June Newsletter

May 31, 2012

Hello Fellow Scrappers:

I did not have a May Newsletter as there was so many happenings and they were covered in April.  I have a lot to tell you for the upcoming weeks.  You don’t want to miss out.  Time is of the essence.

Join the rewards club for $39/year and get a $10 credit towards your next purchase and a discount on all future purchases.  For all the details about the club please view at http://www.creativememories.com/Content/Shop/Product.aspx?pr=InspectOffering&s=648647&dpr=Search&ds=rewards%20club   be sure to check out the rules, terms of use agreement and sign up to get the extra dollars for the June offer that you can purchase as of June 1^st.

Rewards Club – June Offer:

 Rewards Club Tote-n-Go Challenge

 Rewards Club members can enter to win great prizes in our Tote-n-Go Challenge. Here’s how it works: when you get the exclusive Scrappin’ Tote, send in a photo of you with your tote for a chance to win an amazing prize pack that includes a Cricut Expression® 2 machine! Check out the details in the June Rewards Club newsletter for U.S. and Canada.

Youth Scrapbooking Contest:

Facebook Be Young Scrapbooking Contest

 It's fun to be young! Students in grades K-12 can enter to win a Scrap-Your-Summer prize package in the Be Young Scrapbooking Contest.  Enter on the Creative Memories Home Office Facebook Page from June 11-25, 2012.

While Supplies Last Updates:

We have a few products that will be going while supplies last on July 1, 2012:

    642766  Daisy Tools Caddy

    642664 Perforating Rotary Blade

    645785 Cheerful Halloween Additions

When the inventory is depleted, the product will no longer be available for purchase.

Also check out my FB Album of April 1^st Discontinuations for more products on the WSL Listings.

DIGITAL CENTER HOUSEKEEPING:

 
The Digital Center is doing some housekeeping, which means that unused Digital Center accounts will be eliminated in early August.  In June, we’ll send emails to the users to let them know that they’ll need to place an order or share an image or album to keep the account active.  We’re only cleaning out accounts that fit these criteria: 

• ·         No order activity for the last year or more

• ·         No prepaid print plan balance or free print balance

• ·         No product credits available

• ·         No images or albums shared in the last year or more

• ·         The account is older than a year

Current Specials:

June 1-June 25: Save 25% on Hardcover StoryBooks, extra pages and lay-flat upgrades!

May 15-June 30  Buy one Sleek White Everyday Display, get one 50% off

Digital Heritage Album 6-week series on Go Digital Facebook page

May 1-June 30 Double bulk discount on Softcover StoryBooks. Great for group sales opportunities!

May 15-Jun 15 Digital Father’s Day Card Sale

May/June Mini Catalog. Be Young Collections: Coversets, Additions, Stack Packs, Cricut Cartridge. Stamper System, new Tool Kit, new Border Maker Cartridges, Just Because Card Set

Rewards Club:  May 1-31: double Club Credit  June 1-30  Tote-n-Go Challenge for Club Members

New Products:

The Personal trimmer has a new design – available to order now and will be shipped beginning in July.  Cost is $22 (S/H & Taxes additional).

Also coming in July are some new album coverset choices.  Two that I am aware of are Tangerine and Teal.  Ooohhh I can’t wait!!  So many other great things coming.  Be sure to see me after the July 4^th Holiday for the low down.

My Upcoming Events:

Scrap Olympics - I will be holding a Scrap Olympics in August so you can scrap along with your own Olympic events.  I will be posting a document with all the details both on my Facebook Fan page & my blog – you can also email me for all the details.  I have a few more things to iron out with it, but I should have it ready to go tomorrow for you.  I will have 3 crop dates available for you to come work at my house and have use of all my tools besides what you can do on your own during the event.

Showcase - I will be attending Creative Memories Showcase Convention in Minneapolis again this year at the end of July.  It’s my second time attending.  I am looking forward to meeting all of my FB friends that I have been chatting with and emailing over the past few years.  I am anticipating the fun of sharing all of the new information with you when I return.  The release of the new products is usually around Labor Day.

Croptoberfest - I will also let you know of a date for Croptoberfest as soon as I get a date set in stone.

Crops - Watch my online pages for dates and times for crops.  I am always available to assist you with your photo preservation needs.  Give me a call & come crop for an afternoon or evening even if I don’t have a crop on the schedule.

Enjoy your upcoming summer and take lots of pictures – then come see me to assist you with your different options.

Thanks again,

CHRISTINE (Chris) HEBERLIG

Creative Memories Consultant ID #41342448

Email: kintsy@comcast.net

Web: http://www.mycmsite.com/sites/christineheberlig

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Chris-Heberlig-Creative-Memories-Consultant/182181798493327?ref=tn_tnmn

Blog: http://chrisscrafterscorner.blogspot.com/

Happy Memorial Day!

All Gave Some - Some Gave ALL

Please remember the purpose for today's holiday...

12 x 12 Flip Out Pages

As promised I completed the instructions for the 12x12 flip-out pages.  I hope that I have made them easy to follow.  I would love some feedback on the instructions.  Here is a link to a PDF file so you won't have a bunch of JPG files to deal with organizing or printing.

Today's Raves

I want to thank everyone who is viewing my blog; I am very excited with the amount of traffic and with it being a fairly new blog.  I hope you all are finding my rants & raves humorous and all the other information helpful.  My goal is for this to be enjoyable for everyone, as well as allow me to vent when I need to.  I have just been through a whirlwind of a weekend and beginning to the week.  All has been good, just very full of activities.

My National Scrapbook Day was a success; I am energized and hope to keep that momentum going for me and my customers.  I love that they are excited to get started and some finished projects.  The gleam in their eyes and the excitement in their voices as they get ready to continue or move on to the next project is just wonderful.  I was even able to get quite a bit of my own pages completed.

There are some wonderful offers from Creative Memories that will end on May 31st. Check out the Mini Catalog for the offers now and those coming in June.  An addendum for the June Digital Sale - June 1-June 25

Our great sale on digital products is even bigger and better! Our offer of  20 percent off additional pages and lay-flat page upgrades has been modified to include Hardcover StoryBooks. And we've boosted the  discount to 25 percent! When you show page 21 in the May/June Mini Catalog to your party guests,  make sure to let them know the offer is now an amazing 25 percent savings  on Hardcover StoryBooks, additional pages and the lay-flat upgrade option. You’ll see the correct amount listed on the Digital Center as well.  The sale runs June 1 – 25

Don't forget about all those Dad's & Grads; still time to get a digital gift for them. If you need ideas, please contact me for ideas. You can also check out the Project Center at www.creativememories.com for great ideas, too.


Keep taking those photos and preserving all those great moments.  I will have plenty to scrap as well...one band banquet, a concert, Memorial Day Parade, another band concert, scouts, 5th grade Graduation, all in the past week & the upcoming week!  I'm tired just thinking about it...


I am currently working on a set of directions with photos on how to create 12 x 12 flip out pages.  Maybe I'll give it a go at a video again...  WATCH FOR IT!

My NSD Event - location changed

In case you didn't see my updated post from back in April and were planning on attending my NSD this Saturday, May 19th; I've had to change the location to My Place; 9 am - 6 pm.  Please contact me if you need directions.

 

Fee for the day $20 included your lunch and exclusive attendance gifts (not pictured).

You will need to bring a snack to share and your album, photos or latest project.  There will also be internet connection available to work online, too.

I will have all of my CM tools available for your use, I'll have my cricut, too.  Please bring your own 12 x 12 or 12 x24 mat to use.  If you have a cartridge you want to use, please bring it.  Sorry no Gypsy's allowed to link to my machine...

I'd appreciate a donation for replacement of blades if you are doing more than 2 cuts.  Thanks!

Looking forward to a terrific day; see you on Saturday!

Tell Your Story

Great post by another blogger: Reaching Scrapbookers With and Without Children

This is a wonderfully written article. This was shared on one of my message boards from a fellow CMC.  Please don't think that scrapbooking is only for those who have children.  All our lives have an impact and we all have a story to tell.

Tell your story...


Yesterday is a perfect example:  We all got together for Mother's Day - now yes I have children, but this is something that could very easily apply to a childless person/couple, too.

4 Wheeling It!

You could very easily scrapbook any event...camping with friends or an organization.  A rafting trip, hiking, your quilts, knitting, crocheting, books you've read - whatever your interests may be.  I have been creating scrapbooks since I was a child - so I have many many albums that do not include my children.  If paper piecing and photographing is something you enjoy - don't let the absence of children stop you from creating your story!

How to trim page protectors

I just created a video demonstrating how to trim the true size page protectors down to fit the original sized pages. Since the original sized page protectors are no longer available there were quite a few consultants and customers on my message boards that were concerned with how to do this.  This is my first video so I apologize for the poor lighting, etc.  This is all a learning process for me.

The Little Things...

It was an extremely hectic weekend; spent at our cabin.  The DH & DS spent all day Saturday bringing in firewood off the mountain; my DD and I assisted with loading some of it once it was cut to length.  We are still in clean up mode from the logger who was in last year & didn't do as he promised; surprise, surprise.  We are in the process of opening back up the actual logging roads and trails that were on the property before the bad logger came in & left tree tops everywhere.  Nature is amazing as to how quickly the scared earth recovers.

I love going to the mountain because my children are experiencing a much slower & different way of life, even if it's only for a few days at a time.  They get to unplug from all of their electronic devices and TV shows.  They love to be outdoors on the various trails and see things like the super moon without all of the light pollution from the city.   I got a chance to get some photos of the super moon this past Saturday; my husband drove us up to the overlook at the top of the mountain.  Our resident bear left evidence that it was nearby so not much exploring took place this past weekend.  While making noise cutting the logs, it was OK, they'll tend to stay away.  However when viewing the moon at the overlook, got a whiff of the pungent smell of the bear.  Didn't care to meet him face to face so we cut our viewing short even though we were most likely fine as we were.

Sunday morning I was able to get some great pictures of the cutest little bird, too.  Through a more lengthy search than usual for me I came to learn that the bird is a hooded warbler.  They come to our area only during late spring and over the summer to breed.

 

This little guy flew into our picture window Sunday morning while we were having a late breakfast.  The entire family slept in from all of the heavy lifting the day before from hauling in firewood.

 

I went out the door to the deck to check on him...obviously he was still stunned from plowing into the window.  Just sat there and allowed me and both children to get within inches of him.

 

This was the closest I go to him, I didn't want to give the poor little guy a heart attack on top of his pounding headache :-)

 This kids pulled out our bird identification books to find out which type of bird he was...even after looking in the book we weren't totally sure which he was, so when I got home I sent a photo to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's FB page.  They were great!  I love their site.


My DH & DS did tell my daughter and I about the red fox they came across while cutting wood.  Apparently he came in to check out the noise.  Deer will also do this.  They come to see what all the noise is about.  I LOVE it; they are as curious about us as we are about them...


My DD and I did make a trip to the local Amish grocery store on Saturday morning.  This is always a fun trip because you'll never know what you'll find.  They buy over runs, over stocks, fire sales, etc.  You get the idea.  What I do know is that this little store saves me a fortune in groceries!  The kids love the refrigerated/freezer section of the store.  It quite literally is a converted tractor trailer.  Be sure you have your winter coat to enter even in the summer!  It's COLD. 

I did feel a bit guilty as I was in the cabin working on Virtual NSD along with CM and CMGD on facebook when I was able to get online through my cell phone.  Not the best of connections to do what I wanted, however it was better than no connection :-)  When my husband & I purchased our little hide away; we made a deal to keep it with no phone, no cable TV, no Internet; so that it remained a place of relaxation for us and our family.  Too many of these past trips one of us has had to 'connect' to the real world for our jobs.

Enjoy the photos I was able to get from this past weekend in between work and participating in Creative Memories Virtual NSD.

NSD Celebration Event (reposted from April 27)

Virtual NSD Celebration

Join us online from April 27-May 5 to celebrate National Scrapbook Day, which was originally founded by Creative Memories in 1995.

There will be daily challenges, door prizes, speed scraps, freebies and more!

Stop by our Creative Memories Home Office or Go Digital Facebook Pages, starting April 27, for all of the fun.  Also watch Pinterest for links to the sketches of the day and also for posted photos from the challenges and speed scraps.  The goal is to provide you with lots of inspiration and to help you get your photos & projects completed.

Invite your friends - it's going to be great!

Day 1: Friday, April 27th

Challenge #1: Color Challenge

My Oldest Soccer Player

 My oldest soccer player's page with MAW papers from 2009 - Wishes & Dreams.  The page layout is from the featured project that was published with those papers at the time - uses (3) 4x6 photos.  Wishful border punch was used along with the regular tearing tool.  Cardstock colors are cloud, espresso with dots, and beige with dots from the MAW papers.

My Littlest Soccer Player

my littlest soccer player's page.  This page was made with the old soccer additions and orange cardstock I used the cricut to cut the title and used stickers that came with the additions to enhance the page.  The orange jersey, cleats, and water bottle were Jolee's.  The soccer balls are brads that I had picked up over the years.

link to freebie #1

speed scrap #1

sketch of the day

Day 2: Saturday, April 28th

Challenge #2:  Use Hearts

View on the Challenges Page - please leave remarks

 To create this page I used SBC+ 3.0 and chose a PDP (pre-designed page) from the Reminisce Power Palette, I chose heart embellishments from the Vintage Embellishments Kit & the heart in the center of the flower was a freebie from years ago (CMGD).  The font used on the page is Annie and the color was selected to match from the dark bird on the page.

link to freebie #2
speed scrap#2
sketch of the day

Day 3: Sunday April 29th

Challenge #3: Tag Maker

I did not enter this page since I had posted it previously for another challenge a while back, however it shows very nicely the use of tags.  It was created in SBC+ 3.0 with a pre-designed page from the Everyday Power Palette.  My daughter just loves these color combinations and loud designs.  The font used is Ales and Wenches, one of my favorite fonts.

link to freebie #3
speed scrap #3
sketch of the day

Day 4: Monday, April 30th

Challenge #4: Cook It Up!

 This is a page from my daughter's Brownie Troop's cookbook.  Each of he girls chose their favorite recipe and they compiled a cookbook of all their recipes.

link to freebie #4
speed scrap #4
sketch of the day

Day 5: Tuesday May 1st

Challenge #5: Create a layout of you as a child from an old photo

Cramer Family Grandchildren

I have had problems with the link for the photo above, as soon as I can find the break I will correct the link...

Speed Scrap #5 - page I created

link to freebie #5

speed scrap #5

sketch of the day

Be sure to check the Winner's List daily to see if you've won! 

Speed Scraps are taking place at approximately 8:00 pm CDT (that's 9:00 pm EDT)  you can always go back & view/participate at a later date.  I will continue to post the links here for you.

Queen Of The Crop

Queen of the Crop

Please visit the above link and vote for one of these great ladies.  The rules are listed above in the photo for your ease.

Day 6: Wednesday, May 2nd

Challenge #6: On the Road Again

Today's Challenge #6

page from free blueprint from P2P

link to speed scrap # 6

link to sketch #6

link to freebie from P2P

link to freebie #6

Day 7: May 3rd

Challenge #7:  Mix It Up! One word title, 5+ photos, 8 embellishments

Lizzie's Concert tonight

link to freebie#7
link to sketch #7

link to speed scrap #7

Day 8: May 4th 

Challenge #8 : 1, 2, 3, 4!

1, 2, 3, 4! Challenge

Layouts can be as easy as 1, 2, 3, or in today's case 1, 2, 3, 4! Create a layout using: 1 Sheet of Cardstock, 2 pieces of patterned paper, 3 photos, and 4 paper embellishments.

Friday Freebie

link to freebie #8

link to sketch #8

link to speed scrap #8 
link to Random Door Prize Winner's List

Day 9: Saturday, May 5th

Happy Cinco De Mayo!

Today's Challenge: Alphabet Soup!

Alphabet Soup Challenge

link to freebie #9

link to sketch #9

link to speed scrap #9

Here's a link to ALL of the NSD Challenges 
Here's a link to ALL of the NSD Freebies


A story by Paper Crafter's Corner on Creative Memories and National Scrapbook Day - Nobody Does it Better!

Don't forget to place your orders before the sale ends tonight.  Some items are up to 35% Off!  Thanks for joining me in the 9-day NSD Celebration Commotion.  It's been loads of fun!

A direct link for placing your orders at Creative Memories; You'll need a consultant ID when ordering - you may use mine if you don't have a consultant #41342448