Summer Shops & Soda Pops are just some of the cool graphics that are included in the Simple Stories Retro Summer collection and we LOVE IT ALL! This bright and festive collection is a must have for your summer fun memories! From vacation spots to parties and treats by the pool, this collection is filled with all the summer vibes you love! One lucky follower is going to WIN IT ALL! The prize package will include the following products from the Simple Stories Retro Summer collection: * Retro Summer Collection Kit * Retro Summer 6×8 Pad * Retro Summer Washi Tape * Retro Summer Enamel Dots * R ..read more

Hey Creative Scrapbooker Fans! For today’s blogpost, I’m sharing with you how to create this Joyful Moments Tag using a variety of products from the Elizabeth Craft Designs Everyday Elements collection. You’ll want to grab a cup of your favourite beverage and learn how to recreate my tag at home. To start, you’ll need a white tag that measures 3 1/8” x 6 ¼”. Take the circle stencil out of the Planner Essentials – Planner Stencils 1 from Elizabeth Craft Designs. Place the stencil on the left-hand side of the tag. Using a blending tool with foam and Dina Wakley Media Acrylic Paint in Sand from ..read more

WIN WIN WIN a fabulous prize package INCLUDING Therm O Web NEWEST Deco Foil Toner Card Fronts! YAHOOO! Deco Foil Toner Card Fronts are pre-printed black-and-white designs that can be foiled, colored, ink-blended, stamped, die cut, even left as-is for striking graphic card designs. Use your favorite inks, colored pencils or markers to add color. Choose from more than 80 colors of Deco Foil Transfer Foils to customize your designs. After foiling one of these fun designs, transfer your leftover foil to a Solid Black Deco Foil Toner Card Front for easy 2-in-1 cardmaking. Deco Foil Card Fronts must ..read more

Hey there! It’s Noreen Smith here to share a layout using one of the new U.S. Destinations Paper Packs and Stickers from Creative Memories with you! The four destinations featured – as voted on by Creative Memories Advisors! – are Florida, Great Lakes, New York City and Washington, D.C., and of course these new paper packs and stickers will be great for documenting your trips to those destinations. But you might be surprised at how well they will work with lots of other types of layouts too! For example, my family and I recently spent some Spring break on Vancouver Island where we enjoyed hiki ..read more

Yesturday, Therm O Web announced a new release of products and we got super excited! The line up includes NEW double-sided foam adhesives by Gina K. Designs and NEW Deco Foil Toner Card Fronts! YAHOOOOO! If you have not tried Toner Card Fronts as of yet – NOW is the time! They make adding sparkly foils to your project an absolute breeze! Now the words “CARD FRONT” might make you think that these products can only be used for card making (which they make creating beautiful cards so easy by the way) but this is just not the case! Check out this BEAUTIFUL layout we found over on the Therm O Web b ..read more

Good Morning! Kim here, haven’t seen you for a bit!  Last December I officially backed away from Design Team assignments, life was taking up too much time and creative deadlines were harder to meet! I promised Jackie & Katharina that I was still their biggest fan and would send along a blog post whenever time permitted…so here I am! I find myself using up a lot of mixed media stash that I have these days; and there is a lot! This fun card for my nephew is a perfect example. I will often sit a have a gel plate printing session with my Ranger inks, paints and gel plates, they continue t ..read more

Say hello to our NEW friends over at Crafty Meraki! One lucky follower is going to LOVE this fabulous collection of Crafty Meraki dies!!! Prize Package will include the following products from Crafty Meraki:– Penelope Meraki Flora Para Die Set – Lily Meraki Flora Para Die Set – Madison Meraki Flora Para Die Set – Scarlett Meraki Flora Para Die Set – Emma Meraki Flora Para Die Set – Natalie Meraki Flora Para Die Set CLICK HERE to enter your name into the draw! The contest closes on Friday, April 28th  at midnight Good luck everyone Jackie Ludlage The post Crafty Meraki – GIVEAWAY! appeare ..read more

Hey Creative Scrapbooker Fans! For today’s blog post, I’m sharing with you how to create this Thank You Card using Wildflower Paper Pack from Simple StoriesA varity of dies from Elizabeth Craft DesignsSuper Stock from Creative Scrapbooker Magazine, a variety of inks from Ranger Ink and adhesive from Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L. You’ll want to grab a cup of your favourite beverage and learn how to recreate my card at home. To start, you’ll need the pink gingham and grey patterned paper out of the Wildflower Paper Pack from Simple Stories. Die cut a 4” Stitched Indented Rectangle from Elizabeth Cr ..read more

Bring on SPRING and bring on RAINBOWS!!!!  The Robin’s Nest Creative is the perfect place to start?  Have you tried their DEW DROPS yet? The Robin’s Nest Creative Dew Drops are little pieces of melted acrylic with one side flat! Making them PERFECT for adhering  to projects and they add no weight. They come in a wide selection of colours and a variety of sizes and shapes! The amount of ways you can use Dew Drops…. well… as many colours as there are in a rainbow!!!!! The sky is the limit. CLICK HERE to find out MORE about these MUST HAVE little embellishments! We are super duper ..read more

Have you tried using the Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L 3D Foam Circle Frames yet? The package comes with 36 circles and they are perfect for adding a 3D framed looked to your projects in literally seconds. The best part is that they have adhesive on both sides! So you can stick it down and then add glitter, or flock or paper or acetate or WHATEVER to the top! And the possibilities for shaker boxes…. endless! Here is an absolute darling of a card I found over on the Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L blog designed by Terri Anderson. For all the details on how Terri put together this card – visit the Scrapbo ..read more