Thank you for joining us as we wrap up our International Scrapbook Day event! Today’s event schedule is below. If you’re just joining us now, be sure to click on our previous posts for more inspiration!

9:00 AM: PageMaps sketch challenge & a sweet surprise from Anya Lunchenko! (click here)

10:00 AM: Join designers Nicole Nowosad & Melissa Phillips with a scraplift challenge  (click here)

12:00 PM:  Join designers Lisa Dickinson & Jen Gallacher with a card challenge  (click here)

2:00 PM:  Join designers Stacy Cohen, Latisha Yoast & Virginia Nebel with a design challenge (click here)

4:00 PM:  Join designers Sheri Reguly & Paige Evans with a colour challenge  (click here)

6:00 PM:  Join designers Meghann Andrew & Cathy Z as we wrap up the day!   <—- we are here!

It’s been a fun-filled day celebrating our love of papercrafting! Whether you’re a scrapbooker, card maker, do pocket pages, minis, decor pieces or more, we are great community brought together by our love of creating things that will be loved for a long time to come.  Give yourself a little credit and a pat on the back for that! As we connect with readers around the world through our magazine, our Crop & Create events, online classes, SCT Delivered kits or SCT Sampler we are grateful to be in your company! Let’s wrap up this day with more inspiration from design team member Meghann Andrew and our Art Director Cathy Zielske is also popping in with a little something too. To end this day with a big finish we have a $100 prize package from our friends at American Crafts!

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Hello there! It’s Meghann Andrew, and I am so excited to be here with you for interNational Scrapbook Day! The SCT spring issue is packed with tons of inspirational projects, and when I find only a limited amount of time to create, getting inspiration from inside its pages is SO helpful! I was especially inspired by Tammy Ziolkowski’s “Amazing” layout on page 71 in the Inspiration Gallery.

I loved the idea of having multiple photos on a diagonal line with a BIG title! I pulled together a series of similar photos of my daughter to create this page:

Supplies: Patterned paper, stickers, chipboard, stamp, die-cut: American Crafts; Enamel dots: Pinkfresh Studio

As you can see, our pages are very different. I chose a saturated and vibrant color scheme by using the colorful Box of Crayons collection from Shimelle and American Crafts. I also printed my photos larger than Tammy at 2″ x 3″ and created a shelf for my title with contrasting patterned paper.

However different, the design of my page was totally inspired by Tammy’s beautiful layout, and I absolutely love the result! Don’t forget to turn to your latest issue of SCT magazine for creative inspiration when you are short on time. Happy interNational Scrapbook Day, and happy creating!” ~ Meghann Andrew

Art Director Cathy Zielske has created a free download including a title cut file and a layered template to help you preserve a magical moment of your own! Stop by Cathy’s blog for the download below and video tutorial as she walks you through her page building process.

GIVEAWAY!

Let’s wrap up this amazing day in a big way! Like REALLY BIG! Our sweet (and generous!) friends at American Crafts send us a goody box each month and today we want to share that with one lucky reader. How would you like a $100+ American Crafts prize package to land in your crafty space? We have a little Crate Paper, Shimelle, Amy Tan, Vicki Boutin, Paige Evans and more in this prize package. It’s pretty awesome and all brand new products. Thank you American Crafts for all the love and support you provide to us and to our amazing readers!

To enter our iNSD giveaways:

  1. Leave a comment below by May 13th;
  2. For a second entry, leave a comment on the post with this prize on our Instagram page;
  3. For a third entry, leave a comment on the post with this prize on our Facebook page;
  4. One winner for each prize today will be randomly selected and announced on May 16th.
  5. You do not have to participate in the challenge for our hourly prizes…but we would love it if you do!

We sure hope you’ve had a wonderful day. A day where you have felt inspired and excited to either by in your crafty space or are looking forward to carving some time out this week to take part in one or more of our challenges. We appreciate you and we appreciate all you bring to this beautiful community. We hope you’ll share our posts with your friends and on social media. The more the merrier!

Thanks for an awesome day. xoxoxo

~ Catherine Tachdjian, Publisher, Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine