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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!

LOL! I feel like I’m so behind this summer -  it’s all just getting ahead of me quickly. I’ve forgotten lots of things this week. Ugh.

So without further ado…

Like always, I used Random Number Generator to pick this month’s winner of the Blog It Challenge. And the winner is Jessica! Congrats!!!!! You will be contacted shortly with your prize!!!

Now - we’ll have a short scraplift challenge time this month, but here it is!

• Pick a any scrapbook page from the gallery of this month’s wonderful guest, Vicki Stegall.
• Scraplift it using this month’s gorgeous Leap of Faith kit, of which the proceeds will go to Mercy Corps!
• Come back here to the blog, tell me which page you lifted and leave me a link to your lift by Friday night, June 27th, at Midnight, EST.

We will have 3 winners this month - $20 Gift Certificate for 1st place, $15 for 2nd & $10 for 3rd, from Vicki! The winners will be chosen by our Creative Team here at Songbird Avenue.

Happy Scraplifting!!!

Thanks, everyone, for your awesome support in May! We had an absolutely amazing donation!

If you can’t see it clearly, our final amount was $4,854.46 USD. Isn’t that wonderful? I am so proud of what you’ve helped us accomplish! This past year has been such an incredible journey for me and all the fabulous women who have made this project a success. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. You rock!

that wasn’t easy! I have 12 prizes to give out and we just couldn’t chose! So - I used Random Number Generator to pick & then just went down my list of prizes to match them up… The winners are -

Falwyn - $25 gift certificate from Michelle Coleman

Rachel - $25 gift certificate from Nancie Rowe-Janitz

Len - $25 gift certificate from Nancie Rowe-Janitz

Kelley McDonald - $10 gift certificate from Jacque Larsen

Candace - $10 gift certificate from Shabby Miss Jenn

Michelle - $10 gift certificate from Shabby Miss Jenn

Heather - $10 gift certificate from Shabby Miss Jenn

Valerie - $10 gift certificate from Shabby Miss Jenn

Lissel - $5 coupon from Dianne Rigdon

Becky Corning - $5 coupon from Dianne Rigdon

Iara - $5 coupon from Dianne Rigdon

Cindy, aka sillescrapper - $10 gift certificate from Gina Miller

Woot! Congrats Ladies!!!!!! Please give me a few days to get everyone and everything matched up and organized and then I will get your prizes out to you!

We also want to let you know about a Songbird Ave. gift card contest going on at spoken-for.org . You could win 1 of 3 gift certificates!

And with that - how about our Blog It Challenge? Lets get it going, shall we???? I think you know the drill - blog about this month’s fabulous kit, Leap of Faith, 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 Sunday, the 15th of June at midnight, EST. We will have one random winner of a gift certificate to Songbird Avenue! Ready? Set… Go!!!!

Yay! We finally get to roll out the June kit!

Thank you for all of your amazing support for May! The total is INCREDIBLE and I will post it as soon as the donation goes through! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

And now it’s time to debut another gorgeous kit! Without further ado, here is “Leap of Faith”! We teamed up with the amazing Vicki Stegall of Oscraps.com

This month’s proceeds will benefit MercyCorps. Be sure to check out Vicki’s inspiring bio in our “About Us” section to hear why she chose MercyCorps.

Click HERE to purchase this gorgeous kit! Thank you for your continued support!

I apologize for the site being down the last couple of days! Our data center had an emergency and we were unable to access anything! Thank goodness none of the data was lost (or the donation!!) So, as promised, I have extended the May kit for 7 hours. You can purchase it until 6 p.m. EST. So, don’t let it slip away from you!

At 6 p.m. we will be shutting down the site so we can debut our June kit which is so amazing!!! We’ll also be announcing the scraplift winners in the next day or two, after our Creative Team votes. It’s going to be a packed and fun-filled night! Happy scrapping!