"I’m thrilled to be blogging today for Scrapbook & Cards Today as we kick off our 10th year celebration both in print and online. Ten years in the publishing business, especially in our crafty business, is a long time, people, and I am honored to have part of the past year.
I know a little something about milestones having just celebrated my 50th birthday. I’m of the firm believe that birthdays are something to be celebrated out loud and for as often as we can get away with it. Still, there is something about the odometer of life ticking off these decade marking occasions that feels like a really big deal.
I love the idea of making a list of things to match your age. I recently made this page to celebrate turning 50 and aptly titled it “50 things I’m grateful for at 50”.
How fun would it be to have a layout like this from every age? As parents, we could make a page for our 10-year-olds, giving them topics and having them fill in the blanks. We could do it for our 20-year-olds, too. Why not?
I plan do do a page like this for every remaining decade that I get to be here and in that spirit, I have a sheet of printable mini banners like the one I used on my page for you to download today. You could apply them to any subject that included these milestone numbers.
Download file HERE (scroll to bottom of web page!)
Thanks especially to you, our readers. I may be one of the more recent additions to this magazine team, but I know we would not be here without you." ~ Cathy Zielske
We also have Amy Tangerine joining us today to share a fun video of her trip to Toronto for Crop & Create Markham and her time on the Marilyn Denis show a few weeks ago! For a sneak peek as to what a Crop & Create event is like and how much fun we have (thanks Vicki!!!), be sure to watch! And the cute Roots hoodie Amy's son Jack opens at the end was from yours truly…and he loved it! (Keep reading friends…some more good things happening below!)
Thanks Amy! We loved sharing the weekend with you too and hope to see you at a Crop & Create event again!
Day SEVEN – Giveaway
Prize 1: Amy Tangerine "Better Together" collection
Our wonderful friends at American Crafts thought it only fitting today to offer a "Better Together" giveaway! Today's winner will receive a selection of this exclusive collection designed by Amy Tan herself!
Prize 2: Jillibean Soup
"Congrats to SCT on 10 years! To celebrate we would like to give away to one lucky winner some of our hottest new releases including the Healthy Hello collection. In fact they are shipping this week to all your favorite retailers!
- Healthy Hello collection pack (13 sheets of paper, die-cut Pea Pod Parts, Coordinating sticker sheet and a Soup Labels sticker sheet)
- Healthy Hello Wood Veneer shapes
- Wood Veneer WordFetti – Life
- Wood Veneer WordFetti – Celebrate
- Wood Veneer Words – Happy
- Wood Veneer Words – Today
Another amazing day of prizes just for YOU! For an opportunity to win this fabulous "loot bag" from American Crafts and Jillibean Soup please be sure to leave a comment below by Wednesday, April 6th! Please also join us each day as we thank our partners for their wonderful prizes and for all their support for SCT over the years by clicking on the links below for their Facebook pages. They will LOVE to hear from you!
Day SEVEN – Cupcake Challenge
Hidden throughout the spring issue are 10 little cupcake/dessert images. Each day we will share the image you are to find and at the end of the 10 days, when you've found all 10 cupcakes that coordinate with the image we share each day, you'll email us and be entered in to the draw to win a $250 mystery box! OH MY! If you don't have a physical copy of the magazine, you can view or download the spring issue HERE. This is today's image you're looking for:
For all our friends celebrating Easter Sunday today, have a wonderful day and if it includes a little chocolate…send a little my way! Day Eight is another amazing day so join us tomorrow friends!
~ Catherine
Publisher, Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine
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Another great day filled with inspiration and fun!! LOVE the idea of doing the photo every decade!! I am going to do this with my grandchildren and even myself! Thanks for the inspiration and the free print file!
More wonderful additions to the loot bag by super generous sponsors!! Lots of happiness will be spread around with all these awesome giveaways!!! Off to find the cupcake!!
I’m totally inspired to go back and find photos of myself at 10, 20, 30 and 40! That would make an awesome layout.
Happy Easter and Happy Birthday. Thanks for the chance to win
Happy Easter!!!
Love the gratitude list to celebrate milestones. Gives me great scrapbook inspiration!
Love the prizes as well. One can never have enough paper………..
So inspiring! happy Easter!
Loving all the ideas…..we always need inspiration to keep moving forward with our projects. The birthday ideas will work for lots of different themes.
What fabulous colors and patterns! Another great day celebrating SCT!
Love the milestone birthday idea! As always, the giveaways are wonderful! Happy Easter! Happy Birthday! And many, many more!
Love the milestones & Cathy too!! Happy Easter!
Have a blessed Easter and congratulations on your birthday!
Happy Easter to all of you. Great projects, and oh those giveaways. Love them.
Love Amy’s exciting video and the great inspiration! Happy birthday SCT!
Love the giveaway today. Great projects and inspiring ideas.
Happy Day 7 and Happy Easter! Awesome 10th birthday celebration, SCT!
Happy Easter! thanks for the inspiration and prize chance.
Love the inspiring ideas and what fantastic “loot bag” additions. Thank you SCT and the sponsors. Have a great Easter!
Happy Easter ! What great collections! Thanks for the chance to win!
Happy Easter. More wonderful projects. Congrats on 10 wonderful years.
Happy Easter! Thanks for Cathy’s banners and the wonderful video from Amy. I loved Crop & Create in Markham, and it was so fun to re-live it through the video!
Cool page idea and more fun prizes!
Wonderful prizes today! Thanks and Happy Easter!
Fun post today! Happy Easter!
Such wonderful generous sponsors you guys have and today is no exception, American Crafts and Jillibean Soup products are amazing. Love the wood veneer embellishments and the paper is so beautiful Would love this loot bag. SCT, you are celebrating your 10th birthday and we get all the prizes. Love this party. lol
Cathy is such a great scrapper and her blog is inspiring and funny. Love today’s prizes. They are two of my favorite manufacturers
Oh my gosh what a fabulous page idea! I turn 51 in a couple weeks so I’d better hurry up and do this :o). Seriously, thanks for such a wonderful idea. Loving the prizes again today! What amazing sponsors you have for this birthday celebration. Thanks so much!
Love these projects! Great prizes, too! I’ve left my love for both AC and JBS on FB. Happy Easter Sunday SCT AND Happy Birthday!
This celebration is so much fun. Love Cathy Zielske and all her work. So simple yet beautiful.
Oh my goodness, I am in love with the idea of the Thankful list for decade birthday celebrations!! I guess they could be for Anniversaries also! I watched Amy Tangerine on the Marilyn Dennis show, and hope that other talk shows will visit the idea and promote scrapbooking! The Jillibean soup collection looks smashing… I have never worked with product from that company before, so would love to win! Thanks for the great giveways today!
Great banners – I’m coming up on ***70*** (how did that happen?), so I’ll definitely be using these. The prize products are terrific once again – especially love the wood veneer. Thanks for everything!
May the butterflies of spring inspire all as we look to new life about us! Happy celebrating!
Happy Easter! LOVE this idea of a milestone page… makes me wish I was 29 or 39 so I could start with a big one today! Cathy is brilliant & heartfelt – great team addition. And the prizes today are top notch as always – thanks for bringing the fun S&CT!
Happy Easter to everyone! I had lots of fun and inspiration from Amy’s classes in Toronto! Hopefully she will come back soon again! :) Thank you all for the wonderful giveaways!!!
I love Cathy’s idea for a milestone birthdays!!!! What a great way to make your birthday about gratitude and joy instead of age! ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for sharing life at 50! It seems like you are just getting started and have a lot more fun to accomplish within the next decade. Thank you as well for the fun banners!
Another wonderful day of great prizes!
More great inspiration and another great giveaway!! Thanks for sharing!
Happy Easter! Love Amy’s video and ideas. Great prizes today. Happy Birthday SCT!
Such wonderful inspiration and great prizes!!!
Happy Easter!!
Thank you sponsors for some great prizes ♥
I love todays project and amazing giveaways!!
Amy’s video is WONDERFUL!!! Made me smile the whole time I was watching it:)
Amy Tangerine collections are fantastic. Happy Easter!
Oh wow…stunning prizes from AC and Jillibean Soup! Thank you! Love all of it!! And what a fun video by Amy Tan! TFS!! Happy Easter SCT!!
Happy Easter to all!
Love cathy’s idea and thanks for the download. Beautiful giveaways.
Loved seeing our fabulous weekend through Amy’s eyes, so much fun!
Fantastic give away here , colorful.
I love Cathy’s layout!
Happy Easter SCT! Thanks for the celebration candy.
Love the 50 things list. Another idea is to do what Kelly Purkey does and document goals for the year (like 30 goals at age 30 etc). Thanks for the chance!