February 23, 2006
A Note from Jackie | February Product Features | Product Feature | Design Team Examples
Mini Feature | Scrapper of the Week | Winter Scrapfest | New in Stock | Coming Soon | What’s on for Next Week?
What a busy week this has been for us! We at LM HQ have been working hard to get the Basic Grey and Technique Tuesday preorders pulled and out the door, while at the same time trying to find space for all the new goodies that have arrived! Watch the Shop tomorrow and this weekend for new products - Scrapworks, Carolee's, Bazzill, Wild Asparagus, Kaleidoscope, Daisy Ds, Paper Loft, Sassafras Lass to name a few :)
By Kate J., Design Team Member & Coordinator
Lovely Inspirations
This month, the design team is feeling lots of love for new products arriving at Lifetime Moments. Lots of new discoveries from CHA will be arriving at the store this month, and we are thrilled to show you the latest and greatest products of 2006. Stay tuned as the design team captures your heart with seasonal designs and cutting edge techniques. Musings of the heart are guiding our designs for the month of February, and we hope to inspire you to document the people and things you love, right along with us!
Product Feature: Scrapping Doodles
By Beshka Kueser, Design Team Member
It is time to get in touch with your inner child, lay down those embellishments and pull out those pens. What am I going on about? Why doodling of course! Doodling is a great way to add an individual touch to a layout. A doodle is a imperfect rendering of the mind at play and always as individual as its’ creator. Doodling is a hot trend that is both fun to create on your own, or try out with doodle inspired lines.
Doodling can be as simple as creating imperfect circles on cardstock as a background, or doodle around a picture creating a one of a kind frame. You can doodle some flowers and cut them out as embellishments that no one else is likely to have. If you are a seasoned doodler, then it is possible to create more elaborate creations to add to your layouts. The best thing about doodling is that it is an imperfect art form. A doodle isn’t meant to be the perfect rendition of anything. A doodle is very much a freehand art form, a way to free yourself from trying to always get it perfect. What I mean is that a doodle is meant to be imperfect. Now here is a trend I can get on board with as a master of imperfection! J Doodling is about fun and putting a little more of yourself onto the page. And doodling is probably not as foreign to you as you might think. Perhaps you already do it…maybe while on the phone, or when you were in college you did it in the margin of your notes. Whatever the case may be, it seems to be showing up everywhere in scrapbooking.
Where do you begin? You will need some basic tools and because doodling is not an exact science, the tools needed are simple and inexpensive. All you need is some imagination, some paper, and a good pen. There are many choices as far as pens go, and preference may be as individual as the doodle. I can’t tell you which pen you will like best, but I am prepared to make some recommendations! A favorite choice is American Crafts Pens. For my own creations I use the Black Pigment Pro. The Pigment Pro .01 produces a fine line and is excellent for writing, but also for detailed doodles. This pen is 100% archival safe and acid free. Another pen I have become fond of is the Zig Ball 5mm, which writes very smoothly and is another excellent choice for both journaling and doodling. Just in at Lifetime Moments is Memory Markers from American Crafts. A smooth marker that comes in almost two dozen yummy colors and is sure to add some colorful doodle flair to your pages. These markers are double tipped with a fine and medium point. There is also the American Crafts Slick Writers and their name says a lot! These pens are designed to write on slick surfaces such as vellum or transparencies.
Now that you know what tools you will need you are ready to begin adding doodles to your pages! Feeling a little hesitant about creating your own doodles? Worried about messing up a layout? I cannot reiterate enough that you could not possibly mess up when it comes to doodling. However, if you are wanting to try out this latest trend, but still questioning your skills, LM has doodle inspired lines of paper and embellishments to help you get your doodle on. Rhonna Farrer along with Autumn Leaves has brought us a fantastically fun and doodle inspired line called Graffiti. This line boasts some doodle inspired papers along with coordinating epoxy shapes and tags, ribbons, and rub-ons. Love Rhonna’s doodle look? Be on the lookout for her amazingly fun new doodle inspired stamps from Autumn Leaves.
Junkitz delivered us a doodle inspired burst of laughter with their Flowerful and Delightful lines by Janna Wilson. These lines are sure to inspire with their bright colors and whimsical design. Have a sweet tooth? Then check out the doodle inspired Shabby Chic line by Teresa Collins. This line brings us sweet colors with doodled flowers, polka dots, and stripes. This line is softer in its’ coloring, offering a sweeter side to the bolder lines. These lines are a terrific alternative for those who want a doodle look, but without the risk.
Doodles can be as simple or as elaborate as you want them to be. Try out some freehand circles or flowers, add them directly to your page or cut them out as your own one of a kind embellishment. Doodle a border around your layouts or better yet, doodle a border directly onto a photo. Of course, if you feel doodle-challenged then try out one of those aforementioned doodle inspired lines. Whichever way you decide to go, it is worth a try. Doodling is fun and adds a great deal of individual personality to a layout or project.
To view all layout ideas and products used, please be sure to visit the Design Team Gallery: Scrapping Doodles. Don’t miss the fabulous work of our talented Guest Designer – Toni/FoxyCropper. We admired her work in our gallery and when planning for the doodling feature, we just knew we had to invite her to work with us! Thanks Toni! We hope these awesome examples will inspire more doodling at LM!
Beshka 
Sonya
Franny
Madeline
Wendy 
Vickie
Nancy 
Toni/FoxyCropper (Guest Designer)
Mini Feature: Blossom Chipboard Book from Maya Road
By Margaret Winters and Susan Berg, Design Team Members
Spring will shortly be knocking on our doors. But, spring can already be in your scraproom and on your coffee table with the beautiful blossom chipboard album from Maya Road! At 6” x 6” when open, this little unassuming book provides the foundation for a myriad of beautiful possibilities!
Consider the most obvious: a mini album of your favorite flowers, your own garden, or different flowers you have received in the past. For these types of albums, you might consider Cactus Pink Wildflower or MAMBI Chester paper collections.
What about a baby book for a ‘fresh as a flower’ baby girl? Junkitz’s Baby line or papers from Wild Asparagus would offer a sweet soft touch to photos of your darling baby girl or a baby gift. With a little older girl you might consider an album of her favorites, or a list of your hopes for her using Scrapworks new Spring collection or Three Bugs in a Rug collection.
On a more personal level, a “10 reasons I love you” album would be picture perfect. Sweetwater’s Love Me collection offers papers with matching stickers, side kicks, and Round-a-bouts that combines floral patterns with a love theme making it a perfect compliment for a dear loved one’s album.
With Mothers Day coming up in a couple months, this little album would be a perfect gift to show Mom just how much you love her. List all the things you would like to thank her for or include photos of the two of you together from the years past. Compliment your photos with papers from Center City Design in their Murray Hill or East Village collections. She is sure to love a handmade gift filled with love!
If you choose to include photos, either print wallet sized photos to go around the center hole or larger photos with the subject off center. Sandpaper can help smooth the edges of paper and pictures. When working with a chipboard album, consider wallpapering the pages with your favorite patterned paper, or using paint as your background color and add paper to compliment the color(s) of paint. Suggestions for embellishments would be stickers, rub-ons, stamps, punchies, or anything that is flat. Because this album does not have an expandable spine, lumpy embellishments may not work very well.
No matter how you use it, this little gem offers all the versatility of chipboard and the fun and quick attractiveness of a mini album! (We've reordered these fantastic little gems - so look for these great albums back in stock at LM soon!)
Margaret 
Gayle
By Deb Taub
Getting to know you, getting to know all about you . . . OK, maybe not ALL about you, but more than we knew before!
This week, we’re getting to know montanas_mommy – Susan Kleist. There’s no mystery about the significance of her screen name; she’s Montana’s mommy!
Susan is a SAHM who lives in Fremont, CA, with her husband of almost 5 years and, of course, Montana! It turns out that she and her husband met by accident on the Internet when they hit it off on a Yahoo message board making fun of other posters. (Tsk, tsk, tsk.) As Susan tells it, they were smart alecs who were made for each other!
You’ve probably already run into Susan somewhere on the LM boards. She loves the Café, checks out the General Scrapbooking area and the updates from the shows; she frequents the Health Club and loves finding new recipes in the Diner. And, very recently, she became moderator of the TTC forum. So, she’s likely to be in one of the forums that you visit on a regular basis. Look for her!
Susan has been an LMer since October 2004. She loves the LM atmosphere, particularly the lack of visible drama and the inspiration in the gallery. And, she’s made a few really good friends here in our little corner of cyberspace.
It turns out that Susan is generally crafty in addition to scrapbooking and likes to crochet.
Among a list of favorites: Her favorite scrapping subject is the light of her life – Montana! Her favorite color is purple. Her favorite foods are Italian and Mexican. She’s a big fan of CSI. And who would Susan pick to play her in a movie about her life? The admittedly older than she is but very hot Sela Ward!
Answers to the quick quiz:
The color you reach for the most when scrapping: pinks & blues
The embellishment you use too much: can you ever use too much???
The tool you wish you’d never bought: Sizzix machine (that's why I sold it!)
Your favorite spot to scrap in: My scrap area in the den
Do you scrap standing or sitting? Usually sitting on the floor because my work surface is always cluttered!
Something you will never try: I'll try just about anything new!
Something you’ve been wanting to try: Scrapping related I want to try pretty much anything that's new.....outside of scrapping I like to try polymer clay.
And there you have it – the always ready for something new Susan Kleist!
Scrapfest:
Mark your calendar for the 2nd extreme crop during scrapfest.
2nd Half - Friday March 3 @5 PM Eastern to Sunday March 5 at 11:59 PM Eastern
The first half of 2006 Winter Scrapfest ended almost 2 weeks ago and we are well into the second half! Challenges, sketches, a visit to Australia, and a terrific Scavenger Hunt have kept scrappers motivated.
Remember to mark your calendar, put in for vacation time, and stock up on snacks and adhesive for the second half's Extreme Crop weekend March 3rd through 5th. This one is going to be sweet!
Without further ado, here are the results from our first half!
Top point earners were:
BRINA (Sabrina Prim Smith) with 2,110
CRAFTYJEN (Jen Stauch) with 2,160
Margiegram99 (Margie Oliveira) with 2,175
~Gina~ (Gina Levrette) with 2,425
Ahebda (Anya Butler) with 2,453
Kudos to these ladies and everyone who participated! Please be sure to visit the Gallery to check out everyone's terrific work.
And, last but not least, the winners!!! As in the past, everyone who participated earned an entry into a random drawing for every 200 points earned. The pooled entry fees is then divided and awarded back out. For this half, prizes of $45 have been won by the following ladies:
Angela Newman (Sissy22)
Rhonda Carey (Rhonnie)
Andora (Andora)
Jennifer Coston (Jennifer C)
Margie Oliveira (Margiegram99)
Congratulations ladies!
Discount codes and gift certificate codes will be PMed out in the next few days. Please be patient with us as this is a busy time for the store and the Scrapfest organizers!
NEW:
Added MANY more papers to the Garage Sale section - don't miss the 30 cent bargains - almost 500 different patterns!!
Quickutz REMINDER:
Five more alphabets are being retired and will only be available until March 31st:
Once they're gone, they're gone so get your preorder in today!
SPECIAL OFFER from Quickutz - limited availability -
Scrapworks, Carolee's, Bazzill, Wild Asparagus, Kaleidoscope, Daisy Ds, Paper Loft, Sassafras Lass and more!
More New February Features
Scrapper Spotlight
New February Challenges
Fun and Exciting Products
Sara Meyers, Newsletter editor sara@lifetimemoments.com
Kate J. Design Team Coordinator kate@lifetimemoments.com
Jackie Bogert, Owner jackie@lifetimemoments.com
Design Team (Sara Meyers, Miranda Isenberg, Madeline Fox, Beshka Kueser, Kate J., Susan Berg, Tracy Austin, Sonya Shaw, Wendy Chang, Franny Lesniak, Nancy Thomas, Margaret Winters, Gayle Hodgins and Vickie Brown.) designteam@lifetimemoments.com