TGIF friends! Take a deep breath and get ready to plunge in to a great weekend! We have just finished packing up and are heading out to set up at ScrapFest in Kitchener, Ontario. If you are planning on attending, we hope you'll stop by our booth and say "hello!"
We are also excited today to share some happy news and announce a new SCT partner! Please give a warm welcome to our friends at Echo Park and Carta Bella! With bright happy colours and beautiful patterns and designs, it is a go-to company that we welcome to the SCT family! Of course, they wanted to join us in style and offer one more birthday gift to you! In fact, in true Echo Park style, they have gone one step further and have offered TWO birthday prize collections – Birthday Wishes Boy and Birthday Wishes Girl designed by Alisha Gordon!
"Getting ready to celebrate a birthday or party? Echo Park has just released our newest Birthday Wishes Collections! Two collections for boys or girls. Includes 6 sheets double sided, alphabet and a element sticker with solids to match."
Can you just imagine creating with these collections? For any opportunity to win one of these collections, please leave us a note below and tell us your favourite birthday memory! How fun to hear what made you smile on your birthday! Be sure to leave a note below by Thursday, April 16 at 6:00 p.m. EST. Good luck!
We would also love it if you could hop on over to Echo Park's facebook page and give them a wave, a "welcome to SCT! and a "thank you" for such great prizes today! We've told them that SCT readers are loud and proud so leave a comment if you can!
We also gave lots of prizes away over the last week and we have some winners to announce!!!
Wood sign from Fynes Designs:
Super cute sign:) Posted by: Sue Moody | March 30, 2015 at 10:34 PM
2 Tickets to ReBash in Toronto, Ontario (and they gave us an extra pair!)
Awesome. I would love to go with my daughter who's getting married this August. Posted by: Judy | April 01, 2015 at 08:07 PM
This would be awesome for my daughter. She is engaged and they have just started the wedding planning. She is so into Vintage too :) Posted by: Nina Oelke | April 01, 2015 at 05:59 PM
A spot in Jen Gallacher's new Craftsy online class:
Wow beautiful ! Would be awesome to have a spot on Jen's class :) Posted by: Angeline Choo | April 03, 2015 at 08:23 AM
A spot in Ali Edwards' brand new "TYPE" class
I would love to win a spot in the class – Ali is such an amazing person, and I'd love to learn how to use type/fonts/incorporate more journaling in my PL spreads :) Posted by: Michelle C. | April 05, 2015 at 08:33 AM
Yes, lots of winners! If you've seen your name here, be sure to send your mailing address and telephone number to catherine@scrapbookandcards.com and put "blog winner" in your reference line. Thanks for playing along!
Off to set up our booth at ScrapFest! Have a wonderful day and an equally wonderful weekend!
~ Catherine
Publisher, Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine
Pssst….we are working on something very fabulous for interNational Scrapbook Day on May 2nd. Mark your calendars friends as you'll want to be right here…all day…hint, hint!
I don’t have a favorite birthday memory… I remember quite a few birthday parties, but nothing seems to stand out particularly…
lots of birthday memories, especially the one that I got my hearing back after a successful surgery!!
Thanks for such giveaways!!
My favorite birthday memory is that twenty six years ago my oldest daughter was born on my birthday – which is next week! It’s lovely to share that special day.
I remember one year when my twin sister and I got banana seat bikes! We were so excited!!!
I like going to OliveGarden for my birthday.
One of my favorite birthday memories us going roller skating with friends all night long! We had the best time!
Love the new birthday collections! My favorite memory is grade school roller skating rink birthday party…those were the days!!
Love the new birthday collections! My favorite memory is grade school roller skating rink birthday party…those were the days!!
One year they gave my twin sister and I a surprise party. When i walked in, I yelled shut up!!
I have to say my 50th party last year was my fondest. It’s a big number and just reminds you that time goes by fast. My sister made it special by giving me a handmade chocolate chip cookie with 50 chips in it; 50 pennies; and a $50. gift card. We don’t usually spend that much at all, so it made turning 50 great!
I will never forget when my hubby decorated my car for my 30th birthday. Students and coworkers kept wishing me a happy birthday. I had no idea how they knew it was my birthday. Then after work I walked outside and saw my car. It was a fun day!
I will never forget when my hubby decorated my car for my 30th birthday. Students and coworkers kept wishing me a happy birthday. I had no idea how they knew it was my birthday. Then after work I walked outside and saw my car. It was a fun day!
a birthday dinner with all my best friends in NYC :)
I love celebrating my birthday withbmy family every year, very grateful to them all!
I love a well executed surprise birthday….and my birthday last year was just that. Well done, sweet husband!
Well, it wasn’t my birthday, but my sister got a brand new two wheeler for hers. It had training wheels, a banana seat and tassels on the handlebars. When she was at school the following Monday I learned how to ride her bike(before she did). Boy was she mad!!
My favorite memory..my 50th! Hubby planned a surprise party. This was an awesome gift in itself but the most cherished….he put together a scrapbook of my childhood to present day.
He did this by himself! He paper scrapped and digi scrapped. It took him almost a year to do! This is a guy who is in the building profession not the scrapbook world! Looking at it and seeing the hard work and thought he put into still makes me cry…happy tears of course!
The birthday party when my mom gave everyone sugar cookie dough and let create to our hearts content or the time I thought everyone had forgotten and they were all waiting for me to come home for a surprise party. Both bring back great feelings of love and friendship.
I don’t have a particular favorite birthday memory. But I do have one that will always stay in my memories. On my birthday, 2/20/2006, my husband was rushed to the ER from work with stroke symptoms. That and another incident two weeks later led to a diagnosis of a terminal malignant brain tumor on his birthday, 5/25/2006. I lost him on 11/24/2011-Thanksgiving Day. So even though my birthdays are always special, another day gifted from God, that birthday will always be a sad memory.
So happy to see Echo Park and Carta Bella joining SCT!! Echo Park has been my absolute fave ever since they came on the paper-crafting scene! I have a birthday coming up in early May, and I remember my 50th….hubby proclaimed it to the whole community on a big industrial sign! At least it wasn’t bra’s and panties!!
My favorite birthdays are the ones that I’m with family. That’s more special to me than gifts. I love it when my husband takes me out to eat and we have a nice evening out. He’s my best gift that I’ve ever had!
My Favorite BD memory was getting my new bike. It was bigger than me and it took awhile to get big enough to really ride it well, but I had it into adulthood! Then passed it to another young lady and it served her well. “)
Celebrating my birthday on Mother’s Day the year I became a mom was pretty special!
My favorite Birthday was the year my husband, who NEVER does gifts, treated me to a weekend away for a Bingo and gambling trip to Foxwoods Casino! He planned everything and I had an amazing time and even won BIG! I was the happiest gal in the world and felt so loved!
My favorite birthday memory … getting an Easy Bake Oven as a child!
My favorite birthday memory … getting an Easy Bake Oven as a child!
My favorite birthday memory … getting an Easy Bake Oven as a child!
I am so excited that Echo Park has finally come aboard! I love that the top Birthday Wishes collection is traditional colours but tweaked to make it feel fresh. Beautiful!
It’s hard to pick one favorite birthday, but one of the most memorable was in junior high when I thought all my friends had forgotten my birthday but they had schemed with my mom to surprise me with a birthday dinner out! I was absolutely shocked!
All birthdays are special and getting together with family is the best present ever. We now celebrate with our little grandchildren and see just how much more goes into birthdays these day. Would just love to win this Birthday Wishes Collection from Echo Park, oh the cards I could create with it. So beautiful. Welcome Echo Park and Carta Bella you have come to the right place!
All my birthdays are special! Time with loved ones is the most important.
My fave birthday has got to be when my boys were old enough to make me a homemade birthday card with their writing on it…
My favorite birthday memory was the year a gentleman from our church brought me a whole trunk full of gladiolus for my birthday! I had vases everywhere full of beautiful flowers, 3 days later my middle daughter was born and I missed the flowers so he brought me a bunch more new ones to enjoy! I felt very special!
Birthdays always meant family and cake! ;-)
One of my favorite birthday memories is when our 5 children made me a birthday greeting which said Happy Birthday Mom out of their erector set! Precious!
My favourite birthday was my Alice in Wonderland themed 23rd birthday party… I had so much fun planning it with my friends and I even had out of town guests come all the way just to see me for my birthday.
The birthday giveaway is amazing! I have many favorite birthdays, but probably there are two…when I was 6 my Dad bought me an ice cream maker and he and I stayed up forever making ice cream. It was fun and very messy!
When I turned 50 my husband had a surprise party for me. Since I live several hours from my family, my husband had my closest friends and family from here and far away come. It was a girl’s night and everyone spent the night (except for him, he stayed at a motel). He stocked the house with food and wine, hired a girl to do the party, decorate and brought along a massage therapist! It was such a surprise and so much fun! The biggest surprise, he is not one to do something like this, made it even more special!
My favorite birthday memory is my 8th birthday when I got my lavendar bike with a flowered banana seat and handlebar tassels (yes, I guess I am dating myself!).
I {heart} EP! Thanks for the prize chance.
One of my best birthday memories was the surprise party my parents threw for me on my 17th birthday. It was on a Saturday and they had all of my friends and boyfriend come over to my house early in the morning. I was still in bed sleeping and all of them snuck into my room with a candle lit cake singing happy birthday. I was so surprised when I woke up I did not know what to do!
Nothing starts Friday better than a giveaway! Thank you for always giving away the goodies!
Birthday memories.. So many but I’m going to tell you about this year. On the actual day I was housebound due to a snowstorm! But I had dinner out with a friend a couple of days before and, then a couple of days after, I went to card-making class and was surprised with a little celebration afterwards! Nothing like extending the fun! Scrapbookers and card makers are a great bunch of people.
When you’re as old as I am, it is very hard to come up with one favorite birthday memory. I will be looking for the Birthday Wishes Girl papers in my local store for sure.
My favorite birthday memories are the sleepovers I used to have with my friends. My mom made homemade pizza which was delicious, and she always made a 4 layer chocolate/yellow cake with “3 Musketeer” frosting between the layers and chocolate frosting on the outside…TO DIE FOR! So much fun!!
My favourite memory is being with my family on my birthday.
For my 50th BD, my husband took me to France. We celebrated my “day” in a local restauant in a tiny town in Languedoc region. Loved the dinner wine so much, we tracked down the winery and brought some bottles home.
Welcome Echo Park and Carta Bella – I love scrapbooking with your paper and embellies.
My favorite birthday party would have to be when I turned 40….it seemed it was a party for a week and I just felt so special by my husband and two boys and also my friends. One of the things my husband did for me was he hired a “singing telegram” to come to my work – that was my first time I ever got one of those and I so enjoyed it along with my co-workers. Thanks Echo Park – have a great day!
It is lovely to read some of the comments, especially the one from Cindy in which her husband gave her a scrapbook that he made!
Just wonderful! My favourite birthdays are always the ones in which my family makes me a a home cook meal with a cake! Those are always more special to me then being taken to a restaurant.
Every year my family makes me feel special on my birthday. Love the Echo Park giveaway!
More great partners to have. Thanks for the giveaway.
Jenn Z
One of my favorite childhood birthday memories from many years ago, is going “down town” with my Dad and my twin sister to pick out our own birthday gifts. One of us got a toy kitchen stove and the other got a toy kitchen sink. I can’t remember now which one of us got the stove and which one got the sink. I just remember that we thought it was a big deal to ride the bus downtown go shopping with our Daddy.
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