Making Memories

Guest Designer: Erin Bassett

Hi everyone, this is Erin Bassett happily jumping in as a guest designer and blogger today. 

I love the Sarah Jane line is so perfect for little girls! I just had to use it to create a scrapbook page for my new little niece!

I love all the Instagram photos we are all taking of her and so I had them printed out and then used some twine to create a close line for each row of photos.  I just stapled the photos right onto the twine!

I love the sticker banner, and had to use that for my title. By popping it (and other embellishments and photos) up with foam adhesive it really gives the page some dimension, even under the glass of the frame I ended up putting it in.

 

Here's a close up of how I used some of the die-cuts and pennants to make this cluster.  I think adding the trim around the die-cut helps give the layout a baby soft feel.

 

And here's how it looks in the frame! A great gift to give!!

 

I also had some left over supplies and so I whipped up a card. I pieced together scraps for the cards and then sewed them together. I also layered up a bunch of the pennants to make a star like flower shape to add to the front of the card.

 

For the paper that "wish" is on, I just die-cut it out from some of the product packaging.  I can't let a good pattern go to waste!  

 

Once again I popped up some of the layers to create dimension, and now it's good to go!

 

Erin is a craft addict who loves to do something creative every day.  She shares her love of all things artsy on her blog and in the classes and events she teaches at.  Erin is a freelance artist, designing for top manufactures and has had many of her projects published in various magazines and books.  She considers it a blessing to be able to call her passion "work". 

I'm a Believer! Guest Designer & Giveaway

The holidays might be over, but that doesn't mean the gifts need to end! To help you scrap all the photos you took of sledding, shopping and Santa-ing, we are giving away two prize packs from our Believe Holiday Collection.

Prize packs include 6x6 Paper Pad, Embellishments, Chipboard, Alphabet Stickers and more! Just leave a comment below to enter the giveaway. What is the memory you most want to preserve from the past holiday season?

The two lucky winners will be picked. Good Luck!

Contest ends next Wednesday, January 23rd.

Here is the Believe line in action! Check out these great projects from Guest Designer, April Walker from Scrapper Forever. 

 

 

Guest Designer: Candice Reszko Advent Calendar

We have a special treat for you today!  Guest designer Candice has created an amazing Advent Calendar project for us, and WOW we are in love.  The title of this project is "The Gifts".

 

From Candice

I titled this advent calendar The Gifts. For each day there is a little pocket to slide

in the gifts in which we are thankful for each day except for five days. I call those drop days

in which there is a certain message to reflect upon for that certain day. This year I am

going to have every family member participate and on Christmas day we are just going

to go through them all and to really truly see how blessed we are.

The calender measures 12x18 1/2 in with each rectangle swatch measuring 2x3 in. With these measurements the calender was evenly spaced out to fit on entire O-Wire from Zutter

Bind-It-All. I punched 24 holes for the title portion and 4 for the rectangle swatches on top

and bottom. Then I just spaces them out evenly skipping a loop after every four loops. I

did this for each row until I had all rows binded together and my advent calender was 

complete!

Isn't it beautiful! 

Thanks Candice!

 

Guest Designer: Kris Berc

We are so excited to have Kris Berc featured on our blog today!  Kris is so talented and has created a stunning project using the Sarah Jane Collection.  She is such a great sport and borrowed some cute pictures of her nephew to create the "boy" page for us!  

Supplies

Sarah Jane 12 x 12 Double-sided Paper

Sarah Jane Die-cuts

Sarah Jane Journaling Stickers

Sarah Jane Alpha Stickers

Sarah Jane Brade

Ink, glitter glue and sewing machine

We love this adorable pinwheel she created with the paper and layered with a die-cut and pinwheel brad.  

It is all about the small touches - how great are those star die-cuts covered with a little glitter glue!

Thanks Kris!  We can't wait to have you featured again!

Check out her blog for more inspiration!

Guest Designer: Tammy Prawitt

We are dying over this adorable tutu created by Tammy using Fancy Nancy product!  It is adorable to say the least and wouldn't this be perfect for your daughters next birthday? Check out her shop taddletell.com!

Supplies

Fancy Nancy Butterfly Ribbon Cuffs

Fancy Nancy Butterfly Wand

Fancy Nancy Hair Kit

Fancy Nancy Tutu [created by taddletell]

So CUTE!  

Guest Designer: Laurel Seabrook

Laurel Seabrook is here on Making Memories blog as a guest designer today!  She has a gorgeous layout using the Sarah Jane Collection and her Slice.  

Supplies 

Sarah Jane 12 x 12 Paper

Sarah Jane Die-cuts

Paper Blossoms

Cut "sweet girl" out using your slice in two colors

Add embellishments to finish off the layout

 

 

Guest Designer: Lee-Anne Thornton

Hello everyone!  I am very honored to be featured today on the Making Memories blog.  This is my very first guest designer opportunity and I am very excited! Today I  created this layout of my youngest son.  I thought the Sarah Jane - Children At Play Collection would be perfect for a young boy or tween.

Here are the instructions:

Ink and distress edges of kraft cardstock.

Cut four squares of patterned paper 3 inches long by 3 inches wide. Ink edges.  I used Tim Holtz “Rusty Hinge” Distress Ink

Place patterned paper squares as shown on layout and adhere to kraft cardstock.

Cut lilac colored paper to 3 ½ inches wide by 5 ½ inches long and ink edges with Tim Holtz “Milled Lavender” Distress Ink. Adhere 3X5 photo onto photo mat.  Place photo and photo mat on layout using dimensional squares.

Cut three border stickers, layer and apply under photo as shown.

Apply Ranger Glossy Accents to all the diecuts, the striped area of tag,  and orange letter stickers except for journal sticker and frame diecut. Let dry.

Place tags, sticker and diecuts as shown on layout and adhere.  The rocket diecuts, striped tag, one number “6”, journaling sticker and bicycle diecut are all adhered with 3D dimensional squares.  The stars, frame diecut and “6” on journaling sticker are simply adhered to the cardstock.

Attach small piece of orange ric rac to tag, tie and trim edges neatly.

Write journaling on journal sticker and orange sticker.

Apply mini stickers (things about you) and (you) inside of frame diecut.

I hope you liked this layout that I created.  Please check out my blog at http://lee-annelovethejourney.blogspot.com/ for more scrappy goodness.

Have a wonderful day!

 

Guest Designer: Stephanie Johnson

Hi there! My name is Stephanie Johnson & I'm so happy to be a guest here at Making Memories! My main paper crafting love is card making so I made a card to share using one my favorite collection kits that I've been hoarding for quite some time!

For this card, I wanted to incorporate a paper pieced star burst design- I love this trend! I'm sure there's many ways to make star burst designs, but here's how I made mine:

1. Gather your favorite Making Memories papers (I used 4 patterns on this card)

2. Cut a plain piece of cardstock slightly smaller than the card itself. Using a pencil, make a center point & draw lines radiating across the card. Cut 2 pieces of cardstock from scraps, layer on top of each other, & combine at one end using a brad.

3. Using the new cutting guide you just made, place on to card to measure the sections of your star burst one at a time.

4. Move your cutting guide to the patterned paper, trace with pencil, & cut out your slice out.

5. Adhere all the slices of your star burst in their place. Tip: To adhere my pieces, I used my adhesive runner around all 4 edges & a line in the center.

6. Trim the excess using a paper cutter & adhere to the main card. Embellish & enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Stephanie Johnson

For more inspiration and great ideas check out Stephanie's blog! 

www.parkersprints.blogspot.com

Guest Designer: Megan Klauer

Wedding Bliss

The first thing I thought of when I saw the new Modern Millinery line was summer weddings. The Statement Floral double-sided paper is my favorite as I think you'll notice as you go through the three pages I created. It is bold, but soft & beautiful all at the same time. The dress mannequin die-cut was perfect for my wedding detail page.

15 Months

I chose a black & white photo for this page as I wanted it to stand out against all the wonderful patterns & colors of the Modern Millinery line. The Word Fetti quote sticker that reads "these eyes that will someday break hearts have captured ours forever" was perfect for this photo! They must have known I would need that. LOL!

Rustic Beauty

I wanted to stetch this line a bit and show that it can absolutely be used wiht something contrasting; like an old barn! This line is vintage and beaustiful, yet modern and classic.

Thank you for allowing me to share my creations with you!

Megan

For more inspiration check out my blog!

Guest Designer: Lowri McNabb

Hi Everyone – Lowri McNabb from PaperVine here and I am thrilled to be sharing these projects on the Making Memories blog today.

From Christmas Day to Valentine’s Day

We all have scraps of paper and embellishments left over from our Christmas projects, so I thought I would use some of the fabulous red and cream colored leftovers I had from the Twinkle Collection to create a couple of simple Valentines Favors.

I made these candy holders using some of the Words paper and then added some plain red organza ribbon along with the gorgeous spotted red and cream ribbon from the Trims and Brads embellishment pack. 

One of the flowers from the Twinkle Baubles embellishment pack completes the simple but elegant decoration. These would be great as a little gift for a teacher, filled with some lovely pink candy hearts.

These flowers are a great way to decorate gifts and packages too.  I used a rosette die to create the flower and one of the Twinkle Baubles in the centre. The over-size rhinestones in this pack are fabulous!

Get Ahead for Next Year!

Instead of packing away all the other Christmas leftovers, I decided to get the jump on next year and create a quick December Daily album.

Using all the scraps of paper, stickers, journal pages and embellishments I was quickly able to put together this book. I used plain white cardstock as the base and punched holes in each page so I could use book rings for binding, therefore make it easy to add to next year.

I often find myself with tiny stickers left over on a sheet – and they are perfect for adding splashes of color to white-based pages. These stickers are so much fun and the  baubles add some great dimension to the cover.

I used the left over pages from the journaling book as inserts into the album. They will be great for writing all my Christmas lists next year! 

The wonderful combination of fresh red and green colors in this collection makes for a really clean look on the white background - perfect for the Summer Christmas time here in New Zealand.

I hope this has given you a few ideas on how you can use up those Christmas bits and pieces you have left over. I would love for you to follow my blog at PaperVine or just drop in and say Hi :-)