Winner! Winner!!

I'm not offering a chicken dinner, but I am offering some neat scrapbooking software - ready?!

The winner is.........

KimBerly said...

I'm a loyal follower. I love this idea. I will have to try it.

Thursday, September 15, 2011 8:46:00 PM CDT

Congrats Kim!!

I have you email info, so you'll be hearing from me soon!  Congratulations again!


Remember, if you want your very own software - my readers can get it for $10 off PLUS a $10 coupon for the store - go here: http://www.mymemories.com/digital_scrapbooking_software and use this code: STMMMS57536

My First Giveaway

Anyone who has followed my blog for any period of time knows that I like to take photos... and I have lots of them!
Another thing my loyal followers know is that I'm not here to blow smoke and give praise to a product I don't fully believe in - I agreed to give my honest review of My Memories Suite and, while I may have received this product for free, I intend to do just that.


Have you ever used a digital scrapbooking software?  I've barely scrapbooked... but the few times I have, I enjoyed it.  I think the concept of this - especially for a blogger - is pretty cool; why not present my readers with pretty looking scrapbook pages rather than just a picture here and there?


Off the bat I noticed that their products (kits, themes, albums) are relativity inexpensive, kits as low as $.99 and some things for free!  I couldn't find anything more expensive than $9.99 - with a lot costing just a few dollars!  You can make photobooks, calendars, and so much more!


Upon installing the software, I opened it and felt VERY overwhelmed... and then I got my bearings.  So I decided, since we just got back from Milwaukee, that I'd create a page about it - to give the software a fair run and be able to show you how {un}creative I am.  I even downloaded some of the free paper backgrounds to use (just to test how easy it was).  I will tell you I had some major issues finding the paper I downloaded and had to use the sites FAQ to figure it out.  Once I found them, I was kind of on a roll.  
I tend to have a problem thinking outside the box - and that's why I like scrapbooking, it forces me to do just that.  So I'm not sure if you like the look of cluttered pages or if you like things a bit more simple... but here is the first page I came up with - which I created very easily and was able to turn it into a .jpg in about 10 seconds.

Not too bad, eh?  I think it turned out cute!
So then... I just had to do a Hawaii page - because we have no plans for travel this winter and I'm already sad about it.

You can start with a blank canvas (I began both of my pages with a blank canvas) or you can pick from a zillion layouts and insert your own pictures.  You can even say 'use these pictures' and the software will place them for you!  In my ... hour or so of playing with the software, I felt pretty comfortable with it.  I don't know much about scrapbooking but I guess that's one of the perks - you don't need to know anything, you just do what you think looks good!
They have paper/backgrounds, embellishments, shapes, wordart, you can even add music!  All of the things are customizable as well - like you can adjust the opacity of the paper backgrounds, you can make the wordart any font and any size, and you can rotate anything!


If you have kids, or if you don't, maybe you just like to take photos?  Maybe you want to renew your passion for scrapbooking or maybe you want to give digital scrap-booking a shot?  Regardless of your story; this product is for anyone!  I'd recommend it!


The giveaway is for a copy of My Memories Suite - a digital scrapbooking software.

Rules for entry:

(Please leave a separate comment for each entry)

1. (Mandatory): you must be a follower of Football, Sushi, and The Pursuit of Happiness - comment and tell me your favorite item in the "dollar store" on My Memories.

2. Tweet about this giveaway, please include your Twitter handle.

3. Follow MyMemories on Twitter; leave a comment telling me you're following them.

4. "Like" MyMemories on Facebook, leave a comment telling me you've done so.

5.  Blog about this giveaway; leave the link to your post in the comments.

The winner will be decided using random.org and will be announced the morning of Monday, September 26th (because winning something on a Monday is an awesome start to anyone's week!).

Can't wait for the giveaway to end?

Get yourself $10 off My Memories Suite (which will get you the software for under $30!!) AND a $10 coupon to the MyMemories.com Store (that's a $20 value!) just use code: STMMMS57536 on this link and get started now (I will post this code again after the winner is announced). 

**I received a copy of this software in exchange for my honest feedback; all opinions and feedback are my own.  I did, however, lose many hours of productivity while playing with this softare - which is okay in my book!**

I'm a WINNER!

I don't often enter to win things via the blogging world but every once in awhile I feel like something is up my alley, so I'll throw my name in the bucket (assuming it's not one of those give aways where you have to kill puppies and pass it on to 365 people, one for each day of the year, jump through a hula hoop 7 times, then start it on fire and do the hula...).  So about 2 weeks ago I entered to win a giveaway that Kim was hosting.  She recently took up jewelry making as a hobby and after reaching 10,000 hits on her blog, she decided to give away some jewelry.

Her requirements were simple: leave a comment telling your favorite hobby and your favorite color - you can also include if you like bracelets, necklaces, earrings, etc.  So, as a new reader to Kim's blog, I felt like not entering would be silly..

So ... I WON!

Kim told me she'd get to making the jewelry and send it off.  The package arrived at my house this past weekend, so I'm just now getting to blogging and posting pictures after my time up North with the girls.  I listed my favorite color as Green, but my favorite color combo as pink, orange, and green (I absolutely adore that color combo)... So when I opened the package I saw this:

This stuff is really nice!  I'm always a bit apprehensive when someone says they make jewelry, I mean, I can take some string and make a mean friendship bracelet, but I'm far from a jewelry maker.  Upon looking at Kim's work, I'm REALLY impressed, especially for someone who just started this as a hobby!  Kudo's Kim!

Here are some posts of with some more of Kim's skillz: First Jewlz, More Jewlz

Adults Only

So - Sara is doing a give-a-way over here - and I kind of  want to win.  It's completely up my alley.. more mature than the jewelery give-a-ways and whatnot.  You probably need to go check it out - if you're open and daring enough!

'Why Girls Are Weird' Giveaway!

Giveaway?  What?!  HUH?  Am I serious?!  No, I'm Angela - but there is a book being given away, and that's pretty awesome.

I'm not an avid reader, wish I was, but just can't get into it.  However, I'm very curious about this book and want to pass on the information to those of you our there who are avid readers!  Pretty sure I could get into a book that has a title like this :)
My new homie Krysten over at After "I Do" is giving away this book - check out her post HERE for more info on on how win this book :)
I'm not much for giveaways, but if something peaks my interest, I'm all over it :)

Good Luck to all who 'enter' and may the best blogger win (ME!) ;)

...until we meet again...