Spotlight on Pink Paislee!

We recently added two new Pink Paislee lines to the My Scraps store..."Vintage Vogue" and "Nantucket". Since going to the beach for our vacation this year, I could not wait to play with the "Nantucket" line. The colors of these papers are so soft...just right for this picture of me and the boys at the beach! I used the chipboard tiles from this line at the bottom of the photo and a couple of items (from which there are tons) from the embellishment pack. LOVE!!

Our "Goodbye to Summer" crop is still going on and we are waiting for YOU! Please visit the forums here to read all of the challenges the design team members have come up with to help you get your pile of pics a little slimmer!

You have until midnight tonight to post your take on this week's sketch here. A new one will be posted tomorrow along with another chance to win a great prize!!

Happy Hump Day!

A Special Thanks...

to our design team member Heather, aka scrappin in AK. Heathers last day on the My Scraps team is tomorrow so I wanted to take a moment to thank her publicly for all she has done for the site and all the time she has spent. Hopefully she will still be a major presence on our forums and continue inspiring us with her wonderful creations, a few of which I am sharing here. Thank you Heather!! I can not express just how much you have been appreciated!!

Winner, winner, chicken dinner!!

Let's start off our giveaway Monday with the winner of last week's Basic Grey "Lauderdale" prize... random .org chose #4. That is you Cynthia B. Congratulations girl! Please email me at info @ myscrapsandmore dot com. Now let's get on with our giveaway for today... all of the patterned paper from the Fancy Pants "Summer's End" collection! This is a win it before you can buy it kind of thing! These papers do not ship to stores until September but they can be yours now if you leave a comment here by midnight September 4th.

If you missed our online crop this weekend there is still time to join in on the fun! Challenges aren't due until next Sunday, giving you plenty of time to play along and win some of the great prizes being given away!

Happy Monday everyone!!

Crate Paper Random, Farmhouse and Peppermint in the house!!

and these are 25% off with our "Out with the Old; In with the New" sale but only through tomorrow night, August 28th. The papers are already moving fast out of the store so act quickly to get yours and save!! With this sale you also can receive 65% off older items with code OLD65.

Our "Goodbye to Summer" crop is going on this weekend over on the message board. challenges are not due until next weekend so you have plenty of time to play! Please visit and join in on the fun challenges posted by the design team members. If you haven't registered yet to become a member, it only take a couple of minutes. I try to approve accounts often! We would love to have you!!
Have a good weekend and be safe!!

I am Not liking Mother Nature!!

First an earthquake, which is unheard of in Virginia, then a horrible storm yesterday. It looks like a tornado went through our neighborhood!! Trees are down everywhere! We have two on our house and several across the driveway and road. Clean up will take days! We lost power for about 14 hours. So glad we have it back because now we have to look forward to Irene!! They say the hurricaine is going to affect us here and the news is telling us to prepare for no power for several days!!! So now you see why I am not liking Mother Nature too much right now!! Please stay safe to all of those that this storm is threatening!

Our goodbye to summer crop starts tonight at 5pm! Please visit the message board and pick your menu items so that you don't miss out on the BBQ menu challenge! Also, Bingo words are up and ready for you to pick! It is going to be fun!! Many prizes are going to be given...new Basic Grey, Bella Blvd and more!!

Stay safe everyone and I hope to see you at the crop this weekend!!

Blog Sketch Thursday!

It's that time again, time for a new sketch here at the My Scraps blog! For my example this week, I used the adorable papers from the "Country Drive" collection from echo park. I just keep finding more and more pictures that are perfect for this line! Keeping withthe echo park theme, the "Springtime" collection is the prize for this week's sketch! I look forward to seeing what you create!! Please post a link to your layout in the comment thread on this post by August 31st!

Make sure that you head over to the message board and get ready to play along in our "Goodbye to Summer" crop that start tomorrow, August 26th, at 5 pm and goes through Sunday night! There will be many prizes up for grabs such as some new Basic Grey, Bella Blvd and more!!

Have a great day!!!

We interupt our regularly scheduled posting...

for an EARTHQUAKE. I fully intended to have a scrap spotlight layout done to post today but after the earthquake happened here, no scrapping got done. I had never experienced anything like it before...so scary! My house was a wreck afterward with pictures and items falling, along with a T.V. but nothing broke and better yet, no one was hurt, but it was frightening! Our house really shook and it was really loud. Not something I would want to go through again. We live only about 30 minutes from the earthquakes epicenter so it was felt pretty strongly here.
Tomorrow a new sketch will be posted so please get your layouts in for last weeks sketch by midnight tonight!
Have a great day! Hopefully some scrappy work will get done barring no more aftershocks!!