We’ve got more for you each month here at Simple Scrapper. On top of announcing our fabulous new sponsors each go-round, I’ll be highlighting a few of their products, offering great coupons and conducting fun giveaways. I am so excited March is here!
Audacious Designs
Audrey Neal is a scrapbook industry veteran with a focus on authentic storytelling and designs that are eclectic yet streamlined.
Her blog, Be Audacious, is a source of daily inspiration for uncomplicated memory keeping. Audacious Designs can be found exclusively at Design House Digital.
Digital Designer Shop
There are lots of great new products in the shop, including IT Man, a grungy and masculine paper set, and a Project 365 Starter Kit! All new products are 20% off on Friday and Saturday and Simple Scrapper readers get a special coupon code. Use “SS-MAR2010” to get 40% off everything in the shop except printing credits with $5 minimum purchase (single use per person).
Julie. It. Is. Designs
Julie. It is. Designs is the work of Julie Southern – wife, mother, and self-professed digi-fiend.  Julie’s creations combine her love of color and texture with a casual elegance, and her goal is to create a particular mood or essence for each kit she creates. Find her designs exclusively at Plain Digital Wrapper.
Karen Lewis Designz
Karen Lewis has a brand new kit, Defining Moment, out at The Digi Chick. Giveaway Alert: One lucky will will receive this kit for free! On top of that, everyone gets a coupon for the Karen Lewis Designz shop!
Kiki Halbert Designs
Kiki Halbert, an industry veteran from Canada, celebrated her third anniversary as a digital scrapbook designer last fall. She has a full time job in addition to a store at Scrapbook-Elements.com and feels blessed to earn a supplemental income for staying true to her passion.
She is often inspired to create her “Elegant Grunge† styled kits when a color palette jumps out at her from everyday life. She never knows what will happen when she opens up Photoshop and loves that it is like having a fresh box of crayons. One thing is certain, something beautiful always emerges, kit after kit.
Giveaway Alert: One lucky winner will receive a free kit! Plus, make sure you visit the blog to download this Slim and Trim QP freebie.
Log Your Memory
There’s a lot going on at Log Your Memory, helping you to stay on top of your memories. There’s never been a better time to check out all the action. Mark your social calendar for Thursday, March 4th @ 7 p.m. Mountain Time to participate in a template challenge chat with (another Simple Scrapper sponsor) Suzy Iverson of SuzyQScraps.
Plain Digital Wrapper
Quirky.  Resourceful. Vibrant and fun.  Plain Digital Wrapper’s designers and staff  believe that scrapping embraces the very heart of our lives.  As such, they strive to provide not only a wide variety of well-made and exclusive scrapping tools and materials, but a cheerful and supportive community as well.
Whether you are a dedicated chronicler of your family’s daily lives and major milestones; just like to express your creativity with beautiful colors and rich textures; or possibly want to tell your story to the world through words and pictures – you’ll find what you need with us. Â Come join us in our daily journey of discovery and imagination!
Freebie Alert: To get any PDW team kit for free, like Red Hot and U, use the code “SimpleScrappin” by June 1. ($10 off any team kit, one use per customer)
Quirky Twerp
Check out the latest design from Quirky Twerp: Fabrications Classic
Stuff to Scrap
Come join the Stuff To Scrap community where there are lots of fun challenges. Earn points for free store products. Become a Facebook fan and get even more free products. Recently upgraded with a new improved forum and gallery. Lots of designers and lots of fun. Stuff To Scrap, where we are Simply Scrapping Stuff.
Bonus Giveaway
Jen Graham, of Graham Like the Cracker Designs, is giving away this fun kit to a lucky winner!
How the Giveaways Work
Everyone has three chances to win one of these amazing prizes.
- Leave a comment telling us if you paper scrapped before you went digi.
- Leave a comment sharing that you posted about the giveaways on Facebook.
- Leave a comment noting that you posted about the giveaways on Twitter.
Deadline: Enter by 11:59pm central time on Wednesday, March 3rd.
I am still both a paper scrapper (since the 90s) and a digitial scrapper.
Thanks for the giveaways and thanks for all the useful info.
I was a paper scrapper until about 2006 when I discovered digi scrapping. I have not turned back!
I posted about the giveaways on Twitter.
Well I tried paper.. Ok I bought paper supplies and thought I might give it a try. I didn’t have a clue were to begin though so it sat for a very long time untouched. Then I saw a scrapbook magazine at the grocery store and bought it thinking it could help me find my way. Turns out it was a digital scrap mag…. My grandkids had fun with the paper supplies I bought and I have never looked back. Digi lover through and through.
I was a paper scrapper but digital is so much better when you have little kids. I love the no mess factor!
I paper scrapped for about 10 years before I went digital. I was so excited to discover how easy and fun digital scrapping could be!
I was a paper scrapper for 15 years before I tried going digital. I was also one of those scrappers WHO SWORE they would NEVER go digital!!! Ever, ever!!! I wasn’t prepared to give up all of my tangible supplies! However, I have found away to do both. I like each for different reasons, and often times I like to go hybrid!!!! 🙂
I have posted on Facebook! (user Candice Guess Stears).
I have also tweeted via Tweetmeme! 🙂
Thanks so much, Jennifer! Your sponsors rock!
yep. definitely paper scrapped before digi…still do a bit.
I paper scrapped some, but not much. I have been a graphic designer for 10+ years, so it was an easy transition that made more sense for me.
I certainly was a paper scrapper first… and sometimes miss some of the little things I took for granted like running a piece of ribbon off the edge of the page or similar…
do a bit of hybrid now to ease that longing… but 99% a digi girl now!
i was a paper scrapper before going digital. i used to do both but since the last move i have converted to all digital. i have a feeling that when we get resettled i will return to a little bit of paper but will stay mainly digital. it is so much easier, faster, and cheaper (for me!).
i facebooked
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WOW! Awesome giveaway!!! These designers are really so awesome and kind-hearted!!! Thanks to them 🙂
I paper scrap, still not ready to give up my tangible supplies! Love the portability of digital though.
I still consider myself a paper scrapper. But I have jumped into digital with both feet, lol.
I did paper scrap some before I got my first digital camera. Then I started digital scrapbooking before there was such a thing and did it for years using programs like Microsoft Picture It. I never knew there was a whole industry until about a year and a half ago.
I paper scrapped a little after my stepmom gave me a bunch of supplies for my wedding shower. But once I found digi, I never wanted to go back to paper scrapping, and I don’t even like hybrid.
I had paper scrapped since I was a teenager before trying digital!
I tweeted!
I facebooked it!
I was a paper scrapper when I was younger but I didn’t get much accomplished after having my second child. Digiscrapping has changed that!
I am still a paper scrapper – nothing beats the fun of shopping for new papers, and the smiles on my kids faces when they flip through pages in my albums.
facebooked!
I did paper scrap before I went digi and still have a lot of paper supplies.
Yes I paper scrapbooked before and still do along with the digi.
I never did paper scrapping. Thanks for the chance!!
I never paper scrapped before and I’m still trying to figure out digital! Thanks for the chance to win!
I never paper scrapped before!
Thanks for the chance to win!
I never paper scrapped but I love, love, love digiscrapping!
I paper scrapped for a few months. But it was too much work to get all the supplies out and then put back away. Not to mention the expense. I am definitely a huge fan of digital scrapbooking!!
I never paper scrapped. I was scared of messing up as I have no crafting skills whatsoever. I can’t cut in a straight line, I end up with glue all over the place, and there is no place in my home to put all of my supplies. Plus, getting started sounded expensive. Now I have started digi-scrapping and lately I have started to conquer my fear of paper and glue by printing small hybrid projects and making cards for my loved ones.
I still paper scrap and do all sorts of paper crafts in addition to Digital. I love both and digital is a great way to ‘test’ layouts before cutting your papers!
I also retweeted 🙂
I also shared on Facebook! 🙂
I was a paper scrapper for years before timidly venturing into the digital world but once I started with digital scrapping, I’ve never looked back. Now if I could just find a way to get rid of all those paper supplies without a lot of guilt. Sigh ….
I was not a paper scrapper and had no interest in being one! I found digi in April 2007 and fell in love immediately.
I never took to paper scrapping at all – i actually don’t like the bulky books my paper scrapping friends have done (I would never tell them!) …… you’d be so afraid of accidentally tearing off a ribbon or bead and forever wondering where something belonged because it fell out the book as soon as you picked it up. I found everything just SO distracting from the photos and journalling.
I came upon digi by accident ages later and what a revelation!! To me it’s art – you can dress up your pages without letting it take over from those all important pics & stories. And I just love that you can use things again and again and again – how eco friendly is that! 🙂
I was not a paper scrapper, I did a 21st album and a couple pages for our honeymoon, but I’m too slow at paper scrapping 🙂 Digi is way faster! (once you get the hang of it)
I was a paper scrapper (more of a hoarder tho, lol) until 2007 when I finally embraced digital. I love it and haven’t looked back! Although I do enjoy making hybrid projects and getting my hands dirty. Thanks for the wonderful chances!
I did paper scrapping priour to doing digital. Going back to when ellements came from magazine or newspapers. Looking nothing like what Photoshop does. I love the Sweet Spontaneity kit your offering, such a cute fench and rose arbor included. Thank you for a chance to win.
I was a paper scrapper but digital is so much better for me. I love the no mess factor and the undo button 🙂
I am new to digiscrapping, I am posting to facebook. This all looks fascinating to me. I am soaking up all your ideas, hints and freebies. I have only been scrapbooking for a couple of years, doing it digital looks like it will be much quicker. I have close to 10,000 pictures to organize, YIKES!!!