Hi there!

Ready to start the birthday celebrations today? YAY!

Birth-Day 2 Challenge Coolness!

First of all, we'd like to say what a total delight it was for us to walk through our Challenge Gallery and see all your fabulous masterpieces hanging on our Challenge walls!

Here are a few of the tons of amazing Birth-Day2 / JuneCAD-Day 23 layouts we spotted!

This one is croppinkatiejo's challenge layout:

And this one is an awesome winter challenge layout by TammySueDavis:

Bedie used selective coloring in a fab way on her challenge layout:

Cardbug used a terrific cropped photo on her layout:

 We were delighted to find caralfonzo's wonderful first digital layout (woot!)

and it was a total thrill to find iMargo's first layout ever on our Spraground! (Woohoo!)

The challenge gave marye3 the perfect excuse to use a photo that she just had to shoot:

 And it gave biggster210 the inspiration to create her poignant layout:

ginamckinney's challenge layout was fresh and sweet:

And Kristen sparkes' challenge layout featured a precious stolen shot:

jade645 created this soft, gentle challenge layout:

and jtomshack's happy colorful layout  matched the birthday spirit we have all over the Spraground this week!

while hhurey chose to use neutral colors on this great layout:

Mary Rogers turned the template on its side to create her awesome layout:

And here's ChickieShannon's amazing challenge layout (keep an eye on this awesome lady; you'll hear more about her soon!) :

And we just could not resist including this challenge layout, which will be placed on the other side of the sample layout I made... because this one, created by my Spragbabe sister and sister-in-real-life cnborgers, features the male side of her family (heehee!)

Visit our Challenge Gallery to see even more of these amazing Birth-Day2 challenge layouts!

Did anyone say challenge?

We've got a new challenge for you today! 

We're taking a trip to the movies as our birthday activity today! (well, sort of! We're checking out movie posters!)

Here's what we'll be using for our challenge today:

Here's what our challenge requirements are for today:

1. Choose one of the movie posters from the collection above, the one that stands out, moves you, grabs you by your collar, sparks the urge to create in you... and create today's layout with it!

2. Note the number of the poster that inspired you (yes, it's that number in the blue circle) and include it in your challenge layout's file description.  It will be so thrilling to see how your choice inspired you in your creative process!

3. Upload your layout to our Challenge Gallery and include "Birth-Day 3/CAD-Day 24" in your layout title.

4. Post in the "Birth-Day3 / JuneCAD-Day 24" thread in the sticky area of our General Forum to let us know when you've uploaded your layout, so that we can run over and leave you lots of love!

And speaking of love...

Loving our New Designer and her Freebie!

We love this new designer who has joined us in our shop, and we'd like to introduce you to her! 

Crystal is a stay-at-home mama of three wonderful children: Maci (5), McKay (3), & Chloe (9 months). She met her husband at BYU-Idaho, graduated with two kids from BYU Provo, and moved to Texas three years ago. She has been paper scrapbooking for nine years and these past almost-two years has discovered and joined the Dark Side of digital scrapbooking! We are overjoyed to have her join us in our Spraground shop!

And here's more to love! We get our very own birthday freebie today from fabulous Crystal! You're surely going to fall in love with her delicious colors and her fun style.

Here's today's birthday goodie from Crystal:

Click on the image above to download your birthday freebie!

Isn't it just fabby? Thank you so much, Crystal! (And you can get more of Crystal's great designs HERE. They're 20% off this week too!)

Community Fun - A New Tip from Jessica!

We've seen a lot of new groups coming up (yay, you!) What fun!

Today Jes has another tip for us to use as we continue to enjoy exploring our Community more! And it's all about YOU!

If you haven't already, take a few minutes to fill out your profile and don't skip the ever-important About Me! We love seeing who you are and where you're from. And a link to your website or blog wouldn't hurt either!
If you don't have a JessicaSprague.com account yet, then head on over to create an account and join us!

Have a wonderful time scrapping your new challenge layout, enjoying Crystal's birthday freebie for us (be sure you grab it before 10AM Eastern Standard Time tomorrow, when it moves into our shop and makes way for another new birthday goodie for you!)... and don't forget to tell us all about you in your Community profile page!

Happy third Birthday-Bash-Day to all! Pass the cookies and ice cream, please!  :D