New ordering site.

Please make sure that you order your Creative Memories products from my new site, www.mycmsite.com/scrappingmoms

Make sure to order your holiday kits before they are discontinued. If you are ordering digital downloads you will get them right after you submit your payment. You can order all the digital items as downloads, even the ones with coupon codes.

I just got my first printed album, & I think that I am in love. I am going to get more albums printed as soon as I have some extra money. I have enough pages for 2 books right now, so I'm going to start compling them. If I am going to be seeing you in the near future, ask me to bring it.

I've been busy with family and school, but I have some time off so I'm back to scrapping.

I want to encourage everyone to take part in Project 365 this coming year. Project 365 is where you take one picture everyday & scrap a layout for every 7 days. At the end of the year you will have on great album.

Let me know if you have any questions or need any encouragment!

It's been awhile, AGAIN!

LeeAnn has been busy & I wanted to share her lastest kits. So I hope you enjoy them.

Welcome September!

So, moving time is getting closer & business is starting to pick up. But I still want to get more Creative Memories business. I've put up a few flyers to get you motivated. I can email them to you, you can print them & take them to work. There are a lot of great deals going on this month I want to share too. Visit my site to see the hostess specials: www.mycmsite/aprildalton

I'm back.

It's been a crazy August, & got really behind. My dad was in a motorcycle accident & I just haven't found the time to scrap. So I am trying to catch up with some freebies from my CT. I hope you enjoy them.

The password for Alpha is tricia, & the password for the papers is everyday.

Mushroom Magic by Scrappy Bug

Check out my friend's beautiful daughter in my CT page that did for this kit. Imagine is linked.

Angels Cry by Scrappy Bug

New Kits from Scrappy Bug

Do you love Disney?

Creative Memories does! They just lauched a new Disney line of products in July. They are all great additions to any Disney collection. You can own them all for $25.00. You can buy them separately for $4.95 until the end of the month, but starting August 1 they will be $5.95. If you spend $25.00 at my Creative Memories store by the end of the month, I will have a special Disney Gift for you!

Visit me at www.mycmsite.com/aprildalton

July 15th

Very hard to believe that the month is half over. Heck the year is half over. I learned something new this week thanks to my awesome friend Margaret. I can now make templates in SBC! So if you follow me & use SBC, then we can make & share templates! I'm excited, are you?

I have some more freebies for you too, free is always exciting, right? The password is havefun.

I am still working on the sharing of the templates. I hope I can get those up soon.

I made a CT!

I've been going crazy working on pages & I have been forgetting to post stuff. Anywho. I made Scrabby-Bug CT so I will be sure to post her freebies & kits so you can enjoy them as much as I do.

Photos are linked.

4th of July Kits

Just a few kits for 4th of July:

http://www.sproutingseedsstudio.com/2010/07/freebie-july-4th-collection.html

http://sealscraps.blogspot.com/2010/07/sts-sale-and-4th-of-july-freebie.html

Soldier On by Scrappy Bug

I've been meaning to scrap these 2 pictures since they were each taken, but I had to find just the right kit to do it. I came across this kit on my flash drive, it was on the ones that survived the crash of my hard drive, so glad it did. I hope you enjoy them as much as my brother & sister-in-law do. I am having these printed as 12 x 12 to frame & give as a gift.

Scrappy Bug ~ Little Boy Blue

Scrappy Bug ~ Little Boy Blue

My First Creative Team!

Some ladies on JM suggested Mandy King's CT because it a Kit by Kit. Which really means that I don't have to feel obligated to use all of her kits. Even though everything I have seen from her I think I could really use. Anyway, last week I was able to get in on her Morning Hymm Kit. I love absolutely love the colors. I hope you like it too!

How to use Predesigned SBC Albums

Creative Memories has so many freebie albums on their site that you can download. So I want to help you learn to use them with your program.

1. Choose the style you like & download it if you haven't already.

2. Open & load that project, choose auto fill if you really want it to be easy.

3. Along the left side of the screen are all the layers, click on the first one you want to change.

4. I clicked the red stripe on the left hand side.

5. Choose the cut & fill tab at the top of SBC.

6. Choose color or paper to fill that selected item.

7. You can change as much or as little as you want.

8. Do you like something off another page? Just copy & paste it.

9. These photo circles were 6 individual elements. I grouped them.

a. Grouping: hold the shift button & click on everything you want to group, then go to arrange on the top of the page & click group. This will make them one item.

10. Right click & copy then paste to the page you want it.

Predesigned albums are awesome because you can easily customize them!

Have Fun!

The Secret to Uploading Non Creative Memory Kits....

to your Storybook Creator. Once my friend shared this with my I was "like, duh" Lol. Super easy & very awesome. So let's thanks Margaret for knowing how to read & share tutorials. Thanks Margaret!

Here it is, in simple form:

1. Open Storybook Creator
2. Click Manage My Content
3. Click Create
4. Choose Folder (if this is the first kit by this designer)
5. Name it ( I use the designers name)
6. Go to the folder & use the pull down arrow
7. Choose Add A User Package
8. Name it
9. Click on that package
10. Now, click on the drive at the top just below the package name
11. Now open the file that you have the kit saved.
12. Hold down the control key while clicking on each item that you want to transfer over.
13. Drag them over to your Storybook & place them in the file you just made.
14. Last Step: Use them in your Storybook Creator!

I hope I got everything. I was trying to type instructions while I was doing it. Let me know if you need more help!

Some Freebies for the Weekend

Dodie's Blog ~ Doodle Boarders

Funky Flower Designs ~ Watermelon Alpha

Scraps & Tubes ~ Papers

Make sure you leave some love on each blog if you use their stuff.

Have a great weekend!

The Countdown is ON!

There are only about 48 hours before the largest sale that Creative Memories has ever had. If you are a traditional scrapper but have been thinking about going Digital, now is the time. Storybook Creator is going to be 40% off! With the money you save buying the digital program you can buy the totally awesome new products that are coming out in July!

Please contact me if you are interested in our all day scrap. July 17, 2010 from 9-5 you can come & join us for scrapping, food, & fun!

Email me or call me!

Look!

Very Hot June Specials for Creative Memories!

The biggest sale ever! Visit my site for orders!

www.mycmsite.com/aprildalton

June 14 ~ June 27 ONLY!

40% off the most popular power palettes & tools.

You have to check it out.

Awesome Summer Blog Train

So this post was originally for an awesome patriotic kit, but my computer couldn't open it, so sad. But I then found a very purple blog train. So here it is, Check it out!

http://letmescrapbook.blogspot.com/2010/05/summer-romance-blog-train.html

Blending

So, I know how to blend photos with our Storybook Creator now! Yippee! Can we say super easy? Well it is! Hopefully I can share it with you as easily as I did it on my own. Here's my attempt.

1. Extract (if you want)the picture you want to blend. (If you need to learn extraction, I haven't done a blog yet. Sorry, I will work on that too!
2. Go to Format, & change the opacity.
3. Group your photo & your paper that is in the background.
4. Go to Format, pick your surface, & apply!
5. Enjoy!

Best Buds Kit by Creative Memories

Make Believe by Creative Memories

Kit: Discover Make Believe

More Scrap-A-Thon Pages

Boys in my Backyard

JM Scrap-A-Thon Pages

It's A Jungle Out There

Smile

Shine On Blog Train, Word Art Challenge on JM

In The Beginning

My sister, Chelsea, & I wanted to start our company where we scrapped for other people. The people that don't have time to do it themselves. It is still a goal of ours, but with busy lives it just hasn't happened yet. So, in the mean time I have started on several other scrapping goals. One of them being part of a Creative Team. There is a lot entailed in that. You have to start somewhere, so I decided to start a scrap blog. So here it is my very first scrap blog. I am going to try to upload something to it everyday. Wish me luck!