A Scrap of Life

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather, And autumn's best of cheer. ~ Helen Hunt Jackson For most of us here in the States and Canada, September usually marks the beginning of cooler weather, the return of school, and making memories with falling leaves, apple cider, and football.  Wherever you live, we hope you share those memories with us at Scraps N Pieces. " S is for School " is our newest store collab, and the designers have outdone themselves...again!  The awesome colors, elements, tags, and fun papers will make your school scrapbooks complete. Don't forget if you create a layout using the collab kit, post it to the Collab challenge and earn some forum points! Grab the kit , just the quickpages , or the bundle of both! Image is linked to the kit in the store. The first of the month means a new set of awesome Bits N Pieces products, and we promise our designers do not disappoint this month.  ...

The Wedding Bells collection by Magical Scraps Galore has been combined into a full kit. It's 20% off for a limited time, and includes a glitter pack free with purchase! CT member Lyn is sharing this gorgeous freebie she created with Wedding Bells .  Visit her blog to download: Thank you and have a great day!

Marina of Magical Scraps Galore is the Featured Designer of the week at Scraps N Pieces and she has several awesome things lined up for you! There’s a 50% OFF SALE in HER STORE during this week.  BONUS!!!: You’ll win a FREE Magical Scraps Galore kit of your choice when you spend $10 or more in her store!  You can get Random Coupons that will be posted on her Facebook Fanpage . And participate in the special challenges that she has posted on her Featured Designer thread at the SNP forum and earn $$ to spend in the Magical Scraps Galore store! You can earn up to $6!! Thank you and have a great day!

This week Brian and I took Chase on a college road trip. We left Tuesday afternoon, after picking Chase up from a job shadow with a computer engineer. He walked away from the job shadow with a positive view of computer engineering. He enjoyed his time and found the work he viewed to be intriguing. So a positive way to start our trip, as computer engineering (or electrical computer engineering) was really his top choice at this point. We grabbed a quick lunch at Mod, a great way to start our "try the best hometown pizza" portion of the road trip. Mod was great, as usual. Then it was on the road, all for this guy!  We left the nasty, overcast skies of the Portland area and 90 minutes later we saw this.  Alas, our luck wouldn't keep up and another hour or two later we hit the rain again. It was mainly overcast or rainy the rest of the drive that day. We did stop once for gas and Chase was thrilled to find this apple fritter half the size of his head. Yes, he ate ...

Mmmmm … you can almost smell the deliciousness of this kit!  Filled with unique elements and a touch of vintage feel, Baked Fresh  by Magical Scraps Galore is a fun collection that has all the right ingredients to cook up some delightful layouts for all of your home-baked memories, from photos of your little chefs and helpers to birthday cakes and pastries.  This kit is also perfect to help you create your own recipe books or cards.  It includes 1 full uppercase alpha, with numbers and punctuation and saved as individual .png files; 22 textured papers (8 solids, 14 unique patterns); and 73 unique elements. Baked Fresh is available at Scraps N Pieces and is 30% off through June 18th: Here's some CT inspiration for you: Marina has a special freebie for you!  She created a recipe card using Baked Fresh : Go visit her Blog to download it! Thank you and have a great day!