Hello and happy National Scrapbooking Day!  Are you celebrating today by getting some of your layouts done?  If you read our blog regularly, you know we spend a lot of time focused on cardmaking.  But today we’re here to share just how fun and easy it is to put your stamps and ink to work on your scrapbook layouts!

First we have a gorgeous layout from Sheri Reguly.  The Bird Collage image is such a lovely addition to this page, and the message from Live Life is perfect with this sweet photo of siblings who are also good friends.

Layout by Sheri Reguly.  Find complete supplies and instructions here.

This super sweet page from Kandis Smith highlights how background stamps can make an impact on a scrapbook layout.  We love how Kandis stamped the Friend Definition in the corner of the page, and the stars were the perfect background for the sweet, sweet photo of her little guy.  And could that message be any more perfect?

Layout by Kandis Smith.  Find complete supplies and instructions here.

We’re thinking a National Scrapbook Day celebration wouldn’t be complete without a little giveaway - wouldn’t you agree?  We’ve put together an assortment of stamps and embellishments we think will work really well in your scrapbook layouts, including Friendly Flags, Typewriter Letters, Solid Dots Pattern, Large Canvas Stripes, Blush Buttons, Flower Swirl Vine (which has been our Stamp of the Week this week!), Floral Dots and Jeweled Classic and Pastel Flowers.

Leave a comment on this post for a chance to win the goodies. But the fun doesn’t end there… we have a sketch challenge for you, too!  This is based on the layout from Kandis above - we thought it could easily be adapted to a card, for those of you who don’t scrapbook but still want in on the fun.  And!  Playing along will earn you extra chances at the goodies above!  Leave an additional comment with a link to your project based on the sketch for an extra contest entry.  And if you get into the spirit of the day and make an actual layout rather than a card, you get one more bonus entry!  So leave another comment if it’s a scrapbook page for a total of three possible comment entires!!  Fun!

A huge thanks to Kelly Rasmussen for putting together this fabby sketch!!  The contest will be open until Friday, May 13 at 11:59pm PST.  The winner will be drawn randomly from all blog comments.  If you upload to the Hero Arts Flickr Group, please tag your entry with “HANSD2011″ so we can find you!  And look for our NSD thread on Flickr to chat about the fun we’re having!

Happy stamping AND scrapbooking!

Filed under: NSD, scrapbook

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