Category: MEMORY KEEPING

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MONDAY IS FOR MEMORY KEEPING

In a little over two weeks MDH (my darling husband) and I will celebrate our 40th anniversary!

When I was planning this double page layout, I had in the back of my mind that I would dig out a load of photos from across the years to add to these pages.

This week I am featuring three Mix & Match Ephemera packs – Good Times, Time for Celebration and Greetings for All.

Good Times Mix & Match Ephemera Pack (165353)

Time for Celebration Mix & Match Ephemera Pack (165354)

Greetings for All Mix & Match Ephemera Pack (164862)

I also decided to feature the new Party Banners Dies (165264) – my new favourite die collection.

For the first page of the layout I added three White Willow Banners to the 12″x 12″ Two-tone Granny Apple Green card. The banners were added using three strips of double-sided tape to create a pocket for journalling panels.

I added Adhesive Sheets to the back of the Granny Apple Green 6″x 6″ Designer Series Paper. Then I used the Party Alphabet Dies (165263) to cut out the letters for the layout title.

I placed the ‘a great’ words on a strip of the same two-tone card and then created a torn upper and lower edge to frame the words.

A paper piercing tool was used to create the holes that were used to thread white baker’s twine to ‘hang’ the banner pieces.

The second page of the layout had the hanging banner continue with each banner holding a journalling panel.

The journalling panels were made from a piece of Willow White card. I used the Keeping Tabs Punch to cut a tab from some Granny Apple Green DSP. After securing the tab to the journalling panel, I added one of the black and white pears from the Goods Times Mix & Match Ephemera Pack.

Both pages had two large pears adhered to finish the title – “We’re a Great Pear”.

I’m looking forward to rifling through our photos to find the six or seven that I will include on this layout.

Tomorrow I will start sharing the 25 cards I have made using the ephemera packs.

Until then, happy stamping.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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MONDAY IS FOR MEMORY KEEPING

I took a break last week, from posting projects, because I was doing some craft room cleaning. It was time to pack away the ‘last chance’ products that will soon be unavailable to purchase.

Then, when the new 2025-2026 Annual Catalogue went live I was able to order the other new products that I wasn’t able to order in the demonstrator preorder period. I am slowly organising all these new products and planning when I will feature these in my posts … so, stand by for some exciting new product shares and inspiration.

These week I am featuring a bundle that has been on my shelf unused for far too long – Beautiful Butterflies Bundle.

I am also featuring the Beautiful Bokeh 6″x 6″ Designer Series Paper pack.

I haven’t found the photos from my daughter’s fairy party yet but I was still able to prepare the scrapbooking layout that I would place them on. She is now 34 but but was 6 when we had that party.

Here is the layout.

I used a Berry Burst 12″x 12″ piece of card as the base.

Then I cut four Basic White photo mattes for 5″x 3″ photos. The mattes are a 1/4″ larger to allow for a thin white frame around the photos. the mattes were positioned equally in each corner of the base card.

I cut a 4″ panel from the Balmy BLue, Berry Burst, Calypso Coral and Daffodil Delight bokeh DSP sheets. Then I added Adhesive Sheets to the back of each of them. Finally, I used the detailed butterfly die to cut each one out.

After cutting four Basic White full butterfly shapes, I adhered the DSP butterflies to their white background.

Each of these four butterflies were partially adhered to the bottom corners of the photo mattes. This created a space for photos to be added later.

I filled the centre space with three more butterflies leaving an aesthetically pleasing odd number of butterflies on the page.

Although I haven’t yet given the page a title, it will have be something ‘fairies re like butterflies’.

A wonderful range of new products, in the new catalogue, are the flip flaps, memory protectors and albums for those of us who love our scrapbooking/memory keeping.

I hope these new scrapbooking products help you with all your memory keeping.

Tomorrow I have a technique based card to share with you.

Until then, happy stamping and scrapbooking.

If you live in Australia, you can order any of the products I used to make this card by going to my online store. Just click on any of the images below.

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