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I used Random Number Generator to pick out of this month’s Blog It participants and the winner is…

Michelle!!!!

Congrats Michelle! I’ll be sending you a gift certificate for $10 from Christy here shortly!

So - on to this month’s scraplift challenge…

This month we’re going to do something slightly different - you can pick from Christy’s gallery or from her designer gallery at SSD’s for insiration! So…

• Pick a any scrapbook pages from Christy’s gallery or from her designer gallery here.
• Scraplift it using this month’s fabulous kit, Changes, of which the proceeds will go to National Parkinson Foundation. (It must be a scraplift of one of these pages, not a template…)
• Come back here to the blog, tell me which page you lifted and leave me a link to your lift by Thursday night, Aug. 28th, at Midnight, EST.

We will have 3 - $10 gift certificate winners from Christy! The winners will be picked by our Songbird Avenue Creative Team! Happy Scrappin’!

Well, Changes has been out for 6 days now. How are you all liking it? Gorgeous huh?

That makes it time to blog about it!!!! I think you know the drill,

Let’s see your blogs about this month’s fun kit, Changes, and include a link to our site and a preview of the kit and/or page that you have done with it, then come back here and give me a link to it here at the blog. If you don’t have a blog - you can still play along - just give us a link to the thread that you started about the kit doing the same thing! The deadline for this will be the Friday, the 15th of August at midnight, EST. We will have one randomly picked winner of a prize!

And last month’s winners of the Scraplift Challenge are…

anneberit and april!!!!!

 Congrats ladies!!! Beautiful lifts!!!!! I’ll be e-mailing you shortly!

August is here and boy do we have a beautiful kit for you! We teamed up with the fabulous Christy Lyle who I actually got to meet at CHA in February! Christy is such a sweetheart and we are thrilled we got to do this kit with her!

This month’s kit is seriously jam packed with goodness! Jackie Delfin has graciously created a fabulously fun little luggage tag album for you guys!  It coordinates with the Basic Grey Luggage Tag Album. How cute is that?!?!

Isn’t this kit gorgeous? Be sure to check out our creative team’s awesome layouts in our inspiration gallery! And thank, as always, for you support! You’re the best!

I’m so excited about how much we raised for S.A.F.E. House this month! Thank you to everyone who purchased the kit! What a success! And thank you, Dani, for your awesome kit and for the fun freebie! We’re s o proud you wee our guest designer for July!

As soon as I have a receipt I will post the donation! Thank you, everyone, for your support!

It’s been too long time since we’ve had a freebie around here! Dani Mogstad has whipped up a sweet little treat for you all! Be sure to download it now so you don’t miss out! Enjoy! And if you haven’t already purchased your July kit, there are only 2 days left!

Please click HERE to download this delightful little element pack! Thank you so much, Dani, for your amazing generosity! We are so proud to have you as our guest designer!

Hello everyone!

Although I made the donation to MercyCorps a couple of weeks ago, I have been waiting patiently for a letter to arrive in the mail acknowledging our donation. I received an email confirmation, but it wasn’t much…no logo, no letterhead..nothing. It was very blah and plain and I didn’t know if it would pass muster here as a valid receipt. But, instead of waiting any longer, I am going to post the email, along with a larger version that I made up so you can read it more easily, and I will post the letter later when I receive it. Thanks for you patience!

Thank you, everyone, for all of your amazing support! $1259.51! Wow! We were so honored to have Vicki Stegall with us and she was so pleased with the final donation! You all are amazing and I am grateful for you all!

Yes, you can! LOL!

But first, I used Random Number Generator to pick the winner of our Blog It Challenge for July! And the winner is

Buge!

I’ll be e-mailing you here in a minute with how to get your $10 gift certificate from Dani, k?

And on to this month’s Scraplift Challenge! Dani is one awesome scrapper, let me tell you! I have been a huge fan of her designs and pages for quite awhile! We are going to use her blog for inspiration and I’m sure you will find plenty of it! So -

• Pick a any of Dani’s scrapbook pages from Dani’s blog.
• Scraplift it using this month’s beautiful Endless Summer kit, of which the proceeds will go to S.A.F.E. House. 
• Come back here to the blog, tell me which page you lifted and leave me a link to your lift by Thursday night, July 31st, at Midnight, EST.

We will have 2 - $10 gift certificate winners from Dani! The winner will be picked by our Songbird Avenue Creative Team! Now - Go forth and scraplift!

Let’s see your blogs about this month’s fun kit, Endless Summer, and include a link to our site and a preview of the kit and/or page that you have done with it, then come back here and give me a link to it here at the blog. If you don’t have a blog - you can still play along - just give us a link to the thread that you started about the kit doing the same thing! The deadline for this will be the Thursday, the 17th of July at midnight, EST. We will have one randomly picked winner of a prize! So….

 Go, go, GO!!!!! 

This month’s new kit?????

For July’s kit, we are so excited to have Dani Mogstad with us. Dani’s fun style and amazing colors are a perfect fit for the height of summer! We are proud to present “Endless Summer“.  100% of this month’s profits will benefit S.A.F.E. House.

From Dani -

“All profits from the sale of this kit will go to benefit S.A.F.E. House, New Mexico: http://www.safehousenm.org.

About the Charity:

Sadly domestic abuse and violence touches everyone’s lives in some way. For myself, this became deeply personal when a close family member was forced to leave her home for the safety of herself and her young daughter. My family was completely powerless to help her situation because we were thousands of miles away. I am so grateful for organizations such as S.A.F.E. House who were there to take her in, give her a safe place to stay, and provide for her with the resources, counseling, and services she desperately needed to start her life again.

She is not alone. in the United States alone, in the year 2001, more than half a million American women (588,490 women) were victims of nonfatal violence committed by an intimate partner. And it is estimated that about 960,000 incidents of violence against a current or former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend per year and about three million women are physically abused by their husband or boyfriend per year.(www.endabuse.org) Its organizations like S.A.F.E. house and other shelters that provide the resources these woman need to end the cycle of violence for themselves and their children.

Please help us support this worthy cause!”

I also wanted to announce the winners of June’s Scraplift Challenge. It was a close decision but -

• 1st place goes to Valerie!
• 2nd place goes to April!!!!
• And 3rd Place goes to Len!!!

Len turned her’s in a bit late, but I had 3 prizes to give away, so she’s totally a winner too! Congrats ladies! I’ll be e-mailing you shortly with your prizes!

I’ll be back in a few days with our Blog It Challenge!!!!

so far!

We have April’s page…

And Valerie’s page…

You still have until tonight Midnight EST to participate! See here for details!

And only 4 more days to purchase Leap of Faith! Don’t miss it!