Silhouette Club Crop!

If you haven't yet heard the buzz, Silhouette Club is our team of ultra savvy Silhouette extraordinaries! Join the club to participate in fun projects while at the same time learning the best user techniques, tips, and tricks for your Silhouette usage. If you are frustrated and needing help, or just curious as to what the Silhouette is all about...this is the club for you!

To share the excitment, the Silhouette club will be hosting a free crop Sunday, March 22nd from 11am-5pm. You do not need to be a member of Silhouette club to participate. Just bring your crop supplies and head on down. Club instructors will be on hand all day to give demo's, and answer any questions you may have. Don't forget to ask how joining Silhouette club can benefit you. Hope to see you there!

Get your designs published...

Here are some tips we gathered in the blog world about how to get your layouts, cards, projects, and more published. Let your beautiful work be seen! You deserve to feel like a star for all your hard work. :) If you do get published be sure to let us know so we can share in your excitement!

• Creating Keepsakes
• Simple Scrapbooks
• Paper Crafts
• Digital Scrapbooking

To submit to any magazine listed above email your designs to: simplesubmissions@gmail.com

• Scrapbook Trends

Email to submissions@scrapbooktrendsmag.com

Here are some helpful tips to remember:

1. Include your name, email, phone number, and links to any of your blogs or online galleries with your submission. They will need to easily contact you if, and when you are chosen.

2. Include detailed instructions with your submission.

3. List all products and even tools used for your project. This is a publication must!

4. To send to multiple magazines at once with out the addresses viewable to the reader, add additional addresses to the BCC field of your email.

5. Check out publishing sites to see exactly what type of themes and projects they are currently looking for.

6. Don't get discouraged! Publishers usually keep your layouts for up to a year and may want to use it at another time in the future.

7. Keep your project. If a magazine is going to publish your project they will ask you to physically send it to them. This is to prevent publishing at other companies during there preview. Your project will be returned to you the next month.

Good luck to all of you!

March Blog Challenge!!!

For our March Challenge we would like to see what all you creative ladies can do with Bisous Zoo PDQ papers and chipboard. If you haven't grabbed up some of this yummy paper you are missing out! The PDQ papers are artful, bold, exciting and beautiful. Check out this amazing album made by Bisous Designer Sue Hagerman using the PDQ papers, chipboard and more.

Ok ladies, so your challenge is this...Use 2 or more papers of your choice from the Bisous Zoo PDQ line to create a project, card, layout, or anything else you can think up. Contest begins today. Entries must be recieved by Tuesday, March 31st at Midnight. Good luck scrappers! We can't wait to see what you think up.

Be sure to check out the Bisous Zoo website for inspiration at http://www.bisous.biz/main.htm

*For more information refer to the previous Blog Challenge Q&A post.
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Simply Scrapbooks Blog Challenge Q&A...

Simply Scrapbooks is proud to announce our very first Blog Challenge! We will be hosting a Blog Challenge designed to inspire you and all our other readers while giving you the chance to win a fabulous prize package every month! The challenges will be based on a new and exciting designer, line, product, tool, or anything else we can think up to get those creative juices flowing.

Challenge Questions and Answers:

How do I submit my project?
Projects may be submitted in person at the store with name and contact info on the back or by emailing them to iscrapbook@hotmail.com, subject March Challenge. Please try to keep pictures small, around 600px.

How many times can I enter?
Enter as many times and as many projects as you like! We are so pleased to see your designs and will even occasionally ask to use your name and work as inspiration on our site to share with others.

Does my entry have to be a layout?
Any paper crafting project following the challenge guidelines will be acceptable. We want to see all of those beautiful cards, alter-projects, mini-books, layouts, and anything else you can think up.

Do you post all the entries including the monthly winner?
We will absolutely post a slide show of all the monthly entries. As for the monthly challenge winner, they will receive a special write up featuring them and their project.

What will I win?
Monthly Challenge winners will receive an awesome prize package chock full of goodies! Winner of prize package will also include a $20 Simply Scrapbook shopping spree!
(*prize packages are subject to change)

Forward any further questions to iscrapbook@hotmail.com
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Good Luck!!

Scrap Therapy Crop!

Join Simply Scrapbooks for a Scrap Therapy Crop. She who dies with the most scrapbook supplies wins? Not at this crop! Scrapbook addicts are invited to attend a Scrapbook Supply Collectors Anonymous (SSCA) group therapy session. In this lighthearted crop, guests are encouraged to confess their scrapbooking addictions, discover the Scrap Addicts 12x12 Step Program, review the Scrapbook Addicts Checklist, , play the nutty Funny Farm game and Crop the night away. Whether you step it up or scale it down this crop is just what the doctor ordered!!!

Saturday,March 28th
10am-Midnight
$25

Upon confirming your Crop night Appointment, Please bring and optional Doctors Fee of $1.00. Proceeds to benefit the scrapbooker voted to have shared the best purchasing regret confession. Please bring your best "I just had to have it!" scrapbook regret item with you, no matter its size, age, or ugliness.

Scrap Therapy Crop includes a fabulous dinner by Jake's Tex Mex including the perfect therapy...CAKE!!!

*Crop Sponsored By Key Lime Crops