One Dollar!!

Have you seen what Vera Lim has in her shop for only $1.oo??? Don't miss out... This sale is for a limited time only!

Bella Scrap Magazine $25.00 Prize

So here's the deal...
If you haven't subscribed do! it's a great magazine with excellent downloads and great tutorials and informative articles! Or.. if you haven't yet subscribed maybe you might want to wait until after Monday, because right now Holley VanDenBerg is hosting a give away. Here is the post from Holley's blog:

no fancy graphic. awesome prize.

It's time to award my blog readers with a giveaway. I'd like to give a $25 gift certificate for Bella Scraps MagazineTM to TWO lucky readers. All you need to do is leave a comment here in this post.

If you'd like to earn extra entries you may do so by:
1. Subscribing to my updates (in the right column)--leave a separate comment that you did.
2. Blogging about this giveaway and link me directly--leave a separate comment with link.

So you have 3 chances to win! I'll post the winners on Monday, September 29. Good luck!

Remember that's Holley's blog not mine! LOL... oh... the entire quote is linked to her blog!

FREEBIE

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This groupie coordinates beautifully with the Whispers of Autumn Backgrounds, Embellishments and Quick Page Album

The French...

When I first started digiscrapping a little over four years ago, it was a very small community with a couple mega stores and a couple independants... and just about every community had a place to download freebies! (and the price of a full kit was $3-$4)
Since that time the Mega shops chased off most of the best artists with their contractual demands and private boutiques started springing up all over the web. At this time the availability of freebies or "gifts" became scarce or too difficult to obtain.
Now we have a zillion "e-zines" all with gifts for the subscribers... as well as subscription sites... some of which don't even tell you when there is a new "gift" available (scrapwow).
One of the most unique things I have seen happen is the formation of geographically based groups. We see a lot of this in the US with regard to just about everything from school groups to church groups. First there was the Canadian sites, then the Australian sites and the German sites, then the Brazilian sites.. now I have found a French site!
Don't get me wrong... I think it's great! I just find it odd that nobody tries to create an American site... I say that with tongue in cheek because everyone knows that in the US we would not be allowed to create such a site as it would infringe upon somebodies civil liberties. I just don't understand why it's ok to have the Black actors awards the Latino actors awards the Black music awards the Latino music awards etc etc. when the major awards include ALL groups... heaven forbid someone should try to create the honky music awards LOL...
ah but I regress... the point of this post is to tell you a bout a great French site I found DIGITAL CREA
Not only do they have some very talented designers, they also have some fabulous Freebies! So yesterday I bought one and I accepted one! LOL

This is what I bought...
In The Sea


And this is what I got Free...
My Butterfly


Just to be clear, I didn't HAVE to buy ANYTHING to get the free gift. I just figure I have been doing this long enough that I don't need to go around and collect all the free samples anymore. (many of which aren't worth using anyway.. including my own)But since these are QUALITY gifts I should AT LEAST patronize the shop. BTW both these kits are created by Mimilou Designs

SALE!!!

Add $30 worth of great kits to your cart at Studio Doris, upon checkout, enter Coupon Code: SPRINGFLING30 to receive discount.

Font Freak?

I certainly am.. can't get enough of 'em... that's why I gotta share this: The Dollar Sale at ScrapNfonts is coming to an end. Don't miss your chance to save up to $66% on most of their products! I think ALL their fonts are $1.00 right now!

I'll usually wait and wait before I pay $25.00 for a font and when I do it's because I just can't live without it anymore... Today, I bought 35 fonts... that brings me to a grand total of.. oh.. about a bazillion!

Forget the shoes.. I need fonts!

Um... Ok

Does anybody see a problem with this GREAT DEAL?

2006 Calendar Kit - Horizontal Model: xxxxx-xxx Designed by: Xxxxxx Xxxx Price: $3.25 $1.63 Save: 50% off
If you have ever wanted to design your own calendars, this is the kit for you! Have you created a beautiful calendar background, but you don’t know where to find the numbered calendar grids? You’ve found them, right here!
And calendars are great for gift-giving!
These approximately 10"x 5" calendars are transparent overlays which allow you to use any background color or paper you choose behind your calendars. The font used is a simple, elegant text that leaves plenty of room on each day’s box for you to note important items on your calendars. You can also change the color of the font and the lines of the layout, if you wish.
This kit contains calendars for January 2006-December 2006 PLUS calendars for October, November and December 2005 as a free bonus.

All my years in retail management tell me the time for this sale was 6 months ago, at this point we shouldn't be seing this in the shop taking up valuable vitual shelf space.... time to cut and run on this one! BTW... this appeared to be just the calendar part... no top template to reuse for next year... sigh!

HUGE SALE!

WOW! in case you haven't heard... That's right gals...It's time to shop!!!!!! Everything in Maya's store is 50% off for 24 hours of Madness! Starting on Friday November 17th @ Noon EST to Saturday November 18th @ Noon EST in Studio MAYA www.scrapbookgraphics.com This is a rare deal so if you're a Maya fan... go fill your cart! I'm going right now so come Friday all I have to do is check out!

Whew! Scrap Artist fun!

Working my fat touche (tushy) off trying to finish the album I promised my cousin for her daughter's first year. This one I really want to share; not because it is exceptional (it's not) but because I got to use a Scrap Artist apprentice challenge round 4 product. For those who have been with the bears for the past month or so and those who don't run in digiscrap circles... Scrap Artist wanted to add some new designers to their shop and to make it interesting and draw traffic to the site they held an apprentice contest. (kind of like the Donald only the gals there all have far superior hair styles and the hair on their heads is actually rooted in!) Anyway, there was 4 rounds. In the first three rounds the contestants were given guidelines on something to create. At the end a number of contestants moved on to the next round... and the others... well I know of one who got a position at another shop.... each rounds entries were made available for free download to SA members. Round four, the final round, the last 9 contestants were to create an entire kit. The kits are being offered at the site for $2.00 EACH! WOW! what a steal! Each sale is tallied as a vote. The winner(s) are offered a shop at scrap artist. Turns out I know some of the final contestants... one of which I work with on JoDe Lawrence's (Digitalbits) Creative Team for Altered Scrapping and Scrapbook-Bytes. It's Lisa Dozier! Lisa created this wonderfully bright sanded looking kit that would be great for either traditional style, free style or altered scrapping . Take a peek Now to top it off, Lisa is offering a free add-on kit at her blog as well as a posting bonus! FABULOUS stuff! Go check it out!

Studio Doris Coupon!

Do you love Doris Castle's work as much as I do? Well if you do... here is a coupon for 25% off items from Studio Doris at Scrapbook Graphics



Just in time to buy supplies for all of your holiday gift creations!