Wednesday with lots of freebies

Welcome everyone! A new month and a beautiful new kit on the blog. My Inner Bliss is by Aimee Harrison Designs and was created especially for us as our free kit for March. Aimee is our March Discovery Designer in the GingerScrapStreet magazine, you can find out about her here.


So grab your free copy for this month here or on the sidebar to the right and find your inner spirit while scrapping.

To co-ordinate with Aimee's pretty kit we also have a free alpha for you!


You can find that here for a week. Enjoy and please show us your creations and check out our calls.

WHoooooooo......Loves Sentiments, Owls, and A FREE stamp set??

Yoo--hooo!!! Hi everyone! K Andrew here staff writer for Crossroads Cafe, a regular feature in GingerScrapStreet magazine! I'm also a HUGE cricut blogger and I LOVE anything to do with the cricut and paper crafting!
psssst.....Did I also mention I absolutely LOVE owls?!

In fact, my entire craft room is decorated with these wonderful birds, and I love to make lots of owl projects.
See a pic of my room above--hoot-a-licious!

Hoooo-Ray...you can imagine my excitement when I saw these sentiment stamps from My Pink Stamper called Tweetie Hoo Puns. I ordered these adorable sentiment stamps from Memory Miser.
Whooo gives a Hoot..... Have a hard time finding the right sentiment? If so, do I have a great treat for you!
I find these sentiment stamps are often a great springboard for my projects! Most of the stamps match cricut cartridges--so it's foolproof--something I really appreciate as a mother of two busy little boys!

WHOOOOOO loves a **GIVEAWAY**??????
 I love these stamps so much that I would love to give one of you a set of  Tweetie Hoo Puns, shown above. Just leave me a comment about how you would use these stamps! I'll draw a winner Thursday on March 3'rd...I'll announce it on my blog so make sure you pop by my blog Getting Cricky to find out if you won Thursday!

Whooo would like to be published in GingerScrapStreet's May Edition???????
I wanted to share a few of my Owl projects with you, and then invite you to submit your Owl projects to me. Did you know I'm having a Submission Call right now featuring OWLS for the May edition?? Just email me your "Owlish' project to kristalstamper@yahoo.com as soon as possible!

Thank-hoooo for joining our "owlsome" blog today and everyone here at ScrapStreet hopes you have a Scrappy Hoot-a-riffic Day!
We would LOVE for you to follow the ScrapStreet blog--making our scrappy hearts complete!

Big Owl Hoots & Smooches from your favorite "Cricky Girl",

K Andrew of Getting Cricky

Visit my blog for more Cricut and Owl foolishness!

Feeling Zen?

I am feeling all calm, cool, and collected after scrapping with the new March free kit from talented designer Aimee Harrison.  Ok, so the cool part may also come from the freezing temps outside today.  Even though my world is still snow covered, I know that by the end of March, I will see the first hints of a green spring just like the soft greens in Inner Bliss.  Scrapping with this kit is like an afternoon at the spa--soothing!  You can download it free all month long.  Thanks Aimee!

 

Downloads {elements}  {papers}   {papers2}

Please understand that this kit is for you to download and enjoy.  As with all of our freebies, you may NOT upload them and post them in any other location.  I know it seems horrible that I have to type this, but our site is being pirated with each freebie we post.  Please download with respect.  Thanks.

Ready for some inspiration?  First up the March ScrapStreet.com Magazine.  We focused on techniques this month with article after article to help you shake up your scrapping with new ideas and old favorites. Check it out:

Next, we have our latest issue of GingerScrapsStreet Magazine.  With ideas from fairy tales to bold banners, we have something for everyone.  Come and see!

Ready for a bonus freebie?  Our amazing friends at Persnickety Prints offered our readers a special gift--a free 12x12 print with no strings attached.  Just use the code scrapstreet at checkout.  If you have not used Persnickety Prints, you really need to give them a try--you will be more than satisfied!

We hope you have a super month!  May it be filled with peace and spring!

Cookie-stuffed Cookies from Serious Eats--seriously

It's Sara with a non-scrapping post for you. Although maybe you can scrap the goodies you make after reading this post!
Maybe you've already heard of the blog Serious Eats. It's wonderful! My husband, who loves to cook (*swoon*), sent me a link to these wonderful cookie-stuffed cookies, featured on the blog:

My daughter woke up this morning begging to make sugar cookies. Since the rodeo is coming to town, I figured "Why not?" and we made cookies shaped like Texas, cacti, cowboy hats and boots, and horses (couldn't for the life of me find the cow to substitute for a steer lol!). I know what you're thinking, "The rodeo is headed to town and your way of celebrating is by making COOKIES?" Well, I'm not actually from the South. This will be my first rodeo, so I celebrated the only way I know how: Sugar cookie dough and themed cookie cutters.

You know how, when you roll out sugar cookies, there's always a little bit of dough left? Well, I decided to use that little bit to make my own sugar cookie-stuffed cookie. :) My photo isn't half as scrumptious as the one pictured from Serious Eats, but I promise you that they were goooooood! So I'll show you my pic:

(Note the un-cut one in the back. My husband thought I'd literally just balled up the dough out of impatience! I should have let him keep thinking that, but instead I huffily told him "Those are the stuffed cookies you showed me!" Then he thought I was going to share with him. Yeah, right!)
I bought the Spring Oreos because they were on sale, and let me tell ya, even though I was expecting it, that little pop of yellow kind of threw me when I cut into the cookie! I added a tiny amount of mint extract to the dough before rolling it onto the cookies. Mm-mm, so good.
OK, now you go make your own treats. And then scrap the pics. Hopefully you can take more than one photo before devouring the cookie...which is what I did.
Cheers,
Sara

Love for Stitching!!

I have an absolute LOVE for stitching on my layouts,

cards, and projects, but the simple truth is that I can

not stand the time that it takes to pick out a new color

and thread my machine every single time that I want

to stitch on a layout....not to mention that I can't drag

my sewing machine along with me to crops. So, I

do my stitching with my craft markers, yes that's

right, all of the stitching on every single project that

I create is done by drawing it on with all of my pens

and markers. I like this technique because of many

reasons. First of all I can take it with me, I have all

off the colors in the rainbow because I can use any

colored marker, and my designs are endless because

I can freehand them or use stencils to create my

stitching design. Here are a few examples of my

stitching that I've done on past layouts and projects.

To create this look, I simply use a thicker tipped

marker to draw on the dots that look like the holes

the needle would create. Then, I basically just play

connect the dots with a thinner tipped marker or

pen to create the look of thread. Simple as that!!

I hope you enjoyed my stitching technique!

Have a wonderful Thursday - Sarah

Wednesday Freebie

Hi everyone and welcome to the last part of the Cabin Fever Mini Kit. Some of the elements from the full kit for you to add to your papers and alpha.


You can download it here until next week when we will have a new freebie for you to download. Sorry link expired.

We hope you enjoy it and link us up to your creations in the comments. Who knows we may just offer those of you who do the full kit for free!

The full kit will be available at GingerScraps at the end of next week for those who may want all of it or missed the other parts.

Happy 1st Birthday to my little man!

I really can't believe a year has gone by! It seems like just yesterday I was telling my ScrapStreet Sisters that Edward has arrived! They know what a rough journey it was for me to have a baby but in the end, a miracle happened... and I was blessed with the most beautiful baby boy in the whole wide world.



I just love this picture of Edward and I. We truly had a blast celebrating his first birthday which fell on Presidents Day. Sure we could have waited to have his birthday party on the weekend but for his first birthday, I wanted to have his birthday party on his actual birthday!

I'm looking forward to another exciting year watching my little man grow.

Hope your having a fabulous day!
Nicole