Memories and More!

Years ago Stampin’ Up! had partnered with Becky Higgins and her Project Life concept to introduce pocket style scrapbooking to our stamping’ audience. When the partnership ended Stampin’ Up! created their own line, Memories and More. I think they have done an amazing job with this product line. The price point is awesome and they are always thoughtful in the embellishment and product add-ons that you can order to take this form of memory keeping to the next level. Yes, you can keep it simple but that is not the Brenda way…if you have attended any of my classes you know this as #TRUTH! I have been running pocket style scrapbook classes for several years and would like to think I have almost perfected my craft! I offer a 6 month running class series and a couple times a year I offer an all day event. The En Route bundle (sadly now retired) is my feature for my all day class on Sunday! I wanted to give you a sneak peek of what the girls are coming and hopefully peek your interest to try my next class series!

Happily Ever After!

My #workplacebestie Alysha gave me the honour of creating some special cards for her bridal party! I used her gorgeous invitation as my muse! The sentiment stamp is from an older stamp set called All Things Thanks. Sometimes I keep stamps that have more unique phrases like this happily ever after sentiment. I find that these unique phrases do not come around as often and definitely add to my collection of stamps. I have so happy with how these turned out! I used the new Pretty Peacock In Color on these cards too which as a perfect match!

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Greece--3 weeks and counting!

Stampin’ Up! always does the most spectacular job on our travel documents. For every incentive trip I have been blessed to earn I have been gifted thoughtful and unique travel documents from SU. They always follow the theme of where we are visiting and gift us an amazing keepsake. Side note: I have an awesome collection of luggage tags!

CASE the Catalogue #2019

One of the best decisions I ever made as a team leader was to motivate and inspire my team to take on the challenge of CASEing every project in the annual catalogue! We have never completed the entire catalogue, but we work hard at the challenge. This ongoing project motivates my team to use their supplies, choose projects to CASE that inspire them and it opens the door for sharing and communication. The first thing I do when I have the new catalogue in my hands is look though it and mentally pick all of the fun projects I want to recreate. The best part is swapping these with each other. We all end up with some truly amazing projects!

Scrapbooking Tip #1

Something I hear a lot in regards to memory keeping is that people just don’t know where to start. If you are seasoned card maker or a newbie stamper, I often find scrapbook page inspiration from my cards. Try looking at your 12x12 as a ‘card front’. It is after all, just a bigger canvas! Here you can see how I took this card (inspired by a project in the new annual catalogue) and recreated it as a page layout! Often we have more space so we can add in extra phrases, layers or embellishments onto our pages too.