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a little peek

I cannot wait until the new release can be shown to you all. The color palettes and the new products are amazing...and as usual, I say Kaitlin has outdone herself this time around!

Here is a layout I created with some of the new goodies, mostly from the Bungalow line:

There are a couple of other colors from this line that didn't make it on to this layout, but the combination is fresh and beautiful! Can you spy the new stuff?!

Let's take a closer look:

Fabric strips...labels...dots n spots:)

dots n spots...flair...sale tags.

Bungalow is just one of the new lines being released and has a family/home theme, but is still amazing for everyday scrapbooking. Hope you enjoyed the peek...make sure you check back for some more peeks, and then the full reveal next week:)

And if you want to win some new products before you buy them, check out THIS post!

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currently

 

I had Kaitlin make up some custom flair buttons for me, each one with the initial of everyone in my family. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it, then I had the idea to jot (type!) some of the things we are all currently doing or are into.

I ran some of the blank package tags through my typewriter to add the journaling, and added some twine to 2 of the tags.

I love the touch the custom flair buttons add to the tags!!! I think I will definitely be ordering some more;)

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cards

Good morning!! Today I am going to share with you a card that I made, using Ormolu tags as my sentiment.

Here it is:

For this one, I trimmed the top off of one of the Fact or Fiction Negative tags, then layered a fabric swatch over that. I then layered the tag over that and added the xx and oo on either side of the ampersand cut out.

I like to think outside of the box when I am making cards and make cards with unique sentiments (which can be  a problem because I never have any birthday cards to giveaway, ha!), and going through the Ormolu tags made that an easy task;)

Have you created any cards with Ormolu products? Link us up, you never know when your project might get featured;)

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snapshot of a year

As my kids get older, it seems like I have less and less time to scrap. One of my ways to combat this is to include lots of pictures over a period of time on a page. It could be ALL halloween photos on one page, instead of individual photos across multiple pages, or a 2 page spread with highlights of the summer.

When my son was born, on each month "birthday," I would take a photo of him in a white onesie in the same spot in his room. Never mind that he is about to turn 3, but I finally have scrapped them...after realizing the Negative Number Tags would be perfect for my favorite time saving approach;)



You can see how easy this came together...I backed the tags with patterned paper for little pops of color, added my photos, and added stitching and embellishments here and there to the tags. The result is a snapshot of his first year. I love seeing the progression of how he grew over the course of the year!

Here are some detail shots:







The tags would be perfect to scrap a year in review since they go from 1-12;)

Thanks so much for looking!!!
Pam

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the beginning of a love story...a challenge

*Edited to add the winner, Gina Lideros! Please e-mail Kaitlin at ormoludesign@gmail.com to claim your credit to the shop!

 

I celebrated a birthday last month and it dawned on me that I have almost known my husband for half of my life. My kids know the story...a month after I turned 16, I got my first job at the Papa Johns Pizza in my neighborhood, answering phones and taking orders. My first day, I met lots of the people who worked there, but one cute delivery driver stood out;) Little did I know we would start dating a year later and eventually get married and have babies:)

I have never scrapped this story before, since I started scrapping post-kids, and this is a story that needs to be in the books, don't you think?!

While we were back in our hometown awhile back, we drove by the Papa Johns and showed it to our kids. I took a photo and here is what that turned into:

Some detail shots:

I used the negative cut out letters from the Fact or Fiction Negative Package Tags.

I used one of the Go Negative Package Tags for part of my title and layered pieces of the Line & Letter Fabric Swatches underneath for a little bit of texture. I added some twine, flappers, flair, and tags to embellish and called it done:)

My challenge to you is to scrap the beginning of a love story. It can be yours and your significant other, your parents, your pet, your baby, your child meeting their sibling for the first time...it's totally up to you!!! Link your layout in the comments section here before next Thursday, March 1st, and I will draw a winner for a $5 gift certificate to the shop:)

I shared the challenge with the other creative team members and this is what they came up with:

Here is a layout from Marti of her second son with her third son:)


Here is a layout from Christa about her and her husband:)

I can't wait to see what love story you scrap!!

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Pam | Project Life

Are you, like many many others, doing Project Life?

I have jumped on the bandwagon and wanted to share my cover page since it uses so many Ormolu goodies! I have a feeling I will be using lots of them throughout my book, particularly the Fact or Fiction line. It is perfect for this type of documentation:)

I used some of my favorite photos from 2011 to open the book. I wanted to keep the cover page bright and fairly clean, so I just added a few little embellishments with the flappers and bits of flair:) I made the year with the negative numbers from the Negative Number Package Tags.

Here are a few close up shots:

Are you using Ormolu products in your Project Life album? If so, please link us up, we would love to see!!

 

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Merry Christmas!

A little early, but the Creative Team and I are taking a break for the Holidays to spend time with our family and friends. We want to head out on our break with a thank you to our readers and for all of the support we have received throughout the year. So, in the spirit of Christmas, each of us made a card... our version of sending cards to our readers.

We hope you have a Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday and safe travels. We will be back in the new year! 

Christa Paustenbaugh

Emily Spahn

Marti Cobb

Stephanie Wheeler

Melanie Louette

Pam Brown

Amanda Probst

Kaitlin Sheaffer

December Daily

Hello everyone! You may remember this post, when I showed you the bones of my December Daily album. I am not all of the way caught up to where I need to be, but I wanted to share what I have accomplished.
Day 1:

My husband and I before heading to my work Christmas party. I tucked the journaling in that little envelope and added a Merrymaker Flapper in the top right corner. Not the best photo (a little too bright)...but that is what I love about projects such as this and Week in the Life. They allow you to focus more on the story and I find that very freeing:)

Day 2:

Off to serach for our Christmas tree. The Merrymaker Storytellers are the perfect size (2.5"x3.5") to fit in the pockets of the baseball card holders.

Day 3:

Decorating the tree:)

Day 4:

I saw Ali do this in one of her pockets in her album, and I loved it. I like how you can get a peek of the pages underneath. My journaling didn't quite fill up the entire Merrymaker Storyteller, so I added some patterned paper to cover up the empty space.

Day 5:

Dinner with Santa at my daughter's school:) So far I have added the date by doing this a lot, using a Merrymaker Flapper and adding the date with a rub-on.

Day 6:

I had to add some twine here somewhere...and the tag I had to use...went with Charlie Brown's shirt so well;)

Day 7:

Just a little bit of festive food:)

Day 9:

My daughter's school Christmas program. And yes, I did skip day 8. I have plans to share pictures of holiday decorations around the house.

So that is all I have so far, how is your December Daily going?!

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December Daily

Hi everyone! It's Pam here today and we are going to forget about Thanksgiving and talk about December Dailies;) I have done this project the past 2 years and am doing it again this year, only I am approaching the prep work a bit differently.

In the past, I have premade ALL of the pages in my album with the idea that it would be easier to plug in the pictures+words and be done with it. The problem with that is that when I am prepping my album, I have NO idea what we will be doing on that particular day, so then I ended up with too many pictures for the space (or the other way around!) or clashing colors with the papers+photos. I am doing things a little different this time around. I have made the covers of my album:

To create this album, I took 2 pieces of chipboard and trimmed them down to measure 8.5 inches high and 8 inches wide. I covered them with patterned paper, rounded the corners, and stitched around the edges. Then I punched holes through the cover and embellished it just a bit with some Merrymaker goodies.

As you can see in the photo below, I covered the inside of the covers with white cardstock.

For the opening page, I used an idea I saw pinned by Ali Edwards of someone using her digital word art in the beginning of her album. I loved that idea, so I went with it! I think it is the perfect thing to begin the album!

I used 3 different sized paged protectors in this album because I really love the way it looks all layered and you can see bits peeking out from different pages, once everything is filled in, of course! The bulk of the protectors are 6x6, then I took some baseball card holders and trimmed them down to 2x2 pockets. Finally, I threw a couple of 5x7 page protectors in there!

I prepped a couple of the pages that I knew for certain what we would be doing on that particular day. For example, on December 1st, we will be going to a work Christmas party, so I plan to stick a vertical picture in the white space and my journaling will go in that little envelope.

On this day, I know we will be going to my daughter's school to eat dinner with Santa, so I stuck a Merrymaker Storyteller in one of the pockets (they are the perfect size for these pockets, yay!!!) for my journaling, and left 3 slots for photos. I will overlap the Merrymaker Flapper with the number 5 over one of the photos and stitch across it.

As you can see from this picture, I stuck the Merrymaker Number Tags in the page protectors so that they are ready to go when I have my photos and stories.

I will be updating you all with how my book is coming along mid-December, once I have some photos in there!!

This is such a fun project, and I think one of my favorite things is to pull out the books around Christmas and look at all of our holiday memories, what our traditions are, etc. Are you planning on doing a December Daily? If you have used some Ormolu products to get your album ready, please link us up, I would love to see them!

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we have a winner...

Hey everyone! It's Pam here today with the winner of my photo challenge I had going on. First, I want to apologize for taking so long, so sorry!! Next, I want to thank everyone who played along:) It is interesting to see what everyone's interpretation of a bad photo is!

So on to the winner...

Sarah A. said...

Here is mine- a photo from a little shoot for my son's 2 month birthday where he would. not. smile. I ended up using one of the shots anyway and turned out loving the layout. Thanks for the challenge!
http://sarah-scrapsoflife.blogspot.com/2011/10/2-months.html

Congrats Sarah!!! Please e-mail Kaitlin HERE and we will get your gift certificate sent to you so you can start shopping:)

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!