Hi everyone! It’s Win It! Wednesday again! This week Mel has a really cute matchbook template for you that you can use as either an album or a notepad. Way too cute! Click on the preview to download the free’bee’ template, and keep reading for directions and photos of what the completed project looks like!

Ready to give it a try? Ok, here we go

1. Decorate the template any way you’d like digitally.

2. Print the templates

3. Cut out the pieces. This one is really easy to cut, all straight lines!

4. Score the matchbook cover on the score lines and fold.

5. Take the notepad pieces (you can decorate this like mini scrapbook pages if you want to use this as an album) and arrange them as you like. Place them inside the bottom flap of the matchbook cover and staple in the center.

6. Tuck the top flap of the matchbook cover into the bottom flap, like a matchbook, lol

7. Voila! You’re all done!

Here’s my project. I turned it into a mini planner for activities my daughter and I have planned for this summer. I used Spittin Seeds from Amanda Heimann to make it.

Don’t forget! Once you complete this project, come back and leave me a link to a photo of it, and you could win a $4 gift certificate to Pixel Geek Designs store at Scrap Orchard!

Until next week,

Happy Hybrid!

Hi everyone! New CT member Sally here to bring you Win It! Wednesday Every Wednesday I’ll be here with a FREE’BEE’ template and simple tutorial for you. You’ll complete the free’bee’ project, comment with a link to a photo of your finished project, and I’ll come back each Wednesday with a random winner and a new template! The winner will receive a coupon good for $4 at Pixel Geek Designs store! Sound good? Yay! We’re launching Win It! Wednesday this week with not one, but TWO free’bee’ templates. These little gift card holders are adorable and so useful! Who doesn’t give gift cards as gifts these days? And with these templates, you can make them a bit more personal. Here are the templates, click the image to download, and the tutorial is below!

So here we go! After you download your template, decorate it however you like and print. Using scissors or a craft knife, cut out each of the shapes on the cut lines.

Once you have all the pieces cut out, use a scoring tool or the back of a butter knife to score the fold lines, being careful not to actually cut through the paper. You just want to score it. (Using a ruler helps keep score lines straight.)

Fold your pieces along the score lines, and if you wish, ink the edges. I ink the edges in almost all of my projects, I like the grungy finished look it gives.

Let the ink dry so that you won’t have it all over your fingers and smudging your project, and then glue the printed side of the pocket flaps. Fold them backward and attach the pocket to the top half of the card. (Or in the case of the wallet template, on one of the sides of the wallet.)

Now attach the greeting card inset to the other half of the purse or wallet.

If you are using a glue stick, set the card aside and let the glue dry for 10-15 minutes. If you’re using a glue runner, you can continue on without waiting. The next thing you will want to do is close the card, and punch a hole in both sides.

Thread a ribbon or string through the holes, and tie it so that the card stays closed, and voila! You’re done! Here are my finished projects for both templates

Don’t forget to come back and leave us a comment with the link to a photo of your finished project. I’ll be back next week with the winner of a $4 coupon to Pixel Geek Designs store, and a brand new free’bee’ challenge!

This week PixelGeek Designs has outdone herself!!!

Mel designed an amazing Gable Box, available in TWO sizes!! These boxes are seriously cute and the perfect size for small gifts.

created by Jennifer:

created by Samara:

Next is PixelGeek’s adorable “Build-a-Blog” kit,  “Rule the School”.  Doesn’t it make you want to redo your blog?  I know I want too!

As if that wasn’t enough…

We are having a sale!!! What a perfect opportunity to pick up some awesome templates with an amazing deal!

Click on the coupon to take you to PixelGeek Designs store.

I sure hope you’re still reading this post.  We have an amazing  free”bee” just for you!

Two download links for you:

Free’Bee’ Zip Download

Free’Bee’ Printable Download

Have a wonderful Hybrid Day!

♥Samara

For the past month or so I have started creating some fantastic Hybrid Templates, I am really enjoying this new designing venture and have had to dust the cobwebs off the stuff I learned in Geometry over.. ahem.. 16 years ago, ack!  I have 5 new Hybrid Templates out this week, which are 20% Off until Christmas Eve so hurry on over to Scrap Orchard and pick up one or two!! Oh! I forgot to mention, all my Hybrid Templates are Commercial Use Friendly.. yay!

Take a look at these gorgeous projects made with the Accordion File template:

by Kami

by Samara

Here is an adorable hybrid project made with the Square Box w/ Handle template:

Last but not least, I have release Medium versions of the Milk Carton and PopCorn Box templates previously released!

And to celebrate my new Hybrid Template venture I have created an adorable, little House Box template for you!

The house reminded me so much of the gingerbread houses my sister and I used to get every Christmas from our Aunt Kathy, that I couldn’t resist making it into a gingerbread house!

Click Here to download the House Box Template!

I used Lyndsay Riches & Wild Dandelion Designs delicious Sweet Sugar Holiday kit to make my Gingerbread House (above), it was absolutely perfect!

If I don’t get to chat with you before next week (I sure hope not!); please have a Wonderful and Safe Holidays!

Welcome, welcome to the first ever Scrap Orchard Honey Bee Blog Train!! As you may have noticed, if you finish your train ride you will have not one but two fabulous brag books made with two of our Mystery Megas from last year, Spooktacular and Fallin’ for You!!

Speaking of Megas… I have the inside scoop that on Saturday, Scrap Orchard will be sending out a Special Edition of Fresh Fruit Fridays! with an uber exciting Mega Special Offer, so if you haven’t already, make sure you subscribe to our newsletter (not to mention October is our Customer Appreciation Month where you will receive 25% Off all Fresh Fruit and a chance to win a $25.00 Gift Certificate)!!

So on with the Blog Train!  Below is my page to be added to your Fallin’ for You brag book:

Click the image or here to Download

This is the last stop on the Blog Train, so I will return you to the Blog Train Station!

Welcome!  By now you should have collected tons of *fabulous* free’bees’ from the awesomely talented Scrap Orchard Designers..!  I am the second to the last stop on this crazy train ride… Shauna put me here, in the caboose… do you think she’s trying to say something?!?!  I think I should probably have a little chat with Miss Shauna!

All my products (except my one collaboration kit with Ziggle Designs) are one sale.. ByOneGetOne Free!  So make sure you head on over to my store and grab some Build-a-Blogs!

Anywho, here is my little piece of this fabulous kit:

Click here to download my Free’Bee’…!

Next stop.. heading back to Grand Central Station… Scrap Orchard!

Welcome back!  As promised, here is the second half of T.G.I.F. – Thank Gosh I’m Female!

Enjoy.

Don’t forget to stop by and pick up the coordinating alpha: The Alpha Is Half Full!

Thank Gosh I’m Female!

So I have decided to start trying to learn how to make my very own digital scrapbooking products, finally!  To celebrate this new venture, I will be giving away my very first solo kit away for free.. yes, you heard me right.. FREE!  But there *is* a catch… you’ll have to come back tomorrow to get the second half.. hehehehe!  And, well, if you enjoy the kit, I would love for you to  take a look at the coordinating alpha: The Alpha Is Half Full. (Psssst! The alpha will be 30% Off until Saturday and then 20% Off until next Thursday, so hurry on over and grab it at its reduced price!)

Okay, okay.. I know you are dying to get to the Free’Bee’.. so here it is!

of a White Christmas… in Arizona. Hey now, it’s been known to happen.. once every other millennia..! Kami and I have been talking about me starting to design digital scrapbooking products (and really, who better to teach me than my favorite sister?) and with me losing my job a couple weeks ago and all.. I am finding I have plenty of time on my hands to join her little mini-apprentice program..!

Kami came up with the idea of doing a Christmas kit because well.. we seriously both have this Christmas fetish. We love everything about Christmas.. the decorations, traditions, music and especially the movies! One of our all time favorites is White Christmas… seriously, when we were 7 and 10 years old, it was one of our favorites mostly because of all the singing and dancing. Okay, back on track, so Kami came up with the idea of making a collaboration Christmas kit inspired by White Christmas.. so there you have it. Kami did most of the designing.. I just made the alphas, cluster elements and some of the quickpages. Have no fear, she will have me slaving over a hot computer banging out full digital kits of my own in no time! But until then, you’ll just have to enjoy this gorgeous collaboration kit:

White Christmas {The Bundle}

The Bundle includes The Kit, The Pages and The Words (buy it now while it’s still Fresh Fruit and you’ll get everything for only $8.00!)

White Christmas {The Kit}

White Christmas {The Pages}

White Christmas {The Words}

So to celebrate our first ever collaboration, we both are giving you wordart from our favorite White Christmas song: Sisters!

Here is the wordart you’ll find on Kami’s blog:

And here’s the wordart for my blog:

Whew! You finally made it to my little corner of cyberspace!  Who says Trick-or-Treating is just for the kiddies..?!?!  I bet you are having a blast collecting all the digiscrap goodies.. I know *I* am!!!  So, let’s keep this train arollin’..!

*knock* *knock* *knock*

With all the trick-or-treater’s visiting our blogs and downloading the free”bees” the blog train is sure to be a little slow… have no fear! We will all be leaving our treats up for days to come!  So if you get stopped or slowed down, just make a note to come back and get pick up your treat later!  If you’re not sure where to go next, check out the complete blog train list in the Scrap Orchard forum!

Now on to the next house… Vasco of Moon Scraps!