Fall Blog Hop

Hello and welcome! My friends and I at Creative Life Scrapbooking are so glad that you’re joining us for our Fall Blog Hop! After you finish looking at my projects, click on the link at the bottom of my post to hop over to Stefani’s blog to see more ideas.

Today I’m sharing scrapbook pages using all of Creative Memories fall themed products! I made my first page using the Exclusive Limited Edition Croptoberfest 2017 Project Recipe Kit. This kit contains decorative paper, stickers, cardstock and instructions to make two double-page layouts and is only available to purchase directly from a CM advisor. Instead of using the kit instructions, I used the materials to make my own fall themed page.

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Use a 12″ x 12″ white scrapbook page or piece of white cardstock as your base. From the decorative paper and cardstock in the kit, cut a variety of strips of varying widths and 6″ in height. Using CM’s Original Border Maker System with the Zig Zag Cartridge, punch three borders from the orange print paper and cut each in half. From green floral print paper, cut a 12″ x 1/2″ strip. Using the Border Maker with the Scallop Dot Cartridge, punch a border from the teal cardstock and cut off of your cardstock at 2″. Assemble page as shown adding stickers and faux pen stitching as shown. I used Foam Square Adhesives to adhere some of my stickers.

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I used CM’s Limited Edition Toil & Trouble Paper Pack and the Exclusive 2017 Croptoberfest Cardstock for my second page. This pack of cardstock coordinates with all of our fall collections and can only be purchased directly from a CM advisor. To make my page, use the cream cardstock in the pack as the base of the page. From the floral designer paper, cut a 3″ x 12″ strip. From the teal dot paper, cut a 2″ x 12″ strip. From wood print designer paper, cut strips that measure 1″ in height and notch the ends with scissors. Thinly mat the wood strips with the dark orange cardstock. Cut two 6-1/4″ x 4-1/4″ photo mats from the dark orange cardstock. Using the Maple Leaf Punch, punch 6 dark orange cardstock and 6 orange print leaves. Assemble page as shown adding title with CM’s new Burnt Orange ABC Letter Stickers.

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The Countryside Comfort Collection was perfect for my last three fall pages. To make the page above, cut bird print paper to 11-1/2″ x 11-1/2″ and adhere to a 12″ x 12″ piece of brown cardstock (To conserve cardstock, cut out a hollow square frame from the center of the cardstock first.) From brown cardstock, cut a photo frame to 10-7/8″ x 4-1/4″. Crop photos to 3-1/2″ x 4″ and adhere to mat. Use CM’s new Victorian Fence Punch to punch a fence from brown cardstock and adhere underneath the top of the photo mat. Using the Border Maker with new Pumpkins Cartridge, punch two borders from brown cardstock and one border from orange print designer paper. Adhere the two brown pumpkins border together, and then add the orange pumpkin border onto the top adhering with Foam Squares. Adhere border to bottom of photo mat. From brown cardstock, use Maple Leaf Punch to punch 20 leaves. Use Maple Leaf Punch to punch 10 leaves from gold designer paper and 10 leaves from orange designer paper. Mat the leaves and assemble as shown. Adhere the top 6 leaves with Foam Squares. Add titles using the new Everyday Sentiments Embellishments.

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To make my second Countryside Comfort page (above), cut wood print paper to 11″ x 11″ and adhere to top of the plaid paper. (To conserve paper, cut out a hollow square frame from the center of the plaid paper first.) Using the Border Maker with Scallop Dot Cartridge, punch a border from orange paper, cut off of your paper at 2″, and trim to 11″ wide. Using Victorian Fence Punch, punch a fence from brown cardstock, cut to 11″ wide, and trim as shown. From floral print paper, cut a 11″ x 3/8″ strip and thread through the fence piece as shown. (See photo below.) Using the Custom Cutting System with the largest Circle Pattern, cut a circle from floral paper using the green blade on the outside edge. Cut a circle from brown cardstock using the blue blade on the outside edge. Crop photos to 3-1/2″ x 4″ and mat with orange paper cut to 3-3/4″ x 4-1/4″. Assemble page as shown adding banners, a journaling box and Countryside Comfort stickers as shown. I used Foam Squares for my banners and stickers.

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For my last page, I used paper, stickers, and variety mats from the Countryside Comfort Collection. I also used the November Sketch from Creative Scrapbooker Magazine as my inspiration.

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To make the page above, cut the white/grey print paper to 4-3/4″ x 10″ and mat with a 5″ x 10-1/4″ piece of navy cardstock. Mat the two variety mats with navy cardstock cut to 1/4″ larger, and add photos that are also matted with navy cardstock. Using the Victorian Fence Punch, punch fence pieces from the white/grey print paper and navy cardstock. Using the Custom Cutting System with the heart from the Gemstone Patterns, cut a heart from orange print paper using the red blade on the outside edge and cut a second heart from navy cardstock using the green blade on the outside edge. Use CM’s old Daisy Punch and Maple Leaf Punch to punch flowers and leaves from wood print and orange print papers and navy cardstock. Assemble page as shown adding stickers and using Foam Squares to adhere the flowers and the bird stickers to the fence.

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Make sure to “Like” and “Follow” me and the others at Creative Life Scrapbooking on our Facebook Page where we share weekly features and host special events. Here are some borders that I recently shared using CM’s fall products.

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Please let me know if you have any questions about my projects or any of the materials that I used. You may purchase the tools and materials on my CM website. If you would like to purchase the Exclusive 2017 Croptoberfest Project Recipe Kit or Croptoberfest Cardstock, please contact me.

Thank you so much for visiting with me, and hop on over to Stefani’s blog to see more great ideas!

Sarah Fitzgerald at Click Write Share
Noreen Smith at Organized and Creative Mom
Karyn McDermaid-Rolfe at Karyn Crops (YOU ARE HERE)
Stefani Jones at Crop With Stef
Fran Smitherman at Celebrating Your Beautiful Life

7Jun2017

Summer Scrapbook Ideas You Can Use Now-June Blog Hop!

Posted in Blog Hops, Creative Memories Border Maker Ideas, Scrapbook Page Layouts, Summer Scrapbook Layouts by Karyn McDermaid-Rolfe

Welcome to our June Blog Hop! The team at Creative Life Scrapbooking is back with a blog hop full of summer scrapbooking layouts and ideas. At the bottom of my post, you’ll find the link to take you to the next stop on the hop.

Sweet goodness is the perfect description of the new Made With Love Collection from Creative Memories! The papers, stickers and variety mats are full of cheerful prints and food-inspired motifs. This ensemble is the perfect complement for all of your food and kitchen related photos and memories.

My first layout preserves the memory of my granddaughter eating her first ear of sweet corn in my kitchen. The Made with Love Collection seems to be created especially for me as my kitchen is red and yellow and full of antique and vintage items. To evoke the look of my battenberg lace curtains, I framed the pages with borders made with CM’s Original Border Maker System and Scallop Dot Cartridge. I cut apart a border punched with our new Doily Border Punch to frame the title.

I adhered the floral stickers with Foam Squares and added further embellishment with a few leaves punched with CM’s Leaf Trio Punch. I finished the page with faux pen stitching and journaling.

For my second layout, I created mini cutting boards with our 4-Way Corner and Hole Punch to mat my photos. I edged the strip in the middle with borders punched with the Original Border Maker System with Zig Zag Cartridge.

Again, I adhered the stickers with Foam Squares, added a few leaves punched with the Leaf Trio Punch, and finished the page with some pen details.

My last layout shows that you don’t need food related photos in order to love and use the Made With Love Collection. The sweet prints and floral accents are perfect for a variety of other uses. I used some black cardstock and CM’s Original Border Maker System with the Scallop Dot and Zig Zag Cartridges to really make this page pop.

I simply adore the color palette and prints in this collection and look forward to using it more! Please click here to purchase any of the items used on my pages.

Thanks so much for visiting with me, and please continue to the next stops on our blog hop!

Summer Scrapbook Ideas You Can Use Now – June Blog Hop
Presented by the team at Creative Life Scrapbooking

1. Fran Allen Smitherman at Celebrating Your Beautiful Life
2. Sarah Fitzgerald at Click Write Share
3. Noreen Smith at Organized and Creative Mom
4. Karyn McDermaid-Rolfe – YOU ARE HERE
5. Lisa Brown Graham at Lisa’s Workshop
6. Julie Tambrini – At Julie’s Creative Memories Blog
7. Stefani Jones – At Crop With Stef

5Apr2017

Spring Blog Hop

Posted in Blog Hops, Cards, Creative Memories Border Maker Ideas, Outdoor Scrapbook Layouts, Scrapbook Page Layouts, Spring Scrapbook Layouts by Karyn McDermaid-Rolfe

Hello and welcome to our Creative Life Scrapbooking’s Spring Blog Hop! We’re so glad that you’re hopping with us today and hope that you’re getting inspired by what you see.

I’m absolutely in love with the new Woodland Whimsy Baby Boy and Baby Girl Collections from Creative Memories. In fact, they might be my favorite collections yet. Although they are being promoted as baby collections, the paper and some of the embellishments and stickers are neutral enough to be used for almost any kind of scrapbook page. (Please visit my website to see the entire collection and purchase any of the items.)

Today I’m sharing an Easter layout and a Mother’s Day card that I created with the Woodland Whimsy Baby Girl Paper and Stickers and tools from Creative Memories. As soon as I saw the colors in this collection, I knew that they would be perfect for last year’s Easter photos. I’m a sucker for wood-grained or wood-paneled paper, and this collection has two gorgeous sheets with a deer motif. Although not inherently Easter-inspiring, I just had to use this sheet for my layout.

I love making pretty pages, and this layout has a lot of beautiful detail. I enlarged the signature photo to 5″ x 7″ and drew further attention to it with a faux grapevine wreath cut from three shades of brown cardstock. The fence-like border at the bottom ties the pages together and also brings some of the wood-paneled paper to the first page. To create movement and more cohesion, I repeated the garden vine embellishments in three spots. Lastly, the yellow daffodils made with our new Cherry Blossom Punch and Embossed Trio Button Punch add a final bright spring touch to the layout.

To make this layout, you’ll need:

Woodland Whimsy Baby Girl Paper
Woodland Whimsy Baby Girl Stickers
Woodland Whimsy Baby Embellishments
Watercolor Green ABC/123 Stickers
Yellow paper (I used yellow paper from the new CM Fur Buddies Paper Pack.)
Brown Cardstock in three shades
White and Evergreen Cardstock
Custom Cuttting System with old CM Jumbo Circle Pattern
Original Border Maker System with Lace Scallop Cartridge and Zig Zag Cartridge
Garden Vine Punch
Cherry Blossom Punch
Embossed Trio Button Punch
All-Purpose Scissors
Foam Squares
Tape Runner
Repositionable Tape Refill
Brown Dual-Tip Pen
(Please visit my website to purchase any of these items.)

Cut the deer paper to 7″ x 12″ and cut a sheet of the light green paper to 5.5″ x 12″. Adhere the deer paper to the light green paper making sure to end up with a 12″ x 12″ piece.
The borders were made with 1-1/2″ high strips of wood paper edged with layered cardstock and paper borders punched with the border maker system and zig zag cartridge. From white cardstock, use border maker and lace scallop cartridge to punch borders and adhere the sticker strips. Adhere this piece to the wood border with foam squares.
Cut three hollow rings from the solid brown cardstock (I used three different shades.) using the old CM jumbo circle cutting pattern. Use the green blade on the inside edge to cut first and without moving the cutting pattern, cut again with the red blade on the inside edge.
Punch vines from the dark green paper and solid evergreen cardstock. Layer the dark green pieces on top of the solid evergreen pieces.
Make daffodils with the cherry blossom punch and embossed trio button punch. Slightly fold the petals to give some dimension. Adhere the flowers with foam squares.
Mat photos with a narrow white mat and a larger mat from peach plaid paper.
Assemble page as shown and add pen detail and journaling.
The arrow for my title is from the embellishment pack. I adhered the bunny and mushroom stickers with foam squares.

For my second project, I made a Mother’s Day card from the same materials. The basket card opens up to reveal a bookmark and a bouquet of paper flowers.

My bookmark measures 2-3/4″ x 5-1/4″. I notched the ends and punched the hole with our new CM 4-Way Corner and Hole Punch. The flower was made with our Cherry Blossom, Daisy and Embossed Trio Button Punches. I adhered the flower and stickers with foam squares.

To make the basket, cut a sheet of brown cardstock to 4-1/2″ x 12″ and fold in half to make a 4-1/2″ x 6″ piece. Keeping the fold on the bottom, cut around the top part of the piece using our Custom Cutting System with the 4″ x 6″ oval pattern and blue blade on the outside edge. Without moving the pattern, cut around the pattern with the red blade on the outside edge to make the handle of the basket. With straight trimmer, cut across the top of the basket to reveal the handles as shown below. Trim the sides of the piece if needed to match up the handles with the sides of the basket.

I embellished the front of my basket with a mat from the Woodland Whimsy Baby Girl Variety Mat Pack and paper flowers. I added more flowers to the inside of the card as shown in the photo above. This would make a cute Mother’s Day, Birthday, Shower or Graduation card.

Thanks again for hopping with us today and make sure to follow Creative Life Scrapbooking on Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest where we share more great page and project ideas.

The next stop on the hop is Lisa at Lisa’s Workshop.

Stefani at CropWithStef
Fran at CelebratingYourBeautifulLife
Noreen at OrganizedAndCreativeMom
Candace at Scrappin’Jpegs
Karyn at KarynCrops (You Are Here.)
Lisa at Lisa’sWorkshop
Diana at D.Brinsley’sMemoryKeepingBlog

Happy Spring!

1Feb2017

February Blog Hop

Posted in Blog Hops, Creative Memories Border Maker Ideas, Love Scrapbook Layouts, Scrapbook Page Layouts, Winter Scrapbook Layouts by Karyn McDermaid-Rolfe

Welcome to our Creative Life Scrapbooking February Blog Hop! I hope that you have loved the projects that you’ve seen so far and that you love these pages that I made with our new Mi Amor Collection from Creative Memories. This collection contains a mix of cute paper prints, die cut embellishments and stickers – perfect for making pages of your loved ones!

Since I didn’t have any photos that were quite perfect for the Mi Amor Collection, I purchased a few cheap props from the dollar store and coaxed my granddaughter into an impromptu photo shoot. She was short on patience that day, but I managed to capture several keepsake photos.

My first page is raining hearts and is a take-off of my “Thankful” page from November. It’s also dedicated to my scrapping friend, Fran, who so loves that page.

I used our Picket Fence and Heart Chain Border Maker Cartridges on this page. Both of these cartridges currently come bundled with our Border Maker System, and the Heart Chain Cartridge is also available for purchase separately. I made an extra tall fence by punching one end of black cardstock with the Border Maker; cutting the border off of the black cardstock at 2-1/4″; and then punching the other side and trimming off the pointed ends. Since the strip wasn’t wide enough to fit in the Border Maker guide, I used Post-It Notes to extend the border to hold it in place. (See photos below.)

To make the heart garland, I made a small snip with my scissors in-between every three hearts so that I could bend the chain into shape. I used Foam Squares cut in half to pop the garland off of the fence. The small hearts are the punch-outs from the heart chain. I also used Foam Squares with those. I hand-sketched the tree myself.

My second page shows a great way to use our new Button Trio Punch! I made a large heart template by folding a 12″ piece of black cardstock in half, sketching half of a heart and cutting it out. With a pencil, I lightly traced around the heart onto my background sheet of black cardstock and used this as a guide for adhering my buttons. The buttons were punched from the Mi Amor Paper and red, cranberry, white, beige and gray cardstock. I used Foam Squares to randomly pop some of the buttons. The die cuts are from the Mi Amor Embellishments, and I used our Ruby ABC/123 Stickers for the title.

Lastly, I’m sharing this two-page layout. To make the large heart, I cut strips of Mi Amor Paper into 1″ and 1/2″ strips and randomly adhered them to the large heart template that I made for the button heart page above. I left a small space between each strip so that the black background of the heart would show through. After taping down the pieces, I cut off the over-hang. The border across the bottom was made with our new Dot Scallop Border Maker Cartridge and our Heart Chain Cartridge. I used our old CM Heart Maker to punch a variety of hearts. I cut the top parts from the hearts, reassembled them, and added faux pen stitching to give a patchwork look.

I hope that my pages inspired you! You can even save them to your Pinterest account for future use, and you can find the materials and tools available for purchase on my Creative Memories website.

I’m the last stop on our Blog Hop today, but below are the links to revisit any of the sites. Make sure to visit and “Follow” our new Creative Life Scrapbooking Facebook Group for more ideas and inspiration. Thanks much for hopping with us today – we’ll be back soon!

Diana Miller Brinsley at D. Brinsley’s Memory Keeping Blog
Stefani Jones at Crop With Stef
Fran Allen Smitherman at Celebrating Your Beautiful Life
Sarah Fitzgerald at Click Write Share
Julie Tambrini at Julie’s Creative Memories Blog
Noreen Smith at Organized and Creative Mom
Karyn McDermaid-Rolfe at Karyn Crops (You Are Here)

7Dec2016

Christmas Blog Hop

Posted in Blog Hops, Christmas Layouts, Scrapbook Page Layouts, Winter Scrapbook Layouts by Karyn McDermaid-Rolfe

Welcome to our Christmas Blog Hop! Six Creative Memories Advisors from North America have joined together to provide you with ideas and inspiration for your Christmas paper crafting. At the bottom of my blog post, you’ll find links to take you to the next stops on our Blog Hop. Be sure to visit all of the sites and leave comments for us!

For my project, I created a 2-page scrapbook layout using some items from the new Creative Memories Christmas Past Collection. I also used several of our newest tools to create the lush layered border and embellishments. Our new Gold Shimmer Cardstock provides an extra touch of elegance and decadence for these pages.

I created the gorgeous trailing vine border across the tops of the pages with our Garden Vine Punch. This punch immediately sold out when it was first introduced in October. It’s back in stock but only available while supplies last. So I suggest purchasing this punch sooner than later.

I also incorporated a new take on the faux Maple Leaf Punch poinsettias that I first created for the Creative Memories Blog post, Christmas in July. These new poinsettias are white and include layered greenery punched from our Leaf Trio Punch. (Below is a peak at my first poinsettia border. Please visit the CM Blog to see the full blog post with instructions.)

To make my layout, you’ll need:

Christmas Past Paper Pack
Christmas Past Variety Mat Pack
Christmas Past Embellishment Pack
Gold Shimmer Cardstock
Beige Cardstock
White Cardstock
Ruby ABC/123 Stickers
Gold Pen
Brown Pen
Tape Runner
All-Purpose Scissors
12-Inch Straight Trimmer
Garden Vine Punch
Maple Leaf Punch
Leaf Trio Punch
To purchase any of these items, please visit my CM website.

From poinsettia designer print paper, cut two 12″ x 2″ strips and adhere to tops of 2 sheets of Beige Cardstock.
From Gold Shimmer Cardstock, use the Garden Vine Punch to punch two borders. Adhere these borders on top of strips of Gold Shimmer Cardstock and use scissors to cut out. Adhere these pieces to bottoms of the poinsettia paper strips.
From White Cardstock, use Maple Leaf Punch to punch 12 leaves. Outline the edges of the leaves and draw veins with a Gold Pen.
From Gold Shimmer Cardstock, use Maple Leaf Punch to punch 6 leaves. Use gold pen to draw veins.
From Gold Shimmer Cardstock, use Leaf Trio Punch to punch a variety of leaves.
From Gold Shimmer Cardstock, cut mats for your photos and also a mat for your journaling box.
Assemble and adhere your photos and the poinsettias and leaves as shown.
Add a title using our Ruby ABC/123 Stickers and rhinestone embellishments from the Christmas Past Embellishments.
Add journaling with a Brown Pen.

Please visit the next stop on our Christmas Blog Hop and enjoy all of the ideas being shared. I hope that you leave the hop inspired to make a few of our projects. Thanks much for visiting with us and best wishes for a very Merry Christmas!

Karyn

Karyn Crops (You Are Here)

Lisa’s Workshop

D. Brinsley’s Memory Keeping Blog

Crop With Steph

Celebrating Your Beautiful Life

Organized& Creative Mom

26Oct2016

Halloween Blog Hop

Posted in Autumn Scrapbook Layouts, Blog Hops, Creative Memories Border Maker Ideas, Other Projects, Sampler Layouts, Scrapbook Page Layouts by Karyn McDermaid-Rolfe

Hello and welcome to our Halloween Blog Hop! Today I’m sharing a fun Halloween sampler that I made with the new Bats in the Belfry Paper Pack, Stickers and Embellishments from Creative Memories.

This is a great project for those of you who love to decorate for Halloween and for those who don’t have Halloween photos to scrapbook. This is also a fun and easy project to make with children. Just cut out the squares and let the kids decorate with embellishments and stickers.

The sampler looks great displayed on an easel, in a 12″ x 12″ photo frame or on your old Creative Memories Everyday Display. You can even add Halloween photos in one or two of the squares if you desire!

I used our Garden Vine Punch (which is currently on back-order) and our Original Border Maker with our new Midnight Star and Picket Fence Cartridges. But you could adapt and use any other punches or cartridges.

All tools and materials are available from Creative Memories. To make this sampler, you’ll need:

Solid Grey 12″ x 12″ Cardstock
Solid Beige 12″ x 12″ Cardstock
Solid Black 12″ x 12″ Cardstock
Bats in the Belfry Paper Pack
Bats in the Belfry Stickers
Bats in the Belfry Embellishments
12-Inch Straight Trimmer
Custom Cutting System with Circle Patterns
Original Border Maker System with Picket Fence and Midnight Star Cartridges
Garden Vine Punch (Currently on back-order)
Tape Runner
Foam Squares
Click here to shop for any of these tools and/or materials.

Instructions:
1. Cut beige cardstock into five 3-3/4″ x 3-3/4″ squares.
2. Cut four pieces of patterned paper into 3-5/8″ x 3-5/8″ squares and adhere to the beige squares.
3. Using the border maker system with the midnight star cartridge, punch a border across the black cardstock. Cut a 3-3/4″ x 3-3/4″ square from black cardstock keeping the star border as the top of your square. Adhere this piece to your last beige square.
4. Cut beige cardstock into a 3-3/4″ x 11-1/2″ piece. Cut haunted mansion paper to
3-5/8″ x 11-3/8″ and adhere to beige piece.
5. For added dimension, you can run the large round end of a black pen across the edges of your pieces.
6. Using the custom cutting system and the 1-1/2″ circle pattern, cut a circle from the patterned paper using the red blade on the outside edge. Using the same circle pattern, use the green blade on the outside edge to cut a circle from the black cardstock. Adhere the patterned circle on top of the black circle.
7. Adhere all pieces to a sheet of 12″ x 12″ grey cardstock.
8. Using the border maker system and picket fence cartridge, punch fences from the black cardstock and the wood patterned paper. Add using foam squares.
9. Add embellishments and stickers using foam squares on some as shown. Add rhinestone embellishments.

Happy Halloween!
Karyn

Please continue to the next stops on our Halloween Blog Hop!

Noreen Smith
Karyn McDermaid-Rolfe (You are here.)
Lisa Graham
Julie Tambrini
Candace Bouldin

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