Latest & Greatest Products: March/April 2010
03/30/2010 at 5:00 am | Posted in Hot Trends, latest & Greatest, product, Uncategorized | 268 CommentsTags: BasicGrey, CK, Claudine Hellmuth Studio, Creating Keepsakes, Creating Keepsakes magazine, EK Success, giveaway, Jillibean Soup, Kim Jackson, latest & Greatest, patterned paper, products, Punches, Ranger Industries, Scrapbook, scrapbook supplies, Scrapbooking, stickers, TaDa Creative Studios
While creating every issue of Creating Keepsakes, we have a blast looking through all of the new scrapbooking products, trying to decide which ones will make our Latest & Greatest column. Of course, we never have enough space for all of the goodies we’d love to share with you. So we’ve decided share a few more of the producs that sparked our imaginations from each issue here on our blog—and we’ll give you the chance to win some of the fabulous products. Let’s get rolling!
Claudine Hellmuth Studios – Ranger Industries
We discovered the amazing line of Claudine Hellmuth Studio products from Ranger Industries at CHA back in January, and shared a couple of videos of sweet Claudine demonstrating just a few of the fun things you can do with her Sticky Back Canvas. You’ll love adding texture and color to your pages with this wonderful, on-trend line of products.
Eggdrop Soup – Jillibean Soup
With Easter right around the corner, our eyes are open for bunnies hopping down the bunny trail. The adorable Eggdrop Soup line from Jillibean Soup is a perfect addition to your stash, whether you’re looking for something to jazz up your Easter pages or a simple, cute new way to add a splash of springtime to your pages.
Double-Sided Edger Punches – EK Success
A sweet daisy chain will add just the right touch of springtime charm to your layouts—and with EK Success’ new Daisy Chain punch, you’ll have a true daisy chain, punched out on both sides. You’ll love this new punch design, as well as the others in the EK Success’ new line.
Green at Heart – BasicGrey
Earth Day is on April 22, and you’ll love adding a touch of “green” to your layouts with BasicGrey’s bright and fabulous new Green at Heart line. Printed on FSC-certified paper with soy-based inks, you can have a wonderful time creating a scrapbooking layout and feel good knowing that your paper is eco-conscious.
Wow, that’s a lot of scrapbooking goodness! How would you like to win some of these products for yourself? (Silly question—of course you would.) In addition to giving away the products above, you’ll also have a chance to win the E-I-E-I-O Collection from TaDa Creative Studios, as seen on page 48 of our March/April 2010 issue.
All you have to do to win one of these outstanding products is leave a comment telling us which of our Latest & Greatest products from the March/April 2010 issue of CK (or from this post) is your favorite and why you love it by Monday, April 5. We’ll draw five random winners (one for each product shown here) on or around April 6 and announce the winners on the giveaways tab located at the top of our blog.
Have a wonderful day!
Kim Jackson, senior editor
Video from the Vault: “Tools I Love” with Ali Edwards
09/09/2009 at 4:43 am | Posted in Video from the Vault | 9 CommentsTags: Ali Edwards, Colorbok, Creating Keepsakes, Creating Keepsakes magazine, cutting tool, Favorites, inking tool, kraft knife technique, Lori Anderson, Marvy Uchida, McGill, Punches, Scrapbooking, square punch, tab punch, Tools, Video
Do you have a “go-to” stack of favorite videos that are a guarantee to put a smile on your face? You may have seen the video before, but watching it makes you laugh, makes you cry or even inspires you. One of my favorite movies of all time is the movie Rudy, starring Sean Astin. It’s a movie about determination, hard work and daring to dream even when others tell you it’s a waste of time. It’s a movie that inspires me to try harder every day. Have you seen it?
Here at CK, we’ve got a stack of videos we’re pulling out to inspire you. This is the first post of a series that we’re calling “Video from the Vault” featuring CK videos from the past. This video features the talented Ali Edwards as she shares her four favorite tools with the readers of Creating Keepsakes. Check out the video and be inspired to go and create something wonderful.
Enjoy watching videos like this one? We’re scheduling new video shoots with our team soon, so let us know what you’d like to see in an upcoming segment. We could be featuring a cool technique, a tip, a tool trick–whatever. Let us know what you’d like to learn by leaving a comment. We’ll add it to our list.
Lori Anderson
Online Managing Editor, Creating Keepsakes
Special Guest Blogger: Margie Romney-Aslett
06/12/2009 at 6:27 pm | Posted in guest blogger | 2 CommentsTags: crepe paper border, guest blogger, Margie Romney-Aslett, masking, paper flowers, Punches, spray ink, The Girl's Loft
Hey it’s me Margie Romney-Aslett! I’m so excited to be “guest blogger” today! I have been scrapbooking and papercrafting for close to 22 years. For the past 5 years I was a product designer for Making Memories, and now I am thrilled to be starting an online business with my daughters Megan & Brooke called The Girl’s Loft. One thing I loved about designing product was creating style programs–choosing the look and theme, picking the colors and putting it all together. That’s what we will be doing at the Girl’s Loft gathering our favorite products from all of our favorite companies! It’s going to be fun!
Today I created a layout using some products from our first kit. I have to say . . . I have been scrapping a lot lately and I am loving all the fun products on the market. I have been “getting my hands dirty.” One thing about me, I am a clean hands kinda girl, but with all the great inks, paints and glimmer mist out there, I have been getting dirty!
Supplies: Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper; Patterned paper: Dream Street; Border punch: Fiskars Americas; Brocade: Pink Paislee; Letter stickers: American Crafts; Ink: Ranger Industries; Glimmer spray: Tattered Angels; Label: Scenic Route; Other: Buttons, crepe paper and vintage music sheet.
On this layout I created, I used a few of my favorite new techniques. For the first technique, I created the title of my layout “best friends” using stickers to create a mask.
Then I took the Glimmer Mist and sprayed it over the stickers and randomly over the base of my layout. Make sure when you put your stickers down you press hard enough so that the Glimmer Mist won’t seep underneath, but not so hard they don’t pull up!
Once your Glimmer Mist is dried, pull up the stickers carefully. Love the outcome!
The second technique I used was creating a border with crepe paper. Here, I took 24 inches of crepe paper and did a gathering stitch down the middle of the crepe paper, tied it off on both ends and then adhered it to my page.
Ruffle it up then cover the center stitch with a border created with a scrap of printed paper and a Fiskars scallop border punch.
For the last technique, I created flowers using 3 different size circle punches and 3 printed papers. Mix it up, distress the edges, wrinkle the paper up in your hand then ink it. Layer your circles to create flowers.
Some fun tips: Use non-traditional scrapbooking products like vintage music sheets as paper and crepe paper to create a border. Use ric rack edged scissors to trim wallet sized black and white photos to give them a vintage feel.
This layout was fun to create! I hope I was able to inspire you to play and get your hands dirty. For more inspiration and beautifully designed kits join me, Megan and Brooke at The Girl’s Loft, Monday, June 15th. We’ll be previewing the first Girl’s Loft Kit!
Kiss kiss,
Margie
Weekly Warm-Up: Using Circle Punches!
04/06/2009 at 7:32 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | 6 CommentsTags: Beth Opel, CK, CK May issue, Creating Keepsakes, Creating Keepsakes magazine, Jennifer McGuire, Joannie McBride, Lori Fairbanks, Megan Hoeppner, Punches, techniques, weekly warm up
Hey, all you circle-punch fans, stand up and clap your hands! To get your creativity a flowing this week, I have a warm-up idea taken from the pages of our May 2009 issue. In our “Tools & Techniques” column, Jennifer McGuire presents six unique ideas for using circle punches. Inspired by Jennifer’s ideas, our team sat down and made the following projects:
Inspired by Jennifer’s idea of folding punched circles into thirds to make a dimensional flower, Lori Fairbanks created a shaped Mother’s Day card. Here’s how:
1. Punch eight large circles from the same sheet of patterned paper.
2. Fold each circle into thirds.
3. Adhere the circles to a card base and trim around the edges to make a shaped card.
4. To complete her look, she added a rhinestone brad to the center of her flower.
Beth Opel tried the same technique, but she punched ten smaller circles and used a button for the center. And instead of making a card, she’s going to use this to add a pop of dimension to a scrapbook page.
Joannie McBride tried another one of Jennifer’s tips, which is to make a faux scallop border out of several punched circles. Here’s how:
1. Punch five medium-size circles from the same sheet of patterned paper.
2. Line the circles up on the card, tucking half of each shape behind a piece of patterned paper to create a faux scallop border.
If you’re an American Idol fan, you’ll recognize the object of Joannie’s affections-Matt Giraud, one of this season’s AI contestants. He has the hearts (and the votes) of many around our office. I’m actually an Adam fan this year, but not for any heart-throb reasons. I just think that boy can rock! But, I digress.
I went with Jennifer’s trick of creating dimension using circles. Here’s how I created the paper lanterns on my card:
1. Punch six-seven circles and fold each circle in half.
2. Glue the folded circles together to create the popped look.
These are only three of the ideas Jennifer covers in our May issue. For more inspiring ideas, please check out the magazine. While you’re at it, I’d love to hear your ideas for using this staple tool in fresh ways. If you have any, I hope you’ll take a minute to share in the comments section of this post. Who knows, you may just see your suggestion show up in a future issue of the mag.
Happy Monday!
Megan Hoeppner, Creative Editor
P.S. Our calls for pages can now be found under the “Submit” tab at the top of this blog. We’re posting a new call today, so be sure to check it out!
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