Making Memories

What's Shipping in February?

The Slice Wedding Design Card is shipping this month. The design card includes fonts, numbers, words, icons, frames, journaling spots, etc. To find a retailer in your area check out whyslice.com.

Laura Vegas created this beautiful wedding table decoration using the new Slice Wedding Design card.

 

To learn more about the Slice and the Wedding Design Card visit whyslice.com.

Spring Cards

Today we asked Shanna to share some cards she created with Making Memories' Chloe's Closet. This is what she said:

I like to round up the specific products I plan to use when creating my card sets in order to keep them coordinating.  I don't like to make sets of identical cards.  What fun is that right?   But I DO like them to match each other.  With this specific set I chose these products to work with from the Chloe's Closet line:  (all of which I instantly fell in love with as soon as I saw them!) 

 

The 6 x 6 designer paper pad

The package of Trims

The package of Blooms with matching buttons

The package of flower gems

And of course a nice selection of Making Memories "Thank You" rub-ons.

I wanted to create the cards out of kraft paper in order to match the kraft colored matching gift bag.  Once I've gathered up the products I want to use then that's what I stick with while creating.  Limiting myself this way forces me to get creative from one card to the next as far as the design of each card goes.  Once you start a set like this you'd be surprised how quickly you've created several cards without even stressing over it.  If I start struggling with the design of the card then I reach for my favorite card sketches and I'm done in no time at all.  This makes it easy when I already have the product & supplies in front of me. 

Winner, Winner, Winner

Congratulations to Angela S. She is the winner of Making Memories Love Notes Collection!

Please email me (jweston@makingmemories.com) so I can send your prize!

Angela S said...

Going through my "to do" stack here at work - I'm glad to say that I am coming out on top with getting organized and tasks prioritized!

Reply February 24, 2009 at 03:52 PM

Let's Do a Giveaway!

Since February is almost over, we wanted to give some of Making Memories' Love Notes collection away. It's simple to enter. Post a comment and tell us what you are doing today. Tell your friends so they can play also.

Guest Designer Wendy Kwok

We are excited to have Wendy Kwok as today's guest designer.

Wendy combined several Making Memories products in this fun layout: Love Notes papers, shimmer brads, Paperie Rouge flocked dots paper, Love Notes word fetti and tiny alphas. 
During this Valentine’s, we can scrap about the things we love--and many times we are just crazy over our possessions or obsessions, right? This is the time to scrap it!

Wendy shared some tips to help us create this layout.

 
Tips:
1) Cover some chipboard with word stickers. This gives a fun visual interest on your layout.
2) Are you stumped when you see so many words on a piece of pattern paper?  I found a way to use them. Cut up the words you like and frame them up with chipboard to bring out your paper. You can highlight whatever words suit your theme like I did with this Loves Notes Words paper.
3) Mix and match old and new stuff.  I combined the new Love Notes tiny alphas with the black tiny alphas to make the title.
4) Use Making Memories paints.

Thanks Wendy for sharing with us.

Valentine's Day Winners

Congratulations to the following winners who will be receiving Making Memories Love Notes Collection.

I had the most delightful dinner with friends! Four of our friends took us out for my birthday (which was on the 12th). I totally have never had friends do something like that for me and it was just an awesome fun night! We laughed SO much! They even got together to give me a wonderful gift including a gift card to my lss! I was shocked at the kindness and thoughtfulness! It was truly a blessing to me!

Posted by: Jingle | February 18, 2009 at 07:45 AM

One Valentine's Day my husband had to be out of town and he called to tell me he loved me and that we'd celebrate when he got back. That was nice and I thought that was it but later the doorbell rang and on the porch was an interesting box. Inside the box was a beautiful wood box emblazoned with a woodcut of an old sailing ship and the words "Timeless Message". I undid the leather strings to find a lovely red heart shaped bottle with a pewter label embossed with the same ship and words. Rolled up inside was the sweetest love letter he'd ever written me. (And it was one he'd written, not one of the ones he could choose from the company.) I treasure it- and him!
I love the Love Notes collection! Thanks for a chance to win!

Posted by: April C. | February 18, 2009 at 09:03 AM

Lets see the best thing about my valentines day...I was on call and worked 10 extra hours on that day...my family (hubs and kid) were gone ALL weekend which left me alone...so the best part would have to be that my call finally ended on Monday morning and I finally got to see my family Sunday night...and that made me very happy

Posted by: Tina B. | February 18, 2009 at 05:56 PM

Jingle, April C. and Tina B., make sure you email me (jweston@makingmemories.com) your contact information so I can send your prize.

Have a great Friday!

Lovely Layout

This layout by Maggie shows you what you can do with Making Memories’ Slice and a little bit of layering.  By using the negative and positive space in your design cuts, you can efficiently use all parts of your paper without tossing anything away.  This layout combines different papers with the Making Memories Love Notes line. 

You can use Making Memories’ spiral journaling book pages at the side of your layout for added dimension.  Secure your journaling pages with a couple of brads for the final touch, and there you have it – a beautifully layered page layout.

Valentine Garland

Here’s a way to have some fun with the Slice and the Making Memories’ Love Notes collection: Maggie Holmes created this Valentine’s Day garland by cutting out the letters “l-o-v-e” and linking them together with binder rings. To make sure the letters show through, put a different pattern of Love Notes paper behind the letters. Add Love Notes trim to both sides of your garland for easy hanging. You can choose to decorate the individual letters with tags, dimensional stickers and other embellishments to achieve your desired look.

Let Valentine's Day Linger

The candy has been devoured (oh, I shouldn't have), the flowers are wilting, but the memories keep us warm all year long. Valentine's Day may have come and gone, but we can still capture those precious, adoring moments forever.

Maggie Holmes has created her own Valentine's Day love note to last for generations, by pairing two precious photos with the Making Memories Love Notes program. This highly artistic look is surprisingly simple to recreate, by layering our new scalloped- edge paper with some easy adhesive stickers, a couple of brads, and a one-sided trim border, to put the emphasis on the emotion these pictures bring.

We'd like to send you a Love Note as well! Please share with us the best thing that happened to you on Valentine's Day in the comment section of our blog, and we'll select three readers at random to receive a full Love Notes program of your very own! Winners will be announced this Friday!

 

Valentine Jar

Valentine’s Day may be over but that doesn’t mean you can’t continue to show a little love all month long.  All you need to do is pull out your Slice machine and layer different sized Making Memories Love Notes paper hearts with dimensional adhesive (sticky squares work well) and glue them on a stick. Next, fill a small jar with marbles or candy to hold your hearts.  You can substitute your hearts with suckers or other candy to add a little variety.  Be sure to add extra trims, stickers and embellishments to complete the look.