Going Going Gone!

Things are going fast on the retirement sale!  So many things are on sale and you don't want to miss out on the deals!! Also, the items that are bundled in the current catalog will not be bundled in the new catalog if they are carried over. For example, maybe you have been thinking of getting the Fox and Friends punch and stamp set. They are bundled in the current catalog and are at 10% off, but in the new catalog, second year items wont be bundled, so the 10% savings will go away and the items are offered separately if they are carried over.  So go check out the bundles and see what you might be interested in.
And, I am amazed that the Basket Bunch is on the list of retiring!!!  And on sale!!!! I used that bundle like crazy, so be sure to grab that while you can.  But for that item, do the stamp and the dies separately because they are even less expensive that way with the current sale prices.   So much to look at right now, you wont want to miss out.  Contact me if you have any questions, or head on over to the Retirement sale and check it all out!!
Click here to go right to the sale!

New RGB codes for the new InColor collection from Stampin' 'Up!

If you are still using Stampin' Up! colors in your projects, here are the RGB codes for the new InColor collection. Another demonstrator made this chart, YAY!

To get a custom color in My Memories click on the RGB tab when you are in color.  Then you can adjust red, green blue to get the correct combination for the color you are looking for.  You slide the tab along the bar for each color, but to get precise color, use the codes.

New ~ My Memories Suite Version 8 just released

Hi Everyone!  My Memories has just released version 8 of their award winning digital scrapbooking program.  I downloaded it this weekend and the upgraded interface is really nice.  I haven't tried all the new features yet, but I did easily finish up some pages and send them off to be printed in time for Christmas! And, when I uploaded the new version I noticed that I had a free 6 X 6 photobook!  I went back to see what that was about and you also get a free month of the design club.  You can follow my link to the right of this blog to get right to the site and save $10 too!or use this link below

my memories link use code STMMMS28004

Fall 2016

I haven't shared a page in a while as I have been focusing on my Stampin' Up! business and learning how to make YouTube videos!  I made this page really quick today because a couple of the new girls in class noticed that they are not yet in our class scrapbook!  I can't have that now can I?  I will try to make pages more often so that when the kids look through the book they will remember the lessons we learned in class.  I truly believe that memory keeping helps the kids remember things and helps maintain friendships through shared experiences.  Often the kids who are now in the older classes will stop by and see the scrapbook and flip through it, remembering things from years ago.  They are part of it! Part of our church family.

Back to School 2016/17

Hi everyone!  Today was Back to school day for us! YAY!  and I already scrapped the pages for Jillian and Zachary because I was not feeling great so laying about was the thing to do today!
Parents don't get to go in to school on the first day, so these photos were from Meet the Teacher and school supply drop off yesterday.

I used the kit "Back We Go" from the lilypad.   The kit was on sale yesterday for $3.25.   The lilypad has sales every Wednesday called Something old something new and the items are 50% off!

A firm foundation

Hi Everyone,
Sharing another page from my pre-school class at church.  I like to make pages about what we did in class so that the kids can look back through the book and remember fun times.  Sometimes older kids who have moved up will flip through the book and see themselves.  Maybe it makes them feel like part of the whole? I don't know, but I think its nice to have the book in the room and it also helps me to remember what lessons I've done and with whom.  This was the lesson of the wise builders.  We made Lincoln log houses on a wrinkly towel for our 'sandy' soil and I read them the story from Matthew 7:24.  I think they liked the idea and we talked about how it applies to us as people. 
The page uses some really fun downloads called "life is good" from Quirky Heart.  I bought it from a site called the Lilypad. 

There is a bundle for this collection for $8.99 or you can choose just a few parts, like maybe the alphabet or the papers.  I bought the whole thing, I love the look and I know I will use it. 
here is a link
The Lilypad has specials on Wednesday's and new releases on Friday's  as well as a 'build your own collection' at the beginning of each month, so check the site out, its full of great downloads.




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Freebies just in time for your Forth of July photos

Hi everyone! This weeks freebies from My Memories is just in time for your July 4th photos.  Follow the links to get your free alphabet set and patriotic elements pack.

Click here to get these patriotic elements
http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_1


 2 papers and 4 elements

 Click here to get these fun alpha elements, great for titles! 
http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_2

Chess with Grandpa!

Hi Everyone!  I haven't posted a page in such a while!! I was happy to have some time this week to use my My Memories Software again!  I do miss making my pages!  I had a busy March as I tried out for being a Stampin' Up! Display stamper for their On Stage event. Then when I made it, I had to make the projects for the Display boards in April, on top of my regular stamping classes and kid stuff, Teacher Appreciation and 8th grade graduation.  Whew!   My poor digital scrapbooking got put on the back burner.   The new Stampin' Up! catalog came out and I was busy getting ready for that and pulling retired products to sell and making new projects for the kick off!  And now I am trying out for the next Stampin' Up! stamper opportunity so it all begins again.  I was not feeling well great last night and my husband was out, so it was the perfect time to sit with my computer and make a page.  I used a new kit that I bought from the Lilypad last week called Walton, by Lynn Greiveson.  So pretty! and there are lots of embellishments. 

https://the-lilypad.com/store/Walton-Mini-kit.html
Love the kit and I think it paired really nicely with my photo. 













Hope you like the page! 

New RGB Codes for Stampin' Up's In-Color collection 206-2018

Hi Everyone!  I thought I would share the new RGB codes for Stampin' Up's new In-Color collection.  These colors are really fun in real life, so you are going to want to use some of the fun color combinations in your digital world as well!

Fun Freebies this week

Here are the freebies from My Memories this week.

First up is some fun Washi Tape Washi Tape is great to attach photos to your pages in real life and in digital form!! Cute

Follow this link to get "Precious Tape" by Happy Scrap Hearts.  http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_1

This next freebie is a nice spring cluster element from ADB Designs.  Follow this link to download this page element. 
http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_2

like mother, like daughter

Hi digital scrappers!  I have been neglecting my digital scrapbooking blog lately.  I have been very busy with recent holidays and parties and I have been paper crafting up a storm!  I did manage to make a new scrapbook page though so I thought I would share it with you!  This page makes me happy!  My daughter Jillian took to scrapbooking and making cards like a fish to water.  She would look for "left overs" from my card classes or projects and she would turn them int o little cards or pages.  I gave her a scrapbook of her own and a box to keep her own embellishments in and she will often get it out and sit and create notes for friends and cute pages from class photos.  It's fun to see her enjoy to do something that I enjoy too!

This page uses a kit called "Color outside the lines". 

Big Digital Sale for Leap Day at the Lilypad

Hi Everyone!  I just picked up some great digital deals at the Lilypad today!  Thought I would share!  I know that I have not been creating much in the way of pages this month, it has been a really busy month for me, but I will get back at it very soon!  Are you aware of Sale-A-Bration?  that is Stampin' Up's! annual sale and I have been working on that, as well as Valentine's this month and lots of scout and kid events at my house.  It's been go go go!
Here is what I picked up today!

Blue Jeans, lots of fun elements I thought.  Good for my boys.  It was just $2.29

Say Cheese, lots of fun stuff here! only $2.29

Sugar Sands Beach!  Can you see vacation photos here?  $2.29

Life is Good Bundle! Love this one.  I plan to print some of the images out on watercolor paper and then paint them myself! so fun and right up my alley!  You guessed it  $2.29














Happy Thoughts bundle!  This had Jillian's name all over it! $2.29














Those are the kits I bought but there are a lot more, something for every personal style.  check it out, sale today only.  I have bought from them many times and I have always been happy! 

My Memories freebies of the week

Hi everyone!  I thought I would share some freebies!  this is a good one for Valentine's Day. 
click here to get this page. 

 click here to get this free page element.

Annual Christmas photo

Hello everyone!  I thought I would share a page I made with some of the pictures from our annual Christmas photo-shoot.  I love to get the kids pictures taken every year and they are usually pretty good sports about it.  The kids put up with a lot of poses and then tend to get a little stir crazy after a bit, so then I tell them to pose however they want.  When I said that the little two made silly faces, David simply turned around, clearly over it all.  I did get some good ones though, so it was all good!

 I used the My Memories Suite 6 software to create the page.  I used one of their premade templates and just dropped my photos in and added my background papers and embellishments.  There are so many premade photo layouts with this software, so you can start your page off easily and make it your own with papers and embellishments.  

 I used some elements from the Mad With Plaid kit from Sahlin Studios.  You can find the kit here.

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My Memories Freebies of the week, Jan 4 through 10

Hello everyone!  I am sharing some freebies today!  They are from My Memories.  The first one is a cute cocoa packet, great for this time of year.  Print it out and fold, done. 
Click here to get this digital download.

This second freebie is a page element for your New Year's Eve photo.  Click here for this freebie.

Freebies of the Week from My Memories

Hello Everyone!  I thought I would share some freebies since I don't have any pages to share this week! 
Here are two freebies from My Memories, both quick pages with a Christmas theme.
Click here to get this freebie!

This next one is a set of quick pages, one with and one with out photo boxes.  Click here to get this freebie.
















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Happy Birthday David

Hello everyone.  Is this a simple page or what?  Simple but it works for the photos and the occasion don't you think?  I used one background paper and one embellishment (three times) and that is it.  The little twinkeling stars are from a kit called after dark by Sarah Sahlin.  It is really for things like fireworks or magic or parties, but it was also perfect for my Star Wars themed cake.  I always ask my kids what sort of cake they want for their birthdays and it seems like they are getting a little crazier lately.  I am no cake designer for sure.  But even though it looks a bit off, I hope it tasted like love :)

The kit is $6.99 but when I went to go add the link I noticed that the bundle was on sale for $7.99.

Here is link if you would like to check it out
















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My Memories Freebies of the week! Dec. 7th through 13th.

Hi everyone!  I thought I would share the freebies of the week from My Memories.

This is Freebie number one.  This is a Quick page by Autumn Owl  Just add photos and a title and done.
Click here for this freebie.

This next freebie is called Santa Baby and it contains two papers and two page elements.  Click here to get this freebie.


















Have you checked out the new Version 7 of My Memories?  They have added some new text features and photo features, as well as new ways to change up your background with the tiled background, and photo blur.  Check out the new features here... http://www.mymemories.com/mms/what_new

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New My Memories Version 7!!

Hello my fellow Digital Scrapbookers! Did you hear the news?!?!  The new Suite 7 is now available from My Memories!!  I have already downloaded the new version and it has several great new features, some that those of you who had My Digital Studio really missed, such as the ability to crop stamps (imprints) and embellishments.  I cropped embellishments all the time in MDS so I am so happy that this has been added to the new MMS7! here is a list of new things...

I love the photo used indicator.  I am working on a photobook of my families summer vacation and I have lots of photos in that folder.  The indicator puts that little check mark on the photos as I add them to the book, so that I know I have used it already.  There are a lot of new features and I will talk about them as I use them.  I am looking forward to trying out the blured photo edges, the tile background and the new text features.  There is a cyber Monday sale going on now, so go check out the latest downloads and new suite 7 at the My Memories site!

Thankfulness Trees

Hello everyone!  I am sharing a fun new page today of the kids in my class.  Some of you know that I teach the pre-school age group Wednesday nights at the church I attend.  It is a super small class that I have while parents are at choir practice or group study, and the kids are a little young to join in with the bigger kids.  We do a little lesson and craft or snack and then we play.  Several of my pages feature the kids and I keep a scrapbook in the classroom.  Every so often the kids look through the book and remember some of the stories we learned about and I like this because I feel it helps cement the lesson in their minds or at least they recall it again, which can't hurt right?  Sometimes some of the older kids come back and look through the book too, which is sweet, or the little ones will see their bigger brothers and sisters in the pages and that is great too.  This is why I love scrapbooking.  Preserving memories for later is great to be sure, but cementing bonds in the short term is even better.  My kids will often look through the scrapbook and see themselves playing with a cousin they don't see often or even there current friends, and it reminds them 'these people love me' or 'I had fun with my dad that day' and so many other great thoughts.  In this page the kids learned their verse and then they told me things they were thankful for.  I then wrote those things, some of them even wrote the words themselves, onto leaves and we decorated a tree.   They seemed to get into the idea and came up with a lot to be thankful for.

To create my page I used this fun kit from Lynne Marie called Nutmeg.  She has a whole series that works together.  You can get them as a bundle or separately. There is also a free add on, which I were I got my background.

This is the Free add-on.  I love the tree rings and the frame.















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