Wednesday, March 28, 2012

March Layout of the Month

The layout of the month for March is:

"Looking at YOU looking at me" by Riza aka Tonys Page


Using the March kit, "Butterfly Dreams", Riza put together this very sweet and beautiful page. Lots of gorgeous, soft details were used. The different laces were amongst the many delicate touches to make this page so heavenly. The Bo Bunny, Country Garden paper seems like the perfect fit for her darling granddaughter, Sara, pictured there in the photo, admiring her own cute refection. The soft blue altered Kaisercraft wooden frame holds some sweet endearments for/about her lovable granddaughter. Riza also proudly used Renea's stunning butterflies that were also part of this month's kit. This is one charming page Riza, congrats, and thanks for sharing this with us!!!

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Design Team Call!

Scraps of Darkness and Scraps of Elegance kit clubs are looking for designers to add to our talented Design Teams!  

Commitment is important, so we want to be straightforward with what we are looking for.  We
want to see ambitious, outgoing, c
omputer savvy scrappers that share in the same love as we
do.


Thes
e DT positions will start with our May, 2012 kits and end with our October 2012 kits.

This Call is open to both US and International submissions, though International DT Members
will be required to share in the cost of shipping kits to them.

O
ur available positions are as follows:

1. One Designer for our Scraps of Darkness kits (responsibilities as shown below)
2. One Designer for our Scraps of Elegance kits (responsibilities as shown below)
3. One Designer for our Scraps of Elegance kits with alternate requirements - Fewer layouts and no tutorials, with some behind-the scenes responsibilities


1. You must complete a minimum of 5 layouts, cards, or a
ltered items per month and have 4 of them ready to upload by reveal day, which is the 15th of every month for Scraps of Darkness, or the 1st of every month for Scraps of Elegance. Additional layouts/projects should be uploaded prior to the release of the next kit. These layouts need to be placed in the SOD/SOE gallery, blogs, scrapbook.com, and any other public galleries that you participate in.

2. Daily participation on our forum and a daily check in on our Design Team forum, as well as keeping up in the galleries is a must. DT responsibilities, such as posting a Question of The Week
and our Pandora's Box Tutorial, will be rotated amongst our DT members and we would
also like you to start new threads that encourage posting by our members.

3. You must complete at least 2 tutorials within your 6 month DT term,
in addition to your
scheduled Pandora's Box tutorial
. These may be either photo or video tutorials.

In return for your commitment, you will receive the entire main kit, as well as two kit add-ons free of charge each month. You will also have the option of purchasing any additional add-ons featured throughout the months you are a DT at a 50% discount.  Design Team Members also
receive a 30% discount in our store.

Here is how to apply:

Please send all applications and attachments to
us. Please include the following:

1. Name, Address, Phone Number

2. Submit 3 layouts or 2 layouts and an altered item  that clearly demonstrates your style. Scraps of Elegance and Scraps of Darkness pride
themselves on having a diverse design team. We want you to be you! Show us your shabby chic, your elegant, your  girly grunge. Whatever style you lean towards is how we want to get to know you..

3. Tell us why you think you would be a good addition to
either the SOD or SOE team.

4. Provide links to blogs and galleries, and any resume you may have.

5. List of all current DT commitments, and please note that our designers may not design for  or  in any way advertise other kit clubs. We have no problem with DT members designing for manufacturers, sketch sites, local stores, etc, but it is counterproductive to have them advertise our competitors.

All submissions must be received by A
pril 15, 2012 and we will have an official public announcement by April 20th!!

Design Team Call!

Scraps of Darkness and Scraps of Elegance kit clubs are looking for designers to add to our talented Design Teams!  

Commitment is important, so we want to be straightforward with what we are looking for.  We
want to see ambitious, outgoing, c
omputer savvy scrappers that share in the same love as we
do.


Thes
e DT positions will start with our May, 2012 kits and end with our October 2012 kits.

This Call is open to both US and International submissions, though International DT Members
will be required to share in the cost of shipping kits to them.

O
ur available positions are as follows:

1. One Designer for our Scraps of Darkness kits (responsibilities as shown below)
2. One Designer for our Scraps of Elegance kits (responsibilities as shown below)
3. One Designer for our Scraps of Elegance kits with alternate requirements - Fewer layouts and no tutorials, with some behind-the scenes responsibilities


1. You must complete a minimum of 5 layouts, cards, or a
ltered items per month and have 4 of them ready to upload by reveal day, which is the 15th of every month for Scraps of Darkness, or the 1st of every month for Scraps of Elegance. Additional layouts/projects should be uploaded prior to the release of the next kit. These layouts need to be placed in the SOD/SOE gallery, blogs, scrapbook.com, and any other public galleries that you participate in.

2. Daily participation on our forum and a daily check in on our Design Team forum, as well as keeping up in the galleries is a must. DT responsibilities, such as posting a Question of The Week
and our Pandora's Box Tutorial, will be rotated amongst our DT members and we would
also like you to start new threads that encourage posting by our members.

3. You must complete at least 2 tutorials within your 6 month DT term,
in addition to your
scheduled Pandora's Box tutorial
. These may be either photo or video tutorials.

In return for your commitment, you will receive the entire main kit, as well as two kit add-ons free of charge each month. You will also have the option of purchasing any additional add-ons featured throughout the months you are a DT at a 50% discount.  Design Team Members also
receive a 30% discount in our store.

Here is how to apply:

Please send all applications and attachments to
us.Please include the following:

1. Name, Address, Phone Number

2. Submit 3 layouts or 2 layouts and an altered item  that clearly demonstrates your style. Scraps of Elegance and Scraps of Darkness pride
themselves on having a diverse design team. We want you to be you! Show us your shabby chic, your elegant, your  girly grunge. Whatever style you lean towards is how we want to get to know you..

3. Tell us why you think you would be a good addition to
either the SOD or SOE team.

4. Provide links to blogs and galleries, and any resume you may have.

5. List of all current DT commitments, and please note that our designers may not design for  or  in any way advertise other kit clubs. We have no problem with DT members designing for manufacturers, sketch sites, local stores, etc, but it is counterproductive to have them advertise our competitors.

All submissions must be received by A
pril 15, 2012 and we will have an official public announcement by April 20th!!

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Needful Things

Our March kit reveal is finally here!

As soon as I saw Graphic 45's new Olde Curiosity Shoppe line, I knew it would be worth waiting for, and I was not wrong!  This line is more gorgeous than the pictures show, and is by far one of my favorites from them, as well as from Winter CHA!

And so we bring you... Needful Things...


We've also included some gorgeous foil papers from SEI's Field Notes collection, and some fabulous embellies to play with... from Fabscraps, ZVA, Maya Road, Shimmerz, and some wonderful hand crafted items.

Stop by our website to see everything you get, as well as the available add ons.

Suepup's created another gorgeous sketch to go with this kit:


Make sure you stop by all of our desigers' blogs to see the beautiful work they've done with this kit, you won't be dissappointed!

Monday, March 19, 2012

Stalker Challenge Winner

The winner for this round (Jan-Mar) for the Stalker Challenge is:
Sonja aka SonjaCGoddess
for her "I Must Go..." lo.
The prompt for this round was to a quote that inspires you, and then bring it to life.  Sonja used her "Winter's Eve" kit for this majestic beauty.  It is a winter wonderland in the photo of her on Mammoth Mtn  and it flows right on to the page with her masked compass and beautiful snowflakes.  The quote Sonja chose was "The mountains are calling and I must go..." by John Muir.  She is a very nature/earthy person and feels very much at home on top of a mountain ready to drop into a run of fresh powder.  Thank you for sharing your passion with us Sonja!  And Congrats!

Sunday, March 18, 2012

February Victoriana Sketch Winner

The winner for this month's sketch challenge is: Colleen aka Scrapnurse
with her page called
"Victoriana Christmas Memory"

This page is just full of gorgeous smiles and tons of vintage beauty.  These sweet girls are Colleen's granddaughters, ages 4 and 6, during this past Christmas holiday.  Colleen highlighted these young beauties wonderfully using the "Victoriana" kit using Suepup's monthly sketch.  The Prima Printery papers, flowers and resistant canvas have come together perfectly, bringing you back to focus on these adorable photos.  Extraordinary job Colleen!  Thank you for wowing us and congrats!

Thursday, March 15, 2012

March kit reveal date

Our March kit reveal will be happening on Saturday, March 24th.

We wanted to bring you some of the newest gorgeousness from Winter CHA, and we also wanted to give our Design Team a little time to work their magic with the kit so that we could give you a full reveal, so we've delayed the public reveal by a few days.

I hope you'll stop back on the 24th, this kit is a beauty you won't want to miss! 

Saturday, March 10, 2012

February Layout of the Month

The layout of the month for February is:

"Memories of Having Fun"
by Amanda aka NYScrapMOM


This page just shines! Amanda used the "Victoriana" kit to show off her maternal grandparents Leo and Marion Smedley. She put a lot of care and time into this creative, vintage beauty and it shows! Each detail stands out, each paper carefully selected and every embellish perfectly placed. The Prima resistant canvas pieces sparkle with the added touch of Stickles. Her handmade ribbon flower is gorgeous with the button from her aunt. The doubled bracket framing really brings the attention to that incredible heritage photo. Outstanding page Amanda! Thank you for dazzling us and congrats!

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Our March Kit is here!

If you looked for it on the first, you might have seen that we decided to delay the reveal of our March kit until today.  We wanted to bring you some gorgeousness from Winter CHA, but that meant later shipping times from many manufacturers, so rather than give you the same things you've been seeing over and over again, we thought we'd just have a little Reveal delay and bring you something new!

Butterfly Dreams


When we saw the new Country Garden Line from Bo Bunny, we just couldn't resist... and we matched it up with some sweet papers from My Mind's Eye's Follow Your Heart collection and lots of fun and unique embellies to bring a little Spring sunshine to your layouts!

Last month, we promised a few more kit add ons for March, and we haven't let you down - we're offering 3 new add ons in addition to the Patterned Paper add on:  Coordinating Cardstock, Embellishments, and our exclusive Vintage Finds Add On!

The Patterned Paper, Cardstock, and Embellishment add ons are pretty self explanatory, lol, so I'll leave those alone and let you take a look at them on our website, if you're interested.  I'm pretty excited about the Vintage Finds add on, though, so I'll tell you a little bit about it here:

Each month we will search high and low for vintage and vintage-inspired goodies for you to use with your kit.  This month's Vintage Finds Add On includes 1 vintage photo (an actual vintage photo, not a printed copy - please note because these are original photos, each add on will include a different photo than that shown in the above photo), 1 vintage metal floral embellishment (est. 1960's), 2 vintage handmade lace doilies, 5 vintage lace daisies (est. 1960's), 3 vintage millinery fabric lily of the valley flowers, and 1 yard Venice Lace (new).  And here's what this month's Vintage Finds add on looks like:


We've also got a fabulous new sketch by Suepup to share with you - created especially for our Butterfly Dreams kit, but feel free to use it with any supplies you may have!



And now for my favorite part of Reveal Day... layouts from the beautiful ladies on our Design Team!  And this month it's an extra special treat - we have Patty Rogers guest designing for us!  I thought I'd post one layout from each designer, and let you know that you can see all their gorgeous work on their blogs - you can find the links to all of them in the right column of this blog.

Patty Rogers
Lisa Novogrodski
Renea Harrison
Jennifer Snyder
Karen Zueger

Rachelle Sigurdson
Escape Kitty
Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you Create Something Beautiful Today!

Thursday, March 1, 2012

March Guest Designer and Reveal Date

Our March kit reveal will be happening on March 7th.

We wanted to bring you some of the newest beauty from Winter CHA, and we also wanted to give our Design Team a little time to do their magic with the kit so that we could give you a full reveal.

We didn't want to delay this announcement, though - our March Guest Designer!

We are so happy and honored to have Patty Rogers guest designing with us this month.  You may also know Patty by her "online" name - Asassyscrapper. 


I just love Patty's style, her layouts are always gorgeous!  If you'd like to check out her work, here's a link to her blog:  A Sassy Scrapper.  We're so excited to see what Patty will do with our March kit!


So mark your calenders to stop back on March 7 to see our newest kit and the beautiful work Patty and all the other ladies on our Design Team do with it!