November Sneak Peek Week Day #6

We've got one final peek at the November FOTM Kit today before you get to see it all. Today's sneak is brought to you by Barista, Lan Amphone:


Be sure to check our website later today for the full reveal of all of the November kits. While you're waiting, you might want to head on over to our ScrapRoom Store. We've reorganized it and added loads of new items - themed kits, class kits, embellishment-extras kits... remember that all shipping on add-on kits is FREE when shipped with your regular monthly kit shipment. :)

November Sneak Peek Week Day #5

One final look at the November Doubleshot Kit today from Doubleshot Barista, Shawnna Samples. (FYI: The (2) sides of the November DS Kit has a ton of mix and match potential!)

Cany you guess the paper line from this little sneak peek? :)

November Sneak Peek Week Day #4

We've got our third peek at the November Flavors of the Month Kit, courtesy of Barista, Jenny Moore:

November Sneak Peek Week: Day #3

Here's your first look at the November Doubleshot Kit from Doubleshot Barista, Rebecca Bose:

November Sneak Peek Week Day #2

By Barista, Brenda Carpenter:

TERRIFIC TUESDAY! (Birthday Present #4)

Today is the 4th and final Tuesday in October and the 4th and final Birthday Present from The ScrapRoom to you this month. I think we have saved the best gift for last!

I am so pleased to announce our ScrapRoom Rewards Program. We truly value and appreciate our customers, and it is our desire to thank and to reward those customers who are so loyal to us. We've got a special gift in store for you!

ScrapRoom Rewards Program Details:

• Purchase (12) Flavors of the Month Kits with us during 2011 and receive an Exclusive Special-Edition ScrapRoom Rewards Kit for FREE! (Obviously, it would be easy to purchase our Flavors of the Month Kit each month throughout 2011 to reach a total of 12, but if you elect to skip any of our monthly FOTM Kits, you won't automatically miss out. You can always choose to double up during a different month or purchase any of our previous FOTM Kits to reach the magic number of 12 kits.)
• Our ScrapRoom Rewards Kit will not be available for purchase at The ScrapRoom or anywhere else. These limited edition Rewards Kits will only be available as a FREE GIFT to those ScrapRoom members who purchased 12 Flavors of the Month Kits between January 1 and December 31, 2011.
• The exclusive ScrapRoom Rewards Kit will be revealed in December 2011 and will ship out in January 2012.
• We will keep track of your FOTM Kit purchases throughout 2011 for each individual customer. To qualify, all (12) Kits must be purchased under the same name.
  
• You can earn as many ScrapRoom Rewards FREE Kits as you want. If you purchase (24) FOTM Kits, you'll earn (2) FREE Rewards Kits, etc. So, if you are purchasing for a group, each person in your group can earn a FREE Kit. (Every 12 FOTM Kits = 1 FREE Rewards Kit!)

As our Birthday month is drawing to a close, I just want to thank everyone who has helped to make The ScrapRoom a dream come true for me. I have enjoyed this ride of small business ownership in the most creative and colorful industry ever. It is a joy to put together scrapbooking kits filled with beautiful papers and fun embellishments that are designed to bring a smile to your face and to give a home to your memories. I am truly grateful for the opportunity that you have all given me to help feed your creative spirits each month. Thank you. :)

Tammy

November Sneak Peek Week Day #1

Sneak Peek Day #1 by Barista, Melanie Call:

Weekly Challenge #43: SCRAPLIFT CHALLENGE!

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Create a layout based on any of the layouts in our OCTOBER IDEA GALLERY - that's right - scraplift any of the layouts in the October Idea Gallery in whatever way that you are inspired. Upload your layout (along with your real life name) and a note about which layout you scraplifted to the WEEK #43 CHALLENGE FOLDER. All layouts must be uploaded by 9:00 a.m. CST on Monday, November 1st.

Below are a few of my favorites from this month:
By Melanie Call:


By Brenda Carpenter:


By Jenny Moore:


By Lan Amphone:


By Guest Designer, Frances Sylvia:


THE PRIZE: We've got some more fabulous paper collections from Bobunny to give away this week! You'll get three collections of paper, including Flower Child, Paradise, and the brand new CHA-Summer release - LEARNING CURVE! That's 31 sheets of gorgeous double-sided paper! Think of the great theme-albums you can create with these great sets! Or, as always, with this many papers, you can always share the wealth with your best scrappin' bud. :)
LEARNING CURVE (11 sheets):


FLOWER CHILD (10 sheets):


PARADISE (10 sheets):


CHALLENGE RULES:There are only 2 rules if you want to enter a weekly challenge:
1.) Your submission has to be a new layout created for this challenge. :) You're on your honor here, but the idea of a Weekly Challenge is to finish new layouts and not simply upload old layouts. :) (Your actual layouts can be done in any size - 12x12, 8.5x11, 8x8... whichever size you scrapbook in!)
2.) Please only submit one time for each weekly challenge! (You will need to be registered on our message board to upload your layout to the Challenge Folder gallery. Registration just requires that we confirm your e-mail address so we know you're not a spammer. :) (In order to upload layouts to our gallery, you will need to be sure to resize layouts to no larger than 500x500 pixels and 72-75 dpi. If you're file size is much larger than that, you'll get an error message when attempting to upload. :) )

Week #42 Weekly Winner!

Congratulations to scrapfia. Your layout was randomly chosen as our winning entry this week! Please e-mail me at admin@scrap-room.com with your real-life name and address, and we'll get your prize ready to go. :) Check out all of this week's Challenge Entries in our WEEK #42 WEEKLY CHALLENGE GALLERY!

TERRIFIC TUESDAY (Birthday Present #3)

You asked. We listened. This week's Birthday Present from The ScrapRoom to you is a "CHERRY-PICKER'S SALE." That's right... we're breaking up all of our available Flavors of the Month Kits and selling the layout kits individually! So, if you really loved (2) of the layout kits from July and (2) of the layout kits from June and (1) from August and (1) from September - well, grieve no more because here's your chance to stock up on those layout kits that you love the most!

We're also sweetening the pot (since it's our Birthday month and all).

*Purchase (5) Layout Kits and receive (1) FREE Layout Kit!
*Purchase (9) Layout Kits and receive (2) FREE Layout Kits!

There are (2) ways to order:
1.) ScrapRoom Members and NON-Members can order through the shopping cart by clicking on the "Buy" buttons underneath each layout kit. (OR)
2.) ScrapRoom Members can e-mail us with their order at admin@scrap-room.com (since we already have member information on file). We will confirm all e-mail orders within 24 hours.

You can find all of our available individually packaged layout kits, along with all ordering and shipping details HERE on our Cherry-Picker's SALE PAGE! Quantities are limited to stock on hand, so order early for best selection!

Week #42 Weekly Challenge!

It's my favorite week on the blog - SKETCH WEEK!

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: It's a 2-pager this month, so that should be fun! Use the sketch below by Julie Bonner to jumpstart your creativity and create a layout. Upload your layout (along with your real life name) to the WEEK #42 CHALLENGE FOLDER. All layouts must be uploaded by 9:00 a.m. CST on Monday, October 25th.


Below are a few examples from Baristas and the October Idea Gallery:
By Jenny Moore:


By Brenda Carpenter:


By Lan Amphone:


By Melanie Call:


By Yours Truly: :)


THE PRIZE: We've got (3) fabulous paper collections from Bobunny to give away this week! You'll get three collections of paper, including Mama-Razzi, Roughin' It, and the cute Halloween themed Whooligans! That's 33 sheets of gorgeous double-sided paper! Think of the great theme-albums you can create with these great sets! Or, as always, with this many papers, you can always share the wealth with your best scrappin' bud. :)
MAMA-RAZZI PAPER COLLECTION:


ROUGHIN' IT PAPER COLLECTION:


WHOOLIGANS PAPER COLLECTION: (Just In Time for Halloween Photos!)


CHALLENGE RULES:There are only 2 rules if you want to enter a weekly challenge:
1.) Your submission has to be a new layout created for this challenge. :) You're on your honor here, but the idea of a Weekly Challenge is to finish new layouts and not simply upload old layouts. :) (Your actual layouts can be done in any size - 12x12, 8.5x11, 8x8... whichever size you scrapbook in!)
2.) Please only submit one time for each weekly challenge! (You will need to be registered on our message board to upload your layout to the Challenge Folder gallery. Registration just requires that we confirm your e-mail address so we know you're not a spammer. :) (In order to upload layouts to our gallery, you will need to be sure to resize layouts to no larger than 500x500 pixels and 72-75 dpi. If you're file size is much larger than that, you'll get an error message when attempting to upload. :) )

Week #41 Weekly Winner!

Congratulations to Amy19. Your layout was randomly chosen as our winning entry this week! Please e-mail me at admin@scrap-room.com with your real-life name and address, and we'll get your prize ready to go. :) Check out all of this week's Challenge Entries in our WEEK #41 WEEKLY CHALLENGE GALLERY!

Knitty Bitties Camera Strap & Coffee Cozy Winner!

Thanks for the all of the great comments about the adorable camera straps and coffee cozies by Knitty Bitties! It looks like we've given you a couple of great ideas for your Christmas lists, and I hope that all of you end up with a some Knitty Bitties goodness in your stocking this year!

Our winner is: Grammy

"Grammy said... I'd give a coffee cozy to each of my girlfriends." (October 13, 2010 3:34 PM)"

If you are Grammy, please e-mail me at admin@scrap-room.com with your real-life name and address and we'll get your camera strap and coffee cozy on it's way to you. :)

TERRIFIC TUESDAY (Birthday Present #2) (and a GIVEAWAY!)

As part of our Birthday Month Celebration, we've got a series of Birthday Gifts from TSR to you all month long. We're "unwrapping" a new gift each Tuesday, and we've got Gift #2 for you today! (And, if you read all the way to the bottom, we'll be giving away one of these set to one lucky blog reader!!!)

The ScrapRoom has paired up with the most adorable Etsy Shop this month to bring you the absolute cutest companion set for ScrapRoom scrapbookers. Let me introduce you to Andrea from KNITTY BITTIES and her gorgeous fabric-pieced Camera Slipcovers and Coffee Cozies! I found Knitty Bitties last fall and purchased a Camera Slipcover and a Happy Little List-Taker. I was over-the-top impressed with the quality of the fabrics, the attention to detail in the sewing, and the way that she has an eye for combining different fabric colors and patterns to create really beautiful and interesting pieces. I immediately put my Slipcover over my Camera Strap and swooned at the adorable-ness of my once utilitarian-looking camera. It actually gave that black Canon some real personality, and you would not believe the number of compliments that I get on that camera strap!

In fact, I was so impressed with my Knitty Bitties items that I ordered more Happy Little List-Takers and another camera strap to give as Christmas gifts, and as I went to place my second order, I discovered that she had added a new item to her store - the cutest Coffee Cozies you've ever seen! I think I let out a little scream of delight when I saw them and immediately added two sets of the Coffee Cozies to my order as well. I gave Knitty Bitties goodies to everyone last year for Christmas, including my TSR Designers. :) They are the PERFECT gift for a coffee-drinking friends and family - not too pricey so you can stock up - but oh the joy they bring. I smile every time I see my pretty little Coffee Cozy. I keep one in my car and wrap it around my Starbucks cup whenever I treat myself to a latte on the go. I've even been known to wrap my Cozy around one of my to-go cups from home just because the pretty fabrics make me so happy. :)

Long introduction, I know, but I just want you all to know that I have lots of wonderful personal experience with Knitty Bitties products, and I just had to share this great find with you all. When talking with Andrea to come up with a special for ScrapRoom members (and blog readers), I couldn't decide between the Camera Slipcover or the Coffee Cozies, as both items support the two things we all have in common - our love of scrapbooking our photos and our love of kick-back-with-a-warm-beverage time. So, seeing my dilemma, Andrea agreed to include both items in her promotion! I couldn't be more excited to share this with you!

Andrea has created an exclusive ScrapRoom color combo just for us, which includes aqua, brown, and red. Our website is aqua and brown - and you can never go wrong by adding a pop of red to anything. :) So, here are the details!

ScrapRoom Limited Edition Happy Little Camera Strap Slipcover PLUS Coffee Coat in ScrapRoom Colorway - $22 (plus $3 s&h). (There are only 18 available in this color combination, so grab your set before they are gone!) PURCHASE YOUR SET HERE!
CAMERA STRAP SLIPCOVER: (All slipcovers are padded for comfort!)


COFFEE COZY: (You will receive one of the featured TSR fabrics on your Cozy. All Cozies are padded and lined with brown fabric on the backside.)


Promotional offer/code for ScrapRoom readers/customers: FREE "Happy Little Key Fob" on ANY order $15 or greater (fabric varies). Use code 'ScrapRoom' in Notes to Seller at checkout.

HAPPY LITTLE KEY FOB: These little babies are cute, strong, and allow you to slip your keys over your wrist. You've got your hands free for shopping and you won't lose your keys!


I also want to mention that Knitty Bitties is getting ready to start their annual "Handmade Holidays" promotion, which will start October 18th. All details are here on the Knitty Bitties Blog. You are not going to want to miss these great specials! (I know I'm going to be there on a couple of those dates to take advantage of the special pricing and custom fabric option. Although, I really must say that Andrea does such a beautiful job of combining colors and fabrics that you can't go wrong if you just leave it up to her!)

And finally, I'll close out this post with another gift... Andrea has kindly offered to give away one of the awesome TSR Camera Strap Slipcovers AND Coffee Cozy sets. Leave a comment below telling me how many people on your Christmas list would LOVE a Camera Strap Slipcover or a Coffee Cozy for Christmas! (Comments will close on Friday morning at 9:00 a.m. CST, and we'll announce the winner shortly after that.)

Week #41 Weekly Challenge!

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: We're teaming up with Sassy Lil' Sketches for this week's challenge. Deanna Deaton, one of our MODS is also a designer for Sassy Lil' Sketches' weekly sketch site, which is run by Cherie Averill and Katie Nolan-Denham. The sketch shown below was created by Cherie and is this week's featured sketch on their site. We're using that same sketch for our weekly challenge here! Use the sketch below to jumpstart your creativity and create a layout. Upload your layout (along with your real life name) to the WEEK #41 CHALLENGE FOLDER. All layouts must be uploaded by 9:00 a.m. CST on Monday, October 18th.

Be sure to get extra potential prize-winning mileage out of this week's challenge and enter your layout in the Sassy Lil' Sketches monthly sketch contest as well by using the Mister Linky link on their blog.

Create a layout based on the following sketch:


Here are a couple of examples to get your creative juices flowing!
By Deanna Deaton:


By Janine Rachau:


THE PRIZE: This week's prize package features an great collection kit from Crate Paper's Orbit line, along with the coordinating Orbit stamp set. The collection kit includes twelve 12"x12" double-sided, heavy-weight, lightly textured papers (two each of six designs), 72 glitter diecuts, 5 glitter borders, and alphabet stickers. As always, with our Crate Paper prize packages, there is enough product included to create multiple pages or a theme album - or to share with a friend. :)


CHALLENGE RULES:There are only 2 rules if you want to enter a weekly challenge:
1.) Your submission has to be a new layout created for this challenge. :) You're on your honor here, but the idea of a Weekly Challenge is to finish new layouts and not simply upload old layouts. :) (Your actual layouts can be done in any size - 12x12, 8.5x11, 8x8... whichever size you scrapbook in!)
2.) Please only submit one time for each weekly challenge! (You will need to be registered on our message board to upload your layout to the Challenge Folder gallery. Registration just requires that we confirm your e-mail address so we know you're not a spammer. :) (In order to upload layouts to our gallery, you will need to be sure to resize layouts to no larger than 500x500 pixels and 72-75 dpi. If you're file size is much larger than that, you'll get an error message when attempting to upload. :) )

Week #40 Weekly Winner!

Congratulations to Linda. Your layout was randomly chosen as our winning entry this week! Please e-mail me at admin@scrap-room.com with your real-life name and address, and we'll get your prize ready to go. :) Check out all of this week's Challenge Entries in our WEEK #40 WEEKLY CHALLENGE GALLERY!

Sorry about not getting the winner chosen before this post went live this morning. I got busy and forgot to finish up with the most important information it was scheduled to post. :)

TERRIFIC TUESDAY (Birthday Present #1)

As part of our Birthday Month, we've got a series of Birthday Gifts from TSR to you all month long. We're "unwrapping" a new gift each Tuesday, and we're kicking it off today!

If you've been a member of The ScrapRoom and hang out on our message board at all, you might know that we have one super-cool monthly challenge on our message board - and we've had this same challenge every month for, well, as long as I can remember. It's called our "GET MORE PAGES DONE CHALLENGE," and it's always the same: Create one layout or project with each of the four layout kits in the monthly Flavors of the Month kit and post your layouts or the link to those layouts in the challenge thread. If you post something from all four layout kits, then you're automatically entered in the drawing for a free layout kit.

This is our way of encouraging our customers to pull those kits out and "GET MORE PAGES DONE!"

Our gift to you this week is that we are upping the ante for this GMPD Challenge. Now, instead of giving away just one layout kit, we'll be giving away a FULL FLAVORS OF THE MONTH KIT. That's right... the winner will receive the next months' Flavors of the Month Kit for FREE - and what could possibly be better than FREE?!

Here is the link to our October "GET MORE PAGES DONE!" Challenge Forum with all of the details. So, start digging out those photos so that you can be ready to start creating some layouts as soon as your October Kits arrive in your mailboxes at the end of the week!

Week #40 Weekly Challenge!

I recently made a few hours to scrapbook this past month, and of course I pulled out the upcoming October kit. I found some photos in my stash that coordinated with the Bella Boulevard One Fall Day Layout Kit, pulled out my supplies and had a blast. One thing I did on several layouts was to layer page elements using pop dots. I have seen this as a trend recently, and I wanted to give it a try. I discovered that the cloud paper in this kit was PERFECT for creating layered pop-up elements. I cut out clouds and layered them on top of other clouds for depth and dimension.


Well, that was so much fun that I did it with other elements as well. I pop-dotted (yes, I'm using that made-up word as a verb) all sorts of elements... the apple in this layout (well, and I pop-dotted the clouds too because I couldn't resist)...


the row of circles on this layout...


and more clouds on this layout (what can I say)...


So, I started looking around, and I noticed that lots of others are pop-dotting too!
Jenny is pop-dotting...


Shawnna is pop-dotting...


Melanie is pop-dotting...


and Frances is pop-dotting...


shoot...Frances is even pop-dotting alphabets. Doesn't that look cool!

(I'm going to have to try that on a layout this week...)

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: POP-DOT something on a layout this week! Everyone's doing it, and you'll probably find that you'll love doing it too! Upload your layout to the WEEK #40 CHALLENGE FOLDER. All layouts must be uploaded by 9:00 a.m. CST on Monday, October 12th.

THE PRIZE: This week's prize package features an great collection kit from Crate Paper's Little Sprout line, along with the coordinating Little Sprout stamp set. The collection kit includes twelve 12"x12" double-sided, heavy-weight, lightly textured papers (two each of six designs), 72 glitter diecuts, 5 glitter borders, and alphabet stickers. As always, with our Crate Paper prize packages, there is enough product included to create multiple pages or a theme album - or to share with a friend. :)


CHALLENGE RULES:There are only 2 rules if you want to enter a weekly challenge:
1.) Your submission has to be a new layout created for this challenge. :) You're on your honor here, but the idea of a Weekly Challenge is to finish new layouts and not simply upload old layouts. :) (Your actual layouts can be done in any size - 12x12, 8.5x11, 8x8... whichever size you scrapbook in!)
2.) Please only submit one time for each weekly challenge! (You will need to be registered on our message board to upload your layout to the Challenge Folder gallery. Registration just requires that we confirm your e-mail address so we know you're not a spammer. :) (In order to upload layouts to our gallery, you will need to be sure to resize layouts to no larger than 500x500 pixels and 72-75 dpi. If you're file size is much larger than that, you'll get an error message when attempting to upload. :) )

Week #39 Weekly Winner!

Congratulations to Ange. Your layout was randomly chosen as our winning entry this week! Please e-mail me at admin@scrap-room.com with your real-life name and address, and we'll get your prize ready to go. :) Check out all of this week's Challenge Entries in our WEEK #39 WEEKLY CHALLENGE GALLERY!

Sorry about not getting the winner chosen before this post went live this morning. I got busy and forgot to finish up with the most important information it was scheduled to post. :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE SCRAPROOM!

We're celebrating 6 wonderful years in business at The ScrapRoom during the month of October. And, as we're in the habit of celebrating this milestone with gifts and goodies, we've got some great stuff planned for this year as well!

1.)We've opened up our BIRTHDAY BASH FORUM, and we'll be giving away a prize each day during the month of October! If you haven't already registered as a message board user, now is definitely the time to do that - cause you can't win if you don't play and you can't play if you aren't registered. (Registration on the message board doesn't commit you to purchase anything; it is just a necessary means to keep spammers from inundating our board.)

2.) Since I seem to be a nerdy fan of alliteration, we're introducing "TERRIFIC TUESDAYS" on the blog during the month of October. Each Tuesday during the month of October, we've got a "gift" for you here on our blog. Oh, the exciting stuff that we're going to be rolling out this month. I can hardly wait to share the details - but let's just suffice it to say that there are a lot of BIG SAVINGS in the works for our customers! Plan to check back here on Tuesdays to see what we've got in store for you!

3.) We're kicking off our brand new MOD Squad on our message board this month, and the MOD Squad members for the coming year wanted to do a little blog hop to introduce themselves to you all and to celebrate World Card-Making Day! They've got some fun stuff planned this month, so be sure to hop on over to Barb's blog for Stop #1 on the tour. :)

4.) The beautiful Birthday Card shown above was created by our Guest Designer, Frances Sylvia. Frances creates absolutely amazing layouts and cards, and I was so excited when she agreed to Guest Design for us for THREE months! Welcome Frances!

Hello my name is Frances Sylvia and I am from Many, Louisiana. I am a spoiled wife, mother of 4 (all under 9 years old…shew!), Junior High Remediation teacher, and a totally addicted scrapbooker. My greatest inspiration comes from my family and friends in the photos, but I am also inspired by sketches, patterned paper, and what I bought that week from the scrapbook store. Though my style seems to change as the wind blows, there are a few elements I can not leave off a layout these days, such as, hand or machine stitching, doodling, threaded buttons, inking, and layering. Since my time is mostly devoted to being a wife and mother, I believe that scrapbooking should be FUN!! There is no greater pleasure for me than to enjoy my family, put the kids to bed, and relive the memories that we created once again.
I have been a longtime fan of The Scraproom, and I am super excited to be Guest Designing for the next few months. I look forward to working with the talented design team, and thanks so much Tammy for this wonderful opportunity!
To learn more about me, visit my blog Forever and a Year.

And, I leave you today with some inspiration from Frances using our October kits, which, by the way, have just been posted on our website! We're featuring some of my favorite paper lines from the Summer Show this month! I can't wait to make some time to scrapbook this weekend! You can see the full gallery HERE - oodles and gobs of great inspiration from all of our Baristas this month!