THE ART OF GIVING: Thanks for stopping by and getting involved in this great opportunity. In starting off the new year, Christine and I decided to put together a challenge blog that would not only provide you with inspiration and free goodies, but to also let you know about the many ways we can "PAY IT FORWARD" to others in our lives...in simple and GIGANTIC ways. We hope that in combining both inspiration and giving to others, we can all make this world a better place, one layout, card, and gesture at a time. Thank you for taking this journey with us.
WINNER: Miss Leah C.'s name was randomly chosen here is her layout!
Leah congrats! Please contact us at via emailwith your mailing info. :0)
So it is time for things to start again because when we are up and about I feel good!I know that Scrap it Forward is about taking care of others. Paying it forward in other words in a Scrappy kind of a way.Showing others we care and reaching out, but if we run around taking care of others all the time and don’t take a moment just for ourselves, sometimes we get lost. I am here because I want to be and I hope you will too!
This challenge is an easy one.Or maybe it isn’t :0) Take a moment..focus on yourself and make a layout all about you.Yes, YOU!I will reward you for it!All you have to do is link it right back to us in your comment and a winner will be selected at random for just this little prize I put together to focus on your inner diva ;0).
Here is the layout that I made about me.
Illyse's Layout
Simple, really,You don’t have to get deep. Or you can. The point is, that I took the time for just me :0)Now you do that and next challenge we will get back to reaching out to others and saving the world one scrappy and crafty minute at a time. This challenge starts today, Friday, January 28th and will end on Friday Feb. 11th. A winner will be selected at random and announced the following day! So are you in?!
Hello all and Happy 4th of July! As you celebrate your Independence day with your families with BBQ's, fireworks, block parties or perhaps just a simple and quiet day off please take time to quietly reflect and remember the men and women who have dedicated their lives to serve our country and given us this freedom.
Today I have listed a few simple ways that we can help out the men and women of our armed forces. The video above is about a program started by two young kids called "Cell phones for soldiers". You can click on this link and learn more about itHERE. More or less donating your old cell phone will provide soldiers with free calling card minutes to call home and to speak to their friends and families. What a simple and kind thing to do. I know most of us have old cell phones lying around. :0)
Another kind and easy thing to do today is to go and vist the USO support site and leave a message to our soldiers to wish them a Happy 4th and to thank them for their continued service and dedication. GO HERE :0)
Now of course this post would not be complete without a prize being involved right?... so...leave me a post with a link to your blogs and/or facebook pages with the links to cell phones for soldiers and the USO 4th of July message board/wall that I gave you today and you will be entered in a random drawing for this prize sponsred by: The Robin's Nest and Tammy I. This will challenge will run from today unitl Sunday, July 11th. A winner will be announced on Monday July 12th.
Hey Scrap It Forward readers and friends thanks so much for playing along and participating in our first ever Blog Hop! We had a BLAST! It was so much fun to follow along with you and read your comments. Wasn't it so interesting to see how different those canvases all came out? What fun...so many creative and diverse brains and work!
Well as you all know, as I promised.... For those of you who "hopped" on to all our DT's blogs there would be a prize name drawn for one random post. And...I did go back and check...... SO....I did put all thos girls posts into a random number generator and guess who was chosen? The lucky gal is.......STEPHANIE. Congrats to you!!! Please email us with your contact info ! Thanks to all who participated you made it a huge success! And... thank you to our wonderful desgin team! We couldn't have done this without you! We will miss you! You have made the last 3 months a lot of fun. Your creativity has given our blog a lot of inspiration, new followers and fun! Moreover thank you for your friendship!
Much love, Christine
And readers..... Come backin a few days for a fun 4th ofJuly CelebrationJust for you!
Hello all! The past three months have been wonderful!!! We have had a lot of new faces here! A lot of new readers, a lot of new friends, a lot of new challenges and a new design team to boot! It has been fantastic!!! The inspiration has been wonderful, the teamwork has been fantastic and I couldn’t be happier. I am so very pleased with it all.
To celebrate what a huge success that it all has been, the Scrap it Forward team has decided to host its very first BLOG HOP! WooHoo! And…It all starts today, Wednesday, June 23rd! This Blog Hop will last for one week…so you have until the 30th to visit each and every one of our blogs! I know you can do it!
So let me tell you how it is all going to work, it is rather simple you see…. This is our current guest DT’s send off. Sadly their terms are ending and we want to send them off in a special way. So go visit their blogs…give them a little love…and in return each member will have a little RAK for one random reader.
You must first visit Illyse’s blog…you can follow this link…. She will then tell you where to go next and the following DT member will share with you which blog to go to next etc. etc. If you happen to visit each blog, then come back here and let us know. ONE lucky winner will be entered into a drawing to receive this RAK below, but remember… you must go to each DT member’s personal blog and leave a post.
All winners will be announced on July 1st! So good luck and pass the word on!
We love you Julie, Vicki And Cher you have really made an wonderful addition to our little ol' blog over here at SIF. Thank you for your creativity, insight, teamwork, lightheartedness, fun, inspiration and friendship. You girls ROCK...and if you know me...you know that I don't just throw that term around. Love ya girls....AND THANK YOU!
Wow Ladies..so many fantastic entries! A lot of our loyal peeps participated this time around as well as some new faces! Thanks for playing with us here at SIF!
You always make it so hard on us to choose a winner! This time around we have a newbie to our crowd as lucky winner.
Our lucky winner is :
CONNIE!!!
And these are her entries....
Thanks to all of you who participated. All of your layouts and cards were WONDERFUL! You make this blog a whole lot of fun and give us a lot of inspiration!
Connie Please contact us via our email and send us your mailing info, so that we can send you your prize!
Come back on the 23rd for our first BLOG HOP! It will be a lot of fun and a few RAKS will be given away!
Our Crafty how to gal, Cher came up with this fantastic how, to just for you.
If you want to make a little something for Father's day and you are stumped for ideas, Cher has got a whopper of an idea just for you! Look below and check this out!
Remember, you still have just about a week to get your entries in for our Dear Ol' Dad challenge. So hop to it! Perhaps you'd like to give this idea a try!
