Hello all! Looks like our May project has stretched into June. Here are parts 5 and 6 of our 8 part series:
Card 1:Step 1: Fold Mediterranean cardstock in half so that your A2 card measures 4.25" by 5.5".
Step 2: trim down your patterned paper to 4" x 5.25" and adhere to the front of the card.
Step 3: Cut a 4" strip of blue paper ribbon and but in half. Attach the ribbon to the front and back of the tag as shown in the photo and cut the tops at an angle.
Step 4: Adhere Blue and Brown floral sticker to scrap of Mediterranean blue paper and trim around edge, leaving approx 1/8" around design. This step is optional.
Step 5: Adhere floral embellishment to tag
Step 6: Adhere Tag to upper right corner of card using foam adhesive.
Step 7:Adhere round orange and brown sticker of the printed flower as shown above.
Card 2Supplies:
1. Mediterranean blue cardstock cut to 8.5" x 5.5".
2. Patterned Paper from Simply Beautiful Milestones Kit.
3. Simply Beautiful tags.
4. Simply Beautiful Flowers
5. scrap of Mediterranean blue cardstock
6. Scissors and Paper Trimmer
7. Foam Adhesive and Tape Runner.
Step 1: Fold Mediterranean cardstock in half so that your A2 card measures 5.5"x 4.25".
Step 2: Trim your patterned paper to 5.25"x4" and adhere to the center of the card.
Step 3: Adhere tag to scrap of Mediterranean blue cardstock and trim around the edges, leaving 1/8" around the edge.
Step 4: Adhere to the front of the card with foam adhesive.
Step 5: Adhere yellow flower to the top of the printed yellow flower on the top of the card with foam adhesive.
Now you have another beautiful card. You can stamp a sentiment to the front or leave it blank.
You can also watch my instructional video for clarification on any of the instructions:
Club Create Part 6:
Here are 2 more fabulous A2 cards:
Card 1:Supplies:
1. Mediterranean blue cardstock scrap and piece cut to 8.5"x5.5"
2. Patterned paper from Simply Beautiful Milestones kit
3. Blue paper ribbon - Simply Beautiful Paper Ribbon
4. white and yellow flowers: Simply Beautiful Flowers
5. Scissors and Paper Trimmer
6. Foam Adhesive and Tape Runner
Step 1: Fold mediterranean card in half so that you have an A2 card that measures 5.5"x4.25".
Step 2: Trim patterened paper to 4"x5.25" and adhere to center of the card.
Step 3: Cut the loops off the edge of the tag and adhere the tag to a scrap of mediterranean cardstock.
Step 4: Trim edges of the cardstock around the tag, leaving a 1/8" border of cardstock around the tag.
Step 5: Trim a 6" piece of ribbon and adhere to the center of the card, blue side up. Trim excess off the side.
Step 6: adhere tag to the center of the card.
Step7: Adhere the flowers to the tag as shown above. Use foam adhesive to adhere the yellow flower centered between the white flowers on each side of the card to add a bit of dimension.
You now have another lovely card. Just add your favorite sentiment to the front or on the inside and enjoy!!
Card 2: Supplies:
1. Green Apple cardstock cut to 5.5"x8.5"
2. Blue and orange patterned papers from Simply Beautiful Milestones or story box sets.
3. Simple Blooms Epoxy Stickers
4. Tearing tool (optional)
5. Tape Runner
6. Paper Trimmer
Step 1: Fold the green apple cardstock to create an A2 card - 5.5"x4.25".
Ste 2: Trim blue patterned paper to 5.25"x4" and adhere to the center of the card.
Step 3: Trim orange patterned paper to 5.5"x3" and tear off 1/2" of either side. Adhere to the center of the card.
Step 4: Embellisch card with epoxy stickers - yellow and brown floral to the right hand side and green, orange and yellow circles to the left as shown.
You now have another great card that is prefect for any occassion. Ad your favorite sentiment to the front and inside.
You can also follow along with this great video:
Thanks for stopping by! Just 2 more parts to this series so come back next weekend - I should have the last 2 videos up by Sunday.
Thanks and have a great night!!
Jessi
Hope everyone had a FABULOUS Mother's Day! I took the weekend off to see my Mom and Mother in Law. It was a very nice weekend. As a special treat for having to wait so long, this weeks edition will be a Double Feature - 4 new cards and videos to match. :o)
Card 1 Supplies:
-Raspberry Cardstock cut to 8.5" x 5.5"
-Pink and Brown decorative paper from Simply Beautiful Milestones Kit
-Scraps: Yellow, Orange, Brown
- Simply Blooms Epoxy Stickers
-Butterfly Pocket Punch
-Trimmer
-Tape Runner
Step 1: Fold Raspberry Cardstock in half so your card measures 5.5" x 4.25".|
Step 2: Cut Decorative paper down to 4" x 5.5" and adheare to the center of the card. This paper should run the lenght of the card and have a 1/8" of Raspberry showing on each side.
Step 3: Punch butterflies from yellow, orange and brown scraps.
Step 4: Cut wings off the brown butterfly and adhere body to the orange butterfly . I used a glue pen - super easy. Once glue dries, fold wings up on either side of the body to make it dimensional
Step 5: Adhere the yellow butterfly to the lower right corner of your card. Then glue the center of your other butterfly to the yellow butterfly.
Step 6: Embelish your card with Epoxy stickers - brown circle with pink flower in the center of the flower pattern, Pink and brown butterfly placed in the upper left corner.
That's it! You're all done - now write a sweet note and send it to someone you love.
Card 2 Supplies:
-Grape ardstock cut to 8.5" x 5.5"
-Orange Floral Patterned Paper from Simply Beautiful Milestones Kit
-Simply Beautiful Tags
-Simply Beautiful Paper RIbbon - Multi Colored Stripes
-Simply Bloom Epoxy Stickers
-Paper Trimmer, Tape Runner
Step 1: Fold card in half so that it's 4.25"x5.5".
Step 2: Cut Floral Patterned Paper down to 5.25x4 and adhere to the center of the front of your card.
Step 3: Cut Paper Ribbon to 5.5" and adhere to the center of the card, longways.
Step 4: Adhere Tag to the front of the card.
Step 5: Embellish with Purple and Brown scalloped circle from Epoxy Stickers.
Optional - You can stamp a sentiment, rubon sentiments or adhere vellum quotes to the front of the card for a special touch.
Watch Cards 1 and 2 here:
Card 3 Supplies:
-Green Apple Cardstock cut to 5.5"x8.5"
-Yellow Swirl patterned paper from Simply Beautiful Milestone Kit
-Brown Paper Ribbon - Simply Beautiful Paper Ribbon
-Simply Blooms Epoxy Stickers
-Scrap of Brown paper approx 3"x3"
-Fine Tip Scissors
-Paper Trimmer
-Tape Runner
Step 1: Fold Green Apple Cardstock in 1/2 so your card is now 5.5"x4.25".
Step 2: Trim down the Yellow Patterned Paper to 4" x 5.25" and adhere to the center of the green apple card.
Step 3: Trim down the brown paper ribbon to 4.25" in length. Adhere to the card toward the top.
Step 4: Adhere the yellow and brown flowers to the brown scraps and cut the paper just out side of the sticker, creating a slight border.
Step 5: Adhere to the lower left corner.
Step 6: Adhere green and brown epoxy sticker to the upper right corner of the card, centering the points across the ribbon.
Optional: Stamp, rubon or adhere a sentiment to personalize your card.
Card 4 Supplies:
-Grape Cardstock cut to 8.25"x5.5"
-Green and Purple patterned paper from Simply Beautiful Milestones Kit
-Green Flower - Simply Beautiful Flowers
-Simply Blooms Epoxy Stickers
-Trimmer and Tape Runner and foam adhesive
Step 1: Fold Grape Cardstock in half so your card is 5.5"x4.25"
Step 2: Trim down green and purple patterned paper to 4"x5.25" and adhere to the center of your card.
Step 3: Adhere the Green Flower over top of the large purple flower on the patterned paper with foam adhesive, and stick epoxy circle to the center of the flower.
Step 4: Adhere a purple epoxy butterfly to the upper right corner.
Optional: Adhere a vellum sentiment, rubon or stamp to personalize for someone special.
Watch me make them here:
I hope you've enjoyed the latest cards, and come back next week for 2 more fabulous cards.
Have a great week!
Jessi
Hey Bloggers -
Here is part 2 of the 8 part series for May:
The first card was made with an A2 card cut from Raspberry Cardstock.
The second card was made with and A2 card from Green Apple Cardstock.
These 2 cards are quick and easy and can be finished in 10 minutes.
You can also watch me make these cards to see just how easy they are!
Hey Bloggers,
Creative Memories celebrated National Scrapbook Day this weekend and I had a blast with my upline Luara Barnett at Judy's Happy House. I spent the weekend designing cards for our first ever Club Create. I am so excited!
Our first project is a beautiful set of 16 cards featuring goodies from the Simply Beatiful Collection. Now, this is not the Simply Beautiful Card project - it's sold out and I wanted this to be something a little different. To create the cards in this project you will need flower, ribbons, and tags from Simply Beautiful, the Simply Beautiful Milestones Kit, and the Cardstock (Mediteranean, Grape, Green Apple, and Raspberry). Cards can be purchased at any office supply store. I will unveil 4 cards per week with instructions and a link to an insructional video so please come back often to see the next project.
Our first set of cards:
Supplies:
12x12 Cardstock - Raspberry and Green Apple
Simply Blooms Epoxy Stickers
Simply Beautiful Tags
Simply Beautiful Milestones Kit
Instructions:
For the Green Card:
For the Raspberry Card:
You can also watch the video to see just how quick and easy it really is:
Happy Spring Bloggers! The weather here is finally starting to warm up. The past week has been simply beautiful.
This week has been full of adventure and frustration. Dave started building our Windows Home Server last weekend. After much poking, prodding and sarcastic remarks from our friend Chris, Dave finally did it. Well, at least he tried. Chris was all "Oh do this, do that...it's easy..." So Dave did this, and that and 4 days later he was ready to punch a whole through the wall. This was not turning out to be easy at all. After several days of cussing, not sleeping, and basicly going nuts trying to fix the issues Dave had an epiphany. Don't ask me what popped in his head...I don't really understand it all...I'm just glad he had it 'cause now our server works. I can now access our videos, music, and pics from anywhere with an internet connection. Yay! I can also back up my laptop nightly without all the dragging and dropping and waiting for the system to work. It's awesome!
Does anyone out there play Farmville? I know, random topic change, and you're all shocked that Dave would let me play that kind of game...he understands that I have the attention span of a 6 year old when it comes to video games, or poor imitations - that's why he allows it. :) Anyway - My patience with this game was about to run out. Last week I befriended distant relatives (really an ex of my Uncle and her new hubs and brother....not a good idea). Then I added them as Neighbors on Farmville. Before I knew it my Home Page and Farmville game feed was smothered and covered in gift requests from the same 3 people "Give me this, give me that..." Seriously? What do you possibly need with 650 Easter Eggs? They are also notorious gift snipers. Everytime I or my mom or Gramndma would post an acheivement or gift for eachother, they would snipe it and ith'd be gone before we ever got a chance to retrieve it. And I'm not talking about my procrastination where I'd wait an hour or two...I'm talking Imy Grandma was on the phone with my cousing Vicki, she said ok, I just clicked share. Vick clicked on the claim it within seconds and WTH? It's already gone? RIDICULOUS! So, to cure that I axe'd em all. If I became your friend just to get neighbors on Farmville, I'm sorry, but you've been removed. Facebook really isn't for that, I've decided.
In Creative News, I am still looking for volunteers intereseted in helping Creative Memories test a new super secret service/ product. Want to help, or know more details, email me at jessi.myers.cm@gmail.com I am also starting a monthly creative club for my Creative Memories customers, friends and family called "Club Create". Every month I will be teaching a new project, and I will be selling supplies for the project or you can adapt the project to fit your own supplies. May 1st will be my first online class session for Club Create, and the first project will feature Simply Beautiful Cards from Creative Memories. Eventually (once Mom and I finish the Studio) Club Create will meet every month and crop at her house, but for now this will be a monthly webisode. Stay tuned for preview pictures and more information.
Well, I've got some more stuff to do this weekend so I'm off. Have a great weekend!
Happy Spring Bloggers!
So Spring got off to an interesting start in Dallas this year - it snowed! That's right - snow - like 2+ inches! I spent the second official day of Spring doing laundry and watching the neighbors kids have an all out snowball war beneath my office window. I laughed because I realised that I live in the only state where we truly experience every season....in the same weekend. LOL...
Tonight, I'm sitting in bed, typing on my brand new laptop. It is super fantastic - so high-tech and geeky that even my husband is jealous. :o) We brought it home last week and Dave offered to clean it up - to make sure there weren't any funky programs I wouldn't need. The whole time he kept saying "Oh, you won't like this...it's too heavy." "Oh, I don't know....I think the keys are too different..." It just cracks me up. It is pretty fantastic tho...built in web cam, blue ray, a super awesome graphics card and some super fast processor that makes my old computer look like a dinosaur...and it was pretty great.
Last weekend I spent Saturday at Laura's loading all my new Digital goodness for Storybook Creator Plus. I love love love the digital stuff that Creative Memories has to offer. I can't wait to start designing albums and cards. The other thing I am looking forward to is developing my skills as a hybrid scrapper. There are so many great things you create with Storybook Creator Plus that I can't wait to print them out and incorporate them into my cards and traditional albums.
Speaking of digitial....guess what? I completed my digitial certification classes on the CMC Network. I am now fully digitally endorsed. Want help organizing your digital photos or creating beautiful, digital storybooks? Ask me how...I can help!
In other news - I'm about 3 weeks into Nutrisystem and I'm down 4 pounds. Not a bad start. This week has been a struggle tho. Sunday I just could not stop eating....everything I could get my hands on..if it was edible, I ate it....I am getting back on the band wagon. It was doubly hard because over the weekend Dave's friends brought 2 12 packs of Sodas into the house and a giant bag of Mini Milky Ways. Normally it's no big deal to have that kind of junk in the house...it was hard for me to deal with today tho...I was craving chocolate so bad and I did cave and had a soda.....I told Dave I really need the MilkyWays to disapear. I don't care if he eats them, hides them, takes them to Chris's house..whatever - I just can't deal with them sitting out calling for me to eat them.
Well all, I am off to bed. It's been a long day and tomorrow is going to start early.
Good Night CybersSpace!
Well, the weekend is half over and I feel like it was a really good one. Saturday Dave and I researched laptops and I think we finally found one. He's going to order it this afternoon, so it'll be here next week. Yay!
In other news, David and I started Nutrisystem this week. Our meals were delivered Wedneday so Thursday was our first full day on the program. The food isn't bad - like everything else, there are some things I don't like, so I've already started altering my next delivery. The thing I didn't expect was how much food you really eat on the program. The commercials lead you to believe that all you eat is the Nutrisystem food. Well, when that box arrived and I saw how much you eat for breakfast, I paniced. There was no way I was going to survive on that little food. Then I read the meal planner guide and my fears were put to rest. For breakfast you eat their breakfast item, 1 dairy or protien and 1 fruit. For lunch you have their lunch item, 2 veggies, and 1 protien or dairy. between lunch and dinner you have a snack - 1 fruit, 1 dairy or protien. For dinner you have there dinner item, 2 veggies, 1 fruit and 1 fat. Then, if you're a bigger girl like me, and have more to loose, you add a carb to breakfast and dinner, and a fruit to lunch. It hasn't been too bad, but I have to say - stopping the fattening foods cold turkey has been a little difficult this weekend. I think it's because I haven't been keeping as busy as I do at work so I have more time to think about it. I did do a little bad this weekend - but not so bad that I feel defeated. I mean, I didn't go to McDonalds and have a Big Mac or anything - just ate 2 slices of bread with lunch and had some Hershey Kisses after dinner - nothing to toally blow the top off the diet. Dave and I did decide to keep from getting burned out, we are going to cotinue to eat out 2 days a week, so Wednesdays are going to be our new date night and we'll go out to dinner and they we've agreed to eat out once on the weekends. We'll see what happens. :)
Now I have to tell you about something really really cool from Creative Memories. Have you ever wanted to include a special message in your scrapbook or in a gift for that special somebody? Creative Memories has a great way to do just that. They've found a way to put a voice recorder INSIDE one of their super cute Paper Album Kits!
Each kit comes with
1 Paper Album, 14 double-sided sheets of paper , 12 double-sided photo mats , 1 sheet of clear title stickers in black, 1 sheet of epoxy stickers, 1 sheet of die-cut shapes, 20-second, voice-recordable function, 1 envelope. It's a great way to create a special Mother's Day gift, Brithday Card, or just a special gift to share with your friends and family.
Well, that's it for today - I'm off to work on my Simply Beautiful Card Kit. Wanna see more? Visit my CM Website or stay tuned - perhaps a picture will pop up in the next couple days. :)
Have a great week!
Jessi
So Saturday was the Creative Memories Regional Saturday. It was the first I've ever been to, and as a new consultant, it was AMAZING. I to the see first had that this company really, truly stands behind their company motto: Your Life, Your Story, Your Way.
When I talk about Creative Memories, I always go back to a memory from Recollections. A customer once told me that Creative Memories was like scrapbooking with training wheels....Saturday my mind kept going back to that memory and, as I met so many wonderful ladies and saw so many new and awesome products, I had to laugh. If those nay sayers of Yesterday could just see where Creative Memories is now...they would eat their words for sure. This company has come a long way even in the short time that I've been using their albums. With all the fun paper patterns, paper ribbons, flowers, tags, and so much more, the possibilities truly are endless these days. They are also branching off the path of traditional scrapbooking and offering kits to create super cute borders and fun and lovely cards. It makes me so excited to see that I can continue my own growth as an artist while growing as a Creative Memories Consultant.
On a more personal note - real women are selling Creative Memories. This isn't a company focused on money, although sales are important. They really focus on the importance of capturing memories and helping teach others how to do the same. I heard so many great women share touching stories about how Creative Memories changed their lives or the lives of someone they know. I am really, truly excited about being a part of this organization. I can't wait to expand my knowledge and pass what I have learned and my passion for memory keeping on to those around me.
I am also excited about the new goodies - availible now. This week my I want you to check out Simply Beautiful. It really is! :)
Well folks, thanks for stopping by and reading...and stay tuned. I'll be featuring other new products from the New Spring Calendar soon.
Have a great night, and remember - I can help your jpegs live up to their potential...just ask me how!
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