Brown Bag Winner For November

Our winner of the Brown Bag Surprise kit for the month of November, using the October kit is...

STEPHANIE MACDONALD
Here is her great double layout.

We loved the simple elegance of this double layout and how she journaled about each and every photo. Simply Fabulous! Leave her a comment and tell her how much you like her work.

Our honourable mention for this month is Pat Betmanis.

She also did a great job, as did all our participants. Leave her a little note of praise on the blog.

 

Our Last Brown Bag Kits are now available in the store. We will be taking a break from our Brown Bag Kits and hopefully will be bringing a NEW CONTEST to you soon. For more information please read the newsletter. You can find this at the top of your page under CURRENT NEWSLETTER.

BROWN BAG WINNER

Our Winner for the month of OCTOBER is...

Deb Jeffery

We loved the symmetry of Deb's Pages and how she treated the leaves, creating viening with embossing powders. Great job Deb! Deb has won a gift pack worth $10.00. Head over to the Blog and leave her a note of praise.


BROWN BAG UPDATE:

We would like to let our regular Brown Bag Surprise Kit purchasers know that we will be discountinuing the Brown Bag kits as of JANUARY 2011. We would like to start a FRESH NEW CONTEST and are looking for some FABULOUS IDEAS. If you have a contest that you think Scrappers would like to participate in drop us a line. allaboutscrapbooks@gmail.com

SEPTEMBER BROWN BAG WINNER

It is Linda Bourne. She did a great job incorrporating all those fun glittery pieces. She has won an Imaginisce B-Day Bash kit worth $10.00. October winner will receive a fabulous October Afternoon Kit worth $10.00. We are extending our Blog contest to October 15, so leave a comment for Linda and make sure you leave your name in your post for a chance to win a prize for yourself. Original Blog Contest Post

Brown Bag Winner For June

The Brown Bag Surprise Winner for the MAY kit is...

Chrissy Gilbert

Chrissy did a great job on her double layout. We love how she balanced the papers and her photos, using the scalloped cards as mats. She used her stamps to add a touch of whimsy to her page and coloured in her butterflies with coloured pencils. Great Job! Leave a note of praise in the comments and let her know what you think of her project. Chrissy recieved a October Afternoon Prize Pack worth $10.00.

Honourable Mention for this month is Kelly Danford

Kelly and couple of other participants continue to amaze us with their inventive cards. Kelly has created 3 cards here. The 1st is a Post It note holder, the 2nd is a small note pad with card attached and 3rd is a paper purse card with a small accordian pocket insert to place little photos or tags. Wonderful!  Leave a note of praise in the comments and let her know what you think of her projects.

THE BROWN BAG & CUSTOMER GALLERIES ARE NOW UPDATED.

Brown Bag Winner for May

Our Winner for the month of MAY using the April Kit is...

Deb Wolosinvosky

These kits contained cardstock, Maya Road Flower Pins, Corduroy Brads, Ric Rac and featured Dream St. Papers.
Deb journaled in a point form style in her own handwriting. She really captured how loved this little white bear is. Great job!

Our Honourable Mention for May is Kelly Danford. She created a unique fold out circle mini album. A great gift idea to mail Family and Friends.
Leave a comment for these scrappers so they can see how much you like their entries.
OUR BROWN BAG GALLERY AND CUSTOMER GALLERY IS NOW UPDATED AS WELL

Brown Bag Winner For April

Our Winner for the month of April using the March Kit is...
Donna Bowman-Woodall

These kits contained eyelets, navy ribbon, cardstock and featured October Afternoon Papers.
Donna journaled in her own hand writing. We love her photos, the sea shells covered in bubbles and that bright blue jellyfish. She did a great job echoing the bubbles with her eyelets. Great Job!

Our Honourable Mention for April is Kelly Nettleton. She created a fun Movie night package filled with Kernals Popcorn & Seasonings with a Blockbuster Gift card. What a great gift idea.
Leave a comment for these scrappers so they can see how much you like their entries.

Brown Bag Winner for March.

Our Winner for the month of March using the February Kit is...
Amber Veraecke









These kits contained Felt Flowers, Gingham ribbon, and featured Dream St. Papers and a crazy purple button.
Amber created a lovely page about her litte guy in his Red Wagon. We loved how she made her 2 page layout very balanced and included hand journaling. Great Job!

Our Honourable Mention for March is Kristi Pollard. She created a great layout about her little dog. Wonderful.

Leave a comment for these scrappers so they can see how much you like their entries.

Also check out our customer gallery - now updated.

Brown Bag Winner for January

Our January Kit winner is JANICE MCDONALD

Janice did a great job at using all the elements in her kit and we love that her own handwriting is a feature on her page. She did a great job.  Our Honourable Mention is Pat Betmanis and her mini mitten ablum.

Leave these ladies a comment and some praise for all their hard work.

Brown Bag Winner for January 2010

Our Winner for the month of January using the December Kit is...

Paula McNeil

These kits contained Hambly Overlays, Cardstock, sheer ribbon, eyelets and Basci Grey Paper.
Paula Created a lovely page about her family christmas. We loved the use of the perfect pearl and the self adhesive pearls to create her swirls. Great Job!
Our Honourable Mention for January is Crissy Glibert. She created a great layout about her little dog. Wonderful.

Leave a comment for these scrappers so they can see how much you like their entries.

Brown Bag Winners for Nov & Dec.

Here is a Brown Bag Surprise Kit UPDATE - JANUARY'S KIT is SOLD OUT! We can't wait to see what you create with the Mitten Mini Ablums.
Now for our last couple of winners.
Our Winner for the month of December using the November Card Kit is...
Ginny Johnson

Ginny created 4 elegant cards out of the brown bag kit and did a wonderful job! We loved the snowflake wreath. Great Job Ginny!

Our Honourable Mention for December is Donna Bowman-Woodall. She created 7 simple & graphic cards with the patterned paper as the focus. Great job!

Our Winner for the month of November using the October Kit is....

Kelly Nettleton

Kelly did a fabulous job with her 6x6 card. We loved all the layering and the curly-q's created from paper. Wonderful Job Kelly!

Our Honourable mention is a layout by Janet Macloney. She created a haunted feeling to this layout with rubon's and black & white photosand inking. Great job Janet!
Leave a comment for these scrappers so they can see how much you like their entries.

Brown Bag Surprise Winner

Our Winner for the month of October using the September Kit is....
ADRIAN TUNS

Adrian created a fun medallion look with his papers and showed off the Core'Dinations paper by tearing it. Great job Adrian!

Our Honourable mention is a layout by Paula McNeil. She stitched the borders and distressed the edges of her family layout. Great job Paula! Leave a comment for these scrappers so they can see how much you like their entries.

August Brown Bag Winner

AND THE WINNER IS....
JANET MACALONEY  YAHHH!!!!!

And now it is your turn to earn a chance to win a prize. Just leave a comment on this post letting Janet what a great job she did on her mini album and case. Kim has left an example comment. Please don't leave an anonomous comment because we will not be able to contact you. Remember only one post per person.

You have unil September 30th and then a random number generator will pick a comment. The winner will recieve a gift prize worth $10.00!

All of our entries will be posted next week in our new Customer Gallery.

Below is the orginal post for this contest

Every month we create a limited number of Brown Bag Surprise Kits for the 1st Business day of the month. Those who pick up the kit for $5.00 can participate in our monthly contest. All they have to do is use a piece of everything in the bag, create a layout or project with the items and bring it back to us by the end of the month. We put them on display in the store for 1 month. At the end of the month a WINNER is randomly drawn to win a $10 gift pack. This month let’s see how many items can be made with the one kit.
This month we have an extra special contest starting. Each entry returned for the brown bag surprise kit is eligible to win the $10 but what about those of you who are not able to get you kit back on time or were not lucky enough to get in time to pick up your kit. This is how you can win a prize too.
We would love to here what you think and we want you to leave us some comments. Kimberly will be posting the August Kit/September winner on September 11, 2009 and you have until September 30, 2009 to leave us a comment on that posting in order to be entered to win a $10 prize pack. Only post once or you will be disqualified and random number will draw the winner. Make sure your post is NOT anonymous.
Also we will be adding all of our contest entries on too our NEW customer scrapbook gallery so you can see them.
Have fun creating and commenting.

August Brown Bag Winner

And The Winner is.... A TOTAL MYSTERY!


We have this wonderful page with no name on it. In fact that is how it went into the draw "no name". If this is your page come on in and pick up your prize.

I love how the little card embellishment reflects Theo in the photo. Great use of eveything in the bag. Leave some comments here as to how much you like this layout.

Our honourable mention this month is a layout by Ginny Johnson

July Brown Bag Winner

Congrats to Pat Betmanis

June's challenge was filled with super bright paper and we love how Pat used the words on the page to accent her photos. Leave Pat some praise and tell how much you love her page!

DON'T FORGET... Our $5.00 Brown Bag Surprise kits are only available for a short time and if you bring your layout or project back in by the last business day of the month - YOU COULD WIN TOO!

Next month we will be running a BLOG CHALLENGE along with the monthly kit, so check back here starting September 11, 2009 to play.

We also have an honourable mention this month. Here is a layout made by Linda Borne. Great job Linda.

June Brown Bag Winner

Congrats to Cheyenne Mac Donald

This Month's challenge was extra hard with everyone having to use a tree and buttons. We received alot of butons on trees which was wonderful, however we liked this one the best. She sewed tiny ribbon into her buttons and hung them from her tree.

Leave Cheyenne some praise and tell how much you love her page! DON'T FORGET... Our $5.00 Brown Bag Surprise kits are only available for a short time and if you bring your layout or project back in by the last business day of the month - YOU COULD WIN TOO!

We also have an honourable mention this month - to remind you that your kit doesn't have to be made into a page layout.

Here is a mini book hand made by Kristi Pollard. Great job Kristi.

May's Brown Bag Winner

Our winner for the April Surprise kit is Trudy Koch!

Congratulations Trudy!

Trudy took this star themed kit and ran with it! She created and won ~ in Vegas and here too! Love all the glitter on the blue star. It makes you feel like you're looking at the shining lights in that bright city.

Leave Trudy some praise and tell how much you love her page!
DON'T FORGET... Our $5.00 Brown Bag Surprise kits are only available for a short time and if you bring your layout or project back in by the last business day of the month - YOU COULD WIN TOO!

April's Brown Bag Winner!

Our winner for the March Surpise kit is Ginny Johnson!

Congratulations GINNY!

We love how the orange and green in the photo is echoed in the super bright papers. Leave Ginny some praise and tell how much you love her page!

DON'T FORGET... Our $5.00 Brown Bag Surprise kits are only available for a short time and if you bring your layout or project back in by the last business day of the month - YOU COULD WIN TOO!

Feburary Brown Bag Winner!

Our winner for February is Kristi Pollard.

Kristi does a great job every month and this month is no exception!. Leave a comment for Kristi & tell her what you like about her page!
DON'T FORGET... Our $5.00 Brown Bag Surprise kits are only available for a short time and if you bring your layout or project back in by the last business day of the month - YOU COULD WIN TOO!

February's Brown Bag Winner!!

Here is our winner for January's Surprise kit.

Marcy Stattery

Marcy has done a beautiful job with all the items she was given and check out those eyes!! Leave a comment for Marcy & tell her what you like about her page!

DON'T FORGET... Our $5.00 Brown Bag Surprise kits are only available for a short time and if you bring your layout or project back in by the last business day of the month - YOU COULD WIN TOO!

Brown Bag Surprise Kits!

Every month we create a limited number of Brown Bag Surprise Kits for the 1st Business day of the month. Those who pick up the kit for $5.00 can participate in our monthly contest. All they have to do is use a piece of everything in the bag, create a layout or project with the items and bring it back to us by the end of the month. We put them on display in the store for 1 month. At the end of the month a WINNER is randomly drawn to win a $10 person gift pack.

January's winner is Gisela Fantin

Gisela did a wonderful job at adding fun elements to her page like twisting the twine like a candy cane! Leave her some wonderful notes of praise!