New Release | FAVE-O-RITES 2013: July Faves

Happy Sweet Shoppe Saturday everyone! This week’s release heralds month number seven of one of my absolute FAVE (pun-intended) scrapbooking projects: the Monthly Faves! We’re on the home stretch now, second half of the year baby!

For those new to Nettio Designs & the Faves, my Monthly Faves project is a year-long scrapbooking project where each month you scrapbook one layout documenting your top-ten favorite things from that month. Your faves can be anything: events, food, tv shows, technology, clothing – the sky’s the limit!

I’ve done my Monthly Faves project twice before, once in 2009 & again in 2011, and I love it so much I’m doing it again here in 2013. I can’t even tell you how much fun it is to look back on those layouts and see what’s changed and what’s stayed the same. It’s like a mini time-capsule of your favorite things from way-back-when.

Here’s how my 2013 Monthly Faves layouts are shaping up so far this year…

I’ve written before about why I believe everyone should scrap a Faves layout but here’s the cliff-notes version:

Because scrapbooking lists is fun
Because you don’t remember nearly as much as you swear you do
Because it captures an easy snapshot of your life at the moment
Because it’s the easiest All About Me layout you’ll ever do. Seriously.

And this year I wanted to make it even easier for you to creatively capture your faves. So on the last(ish) Saturday of every month, I’m releasing that month’s Faves layout as a new Sweet Single template. Which should give you plenty of time to capture your Faves for that month before the new month arrives.

Which brings me to this week’s release…

FAVE-O-RITES 2013: July Faves

This week’s release is the seventh FAVE-O-RITES Sweet Single digital scrapbooking template of the year, FAVE-O-RITES 2013: July Faves. It features one of my absolute favorite things – a paper-lovin’ grid-based design – which makes it easy for you to dress up or down with your digi goodies however you’d like.

Here’s a bigger look at my 2013 July Faves layout that inspired this template. One of the things I’ve realized this month is that even when I think a month wasn’t all that eventful when I’m living it, when I go back to pull out my Faves, I realize there’s a whole lot more that happened than I remember! So a Faves list is great, not just for others to learn about you but for you to remember details about your own life as well.

As you can see, my faves list is super random, which is exactly what I love! It’s not something you have to stress out over: make a list of 10 things, scrap it and boom, you’ve captured an easy snapshot of YOU in your scrapbooks. Just think how much fun it’ll be for you or your kids & grandkids to look back on one day!

Team Awesome Inspiration

Of course my team had a ton of fun this month scrapbooking their own take on the July Faves:

FAVE-O-RITES 2013 Half Pack: Jan-Jun Faves

Also hitting the Sweet Shoppe this weekend is a bundled version of the FAVE-O-RITES templates: FAVE-O-RITES 2013 Half Pack: Jan-Jun Faves,which includes all six of the Faves templates from the first half of 2013. If you’ve been wanting to jump on the Faves train but haven’t yet, this is a great way to get started.

New Release Discount: SAVE 20% thru Saturday

And of course, as with every Sweet Shoppe Saturday, you can save 20% off all new releases thru Saturday.

Spend $15 & Get A Free Kit!

As I mentioned last week, this weekend marks the second week of our sweet summer promo, Summer Sixlets. Each week six Sweet Shoppe designers will be teaming up to create a brand-new kit, available exclusively for FREE with any $15 purchase at Sweet Shoppe Designs, and this week is my group!

We came up with this amazing kit (with coordinating template from yours truly) which I think we can all agree is quite the beauty…