Did you know that each month there are many, terrific challenges going on at CatScrap? By visiting our forums, you can view a list of the challenges, learn what you need to do to participate and how to earn points that you can accumulate and turn into cold hard cash for spending in the Shop. [...]
Unless you’ve been sucked into the bottomless depths of Internet Hell that I’ve been subjected to for the last three weeks (ugh), you must’ve heard that CatScrap’s on the Site Spotlight of The Artisan Notebook this month, wheeee! Well, they’re hosting two sweet challenges and up for grabs are gift certificates to CatScrap. Take your [...]
There are two orders of business today. First, I would like to introduce myself and say hello. My name is Tracy and I am joining CatScrap as a blog editor and also to assist with the Twitter and Facebook pages too. The CatScrap team (myself included!) has lots of post, product and promotion ideas swirling [...]
I know…it’s Wednesday! But the good news is, our 20% off sale each week is good for Tuesday and Wednesday. So there is still time to take advantage of great new items like these: and there are plenty more great products available in the Shop, so please visit us there. Tracy Share this:
We have a new and fantastic guest designer for April, and we’re so excited that she’s sharing her talent with us this month! Please, help us welcome Jennifer Labre to CatScrap! She has a stunning new kit, and it is on sale for 20% for a limited time! Let’s learn a bit more about Jennifer… [...]
…oh, did I mention that they are NEW??? New what, you ask? Well, if you have not had the chance to look in the shop today, then you would not know that we have added FOUR fantastic new designers to our amazing roster here at CatScrap!! We just can’t believe this talent, and their products [...]
Well hopefully you are not hiding under a rock and have seen all the fun things happening this week at CatScrap! And if you are hiding under a rock, you better come out quick cause it’s a CATWALK PARTY!! And first up we have.. (Aren’t Paula Kesselring’s frogs funny!!) So this is the very first [...]
… and a day early, mind you All the more to get your wishlists emptied–that is, unless you’re filling them up with all the NEW stuff that’s in the shoppe! Every time I think–and say–the designers have outdone themselves they go and up the ante and therefore make me look bad. Oh well. As you’ll [...]
Happy happy summer days!!! I hope you are loving them as much as I am. Warm nights, swim suits, fishing, sun bathing and OH LOOK at CATWALK too. Could summer get any better. Now if only we had all the time in the world to enjoy it. And scrapbook it. So how about a [...]
Hi all! Cynthia here with my very first post on the Catscrap Blog! I’m so thrilled to be here and I hope I get to know you all better! Today I want to show you a very cool article that I found which I think a lot of you will find helpful. I’m always looking [...]
Hi all! Cynthia here this last Friday of the year with our Fab Online Finds! Can you believe the year is almost over!?!? I sure can’t, but here’s to hoping that the next year will be kind and generous to everyone. One of the things I like most about the end of the year, is [...]
Happy 2012 all!! I hope this new year is the best one ever for all of you! I also hope that the past Holiday Season has recharged your energies and your mojos! We have been busy backstage to bring you 10 amazing challenges for this month. I’m sure you’ll love them as much as we [...]
Hi all! If you’ve never seen our challenge forum, today is the day you might want to check it out! Our challenges give you the perfect opportunity to bring out your creativity, use your awesome CatScrap stash, and earn a cool GC to the shop in the process. How cool is that? Here’s a small [...]
We’re loving our challenges this month! There’s everything from journaling, to lyrics, to those products we can’t live without. Make sure you swing by our February Challenges Forum to be inspired and in the meantime, make some cool pages while earning points for a cool GC to the store! If you have any questions, make [...]
May 13th, 2012 
Cynthia Happy Mother’s day! Cynthia here this Sunday to bring you our second round of BoB picks for May. The gallery is absolutely gorgeous and the pages picked this past week are no exception. I couldn’t narrow my choices to only 3 so here they are in all their glory. All images are clickable so make sure you leave them so me love!
By Teeshoom:
By chocochoco:
By scrappurple:
By sparkysgirl:
This is it from me today, I hope you all have a fantastic weekend and are spoiled rotten! See you next week!
May 12th, 2012 Lilja Mother’s Day is this Sunday. I was reminded of it yesterday, when my kids brought Mother’s Day gifts from Kindergarten 
It’s always so sweet, they are so proud – and I’m always amazed at how imaginative and creative the Kindergarten teachers are each year.
Getting these presents made me think that I hadn’t done anything for my own mother, so I went online to search for fun, easy, not too time consuming projects I could whip up before Sunday. Here’s some of the wonderful ideas I found
This is fun and very easy to make!
This little book is very easy to make and fits perfectly in a handbag.
I love this mini in an envelope! Just perfect!
This is very simple – and I love that it’s made from a single 12*12 sheet of paper!!
I love accordian albums, and even though this one is a baby album, the idea can be used for anything and everything.
However, I think this is what I’ll be making this weekend…
It’s super easy, super simple, super cute – and I love that my mom will be able to hang it on her wall or keep it in her purse.
For all the mom’s: Happy Mother’s Day!!
May 7th, 2012 Cynthia Hi all! Happy Monday! Cynthia here with our first May BoB post! The gallery is certainly hopping with gorgeousness, and this is just a tiny tiny taste of the pretties we have featured this week. You can see the entire thread here, and please feel free to pick your favorites from the gallery to be featured!
From blanulak:
From ovaltine:
From liahra:
From motherbear:
What did I tell you? Gorgeous or what? Make sure to click on the lo’s for credits and to leave the ladies some well-deserved love. See you next week!
May 1st, 2012 Lilja It’s the tiniest bit late – but I’m sure that somewhere in the world, it’s still April 30…
The Catscrap gallery is brimming with goodness and here are the layouts we feel that stood out in the last week of April.
{purple} forest by Teeshoom
Fly by mommy2boyz
simple smile by Parr1983
As always, these are just a few of the gorgeous layouts in the gallery. Go leave them some love – and if you should happen to find a layout you love, but has been overlooked in the BOB thread – feel free to add it!
April 28th, 2012 Lilja I love journaling and for the past year I have been crazy about mini journals. I like the fact that my journals make my photos more visible to guests and family than the layouts that are saved to my hard drive
Right now, I’m working on a travel journal for a weekend trip to London, my husband and I took at the end of March. That means that all I do these days, is search the internet for inspiring travel journals…and there are MANY of those!!
I have a secret journal crush on Mary Ann Moss of the Dispatch from LA blog. I want my travel journals to look like this – messy and fabulous:
I love how she shows the process of her journaling – and her amazing photography. Mary Ann has an amazing eye for interesting photos on her travels!
Here are some more fabulous travel journals…
Bonnie van Esch’s (of Living life creatively) Paris journal
This one, from the Scrappy Tree, is gorgeous
And Jenni Hufford makes fantastic journals, like this travel journal from New Zealand
I love Jenni Hufford’s blog, so full of inspiration and her mini books and journals are amazing. Same can be said of Elise Blaha’s blog. She makes fabulous mini books.
I’ll leave you with a page from an Icelandic journaler. I love how she draws in her journals – I have always wanted to be able to sit down somewhere and sketch what I see…
If you take a look at her blog, you’ll see her binding on this journal – it’s amazing!!
April 27th, 2012 Lilja April is coming to an end (time sure does fly!!!) but you still have time to take part in our fabulous collection of challenges this month. You can find our April challenges here If you want to read up on the rules and the perks of playing along or if you need to find the thread where you keep track of your challenge points, you can go to the challenge section of the forums.
Here’s a sample of what we have for you in April…
Stripe Challenge: Where you have to use at least 3 different striped papers!! Some samples:
by Dalis
by jetjez
Search Challenge: This is where you have to check your Catscrap folder for something blue, some hearts, stitches and staples and use them all on your layout. Some samples:
by Bethie
by Andrea
Inspired? Go check out our April Challenges for some more inspiration…and play along with us
April 23rd, 2012 MrsHobbes Hi CatScrappers! Lex here with a mini-tutorial of sorts on using one of my absolute FAVORITE items in the shoppe, the Torn Bits overlays of Creashens! (images are linked)
I went spelunking in the gallery and found some awesome inspiration on how to use these Torn Bits–check them out:
Ultracoolmama gave her photos that extra punch by using the Torn Bits with them:
Ferdy put a fun spin by inserting colorful pattern papers into a couple of the photo spaces:
Designer Mellybird injected fun cropping with her photos using these overlays:
Rachel incorporated Torn Bits right into her title work, by using them as matting for her acrylic alpha:
Tali had some fun with paper blocking juxtaposed with her son’s photos:
Lastly, Teeshoom used two types of these Torn Bits and played around with awesome composition with her photos:
Hope these pieces of art inspired your own ideas on how to use these definitely-must-have-in-your-stash overlays! What’s awesome is Shen includes both shadowed and unshadowed versions, so you can instantly add depth and realism to your layout. Try them out and see for yourself!
April 22nd, 2012 Lilja It’s the end of the weekend and it’s time for another look through the BOB thread.
There are so many amazing layouts in the Catscrap gallery and to highlight those we think are the best of the best, we create a BOB section of the forum. Everyone can add their favorite layouts to the April BOB thread and link them so we can leave some love too.
Every Saturday, we’ll highlight some of the layouts here on the blog and at the end of the month a winner will be chosen from the highlighted layouts. The winner will not only get to sport the BOB blinkie all over the digiworld, but will also get a 3 month guest gig on the Catscrap CT.
Here are this weeks’ picks
Creativity by Soco
My Favorite Season by Natascha
Run With The Wind by wombat146
Please go and leave them some love – and remember that everybody is encouraged to add layouts to the BOB thread.
April 21st, 2012 Rachel
Have you seen all of the amazing spring CatWalk products that were released yesterday??
The amazing CT has put together an awesome assortment of journaling cards (Project Life inspired) for you to enjoy.
Here is a preview of the set I created:
You can grab it here: http://www.4shared.com/zip/344HF-Ht/…atWalk_RR.html
The next stop is Claire’s blog.
April 20th, 2012 tracykuethe 
We have an amazing array of coordinating kits available today in the shop. Our designers share the same color palette when creating CatWalk creations but from there, design their own items. It’s a great way to get items that complement one another, sample the work of new to you designers and load up on from your current favorite artists. Everyone wins!
SPRING CATWALK 2012 PRODUCT: CLICK TO VIEW
Take a look:
Be sure to visit this blog tomorrow for links to an incredible Blog Hop! Our team has made loads and loads of journal cards for this hop, you know the kind that are perfect for Project Life…or any of your scrapbook pages.
Sport the Catscrap blinkie in your signature and you may win a free gift from us! Your support is always much appreciated!
