Winners and challenge :)

Happy Monday everyone! :) Hope your week is starting out well! SaraAmarie here with you for today's post. :)

First off, I want to apologize for not getting winners posted sooner for the last challenge! Since we're late and there were just 2 participants this time, I would like to give BOTH of you, Suzyqscraps and clmisener, your choice of item from my store (excluding full collections) please email me with your choice at saraamaries AT yahoo DOT com. I want to thank those that have been participating in the challenges here! Also, I want to encourage anyone that has not, to come and play with us! If you aren't comfortable or would rather not post your layouts in a scrapping gallery, you can upload it to your blog, personal online gallery or other photo hosting sites such as Photobucket and post your link here. We're easy that way! :)

Now for the challenge! Instead of the normal new challenge today, I am just going to point you over to the Recipe Challenge at the Sweet Shoppe that I host once a month. If you use any of my designs along with the recipe, post you layout link here in the comments and one winner will get their choice of 1 item from my store. :) Can't wait to see those layouts!

July Desktop

Thanks to everyone who played Guess the Movie! The winner is: Bobbie! Please contact Sara at saraamaries AT yahoo DOT com for your goodie!

No product release this week, but here a July desktop for you, made with Popsicle Paradise by Sara and Heather Roselli!

(Image is linked)
Enjoy!

New Game and a Freebie for You

Hi everyone! Sam here bringing you a very late Saturday post. I was tied up with my daughter's graduation yesterday, she finished preschool with a dance number, it was the cutest thing! And because of this special event, I thought it would be fun to do a guessing game on movies. Here's a list of movies that involve graduation in one way or another. Can you guess them all? Send your answers by Friday, June 27 to scrappychic AT gmail DOT com and you'll be entered in a random drawing for a goodie (not including collections) of your choice by Sara! Good luck!

Winner will be announced on Saturday the 28th.

There is no product release this week, but Sara was sweet enought to whip up a freebie for you! You get this very cute and versatile Lotta Board Dots just for stopping by:

Click on the image to download and please leave a comment :)

Mid-week Hybrid Fun

Hey everyone! LuAnn here with some mid-week Hybrid fun! So, the other day I was surfing the net and came across some cute little "lollipop" baby shower favors. They were tealight candles glued to tongue depressors that were wrapped in plastic and tied off with a bow. They were simple and cute but more importantly, they got the creative wheels turning in my head.

Here's what I came up with: Hybrid Flower Favors


These were quick and easy to make and would be cute for a baby shower or wedding favor. I can also see a bunch of these in a flower pot for a gift for your favorite teacher or Sunday school teacher too.

For my flower, I used one of Sara's Foamie Flowers. I clipped the pink paper from Sara's Be Amused kit to the flower. I resized my flower to about 4 inches in size. I decided to add some extra color to the center to my flower - color that would show beyond the edges of the white tealight I am using. See my photo above. I then printed the flower on cardstock and cut it out. (A chipboard flower or an artificial flower is another easy option for this)

Position your flower on the tongue depressor and glue in place. I used my Xyron adhesive runner for this. I used a glue dot to hold the tealight in the clear holder and also one to adhere the tealight to the middle of the flower. For the artificial flower, I used scrapbook glue to glue the candle to the flower and then used glue dots to adhere the flower to the stem.

Finish your flower favor with a piece of white tulle or clear cellophane and ribbon. Add a leaf if desired - either a digital one or an artificial one.

I hope my little flower favor inspires you. If it does, I'd love to see what you come up with!

Jen's Scrap Challenge

Hi, Digiscrappers! Jen here, coming to you with a very late Monday Blog Challenge. Our internet has been down for two days, and I've gone through computer withdrawal! Every time I walked past my Mac, I tried just one more time to see it if I could get online, but always got the same error message. No internet. I really had no idea just how important my email, forums, and online friendships were to me until I couldn't get to them. But, WHOO_HOO, I'm back!! But my 46 hours away has gotten me to thinking...

This week I challenge you to scrap about something that's important to you, be it a person, place or thing. And while your creative juices are flowing, consider this: Highlight one thing that is important to you and include 5 reasons why it is so important (journal, list... be creative!)

When you're done, post your layout. If you use Sara's products to create your layout then you can post it in the gallery at SweetShoppeDesigns. If you aren't comfortable posting your layout at a scrapbook site, then you can just post it on your blog or at a photo hosting site such as PhotoBucket. Then come back here to Sara's blog and post a link to your layout in the comments section of this thread by Sunday night (June 22). One random winner will receive their choice of SaraAmarie product.

So what are you waiting for? Get scrapping!

New Product Saturday *Set Free*

Sam here bringing you another amazing product by Sara. This fabulous kit was inspired by a recent hiking trip and some personal learning, growing, and changing that Sara's been going through lately that has really been freeing! So here's the latest and greatest by Sara, Set Free:

Check out some inspiration from the talented team!

By Becca:

By Juli:

By me:

For a limited time, you can pick up this 10 Things 3X3 Accordion Album with Set Free - absolutely FREE!

Pick it up at the store!

Download this beautiful quickpage made by Meredith Cardall:

Sneak Peek Friday

Hello everyone, Becca here with an awesome sneak peek from SaraAmarie! You don't want to miss out on this amazing kit that will hit the shoppe Saturday, June 14th!
Here is your little peeky:

And because we know you will love this kit so much, we have included a little freebie with the sneak peek!

You can download the freebie here! Enjoy!

(Note: I had to use Savefile to upload the freebie, so it is a little different than 4shared. Just click on the link above and then if you scroll to the bottom you will see a download button, click that and then click past the advertisment. If you don't see that your download has started then look toward the bottom of the page for " Your download should begin shortly. If it does not, try Download file now" and click the download file now. Please let me know if you have any troubles with it! Thanks)