Happy National Scrapbook Day

All over on the internet crafters alike are celebrating NSD. Big Picture Classes, 2 peas in a bucket and Studio Calico are all hosting challenges.  Check out Instagram and Facebook for inspiration as well.

Here's my quick layout using Heidi Swapp's My Favorite Things mixed with her Dreamy Collection documenting my daughter shopping and taking selfies to show me what she's trying on while I was away for CHA.  So fun!

Have fun today!

Supplies: My Favorite Things Ephemera, Favorite Things Mixed Floral, Favorite Things Epoxy Stickers, Dreamy Ephemera, Dreamy Glitter Paper Frames, Dreamy Word Jumble Stickers, Dreamy Kraft Tags, Clear Stamp Music Notes, Mini Stamp Right Now, Heidi Swapp Inks

Crazy Good adventures in a Shadow Box

I love creating home decor of pictures from a vacation or a little getaway.  Heidi Swapp's Shadow box is just perfect to create a memory that you can display in your home.  Check out Heidi Swapp's blog for more details.  Here are just a little more fun tips to make your project come to life.  

I love my iPhone because you can do so much with it.  You can also take photos, document your day, edit your photos and connect to social media about what you're doing, eating and feeling.  It's pretty amazing.   

One of the apps that I use most in my projects is called HP Live Photo.  This app allows you to print a photo with a video embedded in it. All you do is open the app, hover your phone over the pix making sure it has the HP symbol or logo on it and watch your photo come to life.   A W E S O M E!  Watch here.

If you notice I printed out quite a few pictures from our trip that had videos and incorporated it throughout my book.  It's a great way to watch our memories come to life.

Here's another app I used to incorporate into my projects.  It's called QR Reader for the iPhone.  You can scan QR codes and create them to print out of your favorite videos from YOUTUBE.  Since we went to Magic Mountain and rode on some amazing roller coasters I wanted to be able to see what each roller coasters were like.  So I went on YOU Tube to search on specific ones, created a code and printed them digitally onto Heidi Swapp's digi NO LIMITS NOTE CARDS.  Along with her other digi elements from her INSTAFRAMES: COLORFUL digi collections.  

I first opened up in photoshop all of the digital elements I wanted to use as well as the QR code.  dragged and dropped onto the note card layer. You can also add your photo but I wanted to print it out then adhere to the card. 

Once you have all your digital elements onto the card. Go to layer and flatten image.  Then save and print.  Now just use the app to hover your phone over the code and voila!  You can watch your video on your phone.

One of the rides that was just our favorite of the whole park was TATSU.  I found a video of it on YOUTUBE and created the QR code.  So now you can watch just how scary and fun this ride is. I

created one for all the roller coaster rides we went onto. So fun!

I hope that I've inspired you to create some photos that come to life to add to your projects that you can cherish.

thanks for coming by.

Stencil Canvas and Organization

Today I share my canvas I created using Heidi Swapp's Stencils from Michaels and some tips from Heidi's Stencil Magic online class that's self paced with videos and pdfs.

Here's some tips on how you can store your stencils.   I store mine in a 12x12 storage box you can get from Michaels. I like that I can toss my stencils in when I'm finished with it.

Another you can use a 12x12 page protector that has 6x6 slots by We R Memory Keepers for your 6x6 stencils as well as a 12x12 page protector for your 12x12 stencils in a binder.  Or if you like you can place your 12x12 that has your 6x6 stencils in the box too.  Hope this helps on how to organize your stencils.

Happy National Scrapbook Day

On Heidi Swapp's blog we're celebrating it by posting some new layouts as well as sharing some of our favorite projects.  We were asked "WHY DO YOU SCRAPBOOK?"

Happy National Scrapbook Day everyone!  It's amazing that in one day or weekend we can all come together whether it be physically or virtually to celebrate what we all LOVE to do.... SCRAP! 

 Why I scrapbook?  Well, I scrap simply because it makes me happy.  I scrapbook because life is short and I want to remember the big moments as well as the little things in our everyday lives.  Funny,  I just watched the other day this 80's movie where he says  " Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, You could miss it."  -Ferris Bueller.  I thought at that moment YES, that is why I scrapbook!  I notice the little details in our lives more.  I believe that the stories is what matters.  I scrapbook because it is my therapy.  I love making pretty things and I need to create everyday.  I scrapbook because I want to remember. I want them, my family to know how much I love them because if I don't then no one else will.

Here's  one of my favorite memory file project I created early in 2012 that celebrated my daughter's 12th birthday.  As the school is coming to an end and that means my daughter will be a high schooler.  Yikes!  This memory file album documented what she was into at the time.  It documents her first concert, favorite tv shows, favorite clothing stores, what size she wore, when she got her iPhone, how she takes pictures and post on Instagram and her first trip ever to Hawaii.  Life surely does move fast but with this album I've frozen time to what it she was like back when she was 12.  I will forever cherish this!  Now stop and look around and scrap your memories. 

Here's just a few favorites of mine.  This one is from CHA Winter 2012 for Heidi Swapp's booth I made using one of those wood frames you get from your local scrapbook stores and created a shadow box type deal in the frame area to house this cute Heidi Swapp flip book of our weekend trips to San Francisco.

 This one is a Memory Box made out of my old cardboard box.  I created this for our first family trip to Hawaii. It holds a No Limits Memory File folder mini.

The top portion I created a pocket for my memorabilia like our ticket stubs and cut out a CD holder from my Cameo to hold a CD full of our photos from our trip.

In the box holds more memorabilia such as menus, maps, coffee sleeves and vials of sand from the beaches we visited.

To the right is a mini album that folds out.

thank you for looking and hope you have a very creative day.

Join us on an Adventure.

Along with Heidi Swapp on a Memory File Adventure.  Every week on her blog every Monday we will share an inspiration, instructions to about 4 pages of her NEW Memory File Album.   This album is 34 pages and is packed with lots of interactive pages which includes some variety of page protectors, clear pages and banner type pages.  So every week there will be some tips and tricks and other inspirations that will help you add photos and journaling on this awesome album.  It's not too late.  Come on and join us.

  

To kick off this adventure check out Heidi's The "LAST" list.  Here's my cover of my Memory Album.  Taken from my iPhone.

I used a Watercolor pencil to color the "this Beautiful" and the arrow.  Used some of the gorgeous and fun Color Pop Banner Delights.  I'm addicted to these.  

Thanks for looking.  I will post as soon as I'm done with my pages as I progress.  

What to do with your vacation photos.

Now that you have stacks of photos from vacation or staycations.  What do you do with them?  Well.. I created a Memory box out of a card board box I've had in my stash and painted it and covered with paper. I created this back in April or May this year but it was never posted.   I used lots of Heidi Swapp No Limits line and other Heidi Swapp goodies along with my favorite die cutting machine - the Silhouette.

For the front cover I used a photo mat you can buy at any craft store to mount over a memory file folder I had cut in half.

When you open up the box you'll see at the top the other half of the memory file I used for the cover as a

pocket to house tix stubs and other memorabilia.  

I also used my silhouette to die cut a cd holder to put a a CD that has all the photos from our trip.  

I placed a polaroid snapshot in front of the CD sleeve with a faux washi tape that I used from Heidi's packaging.  I love finding out creative ways to use packages so nothing goes to waste.   You'll notice a transparent Hibiscus.  Some of you may remember it's from my old stash of vintage Heidi Swapp products.

In the box you can place more memorabilia.  Here I gathered some sand from the  different beaches we went to, added a map, some menus from the many different local restaurants we went to and coffee sleeves.

Inside is a mini Memory file folder that fits inside the Memory box.  I used a postcard to adorn the front cover and the palm tree from my silhouette and misted it.

"relax" cut out in which I stamped over it.  I also fussy cut Heidi's 'explore' flag.

Below I used a page protector and the edges is cut out from the ends of one of the No Limits Memory file folder.  Again, I misted the silhouette cut out in blue.  I had brought my trusty and favorite Fujifilm Pivi printer along with me and placed the photos inside the page protectors.

This is the mini file folder opened up.  To the right is a mini book. That is attached to the right side of the file folder. 

The Hawaiian Islands cut out from my Silhouette.  

The first page is a page protector that opens up.

Love Heidi Swapp's Foto stacks which sold out super quick last CHA Winter show.

ALOHA!   Hope you enjoyed my Hawaii Memory file box and album.