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Happy Memorial Day.
We are not in the office today. Instead we are out of the office enjoying the day with our loved ones. We hope you are doing the same.
My family is a huge fan of BBQ's for Memorial Day weekend.Jennifer Pebbles created this cute BBQ layout using Making Memories' Design Shop stickers. These stickers are easy to use. They give dimension to your projects without too much effort.
Visit the Making Memories' website to see more Design Shop stickers.
If you are a pet lover, this is a great project for you. This a perfect gift for your furry friend or its owner. Laura Vegas created it using the Paws & Claws Design Card.
Download the complete instructions here. These instructions can be printed and stored in your Slice Inspirations Box. I have been posting weekly Slice Inspirations with instructions. If you have missed some make sure to check out the blog archive.
Don't forget about the Hand Free Be Free Vespa giveaway. Visit whyslice.com to learn more.
Today's layout comes from Making Memories' designer Keisha Campbell. Keisha used the new Design Shop stickers and Panorama collection for her layout. My favorite part about this project is how Keisha created the title as an afterthought versus a prominent part of the page. To do this, she used alphabet stickers for her title and covered them with a piece of vellum. This would also be fun to try with older product or mismatched stickers.
Embellishing the page is simply with the Design Shop stickers. All the work is done for you. All you have to do is stick it down and you are set.
Today we are happy to have Carla Tarabus as our guest designer. Carla created this layout using the Slice.
Supplies Needed:
1, 12” round sheet of patterned paper; 2 sheets of patterned paper; white cardstock; Slice Machine; Embossing Tips; Design Cards: Animal Crackers, Big Kids, Studio Essentials, and Words and Expressions; 12 large felt flowers and 1 small, border punch, hot glue gun, flexible ruler, string, and markers.
1. Have your child color a white sheet of cardstock with markers. With your supervision have your child cut out title with Animal Crackers design card using a 1.5” font size.
2. Use the Studio Essentials design card to cut out five, 2” tags on blue dotted paper. Cut a 2” photo corner from the same design card on the same paper.
5.
Cut a strip of butterfly paper to
8”x2” and use a lace border punch to the right side. Adhere to the middle of
the page. Place your 4”x6” photo
above this strip and flushed to the left side of the green paper. Adhere the photo corner that was cut in
step two.
6.
String the tags and adhere to the
page. Add the letters to the tags and put the clips on each end. Use glue dots
to adhere them securely.
7.
Die cut “happy” using the butterfly
paper and the “Words
and Expressions design card using a 4” font. Adhere to the background paper
under the tags.
8.
Make 3D felt flowers: Fold a large
felt flower in half and adhere with craft glue or hot glue. Fold 1/3 of the
left side down towards the front and the right side towards the back. Use glue
to secure. Make five red and five pink. Adhere five of the finished petals to a large
pink flower. Adhere five pink petals to a red flower. Adhere a looking glass
sticker to the center of each finished flower. Adhere another one to a plain
medium sized felt flower.
9. Add a rhinestone stickers to the left side of the page and use glue dots to adhere your felt flowers.
Have you been to Anthropologie lately to look at jewelry? It's beautiful. The only problem is that it's a little more than I want to spend. This little beauty is over $200. I asked Maggie Holmes to create a necklace using this piece as her inspiration.
This is what Maggie came up with for only $30. I love how she added multiple strands to hand down while featuring unique charms on the side.
As some of you already may know, I am a hybrid scrapbooker. That means,
along with paper and embellishments, I use my computer when I scrapbook. For
every layout I either print out my journaling or title using Microsoft Word or
I incorporate digital elements such as a frame or stitching.
For this layout I first created the center of my layout using Making Memories
Panorama Line.
I also used the Slice and Travel USA
design card - love this card by the way!
These is the list of products I used:
Panorama
Embellishment Paper
Panorama
Treasure Box
Panorama
Rub-On Book
Panorama
Word Fetti
Panorama
Mixed Alpha
Slice
Travel USA Design Card
Making Memories
Slice
Once I was finished creating the "paper" portion of my layout,I then
scanned it and opened it in Photoshop. Next, I created a new 8 1/2" x
11" document and added the digital elements I wanted to use to that.
Here, my digital elements are a frame and two hinges. (Karla
Dudley Designs )
I then merged the two together and there you have it...a hybrid layout.
Most of the time, when I do layouts like this, I either print the digital items
out on regular cardstock and then work on top of those with the real products. And
other times I like to just print out the finished, hybrid layout on photo paper
and add that to straight to my album.
Either way I have another memory to remember!
Wendy Bretz
I love the new font featured on the Slice Hodge Podge Design Card. Each letter on the Design Card is a little bit different, which makes titles and journaling very interesting. Wendy Anderson created this layout to remember her son's love for dinosaurs. I love how Wendy used both the positive and negative space to make the letter "pop."
Visit whyslice.com to see the entire Hodge Podge Design Card.
Download the complete instructions here. These instructions can be printed and stored in your Slice Inspirations Box. I have been posting weekly Slice Inspirations with instructions. If you have missed some make sure to check out the blog archive.
Don't forget about the Hand Free Be Free Vespa giveaway. Visit whyslice.com to learn more.
Today I wanted to feature Cris Cunningham as Making Memories' guest designer. Cris considers herself a novice, but I really loved the cards that she made with Making Memories' Flutter collection.
They are simple yet so beautiful. Don't you love them?
Jenny asked me to choose something I see every day and use
it as inspiration for a project. At first I thought I'd use a magazine
cover or packaging from a food item or a restaurant sign, but then I decided to
take the assignment a little more literally. This is what I used for my
inspiration.
Yep - our entertainment unit. It takes up an entire wall in our family
room and I see it every single day. I love all of the cubbies in the
bottom - the baskets are perfect for a family with four little kids - they hold
books, toys, video games, movies, mini scrapbook albums, and oh so much more.
I love being able to tuck away all the clutter in a pinch and have the
room look nice again.
So, with the entertainment unit as my inspiration piece, I created this layout.
Can you see the similarities? The "cubbies" are represented by
patterned paper tags, the top shelf is represented with a piece of patterned
paper, and the large center portion that holds the TV is housing a photo on my
layout. I used the Making
Memories Panorama collection for this layout.
So now I challenge YOU to look around your house - what do you see every single
day that might translate into your next scrapbook layout?
Wendy Sue Anderson
Today we have two special guests as our guest jewelry designers - Erin Clarkson and her daughter Daisy. Check out their creations and Erin's how-to.
My favorite thing about the necklaces is how easy it is to combine everything without having to think too hard. All of the difficult work is done for you! I started by creating a necklace. I removed the two clear charms on the necklace because they were each the same size and would work better for matching earrings. I added a single clear charm to replace them, just below the green/pink flower. I used small jump rings to attach the "E" charm to hang over the clear charm. I used hot glue to add a Making Memories paper flower (in pink) to the back of the green and pink flower (just to give it additional color). I added a large stone to the other stones on the strand combo, then I finally attached the two strand combos together.
For the necklace, I used:
Strand
Combo 5
Alpha E charm
Clear Charms
White crystal/stone:
Small and Large Brass Jump Rings
I used hoop earrings I already had and wrapped them with some thread in a
greenish shade that matched the green on the necklace. Then I used small
brass jump rings to attach the clear charms to each hoop and attached
the small pearls to the bottom of each clear charm the same way. I also
thought it might be cute to add a small pink bow to the ribbon as an
accent.
For the earrings, I used:
Small and Large Brass Jump Rings:
Black Oval (I removed the white pearls and just used two
of them):
Hoop Earrings (not MM--just pre-existing ones)
Floss/Thread (light green)
This piece was created by Daisy. She also LOVED helping me create jewelry. She took a silver strand and added various pendants and charms. She had a blast.
