Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Happy Birthday/Anniversary Scrap~tures!!!

Welcome to a brand new year!

January 2011 is a special month here at Scrap~tures – we’re one year old! Thanks to your support and participation we’ve had a great first year and want to show our gratitude by celebrating all month long with games, prizes, a blog hop, AVATAR challenges (on the forum) and lots of inspiration and fun!!

We have been working hard behind the scenes to provide inspirational challenges, based on “traditional” anniversary gift lists, to run all month long and for every one that you do (and post in the particular challenge thread AND note in your “birthday book” (master challenge list thread) you will receive candles! Yes, that’s right, for every challenge you complete, you will receive a little candle blinkie to put in your siggie line! How fun (and cute) is that?


We would love for you to join our forums so you too can participate in all the fun! If you would rather not, but want to participate too, I will be posting each challenge here , along with Mr Linky so you can upload a link for us to see. I will be providing a special prize for those that participate through the blog only!


AND!! if that isn’t enough, we’re going to have an ANNIVERSARY CROP the weekend of January 21, 22 and 23 so mark your calendars and invite your friends! The crop challenges will start with an early bird challenge (you’ll love it, I guarantee it ;-) ) on Friday at noon and go all weekend long.


This same weekend, we'll be having our Anniversary/Birthday blog hop so if you are interested in being part of the hop, send me an email at steeles4u@aol.com so I can add you to the list and send out the details prior to the hop! There will be a prize given to one of the participants in the hop as well, selected by random draw!

The crop will give you many opportunities to gather more candles for your birthday book. Not to worry though, at the end of the month, we’ll give you some time to “catch your breath” and catch up with more candles if you want!! The only way to be eligible for the amazing prizes offered at Scrap~tures is to join the forum and earn 'candles' The prizes being offered here are separate from the ones being offered on the forum.

February 1, we will announce our Anniversary Prize Winners! Yes plural!! There will be a grand prize and two runner-up prizes for the month that are based on how many points you have. REMINDER: Points are the candle blinkies that you’ve added to your siggie line AND noted in your birthday master list book. Don’t worry, the blinkies are fairly small so as not to take up too much space but here is what it looks like...

Come to the party and be ready to meet some “old” friends of ours who are celebrating with us this month and some of you will be surprised I'm sure by "who" you see....

Questions? Fire away or get out your adhesive and be ready to play the winter away!!

NOTE: We realize that we’ve used the words ANNIVERSARY and BIRTHDAY inter-changeably in this letter, but just know that whatever you call it, it’s all going to be FUN!

Monday, December 13, 2010

2 For Tuesday Special - December 14, 2010

Today only if you purchase a scrapbook kit or card kit subscription, you receive a SACT/PageMaps 2011 Calendar FREE!!
Don't forget that now is a perfect time to subscribe to our kits and here is why...

We have lots of exciting things happening in January and to kick it off we are having a HUGE Kit Subscriber Promotion

Starting in January, kit subscriptions will be for 6 months rather than a year. Here at Scrap~tures, we realize how hard it can be to commit to something for an entire year and want to make things easier on you! If you sign up for a kit subscription this month to start with the January kit, you will get your 7th month kit FREE!

But wait!! That's not all!

As a bonus for signing up for a kit subscription, you will receive a 25% discount on any items that will fit in your first month's pizza box!

HOW COOL IS THAT?!

Don't forget that you will also receive for FREE for as long as you are a subcriber, every issue of Scrapbook and Cards Today Magazine!


Also commencing in January, there will be changes to taxes and shipping...

As of January 1st we are no longer charging taxes on any store or kit purchases

Unfortunately though, we have no choice but to increase shipping and handling charges. Due to Canada Post rate increases and the implementaion of HST we have to raise our rates as follows...

shipping in Ontario will increase from $8 to $10.
shipping in all other provinces will increase from $10 to $12
and shipping to the USA will increast from $12 to $14

In the end, you are still saving a bit of money with saving the taxes, for example,, an Ontario subscriber currently pays $47.55 per month for their kit, whereas starting in January, will only be paying $45.00.

So now is as good a time as any to finally make the decision to sign up for Scrap~tures kits!!


Saturday, December 11, 2010

December Layout Tag - REVEAL

This month we had two teams doing the tag simultaneously.
TEAM ONE
We started out with this gorgeous layout by Jenn/Wustazwhich was sent to Kelly who created this...


Kelly's layout was then sent to Laura-Lee/DoubleL who did this..

LL's layout was then sent to Donna who did this..

Donna's layout was sent to Denise who created this..
Denise's layout was then sent to Shannon/VaryScrappy who did this..

and finally for team 1, Shanon's layout was sent to Laurie/Wally who created this.
TEAM 2
Team 2 also started with this wonderful layout by Jenn/Wustaz
which was sent to JennS who created this..

Jenn's layout was then sent to Darla/Dot who did this

Dot's layout was then sent to Crista who created this

Crista's layout was then sent to Chelle who did this..

Chelle's layout was then sent to Ellen who created this..and I must mention that Ellen is a cardmaker not a scrapbooker(her words not mine) and I think she's done an amazing job!!
Ellen's layout was then sent to Ruby/InspiredScrapper who created this.



You ladies did an amazing job as usual. It was fun to have two teams going and to see the different creations and styles!
Great job..well done!!!