Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Guest Designer in August

We're excited to announce that we have a Guest Designer this month!


Linda Abadie has created some awesome designs with our August Original kit. You can read her bio and see all of her cards and layouts on our message board: http://sugardumplinclub.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=330

Please stop by and let her know how well she did!


Thursday, July 5, 2007

New DT Coordinator!

I am extremely PLEASED to announce that Jennifer Colosimo is now the Design Team Coordinator for sugardumplin.com!!! Her leadership qualities are well suited for this role. She brings fresh ideas, incentive challenges, and will take the lead in recruiting other DT members. Jennifer's experience and expertise will help us to better serve you, our customers.

Sunday, July 1, 2007

July Sketch Contest

Jen's at it again...with another fantastic challenge! See her details below.


Hi EveryoneI tend to scrap 12x12 size pages specifically. I have done some 8x8 albums, usually as gifts and even smaller albums but for my own everyday pages, I tend to stick with 12x12. I think it's because my albums are 12x12 and if I wanted to do a different size page, would it sit all by itself waiting for an album. I am horrible at putting my pages into albums anyways but I at least know they have an album home to go to when I decide to put them away. Anyways, I ran across this on 2 Peas:


After looking at this, I said to myself "what a freeing way to scrap." I love the idea that you can mix up an album with different pages but have it all flow. Ever feel like you only have one good picture to scrap and 12x12 seems so overwhelming. You could just do one 8x8 LO or maybe an 8.5 x 11. How fun!SOOOOOO, this leads to the July challenge. I decided to provide 2 sketches but instead of being 12x12, they are 11 x 8.5 landscape. The sketches are brand new for July from www.pagemaps.com. If you have not used one of their sketches before, be sure to check their site out!

Here is the 1st sketch:




Here is the 2nd sketch:




Use one sketch as inspiration to make a LO. Hopefully some of you will make a landscape one but that is not a requirement. For those of you who scrap strict 12x12, you can also participate and just adapt the sketch to suit your needs. I want to see any and all inspiration. Please post your design to the gallery and make sure "July sketch contest" is part of the title and feel free to post and share here too!The contest will run from July 1st through midnight EST on July 27th. You can enter more than once if you like. All entries will be entered into a drawing where one winner will be chosen. Want to know the prize? Of course you do! The prize for this contest will be a set of Autumn Leaves Calendar stamps as seen here:


Thanks for participating!
Jen

August Sneak Peeks

The August ORIGINAL kit will feature Daisy d's Chasing Butterflies. Don't those pinwheels remind you of summertime when you were a kid?




The August SEASONAL kit will feature Pebbles Inc. The theme is "Family Vacation".