Monthly Archives: June 2009

June 2nd Category: Shop till You Drop

Who doesn’t love shopping?  Whether it is for shoes, gardening supplies, music or scrapbooking supplies, we all have a favorite shopping place and a favorite shopping obsession!  Show us what yours is!

Here is what the team created for this challenge:

Our guest, Chris played along for this category too.  Love how she made a collage and her journaling made me giggle.

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Danielle (this design just makes me happy!):

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Lee (I would love to tag along on a shopping trip with her!):

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Sara (Oh, love how she used the receipts and tags!!)

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Steph (I love how she wrote about one of her prized possessions):

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And, just to remind you about the importance of playing along this month, here is a photo of our prize package.  Check out these Prima goodies–no shopping trip to the scrapbooking store would be the same without them!

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Be sure to put your creations into our Flickr account to be eligible for the prize!  Link us up to so we can visit you!

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May Winner

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Simona! We LOVE the colors on this layout…and those mini donuts look divine. Please e-mail us at categoryDOTstoriesATymailDOTcom with your mailing address!

Sara

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June 1st Categories: Dream Job!

Happy June everyone!  Here I sit typing this post about 8 hours later than I wanted to.  Why you ask?  I had to go to work all day!  Now don’t get me wrong, I love my job.  I must admit that sometimes I do imagine what it would be like to have the freedom to have any job I wanted.  That thought brings us to our first category of the month:  Dream Job.  Yep, think about it…and then play along with us!  The winner of this challenge will win a great prize package from Prima Marketing (love Prima, but who doesn’t!). 

Please welcome our fabulous guest designer this month, Chris Aiton. 

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What she has to say: I am an empty nester who lives in SE Florida with my beloved DH and cat. I discovered scrapbooking after we returned from cruising the Bahamas and eastern Caribbean on our 36ft sailboat. I have mountains of photos that need appropriate homes and I work hard trying to place them. I love to mix together various manufacturers and lots of vintage elements from my collections – buttons, fabrics, old books, and linens. I am an avid and voracious reader, enthusiastic crafter (quilting, knitting, scrapping, and beading), and hopeful artist.

She created this very inspirational layout using a collage style!  Love it!

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Let’s see what our fab design team did with this challenge:

Amy (How cool is this!):

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Danielle-who used the perfect elements:

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Aranka (she has such a unique and wonderful perspective):

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Sara (so sweet, isn’t it):

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Stacey (that’s me!):

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Steph (I love the old-fashioned paper doll with the theme):

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So, let’s see what you dream about!

One important announcement–we are requiring that all layouts to be considered for the winners spot be placed in the Flickr gallery!  You can still link them up and will we visit your blogs.  But when it comes time to choose the winner, we are only heading over to the Flickr gallery!  Since it is so easy to upload there, it shouldn’t be a problem!

Can’t wait to see what you all come up with!  I will be back by Wednesday to post a winner for May!  Hugs!!!

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