Making Memories

Organizing Your Stickers

My new and most favorite way to organize my stickers is this "Clip It Up" System. It is a circular hanging rack that comes with clips to which you hang your sticker packages from. I love that I can organize them by color, manufacture, type, or any other way that I can think of. Storing them in the packaging keeps them clean and helps me remember where I got them from. It also works well for rub-ons. Having these at my fingertips keeps them fresh in my mind and has become an instant source of inspiration on more than one occasion.

Joey

What's New in January?

We are excited about the following items that will be shipping to your favorite retail store this month:

 

Garden Party Collection:

Spring fever has arrived at Making Memories in the form of classically clean, yet hip designs. Our new Garden party collection will, just like the season itself, refresh your creations with everything from paper, stickers, die-cuts, blossoms, and more.

 

5th Avenue:

Few places in the world promise the sophisticated fashion found on New York's 5th Avenue, the inspiration for our latest collection. Both Elizabeth and Sophia lines are centered on bold black and white designs, accented wtih red, orange and pink or blue, aqua and olive. Let the albums, papers, trims, and embellishments of Making Memories 5th Avenue collection class up all of your projects.

Blossoms and Button Boxes:

Our blossom and button box collections include 100 buttons, 40 printed paper blossoms, and 20 felt flowers for a total of 160 pieces. The come in three styles: in blooms, funky, and lemonade.

 

Spiral Journaling Books:

Taking notes just looks and feels better when you do it in our 4" x 6" Spiral Journaling Books. Each page features one of six patterns (five of each) for a total of 30 die-cut edge sheets. Tear them out, just like you did during your old school days, for that great frayed-edge look.

We Have a Winner!

Thank you to everyone who posted their organization tips and tricks. Sorry for the delay on my end, but we finally have a winner. Congratulations to Rachal Perry. She is the winner of a MM Carousel. Rachal, email me (jweston@makingmemories.com) so we can send your prize!

Congrats!

Inspiration From Joey - Organizing Your Thoughts

All month you have been learning various ways to organize your tools, embellishments, ribbon, and paper. Now it's time to organize your thoughts.

I am in dire need of a way to organize my thoughts so I decided that a weekly 9x9 inch journal might help. It is nothing intense or complicated - just a simple page with plenty of writing room to capture random thoughts and photos from the past week.

Here is my first page. I used the MM Noteworthy collection because it's gorgeous. I decided to use two small pictures from the past week that captures something about it that I want to remember. The key here is the journaling. I used the extra space to capture random thoughts. That's the way I like to journal because it makes the journal all the more 'me.'

Best of luck organizing your thoughts. If you have more idea on how to do that, let me know.

Joey

CHA Winter Sneak Peak (1 of 3)

If you have been scrapbooking for a while, you know that during the beginning of each year, we head to a trade show where we release lots of new products. The trade show is in Anaheim California on February 10-13. Make sure to keep yourself posted so you can see the latest new products first.

We are going to give sneak peaks on every Friday leading up to the show.

We hope you enjoy.

 

Check back on Friday, February 1st for more.

Organizing Your Paper

I actually have a few different systems going on at the same time for organizing my paper.  I’ll share a few of them – perhaps one will work for you! 

This is my first system.  I’ve shared photos of my ScrapBoxes before – I love them and I love the way they help me organize all of my scrapbook supplies.  These upright containers are perfect for organizing patterned papers.  I used some of the Making Memories 12x12 file folders (trimmed slightly) to divide and organize my patterned papers into categories – Seasons and Colors. 

I like to keep my newest papers out where I can see them.  I have a shelf lined with these Cropper Hopper paper files. Each file holds all the papers from the newest collections.   

Speaking of keeping my newest papers out…here’s another organization tip that involves paper – AND lots of other things!  I LOVE the new Making Memories desktop organizers. I love being able to put all of the coordinating items from a new line in one little box so I can have every single item at my fingertips!  The back slot is perfect for holding 12 x 12 papers and it holds TONS.  The middle slot is perfect for holding paper scraps, stickers and other larger embellishments.  The front slot holds smaller embellishments packages.  There are three little drawers in the bottom that hold other loose embellishments too.  There are also fun little label holders on each drawer and on the end of the entire unit – I’m sure I’ll be collecting these organizers so I can have one for each new collection as they are released!

I hope this gives you some helpful ideas if you’re looking for ways to organize your paper – and if you have a great tip, please share it in the comments below!!

Wendy

Layout by Jennifer

Valentine's Day holds a special place in my heart. It was the day my husband and I had our first "fight" as a couple. I went all out, sewed felt hearts on expensive wool socks, showered him in delicious candies, and made a special tribute present to commemorate our first few months of dating. He greeted me with, "I bought you a rose, it's in the fridge."

Thankfully our Valentine's Day celebrations have improved greatly since that first one, and I look forward to getting in the spirit a little more each year. I love the new Love Story line of papers and embellishments- they make it so easy to create an eye catching layout that celebrates the special connection with your loved ones.

Jennifer

How Do You Organize?

We have been talking about organization all month. We have even been giving tips from our designers on how they keep their stuff together. Now, we want to hear from you. What do you have the most trouble organizing? What organization products do you love? Do you have any tips and tricks for storing paper, stickers, embellishments, tools, etc.?

Let us know by posting a comment. Your comments will be entered into a drawing to win some of our own organization products (hint, hint, our Desktop Carousel). The winner will be announced on Friday, January 25th.

5th Avenue Eye Candy

How about some good ole eye candy for a Monday? This eye candy comes from our 5th Avenue collection that starts shipping at the end of this month. You'll love this program because it's so easy to use and it's great for all types of occasions.

Here are some of my favorites from this line including beautiful trims, epoxy brads, journaling books, and die-cut papers.

And, here are some great samples to get your excitement going.

It's Time to Vote

We had lots of great suggestions on new names for our blog-now it's time for you to vote. We've picked our favorites (in no particular order) and listed them below. Let us know which one you like best by posting a comment with the corresponding number.

1. Be Inspired

2. MM Blog (I know this isn't new, but lots of people still like it)

3. BIB (Be Inspired Blog)

4. Noteworthy

5. MM Inspiration

Let us know what you think.