Creative Imaginations Blog

Untamed!

I absolutely love playing with my Untamed collection. I mean what could be better then playing with wild animal prints, wonderful deep rich colors, and a bit of fashion prints thrown in for good measure. It is so easy to create something sophisticated one minute and something fun for a day at the zoo the next minute. Lately I have been really being concious of adding value to classes with some out of the box embellishments, that are handmade using some common household items, packing boxes, packing tape, paper bags to name a few. Check out my blog for some additional tips, ideas and inspiration!

If you are in the area of Vista, California, Marah will be teaching this class at Ever After on November 22nd.

Spooktacular!

For the last 5 years, Marah Johnson has had an annual class called Creating Creepsakes at EverAfter Scrapbook Store.  The photos below are just a sampling of the projects they completed in class on October 21st. Here is what Marah had to say;

The witches hat book is too die for (no pun intended), and starts with our Bare Elements Elain Pennant Book, and features the Fright Night Collection by Melange for Creative Imaginations, and Creative Cafe.  Recently, Cheryl Mezzetti, my one and only design team member, shared her idea of creating a witches hat using the Pennant book.  {I have not yet seen her version!).  I also included a little surprise for everyone who attended my class sporting a Halloween costume!  The class was SPOOKTACULAR!

There are a few more surprise mini projects up Marah Johnson's sleeve so be sure to check back tomorrow for another fabulous project!

Autumn Days

These two layouts by design team member, Linda Auclair feature one our newest fall releases, Art Warehouse Harvest Moon collection.  The unique die cut cardstock, and simple embellishments in traditional fall colors make it a lovely choice for your fall pages.

Autumn Days

• 21279 Art Warehouse Trickery DS Paper
• 21282 Art Warehouse Trickery 12x12 cardstock stickers
• 21283 Art Warehouse Tricker Sticker 5.5"x12" 
• 21290 Art Warehouse Trickery Ribbon 1/2"
• 21285 Art Warehouse Harvest Moon Epoxy Stickers
• 18658 Christine Adolph Harvest Cardstock Stickers

Pumpkin Portraits

• 21282 Art Warehouse Trickery 12x12 cardstock stickers
• 21284 Art Warehouse Trickery Epoxy Stickers
• 21274 Art Warehouse Trickery Kraft 12x12 Die Cut Paper
• 21283 Art Warehouse Tricker Sticker 5.5"x12" 

Happy Fallidays!

I am continually amazed at the amount of talent and beautiful work I notice when visiting stores or looking through on-line galleries.  Recently I noticed this simplistic and beautiful layout designed by Betty Adkins.  Thank you Betty for allowing us to post your work and bit about yourself and the inspiration behind the finished layout!

Hi, my name is Betty Adkins and i have been scrapbooking for about 5 years now and love it!  My oldest daughter got me started and now i am totally hooked!

All three of my daughters scrapbook as well as my 12 year old and 6 year old granddaughters!

I am grandmother to four beautiful granddaughters ages 6 months to 12 years old!  They are the main source of inspiration for my pages.

I am a paper addict and a collector of scrappin' supplies!  :)  I just love the new Art Warehouse Harvest Moon die cut paper from Creative Imaginations!  (They have the best new die-cut papers!!  I want them all! )

My favorite season is fall and i had been wanting to do a page with a tree and leaves on it and knew i wanted to use black as the background paper instead of a patterned paper, when i saw this die cut paper i thought it would be perfect!!  I originally bought it for a Halloween page so i just reordered more! :)

The inspiration for this layout came from a recent trip to our local apple orchard.

One of my daughters took this picture of Karissa and i knew it was just the kind of photo i needed to complete this layout. I love her rosy cheeks in this photo...  It was a crisp fall day perfect for picking apples and taking pics!

You can see more of Betty's work in her gallery.

Happy Pumpkins!

To create this layout, Jen used the Harvest Moon Collection of papers and embellishments.  First Jen started with a piece of cardstock {kraft} and cut a piece of the 21277 Art Warehouse Pumpkin Patch Paper to measure 12"x10.5" and adhered it tso that it was flush with the right edge of the cardstock.   She then cut a strip of the 21279 Art WarehouseTrickery DS Paper measuring 1/2"x12" and adhered the strip against the Pumpkin Patch paper. 

Jen then added some of the 21282 Art Warehouse Harvest Moon Trickery Cardstock stickers in-between the two patterned papers and along the bottom border of the Pumpkin Patch paper.  She cut one of the circle stickers in half and added them to the page as well.  Jen used her sewing machine along the border of her layout and matted her photos with brown cardstock.  Her title uses letters from the 18454 Creative Cafe Lucky Apricot Alphabet.

Parts & Parcels - School

Design team contributor, Stayce Dewid used Art Warehouse Class Act product to create a school keepsake. 

Here is what she had to say about the creation behind her project: For my Parts & Parcels Album, I used the Class Act collection from Art Warehouse.  This collection provided the base for documenting my childs favorite memories from the school year all in one project!  Each little album holds a different topic such as; school days, memories, favorites, first day, etc.  There are enough pages in each of the little albums to hold photos, journaling as well as some mementos.  This is a great way for the kids to look back on a whole year!

Supplies:

• 20790 Parts & Parcels Six Folio Album
• 21295 Mini Note Paper
• 21296 Green Apple Diecut Paper
• 21294 Red Apple Paper
• 21298 Class Act Sticker Sheet
• 21299 Class Act Epoxy Stickers
• 17371 Art Warehouse Vibe ABC Swatchbook
• 18399 Creative Cafe Dark Red Notebook Paper
• 21293 Protractor Paper
• 21311 Study Hall Swatch Book
• Red Creative Cafe Large Tag
• Tan Creative Cafe Medium Tag

Parts & Parcels - Once Upon a Time!

Design team member, Cheryl Mezzetti created a keepsake album to hold photos and journaling for the next year. 

Finding time to sort through my favorite photos for the year and create a finished album can be very time consuming given the thousands of photos I take daily. I was excited and inspired to create an album  to hold some of my favorites for the upcoming year.  Because our family lives in New England, I wanted to design an album to hold our four seasons.  The two albums on the left are perfect for documenting or favorite family activities, vacations or holidays.   I kept the two large albums to hold my journaling and the four smaller albums to hold some favorites starting with our Winter Season.  To add dimensions and interest on the front cover, I used alcohol inks, eye candy and glitter on our 12x12 white chipboard. 

Supplies

• 20790 Parts & Parcels Six Folio Album
• 19449 Bon Soir 12 x 12 white chipboard sheets
• 19447 D-mensions "Wings" 12x12 white chipboard
• Creative Imaginations Eye Candy Crystals
• 18894 Narratives Antique Titles Swatchbook
• 18889 Narratives Cream Damask Paper
• 20220 Narratives Cream Wildflowers die cut paper
• 20236 Narratives Cream Floral Die Cut paper
• 15859 Narratives Cream Line Scalloped Paper
• 15859 Samantha Walker Day by Day Epoxy Stickers

Parts & Parcels - Puppy Roo!

Design team member, Patty Lennon created an adorable album about her puppy, Roo! 

For my Parts & Parcels Album, I elected to focus strictly on pictures of my puppy, Roo.  For me, this was a great way to break down the photographs of Roo into individual little albums and keep them all contained in one spot.  I have a booklet for "Good Dog" pictures; "loveable photos"; "playful photos"; "sweet photos"; "cute photos" and a little booklet for those "No, Roo, No!" photos.  I may just need to add a few extra pages for that one!!

As for the cover, I printed out a large photo of Roo onto the Scrapper's Canvas.  If you have not tried this product, you really should.  It is fabulous and works quite well with the canvas cover of the Parts & Parcels Album.

Supplies

• 20790 Parts & Parcels Six Folio Album
• 15614 Art Warehouse Dog Epoxy Sticker
• 7275 Scrapper's Canvas
• 15612 Art Warehouse Dog Clear Jumbo Sticker
• 17275 Barb Tourtillotte Paw Print Paper
• 16512 Barb Tourtillotte Good Dog Paper
• 16517 Barb Tourtillotte Dog Bites Epoxy Sticker
• 15211 Studio Basics 101 Rugged Numbers Paper
• 19199 Studio Basics 101 Bones Metal Brads
• 19198 Studio Basics 101 Paws Metal Brads
• 19197 Studio Basics 101 Icon Metal Paper Clips