Xyron Sale!!!

For just $75 (plus shipping & tax), you can purchase the following bundle:


Design Runner (Reg. Retail $99.99)

Design Disc Maker (Reg. Retail $74.99)

Design Runner Accessory Kit (Reg. Retail $21.99)

AND (1) Design Disc of your choice (Reg. Retail $29.99-34.99)

**If you are interested, please let me know ASAP. I have to send the order in first thing Monday (Feb. 2) morning at the latest.

The Xyron Wishblade is also on sale for $299...that's $100 off retail!

100% Boy

I have not reached my goal of 31 layouts in 31 days. I gave it my best, but life just got in the way. I am pleased with the number of layouts that I've completed for myself. It seems like I spend so much time making class samples, items to sell and items ordered by others. This months was the exception! In total, I've only completed 5 class samples this month. Woo hoo! However, I only have one workshop on the calendar for February and that number is about to increase so it will be back to "work" for me very soon.

I love these pictures of my son. He is always doing silly things and it makes me happy to scrapbook these everyday photos. I have thousands of everyday photos still to scrapbook, but I don't let that take away the satisfaction I feel every single time I complete a layout for one of our family albums.


Supplies used: Bazzill Basics (textured cardstock), Colorbok (patterned paper), K & Co. (3-D stickers, rub-ons)

The Love of Starbucks

Yay, I scrapbooked today! These pictures are from 2006 and show my youngest cultivating his love of Starbucks at a very young age. I love him!

This was another simple layout...I am all about quick and easy these days. Prior to this layout, I can't even remember the last time that I used stickers for a layout title. Whatever works to get the job done!



Supplies used: We R Memory Keepers (patterned paper, stickers, rub-on), Bazzill Basics (cardstock)

Seriously?!?

I injured my elbow over the weekend...my RIGHT elbow. Today is the first day I've been able to comfortably write again. No scrapbooking has taken place since my mysterious injury occured seeing as how I could not bend my arm, lift it up to the table, grasp items, etc. Lovely!

I have a scrapbooking crop tomorrow afternoon at my house so hopefully my elbow will continue to feel better and I can quickly try to catch up a little. Next Saturday is the end of the month and I need to reach my 31 layouts/projects in 31 days goal!

The Men of Xyron

This promotional video for Xyron most certainly had me laughing. Thought I'd share...



The Men of Xyron

Incomplete

This layout is still missing its journaling. I have yet to find the perfect blue in my huge stash of paper for the journaling. A quick trip to AC Moore should fix that, but I'm not taking both boys with me. I've decided to just upload the photo without the journaling and cute 3-D embellishment that will also be on the journaling block.


The journaling will be added to the right page, next to the two horizontal photos. This was a simple layout. All I had to do was cut out some circles using the patterned paper from Cosmo Cricket's Cogsmo line and ink the edges of the solids and patterned papers.

Supplies used: Bazzill Basics (textured cardstock), Cosmo Cricket (patterned paper, die cut letters)

No More Simple Scrapbooks

It's official, another magazine will cease publication due to these difficult economic times. Here's the official announcement.

Personally, the loss of this particular magazine makes me sad. Whenever I pick up a srapbooking magazine (Simple Scrapbooks excluded), I find it filled with beautiful layouts that have one perfect picture on them. The layouts are covered in tons of expensive and/or time-consuming embellishments. While there is certainly a place for this type of scrapbooking, let's be realistic. Do we all have that kind of time and money to devote to this hobby? My family takes approximately 2,000 pictures a year. I do not scrapbook every photo, but I do intend to scrapbook a significant portion of those photos in order to tell the story. Simple Scrapbooks spoke to the majority of scrapbookers. It spoke to newbies and seasoned pros looking for renewed inspiration. It has helped keep us focused on scrapbooking our photos and telling our story without the pressure to create extravagant works of art with each layout.

I look forward to seeing the new section in Creating Keepsakes in the summer to see if it really stays true to the Simple Scrapbooks message.

Sleepy Baby

Very rarely do I scrapbook pictures from different days on one layout. These four pictures of my son sleeping were taken on separate days and with two different cameras. I found it quite frustrating trying to scrapbook all of them together. No one color united the photos and I still think something is missing. Oh, well.



Supplies used: K & Co. (patterned paper, stickers), Die Cuts With A View (patterned paper), Bazzill Basics (textured cardstock), Basic Grey (chipboard), Making Memories (brads)

Fabric Heart

In an effort to combine my fiber craft interests with my paper crafting, I made this card. I covered the chipboard heart in a funky fabric that I've had on hand forever. This is a great use for all of that scrap fabric (and paper) that I always seem to have on hand.



Supplies used: Die Cuts With A View (patterned paper), Cosmo Cricket (chipboard), Memory Box (card)

Newly Released

So far January has been an exciting time to be with I Remember When. Our new website was launched last week and this week our new online store goes live. Yay! Finally, all of my friends and family all over the country will be able to purchase items directly from me 24/7!!!

The following pictures are just a few samples of the new Fancy Pants Designs we are carrying in our January supplement. We are also now carrying Sassafrass Lass. Their items are adorable! To download the full supplement, just visit my regular website .


Fancy Pants Arctic Chill--just one of the adorable sheets of paper in our paper kit.


I love rub-ons! Here are the coordinating Arctic Chill rub-ons.


A sample from the Splendid line.


Coordinating Splendid rub-ons.