Making Memories

Making Memories is coming to Impress

On May 3-4 Making Memories will be at Impress Rubber Stamps in the greater Seattle area. Free make n takes will be provided all day at all three locations. Check their website for locations.

A free goodie bag will be awarded to the FIRST 25 people at each store plus a 20% discount on all Making Memories products.

 

Making Memories will also be teaching a 5th Avenue mini album class taught by Gail Pierce-Watne, Making Memories' Director of Product Design, and Audre Mathis, Making Memories' product designer. To register for these class call 206.901.9101.

If you have even been to a Making Memories event, you know that tons of prizes will be provided. A card making contest, using Making Memories product, will be at each location. Making Memories will be the judges and awarding prizes.

Contact Impress for additional information. Impress has been "impressing others with paper craft products and ideas for 21 years - they love helping other create cards and invitations for those important moments in our lives."

For more information about other Making Memories events, visit Making Memories website.

May Day Baskets

After a long winter, it is great to see flowers blooming and the grass getting greener.  This project, created by Suzonne Stirling, is a perfect way to celebrate a nice spring day. May Day is just around the corner. Take a few minutes to create this project to display the beautiful flowers around you. Suzonne used Making Memories Noteworthy collection for her project.

1. Attach a piece of double-sided tape to the corner of a sheet of embellishment paper (the reverse side of Noteworthy "Polka Dot Stripe"), secure it to the middle of a papier-mache cone (found at stores like Jo-Ann and Michaels) and wrap it around the cone diagonally, until covered.

2. Using the top of your cone as a guide, trim the excess paper from the top. Then trim the edge on the front (so that it forms a point). Remove the paper from the cone and set aside.

3. Cut strips from the border of a sheet of Ric Rac Ledger paper and punch small holes along the edges.

Attach one strip around the top edge of the papier-mache cone form. (Tip: To make the border run evenly around the top of the cone, cut small slits in the bottom of the border. This will allow you to shape the paper to the cone.) Attach the other strips of the Ledger paper underneath what will be the front edge of the embellishment paper.

4. Wrap the embellishment paper around the cone (and over the Ric Rac Ledger border at the top), matching the edges, with the bordered edge of the embellishment paper ending in the front of the cone. Secure it in place with glue or double-sided tape.

5. For the handle: Make small holes in the sides of the cone, then punch a small hole in two ends of a piece of trim. Push a Noteworthy Jumbo Circle brad through the hole in the ribbon and the cone and secure inside the cone. Repeat on the other side.

6. To embellish: Make a tag using Green Floral paper and stamp or write "Happy Spring" on it. Tie an additional piece of trim to the tag and knot it. Trim the ends of the ribbon. Glue it onto the top edge of the cone.

Fill your cone with vintage millinery flowers or fresh flowers (just keep them somewhat small in size and be sure to put them in floral tubes to keep them fresh).

Hang on the doorknob for May Day.

To see the entire Noteworthy collection, visit Making Memories website.

What's Shipping in April

Definitely deserving of attention, the newest additions to our Noteworthy collection feature striking ledger designs dressed in vibrant color families Addie and Delaney. From intelligent mini albums to beautiful trims and glittered alphas to and glittered die cut paper, this collection is worthy of your attention.

Paper: Available in 12" x 12" double-sided sheet and 12" x 12" die-cut sheets   

 

Jumbo Pebble Brad & Pebble Clips

Glitter Box Collections: Each comes in a reusable storage box. Boxes contain glitter self-adhesive clears or glitter die-cuts

   

Trims: 6 trims, one yard each

Spiral Journaling Books: Contains 30 pages with 10 different die-cut patterns

Mini Albums: Made of heavy paper covered chipboard

Blossom Box Collections: Contains 30 printed paper blossoms, 20 felt blossoms, 10 tulle blossoms

Metal Signage

Chipboard & Shimmer Alphas

For more information about these new products, visit Making Memories website.

Noteworthy Bird House

This lovely project was created by Shauna Norton from British Columbia.

 

Shauna says, "I just love the Noteworthy collection that was released last fall. The colors are soft and soothing and with so many designs in the collection, there is so much you can create with them. I love the shabby vintage look so this program sits my creating style perfectly."

 

"I love the challenge of taking a design and making it out of paper-my sketch book is full of them. I got this crazy notion that I had to design and create a birdhouse out of paper since birds are a huge trend in scrapbooking at the moment. To start, I sat down and started to draw it out, cut my templates, and ended up with this."

"The little banner was hand-cut and sewn together and draped across the front. I made handwritten bird sentiments (i.e. "sing" and "birds of a feather," etc.) on various places on the birdhouse."

Thank you for sharing your birdhouse Shauna.

Making Memories' Product Designer Hillary

 

Today we are doing a profile on Hillary. Hillary is one of Making Memories seven product designers. Hillary helps create all of the papers and embellishments for Making Memories. It's no wonder why she loves her job because she gets to be creative and create beautiful things.

Hillary helped to create product lines for Making Memories such as Funky Vintage, Halloween, St. Nick, 5th Avenue, Garden Party and many more. She also helped create the design cards for Making Memories new Slice digital design cutter.

Her design inspiration comes from surfing the Internet and blogs and also by browsing through boutique stores galore. She loves to look at the details of her favorite products (such as a clothing tag or packaging) because it has the ability to spark an idea in her head. She also receives inspiration from others, especially her team and co-workers. Just sitting down and talking about inspiring things helps her to be more creative.

The designers at Making Memories have to work under pretty tough deadlines so when she needs inspiration and it just won't come, she cleans her office to clear her head. Another trick for Hillary is to think about something else, totally unrelated to work. That also helps to spark ideas in her head.

The other reason we are doing a profile on Hillary, is because today she is celebrating a birthday! Post a comment and wish her a HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Also let her know if you have any product requests.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HILLARY!

Check out some of Hillary's product lines on Making Memories website.

Inspiration from Joey

It's Earth Day today and a natural place to glean a bit of inspiration. I chose a picture of my daughter planting some flowers in our yard - beautifying the earth in her own little way. But recycling comes to mind as well so I decided to "recycle" some supplies and use them for a theme they were not originally intended. You will notice that my "grow" layout uses the Making Memories Travel program. The colors lent themselves well to this layout and a little sanding and inking gives them that grungy, get your fingers dirty feel. Look at your own supplies - many "themed" programs can be used across the board. I used some Colorboard Stickers (Discover & Memories) as well as an Embossed Stamp sticker (enjoy the adventure) that I felt added to the journaling. So what do you say? Let's help out mother nature and use some old supplies. Try grabbing "like colors" or do something wild for a more eclectic look. Who knows, you might end up stretching your abilities and "growing" a little.

 

Joey

To see more project ideas, visit Making Memories website.

Poster Profile - Britta Durdel

   

We have not done poster profile in a while, so I though it would be fun to start that up again. It's time to give a warm Making Memories welcome to Britta Durdel. Britta is from Wiesbaden, Germany. She lives there with her boyfriend Allen. Her dad, mom, and sisters (who happen to be her closest friends) live close by also.

Britta started scrapbooking in November of 2007. She was searching for a way to show off calendar photos and found scrapbooking pages on the Internet. Fast forward five months to now and she's addicted to everything about scrapbooking including paper, stamps, embellishments, and more!

Scrapbook shops are pretty limited in Germany, but she still has some Making Memories favorites including the Noteworthy line and foam stamps.

She gets most of her inspiration from the Internet and blogs. She usually starts with a photo and then arranges all the paper, title, paper, stamps, etc, until she gets the look she wants.

Take a look at her blog to see other project by Britta.

Leave your comments and tell her hello and also let the rest of us where you are reading from.

Two More Winners

Here are two more Baby Love book winners for Thursday and Friday.

Congrats to Heather Moll and Meagan Vallee. Email me (jweston@makingmemories.com) your address so I can send your prize.

Congrats!!!

Cupcakes

Every party needs some delicious treats. This cupcake idea is great for your little ones birthday parties. This project was created by Meghan Oleson.  Meghan used Making Memories Animal crackers line to create party hats, cupcake toppers, and table decorations.

This idea came from Making Memories Baby Love book. This book can be purchased at your favorite scrapbook store. It's full of ideas for baby invitations, parties, first celebrations, thank yous, etc.

We are giving one more book away today. If you want to win, post a comment and let us know what your favorite scrapbook technique is right now.

We will post the winner later today.

 

Baby Ella

This page was created by Leah using Making Memories new Animal Crackers baby line.

Instructions:

1. Adhere and machine stitch patterned papers to orange cardstock
2. Machine stitch around edge of chipboard heart
3. Double matte photo, cut edge of orange patterned paper with deco scissors and machine stitch on right edge of photos
4. Punch holes on left and right side of matted photo, thread through ribbon and tie
5. Put adhesive on back of chipboard and adhere to page
6. Add embellishments

This project came from Making Memories new Baby Love book. We are giving a copy of this book away today. If you want to win this book, post a comment and let us know what your favorite Making Memories style program is. Do you love Boho, Funky Vintage, Animal Cracker, which one do you love the most?

We will pick a winner and post it on our blog first thing tomorrow morning.