Good morning SCT friends and welcome to International Scrapbook Day 2018 with Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine! For the past 12 years, we have enjoyed celebrating this day with our readers around the world and are excited to spend another fun day with you by providing inspiration, challenges and prizes all day long! Here is today’s schedule of events:
9:00 AM: PageMaps sketch challenge & a sweet surprise from Anya Lunchenko!
10:00 AM: Join designers Nicole Nowosad & Melissa Phillips with a scraplift challenge
12:00 PM: Join designers Lisa Dickinson & Jen Gallacher with a card sketch challenge
2:00 PM: Join designers Stacy Cohen, Latisha Yoast and Virginia Nebel with a design challenge
4:00 PM: Join designers Sheri Reguly & Paige Evans with a colour challenge
6:00 PM: Join designers Meghann Andrew & Cathy Z as we wrap up the day!
We hope you’re in a creative place today however if you’re not able to join us each hour we post today, not to worry. Our challenges will be open all week long so that when you can carve some crafty time, we’ll be right there with you. Ready to get started?
Our first challenge today is a PageMaps sketch challenge! This beautiful sketch created by Becky Fleck is an exclusive sketch that appears in our new Spring 2018 issue (download/view for free!) We would LOVE to see what you create with it.
Flip it, turn it, add a second page. Make it yours! We always love to see what you create with our sketch challenges and hope you’ll use this fabulous PageMaps sketch to record one of your favourite memories. And then share it with us of course!
Challenge Guidelines:
- Create a layout based on the PageMaps sketch above and send an image of it to us at ideas@scrapbookandcards.com.
- Please put “iNSD PageMaps challenge” in your reference line.
- Please ensure your image is less than 2mb.
- You have until May 13th to send your submission to us. We will share a selection of today’s challenge submissions on May 16th!
But wait there’s more! Joining us to kick off the day we have one of our new design team members Anya Lunchenko here to share a fun layout in the shape of a box!
“Today, I want to share with you one of my go-to projects for any occasion – the explosion box. To make this box I used a scoring board and white cardstock for the frame of the box and lid, and decorated it with the “Wish Upon a Star” collection by Echo Park Paper.
For the box, I took a 9×9” piece of white cardstock and added score lines to it every three inches vertically and horizontally. Then, I trimmed all four square corners.
The lid measures slightly larger than 3” to make sure it fits the box (approximately 3 1/16”). There’s a number of different ways to create the lid, but again I use the same scoring board and leave small flaps on the sides to glue the lid together. You may also use a digital die cutting machine to cut a similar box form.
Decorating one of these is a lot of fun and it is my favorite part. I love to combine colors, shapes, die cut pieces, stickers, fussy cut pieces and other decorative elements inside and out. One of the other things that make similar boxes more fun is the dimension. I love to add a few layers with pop dots.
Similar boxes can be used as a fun way to present a small gift, a gift card, or as this one was made – to surprise kids with tickets to Disney World. Hope you can give this idea a try one day!” ~ Anya
Thank you Anya! Definitely, a cute way to share tickets to Disney!
GIVEAWAY!
Of course, what is a celebration without a great prize to kick off the day? Our friends at Simple Stories are joining us to share their brand new Crafty Girl collection with one lucky winner this hour!
To enter our iNSD giveaways:
- Leave a comment below by May 13th;
- For a second entry, leave a comment on the post with this prize on our Instagram page;
- For a third entry, leave a comment on the post with this prize on our Facebook page;
- One winner for each prize today will be randomly selected and announced on May 16th.
- You do not have to participate in the challenge for our hourly prizes…but we would love it if you do!
Please join us in one hour for our next challenge and to see some beautiful artwork from Nicole Nowosad and Melissa Phillips!
Join us again at 10:00 am!
What a great way to start the day!!
Wow! This looks like a really fun filled day of scrapbooking. I am so looking forward to it. And this prize would be awesome to win! Thank you so much for the chance.
Love the colours in this collection – thanks for the chance to win!
Happy NSD :)
Happy iNSD! Gorgeous and super fun explosion box. Thanks to SCT and Simple Stories for sponsoring this fun day!
I love that box! It would be such fun to embellish it! Thanks for sharing!
Happy International Scrapbook Day! Let the festivities begin!!
Happy (Inter)national Scrapbook Day! Unfortunately, it’s our senior brunch today so I won’t be SBing…but, I might just have to stop in to Michael’s and HL to check things out! Great prize, love it. And, love, love, love the Mickey box!
What a great day I’ve been looking forward to! I love the Disney box so much! I’ll put that on my project to do list! I have been eyeing this Simple Stories collection and would be so tickled to win this! Happy, Happy iNSD to everyone!!!
Life sometimes gets in the way! I have to work all day but would rather be crafting!
I hope all the peeps get to play with paper today.
Happy iNSD! Fun times!
I’ve bee n waiting for this weekend to scrapbook. Happy NSD!
I am so excited for today & all week to get back into scrapbooking. It kind of fell to the wayside a few
years ago and I really need to get my family album up to date!
Love spending NSD with SCT. Going to work on the challenges and, of course, enter all the giveaways! Thanks for the opportunities ????
Love the crafty girl set by Simple Stories! Happy NSD!
You have so much fun planned that I am going to ignore this head cold and get crafty anyway! Thanks for the chance to win!
Yay!! What a sweet collection! I am not crafting today, but am saving all of these ideas for when I can!
Woo Hoo! Here we go!
Cute explosion box!
Happy NSD ???? I love the page sketch and the box , well be still my heart. I love simple stories and of course would love the addition to my
stash! Have a winderfully creative day ❣️
Love the sketch – can’t wait to jump in and try it. Happy NSD!!
What a great way to start the creative juices flowing. Love the sketch and would just love to win the prize package as I have been admiring so many layouts using this paper!!! Looking forward to a day full of inspiration and encouragement! Happy NSD2018!!
Happy International Scrapbooking day! What a pretty collection! Looking forward to seeing what else you have in store for the day!
I JUST woke up!!!! Can’t wait to get started. Love the Crafty Girl line. And…I think I will do an explosion box for a Shower Card theme. Thanks for all the ideas.
What a kick off! Love the sketch and of course I need that Crafty Girl collection from Simple Stories – it would be perfect to scrapbook this iNSD day!
I love love love Simple Stories goodies.
Thank you for the inspiration for the Exposion Box. I can’t wait to do it for a shower card. Also Love the Crafty Girl line.
So excited to get this NSD started! And, what a great set from Simple Stories!! Let the fun begin!
Happy iNSD – so much fun! Love the Cafty Girl kit
oops i mean Crafty
Love the opportunity to spend the day together, crafting!
Lovely day to scrap!
Wow what a great way to kick off such a fun day. Thanks for the chance to win!
What a fun day!
Excellent! I have to pick up some pictures today, and I love your challenges and Pagemaps sketches and will play along. Thanks for all the inspiration, and thanks for the chance to win! Happy iNSD to all!
Happy National Scrapbook Day! A big thank-you to SCT for kicking off iNSD with a bang!! I am hoping to get to my craft space later today to tackle some of the challenges! Have a fabulous day everyone!
I love the challenges and the give- aways! Happy NSD!???????????????? It’s fun and rewarding to be a paper crafter.
I love sketches! Great challenge. That out of the box project is AMAZING!! Thanks for the chance to win! Thank you Simple Stories!
Great sketch! Love the box card too! Simple Stories Crafty Girl Collection rocks! I can tell that this is going to be a busy and fun day! TFS!
Great sketch, and love the explosion box!
Happy iNSD everyone! This year, i am free to participate in the challenges – yay! Love the prize this hour. This SS collection is on my To Buy list.
Great idea to have the challenges, I wish I was at home to do them!! However, will check back later. Love Simple Stories and they couldn’t have picked a better product line for them to sponsor for this giveaway this morning! Thanks Simple Stories and SCT!!
Happy International Scrapbooking day! I love that box! What a clever and great idea. Thanks for sharing and the chance to win!
I would like to do the challenge, but don’t know how to post my photos :( But hopefully I can still win a prize! Thank you!
Happy Scrapbooking Day! Awesome paper/embellishments would be so fun to work with, thanks for the chance to win!
Starting the day off right with some really cute ideas!! Thanks for the inspiration. . . now excuse me while I go get crafty!!
Just what I needed, challenges to get me started today. I love the give-away. I always love trying new products.
I love the explosion box! Thanks for a chance to win!
Thanks for making this day so fun.
Happy International Scrapbooking Day. Nice start to the day .I love the Simple Stories prize, Love the colours
Happy International Scrapbooking Day everyone. I hope everyone is getting their craft on and being creative today. I love Simple Stories. And after meeting Layle from Ss at Moncton Crop and Create she brought it to whole new level. Thanks SCT magazine for giving me a chance to win this beautiful prize
Love the explosion box and will add the idea to my project list! Happy NSD everyone!!