Hey everyone! Sorry I’m late with the winners! I went to bed early last night and forgot to email Ellie the results. Thank you SO much for all your wonderful comments. I’m still reading through all of them … it’s just so wonderful to remember the good things, isn’t it?

Since I released 3 new products this week, I decided to have 3 winners!

Winner of Serendipity … #15! Congrats Pam!

Winner of Lucky You Alpha … #37! Congrats Leeann H!

Winner of Hybrid Birthday Goodie Box … #5! Congrats Erin!

Pam, Leeann, and Erin — please send me an email at suzyqscraps AT gmail DOT com to claim your prize.

Thanks again for being fans and leaving comments on my blog. Keep your eyes peeled for next week’s sneak peek — it’s a super duper cute collab, and I’ll be giving one away to one of you!

Just popping in real quick to let you know you can download this freebie at Log Your Memory:

It’s an add-on to the full kit I created especially for Log Your Memory, which will be available in about a week. Read Today’s Your Lucky Day at Log Your Memory for details on how you can earn downloads to this kit and receive the entire kit for free.

Be sure to join me at the chat tonight at 9 pm Eastern in the Log Your Memory chat room — free template, prizes, and the chance to earn an alpha that coordinates with the add-on and the kit.

And for a chance to win my new release, see the next post!

Welcome to MARCH! Is it coming in like a lion or a lamb where you live? The wind is calm and the sun is shining where I live, so I’m thinking March decided to come in like a lamb (though if you’d asked me yesterday, I would have bet on a lion, lol).

First, a little announcement — I am the featured designer at Log Your Memory this month! WOOT! I am so excited for all the fun things coming your way. I promise, I’ll post more about this awesome site on Wednesday. For now, let me just say this. Log Your Memory is having several new chats this month — you can find the full schedule in today’s blog post Save These Dates. For members of the Book Club, you can attend a private chat every Monday afternoon at 3 pm Eastern, where you’ll be given a challenge and a template created by me. Attendance at the chat isn’t mandatory — the template will be offered for a limited time in the private forum if you can’t make the chat. Each challenge submission is due on Thursday, and for each challenge you complete you’ll receive part of a kit I created especially for Log Your Memory. So if you participate in all 5 challenges, by the end of the month you will have the ENTIRE KIT! Sweet deal! I plan to be at the chat this afternoon, so I hope to “see” you there. (Not a member of the Book Club? Read Saturday’s post for more details on how to become a member, along with a great coupon from Log Your Memory.)

Okay, back to our regular programming! It’s the first Monday of the month, which means it’s time for a new challenge. This challenge marks the first in a series of challenges to help YOU scrap about YOUR individual journey. I’ll provide a prompt and some instructions, and you have until the end of the month to complete the challenge. EVERYONE who plays in the challenge will receive a 25% off coupon to my store, and one lucky random winner will receive a $10 coupon. And if hybrid is more your style, I’ll provide a twist to the challenge so you can play along too! Are you ready? Here we go!

MARCH CHALLENGE PROMPT

This month we’re challenging you to scrap what makes you happy! Sometimes we need a visual reminder of what makes us smile or giggle or laugh out loud … and years from now it will be fun for us (and our loved ones) to look back and see those things, small and big, that brightened our lives.

Here are your challenge guidelines:

• layout should be about thing(s) and/or person/people that bring you happiness
• include at least 1 photo
• predominantly use colors that make you happy
• put the word happy (or happiness) in the title or journaling
• include at least 10 words of journaling (can be in any form — paragraph, list, etc.)
• use lots of the digital scrapbook element(s) you love to use (i.e., buttons, flowers, stitching)

Hybrid twist:

• Make a card for someone that makes you happy
• Create it in your happy colors
• Include the word happy (or happiness) somewhere on the card

Here’s a layout from me, using Sunshine (my contribution to The Digi Files #12 … the kit will be available for purchase in my store later this month). I chose to scrap about my little boy. My happy colors are orange and yellow, and I used the word happy in my journaling. And I LOVE buttons so used a lot of those on the layout, along with strings and stitching.

You have until March 31st at 11:59 pm Eastern to submit your layout or card. You don’t have to use my designs, but I love it when you do. Be sure to leave us a comment linking us up to your creation. And remember, everyone who participates will receive a 25% off coupon to my store … and one winner will receive a $10 coupon.

Have fun!

Popping in real quick to announce that I am the featured designer in this month’s issue of Flourish! I am so excited and so humbled to be featured in this issue. Here’s the kit I designed for their subscribers:

If you’d like this free kit, please head on over to My Scrapbook Art … and be sure to sign up for their newsletter so you don’t miss out on other free kits and great articles through the year. (If you were previously subscribed, like I was, you’ll need to resubscribe, and you won’t be receiving an email this month, so you’ll need to get the free kit from their site. So sorry about that!)

Be sure to scroll on down to this week’s sneak peek for your chance to win it!

So before I get to announcing who has won from the contest on the blog yesterday, here’s the full reveal of SuzyQ Scraps new releases today – both of these are 20% off until Feb 11th

First up a collab with the wonderful Amy Sumrall!

And here’s some inspiration from the fabulous QTs!

Aren’t those pages great?!

Next up is another new kit by SuzyQ called Olympic Dreams – I’m loving everything in this one – especially the alpha!

And here’s some more inspiration from the QTs and one page by Anna of AnnaBV Designs!

Ok so onto the winners! Because SuzyQ has two new digital scrapbooking releases for you this week, she’s picked 2 winners! One has won Forest Frolic and the other has won Olympic Dreams! So drumroll please………the winners are…….

Comment #22 was… stacy (pewtertm)! Congratulations Stacy! You win Forest Frolic!

Comment #12 was… Andrea G! Congratulations Andrea, you’ve won Olympic Dreams!

SuzyQ will get your prizes to you shortly! And if you weren’t lucky this time then don’t worry as you’ll have another chance to win next Thursday when the sneek peeks are put on the blog! I wonder what new releases will be up for grabs next week?!

Happy scrapping,

Time to announce some winners! Thanks so much to everyone who became a fan (or was already!), signed up for my newsletter/birthday club (or updated their profile!), and played along in last month’s challenge.

Winner of December’s challenge — $10 coupon to my store: dricamendes

Winner of newsletter drawing — $20 coupon to my store: Brandy (who’s email starts with bmrunt)

Winner of Facebook drawing — $50 coupon to my store: Annette Ostermann-Kamp

Last month’s Lucky Post — December 17th! Everyone who posted a comment on the 17th will be getting a $7 coupon from me:
Lorry, quietangelsb, belle, Susan, avalon4, and Joy

Congrats ladies! I’ll be sending your coupons shortly.

What will this month’s Lucky Post be? You never know, so leave a comment every day for your chance to win a $7 coupon to my store!

Be on the lookout for more giveaways and coupons coming soon to my fan page and Twitter. And, as always, exclusive coupons and/or freebies for my newsletter subscribers. Play along in January’s scraplift challenge for your chance to win a $10 coupon to my store! Make sure you’re signed up for all 3, and a subscriber to the blog, so you don’t miss out on any of the freebies, exclusive offers, coupons, specials, and/or giveaways!

January birthday peeps — I’ll be sending your coupons later this week! (If you haven’t joined my birthday club, here’s how it works. Follow the link on the right to join my birthday club newsletter — be sure to fill in your birth month. Near the beginning of each month, I send subscribers with a birthday that month a FAB coupon that will allow each birthday peep to choose a kit of his/her choice for FREE! That’s right, one kit THAT YOU PICK, absolutely free. It’s your birthday, and you should get to pick the gift!)

P.S. Please “pardon my dust” as I make some updates to the blog.

Christmas is just around the corner. I’ll be leaving tomorrow with my little family to join my extended family for the rest of the week. So I decided to take some time off from blogging — we’ll resume our regular blogging schedule on Sunday.

But before I go, I promised to announce winner’s from last week’s contests!

Challenge Winner: lulutoo
Scavenger Hunt Winner: Lorry
Gallery Hunt Winner: joy

I’ll be sending your coupons shortly. Thanks so much to everyone for playing along in our games and partying with us during my celebrations.

I hope you have a wonderful holiday season. Be safe! See you back here on the blog on Sunday.

Today’s digi world topic is about communication. I love receiving newsletters from various designers and stores in the digi community — ’cause then I don’t have to remember to go to the store to check out the new stuff, lol! It’s all right there, in my inbox. And, though I’m still a newbie to Facebook, I like checking out my favorite designers’ fan pages.

If you’re a forever fan of SuzyQ Scraps, you might have noticed that my newsletter received a face-lift last week. I’m excited for the more professional format, and all the options I have through Constant Contact (my email newsletter provider). Like being able to create newsletters for different interests. I’ve been wanting to create a birthday club (you know, like Cold Stone and Baskin Robbins do, and you get free ice cream) and now I can! But you have to be a newsletter subscriber!

Why receive my newsletter, when you already come to the blog? Well, I’m going to give you 3 reasons to either sign up for my newsletter, or update your preferences.

Reason #1: I’ll be randomly drawing one email from my list of contacts. The winner will be chosen at the end of the month and will receive a $20 one-time-use coupon to my store!!!

Reason #2: Sign up for the Birthday Club newsletter, and at the beginning of the month, I’ll send you a FAB coupon that will allow you to choose a kit of your choice for FREE! That’s right, one kit THAT YOU PICK, absolutely free. Coldstone lets you pick what ice cream you want, so I should let you pick the kit, right? Of course!

Reason #3: Each week when I send out my newsletter, I will be including either an exclusive discount coupon OR an exclusive freebie that you can’t get anywhere else.

Are you convinced? YAY! See that ugly link in my sidebar, the one that says Sign Up for Our Email Newsletter with the dorky icon? Yeah, I know, totally gross and yes, I’ll be making it all pretty sometime. But for now, that is the gateway to my newsletter. Click on it. Yes, even if you’re already a subscriber.

Type your email address in the box — if you’re new, this is the email you want the newsletter sent to; if you’re already a subscriber, this is the email where you’re currently receiving my newsletter. Then click submit.

Now, if you’re already a subscriber, you’ll be prompted to retype your email address. And then you’ll be emailed a link to update your profile. After you click on the link, you’ll be at the same place as the new subscribers:

Make sure both boxes are checked if you want to receive both newsletters. And you’ll need to fill out your name and your birth month. I don’t need to know the date or year — just the month.

Voila! You are finished with that. Now you’re in the drawing for a $20 coupon to my store, and you’ll be receiving a free kit from me during the month of your birthday (starting with the new year). Yay!

But wait! Do you want another chance to win a coupon to my store?

Perhaps you noticed that lots of designers are creating Facebook fan pages. Mine has been in the works for a while, but I’ve been too busy designing products to finish it up. Well, I’ve deemed it worthy enough to be published, lol, so now you can be a fan! Why be a fan? Well, I’ll be randomly posting limited-offer coupons, giveaways, contests, games, and perhaps the occasional freebie. AND, you could win a $50 coupon to my store — I’ll pick a random fan after the new year and they’ll receive a $50 coupon to my store. Sah-weet!

Become a fan of SuzyQ Scraps!

And invite your friends to be a fan too! Have them post that you sent them, ’cause I’ll be handing out gifts to the peeps who refer the most friends.

Whew! We’ve reached the end of this post so it’s time for another freebie, and then I’m off to eat lunch and silence the grumbles coming from my tummy. (Make sure to snag the template freebies from yesterday and Monday, as they’ll only be available for a limited time. And don’t miss tomorrow’s freebie — it’ll only be available for 24 hours!)

Download Design-iversary Freebie #3

Have a fantastic Wednesday!

I love adding a border to my pictures on my scrapbook layouts, especially if it’s a busy page, ’cause I don’t want the photo to get lost. I was all set to create a tutorial with screen-shots when I remembered that Janet at The Daily Digi did a post all about this a while back. She did such a great job, I think I’ll just link you up to her fabulous post (My Most Used Scrapping Trick) and let her be the teacher today.

Before you head off to read her tip, I need to announce the winners from last month’s blog promotion — for every post you created last month, your name was entered into a drawing to win one of 3 coupons to my store. And here are my winners:

$7 off — Jen
$3 off — HelenP
$1 off — quietangelsb

Congratulations! I’ll be emailing you your codes shortly.

I know, we’re already a week into the month and I’m late announcing the next blog contest, but that’s okay, ’cause you can still win! This month, make sure you post a comment every day, ’cause 1 day this month is LUCKY, and if you post on that day, you’ll win a coupon from me! That’s right, every reader who comments on the LUCKY POST will win a $7 coupon to my store! But I won’t announce which day was lucky until the end of the month, so be sure to come by every day.

And next week is my big Design-iversary celebration! Join us every day on the blog for fun, games, giveaways, freebies, and MORE! And, I’ll be ending the celebration with a BANG — 50% off my store (excluding collabs) on Saturday, December 19th only. YAY!

Have a fabulous Tuesday! Hope you enjoy the stroke tip — let me know what you think of it.

I’m a bit late posting this — oops! I was absolutely overwhelmed with the number of applications I received from digi scrappers and hybrid gals who wanted to join my team. WOW! I’m so excited to have so many fabulous artists joining my team and providing you with inspiring layouts and hybrid projects.

I have so many exciting things coming up — more tips & tricks, info about new digi sites, new products (including new stuff for Project 365 — coming mid-December!), my design-iversary (mark the week of December 14th on your calendars), and so much more! December is going to be BUSY! (Oh, and you won’t want to miss my HALF OFF SALE on December 19th — that’s right, nearly everything in my store 50% off for one whole day!)

All right, that’s enough rambling from me today — lots to do! Leave me a comment about your weekend — what was your favorite part of the weekend? Mine was spending some time with my sweet husband (and eating pumpkin pie!).