Lots of Good News Coming!

First, a sneak of our next kit...June's TRUTH kit hits the web on Friday and you are going to LOVE this one. Soft, clear color, burlap, denim, kraft, chevron and honeycomb patterns...mmm...

Stay tuned for our DT announcement and winners from our DELIGHT online crop and our May Pinterest giveaway!

Winner of the Individuality Kit and a Sneak Peek of DREAM

Just a quick drop-in to announce the winner of the Individuality kit...Random.org picked #9...


Barb S said...
This year my word is FLOURISH and it has several meanings for me. But mostly because I am a grandmother who has decided that it is never too late to flourish in a new way. I would love to see a kit designed around that theme. Two other important words for me are FOCUS and BELIEVE, and I want to explore all three of these in my scrapbooking this year. Thanks for your encouragement and telling us about the creative process you go through in developing the kits!

8:10 PM, January 19, 2012

Congrats Barb! Please email me at rachinla@aol.com with your snail mail address...

And as it's the 25th, here's a sneak peek of our next kit...

DREAM

Are you ready to delve into your innermost thoughts, closely held fantasies, nighttime wanderings and daytime musings?

Gorgeous, ethereal DREAM will be available Feb 1.

We'll be counting down to the kit reveal with giveaways and lots of fun...come on back and see!

And stay tuned for our updates from CHA next week...

Dreamily yours,

Giveaway Winner!

Thank you everyone who participated in our Kit Launch giveaway this month!  Congratulations to Sugar, AKA Witchymama over in our community.  All she had to do to win was to share what is her favorite item from the Connection kit. Here's what she said:

"The little spools are my fav! and all the rich colors! actually... the whole thing is perfect!" 

Thanks for sharing your fav item(s) (and yea, we think the whole thing is perfect, too)!  For sharing you win a full set of the papers from this kit - 12 double sided patterned papers in all, plus 4 sheets of coordinating American Crafts cardstock.  And they are ah-maze-ing, let me tell you!

Please make sure you go to the message boards and send Rachel a private message with your shipping details so you can get your goodies but quick.

Want another chance to win some fun scrappin' stash?  Join us in our Iron Scrapper challenge.  Keep reading, there will be more chances to win... I promise!

Winners of our Third Anniversary Hop!

Thanks for participating in our hop and sharing in our celebration of THREE wonderful years...



We're looking forward to many more years of sharing...

Happy to announce our winners:

For their choice of kits:


Mia Castrillo
Amanda Johnson
celticmystyc (Shaunery)

and our Grand Prize Winner of a $50 credit for CRAFT: Creating Reflective Art for Transformation...


Sandi James!

Winners, please email me your snail mail address and your choice of kit...

Now if you weren't one of our lucky winners, you can still grab the kit you love now:

CLICK HERE to buy one of these now...


FRIENDSHIP:


OPTIMISM:


INDEPENDENCE:


Inspiration on INDEPENDENCE on the way all month long...stay with us!

Love,
Rachel

New DT at SFTIO and our Blog Hop Winner!

Happy to announce our DT for July-Dec 2011! We had a record number of submissions and narrowed it down to a lean, mean team that will knock your socks off!

Melissa Elsner - DT Coordinator
Pamela Palmarini
Laura Croft
Jamie Long
Mette Kallander

Welcome, (and welcome back) ladies! More about each of them soon.

Lots of giveaways happening this weekend - stay tuned here for more info.

But first, our randomly selected winner of the FRIENDSHIP Blog Hop is ...

Lora Oliver!

Lora, please email me at rachinla@aol.com with your snail mail address so we can get this kit out to you...congrats!

Blog Hop WINNERS!

I hope you had as  much fun hopping around our Switch It Up Blog Hop as we did putting it together.  Weren't all the Reflection layouts simply fabulous?

I bet you're excited to find out if you won, huh?  Would you like me to tell you? 

Why not recap what wonderful prizes we're sending to six lucky blog hoppers?  I think that would be fun, don't you?  The suspense is building... the suspense is building...

These are full paper pack prizes from Bo Bunny and Adorn-It!  Here's your review:

I have to admit, that last one- Bo Bunny's Midnight Frost - is my personal favorite.  Whomever gets that one in the mail better hide it or I might be visiting soon to "borrow" some scrappy goodies, specifically that line.    (I'm kidding.  Sort-of.  <grin>)

Alrighty then... thank you all for your wonderful comments and for visiting us on the hop and regularly, as well.  Without further ado, the (randomly selected) blog hop winners are:

ThriftyCrafter

Guiseppa

Laurie!

Connie M.

Tina Moore

Deanna Dark

Please email Rachel at rachinla [at] aol [dot] com with your shipping address so she can get these goodies off in the mail to you!

Congratulations and ENJOY!

Winner of Crate Giveaway!

Congrats to the winner of the Purpose kit selected by Random.org - #13...



Sassy said...

Lovin this kit that's why I am here... to get a closer look!

1:11 PM, October 12, 2010

Congrats, Sassy! Please email me at rachinla@aol.com with your snail mail address and we will get THIS out to you fast...



If you're not the winner, take heart - you can still get your PURPOSE kit and join us. Just click on the kit photo at the top of the right-hand column to grab your kit right now...

Why should you play along?

The lovely gal who won our special prize on the Dirty Scraps Blog during the Scrapbooking from the Inside Out enlightenment kit hop is Renee! Congrats Renee!

Here's what she's getting...

Yummy goodies from 7 Gypsies, Buzz and Bloom, TPC Studio, Prima, Kaisercraft, Maya Road and GCD.

Stick around everyone...we've got so much more to share!

Love,

Rachel

New Ella Swap Winners...

OK, so as it's been a long time (our Ella Swap was on 5-28) and two of our winners have not responded, I need to pick two new winners, and I MUST hear back from you by Thursday, June 24 at Noon PDT for me to give you your special code. The free code expires June 30th!

Random.org has picked two new numbers from our original entries to win the ELLA e-book of their choice.

11 and 7:

angelicakasputis said...
I love the whole idea behind your blog. With all the beautiful LO's out there we can tend to try too hard at creating "masterpieces like the pros" and not truly capturing our thoughts, feelings, and memories. Each one of us is creative in our own unique way, and while the inspiration is wonderful, I need to remember to use it for that...inspiration, and not forget to put ME in there too! Thanks for that! And thanks for the chance to win! :)
1:48 PM, MAY 26, 2010

Kelly Massman said...
Great inspiration LOs! I really needed some inspiration today!!
2:39 PM, MAY 26, 2010

OK, girls, email me at rachinla@aol.com ASAP!!

Still looking for winners from Ella Giveaway

Hi all - just a quickie today...two of our three Ella e-book winners haven't contacted me about their win...if you're out there, there are just a few more days to redeem your prize, so please email me at rachinla@aol.com ASAP!


Meelie said...Hi - just visiting from Ella - I love the colours in your kits. They look fab!

and

Jennifer Priest said...Love the kit and what an amazing idea for an idea book! Love it ;)Congrats, ladies!

Ella E-Book Winners and June Sneak Peek

Random .org pulled these three numbers:

20
1
8

So our winners are:

Joni Parker said...
Wow...I love your kits. I need to make room in my budget for these bad boys!! The Ella ebooks (found may way over here from there) seem like fun, although I've not purchased one yet. I'm trying to decide which one I want to try first...(window shopping).

Meelie said...
Hi - just visiting from Ella - I love the colours in your kits. They look fab!

and

Jennifer Priest said...
Love the kit and what an amazing idea for an idea book! Love it ;)

Congrats, ladies!

Please email me at rachinla@aol.com with 'Ella Winner' in the subject line and I will forward your email address to the fine folks over there so you can get your code for your free book. You'll love them!

What's everyone got planned for the long weekend? We're spending some time with cousins Jason and Robyn, and building the June kits and the July Design Team kits...time sure flies!

Here's our June Sneak Peek: ANGER

Ready to dig deep? This kit is IT.

Strong color - scarlet, purple and orange, great embellishments, and a chance to create powerful artistic metaphors for your inner journey. Get it all out...







Love,

Rachel

Anticipation Kit WINNER and Challenges

Drumroll please...

Congrats to Cheri for winning our first ever blog hop giveaway!

Cheri, your ANTICIPATION kit will be winging its way to you shortly.

I'm so happy that we had the chance to share all the great topics, ideas and techniques that could be used with this kit. If you'd like your own gorgeous, meaningful ANTICIPATION kit, click here. While supplies last, signing up for a six month subscription gets you the gorgeous gifts below - technique, color and fun all in one.

Free gifts: Elizabeth Craft's Press-on Sticky Circles and Ritz Ultrafine Chartruse Glitter. I love these so much! Just stick on the circles, peel off the top layer, and you've got your sticky shape ready for glitter, flocking...so much more...




We'll be sharing more DT layouts in the next few days. Wanna see 'em now? Check it out here. You'll need to log in, but it is totally worth it! We just want to keep in touch with you and keep inspiring you...

PS - have you seen out industry-exclusive Inspiration Page? Music, Photos, Prompts, Quotes and more to get your creativity and heart flowing.

In the meantime, why not come join us online and play along with our monthly challenges? Here are the first 2 for May. You've got all month to play, and no kit is necessary to join in on the fun. These challenges are the perfect way to get into the idea of visual journaling - refecting the theme of your LO with design ideas. This is what I believe takes your pages and turns them into expressive works of art.

May Challenge #1, Anticipation Interrupted/Off the Edge

Interest, Excitement and Joy: Psychologists sometimes refer to a cycle of interest, excitement and joy that we might interrupt because of past disappointments. Have you been in the position of cutting off your own sense of excitement or anticipation because you’d rather not be let down if things don’t work out? Do you ever put a damper on someone else’s excitement so they won’t get too hyped up or sad if things don’t go their way?

Please create a LO about an experience you've had at curtailing your own, or someone else's anticipation to lower expectations and maybe relieve pain if it doesn't work out...new boyfriend? Job opportunity?

For the design twist, please push something on your page off the edge to show how you cut off the cycle of interest, excitement and joy...

May Challenge #2, Intuition or Premonition/Sparkly

Intuition: Do you believe in woman’s intuition? Have you ever felt that you could anticipate something before it came to be? Is there something magical in certain circumstances about what you feel just before something amazing, frightening or new happens? Has someone else ever had a premonition about you, and did it come to pass? Was it scary? Would you rather know about someone else’s intuition about you, or do you want to be free to make your own mistakes or successes?

Please create a LO about an advance-feeling or intuition or premonition you've had.

For the design twist, please use something sparkly - light or dark - glitter, stickles, bling, to demonstrate the magical quality, good or bad, of the intuition.

More later!

Love,
Rachel

CHA Swag Winners! The Envelope Please...

Random Sequence Generator
Here is your sequence:

23
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15

Timestamp: 2010-02-04 06:56:01 UTC

Congrats to

Rick said...
What about selflessness, overwhelmed (this could be positive or negative), or security? I also love the other ones given so far.

2:54 PM, January 26, 2010

Cassie_lu said...
Faith and Grow are two that I would love to see put into kits.

Have fun at CHA too.

11:34 AM, January 23, 2010

and

Lisa W said...
I just found your website so I can't suggest any emotions since they are all new to me. All of your kits are great and I can't wait to see what you come out with next.

7:36 PM, January 23, 2010

Please email me at rachinla@aol.com with your snail mail addy and I'll get some fantastic goodies out your way...before ANY of your scrapbooking friends can get their hands on 'em. Enjoy!

Stay tuned here at the blog and at our main site, Scrapbooking from the Inside Out to find out what we have in store...six new themes coming with incredible heart, depth and artistic richness.

Of course, our Inspiration is ALWAYS FREE - a brand new music playlist, journaling prompts, quotations, photos and wonderful Design Team LOs every single month to inspire you to dig deep. You won't find this anywhere else. This sure ain't your Mama's scrapbooking!

Come on by and Explore Your Inner World.

Love,

Rachel

Merry Christmas - Grand Prize WINNER and January Theme Reveal

Merry Christmas (if you're celebrating it)!



True Random Number Generator

Result:
6
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That's right!

LaMaMaLa said...
I learned that I CAN handle stress, I CAN handle my family, I CAN have a hobby and the world won't end because of it. I learned that change is inevitable and so is death, but you should try to find the positive in everything, and rejoice in the world. I learned that I love my ever growning family more than i could ever possibly imagine!

Congratulations LaMaMaLa! This was your month (at least here at the blog!!)

Thanks everyone for playing along and getting to know what we do at Scrapbooking from the Inside Out.

Stay tuned for an exciting year - in 2010 we'll be adding to the meaningful work we do with the kit club in many ways...to be announced soon!

And as it's the 25th, it's sneak day...you've already seen the photos on yesterday's post - and our theme for the beautiful January kit that LaMaMaLa has just won?

POSSIBILITY!

What could be more important as you launch into your 2010 adventures than opening your eyes to all that lies before you and dreaming up whatever possibilities you'll create and will come your way? This kit features Crate Paper, Basic Grey and Collage Press...and SO much more - tons of Prima, thickers, and as always, a color medium and a stamp. We're NOT kidding that our kits have more variety and content that anyone else's kit+add on - and ours is at one low price, along with more inspiration that you'll find anywhere. What are you waiting for?

Here are those yummy photos...and a couple of LO sneakies from the DT:









The kit will be up for sale a day early this month to accomodate NYE festivities. So make sure you're on our mailing list and come on back to join us for the full reveal of POSSIBILITY on December 31st.

Thanks for joining us...wishing you every joy this holiday season...from the Inside Out.

Love,

Rachel

Winner and Weekend Food for Thought

It's time for yesterday's winner! We'll do TWO giveaways on Monday.

Random.org says our winner is #3:

Sandi said...
My strength is the desire to always see things objectively, including myself, and to be willing to change.

Congratulations, Sandi! Thanks for playing...I have your address from your prior win. Keep playing everyone!

A thought for the weekend from our PEACE Inspiration Page:

He that would live in PEACE and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees. Benjamin Franklin

Human beings are naturally imperfect. I've learned through some recent difficulties with a close friend over expectations and misunderstandings that we don't always have the whole story. While it's also human nature to make meaning out of what we see, it pays to wait and try to understand things we see others do. Not everything is for publication, or for analysis. Some things are better left unsaid and uininterpreted, giving those we love the benefit of the doubt and the trust that they deserve.

What do you think?

If you'd like to dig deep and learn about yourself this month and explore what brings you peace, do check out the PEACE kit...just a few left - this one is going like hotcakes. Only 42.95 as the start to your exciting six-month subscription - what a way to explore your inner world.



No other club provides what we do - SFTIO’s industry-exclusive content will help you explore your inner world with a music playlist, deep journaling prompts, moving photos, inspiring quotes and meaningful monthly challenges. The only thing missing is YOU.

Just a reminder about this month's fun:

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...see you Monday!

Love,

Rachel

Fa La La La Freebies Friday Winner!

Another day of holiday giveaways from your friends at Scrapbooking from the Inside Out! Thanks for waiting an extra day for me to announce the winner...we were RE-celebrating Thanksgiving Saturday night (long story):

There's REALLY a lot to be thankful for...family who are dear, dear friends, friends who are my chosen family...and when you combine love, food and crafts, what could be better?





Random.org says #1 IS OUR WINNER!



A Sarasota said...
I wish I could fix all the meanness in the world, the judging, the backbiting, the nastiness. If I could wave a wand and make people be nicer to each other, I would!
Lovely LO for the LOSS kit, btw.

Thank you all for sharing your thoughts and feelings...

Thanks A Sarasota! Email me at rachinla@aol.com with your snail mail address and we'll get your prize out your way! Please make sure you use the email address you used to register at the website so we can match you up!

Thanks everyone for playing along with Scrapbooking from the Inside Out...

That’s it! I'll be back with our next giveaway on Monday, so make sure you join us!

Love,

Rachel

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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...

Wishful Winner and 'Three Wishes' Layout Challenge

We Have a Winner!

cindy H said...
I have been looking back at my childhood and always remembering that I wanted to travel and teach. Now that I have had the opportunity to travel to some of the places I dreamed about - travel is still high on my list. I hope to have more time to travel and an opportunity to teach k-6

Thanks for playing, Cindy! Email me at rachinla@aol.com and I'll help you out with that HOPE kit discount!

And check out our first Challenge, "Three Wishes", at Scrapbooking from the Inside Out for May:

Please create a layout about what three wishes you'd make if you found a lamp with a Genie in it. They can be light and fun-loving or deep and meaningful - just one caveat - you CAN'T wish for three more (or unlimited) wishes! Like with all wishes, be careful what you wish for...have you thought about the ramifications? For the design twist, please use some imagery, directly or indirectly, that implies magic...a genie bottle, smoke, wand, a flash, a nose wiggle or blink...

If you'd like to play along, come check out the Message Board and post your LO in our Gallery...as always, we'll have great prizes to share at the end of the month, and the love and admiration of a fantastic community of deep women...

It's Magic!

Love,

Rachel