farewell to the best scrapbook store on the web

Last week, I learned that lifetimemoments was going to close its doors at the end of this year. I have been blessed to have been designing for LM for many years now - since September, 2005. To say that I love the store, and its owners Jackie and Thad, is an understatement. They are the epitome of grace and generosity, and ran Lifetimemoments with kindness, beauty and love. I am so sad for what the closing represents for Jackie and Thad, although I am 100% confident that life has good things in store for them that will unfold as they move forward. I will miss the community, and the closeness of our design team. We have celebrated babies, promotions, adoptions, moves, marriages, deployments and safe returns, birthdays, and everything else possible in between. While we will always stay in touch and be friends, a part of me recognizes that it will not be the same and how much I will miss logging in every day for my LM fix. I was telling my DH how it felt like someone close to me died. How crazy is that? But my beloved LM. How I will miss you. I wish Jackie and Thad the very very best.

For everyone - there is an awesome liquidation sale going on through December 10. Be sure to stop by Lifetimemoments.

Unity Nov 09 Store Kit

Good Saturday morning everyone!!! Today, Unity's playing with the November 09 STORE kit of the month - Believe In Fairytales. The Store kit is exclusive to the stores that carry it - check out the list where you can get yours...



I got to play with this cute Owl image - what an adorable sentiment!!





Thanks for stopping by today. Be sure to check out the other DT gals' blogs for other samples made from the kit. Have a wonderful weekend!

(I design for Unity Stamp Co)

Tutorial - Get Well Soon Soup Holder

We are knee deep in cold and flu season, and there are little sickie bugs going around everywhere. Here is a tutorial for a little "care package" to send to wish good health. (You will need one of those chicken soup mix packets from the grocery store).

Cut 12x12 cardstock to 11"x 5.5". Keep that 1" strip on the side.



Score it at 2.75" and 7.75"



Take your scrap 1" strip and adhere it to the top of your soup envelope packet.

Trim off the overhang on the left and right edges. Set aside.


Color your Rubber Romance stamp (Bunny Girl), and set aside.



Now, take your scored card, and adhere something to that left edge to give it some interest. I added a paper frill. Adhere a large flower, then on top of that, a button to the right flap. Adhere another button to the left flap. These buttons will be the base for your string tie closure for the packet.

On TOP of those buttons, now adhere two more flowers.
Embellish those flowers with anything you want to. I used more buttons.

Weight it down with something heavy til it dries.

Take your soup packet, adhere to the inside of your card, and add the cooking instructions.

Adhere your rubber romance image to the left side of the card. Use twine to close the packet just like a regular string closure (wrap one end of twine around left button, wrap other end of twine around right button)






Here's the finished project. Enjoy. Thanks for stopping by today. Wendy



(I design for Rubber Romance Stamps)

Unity Thursday - DonnaD

Today, we're playing with the new kit from Donna Downey - so pretty.

Here are my two projects -










Be sure to check out all of the DT today as we all play with the set. Happy thursday!!

(I design for Unity Stamp Co)

crop day - share3

Using the Indian Summer collection by Basic Grey, and a lot of Prima from my stash.

TFL. Wendy



(I design for lifetimemoments)

crop day - Share2

Using the Afternoon Tea collection from Scrap Within Reach; finally got my hands on this Ali Edwards Technique Tuesday set as well.

TFl. Wendy




(I design for Lifetimemoments)

crop day - share1

I went to an all day crop on Saturday, and oh, did I need it!! It is amazing to me how spending a day creating with friends does so much to help re-set my head. I got a ton of work done, and will be sharing some throughout the week (not all, though, as some layouts are of pictures that I don't normally post on the web).

My first two are my favorites from the weekend.

1) Love, nai nai

Photograph by Araxi Dertavitian

Paper line is Kaisercraft Loire Valley



2) All Boy

This is one of those paper lines that when I first received it, I was intimidated.


But I find that with really strong prints, breaking it up and using it in bits with lots of negative space usually does the trick. I love how this turned out.

Paper is GCD Studios, Vintage Boy



TFL. Wendy

(I design for lifetimemoments)