graphics from Sahlin Studio
Did someone say freebies?! One of my most favorite parts of (inter)National Scrapbook Day is all the gorgeous freebies offered by generous digital scrapbook designers. While some offer individual free kits through newsletters, Facebook fan pages, blogs, etc., many designers also contribute to huge collaboration kits, available through what’s referred to as a “blog hop.”
To get all the pieces to one big coordinating kit, you hop around to participating designers’ blogs or Facebook pages and download each contribution. Put them all together and you’ve got one whopper of a freebie! Wondering where to start? I’ve scoured the digital scrapbook world and rounded up a hard drive-busting assortment of blog hops for you. Clear your downloads folder – you’ll need the space!
Design House Digital designers give away a huge blog hop kit pretty much every year for iNSD/iDSD, and they just keep getting better. This year’s is called Retrospect, and you can get it for free by following along the hop, starting at this post on the DHD blog, and collecting a letter at each stop. Put your completed code (in order) in the coupon box at checkout. I love this way of doing a blog hop – instead of downloading 26 little pieces, you get it all at once! Genius!
This is just one tiny piece of the Scrap Orchard blog hop collab. They are doing a “Torch Relay” for their Olympics-themed iNSD celebration this year, and it’s all on Facebook. Start in their forum here for all the info, and your first Facebook stop will be at new Orchard girl Amanda Heimann Designs.
Mscraps blog trains always include a plethora of high-quality goodies. They’re keeping everything hush-hush until Friday, so don’t forget to check back at their forum to start hopping!
Zig Zag Scrap‘s blog hop preview is so big I can barely fit it all in here! Their theme is “Secret Indulgences” and this train leaves the station early Friday morning. Check out this thread in the ZZS Fun Place for all the details.
One lucky hopper on the Scrappity-Doo-Dah blog train will win this gorgeous camera bag, in addition to all sorts of goodies and coupons! Refer to this post on SDD’s blog for everything you need to know, and get your fingers ready to hop starting on Saturday.
Wow that’s a lot of digital goodness! Don’t forget to keep tabs on DigiShopTalk’s iNSD forum for all things iNSD-related so you don’t miss a single sale or freebie. If you’ve found a blog hop that I haven’t shared here, would you link it up in the comments and share the love? Thanks! Happy (inter)National Scrapbook Day!
These are great! People should also check out the MyMemories blog train – 35 designers giving away full size products. I have a post about it here:
http://christinesmith.net/my-memories-blog-train/
Sugarhill co is doing their first ever CU blog hop, and its my favorite hop of all time! Gorgeous stuff!
And The Digichick has one as well.. haven’t done it all yet, but the kit is very cute, little houses, etc.
Ooh, plus the free Deviant Muse, avail in the DeviantScrap store, is just LOADED with freebies! All right there for you in the same download. Plus it tells you all about the challenges and quick and easy games. Most games have three gift certs as prizes, $10 or $15 EACH! Pretty amazing if you’re pressed for time and want some digital yum. All going on till Sunday.
Thanks for all the info on the hops, btw! I didn’t know about most of them.
Since writing this article, I’ve found a couple more blog hops!
The Lilypad – start at their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheLilypadDigitalScrap
Digiscrapaddicts: http://www.digiscrapaddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28502
Thanks to Christine and orachel for sharing even more, too! How exciting!
We have one at DSA too
http://digiscrapaddicts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28502