Newsletter!

I just finished sending out the newsletter!! (I always try to post it here also for anyone who missed it in their inbox.) Be sure to check back tomorrow and see the new Design Team members beautiful work!

Freehand Scraps Newsletter
With summer in full swing…it’s finally time to introducing our latest kit “Navigate!” This kit screams summer…and is full of vintage touches and exclusives! With a bright summery color palette, a vintage map, and handmade felt shapes that coordinate, you will want to get your hands on one for sure! We have a super talented guest designer this month also! Gretchen McElveen was one of my instructors at the Scrap Etc. event last year and I have wanted her to design for us ever since! Be sure to check out her gallery as well as the rest of our wonderful designers HERE. Katie Haddox and Celeste Smith have finished their year commitment to designing here at FS and are off to other adventures, but Amanda Smith and Jaime Warren are staying to inspire us some more. I am so sad to see them go but we wish them all the best and have been SO blessed to have them! They are beautiful girls, inside and out, and really wonderful scrapbookers too!

Design Team Call
This Design Team Call has been SO fun, I have really enjoyed going through each and every one of your submissions! I spent literally hours and hours pouring over them and going to all of your galleries and blogs. (A lot of them I bookmarked! LOL) Thank you so much for sharing your art with us! I believe your pages and projects are your story…and the fact that you would share it with us is an honor. Really and truly, thank you for sharing a piece of your lives, the pictures of your children, husbands, dogs, cats, friends, vacations, jobs, I loved every minute of it! That is exactly why it’s nearly impossible to choose just a few winners! This has been such a hard decision! I thought I was doing pretty good when I had it narrowed down to the top 20! Now to just pick a few is gut wrenching! With that in mind, our new permanent designers are Lexi Bridges and Samantha Sibbet! Congratulations!! We are so very excited to welcome them to our team here! I am planning on sharing some of their work on the blog tomorrow. And if you did not get selected for a full time DT position, I still may be contacting you to guest design for us. (I have quite a list!) I will most likely be contacting you this week and next with more details. So I hope I will get to work with some of you in the future! Thank you again for submitting your beautiful work! And speaking of designers…be sure to check out this months gallery. There is loads of inspiration to be found!

Hope you have a great night!