Happy New Year

I hope everyone is recovering nicely from the festivities.  It was lovely to get 4 days off in a row. 

Do you have a list of scrapbooking blogs you like to check out?  I have a couple dozen saved in my 'Feeds'.  One of them is Britt from Norway.  I love seeing what she's created each week.  She cuts her kids out of many of her photos; she says to get rid of the clutter in the background.  And then she builds fantasy worlds around her kids. They are wonderful.   She says she finds a lot of her images on the internet.
You really should check her out. 

I've never attempted a layout using her style until this past weekend.  I had some photos of Breanna goofing around on some concrete structures left over from the world war, at McCauley Point Dog Park in Victoria. The backgrounds in the photos weren't that interesting so I cut her out and made a fantasy land for her to play in.

I started off making the background with blue Glimmer Mist, green Shimmer Mist and a yellow Mist I mixed up myself with a reinker.  The trees are Glimmer Screens (the same ones I've used on my last half dozen layouts).  The clouds are handcut.  Around the splotch of yellow Mist I glued down some Mulberry paper to create suns rays.

I had fun building the swing out of a piece of corrugated cardstock and some twine, and then hung it from one of my popped up clouds.  Sassy Frassy Lassy was printed on a clear page and cut out.  'Uniquely You' is by Fancy Pants.  The butterflys and flowers are punched out of a scrap of Cosmo Cricket.

I felt like I was back in Grade School Art class with no rules except to have fun.

What scrapbooking blogs do you like to check out?

Here comes a new year...

...and with it, some long long winter months to...scrapbook! This is the BEST time to get to your crafty projects, I think. It's cold. Christmas is over. Spring is...I can't even picture spring in my mind, it's so far away. The store has some pretty cool Christmas and wintery-type paper and embellishments in, and now we have nothing but time to whip up those holiday and outdoor layouts, girlfriends.

This isn't a winter photo, but I loved the paper and the fact that there were six "spaces" on the Santa's Naughty or Nice List paper for everyone in my family.


Rather than check the naughty or nice sections, i used the arrows on clocks to subtly (or not...?) indicate who is naughty! All four of the kids of course. Trouble, I tell you. The black letters are shiny (you can't really tell in the photo) and font is a favorite. Lynette also has a nice big wall of American Crafts Thickers in all kinds of colors, textures and fonts. I am 100% addicted to buying any new ones that come along. I use them ALL THE TIME and I can't stop. There are also plenty of other alphabets by other manufacturers that you should check out too. Too many good choices!
So don't let the terribly cold weather and short days and the wretched snow get you down up here in the north. :) Just make a couple layouts about it. Happy New Year!

Another Winter Trees layout

I used the Christmas tree screen ~ though not as a Christmas tree.  I had a couple more photos from our summer weekend at Pillar Lake that I wanted to scrap.  It was a very woodsy setting so I thought the tree would be appropriate.  I put the screen on a piece of kraft cardstock and sprayed it with green Maya Mist.  Then I splashed some splotches of 'soot' Glimmer Mist over top.

The patterned papers are by QuickQuotes (brown spotty and blue stripe) and Doodlebug (green leaf).  The ribbon is recycled from one of my Christmas presents. 

I was going to cut triangles for my title banner but then found some old letter stickers in my stash and they were the perfect colour.  I like the rectangular shape.  It's a little different from the banners I've been making lately.

Some Prima leaves and flower, some buttons and a couple of Making Memory travel flag pins finish off my page.

And now I think I'll head down to my scraproom and create another layout around my 'winter trees' Glimmer Screens.

Tattered Angels 'Winter Trees' Glimmer Screens

Merry Christmas!  We've had such a great day from opening presents, eating way too much good food and I even got some scrapbooking time in while hubby napped.  He has to work tonight so I thought I'd put together a blog post before I wake him up and send him off.

Last week I picked up some Glimmer Screens.

I thought the tree on the far right would be perfect for Christmas layouts, but as I haven't gotten those photos developed yet I started playing with the other two images. 

I'm still playing with the BoBunny 'Midnight Frost' line.  I just love the colours; the blues and white with a little wine red thrown in for contrast.

I used the 'Frost' glimmer mist (the same one I used on my cards below) and sprayed over the tree screens on white cardstock.  I layered the patterned papers, Diecut and chipboard piece under and over my photos. The journaling is framed on one side by a sticker bracket.

The punched snowflakes are edged with blue ink and I've used a Bazzill glass button in the center of each. I love these buttons; the colours are so pretty, but it makes it really hard to scan and stitch the layout.  So just ignore the shaded line down the center; it's not there IRL.

After spraying the trees I could see there was lots of Glimmer Mist sitting on the tree Glimmer Screen so I flipped it over onto another piece of white cardstock.  So instead of a mask I have  stamp.

I used the edge of the 12 x 12 BoBunny 'midnight frost' chipboard shapes to frame my layout.  This was a really quick layout to put together.

Make sure you check out the BoBunny 'midnight frost' line if you have snowy photos to scrap.

Making Christmas Cards.

I'm a little late making my cards this year so these won't go in the mail, but I'll be hand delivering a few to friends locally.  Do you have a few more Christmas cards to make and hand out?  These are quick and pretty.

I used Glimmer Mist so the cards all have a nice shimmer and sheen to them.  The trim and snowflakes are punched from a blue metallic paper that adds even more shine.

I started off by cutting a piece of white cardstock a little smaller then my card base. I used a snowflake glimmer screen for my big image though you could also use a large snowflake die-cut or mask. I sprayed with 'frost' Glimmer Mist.

After punching my pieces I layered the snowflakes and put a blue jewel in the center of each one.

I stamped my greeting in the center of my large snowflake.  I used the mini snowflakes that came out of my border on a few of my cards.

After sewing around the border of my decorated card front I glued everything down to the card base.

Have a very Merry Christmas!

And the November Blog Challenge winner is...

Congratulations to Teresa Haarsma. You are the winner of the November Blog Challenge. Stop by the store and pick up your prize!


Now on to the December Blog Challenge. This months blog challenge will be to create a project that has to do with the days of December. So your project can be anything that has the numbers 1 through 25 or 31 depending on what you choose.


Enter to win a collection of Bella BLVD goodies by posting a picture to our new facebook page Unforgettable Memories Foto Source

Happy scrapping! I will post pictures soon of two projects that I have made.

Fun with glitter.

There are so many sparkly embellishments available. I love them. When I picked out the glittery Prima butterfly to go on this layout I decided I needed more glitter on my page. This is what I used...

1. Glue Pad.
2. A tin with the right circumference for the circle I wanted. (This one is a Maya Rd tin; I think it had felt birds in it.
3. Glitter. I used Making Memories glitter in a copper colour.

I laid out my page and then used the tin and a pencil to lightly mark where I wanted my circle.

I dipped the edge of my tin into the glue pad; just like you would a stamp.  After I moved the photos and mattes out of the way I stamped down with my tin on to the pencil mark I had made earlier. After lifting the tin off the paper I sprinkled a good thick layer of glitter over my circle.

This is how my pages looked after I shook off the excess glitter.

And here is the completed layout.

I think the circles really add to the finished page. And it was a really quick easy addition to create.

Photo Mugs......

Are now available the next day!!! I am happy to say that our machine is up and running you can now get custom photo mugs in store!!! Orders placed by 1pm are ready for pickup no later then the next day!! Prices start at just $9.99
Email or stop by for more details!

I found another colour challenge blog.

It's called Color Combos Galore.  It is set up very similar to the Color Room I showed you last month but instead of a sketch this one has an inspiration challenge.  Here is last weeks challenge combo and inspiration.

I love pink and green together so I had to play along.  I started with a white sheet of Bazzill cardstock and used my mask letters for the title.  You could place chipboard or even paper alphas you had cut out yourself for the title.  Just lay it down and spray with Glimmer Mist.  I also used the backing from a Prima felt border  to create a border along the lower part of my page.

I planned on putting an acrylic sheet with green butterflies over my background (you can see it below) so I roughly sketched where the butterflies weren't so I had a place for my journaling.

Once I had my journaling all written out I adhered my acrylic butterfly sheet (by Hambly Screen Prints) down to my background and began building my matting and other embellishments for my layout.

And here is the finished layout. The doily was one I inherited from my Grandma.  It had a 17c price tag on it, from Woolworths.



I love the acrylic overlays.  Unforgettable Memories has a variety of designs.  Make sure you ask about them the next time you're in the store.

The pretty flower spray is by Prima.  There are few colours in the store.  This pink spray was packaged with a purple spray.  I can't wait to use it on a layout.  They are so sweet.

The buttons are Jenni Bowlin.  There must be half a dozen colours in the store.  I've used the green ones on a few layouts recently.

I used 3 different border punches on my papers.  I think the border punches are the best value for the money when it comes to scrapbooking tools.  I use mine over and over. I never get tired of them.

November Blog Challenge

November Blog Challenge:

Create a project, layout or card using the colours orange and black. This does not have to be a Halloween creation. You are also not limited to using orange and black paper. Get creative and try using flowers, bling, ribbon, buttons, ink or chipboard to add dimension to your creation!

Submit a photo of your project to the unforgettablememories facebook page to have your name entered for a draw. You can also particpate by stopping by Unforgettable Memories Foto Source with your project or with a photo of your project the staff there will be sure to get you entered. This months prize is a Making Memories Passport arcylic stamp set.