Making a list and checking it twice ~ wreaths

Have you made up a list for all the Christmas crafts you are want to do this year?

There are so many great ideas out there.  I've been looking at wreaths.  Which one should I put on my front door. 
This one from GoodHousekeeping?

Wouldn't it look fabulous with the stars made of double sided Christmas patterned paper, though I like the white too.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Or what about this one.  I've always loved paper with the kraft colour background. You could even stamp Christmas images in red and white on the kraft if you didn't find a patterned paper you liked.

I saved the link to the tutorial a couple years ago ~ maybe this year I'll make it.  Find the how-to here.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

There's this wreath from the Fancy Pants blog posted a couple Christmas's ago.  It looks like a lot of work, but it sure is pretty...

You can find the directions here.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Curly patterned paper is always effective.  I made ornaments using curly papers in clear ornament balls last Christmas.  This wreath would be just as easy and fun, I'm sure. Just curl the paper and pin or glue to a styrofoam wreath form.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I've loved this wreath for ages.  This blogger made it for a spring wreath but I think it would look fabulous with christmas coloured butterflies or maybe more traditional diecuts attached.

There's a tutorial here.

So now I have a decision to make.  Which wreath to make for my front door?

If you make one out of your scrapbooking supplies I hope you share it with us.

Birthday Girl with Echo Park papers

I love how bright and colourful these Echo Park 'Happy Days' patterned papers are.

I thought they'd be perfect for photos of my little girl on her 13th birthday hanging out with her friends on the back deck enjoying the sour lollipops one of her good friends made for her.

I sprayed rose glimmer mist and splattered yellow die ink on my white background before adding blocks and strips of patterned paper. I had some festive carnival stamps in my collection.  I used teal ink to stamp the images on my page and embellished them with Kaiser jewels.

Here are some closeups...

I made my title with some cheerful yellow felt alpha stickers by Prima and a birthday cake charm.

Love the Jenni Bowlin buttons.  I've used them on many layouts...

I punched some butterflies out of the graph paper in this line and then outlined them with black once I had them on the page.  They pop :)

Another Jenni Bowlin button paired with an orange flower brad by Bazzill.  

I found this scraplift on a challenge blog.  It was from last February so I'm way to late to play along, but I liked the layout so I sketched it out and stretched it to a two pager.  Do you ever do that?  Make a one page sketch stretch across two?

A BIG welcome to our newest Designer/ Teacher

I would like to welcome our newest designer and teacher to Unforgettable Memories Foto Source. Welcome, Angela Gatt!

Hello! My name is Angela Gatt and I've been a scrapbooker for about 12 years. My pages have certainly evolved from stickers and decorative scissors to the multidimensional 12x12 pages I make now. I used to work at Unforgettable Memories before going to school to become a teacher; I'm happy to be back around paper and glue.

My go-to scrapbook companies are Cosmo Cricket and Basic Grey. I like to use earth toned supplies more than brights. No page is complete without a little bit of ink and some pop dots!

My family consists of myself, my boyfriend and two very big dogs so you can expect to see lots of pages about every day events, pets, and outdoors activities. On occasion, I also make minibooks and cards.

I am excited to be on the design team and look forward to teaching classes in the new store. You can look forward to me teaching classes in the new year about resolutions and holiday celebrations. I will always try to teach you about a new technique or share ways to work with a certain product. On November 29, I'll be teaching a Christmas card class where we will make 8 different designs and work with a variety of techniques and tools.

Inspiration

{50mm 1/120 f/3.5 iso 640}


{50mm 1/120 f/3.5 iso 640}

What is this, you ask? To you, maybe just a stack of photos on a notebook...
to me...inspiration!! I am going to do a PILE of scrapbooking this weekend, and in making the plans for it, I have found myself becoming more and more inspired and motivated to actually get some layouts and projects done. And it's simply because I went and printed a huge stack of photos. {I also got a bunch of 8x12 enlargements, and I have to go back for a couple 12x12's}.
I'm not kidding - when I look at that pile I am feeling a little giddy about getting them in an album and remembering stories and diving into an enormous stash of COLLECTED STUFF...
Alright then, don't sit around waiting for inspiration to hit you like a lightening bolt or creative motivation to descend on you like...a lightening bolt...(sorry, i've got nothing for that one)...
Just start getting ready to make some stuff and see what happens. :) The girls at the store can print up piles of photos in no time and you can get practically any size of photo your crafty little heart desires.

Apron Class

I am so excited for the new store to be up and running. The first class scheduled to be taught in the new classroom is this very pretty canvas apron. This class is on Wednesday, November 30th from 7-9 pm. The cost of this class is $15.00, which includes instructor, apron and adhesive. At an extra cost you choose your own ribbon and bling to create your one of a kind designer apron! Members will recieve a discount for additional product. We will learn to make these neat ribbon flowers using Cosmo Cricket's extra large glue dot Glubbers! This apron would make a great Christmas present for that special someone who loves to get dirty or just look pretty! Sign up today as space is limited. Call today 250-785-2711.

Lots of photos ~ a two page layout

My friends and I took a ton of photos the day we hiked up to the Teahouse at Lake Louise.  I printed a lot of them off as 2" x 3" and cropped down the few 4" x 6"s I had. The main photo is a 5" x 7".  In the end I managed to get 10 pictures on this layout.

The Bazzill Cardstock I used on my background is masked and misted using my favourite Crafters Workshop vine mask. 

Have you tried Prima's flocked rub-ons yet?  Prima has some gorgeous examples using the rub-ons on their blog here.  I have used the flocked rub-ons on a couple of recent layouts.  On this layout I cut out the negative images left.

I cut up some paper doilies (My Little Yellow Bicycle) and layered them with punched pattern paper and Jenni Bowlin buttons with string tied through the stitch holes.

I layered BoBunny stickers and diecuts and patterned paper.

The circle journal spots are from My Little Yellow Bicycle's friendship tablet.

Mini Book Class

This mini book is great to put those family pictures you want to cherish always. Join me on Tuesday, October 25th from 7-9pm. The cost is $35.00 for members and $40.00 for non members. This class is great for beginners. It would also make a great gift for Christmas or just to keep for yourself.

Upcoming Class

Attention All Scrapbookers, new and old!

Our next class will be on Thursday, October 20th from 7 - 9pm. This class is $35.00 for non members and $30.00 for members. We will be using the very fun Farmhouse paper from Crate. You will complete a double page layout in class. You will also recieve inspiration for several other layouts.

Stop by the store and check out the layouts and sign up soon!

Misting and stamping

I used Cosmo Cricket's odds & ends line on this two page layout of my cute nephew enjoying his Mexican vacation.

I started with two 12x12 sheets of kraft cardstock as my background.  I wanted to do a misted border down the left side so I covered all but 3" with a piece of scrap paper.  I laid my curly mask and sprayed with Espresso and then with Gold glimmer mist.  Then I pulled out my world stamp and placed 4 images on to my border.

I used the same recipe on the lower right corner.

Here are some closeups...

I used loads of the stickers from odds & ends on this layout, like the 3 tags I tucked under the photo of snoozin' Wade.

I love the huge green brads in the center of the red flowers.  They are so bold and vibrant.  I think they're by Bazzill.  I know Unforgettable Memories has them in a few colours.

I layered some more stickers on top of a piece of patterned paper and a length of MM's travel tape.

I wanted more green on my layout so I drizzled some ink vertically in a couple of places. Just hold the paper upright so it dribbles down the page. 

Stamping with Glimmer Mist and a challenge

I have a stamp that is a collage of tropical images.  More Hawaiin then Mexican, but I decided to go with it anyway. I sprayed my stamp with a green Mist and stamped down.  Than I cleaned off my stamp by rubbing it off on the top and lower edge of my paper.  

Glimmer Mist stamped this way is not going to give you a sharp, clean image.  Instead you get the grungy look you see below.  Rubbing the remaining ink on the paper edges adds to the grunge :) 

Then I decided on a challenge for myself.

Only use stickers on this page.

No patterned paper, no flowers, no lumpy embellishements.  I counted the MM decorative tape as a sticker.

When I first started scrapbooking I used A LOT of stickers.  Then there was a period of time when I thought all stickers were not 'cool', even alphabet stickers.  There are so many neat sticker designs out there and I had a sheet of Cosmo Cricket "Salt Air" stickers that I hadn't broken open yet.  I wasn't sure about mermaid stickers for a boy page, but I found a spot for them ;)

If you try this challenge I would love to see your page!