Thank you to everyone who participated in our National Scrapbooking Day online event! The day was celebrated on May 6th with a great group of Two Peas Users and Garden Girls. The message board was lively all day, with peanuts from all over the world enjoying the fun challenges and conversations. Pages and pages of projects, photos and layouts were being posted each hour. The Peanut Gallery was full of beautiful things to look at!

The Garden Girls put together some great Make & Takes, Digital mini classes and Tips & Tricks. A special concept Album was created by Maria Grace Abuzman and a special Inspiration themed Garden was filled with a large number of ideas and layouts by the Garden Girls. If you were not around on that day or haven't yet been able see the cool things we did for National Scrapbooking Day, be sure to check everything out here!

We will be hosting more events like this one in the future, we hope you will be able to join us!

We would like to thank the manufacturers and vendors who so kindly donated prizes for our event:

• Birthdayinabox.com
• Ki Memories
• Making Memories
• American Crafts
• Fontwerks
• Hero Arts
• Doodlebug
• Sassafras Lass
• Chatterbox Inc
• Advantus (Heidi Swapp, Cropper Hopper & Magic Scraps)
• Maya Road
• Maggie Mae Stamps

We have a large amount of inventory on order and set to arrive within the next couple of weeks. Restock and new products are arriving from some of your favorite manufacturers including: Autumn Leaves, Basic Grey, Me and My Ideas, Heidi Swapp, Fancy Pants, Die Cuts with a View, Bazzill Basics, My Minds Eye and so many more. You won't want to miss it!!

American Crafts debuted their Trademarks Rub Ons this winter with a great selection of fonts and colors. The Rub Ons are packaged in a matchbook style design, which allows for ease of display and convenient storage-- the heavy cover folds over providing great protection. The rub ons are strips, each letter has its own strip, and are layered so you can shift through them to find the letter needed with ease. Each set includes over 230 characters per set, with greetings and some other fun graphics in each! These are a great product to add to your collection with their excellent quality, and priced at $9.99 each.

testimonials from the Garden Girls:

I am newly addicted to AC rub-ons. The booklet they come in is so convenient and I love the greetings they include. They transfer really well, too... onto many different surfaces. Gotta love that! --Jennifer McGuire

I have always had troubles with Rub Ons, but these American Crafts Trademarks Rub Ons have changed me forever! The booklet style makes them super easy to use, so you can cut off the letter that you need, without having to destroy the rest of the letters or the backing. I cut them off and then laid them on the layout to figure out the placement, and they didn't stick on the layout prematurely!! I was so happy. When I did finally rub them down onto the layout, it was super smooth and slick. There was no question that they were on there. LOVE these new rub ons! --Kristina Nicolai-White

I love the way that these rub-ons are packaged - they are so easy to use! Plus, they have lots of little extra images that are fun to use to add a little something to layouts and cards. ---Tracy Miller

I enjoy the variety of fonts - they're so fun and fit a variety of occassions. The size of the rub-ons make them perfect to use for titles or journaling. Very versatile and in scrapbooking, that's a plus!--Maria Grace Abuzman

Have you seen the new feature Round Robin in the Creating Garden? Inspired by the childhood game of Operator, Five Garden Girls are assigned to this project each month. The first Garden Girl on the project selects a layout in the Garden that they find inspirational and creates their own layout based on the elements that appeal to them. After they have completed their layout, they send it to the next Garden Girl on the list. The goal is to see how the basic elements of a layout can encourage 5 different layouts. This project demonstrates how viewers can be inspired by layouts and ideas. We hope it gives the viewer new ideas on how to take inspiration from the layouts they are looking at.
In this assignment, Amy Grendell started the Round Robin, passing her layout to Anne, who passed to Kristina and it was ended by Marie.

The Everday Theme is one that is really wide open for interpretation for the Garden Girls.... but the plain and simple explanation is that we wanted to do a theme with just the everyday photos of our lives. The real things that we do everyday, that our subjects do everday---the way they look everday, and not the way they look in the beautiful portrait photos that we like to enlarge and use in works of art. Its the little things-- the daily routines, the things you say everday, the way someone looks. These are all the things that Everyday means to us.
These layouts are more wonderful examples of this theme:

Each month we feature a Garden Girl Designer's Scrap Space. This is the area in their home that they dedicate to their scrapbooking hobby, as well as other things--usually photography, other arts and crafts, etc. The Garden Girl is asked to take photos and answer some questions about her space and how she organizes her supplies.

I've been a garden girl for a very long time. I've held off sharing my room for so long mostly because it always seems to be a work in progress. But I think I'm finally at the point where things are where they belong and I am able to work freely and get creative in my space. My studio is also my office so I share a good portion of the room with my photography business and my computer equipment.

photo #1:this is the view from the double doors leading to the living room (aka portrait studio). I have cabinets and counter tops that line two walls in the room. this side is where i work on layouts.

from left to right the things on my counter are: silver tin boxes from ikea hold my heidi swapp and ki embellishments. the sewing machine is usually covered with a black bag but i pulled it off so you could tell what it is. the black binders hold my unmounted stamps using the ezmount system. i love this! there's some random books and graph paper. the little plastic drawers are used mostly to raise up my ott light. i need to reorganize them a little better. i keep my scissors, pencils, rulers and blades in the mug and then my pens, sand paper, adhesives, etc...things i grab most often..inside the little organizer there. then my ribbon collection. i consolidated a few colors in order to save some space. then there's my ikea cubbies.

photo #2:just a close up of the books and things on my counter.

photo #3:and the ribbon collection up close.

photo #4:my ikea cubbies (which i don't like much just yet...i'm finding it hard to remember where i stashed my stuff). i keep all of my embellishments, foam stamps, acrylics, and stamp cleaner in here. the little suitcase that i use for the bigger things that don't fit into my other storage containers. the tv is a new addition. i'm going through my netflix queue like crazy lately!. the plastic folders on the far right are from office max. i keep my rubons and stickers in them. you can also see the metal tins on the wall on the far left. i don't really like the way this looks, but it's totally functional. i keep all of my alphabets in these, sorted by letter and then numbers and symbols are in the last one.

photo #5:a close up of my top drawer. it's mostly adhesive and pens that i don't use. they should probably go.

photo #6:another drawer. this is where i keep my inks and smaller alphabet stamps and the bigger wood stamps.

photo #7:this is the other side of the counter/cabinets. most of it is business related.

photo #8:this is my shelving unit that i use mostly for business stuff. i have two of them side by side. the top half is client orders, etc.

photo #9: a closer look at the shelving unit. the bottom half is my cardstock (two bins for 8.5x11 and one bin for 12x12) and then the bottom holds my cd archives, my photos to be scrapped, my magazines, souvenirs (programs, report cards, school/sport photos - organized by kid, ticket stubs, etc) and more adhesive, page protectors and some albums waiting for layouts.