Hi there!

We've been skipping around our forums and Community, and we have been thrilled to see your wonderful faces in your avatars, seeing your creations coming up in our galleries, and having new friends join our Spraground family!

To celebrate our ever-expanding family, we thought it might be nice to take our new Spragmates on a field trip to see other goodies that they can grab from our shelves!

Perhaps the fact that we're all here, celebrating and whooping and dancing (and chewing on birthday cookies >wink!), is proof that we all love computers. And I'd be willing to bet that a huge part of why we love our computers is because they help us preserve all our precious memories, big and small, special and everyday alike!

And because here on our Spraground, we love growth, and growing our skills, and growing our Spraground family :D, we are totally thrilled when paper scrappers, hybrid scrappers, and digi scrappers --indeed, all scrappers!--come and play with us and maybe even paint their names permanently on their swings on our Spraground!

We warmly welcome all our new Spraground family members with these:

Scrapbook Alchemy (Hybrid Scrapbooking) Quick-Start: FREE!

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to decorate your pages with the beauty and creative techniques of your computer, yet still feel the yummy texture of paper, and hear the clean swwwsh of your cutting board, and watch your paintbrush spread acrylic paint on your cardstock? It's the perfect marriage of digi and paper, and it's called hybrid!

Here's everything you need to get started in hybrid scrapbooking, and best of all, you get to see The Jessica Sprague working in her loft! How cool is that?

Click on the image below to get started on your hybrid journey with this lesson specially designed for paper scrapbookers wanting to blend paper and digital scrapbooking!

Digital Scrapbooking Quick-Start: FREE!

Have you wondered how to use a template? How to pull photos, papers, elements, and fonts together and stir and shake and bake so that they come out of the oven looking gorgeous?

Here's everything you need to get started in digital scrapbooking, and it's brought to you FREE by none other than our awesome Digital Scrapbooking Queen, Jessica Sprague!

Make full scrapbook pages in either Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. This graphics program is perfect for adding beautiful papers, accents, type, and embellishments to your digital photos, and printing the pages out or sharing them online. In this free quick start guide to beginning digital scrapbooking, Jessica teaches the basics as you start with a mostly finished page and add in your own photo and some text to create a gorgeous 12x12 inch digital scrapbook page, perfect for printing onto 12x12 or 8x8 photo paper and slipping into an album, or for saving and sharing online with friends and loved ones.

Click on the image above to go to the FREE lesson page.

Oh, and did we mention the free lesson comes with a free quickpage, too? How awesome is that? And it's all because Jessica Sprague thinks you are awesome! (Check out the bottom of each page on our Spraground; she says so!)

Hope our Birthday Bash Day 4 is rockin' your socks!