The final whoop-dee-do is finally here and we have choosen our winners. The First Place winner is evitangel's "funtime" layout. Absolutely love this layout. There are so many goodies to look at!

Evitangel wins a Diamond Membership which is a lifetime membership at DigitalShopTalk.

A Diamond Membership is only available during exclusive promotions and with the membership you will be given a full-sized free kit from EACH of our Featured Designers for the entire year of your membership (12 full-sized kits). Each kit will be exclusive to our subscribers for one year after release. That means you won't be able to buy it anywhere else! In addition you get access to download any kit in the Exclusive DST Kit archive.

She also wins a $25.00 gift certificate to Heather Manning's shop at digiscrapping.net. Evitangel, please email info@inkededges.com to claim your prizes!

The Second Place winner is Lill-B's "Loved" layout. This was such a great layout with use of the elements. And the photo is to die for...look at those blue eyes!

Lill-B wins a Gold Membership at DigitalShopTalk. A Gold Membership is valued at $25.00 and with the membership you will be given a full-sized free kit from EACH of our Featured Designers for the entire year of your membership (12 full-sized kits). Each kit will be exclusive to our subscribers for one year after release. That means you won't be able to buy it anywhere else!

Also she receives a $20.00 gift certificate to Inked Edges.

Lill-B, please email info@inkededges.com to claim your prizes.

And our Third Place winner is fabella's "Thank You" layout. This layout is just magnificant and totally caught our eyes!

Fabella wins a Gold Membership at DigitalShopTalk. Please see above for the description of this prize. Fabella, please email info@inkededges.com to claim your prize.

THANK YOU EVERYONE for entering into the contest! We have 98 people who entered.

I just wanted to also mention this great Thank You layout from designer TeresaP to her CT members. This was such a cool layout...totally loved it! She even put in her favorite layouts from her CTs.

We also have back the results from the poll on wether the CT Collab Kit should remain exclusive to the designers or sold. It came out at almost a dead even at 64% of the designers say to sell the kit and 63% of the Creative Team Members wish to keep the kit exclusive. The decision was made to KEEP THE KIT EXCLUSIVE TO THE CT MEMBERS. This decision was made because this was a gift to the ct members and technically this is their kit and the majority of them wish to keep their kit exclusive. And what a great kit it is!

I wanted to give one last Thank You to Shannon at DigiShopTalk who generously gave us some space in the forums and the gallery for CT Appreciation Week. Thanks Shannon!

Hope to see everyone, both designers and CT members next year for the 2nd annual CT Appreciation Week!

Well everyone, here is the final drawings for the CT Appreciation Week! Congrats to Carena from Seebee's creative team and Christina from Valorie Brown's creative team. Each winner wins $5.00 gift certificates to Inked Edges.

Even though this is the last CT Appreciation day there will be a few more blogs entries to read up on. We have the layout contest winners which will be judged after midnight tonight. This was mentioned earlier on, but the deadline is midnight for the layouts to be posted. We also have the results of the polls. There are currently 6 hours left to vote wether or not the CT Appreication Collab Kit will be sold or be exclusive to the CT members. So, you will want to stay tuned for the results of those events.

I just wanted to say what a good time I have had this week putting the CT Appreciation Week together. Seeing the collab kit was magical and even though I am a designer myself, I can not believe all the talent there is out there. I am amazed by what everyone contributed. Also wanted to thank Melissa Bennett for putting together the collab kit. I can't even imagine all the hours that took! Above all, we (the designers) hope that all Creative Team members know truely how appreciated they really are!

TGIF!!!! Congrats to LOR from Pixel Gypsy and SARAH974 from Heart to Heart Designs who each win $5.00 gift certificates to Inked Edges. Winners, please make sure you email info@inkededges.com to claim your prize!
Well, don't know about you guys and where you live, but here in Minnesota we just got about 7 inches of snow dumped on us....so much for our spring weather we were having. I guess I am just going to have to do a little digiscrappin' until the snow melts. I have been going nuts using our collab kit. That is seriously the best kit with elements that I have ever seen. The papers too but I am expecially excited about all the elements I have to play with. I am LOVING all the layouts in the gallery that the ct's are scrapping.
We have one more day of CT appreciation Week before it's over. I have had a blast this week. Most fun that I have had in a long time. Hope everyone else has too.
Whoo hoo for the weekend!

Congrats to MCARDALL from Clever Monkey Graphics! This is a great prize! You receive 3 kits with the membership and then get to pick 3 kits a month for a whole year! Congrats! Thank you to scrapkitten.com for donating this great prize. Mcardall, please contact scrapkat@scrapkitten.com to claim your prize.
Have you gone to check out all the layouts in the gallery for the contest? To date there are 78 layouts entered. Go check them out and make sure to leave them some comments!
There are only 2 days left to vote for your choice of keeping the ct collab kit exclusive to the ct members or selling the kit for charity.
Have a great night!

Congratulations to our 2 winners for this evening's drawing......HAPESCRPAR from Tangi Baxter's team winning 5 bucks from Inked Edges and DEBBIE from Laura Burger's team winning 5 bucks from Heather Manning! Way to go girls! Isn't is fun to win something?
Oh, that reminds me that someone emailed me earlier today to ask when the deadline for the "Layout Contest Using the CT Collab Kit" is....I guess I haven't mentioned it anywhere on the blog yet, but it is Saturday, March 22nd at midnight. It's going to take a day or so to post the winners on the blog so you'll want to make sure you check back even after CT appreciation week is done with.
Stay tuned for tomorrow's big drawing for a GoldPaw membership from ScrapKitten.

Congrats to Lydia Tarbox of Chirpe Creative and Eva from Nikki Painter's team who each win $5.00 gift certs (Heather Manning and Inked Edges).


Hey, saw a cool Thank You card using the CT Collab kit in the Team Love threads ...this is from ScrapKitten to her Creative Team...Love it!

Again, remember to go to the gallery here and leave some love to all the Creative Team members who entered the contest to win these fabulous prizes:

FIRST: 1 Diamond membership (lifetime) to DigitalShopTalk & a $25.00 dollar gift certificate to Heather Manning.

SECOND: 1 Gold membership to DigitalShopTalk and a $20.00 gift certificate to Inked Edges.

THIRD: 1 Gold membership to DigitalShopTalk.

HAVE A GREAT NIGHT EVERYONE!

Happy St. Patty's day everyone! Hope you are all out celebrating instead of digiscrapping! You know you do need a life outside of digiscrappin'!!! Anyways, congrats to Snowowl from Karla Kellum's team and Shellshok from Sara Ellis's team for winning their gift certificates.

This afternoon I was surfing again through the Team Love threads and found two great tributes to their team's creative team members. The first one was this beautiful card made up by Royanna Lea Fritschmann..Gotta love this photo!and the 2nd one is this great poem by Sharia Braxton...


My CT, my Phat Chicks
Hanging with me through thin and thick
Wrapping your memories in my designs
Scrapping with love, taking your time

I couldn't have asked for a better crewe
No, not even had I prayed
But He knew the ladies that would be good for me
And from the beginnig til now you've stayed

I love your passion, your zeal,
I love you all for what you do for me
those things that I ask
and those things I forget to see

You all know how I feel,
I have said it time and again
We're not just a group of chicks
We're more like family, not just friends

I love you girls!!!!

Have a Happy St. Patricks Day everyone!

Congrats makabe from Randi Oh's creative team and mom_of_5 from Amy Summrall's creative team. They win a $5.00 gift certificate from Heather Manning and Inked Edges. Winners, don't forget to email info@inkededges.com to redeem your prizes!

Saturday's Winners!

Congratulations digi-dee and maggie965 for our very first drawing! I am sure you are as excited to receive your winnings are we are to give them! Stay tuned nightly for more drawings! I will post winners before 10pm every night. Fun stuff I'm telling ya!

Is everyone having fun with CT appreciation week? I am enjoying reading through the forums. This afternoon I grabbed a cup of coffee, grabbed a blanket, sat down at my computer and surfed through all the team love threads. Some great stuff in there.

Make sure you visit the gallery and give some love to the CT's who are posting their layouts for the contest! You can even go right now and do it HERE!

Have fun everyone! You are welcomed to leave comments for either praise or problems!

Designers, We have one TOU that didn't get zipped with the others (Michelle Powell, Kutnkudlys' Kreations). Could you please download that and give it out to your CT when you give them the links? Thanks. Download here.

One more day to get through before we can tell our CTs! It's sooo hard to keep a secret!

There will be more information regarding the CT appreciation week late, late tonight after Shannon gets the gallery and forums set up. Make sure to give your CT's this blog address when you give out their collab kit links so they can get all the info too!~ Thank you everyone who has been involved with ct appreciation week! We all rock!

Designers,
Please take note on page 3 of the bracket album in the CT Collab kit. You can download the corrected page here. Thanks

THE PREVIEWS ARE HERE!!!! Keep in mind, this isn't everything that is included in the kit...

Melissa has gotten all the files uploaded and has the links for everyone. Please email her at:
melissabennettdesigns@comcast.net to get the links. Please do not give these links out to your CT until Appreciation Week which is March 15-22nd. It is up to each designer to decide how they want to get the kit out to their cts!
Keep updated through the blog as the happenings for that week. More will be posted in the next week or so.

Reminder that the CT collab kit is due tomorrow (Feb. 20)!!!
Just wanted to give out a *VERY* special thanks to Melissa Bennet for putting the entire collab kit together and getting it set up for the CT's to get the kit! Thanks so much Melissa!

We are getting CT week underway, slowly but surely. It's all starting to come together! Shannon over at DST has offered us some forum space for some special events that will be posted as soon as it's figured out! Thanks again Shannon!

We have some wonderful prizes being donated...

Shannon at DigitalShopTalk is donating 2 Gold memberships and 1 Diamond membership.
Jessie at Scrapkitten is donating a Gold Paw membership to their Freebies Club.
Inked Edges is donating 65.00 worth of gift certificates to their store.
Heather Manning is donating 50.00 worth of gift certificates to her store.


Thank you everyone for your wonderful donations!

Just to recap the specifics again...

If you need to sign up for a catagory (only misc. elements are open) please visit the DST link "CT appreciation kit palette & sign up" HERE

If you need to add your name to the blog or have changes to make please email Kelly at:
info@inkededges.com

Please email Melissa with the link of your contribution to: melissabennettdesigns@comcast.net

Here's the up to date list...

Solid Papers (2 each) Closed
1. Pyralis Designs
2. qtjessie
3. Lisamarie (gypsy couture)
4. Neverland Scraps (Wendy)
5. Brent Boone6. Micheline Martin
7. Amanda Dykan
8. Designs By Shelle
9. Wendyzine

Tags Closed
1. Melissa Daniel
2. Victoria Feemster
3. Paisley Blues
4. Nathalie
5. Debbie McKenzie
6. Kiss Designs

Alphas Closed
1. Melissa Bennett
2. Krystal Hartley
3. Royanna
4. French Ruby
5. Lisamarie (Gypsy Couture)
6. Debbie McKenzie
7. Jannylynn
8. SarahJ
9. Wendyzine

Fasteners (staples, brads, etc.) Closed
1. Pyralis Designs
2. Flergs
3. Mikki
4. Karla Kellum
5. Kim Smith Designs

Frames Closed
1. Laura P
2. Rachel's Designs
3. Dielle
4. Ilona Havenaar
5. Micheline Martin
6. Natalie Bird
7. Lindsay Jane
8. Victoria Feemster

Fonts Closed
1. Melissa Bennett
2. Darcy Baldwin

Ribbons Closed
1. Laura P
2. Amanda Heimann
3. Neverland Scraps (Wendy)
4. Micheline Martin
5. Hauntedonecat (Wendy)
6. Amanda Dykan
7. Victoria Feemster
8. Kryss
9. Pamela Gibson
10. Kate McClellan
11. Rebecca Lynn

Quick Pages Closed
1. Amandathor
2. KristinCB
3. Jill D-Zines
4. ChrissyW
5. RandiOh
6. Ziggle
7. AtThePlantation
8. RoseMcDigitalDesigns
9. Kanga
10. lillypug34

Templates Closed
1. Jan Hosford
2. Juliana Gordon
3. Diana (FreeStyleMama)
4. Lisa Joy (ljcrochet)
5. Caroline Brown
6. ChrissyW
7. Carla
8. Colies Corner
9. Tahera
10. RoseMcDigitalDesigns
11. Strawbry_Wine (Liz Pike)

Doodles Closed
1. Pixel Diva Designz
2. Nathalie
3. Kathryn Wilson
4. Sharia Braxton
5. Chris Wasielewski
6. leslie_537
7. RhondaLee
8. ScrapShana

Misc. elements ***STILL OPEN***
1. Karah
2. qtjessie
3. Faith True
4. Cori Gammon
5. Rachel's Designs
6. Melissa Daniel
7. Ilona Havenaar
8. Hauntedonecat (Wendy)
9. Flergs
10. Amanda Dykan
11. Heather Manning
12. Victoria Feemster
13. Paisley Blues
14. Kylie M
15. Royanna
16. Sweet Digi Scraps
17. Dragonfly Scrapper Designs
18. French Ruby
19. Kiss Designs
20. Zephanee
21. Kryss
22. Tangie Baxter
23. Jeannie Papai
24. Karla Kellum
25. Kelly Michaels
26. Kim Smith Designs
27. Kiki Scraps
28. Hyper.mum
29. Merkee
30. Connie P
31. Fryske
32. Babette
33. k.joi.studios
34. Shan22
35. Cassel
36. Amu Sumrall
37. Jen Surge
38. Kari Hentzelt
39. Vegas Christina
40. Brandi West
41. lpand3dogs
42. Julie Bullock
43. RhondaLee
44. jdsmom92
45. April Staker
46. Fiona Renwick
47. Debra Anderson
48. Tahera
49. Rina
50. Ziggle
51. AtThePlantation
52. bbk29 (Caroline B.)
53. Osten Wilkins
54. Strawbry_Wine (Liz Pike)
55. dedesmith32
56. Brandi White
57. lillypug34
58. Sara Ellis
59. Danielle Engebretson
60. Onescrappymom
61. Kim Siebold
62. MerCas Designs
63. Pennys Miscellany
64. Designs by Marguerite
65. Helen
66. Kutnkudly
67. tborntreger (Theresa)
68. Christine Nash
69. Tracy Marie
70. 3Tatertots
71. KariQ
72. Lynne Simmons
73. Alice Koh
74. Manu
75. Rachel Martin
76. Amy Fenner
77. Alma
78. Sarahb
79. Moo2
80. Michelle Pieters
81. Creative Confusion
82. EvaK
83. Katie Scrapbook Lady
84. Bon Scrapatit Designs
85. Gwenevere Dupus
86. Kathryn Estry
87. Kristmess
88. Digiheaven
89. ToyBoxDesigns
90. JenMaceyunas
91. SaraAmarie
92. ShellMist
93. tamra
94. LaWanna Desjarden
95. Census
96. Holley V
97. buzybeescrapper
98. nwfotobug
99. BooLandDesigns
100. Cherie Shields
101. bigscrapkitty
102. dranet
103. jas7797
104. StarryNight
105. Claudi
106. Debf
107. ezane
108. Juliek
109. KelleyMickus
110. Kimberly Cameron
111. lorenehill
112. Windgefluester
113. The DigiTwins
114. Betsy Tuma
115. TRK Designs
116. rachael-1984
117. Anja

There are still some "misc. elements" items to sign up for!

The color palette!

Here is the wonderful color palette that Melissa made up. Thank you so much for doing that Melissa:)! Now, can we get a veteran collab kit maker decide on how we should go about deciding on how many papers/element per designer? I am still getting some names coming in slowly so maybe we should wait a few days and see how many more names we get! I would guess we have the majority of the designers though!

I LOVE this color palette! It actually matches the header in the blog! Thanks again Melissa.

Melissa has also agreed to come up with a sign up sheet so it doesn't get out of hand and we don't have 50 of the same item. Thanks so much again!! Stay tuned!.....

Welcome to the Creative Team Apprecation blog!
I am compiling the list as the names come in (you'll see it in the right hand side column). If there is something that needs to be changed please email me at info@inkededges.com and I will get it fixed asap! I have also linked the stores for each designer so please make sure those are correct too! If you see for more than one store I just put the store that was listed first on your email. Please let me know if you want me to switch the link. Thanks:)

If you want to snag a blinkie (150x50) or a banner (468x70) for your store go ahead!



I was thinking that maybe my store (www.inkededges.com) could host and put the kit in the store where in return we would give all the designers the coupon code to give to their ct's. Then the ct's have the whole week to download the kit obiviously free. I wrote this on the thread at DigiShopTalk and haven't heard if anyone else wants to do it different. So if you want to comment on that, please do so! Personally I haven't done a collab kit before so I am not sure if there is a better way to do this or not. But if it sounds okay to do it thorugh my store I'd be happy to do that.
Please check back on this blog periodically to get any updates for the collab kit AND appreciation week. Most people commented on wanting the week vs the day and I agree. I will keep checking the thread at DST to see if anyone has added more imput and then add it to the blog so we have just one place to have to go to to catch the updates and not have to read through the entire thread. Hope that sounds okay with everyone!