FaLaLaLa Freebies Tuesday Winners and Next Giveaway!

It's time for yesterday's winners and today's inspiration and giveaway!

And don't forget the big Christmas giveaway...the January kit, our gift to you!



Random.org says our winners are #7:


Melinda AKA medialady said...
I stand up for myself at work but I am not very good with this around my dad and stepmother. I guess I don't want to hurt feelings but I want to be the peacemaker of the bunch.

and #1:

LaMaMaLa said...
I want to stand up for myself more. My family has always been pretty sneaky in the way they disrespect people, and so I'd like to be more straightforward.

-- I love the journaling on the LO! Super cute, as are the stars!

Congratulations, Melinda and LaMaMaLa (you're on fire!). Thanks for playing...please email me at rachinla@aol.com with your snail mail address and we'll get your prize out ASAP! Please make sure you use the email address you used to register at the website so we can match you up!

I really do love reading what you all share - thank you SO much...

Here's today's inspiration and giveaway:

This is 'I Change' by Nancy Doren, using our Renewal kit.



That awesome image at the bottom was created using today's giveaway, which was a subscriber premium in this kit...isn't that a lovely, organic symbol for renewal? Change is a wonderful interpretation of the theme...what else is change but renewal with a purpose? Scrapbooking from the Inside Out's kits, and our industry exclusive inspiration, give you everything you need to create pages with layers of meaning.

So here's our giveaway, Magenta's Recycle Go Green Stamp - HUGE and very detailed cling mounted rubber.



How can you win?

Two easy steps:

1. Stop by Scrapbooking from the Inside Out and register for our mailing list on the home page (scroll down) if you’re not already a member. If you are, you’re good to go!

2. Leave a comment on this post and tell us how you feel about change.

That’s it! We’ll announce the winner tomorrow. You have until 4:00 PM Wednesday (Pacific Time,UTC/GMT -8) to leave your comment to be entered to win, although I LOVE reading everything you say even if it's later. Make sure you join us!

Do you love the Renewal kit featured above - grab yours! A $50+ value on sale now for the UNBELIEVABLE LOW price of $34.95, with MORE goodies than any other club's main kit + add-on for less dough. A great way to make meaning...



How this works:

This holiday season, we’re celebrating you –your heart, your emotions and your self-expression! Every weekday between now and Christmas, join us for Fa La La La Freebies - great giveaways and inspiration as we highlight some of the best emotion-based layouts we’ve seen this year. Each day you can win something special used on those pages from Scrapbooking from the Inside Out to add to your layouts, and on Christmas Day, you can win our grand prize - our exclusive January kit before it’s available to our subscribers. You’ll love it as a way to help you explore the inner holiday experience, and get ready for a great, meaningful and powerful 2010.

There’s never been a better time to join us at Scrapbooking from the Inside Out…we’ll help you every day to use your mad scrapbook skills, color, design and journaling to learn about your dreams, hopes, fears and goals and what you need to be fully expressed. With all of the feelings involved in the holiday season and the start of a new year, ‘tis the season to be scrapping! Give yourself the gift of time…at Scrapbooking from the Inside Out, it’s all about you! Explore your inner world…
Thanks for joining us...

Love,

Rachel

Renewal Inspiration

It's never too late to explore RENEWAL with us - here's the Inspiration page from June 2009:

Design Team Creations

To see the Design Team's projects and detailed close-ups, check out the June 2009 Design Team Gallery

Journaling Prompts

Is change good?: Change is an inevitable part of life – in nature, in our circumstances, and in our thinking. Some people are better than others at managing and accepting change. How does change impact you? Are you comfortable moving with the tides and the seasons, or do you resist? What major changes inside or outside your orbit have affected you, and in what ways?

Body, Mind and Spirit: Everyone needs ways to recharge when they’re feeling down or out of energy, whether in physical, mental, emotional or spiritual terms. What do you do to renew yourself – do you spend time in nature, in prayer or meditation, by running, reading or watching your favorite movie? Do you make different choices about how to recharge depending on what you’re missing?

Cycle of Life: There are few things in life that are certain except for birth and death. How have the beginnings and endings you’ve seen impacted you? Have you had children of your own, and if so, how did that experience shift your understanding of the world? Have you lost someone you loved, quickly and unexpectedly, or after watching them fight a long illness? What lasting effect has this had on you?

Renewing the Planet: In these times, it’s become important to so many to be part of solving the problems that our planet faces. How do you contribute to that effort? Do you actively work to reduce your carbon footprint? Are you frustrated watching how things are developing, and do you worry about the kind of world that future generations will inherit?

Music

If you can't see the playlist above, please click on 'standalone player' to see and listen.

Quotes

So as long as a person is capable of self-renewal, they are a living being. Henri Frederic Amiel

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. Wendell Berry

The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love. Terence

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. R. D. Laing

The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings. Rainer Maria Rilke

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly. . . spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order. Susan Taylor

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. Robert Louis Stevenson

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up. Pearl S. Buck

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief. TerenceWhen you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb. Denis Waitley

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. Audrey Hepburn

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. Cato The Elder

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. Christina Baldwin

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. Aaron Parrish

It`s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. Ahmed Ghneim

Creativity comes from awakening and directing men`s higher natures, which originate in the primal depths of the uni- verse and are appointed by Heaven. I Ching

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion. Dalai Lama

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. Gail Sheehy

No human being ever learns to live until he has awakened to the dormant powers within him. William James

There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet. Brooke Medicine Eagle

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. Frank Herbert

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. Adrienne Rich

He who looks outside his own heart DREAMS, he who looks inside his own heart AWAKENS. Carl Gustav Jung

Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?” Kahlil Gibran

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear. Buddha

We are near awakening when we dream that we dream. Novalis

Rest when you`re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work. Ralph Marston

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity. Buddha

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. Shana Alexander

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. Adam Acone

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. Adam Maida

There`s a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don`t understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don`t understand boredom. Dustin Hoffman

Links

Renew – programs for maintaining creativity, energy, and optimism

The Renewal Project and Documentary – the Religious Environmental Movement

Renew Yourself Now

Everyone needs ways to recharge when they’re feeling down or out of energy, whether in physical, mental, emotional or spiritual terms.

What do you do to renew yourself - do you spend time in nature, in prayer or meditation, running, reading or watching your favorite movie?

Do you make different choices about how to recharge depending on what you’re missing?

Here are some of the fantastic LOs done by our exceptional Design Team with our fantastic RENEWAL kit:

Design Team Coordinator Nancy Doren is refreshed by Summer in Colorado:


Nicola Booth plugs in her iPod and lets loose:


Laura Croft dives into the cool, fresh water:


Anam Stubbington gets girlie:


Guest Designer Summer Johnson wants a vacation with her Hubby:


So how do you RENEW?

Love,

Rachel

Hitting the Reset Button

Do you ever have an overwhelming desire to hit the reset button on life and clear everything out? I do. Things can get overwhelming sometimes, trying to balance life's demands and our goals - family, friends, work, business, not to mention the day-to-day of being an adult - groceries, cleaning, cooking, paying bills...yikes!

We're going to take a few days to hit that button this coming weekend, with a quick road trip up to the Napa Valley, one of my favorite places in the world.



I'm not really a traveler, but there are some places that I simply long for - Napa is one of those places. Only about 6 hours by car, it's a haven for me that provides rest and relaxation, romance, beautiful scenic views, and more incredible cuisine and wine than a passionate foodie like me could even begin to take advantage of.

I'm looking forward to using these experiences to reconnect to my inner scrapper - I think this should be the perfect opportunity to make contact with my need for a fresh start and to explore what I can let go of in my life to make that happen. You'll surely be seeing some LOs from me soon about my internal reset...

If you need some inspiration to renew yourself, check out our fabulous RENEWAL kit:


Click HERE to buy one before they get away...

With Scrapbooking from the Inside Out 's 1st anniversary coming soon, it seems the right time for RENEWAL - a chance to refresh our concept, keep what works, throw out the rest, and move forward in brand new ways in our quest to imbue the scrapbook world with more meaning.

Is there somewhere you go that helps you renew? Tell me!

Love,

Rachel

Close Up on RENEWAL - Our Newest Kit!

Here are some detailed photos of the June kit, launching today! Want one? Come on by Scrapbooking from the Inside Out and grab yours!











Revive, refresh and restore with the newest kit from Scrapbooking from the Inside Out, RENEWAL! This kit is the embodiment of summer in a box, perfectly fit for expressing all the ways you rejuvenate your body, mind and spirit.

The colors are so fresh – evocative of ocean, pool, and grass. We’ve included lot of up-to-the-minute modern vine imagery to put you in mind of growth and change, and circles to symbolize the rotation of the seasons, the earth, and the cycle of life. There are also a large set of customizable turns, including a whole bunch you can add to lots of pages and a huge, fun 6” round chipboard turn to alter into a most meaningful project.

Of course, we’ve also included Patchwork Thickers, Lime Ice Stickles, a brand new Donna Downey canvas tag from Prima, a large, yummy Prima Fiesta flower, pretty Maya Road Trinkets Leaf pins and a cute stamp kit from Prima complete with ink pad, journaling spots and the cutest little bird and branch stamp you’ve ever seen! P

Please join us to explore and express the ways in which you are changing, evolving and being reborn!

Love,

Rachel

Ready, Set, CHANGE!

Change is hard. I know that I often need support to get myself going with important lifestyle changes - exercise, eating right...




And it's not about how I look. Since I turned 40 recently, I have been thinking about the importance of my health and well-being for the long term - about how I can make the most of the time I've been given.

What does this have to do with scrapbooking? On Monday, we're launching our June kit, RENEWAL. There are so many ways to look at this topic, but for all of us, renewing our health has to be critical.

What can you commit to this month to start to renew your your body and treat it gently and with care? Perhaps a LO or two could help move you in the right direction?

It's never to late to RENEW your life...come join us Monday at Scrapbooking from the Inside Out!

Love,
Rachel

June Kit Sneak Peek - Renewal

What do you do each day to renew your spirit, your soul, your body? Come explore RENEWAL with our new kit, launching June 1, 2009 at Scrapbooking from the Inside Out...

The perfect summer colors of sky, ocean, pool and grass...with a ton of chipboard and felt, and 'turning' elements to symbolize your evolution and rebirth!







I feel renewed by visiting the ocean, luckily for me, a short 10 blocks from my home. The Pacific feels like a cleansing presence in my life - whenever I need to hit the 'restart' button, that's where I go. Maybe it's the view going out forever, maybe it's the smell of the air...not sure, but it works for me.

What renews you?

Wishing you a meaningful day,
Rachel