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!!

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Digi Scraps Drive-In
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Little Red Scraps
Red Genius Enterprises
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C.W. Picket and Co.
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