Challenge Spotlight - It's All About Me - hosted by Carol Marion

February is the month of hearts and flowers, so I decided it would be a great time to work on a theme of love. I've found in my genealogy research, lots of wedding photos of various ancesters. In many of them, they didn't dress in white, but in black. Seeing the young faces of my grandparents and g-grandparents, I wonder what they were thinking and how they felt....they looked so young. So----this month we are going to scrap those wedding photos.

Here's how the February crop will work:

1) The Theme is "Timeless Love"

2) The challenge is to scrap a wedding photo or portait and convey either a memory or story or a bit of research that you want to be remembered.

3) This month, the featured kit will be my "Timeless Memories" kit. It is on sale this month at 30% off in my store HERE. (My "Timeless Memories Add-on is the Promo mini-kit for the month of Feb and is free with any $10 purchase in the store)


4) Layouts should be posted in the gallery no later than Feb 26 to receive the posting bonus. If you you post a layout without the featured kit, you will receive a template (that may be used for the next crop), but if you post a layout using the featured kit, you will receive the template AND a special mini-kit created just for this crop.

6) You can still participate in the crop if you are unable to make the chat as this is a month-long crop.

7) I will give out a gift to help out with your layout at the chat.

7) Check out the forum HERE throughout the month for extra info and links.

Have fun this month and see you at the chat on February 2nd. If you have any questions or suggestions, your feedback is always appreciated....email me at ecarla@rogers.com

Project 365 - Week 4 Templates

Pammy Yates has created the templates for the last week of January.
Download yours HERE.
(sorry everyone, link is now fixed!)

Stop in The Scrapping Garden FORUM to see what everybody there is doing with the 365 Project. Join in with us as we see the year through!

Project 365

WOW, so many people are taking advantage of the motivation that Project 365 gives. I thought you might enjoy taking a look at what some of The Scrapping Garden members are posting for this challenge. I really like the LOs below by grammadiane. She's right on schedule with her Week 3 LO, pages 1 &2. The divided page and elements down the middle make these pages pop in the gallery! The kit she used is "Lifetime Friends" by Cheryl McCain.

365 Project - Week 3

Grab your templates for the 365 Project - Week 3, created by Cheryl McCain!!

Get yours HERE.

And don't forget to stop in the Forum and join in on our ever-growing 365 Project!

Challenge Spotlight - Petals of Wisdom

KaKleiDesigns (Karen) will be hosting the Petals of Wisdom challenge from now on, this is her first time hosting a challenge so be patient with her, please. It will last from Jan 10-31.
This is the quote choosen for the challenge, hope you like it!
"People are always telling you that change is a good thing, but what they're really saying is that something that you didn't want to happen just happened." -- You've Got Mail (Karen is a movie fan)
You may use the quote above in your layout and create your own word art or you can use the one Karen created for you. It is in black and white both so you should be able to use it on any type of paper.
The featured kit is Blooming Days Kit for this challenge. It's on sale until Jan 27 for only $3.25- that's 50% off the list price!
Find out all the challenge details in the forum HERE.
Check out KaKleiDesigns store HERE!

Post your layout in the Petals of Wisdom gallery and you will get 1 QP created with KaKleiDesigns' Blooming Days kit. You can see her layouts with this QP:

If you use any of KaKleiDesigns' kits in your layout, you'll get an additional QP, also made from the Blooming Days kit.

Challenge Spotlight - Color Outside the Lines

This should be an exciting as well as a learning challenge. Cheryl will supply a mini kit each month for you to use for your layout, hopefully using unusual colors which will be perfect for any black and white photo. Thus, the challenge name.......color outside the lines - as in stepping out of your comfort zone and using color to showcase your photos!

We will also be learning how to repair the color of your old discolored, yellowed photographs AND how to effectively turn them to great black and white photos using our graphics programs, being able to control the color WITHOUT using "desaturate" or "grey scale", and other techniques for "recreating" our photos.

The challenge will last all month long and everyone that completes it will receive a 2nd mini kit coordinating with the 1st as your posting bonus.

So.............meet Cheryl in the chatroom Thursday, January 8th at 9PM ET to get the password to the "Simply Black 'n White" kit shown below.


Go to the forum HERE to download the kit and review all the details of this challenge. Cheryl will be waiting for you in the chat room Thursday night, to get going with this FUN Challenge.

This month's lesson will be colorizing just part of our photo. You'll want to choose a nice photo where there's an object or even part of the clothing, or anything you want to recolor.

See ya Thursday night!!

365 Project - Week 2

Grab these terrific templates for the 365 Project - Week 2, created by Pammy Yates!!

Get yours HERE.

And don't forget to stop in the Forum and join in on our ever-growing 365 Project!

Challenge Spotlight - Paper Patch Crop

Please join Pammy on Thursday, January 8th at 8PM EST for the Paper Patch Crop!

The featured paper pack, Graduation, is on sale for only $2.00 through January 9 and includes 12 papers and one 12x12 QP. Use the QP or the papers from the kit for your layout and get the elements as a posting bonus!


If you use the kit papers and the freebie elements you'll get during the crop, you'll receive another 12x12 QP for your posting bonus as well as the kit elements. Review all the details of this challenge in the forum HERE.
Here's a preview of your posting bonus - all of the kit elements!

Crop attendance is NOT required to participate in this challenge!

Challenge Spotlight

Please join Pamela Yates in the chatroom on January 6 at 2pm EST the Easy as 1, 2, 3 Crop!
Here's how it works:
You purchase Pammy's featured kit, Agnes, to use to create your layout.



Pammy will be giving out coordinating freebies during the crop.
Post your layout by the deadline of January 31 in the Easy as 1, 2, 3 gallery and you'll get the posting bonus shown below - Pammy'a new Orleta kit, which coordinates with her Agnes kit!



Agnes will be on sale for ONLY $2.75 through January 7 - that's 45% off! Crop attendance is NOT required to participate in the challenge! You can review the details in the forum HERE.

Thanks for looking and Pammy will enjoy "seeing" you at the crop!

Challenge Spotlight

Check out the 2010 Calendar Craziness Challenge! Your hostess for this challenge and chat will be Cheryl McCain. The chat will be held each month on the first Monday @ 9PM EST. That means the first chat is tomorrow! There will be a new challenge each month with the goal of creating your own 8x8 calendar that you'll be able to print out and have bound for the year 2010. Your calendars will make WONDERFUL Christmas gifts and you will be way ahead with your gift projects by participating in this challenge. You can view all the information for the 2010 Calendar Craziness Challenge in the forum HERE.

365 Project - Week 1

Have you heard the BUZZ about the 365 Project? Follow along with us in the 365 Project Forum at TSG HERE.

Download your set of templates for your 1st week of photos and let's complete the 365 Project together!!

Download your templates HERE.

Happy New Year!

Each month of the year 2009, the wonderful designers at The Scrapping Garden will have a great gift for you! You will receive a beautiful desktop calendar for your computer. Below is a preview of January's calendars!




Download the Northern Hemisphere Calendar HERE
Download the Southern Hemisphere Calendar HERE