – we let the QOS contestants have a little fun voting for their new friends.  Each of these winners will receive a $10 coupon to one of our designers shops!

Miss Congeniality – for the QOS participant who was the most friendly and social during QOS – (sponsored by Happy Scrap Girl)…. mommy22girls

Miss Photogenic – for the QOS participant with the best overall photography on her layouts (sponsored by Jenn Barrette)… sporte91

Miss Trendy –  for the QOS participant who uses a lot of the recent trends on her QOS layouts (sponsored by WM[squared])… Ddamsel

Miss Clusterqueen – for the QOS participant with the best overall “clustered” pages (sponsored by Denise Beatty Originals)… kathleena

Miss Wordy – for the QOS participant with the best overall journaling on her pages (sponsored by Geeky Diva)… merchi

Miss Rising Star – for a QOS participant who is “new” to ScrapMatters with the best overall pages (Sponsored by The Design Girl)… Inkspots

I know you have all been waiting for this part.  I’m sure that many of you scrolled right to the end of this post just to see who won!    We’ll here is the part you have been waiting for.  One of these lucky ladies is going to be crowned ScrapMatters Queen of Scrap! Two lucky ladies will also be named the “Princess of Scrap”. The princesses will receive a one month guest spot on our CT. The Queen is to win a three month guest spot on our CT. To qualify for this part of the competition, the participants had to be in the top 30% of  posters with the most layouts created for May.  To be in the top 30% and be considered for the QOS, each person had completed at least 60 LO’s!  Each of these princesses should take a bow – I’m sure many scrappers struggle to make that many pages in a year! You can truly tell that they are very passionate about this craft and the subjects of their layouts.

Well, it would have been way too hard for one person to pick a winner, so we put the fantastic ScrapMatters team members to work! We poured over their galleries and each of us voted on who we thought should be the winners. It was so hard to decide!

Are you ready?

ScrapMatters Princess of Scrap – TWO people will be chosen to win a ONE month guest spot on the ScrapMatters.com CT!  In addition to their guest spot they will also win these AWESOME prizes!

A one year subscription to Creating Keepsakes Magazine
One copy of List your Life – A Log Your Memory Journal List from Log Your Memory!
One month of the “Fix” from DigiScrapAddicts!

Please help me congratulate Brenda (Brenda Smith Designs) & Tanya (tanyarank)!  Ladies your galleries are amazing!

And now for ScrapMatters Queen of Scrap – true digiscrap royalty! One person will be chosen to win a THREE month guest spot on the ScrapMatters.com CT! In addition to the guest spot, the Queen will also win these AWESOME prizes!

A “Bamboo Craft” pen tablet from Wacom!!! It’s a $130.00 value!
A 1 year subscription to Creating Keepsakes Magazine!
One month of the “Fix” from DigiScrapAddicts!
A Real Life Weekly Challenges Book from Log Your Memory!
A one year Gold Membership from DigiShopTalk

Wow – that is an amazing prize pack!

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Cheryl (gonewiththewind)!!!!  Congratulations Cheryl!  the team at ScrapMatters.com is so very excited to have you join us!!! We would love to have you take on a guest CT spot on our team – allowing you access to our shop to scrap your heart out!

Here are just a few of her stunning pages.

I will be contacting all of the winners later today with their prize information!

Please be sure to stop by all the QOS galleries to see their amazing work this past month.

I also want to take a minute to thank the people that made this contest possible this year.  Thanks to all of our corporate sponsors for their generous donations!  Thanks to our AMAZING design team – they worked so hard to create the participation gifts for the contest and MANY of them went above and beyond to offer addition prizes for the challenges and extra prizes & to help with coordinating the contest.  Thanks to our CT for putting together the template pack participation prize, distributing the prizes and hosting the challenges.  Thanks to the newsletter team & the ad team for working so hard to coordinate all of the extra ads this month & putting together another amazing newsletter.  (GOSH, you’d think I’d won the award, lol)!  Thanks to the SMG for all of the sweet, heartfelt, amazing comments you left in the gallery!  I don’t know how you do it, but we appreciate you more than you know!  Thank you to the admin team who helped coordinate this contest, line up prizes, save my sanity and all of the other wonderful things that you do.  And last but not least… Thank you to everyone that participated either by scrapping or cheering for this contest.  It was so much fun this year!

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)

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!