Hello SCT friends and welcome to day one of our 9th birthday celebration! If you have followed our blog for a while (or since 2008!) then you'll know we love to celebrate milestones, we love to celebrate our partners that help to make SCT magazine possible and we love to celebrate YOU. Today we bring all of these amazing things together and welcome you to this birthday party that is going to last for 9 fun and inspiration filled days! A lot has happened in 9 years and we have a lot to celebrate. Here are some fun stats we pulled together:
- 9 years in this papercraft industry
- 36 issues
- 10 special issues
- 3,504 printed pages of inspiration
- 75 shows/events
- 8 seasonal kits
- 100K facebook fans
- 3.9 million views on this blog
- …and so much more!!!
We have laughed a lot, we have cried happy tears and we have made amazing memories in these nine years. We have connected with you through our print magazine, our digital magazine, our Crop & Create events, through Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Pinterest and our beautiful seasonal kits. You are a part of all that we do and for the next 9 days we hope you'll join our amazing team and our amazing partners who, like us, love to celebrate and LOVE to celebrate our readers! The very reason why we do what we do. Each day our team has come together with a fun celebratory project to share and our partners have provided a HUGE loot bag for one lucky reader each day. How fun is that? So thank you so much for coming, let's kick off the start of our 10th year in style and let's get this PARTY started with a free cute file from design team member Nicole Nowosad!!!
"It’s time to kick off the birthday celebration and we have a fun birthday cut file for our loyal readers and fans! Just a little something to say THANKS and our birthday gift to you for supporting us!
The SCT team was challenged to use this cut file to make something worthy of a celebration and here is what I came up with:
Supplies: Patterned paper: We R Memory Keepers; Enamel Dots: My Mind’s Eye; Glitter and double sided adhesive: Silhouette; Twine: May Arts; Mist: Heidi Swapp
I tried to use a few different images from this fun freebie, so I went with a simple cake and candles for the win!
I am so honored to be included in a talented group of people that make up this magazine, and so proud that Scrapbook and Cards Magazine has been so successful year over year… and proud to be in print! Congratulations and a big Happy Birthday to SCT!!!" ~ Nicole Nowosad
9th birthday loot bag – Day ONE!
"Happy Birthday Scrapbook & Cards Today! They say time flies when you are having fun and it must be true-we can't believe you are turning nine this year! We have loved your beautiful publication since the beginning! Thank you for all of the hard work that goes into making everything so special for the rest of us to enjoy! Our partnership and friendship will forever be cherished! We want to wish you many more successful years!" ~ Love, Doodlebug
This fun prize package is filled with an assortment of goodies from our new spring collection-"hello sunshine!" The lucky winner will receive a 12 x 12 paper pack which contains one each of all 11 new double-sided cardstocks and a "this & that" sticker sheet, an icon sticker sheet, a sticker frill, a spring flower craft kit, spring glitter sprinkles, flower shaped sprinkles, fun flower doodle-pop, a 6×6 paper pad, one package of our new lime mini doilies and two rolls of washi tape! What a perfect way to scrap a sunshiny spring day!
"Enjoy creating this Spring with a fun prize package of Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® supplies! Wishing our friends Scrapbook & Cards Today a very Happy Birthday! Congratulations on 9 inspiring and amazing years! We look forward to 'sticking' with you for many more!!!"
Thank you Doodlebug and Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® for these amazing prizes to kick off this fun celebration! For an opportunity to win each day's prize package, just leave one comment (only one!) each day before 12:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 4th and on and on Sunday, April 5th we will announce all the winners right here. Good luck!
As always, we love it when our readers hop on over to the Facebook pages of our partners to give a big "SCT thank you!" Our partners love hearing from our readers and love how much appreciation comes to them for the prizes they offer so please take a minute each day if you can to show them some love! Their loot bags are always the best around!
We hope you'll join us for day two tomorrow!
~ The SCT team
Have you seen our new spring issue released yesterday! Filled with spring inspiration you can download it for FREE right here!
Happy Birthday SCT!!!! So happy you’ve been around for the last 9 years!
Happy Anniversary!! Wishing you many more!
Great spring issue to mark SCT’s 9th anniversary. Happy to celebrate with you.
HB SCT!
Happy birthday! 9 Years..why, you’re practically a new born! Looking forward to many, many more!!! Enjoy! And thanks for your generous “birthday gift” for your fans!
Happy birthday SCT and many, many more.
Congratulations on your 9th Birthday! How awesome! Thank you for offering such great give-a-ways!
I love your magazine and all the fun up to date articles you feature. Thanks SCT.
Happy 9th birthday SCT!
HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY! Congrats on 9 years! What great partners you have in Doodlebug and 3L! Together you all make this world fun! Birthday blessings, Amy Hanschen
Happy 9th. I love all inspiration from the blog and magazine. Wishing you many more years of success. Love your designers and contributors, they keep me inspired.
Thanks for the chance to win. Wish the postage was cheaper for overseas fans to get a hard copy of the magazine.
Love reading the magazine on-line and being inspired by all the articles.
Happy Birthday!! Great cut file!!
Happy Birthday,
Happy birthday to many more. Your a fabulous company.
Jenn Z
Congratulations! Here’s wishing you many more years of creativity and FUN !!
Happy, Happy Birthday SCT! And what a fabulous loot bag. Live the sunshiny colours. And who couldn’t use more adhesives!
Happy birthday and congratulations!!! I look forward to celebrating many more of these milestones with you.
Happy 9th birthday! Best wishes for many more. ;-)
Happy 9th Birthday to SCT, such a wonderful magazine so full of ideas, info and inspiration. Can’t believe 9 years have past. WOW what a fantastic prize this is, the kit from Doodlebug is awesome and full of everything needed to make beautiful projects, and of course the most important item in any project, the glue from Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L. This is one sticky product and ever so reliable. Would love to win this prize. Happy 9th Birthday SCT and thanks for everything.
Happy Birthday SCT!!!! You are all AMAZING!!!!! Wishing you many more happy years to come!
Happy 9th birthday and thank you for the chance to win the supa-sweet prizes!
Wow — happy Birthday to you! Love the card and its bright Spring colors! Can’t wait for the next 8 days!
Thanks for 9 years of inspiration.
I found you recently. Thank you for the opportunity to download the magazine for free! Happy birthday!
I have all the issues and love them all happy birthday!!!
Happy birthday and many more.
Happy birthday SCT! Thanks for the cut files!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!!!
Happy, Happy Birthday!! Love your magazine and all the free cut files!! Thank you for the chance to win this awesome giveaway!!
Happy Birthday SCT!
Happy 9th birthday SCT
Easy for me to remember, the same age as my granddaughter.!
Love the magazine and have every issue.
Happy Birthday!
Happy 9th Birthday, SCT friends! Because of my stalkerish tendencies, I “accidentally” discovered Crop and Create (thank you, Catherine!), have enjoyed every single issue till there’s a tab on almost every page to scraplift, and have made precious lifelong friends. All because of a single issue I was given at a store in Buffalo the first time I shopped there as a “gift with purchase”. I celebrate you practically every day!
Happy birthday SCT ! I have started reading the new issue and while I haven’t read everything yet, it looks full of great inspiration!
Thanks for the giveaways too, fingers crossed!
Happy Birthday! Thanks for the amazing prize giveaway!
Happy 9th Birthday!! Here’s to many more! ????
9 years! Way to go!! Happy birthday SCT!!
Happy Birthday and thanks to the prize sponsors.
Happy 9th bday SCT…..awesome giveaway…thank you for celebrating with us.
Happy 9th Birthday to you!! Great prize pack!
Happy, Happy Anniversary!! May you have many more! You have inspired me to create on my best days, and even on my worst, so Thank You! I download the digital edition so that I can have it in my craft room to reference, and take with me to browse. I just love it!
I Love everything you do SCT! Your team is amazing! Happy 9 th Birthday! Every issue is better than the last one!! I appreciate the time and effort your team puts into your events, kits and issues! Thanks for years of inspiration!
Happy!Happy Birthday! This is going to be so much fun
And exciting. Love all your ideas that inspire me so!
Happy Birthday SCT. Looking forward to the next 9 days. Whenever there is a celebration there is always amazing prizes! Today’s prize is no exception.
A Very Crafty Happy 9th Birthday, SCT!
Happy birthday SCT! What a gorgeous collection by Doodlebug to kickstart the celebrations!
Happy Birthday! Here’s to MANY more!!!