Happy National Scrapbook Day!

Happy Mothers Day!
Photo Credit: Flickr

Tomorrow is a day for all scrapbookers to celebrate the wonderful hobby of scrapbooking.  I have always seen it as our very own holiday!  Whether you get to scrapbook everyday or every once-in-awhile, this is a great opportunity for motivation and inspiration.

This is also a weekend to celebrate Mothers!  To every Mom, Mommy, Mum, Mama, Madre, Mère, Mutter, Ma and however it is said in your language...may you be treated like the royalty you are this weekend!

To celebrate, I am offering 20% off your entire order in the Trunk Boutique, thru Monday, May 9th.  Use promo code NSD11.

Some of you may be joining friends at a crop, following a blog hop, scrapbooking alone, or just "observing" the events of National Scrapbook Day.  I wanted to provide some challenges and ideas to help you get a jump start on the weekend.  Below is a list of ideas I hope will motivate you to get crafty this weekend.

Please join the Paper Trunk Facebook page* (http://www.facebook.com/PaperTrunk) and share the projects** you complete from the following list:

• Mother's Day.  Create a card, tag, or gift for a Mom in your life.
• Visit our friends over at PersonalScrapper.com and let them know Paper Trunk sent ya.  They have a fantastic community of scrapbookers and are also having a NSD/Mother's Day crop. (prizes! prizes! prizes!)
• A Royal Challenge.  In honor of "the" wedding, create a layout where the majority of the design is white.  You can add splashes of color but, be sure that at least 80% of the layout is white!
• Paper Trunk Love.  Create a page using your favorite Paper Trunk product(s).
• Layout Stack.  Am I the only one with a 10" stack of layouts that need to be organized into albums?  I bet I'm not!  Spend at least 15 minutes organizing your layouts or filling some albums.
• Have a Twitter account?  Follow Paper Trunk to get the most up-to-date information.
• RRR.  Reduse, reuse, and recycle!  Paper Trunk has always encouraged our fans to be eco-savvy.  Create a page using something recycled.  Some ideas could be fabric from an old shirt, packaging materials, or bottle caps... look around your house for more ideas!
• Shoebox.  Most of us have a box full of photos anxious to be scrapped.  Dig into your box and rescue some photos, create a page or two!  OR, maybe you need to organize your photo box?  Spend at least 20 minutes sorting your photos.
• Visit our facebook page and leave a REVIEW for Paper Trunk.  It can be about Paper Trunk as a company or a particular product... it would be great to hear from you!
  
  
• Use this sketch to get a page completed!

Sketch by, Carrie Postma for Paper Trunk

On behalf of myself and the Trunk Team, we wish you a very Happy National Scrapbook Day & Mother's Day weekend!

* There will be random prizes drawn next week for those that post photos of projects  on our Facebook wall.  The more you post, the better your chances to win!
** Projects do not have to contain Paper Trunk products, although we love to see our products in use!  The projects eligible for prizes must be inspired by one of the challenges/ideas listed above.