Arrow Border Maker Cartridge

February is the month of love, and today I’m sharing Valentine scrapbooking pages that I made with the new Bee Mine materials from Creative Memories. This collection is perfect for fun loved-themed pages! The Bee Mine Collection features a super cute embossed album cover, designer paper, stickers, and layered embellishments, and all of these items can be purchased on my Creative Memories website.

The Bee Mine Paper, Stickers and Embellishments were perfect for this sweet page of my granddaughter. The layout consists of a large heart made from 1″ squares. I suggest laying out your heart first before you adhere the pieces. You may have to move it around a bit on your cardstock to get the spacing right. Try positioning your heart from the bottom up to leave space at the top for the banner sticker.

From the bottom up, here are the number of squares in each row.
1. 1 partial square
2. 3 squares (2 partial)
3. 5 squares (2 partial)
4. 7 squares (2 partial)
5. 9 squares (2 partial)
6. 9 squares
7. 9 squares
8. 9 squares (1 partial in center)
9. 8 squares (4 partial) separated by a space in the middle

I used the Bee Mine Stickers and the epoxy bees from the embellishment pack to adorn the page. I also included flowers made with the new Daisy Bouquet Punch and arrows punched with the Original Border Maker System with the new Arrow Cartridge. Foam Squares under some of my stickers really gave a nice pop, and a little detailing with a black pen really brought the page to life.

I used the same materials and the Border Maker with Arrow Cartridge on my second page and got a totally different look.

To make this page, cut the red geometric patterned paper to 11″ x 11″ and adhere to the heart paper. To conserve paper, you may cut out the center of the heart paper. From a piece of red cardstock, punch a row of a arrows using the Border Maker and Arrow Cartridge. Turn the cardstock to the adjoining side, and punch another row. Make sure that your arrows are going in the direction that you like and start your punching in the second position on the Border Maker guide as to not overlap your arrows. From the cardstock, cut off the “L” shaped piece at 1″ wide and adhere to page. Adhere the punched out arrows adjacent to the piece.

I love how the piece of blue paper helps to cool down the page and draw attention to the photo. Cut blue paper to 8″ x 8″ and mat a photo with red cardstock. My photo is 5″ x 7″. Create a journaling box using the Custom Cutting System with smaller heart from the Gemstone Cutting Patterns. Cut the white cardstock with the red blade on the outside edge and the red cardstock using the green blade on the outside edge. Adorn with stickers and embellishments. I adhered some stickers with Foam Squares.

My next page is full of hearts! I cut the larger hearts using the Custom Cutting System with the smaller heart from the Gemstone Cutting Patterns and the red and green blades. The smaller hearts were punched with CM’s old Heart Shape Makers. To make the heart border towards the top of the page, punch a border using the new Teardrop Lattice Border Punch. Hand-cut with your scissors a row of hearts from the lattice pattern. Please see the video that Noreen Smith created for Creative Life Scrapbooking on different ways to use this border punch and how to cut out a heart pattern. To finish the page, I added stickers, embellishments, an arrow punch out, and also some faux stitching with a gold pen.

For my last page, I used the Teardrop Lattice Border Punch to create a honeycomb to accompany the darling honey bee paper, stickers, and embellishments.

To create the large honeycomb piece, cut a hollow frame from Gold Shimmer Cardstock using the Custom Cutting System and Jumbo Hexagon Pattern. Use the blue blade on the inside edge to cut a hexagon. Without moving the paper or the cutting pattern, cut another hexagon using the red blade on the inside edge. From the Gold Shimmer Cardstock, punch 5 lattice pieces using the Teardrop Lattice Border Punch. Trim the pieces and use the Precision Point Glue Pen to glue to the back side of the hollow hexagon frame. Adhere the piece to the honey bee paper using the glue pen. Punch another lattice piece for the border across the top of the page and place the bee border sticker on top. Attach the border piece to your page with Foam Squares. My photos are cropped to 4″ x 4″ and matted with the gold patterned paper in the Bee Mine Paper Pack. Add the bee stickers and embellishments using Foam Squares on some.

I hope that my pages have inspired you to take some photos of your loved ones this month!

You may purchase any of the tools and material that I used on my Creative Memories website.

I hope that the rest of your month is full of love!

Welcome to our Creative Life Scrapbooking Winter Blog Hop! We’re so glad to be back hopping and sharing some winter scrapbooking ideas with you. At the end of my post, you’ll find the link to take you to the next stop on our hop.

I’m in the midst of a love affair with the Glacier Collection from Creative Memories! I’ve already used up two packs of paper and two packs of stickers. I also have to admit to going out in single digit freezing weather just to get some snow photos to use with this beautiful collection! Once I started making pages, I couldn’t stop. So I have a few layouts to show you today.

My first page might be my favorite! I used a page sketch that Creative Memories shared with advisors and gave it my own twist.

To make my page, cut the birch bark paper to 11.5″ x 11.5 and mount on 12″ x 12″ navy cardstock. To conserve cardstock, you may cut out the center of the navy cardstock first. Cut four strips from the snowfall paper that measure 2.5″ x 10″, notch the ends, and then following the same angle cut off a 3/4″ chevron shape. Rub black chalking ink or the side of a wide point black pen around the edges of the pieces.

From the Variety Mats, fussy cut a series of trees and ink the edges. My photos are 4″ x 4″ and matted with navy paper. My journaling box is a Variety Mat cut to 4″ x 4″ and also matted. Assemble the page by tucking the bottom edges of the photos and journaling box under the trees. I used Foam Squares to adhere my trees and the center photo. Place the lovely vine border sticker across the bottom of your trees, and add the title sticker and fern stickers. Adhere pinecone, bird, and snowflake stickers with Foam Squares.

My second layout is a fun snowman-making page! I have a lot of ideas happening on this page, but I think it works as a background to highlight one large photo .

To make this page, cut the blue paper to 11″ x 11″. To evenly space your punched out snowflakes, flip the blue paper over and measure to the center of the page. Use the Snowflake Trio Punch to punch snowflakes in the center. Punch more snowflakes from each edge of the paper. And then center the punch between the center snowflakes and the edge snowflakes to make your last two punches. (Unfortunately, the Snowflake Trio Punch sold out quickly and is no longer available. So if needed, substitute other snowflake punches.) Adhere the blue paper on top of the knit print paper.

Using the Victorian Border Punch, punch fences from white and brown cardstock. Adhere the white fence behind the brown fence to look like snow. Use the Original Border Maker System with Snowman Cartridge to punch a row of snowmen from white cardstock. Cut off of your cardstock at 2″. Adhere snowmen to the fence, and cut the entire border to 7.5″ wide.

To make the large snowmen, use the Custom Cutting System with the largest Circle Pattern and cut a circle from white cardstock using the blue blade on the inside edge. Cut a circle from white cardstock and another from the knit print paper using the medium size Circle Pattern and the green blade on the inside edge. From the knit paper circle freehand cut scarf pieces. Also freehand cut arms and a nose from cardstock. Use the old Button Trio Punch to punch three buttons. Assemble the pieces as shown. Repeat for the smaller snowman using the medium sized circle pattern with blue blade on inside edge and the smallest Circle Pattern with the red blade on the inside edge. The heart is a punch out from the Border Maker System with Heart Chain Cartridge.

To finish your page, mat your photo with royal cardstock and knit print paper. My photo is cropped to 5.75″ x 5″. Add journaling boxes and stickers as shown. Use Foam Squares to adhere some of the punched out snowflakes, and use a black pen to add detail to the snowmen and snowman border.

My next layout features large snowflakes that I created with the new Daisy Bouquet Punch, the new Arrow Border Maker Cartridge, and the old Star Maker punch.

Cut the snowfall paper to 11″ x 11″ and adhere to navy cardstock. To conserve cardstock, you may cut out the center of the navy cardstock first. Use the Border Maker System with new Arrow Cartridge, the new Daisy Bouquet Punch, and the old Star Maker to punch pieces for your snowflakes. Layout the pieces for the large snowflake on your paper to get the spacing and design figured out before you start adhering. The Precision Point Adhesive Pen is

very handy for this. Use a navy pen to add detail, and use Foam Squares to add dimension.

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Select a Variety Mat with a title, and mat it with navy cardstock. Also mat photos with navy cardstock. Use the Original Border Maker System with Snowflake Chain Cartridge to punch borders from white and navy cardstock, and adhere navy borders behind the white. Trim borders to size and adhere. This page would also look nice with the snowflake borders going horizontally. I positioned mine vertically to evoke the feeling of the large icicles in my photos.

After a recent snowfall, we took a special drive to see snow on the mountain. So with this title on my mind, I knew that I needed to make some mountains for my last layout.

To make my mountains, use the Custom Cutting System with the diamond from the Gemstone Cutting Patterns. My large mountains are cut using the red, green and blue blades on the outside edge. My small mountains are cut using the red and green blades on the inside edge. Cut matching pieces from white cardstock, and use your All-Purpose Scissors to add rounded edges. I used black chalking ink on the edges of my mountain and snow pieces. Assemble the mountains as shown and adhere the smaller mountains with Foam Squares.

Use the Original Border Maker System with the Snowflake Chain Cartridge to punch borders for the tops of your pages. I used the old Word Bubble Punch to make snow clouds that I also edged with black ink and adhered a few with Foam Squares. Mat your photos with navy cardstock and use Navy ABC Stickers for your title. Add the tree and house stickers as shown.

The Glacier Paper and Stickers are truly lovely and are one of my favorite collections from Creative Memories. You can purchase these materials and the current tools on my Creative Memories website. And don’t forget to follow Creative Life Scrapbooking on Facebook where we share weekly ideas, page sketch challenges and virtual crops!

Thank you so much for visiting with me today, and please hop on over to Fran’s blog for the next stop on our Winter Blog Hop!

Noreen Smith
Karyn McDermaid-Rolfe (You are here!)
Fran Allen Smitherman
Julie Tambrini
Stefani Jones
Lisa Brown Graham
Sarah Fitzgerald