Need a little nudge to finish up another layout for Queen of Scraps, or just get that lost mojo back?  Well, then I’ve got what ya need.

Please join me for a Daytime Speed Scrap – this Thursday, March 29th, 2012.
3pm ET; 2pm CT; 1pm MT; 12 noon PT

We’ll chat, scrap and have a good ole’ time!  Plus everyone who completes a layout in the allotted time will win this FAB-U-LOUS mini from Amy Stoffel.

Clear those schedules; put the kids down for a nap, or lock ‘em in the backyard!  LOL – not really but you get the idea!
And join us for the last Speed Scrap of March!

We have a Speed Scrap happening in the Chat Room tonight, be sure to join in on the fun. Tanya of Crossbone Cuts will be hosting and it is always a good time when she is around! Check out the forum for more details.

Don’t forget the Speed Scrap tonight. It will be a fun time chatting, creating a beautiful layout and don’t forget the participation prize!  Kairyn Lisa will be our host tonight and she always has great instructions for us.  See times below on the flyer.

Look What’s New at ScrapMatters.com 11/04/2011!!

Good morning! Happy DSD to you!!!! Are you ready for our biggest sale of the year? Our entire store is 40% off this weekend! So make sure you pick up some adorable goodies for AMAZING prices. It’s time to make your wish list a purchased list.

We have a whole weekend full of games and speed scraps just waiting for you in the forums, so make sure you check out the schedule at the end of this post!

Plus, with every $20 purchase, you will receive Love Yourself, which is the latest totally gorgeous design team collab.

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.

ScrapMatters is Turning Two--Birthday Bash Starts on Friday!

Hi everyone, Andrea here. I hope you’ll join us starting on Friday, August 7th for all kinds of digital/hybrid birthday goodness. There will be a sale August 7th-9th: 30% off on personal use and 10% off on commercial use, as well as 20% off on Kaiser Craft hybrid albums.
If you spend $15 dollars in one purchase you can have the design teams newest MEGA kit, A Perfect Picnic. Look at all of the goodies it has:

Hi, Andrea here. Our guest designers Minna, Mira Designs, and Amber, Stolen Moments Designs, have been delightful to get to know. It’s been really fun to see their fabulous designs in the shop and their designer galleries knowing that there are even more fantastic products and layouts to come. Every Friday this month, Minna and Amber will release at least one new piece of digital goodness. Summer is such a busy time for everyone, there is usually so much going on, that it almost seems like too much fun. Places to go, friends and family to visit, make it hard to squeeze extras in and yet Minna and Amber managed to fit us into their busy summer schedules. Thanks again girls.

Time passes really fast. I always heard that, but never really believed it until now. These past two years have flown by at warp speed. The SM 2nd birthday bash is coming next weekend and I can hardly believe it. The entire SM team has worked so hard to make it a celebration to remember. Treats include a huge Mega kit with purchase, another one of SM’s famous blog trains, hybrid goodies, a sale (of course) and just hangin’ with the wonderful girls that make up our big SM community. I don’t know everybody and it continually amazes me that ScrapMatters has grown so large the past two years that I don’t know everybody. But I would love to meet you. So please make sure you take time to introduce yourself in the welcome forum. I try really hard to welcome everyone back–and as part of our birthday celebration, you just really might want to make it a priority–hint, hint!

There is also a new birthday celebration kit, for you on your birthday, a little treat from us to you on your special day. You need to register in the SM forum and put your birthday–the day and month are just fine. Then watch your mail on your birthday for a no-calorie treat.

There are going to be TONS of speed scraps. I hope you all have pictures to scrap, if not go get busy! Take some everyday moment type pictures–what you do on a typical July day. Whether it’s your summer or your winter, you owe it to yourself to capture the seemingly unimportant events that make up your days, for they are what make up your life. I usually take tons of pictures, but don’t get them scrapped until I do a speed scrap, so I am looking for the multitude of speed scraps to make a small dent in my picture file.

Well I’m through rambling, hope to see you around SM, it’s a fabulous place to call your digi-home.

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!