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Hi,
It's SUMMER! We hope you are enjoying picnics in the park, lazy summer afternoons at the pool and and any and all vacations you plan to take. Don't forget to take lots of photos! We have lots of great new summer scrapbooking items to coordinate with all of your Summer Fun!
Note from Kelly: This month Laura B. has taken over writing up the Newsletter, this helps me tremendously and will also enable us to get the newsletter out on time. I wish to say Thank you Laura for doing this! It is appreciated more than you know.
Site News .....
Check out our Clearance Section where items have been reduced to 80% off. Get them while you can!
What's New! .....
A Few of our most recent additions are below. Please visit our "What's New" area to see all the new products that have come in over the last month.
BoBunny Family Patterned Paper, Cardstock Stickers and Alphabets
Doodlebug Design Boys Will Be Boys Patterned Paper, Cardstock Stickers and Alphabets
CI Metallic Embossed Cardstock Stickers
Graffiti Small Impress On Rub-Ons
and Karen Foster Products for All Types of Summer Fun: Metals, Sports Collection,
Water Park Collection, Water Sports Collection, Fishing, and Patriotic for all those Independence Day pages!
Newsletter Spotlight.....
Below, Emelyn, Emily B. and Jen K. share their layouts and thoughts on KI Memories, Karen Foster, Chatterbox, Art Warehouse, overlays and spray adhesive!.
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Emelyn:
I LOVE KI
Memories!!
I sooo love the new line from KI Memories!! The designs on the
patterned papers are so yummy! The retro feel of the curved
lines make any layouts fun and exciting! Also new are the die
cut sheets. These are AWESOME! They are so versatile and could
be used for journaling or put a date or decorative accents!
The colors also match their existing line. I combined the new
line with the previous Icicle letters. It matched perfectly!
Because everything coordinates, it's a snap to put layouts together.
During the summer, there is so many memories to capture, quick
layouts are essential...and KI Memories are a great product
to help with that!
Jen K. Fishing with Karen Foster  In this layout, I used the new Karen Foster
fishing line. The fish paper was the perfect background for
the fishing transparency. I chalked the edges of the paper to
make it just a bit darker, so that the transparency would show
up a little better. I really love using these new transparencies!
They take a plain lonely photo and just make it pop, without
detracting from the picture.On the 2nd page of the layout, I used the coordinating cardstock stickers to accent a few pictures, and used Bazzill browns as the mounting and background paper. Using Adobe Photoshop, I changed my color pictures into Sepia, so they match perfectly with the Karen Foster line. . At the Beach
 I really liked the simplicity
of the beach overlay, but then I went a little over board with
my spray adhesive, and turned the clear transparency into a
"frosted glass" transparency. The detail is lost in
the scan, but it looks much better in person! The excess adhesive
could be used purposefully to add a soft focus underneath transparent
overlays.On the 2nd page of the layout, I again kept it very simple, and only journaled with Heidi Small White Making Memories Simply Stated rub ons with Bazzill Blues for the background and mounting. I picked up the handmade brown paper on a recent field trips to paper stores in New York City.
View Overlays Bundle of Joy  In this layout, I used Bo-Bunny Press "little girl kisses" cardstock stickers and the coordinating printed flower paper. I tore the paper and adhered it to Bazzill Pink for the corners and the border. I then used it to accent the photo mounts. I used the Vellum Quote Stacks from the Baby & Childhood collection for the bundle of joy title. I like the bright colors from these products, as they are not your typically pastel baby colors. However they can be easily adapted to use with pastels if you wanted to, such as overlaying the printed paper with vellum to lighten the look Emily B.:
Chatterbox
 The chatterbox line has quickly
become my new scrapping staple! Their line of coordinating
papers in different color themes is beautiful and useable
for almost any type of photos. In my layout "Jack" I
showcased a favorite baby picture by enlarging it and then
using the soft colors of the Cottage room papers to
compliment the photo. I inked up the edges of the paper and
crumpled it around my photo for texture. Because the
chatterbox papers are double sided there are so many options
for matching up papers within a product line. I simply
paired up 3 choices for my layout.
My last chatterbox layout - "Meeting Jack" shows how much of a basic staple the paper can be in a layout with somewhat busy photos. With all the different people, colors of clothes, and just background "stuff" in these photos, it was a challenge to figure out a color scheme. I wanted to have the layout be "boy", but traditional pastel colors would have looked so pale compared to the dark colors everyone was wearing. The billiard room was the perfect answer for my page. Using the blue background with a subtle pattern and just small amounts of the plaid helped tie the pictures to the paper.
Narratives
 The Narratives line features cool transparency negatives that can be used to frame up your photos or as an accent on your page. In the layout "Baby Henry" I used the largest size negative strip and framed a photo with it. I then chose the coordinating smallest size negative strip to create a border of tiny versions of the same photo turned to black and white. I cut one of the smallest size negatives from the strip to attach offset to my focal point photo.
In the layout "Photos for Fathers Day Gifts" I used the medium black negative strip vertically to frame individual pictures as an accent to the focal point group photos. The negative strips are very easy to use - they include a guide for trimming your photos to the right size and they have guides on them for placement of the photos as well.
Art Warehouse
 The Art Warehouse line is very modern and cool looking. The line includes papers, stickers, epoxy stickers and rub ons. In the layout "Moments Like This" I utilized one of the stickers to use both as an accent and my title for my page. The stickers have a clear background on them so they can blend in to the background anywhere, and each sheet has a number of different words or phrases, making them a great value - one sheet can be used on a number of different layouts or projects. |
Thank you to all
of you who contributed to our June Layout Contest celebrating Fathers!
(The winners each month are chosen by our design
team.) *clicking
on image will show you a larger view*
Congratulations to our June Contest
Winners!!
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 2nd-By Montana Scrapper |
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Our theme for July is "Summertime." The
winners receive Tomorrow's Memories gift certificates so stop
by the Idea Gallery and submit your layouts in the July contest category! *note,
if you have a layout in the Gallery that fits this category, you may
move it to the contest category
if you'd like. But, it must be a layout that has not won a previous
contest.*
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Design Team Layouts.....
Below are some random layouts created by
our Design Team. Clicking image will show a larger view.
Please visit the
Spotlight Category to view more great layouts by our Design Team.
 By Jackie S |
 By Becky D |
 By Michele L |
 By Beth J |
 By Theresa N |
 By Beth E |
 By Lynn B |
Have a Wonderful Day!!
~Kelly
kam@tomemories.com
www.tomemories.com
www.tomemoriesgallery.com
Design Team Members: Lynn B.,
Theresa N., Becky D., Michelle L., Beth E., Beth J., & Jackie S.
News Team Members: Laura B., Mary H., Jen K., Sonda T., Emily B., & Emelyn M.
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