Leave of Absence

Hi all! I sincerely apologize for my recent absence. Don't worry, I haven't gone anywhere. :) I should be back, up and running, in January.

Before I disappear off into wonderland, here's a quickpage from my exclusive Grilled Sammich mini kit. I've also included the same quickpage without the frame. Simply click on the preview to download:

I wish you all a happy and warm holiday season!

Grilled Sammich Mini Kit Giveaway

The winners of the Grilled Sammich Mini Kit by No Ordinary Kinna are:

#1 Shuckclod
#2 Myak808

Congratulations!! Please send an email if you haven't already with your full name and e-mail address to kinnasays@gmail.com to claim this giveaway! Have fun scrapping!

If you enjoy digital scrapbooking or have ever wanted to try the craft, I have a cute and fun giveaway for you! This kit can be great for picnics and barbecues.. but I personally enjoyed it to scrap pages of me and my six year old niece's first time cooking and making sandwiches together. :)<3 Enter for a chance to win!

Grilled Sammich Mini Kit Giveaway

FIVE No Ordinary Kinna followers will win a Grilled Sammich Mini Kit. Giveaway includes:

• Grilled Sammich Mini Kit by No Ordinary Kinna
• Sunburst Templates by No Ordinary Kinna

How to Enter

To be entered to win the Grilled Sammich Mini Kit Giveaway, all you have to do is follow this blog with an account (see: 'Accepting Followers' in the sidebar) and comment this post with your favorite sandwich ingredient, and you're entered.

Contest ends Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 8pm PST. One entry per person, please. Winners will be chosen by Random.org, and notified by email (if linked to your account) and through this blog. Giveaway provided by Kiran Saeed.

Good luck you guys!

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Oh and psssst... There are a few extra tid bits in the Grilled Sammich kit that aren't shown in the preview! ;) In addition, here's a freebie to bring more creativity and excitement to your pages. Click on the preview to download:

Thank you for stopping by!

What's Sticky

Lo and behold, I'm starting a Tumblr after all. :)

What happened was that I started blogging in this very post when suddenly I realized that what I was writing about was completely out of sync with this blog. I scurried over to the next room and asked my housemate, "remember that book I shared with you the other day? The weird one. Would it be weird if I shared it in my blog?" As those words came out of my mouth, I knew. I knew that if I had to ask about it, I had my answer.

What's Sticky may have slight overlap with some pictures or stories I share here, but it'll be nothing like this creative blog. It's purpose will be to log random things I come across on a day-to-day basis. Things that stick. It's marketing-related. Anyways, I'm rambling.. if you're looking for freebies, tutorials and giveaways, you've come to the right place. :)

Speaking of things that stick... I came across this funny, out of the ordinary picture the other day and it sparked my interest to make a new mini kit!

What do you make of this picture?

Haha, this made me chuckle. :) I'm almost done but I have a few more elements in mind that I'd like to add before I post it as... a giveaway! Details to be announced soon! Here's a sneak preview of what most of it looks like:

And just to celebrate my new Tumblr, here's a freebie for you! Click on the preview to download:

Busy, Busy Bees

This week has been fairly busy. I've been applying for a very important internship, working on a few side projects, balancing my budget, researching fun and interesting marketing books and jogging in my spare time to shake off the jitterbugs. It feels great to finally take a break with my hot cup of jasmine honey tea and crunchy nut thins (have you tried these? they're new, nutritious and very delicious! you can find them here), and blog to you guys.

I was digging through some digiscrapbooking pages from over the last two years and thought I might share some every now and then for inspiration. I'll be sure to link any quickpages I have used for you to pick up.

Back in late 2009, I became an active member of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) at UC Riverside and immediately joined the board as Historian Chair. UNICEF is dedicated to saving the innocent lives of children across the globe through humanitarian efforts and collecting funds.

Thousands of children die from preventable causes every day. Children, who for lack of clean water or food or basic medical care, won't get to grow up. On behalf of the world's children, UNICEF strives to reduce that number to zero. You can join their efforts through their website or help by donating here.

Joining UNICEF at UCR sparked my interest to play a more active role in our community. It was such a pleasure to work among fellow students who were also passionate about giving back and making a real difference. As Historian Chair, I blogged about our activities on the UNICEF at UCR Website (due to technical and financial circumstances, the original website has been taken down), took meeting and event pictures, and scrapbooked to my heart's content. :) So don't be surprised if you see 'UNICEF' stamped on many of the pages I'll be sharing over the next few months. Here's one that inspired a freebie I made below:

Kit: Le Petit Poodle

Since my schedule has been pretty busy the last couple of weeks, I made an agenda/ weekly planner for you other busy bees out there! I hope it comes in handy. :) Just click on the preview to download:

Make sure to stop by soon for upcoming giveaways, freebies, tutorials and updates!
Have a wonderful week!

Classy Thanksgiving & A GIVEAWAY!

Time's Up!

The winner of the African Plains Elephant Collectible by Tusk is:

#4 Laura

Congratulations Laura! Please send an email with your full name and address at kinnasays@gmail.com to claim this giveaway! Have fun decorating!

My blog is finally up and running and I'd like to celebrate with a giveaway!
(There's no catch, I promise!)

Today's giveaway is a limited edition collectible by Westland Giftware. It's a beautifully hand-crafted and hand-painted African Plains Elephant figurine from Tusk. It's great for urban home decor and collectors! Tusk recently decided to come out with a new line of quality designs, called "New Tusk". And so, you will find that this product is no longer in stock. I absolutely love their line of parade collectibles and the details on this piece are amazing. I am so excited for one of you guys to win it.

Tusk African Plains Elephant Collectible Giveaway
($35-56 value)

One No Ordinary Kinna follower will win a limited edition Tusk African Plains Elephant Figurine Collectible. Giveaway includes:

• 4.5" Tusk African Plains Elephant Figurine

How to Enter

To be entered to win the Tusk African Plains Elephant Collectible Giveaway, all you have to do is follow this blog with an account (see: 'Accepting Followers' in the sidebar) and comment on this post, and you're entered.

Restrictions: This giveaway is open to United States only.

Contest ends Saturday, December 3, 2011 at 8pm PST. One entry per person, please. Winner will be chosen by Random.org, and notified by email (if linked to your account) and through this blog. Giveaway provided by Kiran Saeed.

Good luck you guys!

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Onto our freebie! "Classy Thanksgiving" is a fun kit designed to scrap Thanksgiving, family gatherings and making dinner, but at least half of the pieces can be used for just about anything. As I mentioned earlier this week, this kit is a misnomer. I'm dedicating it to my family. We strive to create the perfect family gathering every Thanksgiving but never quite get it right. I love them. :) So, I apologize if this kit isn't coherent with my other work, but that's just how my family is! Classy and, well, awkwardly funny. :) Another reason that this kit is different from my other collections is because I didn't add an overlay to most of the pages; mainly, so you can select the material and mix it up however you like. If you Google-Image "overlay freebie", you should have plenty to choose from. :) I hope you enjoy it! Just click on the preview to download:

Thank you for stopping by. :)

Day 1 - Countdown to Thanksgiving

Today marks the last day of my freebies during our Countdown to Thanksgiving.. but it's not over yet! To wish you a Happy Thanksgiving, I'm releasing a kit, called "Classy Thanksgiving". But wait just a second.. How classy, you say?

The Office (Season 5, Episode 18) © NBC

Perhaps this classy. Haha actually -- I hate to break it to you but it's kind of a misnomer. Like The Office, "Classy Thanksgiving" is nice, but also kind of awkwardly random. You'll love it; you might not be be a fan. I'll explain this better when it's posted, you'll see! Still, it's a nice little kit designed with the intent to scrap family gatherings and making dinner, but many of the pieces can be used for just about anything. It should be out by the end of the week. :)

I made some basic edger masks a while back and thought it might be neat to share some new and fun, whimsical edgers as well. Not to worry, they're already in high resolution this time. :) Just click on the preview to download:

Day 2 - Countdown to Thanksgiving

I have plans to save up for a new camera so that I can share more than scrapbooking materials with you. Who knows, I might be inspired to pull some colors, patterns or items in some of the pictures and make a kit to share! ;) I'll talk more about this and a fun project I have in mind later.

As promised, here is today's freebie! It's a compilation of random but related things I chose to scrap as a super-mini kit for the month of November. Click the preview to download.

I hope you enjoy your Thanksgiving break! Don't forget to stop by tomorrow for another freebie! :)

Day 3 - Countdown to Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is so close, I can smell the turkey. And since I can't taste it or even look at it yet, I figured that I can at least talk about it. Hence, I put together a handful of Thanksgiving word arts to share. I hope you will find them useful in your scrapbooking endeavors. I want to give a special shout-out to Kevin and Amanda Fonts for making their absolutely adorable font collection freely available to the public. I also want to give a special shout-out to Scrapbook.com for offering an organized list of quotes for us to incorporate in our layout designs. Simply click on the preview to download:

Day 4 - Countdown to Thanksgiving

My apologies, this post is a little overdue. I was experiencing some internet connection problems earlier. Now that it's back up again, I am thrilled to announce the release of my first mini kit! Anybody who is anybody knows that Twilight: Breaking Dawn (Part 1) has finally hit the screens. (Family-goers beware! It's better suited for mature audiences). To commemorate yet another chapter of the popular series, I chose to make a Twilight-themed mini kit for us to scrap premiere night pictures, movie nights, book clubs and/or fan pages. I hope you enjoy the kit! I really enjoyed making the pieces. :) Click the preview to download.

My favorite embellishments out of this collection are the "vamples." They are a hybrid of the symbolic Twilight apple and.. you guessed it, vampires! Aren't they cute? I also have a few other ideas that I am thinking about designing.. I'll try to have them scrapped and posted as an Add-On to celebrate the next (and last) movie of the series.

On a side note, I do not own the rights to the "Team Jacob" design in the above mini kit. I tried searching for a copyright but was unable to find the rightful designer. By default, I presume that I am permitted to incorporate this in my mini kit. Please, if you have any information on this, as well as any other copyright related issues in my past and future projects that you find have been handled incorrectly, email me at kinnasays (at) gmail.com . I do my research and try to make sure that my ideas are original and if they are (intentionally) not, then I want to make sure that they are credited properly.

Day 5 - Countdown to Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is just around the corner and to show my appreciation for all of you, I've decided to post a daily freebie until the big day. That's a total of FIVE FREEBIES! I hope you enjoy them!!

If you haven't heard, the Thankful Hearts Blog Train was released just earlier this week! Hop on over to Just For Fun Designs to pick up the kit featured below. Making quickpages from mini kits with unusual color palettes can be a challenge to scrap, so I've taken on the task to create my a quickpage and share it with my fellow bloggers. This layout was inspired by one of SSD's templates (our Featured Blog of the Month!). Click on the preview to download:

Paper Edger Masks Freebie!

I remember a day when I came across paper edgers in kits and freebie clusters and then spent hours searching the entire web, looking for free masks to use on my own work. So, for those on the search.. Look no further! Here's four of them just for you :)

Also, I'm currently in the construction phase of the blog, so please excuse the design process. Cheers!

Welcome to My Blog!

Hi there digiscrappers! I'm Kiran, aka Kinna, and among many things, I love scrapbooking. Some of my favorite artists include Scraps by Andrea, Trixie Scraps, Growing Pains Scrapped, Connie Prince, Shabby Princess and Aimme Harrison. I've recently taken interest in digiscrap designing and am considering making a kit myself during my (much-needed) study breaks.

Here's a quickpage I worked on earlier today. Just click on my page preview to head on over to Mommy Me Time Scrapper's blog post and pick up the QP.

Kit: It's My Birthday

Alpha: Happy Monsters (modified)

I'm a flyers, posters and Facebook events kind of girl. Since I have little experience with creating digital scrapbooking paper, embellishments, etc. on my own, I'll be showcasing my progress as a digiscrap designer on this blog to receive feedback and improve. Essentially, I want to get a hang of the tools that will be necessary to build a kit of my own someday (soon, hopefully!). I'm starting small. Bare with me. :)