About Me & WeR Memory Keepers by Lisa L.

Wow was I in a resourceful mood this month. I was sitting at my desk staring at the We R Memory Keepers packaging and thinking what a shame it was to toss it away! Next thing you know, I'm using it for an altered frame. It was perfect. I used pop dots to make my items stand out in the bubble windows.
Some ribbons at the top and I have a beautiful framed "About Me" project to hang in my studio. So remember to think outside the box.....actually to think about altering the box!!!

With leftovers, I made a beautiful card, a little handmade booklet about my favourite things and a journal. Cute, quick and easy. And a neat tip for the journal - rather than using tabs to section off parts, I cut out flowers from the Hippo Flower Power paper and made them into my tabs.

About Me & 3 Bugs in a Rug by Peggy S.

I have to admit when told this month's topic was "All About Me" I almost decided to bow out. I hardly ever scrap about myself and have gotten pretty good at making sure I am behind the camera rather than in front of it :-) Then I got to looking around in the new section of the store and fell in love with the 3 Bugs in a Rug line.
I chose papers and cardstock stickers from the Spicy line for my layout this month. I fell in love with the colors and bold patterns found in these papers. I cut letters from the Gusto paper to form my "Create" title, and layered Cajun, Stripes, and Seasoned papers for my background, adding some of the Chit chat cardstock stickers and flowers trimmed from the Seasoned paper.
Still no photos of me but I did do quite a bit of journaling (hidden behind the large flowered paper) about how amazed I am at where this scrapbooking bug has taken me. From when a friend dragged me kicking and screaming (and positive I was not artistic enough to do this) to the local scrapbook store 8 years ago to where I am now......... designing for a monthly newsletter and a monthly scrapbook kit company as well as teaching scrapping to others and getting paid to do scrapbooks for others. I love what I do for my family and for others.

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About Me & WeR Memory Keepers by Emelyn M.

"EM"
I'm really lucky I married a guy whose last name started with "M", as in Magpoc! It justifies my nickname as EM, not only from "Emelyn", but also from "E(melyn) M(agpoc)"! LOL! Anyway....this month's theme was "All About Me." As I was searching for product to use from the store, the new We R Memory Keepers papers and tags were just perfect!! I LOVE the new Hippo Line! The bright colorful papers just scream out CHEERFUL! And that is how I like to see life, being cheerful and happy. The matching tag was just what I needed to finish up my page as an accent describing My Favorite Things. I also used Karen Foster's Loopy brads tied with Doodlebug ribbons to bring focus to the picture and finished up the page with accents around the jounaling.

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About Me & Scenic Route by Mary H.

My Book of Me wouldn't be complete without a page about those in my life that I love. In keeping with the bright, happy theme I chose to use Scenic Route's Brighton line.

I paired a chipboard letter with one of the embellishments from Brighton Love Chipboard Embellishments for my title. Sanding the edges added a little something extra. Next, I used Brighton Snowdrift to matte my photo and as the centers of the flowers on each of my journaling strips. After adding the pink photo corners from the Brighton Love Chipboard Embellishments, my photo was ready to be mounted on the Brighton Pink & Green Dots, and Brighton Swiss Alps papers, which I used with Bazzill cardstock for my background.

On each journaling strip, I listed someone that I love and what I love about them. The flowers with the colorful centers add to the journaling strips, without taking the focus off of my heartfelt journaling. After dating the back, my layout was complete.

When I first got this line of paper, my first thought was to use it for pictures of my daughter in her pink coat. Since we haven't had much snow since I got the paper, there were now cute sledding pictures of my daughter. Then I thought I'd use it for a layout about DH and I on Valentine's Day. But the Steelers Championship attire we had on for Valentine's Day didn't quite seem to fit with the pretty paper. When I got the idea to do a layout about those that I love, the Scenic Route Brighton line jumped out at me.

It was perfect! I could use the cool love-themed chipboard and "happy" patterned papers that didn't go with the black and gold! And then I realized, that part of what makes this line so much fun is that it can be used for so many different themes.

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Your Photo's "Our Way"

This month Lisa and Emelyn created layouts using Laura's pictures.

This is from Lisa L.:

And From Emelyn:

"New Baby Boy"
It's been a few years since I last scrapped baby boy pages so it was really fun creating this one for Laura! I wanted to highlight his cute face with his lips say "ooh", so I cropped it really close and altered the photo to black and white. This looked great against the blues and greens of the new Scenic Route papers! Then I used the Creative Imaginations rubons, the blacks went well with the black and white photo and made a great title that stood out. I finished up with embellishments from Tim Holtz, Scrapworks Tabs, Making Memories stars, and ribbons. I hope you like it Laura!