Today I wanted to share with you the loose schedule for the month of September and remind you to check the blog each day to see what other surprises might be popping up along the way!

Now don’t forget tomorrow is $1 and $2 dollar day at Gotta Pixel so be sure to stop in and find what Captivated Visions goodness is on sale for just one day!

Also please leave comments we love them and value your input

If you play along, you can be entered to win a $5.00 coupon to Rachel’s store at GottaPixel. Plus all participants will receive an e-mail at the end of the month with a coupon good for 25% of Rachel’s Store at Gotta Pixel, so please enter a valid e-mail address when posting us a comment with the link to your layout

Please remember to use at least 80% of Captivated Visions materials for entering this challenge.

This month I thought we’d have a scraplift challenge and who better to lift in our first challenge than Rachel herself !! . Check out her fab gallery HERE - choose a layout to lift, use one of Rachel’s kits, post it to her designer gallery at Gotta Pixel and link it back here for your chance to win a $5 coupon to Rachel’s store!!

I chose to lift Rachel’s “Girly Day”

and here is my page using Field of Dreams.

And here is some fabulous CT inspiration :

Lisa_mommy2Two lifted “Pond Life” :

and created this using Rachel’s gorgeous kit Serenity

Chel chose to lift Rachel’s “Giant’s Causeway”

and came up with this using Off The Beaten Path

and finally, Jacqueline lifted “Dad, I love You”

and made this adorable layout using Field of Dreams,  Bellis Perennis and In Her Teens

So to recap – complete your scraplift using at least 80% of Captivated Vision product, post your layout to her designer gallery at Gotta Pixel  and come back here and link us up to your completed LO, so that you can get entered in the random drawing to win. All entries are due on September 30, and the winner will be announced when the new challenge is posted on October 3.

Most of all, have fun !!

This month watch out for my regular Saturday posts. This Saturday I’m giving you a choice of colour Palettes that took my fancy from my stash!
I want you to leave me a comment to this post and state which one Palette you vote for.

Be sure to state a valid e-mail address when posting because every vote counts towards the chance of winning the kit when it’s made. I will put all voters names into a draw at the end of the month and there will be one lucky winner, everyone else who voted will get a discount coupon to purchase the kit at a special reduced price!

Voting will close on Wednesday September 8th 2010, votes posted after that date on this post won’t be counted.
The following Saturday I will come back and post the winning Palette and then give you a choice of themes to vote against!! Again, all of these new votes will be entered into the same draw to win the kit. For the remaining Saturdays in September I will post you sneak peeks of my progress!!
So follow me all month long to keep up to date with our Build a Kit Event and be in it to win it!

One Vote Per Member Please!
But you can vote again next week when the themes are posted.

Here are the six Choices of Palettes
Simply identify in your comment which is your favourite number palette and ensure your e-mail address is valid!!

I will see you again next Saturday with the winning colours and choice of themes, I’m so excited to see which palette comes up trumps!
Hugs Rachel

Now, on to the kits! Everything in Rachel’s store at SM is on sale this Friday and Saturday, 9/2 and 9/3 for 20% off!

First up is Page Turner, previously released at GottaPixel. The Page Turner Value Bundle has a Special Price of $6 this Friday and Saturday ONLY, 9/2 and 9/3- Regular price after that is 30% off which is $9.79:

Page Turner Collection – Value Bundle By Captivated Visions

Page Turner Page Kit By Captivated Visions
Page Turner Worn Papers By Captivated Visions
Page Turner Word Bits By Captivated Visions
Page Turner Reading Stickers By Captivated Visions

CT Inspiration:

Next up, the two releases featured in the sneak peek! Thanks to everyone who participated in the sneak peek contest, the random winner selected through random.org is Angie! Congrats!! A coupon code will be sent to you soon!

Previously released as part of the Digi Files, we have:

Happy Snapper Page Kit Plus FREE Gift – By Captivated Visions

On the Happy Snapper Free With Purchase, the Stacked Papers are Free with Purchase all month!

CT Inspiration:

And here is an awesome set of new templates, Captivated by Stefanie Templates – By Captivated Visions
The winner of the Sneak Peek RAK for these templates was Kait, congrats your coupon will be with you asap!

CT Inspiration:

Rachel had a chance to visit with Stefanie and ask her some questions. Here is what Stefanie had to say:

Tell us about where you live and your daily routine? I live in Northern Virginia just about 30 minutes west of Washington DC. My daily routine…I usually get up around 6, have some coffee and wake up the kids. Disney channel on in the background and kids up…I just in the shower to get ready for my 8-5 job as an Administrative Assistant/Graphics Artist for a small Project management company. After work, I pick up the kids from school, make dinner, take the kids outside for walks and bike rides, baths and then wine and scrapping for mommy! Bed is usually around 10:30 and then get up the next day and do it all over again

How would your friends describe you? Outgoing, creative and fun!

How did you get involved with Digital Scrapbooking, did you Paper Scrap first? When Ben (my oldest son) was born in 2006, I needed to figure out a way to document all the pictures I was taking of his first year. I never got involved with paper scrapbooking because I wouldn’t be able to organize all of the stuff in my small house so I looked into something that involved using my computer. I somehow stumbled across a bunch of digital scrapbooking sites and that was the end of the discussion…I was hooked.

How often do you Scrap and how much time do you spend on your computer!? I try to scrap every night if possible but atleast 5 times a week for an hour or so before bedtime.

What is your favourite scrapping subject? My kids…hands down!

What other hobbies do you have besides scrapbooking? Reading, cooking, trying new wines, traveling and spending quality time with family and friends.

What is your workspace like where you create your Scrapbooking layouts? I have a small homemade desk in a nook in my living room. It’s sort of cluttered with pens, notebooks, and external hard drives. It also allows me to watch TV if I want to while scrapping or surfing the internet.

Link us up to your favourite layout and tell us why you love it!? My current favorite layout is Explore:

http://scrapmatters.com/gallery3/showphoto.php/photo/132777/ppuser/73

it’s a very different style for me, my layouts are usually white space and clustering. This one was a very simple layout but I LOVE how it turned out!

Do you blog? If so hook us up with your blog address! http://stefgonedigi.blogspot.com

Your favourite five random things beginning with F!!? Flemington (my cat), fudge, friends, facebook and family

We just love Stefanie to bits on the team, I hope you all enjoyed getting to know her better!

And last, but certainly not least, here is an awesome blog freebie, a photo cluster that matches Happy Snapper, made especially for you by our awesome guestie, Loni!

Blog Freebie
Download – http://download.captivatedvisions.co.uk/cvisions_happysnapper_freebie.zip

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great weekend!

Have a teen-age girl in the house? In Her Teens is perfect for those girly teen pages. Perfect for those into their BFF’s, spending all day on the phone, texting and shopping. With pinks and greens and neutral colors, flowers, stickers (including jeans, phone, and nail polish), journal tags, and doodled journal tags, you will be able to scrap all your pages showing off your girl as she is now, in her teen (or even tween) years.

For today only, you can grab this kit for $2.00!

Here is some inspiration from the CT.

From me

By Andrea4376

By Keyr

By xxthunderdragon

Don’t miss out on your chance to grab this fabulous kit at this special one day only price!

I’m the lucky one that gets to give you a sneak peek of what Rachel is releasing on Friday 3rd September! The goodies below will be exclusively released at a store where Rachel is a guest designer! You still have a chance to guess which store she will be guesting at in this blog post which will be closed once these products hit the store so get in there quick!

So are you ready?????  Here you go….

Note: This kit was previously included in The Digi Files

Now two lucky people who comment on this post will get to win one of this weeks new releases!

All you have to do is leave a comment on this post.

But wait!! There’s more! To gain a 2nd bonus entry for another chance to win just do the following:

1)Use the Green Tweet Button for a 2nd entry

2) in your comments please also leave me your twitter ID if it’s different from your username in your blog comment as it takes the powers that be ages to try and work out who is who LOL!!
NOTE: not all of the CT have access to Twitter, so only tweets using the green button will be counted, as they can be viewed from my blog here so be sure to simply hit the green button to tweet, it’s fast and easy! Thanks for understanding.

Good luck and thanks for stopping by!

Carefree is a floral bouquet bursting full of colour happy unique hand-drawn and hand-made elements. A Happy go lucky kit sure to fit almost any page!
Included are 18 Papers, a total of 43 elements and a doodled alpha!

This is included in my Designer Spotlight Sale at Gotta Pixel or you can purchase it within my August Sale at Captivated Visions meaning it’s 30% off all month long!!

Purchase HERE or HERE & Check out all of my other goodies which are at least 30% off!

Here’s some inspiration from my Creative Team!

Thanks to all of you that played along with the Sneak Peek Contest here is the winner!!

Congrats Bethany I will get your prize to you soon!

Thanks for looking!

I’m Really excited about a Guest Spot I have lined up for September!!

Leave a comment to this blog post to enter, you can guess up to three stores, you can post them all in one comment.

Everyone with a correct guess will go into a draw and I will pull two winners at random who will both win a $10 coupon to my new Guest Store!
I’ll be back on the 3rd September to reveall All!
Let your friends know about the contest by Tweeting with the Green button!

Good luck

Thanks for stopping by!

I have a Sneak Peek for you of my new collab kit with the awesome Val of geniaBeana Scraps!

This releases on Friday 20th August at GottaPixel

Leave a comment to this blog post to enter into the draw to win the kit for free!

For a Bonus entry~ If you use Twitter:
1)Use the Green Tweet Button for a 2nd entry
2)but in your comments please also leave me your twitter ID if it’s different from your username in your blog comment as It takes me ages to try and work out who is who LOL!!
NOTE only tweets using the green button will be counted, so be sure to simply hit the green button to tweet after reading this post, it’s fast and easy!
Not all administrators of this blog have access to twitter but all Tweets using the Green button can be seen by all!
Thanks for understanding.

Thanks for stopping by!