Happy New Year

May your New Year be blessed in every way that matters most!

To help you celebrate the moment here is a ready done page in PNG format for you. Simply add your photo, journalling and other embellishments as you wish!


Visit our store for this freebie, but be quick it will be gone by January 10th!

Merry Christmas from ScrapStreet

and a very Happy and Peaceful New Year to you all. As promised here is a little treat for you at Christmas. Here are 6 plastic digi tiles in PNG format with vintage christmas scenes on. Use them on your last minute cards, gift tags, print them onto fabric or sticky labels or just pop them onto your layouts.



You can get them here. We hope you enjoy them and stay tuned to the blog as there may be a little New Year surprise as well!

Winter Wishes

...for you all now we are in the chillier months of what remains of the year. With Christmas to look forward to, our free digital kit this month is ideal! A kit with some soft and gentle colors and a dash of Christmas and winter cheer. With 14 papers and a bundle of elements, this kit will keep your winter evenings occupied scrapping or making cards?

You can get your copy here in our store
Here are some more layouts and a card from our Creative Artist Team and guests.

Jane has scrapped a family tradition of taking photos in front of the fire with stockings hanging up.

Terri has scrapped a heartwarming remembrance photo of her mother and herself at church for Christmas 2004 .

I did a little greeting card that you could print out ready done onto card or print the papers and elements in stages and make your card the paper way with glue and scrappy bits!

Don't forget to check out what else we have in store for you...... and check the blog later this month for a little treat for you for Christmas!

The Thankful Season

Is upon us.... even if you do not have reason to celebrate Thanksgiving, there is always some reason to be grateful and give thanks. Our designer Rachness is taking a break from designing and is leaving us with this beautiful kit Thankful. With soft and almost retro colors, it will lend grace and style to your layouts.

You can get your copy here in our store

Don't forget to check out what else we have in store for you........ and Happy Thanksgiving!

October Rose

Welcome to the month of October... a month full of excitement as we head into Fall in the Northern Hemisphere. Pumpkins, hay rides and trick or treat time. Jorinde Designs has created this month's free kit.

Based on warm and mellow colors it will go beautifully with your autumn photos and the roses give it a touch of nostalgic romance.

You can get your copy here in our store

Here are some more layouts to inspire you. See our others in Pixel Place in the October ScrapStreet Magazine or in the Creative Team Gallery.

Caitlyn by Terry McAuliffe

MacKenna by Lindsey Krauss

Coming Soon @ Scrapstreet - GWENIFER

A new release is coming to Scrapstreets store!! GWENIFER!
by Jopke Designs

A beautiful kit in soft 'off-white' and sepia color tones!

Includes 20 papers and 45 elements!

Coming Soon DOOLISH

A great set of 4 overlays by Jopke Designs. Soon available at Scrapstreet.com!

Coming Soon RHOSLYN

Rhoslyn includes 12 papers and 34 elements.

COMING SOON @ www.scrapstreet.com

A Timely Reminder

To ensure you get your copy of Teacher's Pet by Sue Wood Designs at ScrapStreet. Our free kit for September is ideal for back to school layouts as seen here with Day 1 by ScrapStreet's Dora Phillips.



You can get your copy here in our store

NEW RELEASE - TUCSON - coming soon!

A new release coming soon!

A great set of 14 clipping masks called TUCSON, which is an origin Spanish name that means 'Black base'.

GREAT stuff for clipping your photos or papers.

Coming soon at Scrapstreet!!!!

Back To School

September already.... now is the time to find yourself a quiet moment during the day to scrap, whilst the kids or grandkids are at school. What could be better than a new and free digital kit to record school days, after school activities and just plain old having fun times?

Sue Wood Designs has done the ScrapStreet free kit this month with a lovely mix of textured and patterned papers and some elements with a school/learning theme and a cute alphabet. In retro shades of teal, and some primary colors, this is a fun kit.

Be sure to get your copy of this kit in our store this month, before it disappears from the free section!

NEW RELEASE - AMORA QUICK PAGE ALBUM 2

Here it is! Part 2 of the AMORA QUICK PAGE ALBUMS which makes this series complete. The complete album (part 1 and 2) give you a total of 50 quick pages with a front- and backcover! Just perfect for your wedding pictures, or engagement pictures and well, even baby photos suit very well in this album!

Take a look at a sample of the complete album HERE!

AVAILABLE NOW at SCRAPSTREET!

Print those cards!

Cards for Heroes is a non-profit organization that supports our nation's Armed Forces by sending blank, hand-made cards overseas for our soldiers to write home on, as well as, cards of gratitude to encourage them.

ScrapStreet is running our second annual card drive. We have a goal of 1000 cards this year to make the lives of our soldiers and their families just a little brighter. At the end of three weeks of challenges, we will all ship our cards into our leader--and military wife--Bri.

Today our first special Wednesday Guest:

Karen Russell, a military wife herself, has recently stepped back from teaching scrapbooking classes and designing scrapbooking products to focus on teaching photography classes full time. She has offered this AMAZING prize to one lucky winner in today’s challenge at ScrapStreet's Cards For Heroes contest:

a seat in her next photography class!!!!!

If you have not read anything about this class or seen the amazing photos that come OUT of this class, you need to check it out here: Snapshots of a Good Life.

So head on over to Karen’s blog and get involved in the challenge!!!! You will have from now until Sunday, August 16th at midnight to submit your cards!!! You may upload your creations to the CFH Gallery here.

Freebie Time

Hi once again! We have all been busy with vacations and relaxing with family and friends, some of us still are as we enter August. A new month means a new free kit for you and we have a lovely one this month, a collaboration by European designers Handmaid Designs and Jorinde Designs!

Called The Shoreline, it is full of soft colors and textured papers evocative of the beach and grassy dunes. It is just perfect for your vacation and outdoor photos. You can see what our Creative Artists did with the kit here in our Magazine

We also have another digital treat for you this month from Janneke Smit! A lace paper overlay as seen in the ScrapStreet Magazine .

Be sure to get your copy of these lovely freebies in our store this month!

SALE AND RETIREMENT - Jopke Designs

SALE AND RETIREMENT!

Be sure to grab my products while you can! Some products in my store are on sale as they are due for retirement. More than 50%, well even more than 60% of! You can get the About Life word art serie, for just $1.00, or the complete Forever kit for no more than $2,00!!!! And there is more! So check it out and grab these sales before August 30th! Don't forget the FREEBIES as they will retire too!

Visit my store at Scrapstreet here!

Get Yourself Framed

We are spoiling you this month, just in time for the festive weekend in the States! We have another freebie for you kindly created by Brianne, the author of the Crossroads Café article in our ScrapStreet Magazine.



Framed contains 3 PNG format frames and a photo Mask for your scrapping. Take a peek at the article here and see how you can jazz up your photos hybrid style!

To get your free copy just register in store (if you haven't already) and go to the freebie section! There is lots in there to get you scrapping!

July Free Digital Kit - Old Glories

Welcome to our blog for July! We have another brand new digital kit for you this month - in typical Americana colors. Ready for you to scrap those parades and festivities this month.

Called Old Glories by Handmaid Designs it is only free this month so do not delay getting your copy!

Make sure to get your copy here and check out our other goodies whilst you are there!

Freebie - In Over My head

Well I finally got around to doing a freebie for you and getting it on the blog! This is NOT a quick page, but a Page Set. It has a background and a ready done frame cluster for you so you can choose where to position it and whether to add more or less to the background.

This is from my soon to be in store kit called In Over My Head. Ideal for those teens with all their angst or just for fun summer scrapping of the kids! There is an element pack with 30 fun embellishments and a paper pack with 12 vibrant and funky backgrounds.

Paper Pack

Element Pack

and the Page Set

Get your copy here for a week or so and don't forget to have a peek in store this week. Have fun scrapping!

June Free Kit

Welcome to June, month of summer fun in the northern hemisphere! We have a fun and versatile kit for you this month from Dora's Designs. Called garden Grow it is a sunny and outdoors kind of kit just right for scrapping all those garden and outdoor moments.


Make sure you get your copy in store today!

New Release - MAYFLOWER

I'd like to introduce to you my latest release. MAYFLOWER !!
A full kit in fresh and summery colors with lots of elements. Have fun scrapping!
Mayflower is available HERE at Scrapstreet!

Test Your Color Savvy

Think you have an eye for color? Take the test here.

May Free Kit

Our team of designers Jorinde and Helen of Swissaroo have created the beautiful free kit for May. Called Life's Journey, the colours are greens, pinks and browns with map overlays and continent masks and beautiful word art.



Make sure of your copy now and pop into our store

NSD sale, challenges and a freebie

Yes it is National (or International!) ScrapBooking day and we are celebrating at ScrapStreet. Come and join in our week long challenges in NSD Fun on the Boards and earn yourself tickets that will be put into a basket and if you get drawn out you can win - paper, hybrid or digital scrappers are welcome. The more challenges, the more tickets, the more chances!

I have a week long sale in my store at 35% discount so grab a bargain and get scrapping.

Not forgetting a little freebie for you to celebrate:



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Spring has Sprung

Well it has at ScrapStreet, with lots of new products in store! Here are a couple more new kits making their debut.

Isabella is a kit from Sue Wood Designs, soft, pretty and romantic, just right for spring!



This kit has a pack of 17 subtle shaded pastel (almost white) pages in patterns, plains with loads of textures and 'feel'. All to coordinate with the lacy and sheer flowers and ribbons and mats to embellish your spring layouts. Soft and pretty with a touch of gentle grunge for a slight antiqued look.

You will love this kit for all kinds of layouts including masculine layouts, as the papers have a neutral texture that can be used with the plainer embellishments that are contained in the kit.

Handmaid Designs also has a spring kit out called A Touch Of Spring.



A gentle and softly coloured kit to welcome the Spring. With beautifully textured and patterned papers, wrap yourself in the scents and sights of spring flowers and foliage. With an interesting and varied mix of elements including some original hand drawn birds and some sweet treats for scrapping those Easter or birthday pics, there is plenty to scrap with. Comes with a S4O friendly license.

So make sure you pop into our store and see all the new goodies to play with!

New Release - THE BENJAMIN PARTY

A fun and cheerful kit to celebrate every birthday or party, especially those of your kids! The Benjamin Party includes: 12 bright colored papers with texture and pattern - 12x12" saved as .jpg files at 300 ppi, a cube alpha - a/z and 0/9, 4 balloons, 1 element of balloons, a yammie little cake, 4 candles, 3 clothing pins, 1 element of party decoration, 2 elements of confetti, 6 different frames, 5 garlands, 4 presents, 4 kites, 4 party hats, 4 ribbons with bow, 1 set of staples. No drop shadows used and all elements saved as .png files at 300 ppi. Preview does not show all.

Happy Easter

From all of us at the ScrapStreet blog we hope you have a happy, fun and safe Easter. To celebrate here is a little freebie for you... some Easter Treats you can use digitally or to print out and make cards or decorations.

Please note that these will only be free until Tuesday, so be sure to get them today. Sorry link expired.

ScrapStreet Magazine and Freebie

Another month and a new magazine (ezine) for us at ScrapStreet. You can find April's magazine here along with previous issues. Full of interesting and inspirational articles and layouts, cards and other projects, you will want a couple of quiet hours with coffee and snacks to read through them!

Not only do we have the magazine for you each month, but we have a free digital scrapbook kit from one of our designers. Our creative artist team post their layouts using the kit in Pixel Place each month just to inspire you.

Jopke has supplied the kit this month, simply called April. Make sure you pop into our ScrapStreet Store to get your copy while it is free this month.

LOVE POEM - New Release!

This set of grungy and distressed word art includes: 7 word arts that have everything to do with love as they are love poems and journaling like text, 2 different drawn hearts and 2 elements of lines and grids. All saved as .png files at 300 ppi and also saved as .abr file for you to use them as brushes. Have fun scrapping!

Looking for new digital scrap talent!!!

Hi everybody,
I am looking for new digital scrap talent to help me promote my products.You can find my products in the Scrapstreet.com store. http://www.scrapstreet.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&manufacturers_id=34&zenid=21d760cd8120e5018f814fae4ebdd8ab In in the next few weeks I am planning to finish a lot of hot new products and I am looking for people who would like to help me promote them.So if you are interested to join my creative team, please contact me at: jorinde@digitop3.com

QUICK STEP SERIES VOL. 1

Just to make things easy for you, I have a fun quick page which you can use for your captured memories. But... if you want to be creative, the hear element, the word art and the frame are included, so you can go ahead and make your own design. COMING SOON at Scrapstreet!

Freebie Add On for Springs A Poppin

Click image for closer look

Here's a few add-on elements for my new kit, "Spring's A Poppin" that you can pick up here.
The kit is ready to buy at Scrap Street.

Little Toes

Spring, the time of year when thoughts turn to new green shoots appearing and little lambs gambolling in the fields (well they do in England and to some extent here in France!). Everything appears new and fresh and here at ScrapStreet it is no exception - we have a new member born last week.

So to celebrate we have some Quick Pages (ready done digital pages) from a new kit coming out soon called Little Toes. Just download and pop your picture of your special little ones in the frame and print!

You can get your copy here

Congratulations and an opportunity

To Roper for leaving some love on our blog. I have sent you a $5 voucher to my ScrapStreet store as a thank you!

I will have a little freebie for next week, so make sure you check back often!

In the meantime ScrapStreet are looking for a couple of Creative Artists

So if you are a digi scrapper and want to use our ScrapStreet designer kits for free, send some details to me with a link to your digi gallery (any gallery is OK) at katey@scrapstreet.com.

Apologies and Freebies

Oops! I have been a bad blogger! I was supposed to post here earlier this month, but I had to go visit parents. Their pc is decrepit! It was as much as I could do to check emails!

So to make up for that I have a freebie for you - two if you haven't already downloaded our ScrapStreet February freebie kit. Called Truly, Madly, Deeply it is a yummy kit full of heart warming colours, patterns and textures for the papers, and novel elements with some word art.

Get your copy here free from the store (plenty of other freebies as well) and take time to browse about, you might find something you want to scrap with!

The other freebie is a little addon to Truly, Madly Deeply, with 3 papers and 4 elements. Something to finish up those valentine's layouts or to reduce in size and print out for card making!

Get your copy here and maybe leave a little love here - you might get a surprise!

Create Pantone's Spring Fashion Colors Swatch

Pantone's fashion color palette for Spring '09 would translate so well in Digital Scrapping, don't you think? Use your eye dropper tool in Photoshop to create a swatch from the colors above. Be sure to click on the image for a larger image.

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Each season, Pantone surveys designers showing at New York Fashion Week to collect feedback on prominent collection colors, color inspiration, color philosophy and each designer's signature shade. The result is the Pantone Fashion Color Report, which this season reveals a colorful, optimistic Spring 2009 filled with vibrant pops of color set against deeper, translucent neutral tones.

Blue & purple lead the top 10 hues for spring '09, rounded out by lush greens which evoke a sense of renewal and a fresh start. Sophisticated neutrals ground the overall palette, providing visual stability in an economic climate that is anything. "New York's fashion designers encourage hopeful attitudes with lively colors, while sophisticated, grounded hues address the need for stability in times of economic uncertainty," explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute.

The Top 10 Spring 2009 colors for women are:

PANTONE 18-4043 Palace Blue 

PANTONE 15-3817 Lavender

PANTONE 14-0754 Super Lemon 

PANTONE 15-1626 Salmon Rose

PANTONE 18-2328 Fuchsia Red

PANTONE 14-1307 Rose Dust

PANTONE 16-5804 Slate Gray

PANTONE 16-6339 Vibrant Green

PANTONE 16-0435 Dark Citron

PANTONE 14-5714 Lucite Green

source:

http://www.fashiontribes.typepad.com/

Just wanting to celebrate a bit of Life, so much doom and gloom within the world, but have you ever stopped, stopped and watched in silence the world around you? What wonder is there in what you view right now? Take a minute or two to observe, really listen, then think about what we see in that snapshot of life.

This morning, as usual I was washing the dishes, looking out the window, which faces our courtyard and where there is a bird table, and I stopped as I always do to look at what birds were there .

The collection of different species of birds that have been there within the last 24 hours was more than I have ever noticed before. I have recently been putting out sunflower hearts as well as bread scraps, oats wheat and lentils and peas all of which have devoted fans. Now a friend advised me about sun flower hearts and had said if i want to attract gold finches then put out sunflower hearts.I have had such a fantastic array of little feathered friends come visit

Green finches,

goldfinches,

nuthatches

great tits,

coaltits,

A pair of goldfinches were doing some kind of courting ritual flying around together, playing hard to get then flying after the mate then doing the most amazing upward twirling flight together I have ever seen.

Bluetits,chaffinch and one singular bullfinch(resting on my budding cherrytree) pied wagtail, robins and numerous small brown birds I don't know the name of and call sparrows.

this is just a list of the small birds that have graced the table within the lastperiod of time of putting out food.

Three blackbirds 2male 1 female have been claiming territorial rights, starlings by the pack have descended and flown to call their pals back for a feast. A pair of collared doves have perched themselves very precariously on the roof of the bird house atop the table. and from time to time a jay has been seen bobbing in and out of the branches behind the wall.

All ducked low as a Magpie swooped in low, he soon lost interest and moved on..

I stopped and listened and the birdsong was like an amazing conversation of delight , satisfaction and warnings. I moved as I wiped the dishes just now and well I just broke that magic spell and they all went their way, until later.

Just some pleasures in life can be so simple, don't you agree??

We Interrupt This Program....

...to bring you the following non-scrapbook related message...

This is a fun website where you can preview a new movie called "Coraline" and make cool things like 'Button Your Eyes' from your own photo or construct vintage-style seed packs. You can download, print, or publish your creations.
Definitely worth a look and a great time waster! Go here to visit this website. Navigate to the Garden to construct your Seed Packet or you can go to Other Mother Workshop to Button your Eyes.