Creative Imaginations Blog

Creative Cafe Monthly Calendar!

Are you looking for a quick and easy monthly calendar that will organize your memories in a snap? The Creative Cafe Calendar collection is the perfect combination of seasonal stickers (months, occasions, calendar reminders, etc...) and pre-designed papers in days, months, years and calendar grids. Everything is designed for you, to be easy, fast and quick for creating a custom calendar you can use all year! We even have the blank calendars in our Bare Elements Collection to use as a starting point.

 

Inspiration Monday!

Monday's inspiration is by Micaela Inman, store owner Paper Studio Ink in Minocqua, Wisconsin.   We are excited to share a little about Micaela and her beautiful card.

I fell in love with paper at a very young age watching my mother turn paper and wire into magnificent, over-sized blooms.  She would arrange them and give them as gifts to neighbors, friends and family.  My passion for scrapbooking started in high school when I was asked to create a scrapbook about a youth group charity event for one of our group's main benefactors.  I've been a scrapbooker since then, and over the years I have continued my love affair with paper by making cards and covering books, boxes and recycled food containers with paper.    In 2008. I realized a dream by opening my own business:  Paper Studio Ink. 

Angel Card

 

Supplies

Debbie Mumm Botanical Wintergreen Vine DS Paper

Marah Johnson Cream Music Paper

Sledding Hill!

Design team member, Jen Davis used Debbie Mumm's Sledding Hill Collection for her one collection - two themes challenge!

For my more traditional holiday layout I featured just the green sheet of patterned paper from the same collection which is actually on the reverse side of the Winter Wonders sheet of paper and used photos from our special Christmas celebration that we had with my husband's family last year.  I love how they both turned out!

Merry Christmas!

 

Supplies

• Winter Wonders
  
• Glitter Epoxy Stickers
• Sledding Hill 12 x 12 Glitter Cardstock Stickers

Sadly there isn't much snow here yet where we live right now (which is just driving my little girl crazy!) so I had fun pulling out some photos from last year of Zoey's snowman that she built to use for my "Winter" themed layout using the Sledding Hill collection of patterned papers and embellishments by Debbie Mumm.

Frosty Fun!

Supplies

• Glistening Glitter Paper
• Winter Wonders
  
• Sledding Hill 12 x 12 Glitter Cardstock Stickers
• Glitter Epoxy Stickers
• Spirit Creative Cafe White Buttons

Winter Woodland!

Design team member, Lori Gentile used Christine Adolph's Winter Woodland to create her one collection - two themes!    

The first weekend in December is our annual trip to the Christmas tree farm. We look forward to this all year. Nothing says the start of Christmas like the smell of a fresh cut pine tree. 

Tree Memories.....

 

Supplies

• Christine Adolph Under the Tree paper
• Christine Adolph Happiest Times paper
• Christine Adolph Woodland Quilt
  
• Christine Adolph Stocking paper
  
• Christine Adolph Winter Woodland chipboard
  
• Christine Adolph Winter Woodland Gem brads
• Christine Adolph Winter Woodland Impress-ons

We go camping every year and for my oldest son the trip would not be worth taking if not for a hike to the river. He loves to run in the water, skip rocks and get wet. 

A River Runs Through It........

 

 

Supplies

• Christine Adolph Woodland Reindeer paper
  
• Christine Adolph Happiest Times paper
• Christine Adolph Woodland Quilt
  
• Christine Adolph Winter Woodland Cardstock stickers
  
• Christine Adolph Winter Woodland Impress-ons
• ChristineAdolph Winter Woodland Epoxy stickers

Tinsel Town Collection!

Every year we try to take family photos in front of the Christmas tree. With 5 kids its not always easy but 2008 was the year we did it.  These photos are precious to me! I changed the photos to black and white they look great with the Tinsel Town line. ~ Design Team member, Stayce Dewid

• Signature Collection Tinsel Town retro words
  
• Signature Collection Tinsel Town Deck the halls
• Signature Collection Tinsel Town Poinsettias
• Signature Collection Tinsel Town chipboard border sticker
• Signature Collection Tinsel Town   glitter epoxy stickers
• Signature Collection Tinsel Town glitter cardstock stickers
• Signature Collection Tinsel Town glitter jumbo cardstock stickers
• Signature Collection Tinsel Town  metal brads
• Red Cardstock
• Green cardstock

When you first look at this line of paper and hear the name you automatically think Christmas. The challenge Patty gave us really made me see beyond all that and see just how much winter could come from this line. Living in southern California we don’t see much snow.  We try to take the kids up to the mountains as often as possible so they know what that pretty white stuff is.  

 

• Signature Collection Tinsel Town Poinsettias
• Signature Collection Tinsel Town  metal brads
• Signature Collection Tinsel Town glitter jumbo cardstock stickers
• Signature Collection Tinsel Town   glitter epoxy stickers
Signature Collection Tinsel Town Let It Snow Paper
• Vanilla cardstock