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It’s officially interNational Scrapbook Day Weekend- a holiday whether you are a traditional or digital scrapbook peep!  Sure, I have to work today, but I’m still excited about all the festivities that are happening!

First up… the Farmer’s Market is open at ScrapOrchard!  The Farmer’s Market is a collection of new and existing products that have been marked down to $1.  A product can only ever be added to the Farmer’s Market ONE TIME.  So, these products will never be $1 ever again!!!

Check out what I have for Farmer’s Market this weekend!

The NEW stuff:

Here are my previously released items, that are $1 this weekend ONLY!

Next… tonight is the OPENING CEREMONIES for the Digiscrap Olympics at ScrapOrchard.  Check out the schedule of events for the list of fun and festivities!

And now… it’s time for your FREEBIE!

**Freebie no longer available**

Don’t forget! It’s time for the Persnickety Prints semi-annual sale! If you’re ready to print, you can get a great deal on your prints this weekend! If you aren’t quite ready, you can buy pre-paid credits beginning this weekend!  (Allow at least 5-7 days for printing during this promotion.)

Have a great time this weekend!!!!  Happy Scrapping!

It’s that time of the year again, when digital scrapbook peeps and traditional scrapbookers alike celebrate our hobby.  At ScrapOrchard, we have a lot of fun stuff going on this week!

First up… beginning TODAY (April 28, 2013) is our 2nd Annual Torch Relay!  Basically, it is a Facebook Hop that begins on the ScrapOrchard Facebook Page.  Click on the iNSD Torch Relay tab to get started!

This is what you can download from MY Facebook page

Be sure to also subscribe to my newsletter because later this week on Thursday, I’ll be sending out a freebie to all of my subscribers!  This little typewriter alpha was a lot of fun to make!

Also, be sure to check back on my blog for another freebie on Friday!

On Thursday, the Farmer’s Market opens!  Each designer has a group of new and/or existing products that are marked down to $1 for the iNSD weekend.  I can’t wait to show you what I have in the Farmer’s Market!

And if that wasn’t enough… all of the fun festivities in the forum will begin on Friday with the Opening Ceremony chat.  Then, even more fun and games are on Saturday!

If you participate in the 4pm Skiing challenge, you’ll get another fun piece of Technogeek from me.

You can find the official schedule of events here at ScrapOrchard.

Enjoy your week!  And don’t forget to stop back by and grab your freebies!

It’s time for the ScrapOrchard 5th Birthday celebration and sale this weekend!!!!! Who’s ready?!  We certainly are!  Almost the entire store is on sale, we have a Free With Purchase kit and we have a couple of activities planned!  I’ll tell you all about it in a minute, but first, I want to show you my new kit!  I’m so excited about this kit!!!

Having two girly-girls, I have a ton of tea party photos!  So, I designed One Lump or Two so I could scrap them!  And I had so much fun creating the kit, I couldn’t stop and made a few add-ons for it and then bundled it all together to make one big bundle for you, if that’s your cup of tea (pun intended!).

Here is the full kit, then a closer look at the papers and elements.

I created an alpha pack with two full alphas (uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, some punctuation and symbols)

Here is a pack of QuickStarts, two QuickPages and two Stackers.

Here is an adorable pack of 3×4 journal cards. There is one set for digi pages and printing on photo paper, another set for printing on cardstock at professional printers like Persnickety Prints.

Here is a really cute party pack, too!

And if you want everything all together, here is the bundle!

 My creative team came up with some super cute pages using One Lump or Two!

And here is the birthday sale info!

*Discount can not be combined with any other coupon or special offer. Discount does not apply to products in the Scrap Orchard University, Bundles, Services or Grab Bags categories. Sale based on Eastern Standard Time. Free With Purchase Eligibility calculated after Plum Perks and discounts are applied.

If there are any products of mine that you have missed, now would be the time to purchase them!

When you spend $10 in the store, you can get this amazing kit Perfect Picnic for FREE!  Offer runs through April 1, 2013.

We will also have some challenges and crops!  The prizes coordinate wit the Perfect Picnic kit. Come celebrate ScrapOrchard’s 5th Birthday with us!

To Bee or Not To Bee digital scrapbook kit is perfect for spring photos or Valentine’s photos of all the ones you love – boys or girls!  With just tiny peeks of pink, it’s “acceptable” for boy pages.  My nephew tells me that pink is NEVER acceptable on scrapbook pages for boys.  But I disagree.  That’s a discussion for a different day, I think!

Let’s take a closer look at the papers and embellishments!  With a full alpha, 15 patterned papers, and 110 embellishments, we definitely need to look closer.  Look at that bee, I just love him!

 

((This kit was previously released as part of the Scrap Stacks Scrap Pack in February 2013.  Please check your files to prevent duplicate purchases!))

If you purchase this kit this week (March 22nd thru March 27th, 2013, you can get the To Bee or Not To Bee Pink Paper Pack FREE with your purchase!  Did you really think I could do a lovey spring kit without the pink?! Â

You can also just buy the pink papers all by themselves, if that floats your boat!

In addition to the Free With Purchase special, I have a coupon code that will get you 30% off the original purchase price of To Bee or Not To Bee!
Coupon code: 2Bee-30HRTsneoa$
Expires: March 28, 2013
(You might want to copy & paste that code!)

Don’t forget! If you live in the Salt Lake area, ScrapOrchard is at the Scrapbook USA Expo at South Towne Expo Center in Sandy, on March 22nd-23rd.  Come hang out with us and have some fun!!!

 Junior Scrapateer Princess TJ has been at it again!  Last weekend, she created this adorable digital scrapbook page for one of the Scrapper Bowl challenges, using Adventures in Yard Work.

Princess TJ says, “Daddy took down the tree in front of our new house. I helped cut the branches off, my brother and sister put the branches in the bin.”

It looks like everyone had a great time working together in the yard!

Happy Friday!  This week I am releasing my contributions to the Now Showing digital scrapbook kit that was featured at the ScrapOrchard Scrappers Bowl last weekend!  It was a really fun event and I hope you were able to attend and have a good time.  If you couldn’t make it, don’t worry!  Beginning this weekend, a lot of the designers are adding their contributions to the market at ScrapOrchard!  I combined my Facebook train contribution, my challenge prize contribution and my free-with-purchase contribution into one mini-kit!

When I signed up for the pieces I wanted to create, I KNEW I had to create a remote control.  My husband and I have an ongoing battle over who gets to control what we watch on tv.  I’ve mostly given up on trying to watch what I want, but that’s because I can watch tv on my computer now!  And what is it about remote controls and children?  Every baby I’ve ever had in my house always tries to eat my remote control.  These are great memories to scrap!

Have a great weekend!
Meredith

One of my adorable Junior Scrapateers created a fun Merry Christmas and Happy New Year page using my Fa La La digital scrapbook kit!

It looks like LilScrapper9 had a fun Christmas season with her family.  This page turned out really cute! I love how she added the lights to the banner.  I really love her page is so symmetrical!  Keep scrapping, LilScrapper9!  You are creating beautiful pages and I love that you are already preserving your memories!

Creating art from words is really trendy.  And what a fun trend!  Whether you are browsing Pinterest, Etsy or home decor blogs you see signs, wall art and framed word images.  I love this trend!  Not only do our photos have meaning, but when you add words or quotes to your photo collages it can help the photos take on even more meaning.  It can help tie the collage together.  I have always loved letters.  As a child, I loved playing with blocks that had letters, letter magnets, puzzles and books. I have always loved having notebooks and paper and pens so that I can doodle letters.  So, this word art trend is extremely fascinating for me!  I decided to take advantage of this trend to make some signs for my house!

Does your family have a phrase or mantra?  I have recently declared a new one for our family for 2013.  My girls really are adorable and they are very good kids.  But they are kind of lazy.  When they don’t want to do something, like clean their toy room or practice the piano, they always say that they can’t do something because it’s “too hard.”  My husband and I are constantly reminding the girls that they CAN DO hard things.  I find myself saying it so often, I decided to make a sign for my kitchen.

I hope that seeing that image on the wall multiple times every day will help that phrase stick in my children’s minds.  They CAN DO hard things!  When they are crying about not being able to zip their own coats, I just point to the sign and say, “What does it say?”.  They respond, often in unison in a bored tone, “I can do hard things.”  To which I reply, “Yep, that’s right!  You CAN do hard things.  So take a deep breath, try again and if you need help, ask for it.  No tantrums.”  (No tantrums was another option for our kitchen wall sign!)

At the beginning of the year, there was a lot of talk about what people’s One Little Word would be for the year.  I tossed several around, and kept changing my mind.  I had a really hard time settling on a word, so I decided on a phrase first, “Good, Better, Best.”  I feel like for the most part, I make pretty good choices.  But I need to focus on being “better.”  So, my word for this year is “better”.  I wanted to make a word image to serve as a reminder for this year, but I didn’t want to just hang the word “better” over my desk.  So, I created a sign that says “Make a BETTER choice.”

I really LOVE how these turned out!  I was able to combine my love for fonts, chalkboards (sans chalk dust!) and Photoshop into one (or two) project(s).  Who doesn’t love layering fun stuff on top of fun stuff?  I bought my frames at Hobby Lobby.  A very special THANK YOU to the printers at Persnickety Prints for always doing a fabulous job!

So, here is my challenge to YOU!  I want you to think of one word or phrase or quote that embodies a trait or characteristic you have or want to have.  Create an original* piece of digital artwork with your word, phrase, or quote that is 8×10 inches (original size).  Upload your photo to an online gallery or photo sharing website.  Come back here and enter the Rafflecopter giveaway below!  Deadline to submit artwork is Wednesday, February 13, 2013 at 11:59pm EST.

*original means that you didn’t download someone else’s artwork or word-art or subway art and try to pass it off as your own.  You may use digital scrapbook products or graphics to assist you in the creation of your word art.

Creating your word art with one of my products will earn you an extra entry.

Here’s the good stuff… the PRIZES!

One lucky random winner will receive the following:

1. A printed copy of their word art shipped to them for FREE by Persnickety Prints!
2. A $15 gift card to Hobby Lobby OR Michael’s OR JoAnn’s OR Target OR Walmart so that they can buy a frame for their word art.
3. A $25 gift certificate to Persnickety Prints!

Rafflecopter!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Do you need a digital scrapbook kit or alpha to get you started?  Here is a coupon good for 25% off your purchase in my store at ScrapOrchard.

code: QuoteIt25%4u
Take 25% off your purchase of products by Meredith Cardall at ScrapOrchard.

Offer good thru 02/15/2013 at 11:59pm EST Coupon may not be used with any other sales, special offers or discounts. When using this coupon code, please be sure that you do not have any other sale items in your cart. Using this code will revert all your sale prices back to their original prices. Only one coupon may be used per order, one coupon code per person. Must be logged in to use coupon code.

Thank you to Persnickety Prints for donating the finished print and the $25 gift certificate!

I am continually amazed by these young digital scrapbook artists!  I have always wanted to do Project Life by Becky Higgins, but I just haven’t made the commitment.  But this amazing young lady, Princess TJ, and her siblings are doing it.  They have such a fabulous mother, too!

To save some time and avoid repeat work, their mom Angela (aka toucanscraps) set up templates for them!  Angela has a tutorial on her blog for how to set them up.  Princess TJ uses a scrapbook program called Craft Artist.  Angela also wrote a blog post for how to create these templates in Craft Artist.

And THIS is what this fabulous young lady was able to create with these templates!

Not only are her pages beautiful, but it looks like she is having some fabulous adventures so far in 2013!  Thanks, Princess TJ for sharing your pages and your talent with us!  Keep scrapping!

First up, let’s get right to our winner!  The winner of Like a Snowflake digital scrapbook kit is…….   JenL!

And I completely agree with Jen!  I would much rather sit inside and read all winter, but I do enjoy seeing the kids play in the snow!  Jen, you should have received an email with a coupon code and a link to the kit!  Enjoy!

And on to the next big fun thing…. SCRAPPER BOWL 2013!!!

The fun and festivities start TODAY!  Check out the agenda and plan your weekend!  There is a Facebook hop, challenges and games and a Spend $10 in the store, get our Now Showing kit for FREE!

I think that’s all for now!  Have a great weekend!