Springtime is your Time to Shine!

There's something about the sun shining in the spring...after the duldrums of winter - the grey skies and muddy snow... It's time to shine!

If your layouts and paper-crafting projects are in need of a little shine, check out the new Spring MemoryWorks 2010 Catalog! It's full of ways to help your scrapbooking projects shine...

From the ZVA Bling

to Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist

to Stickles!

I love how easy (and non-messy) it is to add some shine to paper-crafting projects these days. Scrapbooking manufacturers are coming up with so many innovative ways to get the sheen and shine onto our pages!

I created this layout to celebrate my little "flower fairy" using lots of "bling":

Products used:

-Creative Imaginations Fairy Princess Theme Set

-Creative Imaginations: Creative Cafe felt butterflies

-ZVA Creative: Curly Q Flourish (cut into pieces to add

-Ranger: Stickles (Crystal) (accented the patterend paper and on felt butterflies)

-Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (used on photo matte to add sheen behind photo)

-Fiskars border punch: Apron Lace

-Making Memories: Tiny Alphas

-Ranger: Glossy Accents (on alphas)

Non-MW:

-Heidi Swapp Journaling spot

-My Mind's Eye 4x6 Transparency (you could use one of the ones from our Simple Stories kit!)

-American Crafts Thickers

I finished the layout, but felt it was lacking something... I added the ZVA Creative jewels and it really made a huge difference! It's amazing how much visual impact these can have on your projects!

Use them to "dot your I's":

Use them as "feathers" on a bird:

Make your own photo corners (you can cut the mini-line's, or other designs to make whatever shapes you want - you don't have to use them as-is!) and/or use them as flower centers:

So many uses - and lots of ways to make your pages shine!