Every Day Matters and a freebie

frHappy Friday!

I am so excited to finally be able to reveal the new 52/365 collection Every Day Matters by Ruby Lane! It consists of a line of basics and a monthly mini kit to complement the basics and make scrapping your 52 or 365 projects easy and fun!  Here are the previews of the 2 paper packs basics released so far - Shabby Solids Matter and Neutrals Matter:

And here is the preview of the January mini-kit January Matters Mini:

This collection is available exclusively at Funky Playground Designs, where Ruby Lane is an exclusive designer!  And right now you can save 25% on the January Matters Mini and 33% on each of the basic paper packs!  So run to Ruby Lane's store to get started with your 52 or 365 projects.  No coupon required.

Here are some layouts created by Ruby Lane's layout artists:

by Amy

by Astrid

by Astrid

by Claudia

by Glynis

by Glynis

by Heide

by Memi

by Monica

by Nic1779

by Toni

by Toni

In other news, Ruby Lane will be one of the four designers in Funky Club volume 2, along with River Rose, Amanda Carlson and Girl Boy Girl Designs:

You can learn everything about this fantastic club and subscribe here - and if you subscribe by January 4 you get a total of $20 in bonus coupons to the personal stores of the designers participating in the Funky Club Volume 2.  This is such a deal!  The Funky Club subscription for all 16 weeks total is just $10 but if you subscribe by January 4th you get all 16 kits in the Funky Club + $20 in coupons!!!!  This is an opportunity not to be missed!

Amber herself made a layout with her new collection  Every Day Matters and then turned it into a quick page for all of you as a freebie:



You can download it here.

Happy scrapping!
MariaS

The Four Seasons - a review of a year in kits, and a freebie

Happy Christmas Eve!

Today I want to show you four boards I made with Ruby Lane's kits, grouped by seasons, as a review of the fantastic work she's done this year and a reminder that more good things will be coming with the new year!

All these kits are for sale exclusively at Ruby Lane's store at Funky Playground Designs, where she is an exclusive designer.

I am very excited about this next announcement: on January 1st Ruby Lane will release a new collection called Every Day Matters, targeted towards project 365 and project 52 scrappers. I talked to Ruby Lane about this new and exciting line and this is what she had to say about it: "It will consist of a line of basics: paper packs, templates, etc. and monthly mini-kits complementing the basics. I am so excited about this project! The idea is to make it easy for those scrappers doing projects 365 or 52! These projects take time and imagination, I hope my new line will take the guesswork out of creating those fantastic memories. Because every day matters and Ruby Lane Designs makes it easy to record those memories..." This line will be available exclusively at Ruby Lane's store at Funky Playground Designs. And here is a special sneak peek of the January mini-kit, releasing January 1st:

Ruby Lane has created this mini kit as an early Christmas present for all of you and you can download it here:

In Amber's name, thank you for a wonderful year and Merry Christmas to all of you!

Happy scrapping,

MariaS



Three new Christmas packs and a Sneak Peek

Good morning!

Just in time for Christmas - can you believe that by this time next week it will be Christmas Eve? - Ruby Lane is releasing three beautiful packs designed to mix an match, alone or with other Christmas kits:

Now, how fun are these packs?  By mixing and matching all these three packs you can create a wide variety of layouts, cards, printables, and so much more!  Mix them with all the other Christmas kits by Ruby Lane, and the possibilities are endless! 

Here are two beautiful layouts created by Becki, a member of Ruby Lane's CT, using these three packs:

These packs are available exclusively at Funky Playground Designs.

I am very excited about this next announcement: on January 1st Ruby Lane will release a new collection called Every Day Matters, targeted towards project 365 and project 52 scrappers. I talked to Ruby Lane about this new and exciting line and this is what she had to say about it: "It will consist of a line of basics: paper packs, templates, etc. and monthly mini-kits complementing the basics. I am so excited about this project! The idea is to make it easy for those scrappers doing projects 365 or 52! These projects take time and imagination, I hope my new line will take the guesswork out of creating those fantastic memories. Because every day matters and Ruby Lane Designs makes it easy to record those memories..." This line will be available exclusively at Ruby Lane's store at Funky Playground Designs. And here is a special sneak peek of the January mini-kit, releasing January 1st:

Please remember to subscribe to Ruby Lane's newsletter for exclusive offers and coupons - 2011 will be choc-full of new releases and every new release will bring goodies to all the newsletter subscribers.

Happy scrapping!

MariaS

Three new releases and a freebie

Happy Friday!

I hope you all had a fantastic week and are ready for some R+R during the weekend!  They say things come in threes...and Ruby Lane's products are no exception!  This week she is releasing three fantastic new products:

First up, a new collaboration with Elise's Pieces called Vintage Christmas.  Here is the preview of the full kit and of the paper pack included in the kit:

What can I say about this fantastic kit that you are not already seeing in the previews?  This is pure and traditional - vintage - Christmas!  The perfect kit to scrap about your family's Christmas traditions, the pictures with Santa when the kids are all decked out, the formal family dinner...Look at the beauty of the papers!  The colors scream traditional Christmas: dark reds, greens, golds...in several patterns and hues.  And the elements?  So incredibly ornate and luxurious...like fine velvet or brocade!  Just gorgeous!  There are bits of lace and jeweled ornaments, holly and silk, bells and tags, ribbons and bows, fabric flowers and greenery, vintage postcards and golden elements...and two full alphas!  This is a classic Christmas kit, with everything we have come to expect from a traditional Christmas scene.  This beauty is for sale at Ruby Lane's store at Funky Playground Designs.

Here are a few of my favorite layouts with this kit by Ruby Lane's creative team (I could only post four layouts here because we have so much to cover today, but I encourage you to visit Ruby Lane's gallery for more inspiration!):

by Amy

by Astrid

by Ella

by Memi

Next we have another Christmas kit, Home for Christmas, less dramatic and in a softer color palette but equally gorgeous:

This kit was inspired by all the family traditions that make the holidays so special...whether it is baking goodies, sitting by the fireplace, exchanging gifts or giving to charity, sharing a wonderful meal..."Home is where the heart is" and "All hearts come home for Christmas" ...enjoy the sweet traditions you share with your families and then create memories that last forever by scrapping the pictures. The kit includes a beautiful stamp tree, several gorgeously wrapped presents, ornaments and a star for the tree, ribbons, frames and flowers, two beautiful borders, wordart labels, two tags and a full alpha, plus 14 patterned and/or textured papers.  If you subscribe to Ruby Lane's newsletter - which I highly encourage you to do - you received a beautiful quickpage created with this kit exclusively for her newsletter subscribers.  For a little more inspiration, here are some layouts by Ruby Lane's creative team:

by Becki

by Ella

by Keesha

by Monica

The last of the products being released this week is a new Commercial Use product by Ruby Lane, available exclusively at Funky Playground Designs; it is her December CU Grab Bag and here is the preview:

And now for the weekly freebie created by Ruby Lane exclusively for her blog followers.  It is an absolutely gorgeous quickpage created with the kit Vintage Christmas, and you can download it here:



Happy scrapping!
MariaS

New kit Merry&Bright, Funky Days of December and a freebie!

Good morning!

We have a lot to cover today, so let's get right to it!

The newest kit by Ruby Lane to hit the store - and remember that she is now an exclusive designer at Funky Playground Designs - is Merry&Bright:

and the cluster set:

I just finished playing with this kit - and oh.my.God!  The colors are so fun and lively and yes, Christmasy, but in a non traditional way - in spite of all the snowflake elements this would be a perfect Christmas kit for warmer places or to design those Christmas cards that have beach or Summer vacation pictures...which are always hard to find.  But even if you live in a cold, cold place this is the kit for you!  Snowflake papers and snowflake scatter and snowflakes abound.  Mix them up with the incredibly cute Christmas trees (three of them!), the ribbons and bows and strings and the string of Christmas lights and you are all ready for Santa!  It also includes a gorgeous snowman - cute as can be! - and a mitten in bright blue.  And cute labels that include "cookies", "milk", "Christmas cutie"; a beautiful wordart cluster that reads "Merry & Bright", flairs and buttons, tags and journaling tags...you name it, this Christmas kit has it!  And the 14 beautiful papers will make the perfect background for your layouts:  from the solids in pink, blue, green, and light cream to the incredibly beautiful patterns in all the color combinations...And if you are pressed for time, the cluster set comes to the rescue with some gorgeous and creative items that will help you finish a beautiful layout in no time.

Here are some layouts from Ruby Lane's creative team:

by Amy

two by Astrid:

two by Becki:

two by Deanna:

by Ella:

by Maria:

three by Nicole:

and, finally, one by Amber herself:

And tomorrow Saturday, Ruby Lane will be giving away Merry & Bright to a very lucky winner!  All you have to do is visit Funky Playground Design's blog and leave a comment tomorrow.  A winner will be randomly chosen among all the readers that leave a comment.  This is all part of the Funky Days of December at Funky Playground Designs:  every day during the month of December they will be giving away a freebie or giveaway on their blog.  So make sure to check the blog daily or - even better - subscribe to it so that you don't miss a single thing of this fun freebie-and-giveaway extravaganza! 

And now to our weekly freebie for all of you - Ruby Lane has created a freebie QP from her Merry & Bright layout above, and you can grab it here:

Happy scrapping!

MariaS