Good morning SCT friends and welcome to International Scrapbook Day 2019 with Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine! For the past 13 years, we have enjoyed celebrating this special 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 starry surprise from Lisa Dickinson! <—-we are here!
10:00 AM: Join designer Paige Evans with a fun floral challenge
12:00 PM: Join designer Virginia Nebel with a travel challenge
2:00 PM: Join designer Meghann Andrew with a birthday challenge
4:00 PM: Join designer Wendy Sue Anderson with a fun colour challenge
6:00 PM: Join designer Nathalie DeSousa with a celebration challenge
7:00 PM: Join our Creative Editor Jen Gallacher 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 2019 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 15th to send in your submission. We will share a selection of today’s challenge submissions on May 17th!
But wait there’s more! Joining us to kick off the day we have Design Team member Lisa Dickinson here to share a fun layout that has us a little starry-eyed!
“Happy International Scrapbook Day everyone! It’s Lisa Dickinson and I’m excited to share a layout with you on this favorite holiday!
supplies | cardstock: Bazzill Basics; patterned paper: Amy Tangerine; alphabets: American Crafts; electronic cutter: Silhouette Cameo; date stamp: Project Life; misc buttons and thread.
I love a great frame cut file and it’s a simple and easy and way to establish a page design. This star circle frame is available in my Etsy shop and makes a perfect place to incorporate lots of pattern and color. I filled each star and circle with papers from the Amy Tangerine Hustle & Heart collection.
In the center of each star, I stitched various buttons for added texture and dimension. This is a great way to use up any “singles” you may have of brads, buttons, or enamel dots!
In the center of the frame, I added my photos, a block of journaling, and a title that uses a mix of letter stickers and a die-cut word.
Thanks for stopping by and celebrating iNSD with us – enjoy your day!”
~ Lisa Dickinson
GIVEAWAY!
To kick off our iNSD day we would love to offer this hour’s lucky winner a $100 prize package from us here at SCT! In this prize package, our winner will receive a one-year subscription to Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine, our newest Spring Fling layout kit, our new Daffodil Days card kit and more!
To enter our iNSD giveaways:
- Leave a comment below by May 15th;
- 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 17th.
- 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 Paige Evans!
Join us again at 10:00 am!
Love the sketch (and love Lisa’s layout even more!). Off to create! Happy NSD, everyone!!
Oh my STARS I love the layout with the circles and stars (my two favorite shapes together). Such a fun weekend of challenges you have lined up. Hoping to find some time to carve out and play along too. Thanks as always for your inspiration and awesome prize opportunity too!
Yeah! Let the NSD fun begin! Looking forward to working with this sketch today. Thank you for all of this! X
Awesome sketch challenge, gorgeous page from Lisa, and wonderful prize package – happy iNSD to all!
Wow and off we go for iNSD loving the page map and that cut file with the stars is so perfect for all the sports that happen at my house-can’t wait to start! Love my Scrapbook and Cards Today!
great layout, that stars in circle seems very versatile! love the spring kit too. ready to be inspired!
Good morning and happy day! Beautiful sketch, and great layout. Looking forward to today
What a fun sketch …. Page Maps are the best! A gorgeous layout as well and such a generous giveaway. What a great day of creating we have ahead of us. Thanks so much
Beautiful layout, and super generous prize package! Thanks for the inspiration and chance to win!
I am seeing STARS! I can’t wait to start on this STAR layout. I also LOVE the sketch challenge. Loving the Spring inspiration . Happy National SCRAPBOOKING DAY!
The star layout is amazing!
Happy NSD! Love the sketch! Looking forward to all the day’s activities and great inspiration!
Wow! I love this layout!! Especially the way you added the little buttons in for texture and dimension! Very inspirational!
What amazing inspiration from these three layouts. The Pagemap opens the door for so much creativity and the star lay out is just plain fun!
Oh my stars for sure! What an awesome layout!! Thank you for all the fun! Happy day!!
Wat a great day for interNSD! Off to a great start with this amazing layout and pagemap challenge! Ty for the chance to win SCT giveaways and SCT gift certificates! If I win I will def share with my crafty besties group!
I will be using this sketch today. Happy NSD.
The sketch is awesome and the cut file page is beautiful. So versatile for many themes! Thanks for the wonderful ideas!
Great sketch and inspiration! Love the cut file too!
So many lovely details in the layout! Beautiful work!
Gorgeous frame on this fun layout, thanks for the lovely inspiration and the chance to win.
Gorgeous layout! Love all the stitched buttons!
What a great sketch! I Love the Star Layout too! I’m going to get busy! Thank you for the fun!
WOW! Love this layout and the cut file!
Good morning and thank you for the lovely sketch, looks simple enough yet room for some mixed media! Yay! Your prize pack looks like it would be so fun to play with. I love your scrap kits but have never order a card kit and this one has a great stamp set in it.
Love all things SCT!!!
Happy NSD!! Today we are celebrating our granddaughter’s second birthday and getting ready for the birth of her brother on Monday. So no scrapping for me for a few weeks. Then I will have tons of new photos to use. I love using page map sketches. Thank you for the inspiration and chance to win.
I can’t wait to use this sketch! Thanks for the inspiration and the chance to win some fantastic goodies!
I love Lisa’s frame cut file!
Oh my, such a lovely sketch, will try it out today, Sketches are my favourite ????
thanks for the opportunity to win some prizes too ????
I do not know if I can participate in the challenges, but I would love to have the opportunity to win such a great prize !! Happy Scrapbooking Day!!
Definately going to try out this Sketch today!! Happy iNSD!!
I love the sketch and cut file. I am using today and these challenges to get layouts completed.
WOW! What a fabulous example of the Pagemap for the kickoff of NSD! Thanks for the inspiration and chance to win an awesome prize pack. :D
Good morning, thank you for the fun day! Love the sketch , always love lots of colour in my work, so this is right up my alley.
I love the starry layout! I am doing scrapbooks for my grandkids and this layout is perfect for that.
Happy INSD!! So excited for all the challenges. Love this sketch!
Happy National Scrapbook Day! Thanks so much for the sketch inspiration. I hope I can find some creative time to play today.
Happy INSD, love the sketch!!!
Great sketch!
Great start to the day! Stars and colors to brighten up the layout.
Happy National Scrapbook Day! Love the awesome sketch! Hope everyone finds at least a little time to celebrate the day by doing what we love to do…..Scrapbooking!!
I love the wreath of stars. It is colorful and has lots
of movement – to do along with the movement
in the photos. thanks for sharing
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What a great page Lisa Dickinson. Love the colours. I’m far way from my scrapbook room. Have fun creating everyone.
Great sketch and layout! How does one “type” journaling on a 12×12 page? I can’t imagine a printer or typewriter that would accommodate that size page. Thanks for the chance to win – love my SCT paper editions!
I love the great page by Lisa. Those stars are really cute.
Setting up my space and getting ready to play! Happy NSD <3
Love the sketch. Prayerfully I get home in time to do a layout.
Happy NSD! Lovely sketch and beautiful layout! Love the wreath design.
This is such a fun layout. I’m currently on holidays with no scrapbook supplies in sight so I will have to celebrate vicariously through your blog!!!
Looking forward to today’s festivities!
I love the SCT kits! What a great prize! Off to create!