A New Way to Scrapbook

We are excited to partner with Stacy Julian to launch the Story by Stacy™ product line!

These story-based products are designed to teach you how to create authentic, personal stories with your memories. Story by Stacy™ will help anyone discover, access, and grow their storytelling skills to share them with others in meaningful ways.

Quick Memories

Need to make some layouts quick? Sometimes I want to be crafty, but don't feel like I have the right mojo. Enter our 15-minute memory kits. The Cut Above kits will help you create beautiful scrapbook pages quickly.

This month our innovative new Cut Above™ layout kits are available at 50% off the retail price! That's an incredible deal on layout kits that make memory keeping incredibly easy. Choose between two designs—Little One and Forever & Always—and then follow the simple assembly instructions to create your beautiful two-page layout in minutes. Add even more memories using the coordinating pocket cards and pocket Memory Protectors included in the kit. You're going to love how quickly you can preserve your memories with Cut Above. 

Winter Sports

Winter sports are well underway, and CTMH has some great new stamps to decorate your scrapbooks. Basketball and Hockey are only two of the many sports stamps that coordinate with Cricut cuts.Check out page 96-97 in the Annual Inspirations book and page 30-31 in the new Seasonal Expressions 2016.

Seasonal Expressions 2016

New Seasonal Expressions 2016

The New Year brings a new Seasonal Expressions 1 idea book for 2016. These wonderful new products you will love seeing everything in person—from the new paper collections with their coordinating accessories to the fun new stamp sets and Picture My Life™ cards. Email me today for your own copy, or download the pdf for your smart device at my website here.

Planners Gonna Plan

Attention all planner addicts! During December, you can get your hands on the new, gorgeous Everyday Life™ album from Close To My Heart, the accompanying Everyday Life 2016 planner pages, and the coordinating Everyday Life Perfect Plan roller stamp in an exclusive product bundle for only $29.95. That’s over 15% off the retail price! With the new Everyday Life line, you’ll experience “memory keeping on the go” as you track your menus and shopping lists, stamp reminders, keep appointments, and tuck away precious memories—plus much more—all at once! This offer is only available while supplies last, so plan to place your order early in the month and start 2016 off right.

Snowhaven

 This month's featured kit is called Snowhaven, and uses some of my favorite colors.  Cranberry is a long-standing favorite of mine, and the new color Glacier is a great, versatile color.  The Snowhaven kit uses Cranberry, Glacier, Black, White, and Whisper colors in combination with lovely snowflake images. It is perfect for Christmas images or fun snow day photos.

While I do make it back to Ohio to visit, and take photos of the snow, I don't have many snow photos.  But, this kit can be used for other images.   Pair it with the Red Enamel Hearts for a Valentine's theme.  The Nordic images are perfect for a trip overseas.  Add a little Kraft cardstock, and the kit makes a great nautical kit.

Chalk It Up: Football

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The last layouts from the Chalk It Up WOTG used the layout sketches included with the WOTG brochure.  These two layouts are based on sketches from the Make It From Your Heart Volume 1.  This is Pattern Seven on page 19.  Both sides of the page are rotated from the original instructions to fit with the photos I wanted to scrapbook.  Any ideas for a title?  The strip along the bottom left will be stamped when I can decide on a clever title.

Again, I wanted to hide the newspaper articles about the game, so I used the Magic book for ideas.  Our 3-D Foam Tape makes an easy pocket to slide the newspaper down behind.

Football

The second layout is pattern thirteen on page 31.   Our Background & Texture paper is cardstock quality, so you can use it as the base for scrapbook or cards.  On the left, a Cricut cutout set to 11" size helps frame the main photo of the layout.

Those sneaky journaling boxes popped up again.  This time, I printed a nice photo from the newspaper, but didn't want to include it on the layout.  I wanted to showcase my photos more.  I used the thicker 3-D Foam Tape to lift the matted photo up, and attached a piece of stamped cardstock to the back of the newspaper photo to act as a pull tab.

I love, love, love our Flip Flaps, clear memory protectors in various sizes to add more photos to a layout, or hidden journaling.  In this layout, I used it to add two more photos with the UM Cheerleaders that I would normally not have enough room for.  They can also be used to hold memorabilia that you may not want touching your photos because it is not acid free.

AME: Sweet Smiles

Watch the video to see how to use the Cricut^® Artbooking shapes, icons, and borders to scrapbook memories of your baby—the smiles, the messes, and the sweetness. It’ll have you grinning from ear to ear! 

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AME: Crush on Artbooking

When you combine Cricut^® shapes with My Crush™ books, you’ll take your on-the-go art to new heights. Watch the video to see how you can cohesively bring two different worlds together: Cricut^® Artbooking shapes and My Crush books!

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Antarctic Negatives

Most of you know I am an oceanographer and adventurer, as well as a memory preserver and crafter.  Steve Meltzer wrote an article that hits home with everything I love.  The Antarctic is a place of wonder and adventure.  Just look at the folks stuck in the ice for so long this Christmas.  Preserving the history of exploration and science from that foreign part of the world is important to understanding both the environment of Antarctica but how humans can live and interact in such a harsh life.  Conservators working to preserve that history came upon negatives that they believe to be 100 years old.  Imagine finding something like that in your attic!  You can see more of the photos here.