I’d like to take a minute to thank the wonderful Designers of the August Mega Kit, it is a beautiful kit! It gave the Quick Page Exchange Club so many fantastic papers, elements, and word art to work with!  The Quick Page Club did a great job creating Quick Pages, Brag Books, and Tags galore!  Here’s just a preview of the Quick Pages available in the August Quick Page Exchange Club Announcement Forum:

If you downloaded the August Mega Kit - then you know how many wonderful items you now have that will coordinate with these Quick Pages.  You can add more of the coordinating embellishments, or a word art phrase to the Quick Pages to truly make them your own!  The Quick Pages created from the August Mega Kit are called the August Quick Page Exchange Club - even though they are released on September 1st.  Please remember to download them now, as they will only be available until the 14th - and then the RAKScraps September Mega Kit will be released on the 15th!

If you missed the August Mega Kit, then I should tell you that the RAKScraps Mega Add-On Kit is still available for sale.  Our Mega Add-On Kits are HUGE - with 24 papers, lots of embellishments, and this one by Di Hickman has a wonderful alphabet!  The August Mega Add-On Kit coordinates beautifully with all of the Quick Pages currently available! 

Today we are visiting the SCRAP RAKS section of the forum and just like the name sounds, it is the place where you can find all sorts of RAKs and leave all sorts of RAKs.  Our members are very generous and they love to share.   So when you check out the posts here, you will be introduced to the amazing talent of our members.  Oh, and don’t forget to leave some lovies for them.   There are five areas in this section of the forum.

Scrap RAKS Challenges:  Here you will find the Members Mega Kit Challenge, RAKScraps Quick Page Challenge, and ATC Challenge — with RAKS for all of our members.  All three are fun to participate in, too.  But, don’t forget, you must be logged in to see them!

RAKSCRAPS Creative Team - RAKs for All:  The RAKs you find here have been made especially for you by the RAKScraps Creative Team.  One thing you will want to keep in mind,  these are usually available for a limited time only.  So, you will probably want to check here often. 

RAKs for All: This is where our generous and talented members share and post RAKs.  Whether you have a freebie on your blog or a direct link to your creations, this is the place for you to share!   There is also one very important thing to remember when sharing your RAKS, PLEASE follow ALL the guidelines listed.   There is a sticky in the threads, located here  http://www.rakscraps.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16842 , with the guidelines.

Other RAKs and Special Praise:  You can post your birthday wishes and RAKs, tag RAKs, special layout praise and any other RAK’n stuff in this area. 

RAK Swaps:  Post here if you’re interested in starting a RAK Swap - circle journals, recipes, ATC, photos with other members to do layouts for each other, elements digital cards, offering to scrap some pages as a RAK for another member,  and anything else that would come to mind. 

This is an area of the forum I know you will love to check out!

The September Newsletter has been published and it is full of wonderful information!

Don’t forget to mark your calendars for our upcoming RAKn Party from 19 SEP - 22 SEP 2008. Please join us for our Autumn RAKn PARTY as we party all weekend starting 19 SEP (8 PM) through 22 SEP (8 AM). (Note: All times Eastern Daylight.) We have chats, projects, challenges, guest designers, and Sponsor prizes! It is sure to be a lot of fun! Check out the newsletter for more information on what we’ll be doing!

We have many wonderful challenges highlighted in the newsletter and you can participate in them. Please check out and participate in the new Blog Challenge highlighted in the newsletter. Angela (AngelaUK) from the RAKScraps Creative Team is presenting a new Newsletter challenge. This month is the “Going Circular Challenge.” Check here for the information on adding circles to your layouts.

Our sponsors this month are Kiss This Design and Jan Hosford. Both designers have challenges using the free mini-kits they have given away in the newsletter, so be sure to join in on the fun. Once you get their mini-kits upload your layout to their gallery to show it off to everyone.

The Tutorial section of the newsletter has an overview of the new Tutorials Section at RAKScraps. We also have great interviews from our team member Rosefire (Adele) and RAKscraps member kristenw (Kirsten).  Don’t forget that Shannon is hosting the Scrapper’s Spotlight Challenge for kirstenw to scraplift her layouts.

Well a new month means two new sponsors. So lets welcome Kiss This Designs and Jan Hosford! They are bringing in the new month with 2 great freebies you can find in this months newletter. Click here for the September newsletter links. And here’s a little peek of what the freebies look like.

Funky Fresh from Kiss this Designs

And Woodland Song by Jan Hosford

So download these kits, make a page, put into the sponsor gallery and you could be winning a prize. SO have fun, and enjoy the freebies! Keep a look out for pages to come from these two great sponsors.