Digi Scraps Drive-In Charity Scrapathon Blog Train!

Hey everyone!

Did you know that October is Breast Cancer awareness month? If not, I'll bet you've noticed an abundance of pink around you. More and more businesses are creating products specially designed to raise awareness and donations for Breast Cancer Research every year. And this year, the designers at Digi Scraps Drive-In have decided to join the crusade. We've not only created a beautiful charity collab kit, but we've built an entire weekend Scrapathon around it!

The Charity Scrapathon runs from Thursday, October 21 to Sunday, October 24. Anyone can scrap along, but to be eligible for the prizes, you need to have purchased Courage, the charity collab kit.

The kit is only $6, which (after Paypal fees) goes entirely to Breast Cancer research. After you purchase this kit, you are eligible to compete in the Scrapathon. Depending on how many challenges you complete, you can earn coupons, a site collab, and a chance to win Jen C Designs or C.W. Picket and Company's entire store! (how awesome is that?)

Here's the kit!


(click to purchase)

And finally, here is your brag book page, created for you by Kendra!


(click to download)

Here are the links of those participating in this Blog Hop!

Digi Scraps Drive-in
Nibbles Skribbles
C.W. Picket and Company
Kerry’s Scraps
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
Giggly Polkadots
Jen C Designs
Melly Scraps <--YOU ARE HERE
Drive-By Freebie Forum

Have fun riding the train!

Announcement and Grab Bags Sale!

Hey everyone! Not sure if you heard yet, but I ended up taking 2nd place in the Designer Survivor competition! All the ladies over at Brownie Scraps were so amazing with hosting the challenge. They all worked so hard to make this happen. So I'm sending a huge thank you to them.

Also, a big thank you to everyone who voted for me in Week 5! Without your votes, I wouldn't have gotten immunity and made it to week 6. So thanks for keeping me in!

Last but not least, another big thank you to my fellow designer and friend Jen (JenC Designs) for sharing immunity with me in Week 4. If it hadn't been for her, I wouldn't have made it to Week 5. So thank you Jen :)

This week at the Drive In, we're having a Grab Bag sale! I've got 2 for ya! Kind of a Out with the Old, In with the New kinda deal. One of my Grab Bags has 6 products that I'm retiring, on sale for $5 - valued at $19.50. The other Grab Bag has 5 brand new products, and is on sale for $4 - valued at $15.50. Head on over and check them out!





We've still got lots of challenges going on for our Birthday Bash. They are changing every week so head over to the Birthday Bash forum and check them out!

See you soon!

$2 Sale!!

Well, thanks to all of you I won immunity in the Designer Survivor Competition! And as promised I put everything in my store on sale for only $2!! Hurry on over and fill up your cart, cause the $2 sale only lasts until Sunday, Sept 5th!

Designer Survivor Voting and freebie!

Hey everyone!

As you may, or may not know, I've been in digital scrapbook design contest called Designer Survivor for the past month. We started with over 70 people, and there are only 11 people remaining in the competition. There's just one week left. I need votes to win immunity and keep me safe from voting and I will be guaranteed a spot in the final 5!!

Vote HERE
Black Tie Optional by MellyScraps
(be careful - there is another kit called Black Tie by another designer!)

It literally only takes 3 seconds to vote. Click on the link, click on my name (about the 7th one down), and click vote. It's that simple!!

Also - if I win immunity this week, I will put everything in my store on sale for $2 till Sunday!!!

Here is the mini kit I created for the immunity challenge (click to download)



Thank you all so much!!!

-Mel

Happy Birthday DSDI!! Blog Hop Stop!

Can you believe it's been a year since we hosted the Grand Opening at Digi Scraps Drive-In. It took us so long to get it up and running, and this past year has completely flown by! What an amazing year it's been, and what is a birthday without a celebration?? Not much fun, that's for sure! So we've cooked up a month of games, challenges, and of course, party favors!!!

To kick off 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.

When you complete this challenge, you will receive a loot bag that coordinates with the blog hop minis.

But don't stop there! We will be hosting challenges and events all month long. 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 an eye on the store too, for the great sales & promotions going on. We will have a new sale each week, starting with a Toonie sale. If you aren't Canadian and haven't heard of the Toonie, it is $2. (This idea came from our 2 Canadian Designers Jewel & Jen in their quest to educate the rest of the world about Toonies!) I'm not spilling about what the future week's sales will be, but they are going to be awesome!

Now that the business is out of the way, let the fun begin! Here is my mini:



This blog hop is over, but you can still visit the Drive In for lots of Birthday Bash fun and games!

Have fun, and I'll see you around the Drive In!

Space Cowboy!!

Hello everyone, Sandy (SandyPie) here again a little late, but here none the less.  Melly and I have been crazy busy in the Brownie Scraps Survivor Challenge.  And can I just say, no joke, it really is a challenge!!!  I hung in there with Melly but eventually got booted off in week 4 but our fabulous Melly is still hanging in there
(cause she rocks like that!)  Go Melly!!!

But more on that soon, today I wanted to tell you about Melly super fun latest kit “Space Cowboy”.  
(My apologies to Melly’s super fans who have already seen this one since it’s been out a couple weeks now, I blame it on Survivor Fever, keeping me uber busy on the “island” hee-hee.)

The perfect kit for scrapping your
little astronaut or cowboy!
Kit includes 2 alphas (uppercase A-Z and numbers 0-9)
17 textured papers                      12 word arts
6 frames                                        6 rows of stitching
5 buttons                                       3 space controls
3 stars                                            2 star circles
2 page borders                              2 ric racs
2 ribbons                                        2 strings
3 journal                                         1 tag
1 rocket                                          1 planet
1 moon                                            1 space helmet
1 cowboy boot                                1 cowboy hat
1 sheriff badge                               1 brad
1 cactus                                           1 horseshoe
1 rope

Papers

Alphas

And of course some CT inspiration:
Deborah

Sandy
 

Cath

Sandy

Anita

Anita

So what do you think?  Pretty great kit?   I love it’s versatility, hope you do to and will stop by
DigiScraps DriveIn and pick it up soon.

I’ll be back soon with the links to Melly’s latest freebie over at the Survivor Challenge and the links so you can vote to help keep our favorite designer on the island, cause I know how hard she’s working and all the great things this “exercise” in creativity is inspiring her to make for the store!!!

See you again soon and thank you for stopping by!!

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Happy 4th of July and freebie alerts

Happy 4th of July everyone!  Sandy (SandyPie) here to wish you all a safe and fun Fourth from Melly and all of her CT.

Speaking of the Fourth, have you seen Melly’s new kit “Rugged Americana”?  If not, here ya go and if you have, isn’t it a beaut?  (But I’m not biased at all. ;) )

Ode to the red, white and blue! A grungy, patriotic kit full of tattered elements and worn papers.

By dawn’s early light are those worn edge papers I see?!? {swoon}

And some lovely word bits to add emphasis to your layouts and spice up your journaling.
And check out the Rugged Alpha included with kit!

Hold onto your sparklers ladies, there’s an add-on alpha that will surely please everyone, criss cross my patriotic heart.Isn’t this a  great kit?  Know what else is great?  Our CT, of course, and they have been cracking out some fab layouts with this kit!

Melly is hosting this month’s Cover Tunes Challenge at DSDI.  Here’s her take on the layout, come on over and show us what you can do.

Won’t you stop by and say hi to Melly and join in on the fun we’re having at DSDI.

And now for the freebies I promised:

Kerry, one of the Paper Shakers at DSDI, has made a brag book freebie you can pick up in the DSDI forums.

Click here to go the DSDI forums to download.  (You must be logged in as a registered member of the forum to download this freebie.)

And I’m made a freebie QP of my Rugged Americana layout.

You can click here to go the 4shared link to download.

And that’s all I have for you today.  And again wishes from all of us that you have a fun and safe holiday weekend!!  We’ll see you again soon!

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“Hat’s Off!” to the Grads!

Hi everyone, Sandy (SandyPie) here wanted to stop by and say hi!  Hope ya’ll are having a great weekend, it’s rainy in my neck of the woods, but it looks like most of the midwest is having that problem.

I also wanted to remind everyone about Melly’s new kit “Hat’s Off”. 

And the add ons, to customize your kit to the colors you need.

Hats Off! is a great kit for scrapping the pix of graduates of all ages, like my little guy, a few more layouts from the team for inspiration:

Or teens:

by Deborah

by Deborah

A little hybrid from me.

And even teens from years ago:
by me

I wanted to remind you that Melly is continuing her rein as challenge host for the Altered Art Challenge at DSDI this month.  When you complete her challenge you’ll get coupon to Melly’s store for 50% off!!  Such a deal!

And last but not least, Melly is having a CT Call!!!

CT Call:
Requirements:
2 kits per month (2 layouts per kit)
Upload to a minimum of 3 galleries
(DigiScraps Drive in, DST or DSA and your choice)
Enable once a week (DST and/or DSA)

Apply to: mellyscraps@gmail.com

Please include:
Name and contact info
Link to your best gallery
Current CT’s

HURRY call closes June 20!!!

You’re gonna want to  jump in on this, Melly makes such great stuff (as you know) and she’s the best boss!  I can’t wait to see the new faces we’ll have joining us!  So please send your apps in now.

That’s all I have for today!  Except I know Melly has a great little something coming out later this week, but I won’t spoil the surprise, I’ll leave the announcement for Melly.  Till then I hope you have a great rest of the weekend and we’ll talk to you again soon!

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Speed Scrap Tonite! 6/3 at 10pm EST

Come join me in the chat room for a speed scrap tonite at 10pm EST at DSDI!!

Join me in the Chat Room HERE.
Post your layouts to the gallery HERE & in this thread.

New Kit! Hats Off!

Hey everyone! Spring is here and it is GOOD! Yesterday we got into the 90's! Okay, maybe that's a bit much, but it's better than 40's & 50's.

With graduation season in the air, I've got a new kit just for the occasion. Its called Hats Off! and is there are multiple parts to it. First off - there's the main kit which is all black, white and silver. But then! You can purchase add-on kits in 8 different colors to perfectly coordinate your school colors! Everything is on sale in my store now, PLUS!! If you purchase the main kit and 2 color add-ons, you can use the coupon code mnr350hatsoff and receive all 3 products for only $5!! So hurry on over and check them out!





While you're there, check out the great challenges we've got going on at the Drive-In! Hope to see you around soon :)

National Scrapbooking Day Blog Train!

Happy NSD everyone! The Pink Ladies of Digi Scrap Drive In have been very busy and boy do we have a fun-filled weekend for you! We've got a blog train of brag books/quickpages of our newest collab, Greatest Expectations, an all weekend super layout challenge Scrap-A-Thon (can you finish all 10 layouts?) Plus! The entire DSDI store is on sale for 40% off.

Here's a preview of Greatest Expectations. It's a great kit for moms-to-be, and includes elements appropriate for either biological or adopting moms.




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Be sure to visit everyone on the list, because we've all included some extra coupons in our downloads to be used IN ADDITION to the 40% off sale! Yay!!

Melly Scraps <----You are Here
Digi Designs By Denise
Snickerdoodle Designs By Karen
Digi Scraps Drive-In
Craft-tastrophic
Little Red Scraps
Red Genius Enterprises
Mad Genius Designs
Mandymade
Charm City Scraps
C.W. Picket and Co.
JanetB Designs
7hump3r Designs

April Challenges at DSDI

Hi all it’s Sandy (SandyPie) from Melly’s CT and I wanted to let ya’ll know there is still time to get in on the Altered Art Challenge Melly is hosting at DSDI. 

Here’s a hint at the challenge this month…  (layout by the lovely Melly)

And if you’re a member of DSDI’s forum you can pick up this lovely freebie to get you started with for the challenge.

Challenges run through the end of April.  This challenge could earn you up to 25 points (see challenge rules for complete details.)  We’ll see you there!!

And while I’m here, one more peek at Melly’s latest kit… Spring Break 2010.

And some layouts, first from DigiDeborah….

And one more from Me

Thanks again everyone!  Have a great week!

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New Kit - Spring Break 2010

Hello Melly Scrap’s Fans!  
My name is Sandy (SandyPie in the digiland scrap forums) I’m one of the Fabulous Melly’s CT members.  Melly has been kind enough to give me access to her blog, and I’m here to show ya’ll her new kit:
Spring Break 2010. 

This kit contains a full alpha (upper and lower cases, numbers 0-9 and some popular symbols), 12 textured papers (solids and patterns) and over 50 elements.



8 strings (4 colors of 2 styles)
8 stitches (4 colors of 2 styles)
6 word arts
4 unique cocktails
4 flowers
3 sunglasses
3 frames
2 clips
2 buttons
2 ribbons
2 cameras
2 music players
2 journal tags
1 staple
1 border
a beach ball
flip flops
sun
tanning lotion

A better look at the papers:

And the super fun Alpha (love the glitter edges)

  
Spring Break 2010 the kit is on sale now $3.50, and the alpha is included in kit, and also available separately.

Our CT has been super busy coming up some fantastic layouts.

Deborah (Digi_Deborah)

And here are mine, I just love the retro feel of this kit.

I whipped up a hybrid bag, I thought it would make a great holder for a small album of memories of summer vacations long ago.

I hope you all will take a few minutes to pick up this great kit and check out all the fun at DSDI!

Till next time, thank you, and have a great weekend!

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Speed Scrap Wednesday, Feb 24th at 1pm EST!

Join me, won't you? I'm hosting a speed scrap tomorrow at DSDI at 1pm EST. Lots of fun to be had by all!

Hope to see you there!