*HOT* Imagine Collection from CM!

NEW COLLECTION: IMAGINE
Starting Monday, December 4th at 4 pm ET on my CM Advisor site, you can grab all your family vacation photos and share magical memories using the new Imagine collection! Inspired by fun-filled family adventures, this collection features whimsical hand-doodled designs in red, black and yellow, and is perfect for everything from birthdays to graduations, fairs, theme parks, carnivals, parties, kids’ photos and more.

The collection includes an Ebony Album Cover with a foiled castle design, Paper Pack, Variety Mat Pack, Stickers, Laser Cut Embellishments, a complementing Tone-on-Tone Paper Pack, 8x8 Fast2Fab™ Album with a Ruby album cover with a foiled cloud, star and fireworks design, and 8x8 Fast2Fab™ Refill Pages.

Close up of detail on 12x12 Imagine Coverset

Paper Packs
For your most fun-filled family photos, take a trip into a land of imagination with the Imagine Paper Pack! This 12x12 vacation, celebration and theme park scrapbook paper features a bold red, yellow and black palette, and whimsical, hand-doodled designs infused with elements such as fireworks, polka dots, twinkles, stars and adventurous words. It’s the perfect backdrop for photos from birthdays, fairs, theme parks, carnivals and parties to recitals, kids’ photos and more.

NEW: Imagine Tone-on-Tone Paper Pack
Complement your Imagine designer papers with the Imagine Tone-on-Tone Paper Pack! It features lively stripes and polka dot designs in tone-on-tone hues.
This Paper Pack works great for school or sports team colors with black, red or yellow!
Take a fun flip through the Paper Pack!
https://youtu.be/EQIgltr0TLQ

8x8 F2F Album & Pages
Check out the 8x8 Imagine Fast2Fab™ by clicking here:
https://youtu.be/snaRcTcREfQ

Stickers & Embellishments

Mat Pack

Teardrop Lattice Border PunchAdd playful OR elegant edges to scrapbook layouts, cards and projects using this punch!

Digital Artwork

You can find all these magical products on my CM Advisor site by clicking here.

Custom Coverset – Mitten Memories

Look what my UPS man dropped off this week from the Creative Memories digital center – ready to fill with our summer memories!  This year we decided to play tourists in our home state of Michigan.  We took several shorter trips within the Lower Peninsula and had a blast! 

You can easily create a similar coverset for your travel memories!

The You Create It Albums can be customized using Storybook Creator Plus or online at the Digital Center using templates provided by Creative Memories.  (Please use my consultant ID  #96470395 when ordering from the Digital Center.  I am also happy to help you create your custom album.  This is easily done via the internet & email or I’m happy to meet with you in person if you’re local. 

These custom coversets can hold Side Loading Sleeves – perfect for digital page prints, custom album pages (digitally created and printed right on scrapbook refills) or traditional  scrapbook pages, 12x12 PicFolio pages – pocket pages that you simply slide in your photos or scrapbook refill pages.  You can also combine page types – it’s up to you!

Here are the products I used for my Mitten Memories You Create It Album:

State of Michigan outline, robin & apple blossom image - North American Road Trip Digital content – no longer available but I can use my digital content to create a page for you.  Contact me for more information!  (I have A LOT of digital content – including Disney kits – Cars, Mickey & Friends, Princesses, etc.) that are no longer available.)

Background paper – Enchanted Summer digital kit

“Escape” graphic in lower right hand corner – Destinations Digital Kit

For the graphics representing the stops on our trip I used various images that I found on the internet and erased what I didn’t want (white backgrounds, unwanted content, etc) with the wand tool. I also just used a nice font for “Charlevoix” LHF Goldsmith & “Frankenmuth” Heidlelbe-normal

I used the Text Shape tool in SBC+ to create “Mitten Memories” and “2012 Summer Tour”.  This tool lets you take any font on your computer and give it a nice border.

I’d love to see your custom album designs!!  You can email them to me or share them in my Facebook group!

You Create it Albums – or I will :)

Just a few more days to save with the “Just Can’t Wait” sale  - where you can save 25% on Albums, Covesets, Storybooks, Custom Albums & Product Credits!

 

Product credits allow you to save now by purchasing at the sale price but gives you up to 60 days to design and order your product!  If you order Custom Album product credits today or tomorrow from my CM website (by June 21st) I’ll even DESIGN YOUR ALBUM FOR YOU!  All I’ll need is your photo(s) and some input as to what type of album you’d like!  This can all be done via email, too!    Once I’ve designed your album cover I’ll email you a proof and if you’re happy we’ll order bit & have it shipped to you!

Below are 2 album covers I’ve ordered for myself.  I absolutely love them!   As with most things they look much better in person!

 

 

Here are some samples that are ready to be personalized with your photo(s) and info:

These are just a few ideas – let me know if there is an album you’d like to design or have designed for you!

You can view more options for Custom Albums on my CM website.

Christmas Planner from a File Folder

 
I am so pleased with how this came out - and it was so easy! I started with a regular file folder, added a little paper & embellishments & have this great little planner! I taught a class on how to make these types of planners at the Spring '09 Camp Crop-A-Lot at the Novi Sheraton & they were a huge hit! I think these would be great planners for all sorts of things; Disney Vacation, Menu Planner, Everyday Planner. Lots of possibilities! If you want to make your own - here's how I did it.
 

Open up your folder and measure about 8" from the top. Fold up the bottom along this line - this will create the pockets.

Now, most of you know I'm not an measuring kind of gal. When I make future projects I'll do my best to take more care to record what I'm doing because I know some people like precise measurements when crafting. But for now - just trust me & know that these planners are pretty hard to mess up! So with that in mind - fold in each edge of the planner towards the center. I first fold in the side with out the tab right up to the center fold - then fold over the tabbed edge so it meets up with the edges of the other folds.

I wanted to make the edges look sort of aged so I used a brown CM round tip pen on a q-tip and rubbed all of the edges.

Most of the paper and stickers I used for this planner are from the Creative Memories Starry Night Album Kit. I love how everything coordinates without any thought required! I printed on a piece of cardstock "Christmas Planner" and "Receipts". The "Believe" word sticker on the tab was cut from one in the Everyday Power Pallette. Not sure which retired Power Pallette the "Believe" sticker on the back was from, but there is a similar one in the Jewel Title Stickers

So, measuring each of the areas to be covered I then chose which paper I wanted, trimmed it to fit about 1/4" smaller than the pocket & adhered it with CMs Photo Tape. I freehanded around the curves and other irregular shapes on the folder. Once you've decorated your planner the way you like you can now create the pockets. I also used the Photo Tape for this - just along the two sides. I have had my planner in my purse for over a month - jam packed with lists & coupons, receipts, etc & it has held up amazingly well. I love that photo tape!

Once everything was decorated I used an eyelet tool to punch holes and then added eyelets & ribbon.

I printed off my own lists & papers so that they would match the title on the front of the planner. If you don't want to go to all that trouble you can visit OrganizedChristmas.com where they have TONS of ideas - including pages for these types of planners

To make the receipt envelope I sealed a letter sized envelope, trimmed down one of the edges by an inch or two. I then used the CM Circle Maker to cut a notch in the envelope and paper. I trimmed a bit off the straight edges of the paper on each side of the circle so that it would line up when placed a bit below the edge of the envelope. I also used the Photo Tape to adhere the paper to the envelope.


A fun thing I did was decorate these paper clips to use in the planner. I used the mini Circle Maker to punch out 2 circles, then put Photo Tape on the inside of each circle - sandwiched the paperclip between the sticky circles & pressed together. I would think you could also use the Precision Point Adhesive, too, but I wanted instant gratification :)

Here is a Disney Planner I made using the same method

 

Papers and stickers used are from the Disney Mickey Power Palette Additions from Creative Memories. 

Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions & please let me know if you've tried this project yourself. I'd love to see what you come up with!