Stephanie Howell

Sponsor/Small Business Spotlight + Amazon Gift Card GIVEAWAY | Craft Storage Ideas

Last week I introduced y'all to an awesome website...Craft Storage Ideas. If you didn't get a chance to read the post, go check it out. The inspiration is endless.

Today CSI is giving away a fabulous prize.

Comment below for a chance to win a $25 Amazon Gift Certificate to spend on your organizational item of choice!

Who doesn't LOVE Amazon? I don't know about y'all, but Amazon Prime has been my lifeline the past 4 years!

Thanks so much for your generosity, CSI! Please pop over to Facebook to like Craft Storage Ideas and give them a big THANK YOU!

Leave a comment below and I will draw a winner next week. GOOD LUCK!
xo

 

New Sponsor Introduction | Craft Storage Ideas

Please help me welcome Craft Storage Ideas!

ABOUT |  Do you love studio tours, organizing tips, and storage solutions? We are the site for you! We are about inspiring you to organize so you can be creative. We look for fantastic, only in your dreams rooms, but also for spaces that are more realistic including small spaces, shared spaces, and spaces that have multiple functions. 

We took a poll and found out what our readers struggled most in organizing and did a series on it. We review organizational products to let you know if they actually work.  We have even shared about ways technology can help you organize your supplies. We are about all crafts, not just scrapbooking.  Artists, quilters, knitters, mixed-media, etc.

It's pretty simple. We love crafting. We love organizing. Put those two together and we are in our happy place!  Our goal is inspire you with images and ideas, motivate you to be perfectly organized in a way that suits you completely, and ultimately help you be your most creative you!

FIND US HERE | blog | pinterest | facebook

Sponsor Spotlight. Giveaway + Discount Code | Scrapbook Circle

ABOUT // We are passionate about preserving our family memories. We love sharing daily inspiration and connecting with others who also love to create. We have been creating monthly scrapbook kits for over seven years. Each of our kits includes a custom printable and we have now expanded our shop to included coordinating digital files. We strive to provide you with fresh products every month that inspire you to create.

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SPECIAL PROMOTION //  Use code stephanie20 to receive 20% off your new order.

GIVEAWAY // I am giving a $30.00 shop credit! Leave a comment below to be entered for a chance.

 

I also wanted to share a few projects I made using the January kit! It is sold out now...but the February kit is available for purchase!

 

 

Good luck and see y'all soon!

xo

S

Sponsor/Small Business Spotlight + Discount Code | Scrapbook Circle

Happy Tuesday, y'all!

First and foremost, let me share the Freckled Fawn winner from my last sponsor giveaway!

Laura Crosby said...

I adore Freckled Fawn, such fun and gorgeous products! My favorite is their heart wood chips/veneers. Rivaled only by their small gold polka dot washi. Both are on my Christmas registry haha

Reply November 19, 2013 at 04:13 PM

 

Way to go Laura! Please send me your info at harpersmama8(AT)gmail(DOT)com!

Moving on...

I have a great giveaway+spotlight today. Scrapbook Circle.

ABOUT // We are passionate about preserving our family memories. We love sharing daily inspiration and connecting with others who also love to create. We have been creating monthly scrapbook kits for over seven years. Each of our kits includes a custom printable and we have now expanded our shop to included coordinating digital files. We strive to provide you with fresh products every month that inspire you to create.

Blog
Shop
Instagram
Facebook
Pinterest

SPECIAL PROMOTION //  Use code stephanie20 to receive 20% off your order today though December 15. Plus, all orders placed in December will receive a FREE Make Cool Stuff canvas tote (pictured above) with your order of $15 or more while supplies last. No code necessary to receive the free canvas bag.

 

GIVEAWAY // We are giving away one of our All is Bright December Kits that is filled with festive products. This kit includes a lovely selection of papers, Scrapbook Circle exclusives: stamps, tags and printable, plus many other favorite products.

If you'd like to win this festive and darling kit, leave a comment here and I'll draw a winner next Tuesday!

Good luck!

xoxo

S

Sponsor/Small Business Spotlight | Freckled Fawn

Giveaway | Freckled Fawn is pleased to give a November OHDEERME Embellishment Kit to one of my readers! Just leave a comment here telling them your favorite Freckled Fawn embellishment.

 

 

Special Promotion | All Stephanie Howell readers can enjoy a special discount at FreckledFawn.com. Simply enter the code "HowellPromo" at checkout and SAVE 15% on your order. The code is active until November 22.

 

About | Freckled Fawn specializes in the design and manufacturing of scrapbook embellishments. They recently debuted their monthly OHDEERME Embellishment Kit Club.

 

Connect | Shop | Kit Club | Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram

 

I have been having a blast using the embellishment kits on my Project Life layouts. They are perfect for adding an "extra something" after I'm done with my basic design. And I am even using the embellishments that I thought weren't perfectly "me"...which is surprising!

 

For example...Harper was a fox for Halloween and I love that I was able to use the crazy cute fox flair! All of the embellishments are made especially just for the kits which is super fun, too.

 

Leave a comment using the giveaway criteria above and I will draw a winner next week. Good luck!

 

xo

S

Sponsor/Small Business Spotlight | Freckled Fawn + Process with Catherine Davis

Hey sweet readers! First and foremost- Let me share the Elle's studio winners from a couple of weeks ago!

1.Roxanne said...What a fun looking kit! Reply September 10, 2013 at 09:00 PM

2.Bethany Becker said...What a gorgeous kit. Thanks for the chance to win Reply September 11, 2013 at 08:55 PM

Please email me at harpersmama8(at)gmail(dot)com!

 

Moving on- I have two awesome giveaways for you guys today.

Up first- one of my favorite small businesses around. Freckled Fawn.

The monthly OHDEERME Embellishment Kit is an exciting new concept in the scrapbooking world. Each month, Freckled Fawn designs and manufactures a collection of coordinating embellishments. You will receive a tin filled with enough embellishments to inspire you as you create dozens of lovely projects!

With the OHDEERME embellishments in hand, browsing your personal paper stash each month will become an exciting endeavor as you preserve your memories, fashion a card for just the right occasion, or add flair to a gift for a special person. You can start your kit subscription [ HERE ].

Note from Doe:
On a personal level, this kit actually works perfectly for me as a scrapper. I tend to have a lot of guilt when I look at my mountain of scrapbook paper but I always feel like I don't have enough embellishments to really work with and use up all my paper goods. So working with a coordinated collection of embellishments each month will really inspire me to pull out my paper stash and preserve my memories!

It is exciting to know that each month I'll get to play with new embellishments that can't be purchase anywhere else, no more of the "same ole, same ole" repetition that can easily stagnate my creativity. I hope this kit club works for you as well and I am just GIDDY with excitement because I have such fun, FUN embellishments planned each month.

Freckled Fawn is giving away one September kit (see above). International entrants are welcome.

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Next today? A fun new class by my friend (and creative inspiration) Catherine Davis.

PROCESS with Catherine Davis
Design Editor Takes You from Lightbulb to Layout

Starts 10/31/2013 $45

Class Description: Looking to breathe new life into your scrapbook pages or Project Life layouts? The beauty is in the process. Interested in scrapbooking smarter, better, simpler, or with greater intention? PROCESS is the key.

Yes, we're talking about your personal creative process, that series of choices you must make to get from a lightbulb moment to a layout you adore. We're also talking about PROCESS, a new 4-week workshop from "Design Editor" Catherine Davis.

Catherine is a visual journalist who has designed pages at one of the nation's top newspapers. She's also a scrapbooker who blogs at designeditor.typepad.com and designs scrapbook layouts for both the Studio Calico and Becky Higgins' Project Life creative teams.

She's here to share how she applies her years of professional design experience to scrapbooking. She'll teach you to apply design fundamentals to your projects, no matter what your style. She'll share her favorite memory-keeping techniques, design tricks, and inspiration sources. And she'll do it all in her signature, highly visual teaching style.

All you have to do is show up, read, watch, absorb, and create. As you accept and apply Catherine's weekly challenges, you'll find yourself opening up to a new world of insights—and refining your personal creative process so it works for you, instead of the other way around.

read rest of description and register here

New to Big Picture Classes? Learn more here




One spot in Catherine's Process class.

Fun, no? Leave a comment here if you'd like the Freckled Fawn kit or the class spot. If you have a preference, please let me know.

Good luck!

 

Sponsor/Small Business Spotlight and Giveaway | 2 Peas Scrapbooking from the Soul Workshop + Aimee Asher Boutique

Happy Wednesday y'all!

I hope you are all having a wonderful week. We signed our lease this week which means we will be moving into our apartment next week.

I am so excited and so ready.

Another exciting thing? I'm headed to check my mail where I'm HOPING I will find some Project Life items I ordered and some photos from PostalPix. I'm ready to SCRAP!

What are you up to today?

I have some fun giveaways to share with you, so I hope you are in the mood for some eye candy!

Spotlight and Giveaway #1-

I'm so honored to be a part of my friend Jill's new class at Two Peas in a Bucket.

It's called Scrapbooking from the Soul. Here's a little blurb:

As scrapbookers, we do not document life as passive observers -- we have the power to make meaning, sharing what matters in ways that matter. Join Garden Girl Jill Sprott for Scrapbooking from the Soul, a workshop that explores ways to embrace the “soul scrapper” within and infuse pages with layers of meaning.

In this workshop, Jill shares a variety of approaches and strategies for how to become more invested in creating layouts that feel authentic to you as well as authentically you. The workshop emphasizes in particular the role that journaling plays in enhancing meaning and contributing to a sense of unity.

If you'd like to win a free spot in this class, leave a comment here and I will announce a winner with my next Sponsor Giveaway on August 13.

 

Spotlight and Giveaway #2-

Aimee Asher Boutique is an online store that sells downloadable products for crafters, scrapbookers, cardmakers and the like. We provide topnotch products from wonderful artists and designers that include clipart, backgrounds and hand painted graphics to printable products such as greeting cards, gift boxes, bags and many other items including scrapbooking.

We recognize the need of crafters that want to create products that allow them to achieve a professional looking product with the ability to add their own special touches to their creations. We help crafters achieve this through digital, downloadable items.

The store often has free items available for crafters to download...this allows them to try out different artists and designers products as well as try out new or different techniques. Should the customer want their product delivered by CD, we offer that service as well. We also have many teacher resources!

We pride ourselves on our customer service. The customer is always first. We strive to answer your questions within 24 to 48 hours.
No matter what...Aimee Asher Boutique will do it's very best for you!

One lucky reader will win any one item in the shop. The choice is yours!

If you would like to win either of these giveaways, leave a comment here. The winners will be announced with my next Sponsor Spotlight on August 13.

Good luck!

xo

S

Sponsor/Small Business Spotlight and Giveaway | Travel Turtle

We are HERE! To say I'm jet-lagged would be a MASSIVE UNDERSTATEMENT. I had this post drafted- I just had to add the Gossamer Blue winner...and I don't think I can handle much more typing than that today.

But I do want to share our first photo in Italy!

Okay. Now back to the regularly scheduled posting. :)

xo

 

Happy Tuesday y'all!

I have a bunch of winners to announce today and I want to do that before I get to the feature.

Monica Bradford/Scrap Inspired-
julie e said...I'd love either proze - thanks for the chance. Hope your grand adventure is staying grand.

 

Scrapbook and Cards Today subscription and Card Maps issue-

Brenda said...I feel the same way about magazines! I absolutely adore SCT (such a high quality feel) and their blog so inspirational. Thanks for the chance to win from them!

 

Gossamer Blue 3 month Life Pages Subscription-

Jennifer Holowaty said...I've been keeping my eye on this club - would love a chance to test it out for a few months... thank you for the awesome giveaway chance!

Congratulations ladies! Email me your info at harpersmama8(AT)gmail(DOT)com.

Ann at Travel Turtle is excited to announce that she will soon be rolling out more free products to her website. These will aim to help include children in all aspects of travel: the planning stages, while there, and upon return. It will include free downloads, printables, and projects that allow you to use tools you already own. Don't travel too often? No worries, many of these products can be used while exploring your own town.

She is also launching a new Google Plus community for memory keeping moms who travel. She'd love to have you join in so we can all learn from and share with each other.

Travel Turtle will continue to encourage families to explore and engage in their travel destinations.

Ann will soon be heading home to the US for a short vacation. She's ordering the popular Melissa and Doug Trunki suitcase for her son and has kindly decided to order another one for a reader.

If you'd like a chance to win, please leave a comment below letting me know what encourages or discourages you from traveling with your family. This offer is only available to someone with a US mailing address.

Good Luck!

xo

S

Sponsor/Small Business Spotlight and Giveaway | Gossamer Blue

Coming August 1st is a brand new kit from Gossamer Blue called “Life Pages”.

If you love using 3 x 4 and 4 x 6 cards in divided page protectors, on scrapbooking layouts or in card making, then you will love the Life Pages kit!

The August kit comes with twenty-four 3×4 cards and six 4×6 cards exclusively designed for us by talented designer, Traci Reed.

The cards are designed to coordinate perfectly with the main and add-on kits.All cards are double-sided with the designs flipped on the back making your choice of vertical or horizontal a snap.

We are excited to announce that Elle’s Studio will be designing and manufacturing our exclusive Life Pages stamp sets. Concepts for our stamps are created by Michelle Wooderson and brought to life by Elle Price. Elle’s Studio is known for their high quality stamps and we are thrilled to be able to bring them to you each month.

The new Life Pages kit will include the following each month:
* 24 – 3 x 4 cards designed exclusively for us to coordinate with the main and add-on kits.

* 6 – 4 x 6 cards designed exclusively for us to coordinate with the main and add-on kits.

*A stamp set designed and manufactured exclusively for us by Elle’s Studio.

*Embellishments

Subscriptions are just $19.95 plus shipping. You can subscribe HERE.

Bonus: Receive a free set of Skipping5′s Gold Foil Letterpress Journaling Cards when you subscribe to the August Life Pages kit while supplies last.





Leave a comment here to win a THREE MONTH SUBSCRIPTION to the Life Pages Kit.

This is an amazingly generous prize and anyone would be super lucky to win. I hope you'll all enter!

And make sure to stop by Gossamer Blue's FB page and say hi! Lori is the best and I want you all to tell her so. :) :)

I'll be back soon with the winners from the giveaways a couple of weeks ago.

xo

S

Sponsor/Small Business Spotlight and Giveaway | Scrap Inspired and Scrapbook and Cards Today Magazine

 

Happy Tuesday Y'all!

Today I have 2 amazing spotlights and giveaways. Please take the time to read each spotlight and visit these sponsors via social media and say hi.

I've said it a million times already, I'll say it a million times more. I love supporting and spotlighting women and small businesses I believe in. And I love that this blog gives me that opportunity. To share things like this.So thanks for reading. :)

Scrap Inspired is where you can find inspiration guru Monica Bradford.
Monica loves finding and sharing all kinds of inspiration. Whether it's scrapbooking, photography, or Project Life ideas you are looking for, she shares it all…with a few silly scrappy music videos tossed in just to make you smile.

Speaking of inspiration, Monica's newest class "Your Summer Inspired" is chock full of scrappy inspiration to help you tell the story of your life. You will discover how the warmth, the fun, the joys of summer can easily inspire your scrapbooking!

In this fun online class you will receive 2 weeks of daily inspirational emails with actionable prompts to get you inspired. Monica, along with two guest designers, will share original layout ideas based on the prompts. There will be scrapbook process videos, a live chat, AND an exclusive bonus interview with Stacy Julian on the topic of inspiration!

Make sure to visit Monica on Facebook and say I sent you!


And one of you can enter to win this class absolutely FREE!

But Monica doesn't want anyone to feel left out, so she is also offering $10 off the purchase price of "Your Summer Inspired"using the coupon code STEPHANIE at checkout. But class begins on July 1st! So go ahead and grab a spot now. If you win the giveaway Monica will refund your money!

Register today and enjoy your most inspiring summer ever.


Okay, y'all. Listen. I'm about to go off on a little bit of a tangent. But I tend to do that about things I'm passionate about.

This industry is struggling a little bit. And every few months a publication I love to read either folds, or goes to digital only. And that makes me sad.

I love magazines. LOVE. I love the feel of them in my hands. I love to flip through them in the bath. I am especially a fan of scrapbooking magazines. And it breaks my heart that there aren't many left.

You know what is left? My favorite. Scrapbook and Cards Today magazine. You are missing out if you don't subscribe to this magazine. It is fabulous. The women behind this publication are fabulous, the content is fabulous, the contributors are fabulous...I could go on and on. Did you know Ali Edwards recently started contributing to SCT? Yep. Fabulous.

Oh...did I mention it's FREE?

You can download/view the latest issue of Scrapbook & Cards Today HERE.

SO...

Subscribe.

Read the blog.

Follow SCT on Facebook.

You won't regret it. I promise. What do you think I've been
reading on this road trip? :)

Scrapbook & Cards Today are thrilled to offer a lucky reader a one year subscription along with a copy of their latest special issue CardMaps Vol 3.

 

If you'd like to win either of these super fun giveaways, leave a comment here (specifying a preference, if you have one) and I'll post the winners with next week's sponsor spotlight.

Good luck!!

xo

S