*NEW KIT* Lighthearted

Hi and happy Saturday! Hope you are having a great weekend!

Just have to show off my newest kit and the awesome layouts my CT has made with it!

Let the cares of your day slip away as you scrap with my new kit Lighthearted. Packed with bright flowery whimsical goodies you will reach for again and again! For a limited time, get the fun coordinating album for free with the purchase of the kit! Find it in the store here!


Check out these fun layouts!
By Meredith Cardall
By Becca:
By uptowngirl:
By Sarah8914:

By Trudem:
By Juli Fish:
Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day! :)

TGIF Game Time!

Happy Friday!! We are continuing our Grand Opening festivities at SaraAmarie's blog with a game today! Figure out the answers to the codes below and win a goodie from Sara's shoppe at SSD. {hint: they are all names of SaraAmaire kits!}. E-mail your answers to tkghansen at gmail dot com by Saturday, May 31st 12:00 am EST.

Thanks for playing!

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Customer Spotlight

Hi everyone! Hope you're enjoying the Grand Opening festivities so far! Sam here bringing you a special post about a huge part of our community - our customers! Where would we be without you? :) To show our appreciation, we'll be going from gallery to gallery, on the lookout for Sara's products, so get those LOs posted! You never know who'll be featured next....it could be you!

Today we bring you Nonnie (nonnie) and her beautiful pages. We asked her a few questions to get to know her better:

1) Tell us a little bit about yourself

I am a military wife who was in the Army for a while - and now a grad student in Anthropology, – (too many Indiana Jones movies as a kid) I am a mom to 3 great kids and family is my everything. I take pictures of everything - I love to capture moments in our amazing lives!!!!

2) How long have you been scrapping? How did you start?

I am actually really new to scrapping – I started last summer when my husband deployed and my computer crashed - I thought I had lost all my pictures and it really affected me – I decided that I need to do more with them then keep them on the computer – so I discovered scrapping – I think that some tutorials from Misty Cato really got me started. :)

3) What program do you use and how did you learn to use it?

I have Photoshop CS3 and I think that I learn new things about it every day ~ I am actually signed up for a class at the local community college this fall to learn more.

4) What is your favorite Sara Amarie product?

I LOVE Natalie – I love the color scheme and I also love Tough n Girlie – It totally fits my 12 year old daughter – and I am working on some layouts with Be Amused.

5) Where do you get the inspiration for your LOs?

Everywhere – other scrappers, ads – but mostly from the pictures – they tell the story.

6) Other hobbies outside of scrapbooking?

My other passion is quilting - I have been quilting for about 10 years and LOVE it – About 2 years ago I started quilting for the families (wives, children and parents) of fallen troops – Operation Home Front Quilters – and I have vowed not to quilt for myself until every family has a quilt – It really hit home when I had to quilt for a friend – as a military wife it is one way that I can say that I understand and I am there with you.

Here's a fun page using Popsicle Paradise:


How about this sweet one using Natalie:

And a fabulous page using Tough n Girlie:

Check out more from Nonnie in her gallery and leave her some love!

*Free* June Desktop

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Hi Everyone! It's Meredith, here to bring you a gift from SaraAmarie and her Creative Team. We have created this adorable computer desktop for you to use for the month of June. This desktop was created using SaraAmarie's newest released kit, Be Amused! This bright kit is perfect for carnivals, boardwalks, festivals, birthdays, amusement parks and so much more! I hope you enjoy your desktop. Be sure to check out the full kit in the store!

And if you love this kit half as much as I do, be sure to pick up the coordinating album, too! If you hurry, you can get the coordinating album FREE when you purchase the kit (good thru 05/31/2008)!


And here are your desktop links! Please remember not to share links or files!

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Are you ready for some fun?!!

Hello everyone! Becca here with a FUN scavenger hunt! Here is how the game works: I have taken 10 items from SaraAmarie's kits/alpha pack and numbered each 1-10. Take a look at the graphic below to see the images of what you are looking for and hunt through SaraAmarie's store to find what kit/alpha pack they belong in. Once you have all the items found then email the correct answers to luvmifrfghtr at aol dot com. I will pick a winner next Tuesday (June 3rd) who will win a fab treat from SaraAmarie!! Don't miss out on the fun!!! Good Luck!!

Grand Opening Challenge - are you up to it???

Hi everyone! Happy Grand Opening!!!! LuAnn here with a challenge guaranteed to get those creative juices flowing! Are you up to it? We all hope so!

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to scrap a layout using only the items Sara has provided here in this preview.

Here are the rules of the challenge:

You can only use the papers and elements in the zip file. You can use all of them or some of them. But no other papers or elements!

No templates either LOL

You may use them as is, recolor them, stack them up, etc.

You can use actions, fonts for journaling, and alphabets for your title but nothing else!

The object is to be creative using only the bits and pieces Sara provided us with. Think outside of the box!! Get the zip file HERE

Here's mine for the challenge:

Credits: Everything by Sara
Alphabet by Shannon Lee

font: Stamp Act Jumbled

So, get scrappin'! and don't forget to come back and post a link to your layout. One random participant will receive a goodie from Sara! Good Luck!

Grand Opening and Be Amused

Be sure to visit us everyday this week for challenges, freebies and games to celebrate the grand opening of this blog! My creative team has lots of fun stuff planned!

Check out my newest kit Be Amused:
Something about summer demands that we amuse ourselves. From the circus to the amusement park, the boardwalk to the cinema, summer is ripe with opportunities to be amused. This bright and whimsical kit by SaraAmarie will help bring those events to life on your scrapbook pages. Packed with gorgeous textures and fantastic shapes, you'll be reaching for this kit over and over again.

Pick it up at the Sweet Shoppe here.

Check out all these awesome layouts my CT made:
AmyB:
Cheltzey:
Becca:
Meredith Cardall:
Uptowngirl:
Juli Fish:
Meredith Cardall:

Raji (rsk):
scrappychick (Sam):
Sarah8914:

Last but not least, here is a little sample of Be Amused- a quickpage made by AmyB.
You can download here.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful weekend, and don't forget to stop by tomorrow to see what fun we have up our sleeves! :)