What a special treat to introduce you to one of my newest blog sponsors, Scrapbooking from the Inside Out – you will love the journey as well as your projects with them!
Every month Scrapbooking from the Inside Out creates an emotion-focused kit that brings you the freshest supplies along with symbolism that will help you tell your real story. Each month’s delivery is a unique, stylish creation that will take you to new places in your heart and your crafting.
Their industry-exclusive FREE Inspiration Page each month provides you with a multimedia support system - including deep journaling prompts, a music playlist, quotes, photos and evocative challenges to make your tender heart and creative mind and hands flow. Their kits are so much more than pretty - they're all about a deeper experience of scrapbooking - inspiration, emotional release and real understanding. Join them at their website and make sure to like us on Facebook.
Their current kit is all about INDEPENDENCE. Are you a bird on a wire, finding your balance and taking a chance? Are you zipping away into your new life? All these metaphors and more are included in this kit, along with bold fashion imagery for you to stitch together your liberated future. You’ll indulge in the sartorial glamour of satin trim, flocking and style icons, and use graph paper to chart your progress toward self-reliance. Are you a free, strong and self-sufficient woman or are you starting on your way? Leave a comment here before 10a.m. tomorrow about what makes you feel independent and you’ll be entered to win the INDEPENDENCE kit! Or buy your subscription now…
They’ve just opened registration for our premiere boutique in-person event, CRAFT: Creating Reflective Art for Transformation. This magical creative experience will be held in beautiful Santa Monica, CA, November 11-13, right on the sand. Their proven, supportive, emotion-based curriculum will give you the tools to be more fully expressed in your life. Click on their blinkie on the sidebar to read all about CRAFT or click here for all the amazing, personal, deep and CRAFTy details.
I already follow their blog, I thought what a great idea for the single person who loves to scrap. It freed me to scrap about me. and my life. I just that in itself is a form of independence. Free for the bonds of the idea that because I don't have any children I have nothing to scrap about. I love this website. think it would be a great asset to you and your blog.
Jackie
Posted by: Jackie | July 14, 2011 at 09:13 AM
I love this idea! What a great new sponsor. Thanks for the chance to win.
Posted by: Mary in IL | July 14, 2011 at 09:55 AM
I would say I am finding my way...I think confidence makes you a strong independent woman and I am working on my confidence. Sure it makes me feel great when my husband says kind things to me but I want my confidence to come from within...feeling like I am enough-good enough, funny enough, smart enough...I think we as women struggle with "enough" and I am learning that I am in fact enough-beyond enough.
Posted by: Holly S | July 14, 2011 at 10:04 AM
This sounds so like me. Great giveaway!
Anne-Liesse
Posted by: Anne-Liesse Ankeny | July 14, 2011 at 10:10 AM
Practice in free spirit to create on an empty canvas is hard, independance is when you let yourself go and explore. Thanks, cathy
Posted by: cathy L | July 14, 2011 at 10:51 AM
What a wonderful concept behind a kit! As we all tend to scrap everyday moments, this gives you the building blocks to venture out and scrap your emotions, feelings . . . .
I think what gives me independence is myself. After a failed marriage of 20 years, I had to reinvent myself learn to love myself and embrace life.
Posted by: Debbie Burns | July 14, 2011 at 11:21 AM
I am so not independent. I am very dependent, but I'm trying to grow. I've been taking some on-line classes on those very issues, and I know I'm becoming a better person for it! Thanks for the chance to win!
Posted by: fancyscrapper | July 14, 2011 at 11:31 AM
Being a single mother I already feel like I take on the world each and every day on my own. My children often inspire a strength within me that I didn't realize I had! They also inspire many of my journal pages with their day to day moments.
Posted by: Brenda V | July 14, 2011 at 12:05 PM
Great concept. Love the idea.
Posted by: Isabel Wagner | July 14, 2011 at 12:53 PM
I think that being open to learn from other people helps me become more independent. The older I get, the more I realize there's a balance when it comes to dependence/independence. I used to feel annoyed that I couldn't identify my "style" (and hate those "what is your favorite color" questions). I guess I'm changeable like the wind!
Posted by: pam | July 14, 2011 at 01:23 PM
Real cool concept and beautiful kits.
Posted by: susan lew | July 14, 2011 at 01:37 PM
Oh how wonderful that looks,,,so inviting. I wish they could do that on the East coast -- do they. Flying to CA puts a big bite into my budget. The NC Coast would be a great local.
Lori B.
Posted by: Lori Burek | July 14, 2011 at 03:19 PM
OK independance ,,, often our inner soul is not. Mine is not as much as I would like. I can fly to Mexico on my own but still inside my voice is stuck afraid to call out and say what I want it too. Maybe if I took more time to stop and slow down I could find that voice. That kit looks like a wonderful tool to use to find what I am missing. Lori B.
Posted by: Lori Burek | July 14, 2011 at 03:25 PM
I earned my independence when I finally learned to have the courage to say "no" to people who demanded too much from me.
Posted by: Brenda Lubrant | July 14, 2011 at 03:41 PM
I began feeling independent when I stopped letting what people think of me control my life.... I realized it's ok to just be me and if they don't like it, well then... they don't have to be a part of my life!!
Posted by: Raquel | July 14, 2011 at 03:53 PM
Love the idea! Would love to try their kits.
Posted by: .:| Angela |:. | July 14, 2011 at 04:04 PM
My independence came from God, trusting him and letting the rest work itself out. What freedom that gives me! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Posted by: Donna L | July 14, 2011 at 04:27 PM
We find independence when we trust our instincts. What a fantastic giveaway!
Posted by: Angela Fehr | July 14, 2011 at 04:35 PM
Wow, this sounds amazing. I had a nervous breakdown three years ago and have been re-building my life and the way I live it ever since. Scrapbooking and multimedia art have played a key role in my recovery. 38 years old and I am finally living the life I was meant to live instead of one that is determined by what everyone else around me wants. Feeling like a new bird learning to fly. Scary, yes. Exciting, yup. What I was mean to do? Hell yeah! I needed to crumble so I could re-build. Perhaps this could help me record this amazing journey.
Posted by: Kerrin Norman | July 14, 2011 at 05:01 PM
Being who I am , expressing my authentique self, by my own authority- these are what independence mean to me! Love the giveaway-what a great concept. Thanks, Donna and Scraping from the Inside out!
Posted by: Margaret | July 14, 2011 at 05:13 PM
I have always been my own "unique" person and being around the ladies in this unique environment just gives more meaning to being independent. Seeking out what you want; where you should go, how to create beautifully and sharing that with others. Thanks for making me a more Inspired person..
Posted by: Karin Hall | July 14, 2011 at 06:09 PM
Such a different concept. Love new things. Thanks for the chance to win
Posted by: susan | July 14, 2011 at 06:10 PM
Always take the road less traveled and keep learning. Sounds great.
Posted by: Judy Webb | July 14, 2011 at 06:19 PM
Learning! I'm 55 and gone back to college for a new career, because I felt so stuck in the old one!
Posted by: Susie | July 14, 2011 at 06:31 PM
I am fiercely independent to the point of overdoing it. The older I get the worse it is! I love their blog, though! Stayed on it for an hour indulging in the yummy inspiration it provided. Thank you!
Posted by: Carmen | July 14, 2011 at 06:46 PM
I love being independent but other times I love being able to depend on others. I beleive that does not make me weak,I beleive it makes me stronger.
Posted by: kathryn britton | July 14, 2011 at 08:43 PM
Love this ! Thanks for the chance to win !
Posted by: Rose | July 14, 2011 at 10:22 PM
The love of my family & dearest friends and my faith are the basis of my independence - they give me the love and support I need to fly. . . . I feel very fortunate!
Posted by: Jennifer | July 14, 2011 at 10:56 PM
I just found my independence by succeeding something I never thought I could achieve. What an amazing feeling!!!
Posted by: Andrea MacDonald | July 14, 2011 at 11:19 PM
Owning my own house makes me feel independent. No landlords, free to decorate, free to landscape among other things. I make all the decisions, good or bad.
Posted by: Char-D | July 15, 2011 at 04:50 AM
My independence has been tested, and I passed the test! I'm proud of the lessons I have learned, and the chances I have taken that have taught me that I am a strong woman that can take care of herself.
Posted by: ginny | July 15, 2011 at 07:26 AM
This is such a great sponsor and love love love the concept. What makes me feel independent...I am thankful for my parents for the education that gave me. Sometimes as teenager, school is not so much a priority but I persevered and I am proud of my achievement. My work today allow me to be independent. Being independent allows freedom in many ways and feel confident.
Posted by: Mom of Four great kids | July 15, 2011 at 09:34 AM
They have great kits and the ideas are always useful! Would love to win one of their kits! Thanks!
Posted by: Jodee | July 15, 2011 at 12:50 PM
I am independent for the traditional reasons of being a single mother, owning my own home, and being successful in my career. But more than that, I am independent because I choose to be and choose to see the world in an independent way and not just because others think it should be a certain way. I think for myself and explore what I think and have the confidence in myself to do so. I also try to instill this in my son to help develop his independance.
Posted by: Jodi A | July 15, 2011 at 02:56 PM
Love the whole idea! Would love to try their kits.
Posted by: lisa | July 16, 2011 at 07:23 AM