November Contest

BASIC GREY PRE-ORDERS ARE HERE!!! FOR ORIGINS AND SUGAR RUSH!

Don't forget about our November Contest. Core'dinations Cardstock is our sponsor this month! If you haven't ordered their cardstock yet, click here to visit the store...you don't want to miss it.

Here are the details in case you missed it in the forum:

Whether for Christmas, Birthdays, Valentine Day or just because, gift cards, tags and gift boxes are fun to get.

Create 2 Cards, 2 gift tags and 2 mini boxes for this contest.

Pick your event and create the 2 cards, gift tags and mini boxes using the criteria below:
1. One Card needs to be a shape: ie-heart, circle, animal, etc
2. 3 of the following techniques need to be used on the cards, tag or boxes
* Stitching, Tearing, Embossing

3. The cards, tags and mini boxes must be coordinated- not necessarily by
brand/line, but color coordinated

*Contest ends November 30th 2009 midnight
*Only 1 set per submission- you may submit close ups
*NOTE: upload a photo of the full set, then EDIT your image and add your single and
close up details into the description area using IMG links from photobucket
*Submit Your work in the Monthly site contest category in the gallery.
*To upload into the gallery you must register in the gallery first. There is an email
verification that is sent before you can upload. notify us at notify us at
info@serendipityscrapbooks if it doesn't come.
*International entries are accepted
*Images need to be resized to upload & must be no larger than 500 x 500 pixels
*The winner will be posted on the main website all through October with their
Name & state, as well as in our newsletter & blog.
*Winner announced in forum, on contest page and emailed by the 5th of each month

Boys, Boys and More Boys!

The I Deserve it All kit is jam-packed with boy goodies from the Rough and Tough Fancy pants collection and Imaginisce and Dream Street so don't hesitate on this kit!

Check out what the funky fun Kristin did with this kit. She has such a fun style!

Holiday Bazaar is Here!

Visit the forum here to hang out with us during the Holiday Bazaar. We are hoping to make this an annual event, as we did something similar last year. This weekend is going to focus on the spirit of gift giving for the Holidays. Regardless of what Holiday you celebrate this season, you will surely find something here that inspires you.

This is not a crop, there will not be any deadlines or prizes awarded, just time for us to relax and sip some hot chocolate, chat and scrap.

PLEASE NOTE THAT TIME ZONE IS LISTED IN CST THIS TIME!
{if it is noon EST than it is 11: AM CST, 10:00 AM MST and 9:00 PST}


Here is our Schedule of Events:

Friday Night

8:00 PM CST-Kristin- Becky's Circle sketch and card
9:00 PM CST-Susan- With some Card Inspiration

Saturday

9:00 am CST- Lisa-Gift Card Holder
10:00 am CST-Susan- Ornament and Tags
11:00 am CST-Liz - Make-n-Take woven heart ornament
12:00 pm CST-Susan- Card Challenge
1:00 pm CST-Ellen- Holiday Jar of Candy
2:00 pm CST-Jennifer- Tags and Candy Canes
3:00 pm CST-Lisa- Card using 2Sketches4You Sketch
4:00 pm CST-Ellen- Reindeer Sketch by Liz
5:00 pm CST-Jennifer- Card Challenge
6:00 pm CST- BREAK
7:00 pm CST-Brandi- Button ornament
8:00 Pm CST-Liz- Star card
9:00 pm CST-Brandi- Gift Bag

CLASSES {Saturday also} will be posted Saturday morning. The Design Team Members
below will be available to chat in the Chat room at the following times:

Ellen & Lydia from Core'dinations 1:00 CST
Tanisha from Shimmerz 3:00 CST

Please come chat with them about the classes the post and just to hang out!

Sunday-
10:00Am CST-Kristin Digi Tags and recipe Cards

A Few Tidbits...

I am not sure if you ever check out the Homepage {www.serendipityscrapbooks.com}. I mean, not the store the actual homepage....Kristin always has cool featured products listed there and ALL OF THEM caught my eye today!

LOVE this Melissa Frances album:





and this HOT little number from Basic Grey Nook and Pantry:

DOILIES!



and have you heard of Art Blanche? well you better click here then for this cool alterable!




and PLEASE don't forget our Holiday Bazaar coming up this weekend!!! We will start posting goodies friday night....here is a sneaky peaky....

Contest Winners!

Congratulations to our October Contest Winners!

The Grand Prizer Winner is

Shary! {shary357}




And the Runner up is Joyce! {ashjoy}





Thank you everyone that purchased the $5 raffles and the Bra albums- we have not finished the total yet, but it looks to be approx. over $350 !! That is great

The winners of the 5 drawings for the $25 prizes are:

Cathy Stanley
Victoria Warren-Mears
Tam O'connell
Sharon Panozzo
Michelle Hodges

Beck Fleck Chat tomorrow!

Just a reminder that tomorrow evening, November 10 at 9 EST we will be having our Chat with Becky Fleck:

Becky has designed some exclusive sketches for our online Holiday Bazarre November 14th and graciously offered to chat with us the Tuesday before so make sure you get your questions ready for one of the most talented sketch artists in Scrapbooking. You can visit her site at www.pagemaps.com for more information on Becky and her designs.

Our chat room is located in the upper right corner of the site [along the tabs]. Click on "chat" and you have to login and your user name must be LESS than 8 characters.

See you then!

November Altered Kit Inspiration

The mixed media Fancy Pants album featured in this month's altered kit is so COOL! I wanted to share with you Liz's beautiful album utilizing this kit.


I love how Liz incorporated the BoBunny Shapes and transparencies in the album like this:


Here are the rest of the pages...aren't they great?!