Helloooooo Weedsters! I’m super duper excited about our new challenge system! We’re all working hard behind the scenes to make this as fun and easy-peasy as possible!! You gals are so creatively clever with your suggested names for our new Reward System — we’re loving em!! So, please keep em coming!!

In the meantime, here’s a little freebie just for you! A WW July Desktop Calendar!!! I kept it clean and simple. Hope you like it. I used Gina’s goodies from her Life 365 Collection . And, there’s a small sneak peek of a new alpha Gina will be debuting this weekend! … woo hoo … So be sure to stay tuned for that!

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Enjoy and Happy scrapping Weedsters!

So with summer time coming up and some of us being on holidays during this time, we thought it was time for a little change around here!!! So I’m going to tell you all excatly what we’re up to and will make a special thread in our forum for anyone who has some more questions…

Starting July 1st, we will be having a blog challenge every other week!! It seems that (maybe because of summer) there isn’t a whole lot of interest in challenges. We see a lot of the same people playing and we really love those ladies for keep playing with us, but we would love it if more ladies played and we also want all of you to be winners!!

So we’re going to change the prize thing too… every lady who plays challenges or plays along with our weekly photo prompt challenge will get a reward card. On that reward card you need to collect/win 10 stamps and win you fill up a card, you’ll recieve a $10 GC to our shoppe! For every challenge played and for every PPC played, you’ll get one stamp. One favorite pick (voted by our CT girls) from playing the scrap challenges will get an EXTRA stamp on her rewards card…

We also thought of some fun new challenges… The lady who is hosting the challenge that week, will pick a theme or challenge. This way we’ll have some new challenges, wich will be different every time! The perfect way to expand your creativity and to try new things!!

To sum it all up:

• Starting July 1st, there will be a scrap challenge and photo prompt challenge every other week!
• We will post both challenge on the blog and will also make a section in our forum where you can post your pages & photos.
• Every member playing challenges will get a rewards card with their name on it to collect stamps.
• For every challenge and/or PPC played, they will get one stamp on their rewards card.
• One favorite pick who played a challenge will get a EXTRA stamp on their card
• We will update all the cards once at the end of every month!
• When you filled up a card with 10 stamps, you will receive a $10 GC to our shoppe!
• We’re going to make a special section in our gallery, where all the reward cards will be uploaded and updated!

If you have any questions about our new challenge system, you can go to our special thread in the forum here, where we will we answer all those questions…

Now, we still need a cute name for the reward cards!! So I thought it would be fun to ask all of you ladies… The name for the cards needs to be something that has to do with weeds & wildflowers… something from the garden, flowery or whatever creative natury name you come up with. It’s all about filling the cards with stamps (wich will be flowers, of course! LOL) The lady with the best name for the reward cards will get a $5 GC to our shoppe… so let those creative name juices flow!

I think this new system is going to be a whole lot of fun with all the new challenges. And well in the end everyone will be a winner and everyone can play!!! So if you’re a beginner in scrapbooking or have been scrapping for ages…this is the place to play along with some fun challenges… a way to learn new techniques/ideas or expand your creativity, we would love to see all of you play with us!

Hugs, Petra

Hello everyone!  Gina here, and I hope you are having a wonderful weekend so far!!  Things are crazy busy as usual here at the Huff household with summer going full force and the boys out of school rarin’ to go each day!  I have been working hard on a few new things and wanted to let you know about them before I head out for the day…

I am STILL working on a really fun project (and it is huge!) so I will keep you posted on that!  But for this weekend, I am finally releasing some new Templates and a Border set that have been a work in progress for several weeks, and I just LOVE how they turned out.  I have been having SO much fun creating my LIFE 365 layouts with them.  They are a little different and creative than the previously released templates, but still simplistic and wonderful!  Some of the templates have artsy, scattered photo designs with funky angles, and some are clean and graphic with straight lines. The diversity of designs really add so much to my pages as I mix and match these with the older templates. 

Also, on many of these new templates are border guidelines that coordinate with the new “Creative Borders” set so it is really easy to throw in a splash of color on your layouts!

And here are a few layouts that I put together just to give you an idea of how fun these can be:

All these templates and the border set are on SALE for 20% off individually, or if you purchase all five sets they are 35% off!  This sale ends Monday night so grab them and save a little $ at the same time!  I hope you like them and hope they add a fresh look to your LIFE pages. 

AAannd, just for fun I feel like giving away a couple $5 Gift cards so a couple lucky ladies can have some spending cash in the W&W Shoppe!!  Just leave me a little comment and tell me something fun you are doing this summer and I will pick a couple random winners tomorrow night!  Hope you all have a wonderful day!! xoxo!

Happy Monday Weedsters!! Time to kick off a new challenge and announce the winner of last week’s Recipe Challenge. So, let’s give it up for ….

OrianaVianey !!!! Congratulations, Joan is sending your $10 Gift Code to the Weeds and Wildflowers Shoppe. Enjoy!

Now on to this week’s Color Challenge and a chance to win a $10 Gift Certificate to the Weeds and Wildflowers Shoppe!

Here’s my palette. I’m in summer mode, *smile* and I’m calling it  … warm beach with a splash of red!

The Rules:

1. Use all 6 colors in you page.
2. 80% of WW Goodies
3. Upload your pages to the WW Challenge Gallery
4. Post back here or at the WW Challenge Forum with a link to your page by Sunday (6/28) afternoon - 12pm (EDT)

And here are some wonderful pages that I hope will inspire YOU to play along!

Growing Up by Joan

Father’s Day by JanMary

Skipping Stones by Suzanne (sbaird)

Beach Fun by Jenny (jennyleigh76)

And one from me - Perfect Summer Pair by Kenna (ratherBscrappin)

Ready to play with color? Come on, play along with us and add some color in your life!!

The winner of the $10 GC will be announced in next week’s challenge.

Don’t forget to check out the WWD Challenge Forum for this week’s Life 365 Photo Prompt Challenge #22 hosted by Suzanne for another chance to win some shopping $$!!

Happy scrapping Weedsters!

Pick up Gina’s new paper packs or journal strips for 20% off through the weekend.  Save even more by purchasing the combo at 30% off!

Pick up the Grandma’s Pressed Flowers Combo for 50% off through Friday, June 26th!

Check out these 50% off specials, on sale through June 19th!

so May was a crazy busy month in my life and I soooo wanted to keep up with this incredible project!!! I was trying to move quickly and still have all the little touches on my pages that I have grown to love!

well in getting ready for June that is just as busy I decided to change up my style a little so that I did not have to go hunt down my files that I plan to use on every page this month!

If there are date stamps or buttons that you always use, think about adding that .png layer to your monthly background and title what it is so you can just find it right there in your file!!!

Here are a few screen shots of my June set up…the basic background I am using for all my pages along with the layers that I use on each page!

Have a GREAT week! If you have any time saving tips or tricks…please share them with us!!!

(((hugs)))

Before we get to this week’s challenge, I’m happy to announce the winner of last week’s template challenge.

Congratulations to Kirstie (kirstiegai)!

You will be getting a PM soon from Suzanne with a GC to the Weeds and Wildflowers Shoppe !

Now for this week’s Recipe Challenge!  The garden was my inspiration this week.  I love flowers!  Here is a recipe for you to follow to make your own “garden”.

To make your garden:

Take a rich and earthy background paper
Add plenty of greenery
Plant some beautiful flowers in at least 3 colours.
Layer in a framed photo
Add a touch of whimsy with birds, birdhouses, animals, insects, etc.
Now sit back and enjoy the beauty you have created!

Here’s a little inspiration from me.

The Rules:
1. 80% of WW Goodies
2. Upload your pages to the WW Challenge Gallery
3. Post back here or at the WW Challenge Forum with a link to your page by Sunday afternoon - 12pm (EDT)

The winner of a $10 GC will be announced in next week’s challenge.

Be sure to check out the forum for this week’s Life 365 Photo Prompt Challenge #21 hosted by Gabs for a chance to win some shopping $$!!

Good luck and happy scrapping!

Well I bet you all are wondering where this Monday’s challenge is?  I know, I am soooo late getting this posted.  Been one of the days that just disappeared too quickly.

So now here I am bringing you this weeks Challenge.

First I want to announce the winner of last weeks Random Challenge. . . . . .

Congratulations to bretta

You should be getting a PM from Joan shortly with your Gift Certificate to the Weeds and Wildflowers Shoppe.

This this week I decided to do a simple template challenge. Here is the template for you to download Here.  You can also download here from 4shared.

For this weeks Challenge and a chance to win a $10 Gift Certificate to the WW Shoppe, create a layout using this template.  You can do anything you want with this template, flip it, rotate it, add all kinds of elements to it, replace paper with more photos, or keep it simple. AND when you are done, upload your layout to our Challenge Gallery and share your layout with us by posting a link back here in this thread!

Here is some inspiration from our Creative Team:

From Petra:

From JanMary:

From Joan:

From Kenna:

and from Me (sbaird):

Remember the rules, in order to win the GC, all layouts must include the following:

• use at least 80% W&W-goodies
• post your layout in our gallery and leave a link here in this post.
• layouts must be posted by Saturday, June 13th.

The winner of a $10 GC will be announced at our next weeks Monday challenge.

Good Luck!

The new items category is overflowing this week! Gina has created some gorgeous painted papers in the LIFE 365 colors as well as NINE hand painted alphas. You can pick them up separately or buy them all at 50% off through Monday! Hodge Podge #11 is also filled to the brim with an assortment of scrapping goodies. All new items are 20% off through the weekend!

Make sure you check out this week’s 50% off special: My Favorite Things from Gina Marie. Pick it up while it’s on sale through Thursday, June 11th!