FSJ on Scrapbook Pages

 
Fun Stampers Journey is a direct sales company that sells a LOT of stamps, dies and other fun products.  Being much more of a scrapbooker than stamper, FSJ really wasn’t on my crafty radar until I learned that the Punches that FSJ sells fit in the Creative Memories Shape Maker System. This system (FSJ sells the system, too) is a favorite tool of mine and is being sold only while supplies last by CM.  CM only offers 2 additional cartridges for the system, too so I was thrilled when I found out FSJ has many more options for this great tool!! (Read more about FSJ Punches in the CM Shape Maker System in this blog post.)


I also fell in love with FSJs cardstock.  It’s more like the “old” CMs cardstock than that from the New CM.  It’s acid free, lignin free & buffered and comes in a lot of colors. Plus, the weight is consistent across the board, unlike new CM where there is a noticeable difference (all within the companies acceptable tolerance level) between some of the cardstock packs. 
Look at all these colors!!!

Those two product lines alone pushed me over the edge and long story short…I’m a Fun Stampers Journey Coach.
FSJ offers many coordinating die/stamp sets. I used one (called Sea Friends) on the layout below. Almost done - just need to do a little bit of journaling.
Right hand side of the layout. The seaweed, starfish & crab were first stamped and then die cut using the Journey Grand die cutting/embossing machine.
Left hand side of the layout - I started with Beech Breeze cardstock and stamped a random pattern with the Sea Friends stamps using Beech Breeze Color Fusion ink. I LOVE how the same colors carry over through the various products in the FSJ line. That fun Mermaid and the star/bubble stamp was a past Bloom Benefit – you get one Bloom Benefit for every $50 spent on FSJ product!
Added a little dimension with Small FSJ Foam Squares.

This is one thing I LOVE about stamping backgrounds – the 2 pieces of background paper look like they were made for each other. They were! I just lined them up and stamped where both pieces met.
The "stitches" on the baseball in the layout below were made with the FSJ Chevron Trends punch (TO-0002) which sells for $11.96. This punch (and all those from FSJ) works with both the FSJ punch Handle Punch Handle (TO-0031 which sells for $10.36) and the CM Shape Maker System.

Thanks for taking a peek! As always, if you have any questions please feel free to contact me by clicking on the “Email Me” button at the top of my blog.

K–8 (and then some) Auction Album using Power Palettes

I donated an album for our school’s auction that will be on May 5th.  I wanted it to be simple enough that a non scrapper could look at it and think “Hey, I can do that!”  but nice enough that scrapbookers would want it, too!

I used mostly the Cheerful Power Palette and the retired Primary Power Palette.  These all worked so well together!  Titles and the custom elements were cut on my Silhouette.  I matted each sticker, title & other elements in black  cardstock throughout the album so that it would give the album a unified look. 

The album is designed to showcase pictures from a child’s years at St. Michael’s school (K – 8) but they can be rearranged if needed and adapted for other years & schools. 

Title Page – designed in Make the Cut and cut with my Silhouette

For each grade I did a page with the year’s title and another layout left mostly empty so a class photo, larger school picture, report card or other item could be displayed.  I also included a set of Storybox Photo Mats & Journal Boxes in the auction so that they could add more photos if they want.  Photo Mats are pieces of pre-cut paper that are just a tad bigger than a 4x6 photo so they make matting photos a breeze! I also donated  a new Tape Runner, Dual Tip Black Pen, ABC Stickers and an hour of my time to help the winner of the auction get started.

Most of the stickers and elements I adhered with Foam Squares to make them pop off the page a bit.

Besides pages for each grade I did some for holidays – hoping that pictures of class parties and other fun holiday happenings can have a home.  I also did pages for Holy Communion, Confirmation & one that can be used for anything school related or sports.

You can view the whole album below (except for one of the Christmas pages I forgot to take a photo of). 

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I hope it raises a bunch of money for the school!  If you’re local, stop by the auction – they are going to have lots of wonderful things to bid on!

May 5th at St. Michael’s School in Livonia, MI – let me know if you’d like more info!

Pink, Flowers and More Pink!

Being the Mom of 2 boys I don’t have many opportunities to use “pretty” stuff while scrapbooking.  I have been wanting to try the new Paper Flowers & Ribbons by CM for a while now & just couldn’t wait any longer!  I got out some of my pictures for my own scrapbook (you know - the album that has very few pages) and this is what I created:

The pages are made with papers and stickers from the Delight Power Palette.  Paper Flowers & Ribbon are the “Delightful” ones (more coming in September).  The Paper Ribbon is double sided – printed on one side and solid color on the other.  The layout on the left hand side was inspired by one found in CM’s Idea Book Vol. 1 – Inspire Me. You can find it on the bottom of page 21.

The little bear was created using the Custom Cutting System – mostly the Oval Patterns.  “CHAT” uses the Simple Monogram stickers & the other stickers used in the title are Swirly ABC/123 stickers.

Here is a close up of the Paper Flowers and Ribbon– I used the Foam Squares underneath the small flower to give it a bit of dimension.

Thanks for looking!

Some Favorite Pages

I thought I’d share some of my favorite pages – I added them to my idea sharing site & wanted to post them here, too.

I just love these pages – they’re when Jamie first found his toes!

another layout featuring my youngest of 2 boys, Jamie.

Here’s Richie, my oldest, about 3 years ago.

This was my first attempt at doodling. I love the way the CM precious Elements pens show up on the page – it looks much better in person.

I hope these inspire you – would love to see some of your layouts!