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It's (inter)National Scrapbooking Day (err... weekend) at last! Our favorite time of year! Scrapbook-Elements is celebrating for 4 whole days starting Friday May 1st with awesome sales and fun challenges. To add to the festivities, Kimmi Stewart, Rina Kroes and the Muses of their Royal Court have banded together to bring you this mini Blog Train with oodles of FREE gifts. All aboard! Woo-woo! We know everyone's PayPal account will feel the effects of NSD shopping this weekend, so we want to spoil you a bit with some tantalizing treats that don't cost you anything. You can start at any of the stations you like - you'll find a list of blogs at the bottom of this post. At each station you will discover a small gift created just for YOU by the extremely talented and generous ladies of the Royal Court - thank you, Muses! Here's a look at the freebie you will find here on this blog: You can download it at either of these links: ****SORRY-NO LON

{inter}National Scrapbooking Day 2009 Join us at SBE May 1st through May 4th as we celebrate our love of scrapbooking and keeping our family memories. Many of the designers will have their stores on sale with discounts ranging from 25-40%. All sale prices will be clearly shown in the store. We also have filled our Doorbusters section with a fabulous selection of new items as well as some old favorites priced at $1 or $2. We also have a great Grab Bag being offered that is stuffed with lots of goodies. SBE Creative Team members have been busy creating some great challenges and activities for this special weekend with some must-have posting gifts and prizes. Some of the challenge details are below. Stop by our NSD challenge forum to learn about the rest of our challenges and to join in the fun!

How do you like my new look? Isn't it just the cutest thing ever! I was lucky enough to won a Blog Make-Over by Lorilei Murphy . She has her creative little fingers in so many pies, and has even opened up her own little store. Just click on her name above to visit her website. While there, don't forget to leave her a little love, and mention to her that you saw my pretty make-over! I am just tickled-to-death with it! I am still battling this bronchitis, asthma, allergy, what-ever-the-heck I have had for the last couple of weeks, and just not up to par yet but I have made a few pages that I wanted to share with you tonight. I am so in love with the Joyful Awakening Collection by Rina Kroes ! I created this page with my son Nicholas' youngest daughter who just recently turned six years old! She celebrated with a Sweet N Sassy Salon Party, complete with a manicure, a pedicure, karoke!. I used Rina's Joyful Awakening Danglement Frame Cluster . For additional

I just love Rina's Scripture Challenges at Scrapbook Elements! PART ONE: THE CHALLENGE 1. Every Sunday morning you will receive your challenge HERE in the Scriptures Challenge forum thread (under "Weekly Challenges"). 2. Each month the challenge will have a specific theme , with weekly scriptures and posting gifts related to that theme. For example, with February being the traditional month for Valentine’s Day our theme will be centered on the theme of “love” from a Biblical perspective. 3. You will be given a link in the forum thread to download the FREE scripture word art created by Rina. 4. Use that week’s word art and ANY SBE product (including store items, newsletter gifts or past challenge gifts) to create your submission, which can be whatever your heart calls you to create: a special layout, a bookmark, greeting card, calendar page, memory verse card, etc. 5. To be fair to all participants and challenges hostesses, we would prefer that you not combin

I have won some wonderful prizes lately!!! Lorie Davison from Scrapbook Graphics was A Featured Designer in one of the last issues of The Daily Scrapper and as such, 4 lucky winners won their choice of Lorie's kits in the Lucky Draw Collection. I was fortunate enough to have won Lorie's Flitting Fall Faeries Collection with Everything In It It is such an awesome kit and I finally got the chance to play with it a little. I created this page for the SBG Scene It! Challenge . My Granddaughter is now six years old and she loves tea parties so she will be pleased with this cute page. And thank you very much Lorie for the wonderful collection! I entered a blog challenge at Enchanted Studio Scraps in which I created a scraplift of Spring In Your Step by A+ Designs .; I won the challenge! For my scraplift I used Flutter My Heart by Bonnie Van Esch Designs , Aged Photo Frames by Rina Kroes and Syrin's Silver Shimmer . Below is my winning page, and you can click on the image

I know I say this every time Rina releases a new collection but I do mean it every time!!!! I adore the lovely pastels and embellishments in the Joyful Awakening Collection by Rina Kroes!! Just check out them out!!!! And join Rina's Scripture Challenge at Scrapbook-Elements this week to receive this beautiful coordinating word art! And of course the Muses have some coordinating freebies as well! Kabra has created a beautiful QP you can grab at Rina's Blog HERE The Royal Court has created some lovely inspiration you can check out there as well! Muse Lorilei has a beautiful cluster you can obtain at her site HERE And I Created this QP to share with you ***SORRY-NO LONGER AVAILABLE*** Please don't forget to leave us all a little love when you download these wonderful freebies. Enjoy and have a Great Week!

Peter the Cottontail has a lil helper at Scrapbook-Elements! Hoppy Easter Bunny will be hippity-hopping down the bunny trail leaving eggs filled with goodies to fill your baskets along the way!! Make sure to stop by SBE!

I don't have time to blog as usual today and I am so afraid I will not find time to get back before Monday but I could not let the weekend go by without wishing each of you a very pleasant holiday weekend! And to scrap all your goodies, check out the new Easter Theme kits in the SBE Store. Here are the new Easter products from Kimmi and Cathy. Just click on the images to go to store and HERE'S a little goodie for your basket! ***SORRY-NO LONGER AVAILABLE*** Happy Easter!

I had a wonderful time at the Scrapbook-Elements 5th Anniversary Celebration last week. I was busy all week participating in the fun challenges (I did not miss a single one this time!) and "met" several new friends whom I look forward to seeing more often in the forum there. It has gotten me in the mood for NSD - National Scrapbooking Day, which will be during the first of May, so I must really start saving my pennies for that big event in the digi-scrapping communities! I am looking forward to this week for tonight is the last night of the NCAA Basketball!!! Hooray! This week I can have the TV and watch my favorite shows so I am going to offer you a little freebie today in celebration. It is a QuickPage adapted from a layout I posted today featuring Charming Day Mini Kit by Kimberly Stewart The download link will be at the end of this post. Another member of The Royal Court, Muse Lor has a treat for you as well featuring Sweet Delights by Rina Kroes . Just click

In 1986, Defense Secretary Caspar Weingberger designated April as Month of the Military Child, a time when each branch of the military service recognizes the sacrifices made by the children of parents who are serving our country. During April, military bases around the world will honor these young American heroes with special events just for them. You don't have to have a family member serving in the military to get involved. Here are two websites with information and ideas on how we can all say thanks to our military and their families: Month of the Military Child was created by a partnership between The American Legion Auxiliary and Connect And Join. Here, educators can find ideas on ways to recognize and pay tribute to military children through the use of arts and crafts. America Supports You was created by the Department of Defense to give citizens the opportunity to express support for our troops and their families. You can send an encouraging email and find links to you