Garden Girl Shimelle Laine has a very special blog post going on today - all about scrapping your inner girl power and giving to girls less fortunate.  See it here!

(An older layout about my sister-in-law - isn't she a cutie?!)

Zippers, and flowers made from zippers, have been a fun trend I've wanted to try.  These projects I've stumbled upon in the gallery have me inspired:

What trend have you been wanting to try?  Have you used zippers in a recent project?  Share a link below - I'd love to see!

Here are a couple projects I spied using the products from today:

Leave a comment here on my blog for a chance to win one of the products featured! Leave your comment by June 1st at 11:59 pm CST.

We had 102 comments from last week. Congrats to commenter #32, ShanDC, a prize from last week's video will be sent to you shortly!

What Matt saw when he returned from lunch yesterday:

He might need to password protect his computer. ;)

Did you see Week 4 has been made live over at our Connecting with Creativity event?  The cutie in this picture is daughter of Garden Girl Jamie Waters - she's playing along too!  Check it out for more projects, challenges, our newest video (including Kitty and her daughter, Emma, and their recent project) and more!

Today's featured products: American Crafts Glitter Paper | House of Three/Pink Paislee | Crate Paper

Today's Featured Products:

Little Cutie by Imaginisce

Art Parts by Ranger

Dylusions by Ranger

Penny Black Stamps

Inkadinkadoo

Here are a few projects I spied using the products in today's video.  Using Imaginisce:

Using Art Parts by Ranger and Penny Black Stamps:

Leave a comment here on my blog for a chance to win one of the products featured! Leave your comment by May 25th at 11:59 pm CST.  (I loved reading your comments from last week sharing your favorite summer activities!)

We had 171 comments from last week. Congrats to commenter 169, KWare, a prize from last week's video will be sent to you shortly!

The highly-anticipated Smash collection from K&Company is in!  Kristina shows the collection in a video here:

And here is a demonstration of how one might put together a Smash book - a super cute video by K & Company:

Today's Featured Products: Canvas Corp | Hero Arts Paper | K & Company

Congrats to the following winners of the Maya Road Project Challenge, and thanks to our friends at Maya Road for sponsoring!  A $50 prize pack of MR goodies will be given to the following:

Choose2b - A "Bee" Utiful Year

Garkarlon - You Light Up My Life

Kraftybuns - Create Banner

Please be sure the address in your account is up to date by clicking on the 'my: acount' section of the site.

Interested in other vendor challenges we have running?  Check out the Little Yellow Bicycle and Lawn Fawn challenges for your chance to win!

 I played along in this week's theme of collaborating by sharing my process of working with my family to create a library of photos we can all share, as well as the covers for the cd's I've burned for them.  Check out the series to see the projects from Rebecca Trump and Jen Gallacher, as well as additional spotlights from the gallery and our storytelling video.

This week we were happy to get some nice weather!  Rob and Jerome were especially happy as you can see.  These guys soaked up the sunshine and fresh air while hovering over their laptops for a good couple hours one afternoon this week.  That is until the 80 degree weather was a little much and they headed inside. :)

Today's Featured Products: Doodlebug | Echo Park

Leave a comment naming your favorite summer activity here on my blog for a chance to win one of the products featured! Leave your comment by May 18th at 11:59 pm CST.

We had 94 comments from last week. Congrats to commenter 41, DawnMcD a prize from last week's video will be sent to you shortly!

And the pranks continue! :)

Today's featured products: Little Yellow Bicycle | Jenni Bowlin/Cordinations

Week 2 of Connecting with Creativity has begun!

 I played along in this week's theme of documenting by creating this mini album recording some of the women in my life who inspire me.   Check out the series to see the projects from Nicole Harper, Stacey Sattler & Caroline Ikeji, as well as additional spotlights from the gallery and our storytelling video.

Did you see this?  

Join the fun over on the NSD message board for chats, challenges, prizes and more!

...has begun! Join in all the festivities on the NSD Board and have fun! 

Today's Featured Products: Margarita collection from American Crafts | Memory Box

Share your thoughts about the products from today's video here on my blog for a chance to win one of the products featured! Leave your comment by May 11th at 11:59 pm CST.

We had 114 comments from last week. Congrats to commenter 42, mikakeke, a prize from last week's video will be sent to you shortly!

The perfect way to start a morning at work. :)  Seriously, people.

Today's Featured Products: Yankee Doodles by We R Memory Keepers | Lime Twist by My Mind's Eye

Here is the chat schedule and chat hostesses for this weekend's National Scrapbook Day crop:

Friday, May 6th:

Chat with Garden Girl Nichol Magouirk at 1pm CST

Chat with Digital Designer Dianne Rigdon and Laura O'Donnell at 5 pm CST

Chat with Garden Girl Jen Martakis at 7pm CST

Saturday, May 7th *NSD*

Chat with Garden Girl Laura Craigie at 12 pm CST 

Chat with Garden Girl Shannon Tidwell  at 8 pm CST

Sunday, May 8th

Chat with Garden Girl Shimelle Laine at 2pm CST

Chat with Digital Designer Rebecca Bonneville and Creative Team member Aussiekat 8 pm CST

See you then, Peas!

Congrats to Katie Rose and Elendae, the winners of the Jillibean Soup Project Challenge!  A $40 prize pack from Jillibean will be sent to each of you shortly; please make sure the address in your Two Peas account is current.  

Here are their fabulous layouts!

Thanks to our friends at Jillibean for sponsoring the challenge!  If you'd like to see how you could win a prize pack from one of our vendors, check out the current challenges running here.

Our Connecting with Creativity event has begun.  I'm playing along in each week's theme and created this mini album/altered tin for my mom for Mother's Day.  See all projects and event content here!