StampAmemory - Stampin Up Scrapbooking

Off the page inspired by new idea book and catalogue

Before I share my creation today, I want to scream this from the roof tops! The 2010/2011 Stampin’ Up! idea book and catalogue has been released! To view a copy online click here or contact someone from our stamp-a-memory team to obtain a hard copy.

With a wealth of new and exciting products the stampamemory team are back with our regular posting at various times of the month and also we have a new design team member to announce shortly.

Products from our new idea book and catalogue has inspired my off the page creation. Mainly, the mini milk carton die (page 155) and the got treats stamp set (page 33) along with a conversation between my son Drew and his Uncle.

Front/back view (only difference is one side says open, the other best before date) 

  
 
Side views

 
 
Journaling reads:

“Do you make the milk that goes to Dad’s work, Uncle Warren?” asked Drew

 "Kind of Drew, kind of!” replied Uncle Warren

An actual conversation that took place between Drew and Uncle Warren, August 13th 2010.

Background information: Warren works on a dairy farm (and milks cows) and Daddy works at a milk bottle manufacturing plant (and brings home milk from work).

I used the timeless type alphabet for my "milk" title and before adhering it in place I used my paper snips to cut off the extra "ends" on each letter. I love how easy it was to change the letters and make it look like I have a whole new font for no extra cost!

Materials list:

Stamps: Calender alphabet and numbers

Inkpads: Sahara sand, pacific point

Cardstock: Whisper white, pacific point

Accessories: Big shot, timeless type junior alphabet, 2 way glue pen, stamp-a-ma-jig

Other: Office date stamp

Thanks for stopping by,

Ros Davidson

Products from the last chance list

I created this layout (as part of my December Daily 2009 album) using products that are featured on the last chance list. To view more of my December Daily pages visit here and here

 A close up of the texture of the sun

Materials list:

Cardstock: Brilliant blue, ruby red, going grey

Designer Series Paper: Pink flamingo

Punches: 1/2" circle, 3/4" circle

Accessories: Cutter kit, circle scissor plus

Other: Sewing machine and cotton

Cheers,

Ros Davidson

Helping Hudson - a Wheely Great Cause Challenge Winner

Thank you to everyone who entered the challenge .. and the winner is ....

Maj Roppenon

The SAM team loved the photos and the brilliant wheel embellishment ... great use of brads too Mai.  The Helping Hudson team will be in touch so that we can send you a brilliant bootie of lovely Stampin' Up! goodies.

Thanks to everyone for their support, SAM team will be back with more inspiration and challenges very soon.

Nikki 

Retiring Designer Series Paper

With the 2009 - 2010 Idea's Book and Catalogue coming to an end this month,  it is time to stock up on your favourite stamps and our gorgeous Designer Series Paper.

As much as I love my stamps, patterned paper can truly make your scrapbooking pages.

Here is a layout I created with the retiring Sweet Always Designer Series paper.

Close ups

 Colouring directly to the rubber of your stamp you can create a co-ordinating embellishment to go with layout.

Be sure to contact your demonstrator about getting your hands on retiring products, things are selling out so don't wait too long. If you don't have a demonstrator, please feel free to contact one of us and we will help you out.

 

Tanja

 
 
  

SAM Challenge # 13

We at the SAM team are back, refreshed and looking forward to inspiring you all again. With the retirement list released on the weekend, supplies are limited on retiring lines. We are also eagerly awaiting the new Idea Book and Catalogue which will be released September 1^st!

The theme for the current challenge (set by Nikki Sadler) is to scrap a page with “wheels” as a focus. It can be about a new bike / car / getting your licence etc. anything topic you like, as long as it relates to wheels!

Our current challenge is also to tie in with a fundraiser that fellow Stampin’ Up! demonstrators are running to assist the Gillespie family in the raising of money towards a wheelchair/walker for Hudson.

The Helping Hudson Team have got together with heaps of other crafty people to create some unique tutorial packs – these are being sold in bundles of 10 for just $10 – that’s just a dollar per tutorial.  Now Nikki is part of the HH team, and she has seen the tutorials and says they are absolutely amazing – professional presented and well worth the donation to this great cause.  There are six different packs on offer, and yes there is a scrapbooking one too, and if you buy four or more packs then you will receive a bonus tutorial set for free.

Please  read more about Hudson and the fundraiser, “Helping Hudson, a wheely great cause, by clicking on the logo below.....

To see our layouts, click on our names above the sneak peeks.

Tanja

 

Nikki

 

Ros

We have also made a few changes whilst we were on our little break. For this month only the prizes for this challenge have been kindly donated by Stampin’ Up!  You will receive a selection of prizes from this little lot

The “wheels” challenge is also going to run for the duration of the fundraising event –

closing date will be 20 August with the winner being announced here and on the Helping Hudson site on the 22nd of August.

Steps to enter the challenge:

1. Create a layout using the criteria mentioned above. Our design team creates with Stampin' Up! products, feel free to use other products but we would love to see some Stampin' Up! products if you can.
2. Post you layout online, on your blog, an online gallery, such as Splitcoaststampers.com or Flickr.com or e-mail photos to rosnat@iprimus.com.au (and your entry will be uploaded to the SAM challenge blog) with a direct link back to this post
3. Add your name and link to Mr Linky (not necessary for those e-mailing photos)

Entries close midnight Friday 20th August

Only Australian entries are eligible for prizes, but that does not mean that we don't want to see entries from other countries!

Please leave direct links to you challenge in Mr Linky.

Thank you.

KP @ 12

To celebrate KP's 12th birthday I bought the Big Shot Timeless Type Alphabet ...  okay I didn't really but I am loving it all the same .... and if I ever felt I could get away with celebrating the birthdays of my children by 'investing ' in Big Shot dies I reckon I'd give it a go :) 

Every year, on the eve of the birthdays I ask a series of questions and I record the answers.  This is the first year I have ever done anything with the answers - I am so pleased that it is finally down on a page ...

I ask questions like ... favourite animal, favourite song, favourite meal and it has been great to record KP's favourites at 12 years of age.

The Big Shot Alphabet is every scrapbooker's dream ... with a child called Kieran you can understand how many alphabets I buy - there is normally only one or two 'k's' and 'i's' - and when you consider his sister is called Olivia ... alphabets get very expensive.

So I am enjoying not only creating my own unique titles for pages ... but also that I can now write my children's names as many times as I like, in any colour and material that I can lay my hands on ... over and over again ... 

So the colours for this page, well a piece of 12 x 12 Kraft card stock, the Chocolate Chip Designer Series Paper pack and a piece of 1/4" grosgrain ribbon.  Such a simple layout but just perfect for these photos and the moment in time they capture.  The little ribbon detail is the double rectangle punch with ribbon threaded through and of course, the shine on the letters is Crystal Glaze.

Hope this inspires you to scrap and record your family's treasured moments .... the SAM team will be back soon with more inspiration.

Nikki

Riding Hood Red Layout

Hello all.  Thought I'd share a simple 8" x 8" double page layout with you today.  Like many mums, I have quite a collection of scribbled down quotable moments from my two children.  Funny sayings and other gems I know will be fun to read in years to come.  Today a scrapping mood hit so I grabbed out a great photo of Jack, some post it notes with quotes and my Stampin' Up stash.

I've used Riding Hood Red textured cardstock, patterned paper, ink and ribbons. It makes it so easy when your products coordinate.

Here's a closer look:

I used the Lots Of Tags sizzlits die to make these little ticket shapes - perfect for my journaling. 

The facing page just has the photo, matted on Basic Black for some added oomph.  I added a row of hearts punched with the Small Heart punch from the Autumn Winter Mini. 

This was a very simple layout but some Stampin' Up tools gave it a bit of a lift.

I used the sponge dauber and Riding Hood Red ink pad to sponge the edges of the hearts, the journaling tickets and the whole page.  Adds such a lovely depth to these elements.  You can't see in the photo too well but I also used the spritzer and a Real Red marker to spritz some spatter onto the right hand corners.  Another way to add some character. 

I'm a little sad writing this post as my stint as a StampAMemory design team member comes to an end now.  I was sorry to resign - I've had so much fun with Tanja and the other lovely ladies on the StampAMemory crew but juggling all the balls gets tricky some weeks and I regretfully had to let this one go.  I look forward to being a very regular visitor to this wonderful site.  The fabulous projects the girls create are always guaranteed to get me in the scrapping mood.  It has been wonderful to be part of the team and thanks for all that scrapbooking inspiration girls. 

Cheers, Sue

Fortnightly challenge

There will be no challenge this fortnight. We are restructuring parts of the SAM team. We look forward to coming back with a new challenge to encourage you soon.

SAM Challenge # 12 Winner

A big thank-you to everyone who entered the second of my June challenges. Quite clearly you all love your animals and your layouts were all just beautiful. You all have another wonderful keepsake for you and your families to enjoy in the future.

As always, there needs to be a winner and this time around I have chosen the lovely double spread layout by

Fiona Poirier

Fiona created an zoo layout based around the 'Tall Tales' paper pack and some of my favourite Stampin' Up! Colours: Old Olive, Chocolate Chip and Kraft. I love how she 'captured the moment' in her layout and the way the colours work so well together. Well done Fiona.

Fiona: if you would like to email me at gillycat@optusnet.com.au and let me know which of the 'C is for Cat' or the 'D is for Dog' stamp sets you would like as your prize, I will have it shipped to you soon.

Thanks again everyone.

Di Gill

Porsche Boxster and Stars!

I love my star punches - I've used them so often to rustle up quick scrapbooking pages.  This one was no exception.  I just knew as soon as I saw these photos on my iphone that they had to be scrapped asap! 

I've just bought a new car .... keep breathing ... it wasn't a Porsche ... although I think KP would have been rapt if it had been (it was a Mazda CX7 and it is beautiful).  The salesman knew that KP was a 'car nerd' and threw him the keys to this second-hand Porsche Boxster S and said 'start her up mate'!

I knew I had to scrapbook this event ... and so the colours Real Red, Basic Black, Very Vanilla and So Saffron were matched to the badge ... which I thought looked good as a title to the whole page.  Two pieces of grosgrain ribbon, some black brads and the star punches and this page was complete .... 

The journalling reads .... 'Have you sat in a Porsche Boxster S?  Yes the 'S' is cool.  Have you started a Porsche Boxster S?  Have you roared the engine of a Porsche Boxster S?  Have you popped the roof of a Porsche Boxster S?

Well yes you have!  One week before your 12th birthday you had the opportunity to feel what it would be like to own one of your favourite cards - the look on your face was priceless!'

Perfect to record a perfect fifteen minutes in my twelve year old's life .... fifteen minutes I don't think he will ever forget!

I think that I am learning that sometimes the best time to create pages is as soon as possible after they happen ... isn't always possible but it does feel good to have something so up to date in the album.Schedule

Nikki