Digi Scraps Drive-In Charity Scrapathon Blog Train!

October is Breast Cancer awareness month, and you've probably noticed pink everywhere! So many businesses have been creating products specially designed to raise awareness and funds for this important cause. And the ladies at Digi Scraps Drive-In have stepped up to the plate as well. Not only have they created a beautiful charity collab kit, but they built an entire weekend event around it.

The Charity Scrap-a-thon runs from October 21 to 24. Anyone can play along with us, but to be eligible for the prizes, you need to have purchased the charity collab kit.

And there are awesome prizes! You can earn coupons, a site collab, and two lucky people will win entire stores - one each from Jen C Designs and C.W. Picket and Company's!

When you purchase this kit, your $6 goes entirely to Breast Cancer research (after Paypal fees), gets you stunning collab kit (and it's not just pink) And a chance to win coupons, another kit, and perhaps an entire store (now that's a deal!)

Feast your eyes on the beautiful kit:



You can pick it up at Digi Scraps Drive-In, and remember all proceeds (after Paypal fees) are going to breast cancer research.

Of course we had to get the word out about this even as much as possible, and so we decided to launch the event with a Blog Train where you can pick up beautiful brag book pages and even a set of blog wear. The train starts on the DSDI Blog and ends in the DSDI forums. Some of our team members live in other timezones, so be patient if all the contributions aren't posted yet - they will be.

Here is my contribution:

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Digi Scraps Drive-in
Nibbles Skribbles
C.W. Picket and Company
Kerry’s Scraps <~~~~~~ you are here!
Amy Scraps
Gail’s Moments In Time
Mad Genius Designs
The Cute Gets Cuter
Daphadilly Art
Luksamummy
Bonnie Blue Designs
A Damsel With A Dulcimer
Tricia's Treasures
AnitaW
Giggle Polkadots
Jen C Designs
Melly Scraps
Drive-By Freebie Forum

DSDI Daily Download

Digi Scraps Drive-in has a new daily download and it is just awesome! It's called Falling in Love and it is by Cjoy2Day Designs and Daphadilly Art. It technically started yesterday but you can get part 1 through today as well as part 2. Head to the Drive-by Freebies thread and pick it up!

Here is the layout I made with it - it was for the Blast from the Past challenge - scrap a page of pumpkins past. :)

Stay tuned for a great charity event starting on the 20th and come do some of the October challenges now up in the forum!

Trick or Treat

Mad Genius Designs has a Halloween kit in the stores this week called Trick or Treat. It is a fun kit with awesome and unique elements. I love the moon and the tree the most.

You can also get cardstock – a must have for me - just like in paper scrapping. :)

There are also matching CU glitters – which will be fabulous on a Halloween layout.

And in case you want them all (and why wouldn’t you??) you can get them in a bundle at a 20% discount!

Here is my first layout – I am planning on more.

Jewel also has some brag book freebies on her blog – head there now and pick them up.

DSDI Mystery Collab Blog Hop

Happy October and welcome to the end of the DSDI Mystery Collab Blog Hop. Every month the designers do a collaboration kit and it usually has a specific theme. This month they decided to do a mystery one where all the parts have the same color scheme but each designer did whatever they wanted. And it turned out just awesome! There are so many lovely papers and elements and they actually go together beautifully. You must pick up this kit - click the image to head to the store to buy it. You'll need it to take full advantage of all our freebies!



There is an alpha in the kit but I made another one - capitals only.



Here is the list of participants. If you didn't start at the beginning, make sure you hit them all for your goodies. There are cluster frames, quick pages and a few other fun things.

DSDI Blog
Amy!Scraps
A Damsel with a Dulcimer
Nibbles Skribbles
Mad Genius Designs
Gail's Moments in Time
Kerry's Scraps

And since it is a new month, we have a whole new set of challenges up - come join in the fun and earn points towards a store gift certificate. If you participate in our It's a Fad challenge, you can even get a discount on the Mystery Collab!

DSDI and Mad Genius Designs – great stuff going on!

This is the last week for the Birthday Bash at Digi Scraps Drive-in and they are going out with a bang! There is a 40% off *everything* sale – it’s so awesome! Head to the store and check out the new stuff and complete your wish list.

While you are there, check out the new stuff from Jewel of Mad Genius Designs – and at 40% off, it is the perfect time to pick them up!

First up is Night Music – a fabulous kit with some great add-ons. This was in her grab bag a couple of weeks ago and now it is revealed and separated! Here is the main kit – the colors are lovely and this would be perfect for choir pages, a night at a concert or symphony and even school band performances.

There is lovely matching cardstock

and this awesome alpha (you might want to check her blog for some good news about this alpha!)

Can’t miss out on the coordinating CU items either. Everyone needs glitters!

and these amazing brushes and scatter brushes:

And because I know you want it all – here is the bundle!

Some good things if you are doing P365 too. Here are the Days of the Week with a few nice sayings.

Here are the Weeks

and the Months

Here is the bundle if you must have them all (which you know you do!).

September DSDI Template Challenge

It is already September – so hard to believe. And my oldest son starts 3 day a week preschool today. I’m not sure how I’m going to deal with that – he’ll be fine but maybe not me. Just a precursor to Kindergarten though so maybe this baby step is a good way to go. Anyway, on to the challenge. I chose another paper layout for the challenge. I was inspired to pick this one by some “big picture” templates I saw recently. Here is my original layout – it was a matching two pager with the ultrasound as one side and journaling about when we found out I was pregnant and how we told people. Sorry the picture is so random but I took individual pictures of each side and the ultrasound side is totally blurry. I figured you could get the gist of it from this one.

Here’s the layout I did – I used Guy Time by JanetB Designs. This is the mister and J2 – he was almost two weeks old here.

You can get the template in the DSDI Drive By Freebies section.

Come join us and show off those big photos!

DSDI Blog Hop Freebie - Celebrate This!

It's been a year since the Grand Opening of Digi Scraps Drive-In. It has been quite an amazing year and it is most definitely time to celebrate!

First up in our month-long Birthday Bash, we are hosting a Progressive Blog Hop Challenge. Here is how it works:

• Follow our Progressive Blog Hop, picking up each mini along the way.
• Create a layout using at least one piece from each mini (more if you wish)
• Upload your LO to our Birthday Bash gallery, and link it back to the Progressive Blog Hop Challenge thread.
  

The prize for the challenge is a loot bag that coordinates with the blog hop minis.

But that's not all! We will be hosting challenges and events all month long and you can pick up several more loot bags, and have a huge celebration themed mega kit when the month is done. We will be posting new challenges all month, so keep your eyes on the Birthday Bash forum.

You'll probably want to keep a close watch on the store, too. Each week will have a new sale starting with a Toonie sale. (If you aren't Canadian and haven't heard of the Toonie, it is $2 - I guess doubling the $1 coin called a loonie? Hard to say... Our Canadian friends are a bit kooky - but we love them!). There are different awesome sales each week but you'll just have to check back to find out what they are.

Okay, here is my contribution - an upper case alpha, numbers and some common punctuation.

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And here are the rest of the participants. You will be visiting designers and other site team members. Remember to snag all the pieces, and check into this thread with your layout. Also, be patient for the downloads since we are scattered all over the world!

Digi Scraps Drive In
Mad Genius Designs
Red Genius Enterprises
Jen C Designs
Melly Scraps
Gail's Moments In Time
DaphadillyArt
Bonnie Blue Designs
Kerry Scraps <~~~~~~ you are here
Graphics Illusions
Charlize Creations