15 Days of the Holidays - Day 1

Welcome to 15 Days of the Holidays here at MemoryWorks! The TeamWorks ladies have been hard at work behind the scenes putting together our own versions of December mini albums and for the next 15 days we are going to be sharing those albums with you! It is our hope that you will be inspired to create your own December mini album when you see just how easy one of these minis can be!

I'm excited to kick off our event by sharing my 25 Days of Christmas album with you. This is a small album sized for 4"x6" photos and coming in at 6 1/4" x 4 1/6". I created this album in an accordion style using the tutorial found HERE. I just adjusted the size to fit my concept.

On the inside I tried to keep everything clean and simple. I used the Lilly Bee Christmas Cheer 6x6 Pad for the inside of this album. I was really inspired by a single sheet of paper in this set that had the numbers 1 - 25 in circles.

I hand cut each number out and then layered it on a contrasting piece of paper from the pad. These numbers serve as the numbers for each of my days. I'll need to trim my 4x6 photos down but my plan right now is to take one photo each day and glue the photo into the book but only glue three sides of the photo.

On the unglued side I plan to slide in  a tag with journaling about the day behind the picture. This way the focus of my album will be the picture but I'll also have some journaling to remind myself about the day!

I'm excited to take my first picture today and I'm excited to see the finished version of my album. I hope you've enjoyed my album and see just how simple a December daily album can be. There will be so many more creative ideas from the other TeamWorks members over the next 14 days so I hope you will join us each day for all the inspiration we have to share!

30 Days, 30 Cards - Day 15

Good morning MemoryWorks friends! I'm so glad to be here today sharing some holiday card inspiration with you.

This is the sketch I selected for my card from the Retro Sketches blog.

This is the card I created based on the sketch. I used papers from the Lily Bee Christmas Cheer collection and added a sentiment and a few buttons and rhinestones from my stash to balance things out.

Don't forget to play along with our 30 Days, 30 Cards challenge for a chance to win a great prize. Just link your own creation up at the top of the MemoryWorks blog. Remember to visit each day for new cards, sketches and inspiration!

Challenge Me Wednesday--Mix it Up!

It's Challenge me Wednesday and I'm featuring my take on this month's challenge-- Mix it Up! Finding papers and other supplies from a variety of manufacturers and incorporating them into my work is something I do all the time. I love to use up my odd bits and scraps and this kind of challenge is right up my alley. Thanks Lynn for a fun kick-off challenge.



This layout features papers from Crate paper, LillyBee, Authentique and Simple Stories, and embellishments from the same lines along with October Afternoon. It's all spelled out below. I liked how the colors from their clothing, skin tones and front door are in these papers and the flower background makes me thing happy thoughts, and moving into a new home is a very happy thought indeed.

Since the papers and embellishments were already out, I made a couple of quick ATCs which can go in my ATC collection or be used as an embellishment on a page or to create a card or tag. I used products from the same lines as above, and added some Stickles to the butterfly and rose chip boards for a bit of dazzle. The paper flower here and above in the layout were made the same way--I used a Marvy-Uchida flower punch and punched several scraps. I inked the edges and crumpled up the flowers. Using a brad as a center I combined several flowers, crumpled the top flower for texture and adhered with a glue dot. This quick and easy flower uses up scraps and adds the perfect finishing touch.

So, lets get mixing!

Supplies used:

Crate Paper Random (flowered background paper, border strip from paper and chip board heart/flower/butterfly)
Authentique Splendid(pink trellis paper, tags, dragonfly stamp)
LilyBee Memorandum (blue damask/green trellis paper, alphas for "sweet")
Simple Stories 100 Days of Summer (stripe paper, flourish sticker, banner sticker)
October Afternoon (Little Flyer "happiness", "home" alphas)
MME--twine
Basic Grey--brads
Ranger--Distress Ink, Stickles
Kraft cardstock

Inspiration Friday with Kelly Holbrook

It's me again...I will be with you every Friday in the month of November to share some projects, and a little about me.  Here are a few things that maybe you didn't know about me:

* I am mother to 5 gorgeous children, 3 of which I home school.

* I have given birth to all 5 of my kids at home with a midwife.

* My largest baby weighed 12 lbs, and 3 oz. ...Yikes :)

* My favorite TV show is Smallville, and now that it's done...I don't watch much television.

* My drink of choice is coffee, or if the mood hits, Dr. Pepper.

* There isn't a vegetable that I don't like.

Ok, enough of that...I had the privilege of working with Lily Bee's Harvest Market theme set, and everything that goes with it...

You can see all of  it here.

Here is a page I created in the left over spirit of Halloween.  These are actually last year's Halloween pictures, yep, I'm a little behind :)

Pumpkins and Super Heroes

Aren't those little letters adorable? With the help of an exacto knife...you can get more precise placement.

 I loved the colors from this product line...perfect for Halloween, Thanksgiving, or anything Fall.

I'll be back next week to talk about the rest of my projects.  Have a great week!