July 6, 2006
A Note from Jackie | July Product Features | Product Feature: Scraplift Yourself
Mini Feature: On the Go Summer Scrapping | Design Team Examples | Featured Layouts of the Week | Camp LM
Paper Salon Paper Arts Contest | New in Stock | Coming Soon
Hi everyone! I hope you enjoyed some extra time for relaxation and fun this past weekend. We had the chance to relax, had family for a cookout, and even an impromptu block party on the 4 th of July! This has made for a short week for us, and we’re very busy catching up on orders. So, I have nothing new to upload today – but a ton of restock items that arrived! Watch tomorrow for the new Cherry Arte collection which will be arriving, as well as preorders for new items coming soon!
A few notes from me:
By Kate J., Design Team Member & Coordinator
More Layouts in Less Time
The design team is working hard this month to show you ways to refine the sometimes long process of designing layouts. By using some of the ideas we introduce, you will complete more layouts, and in less time! This means your scrapbooking time will efficiently fit between your trips to the beach, and day out at the ball game. Don’t sacrifice design just because your many summer activities are pulling you every direction!
By: Vickie Brown, Design Team Member
As summer gets underway, we often find that between playdates, trips to the swimming pool, baseball practices and out of town guests, our time is certainly at a premium! Finding the extra time you need to continue creating layouts for yourself and your family might seem like quite the task, but fear not, inspiration is as close as your own albums! Just because you’ve already used a design once, that certainly does not mean that you cannot use it again-- quite the contrary! Do contractors build more than one house using the same floor plan? Do coaches use the same playbook over and over with different results each time? Do you use the same favorite recipe more than once? Of course the answer is a resounding “yes!”, and you can too!
This week, the design team urges you to look no further than your own albums and gallery to find your inspiration and shortcuts for this busy season. As you find yourself either short on time or short on inspiration, here are a few tips to consider:
Just because your time is short and your activities are more plentiful, that does not mean that your own creative time has to be completely sacrificed. Using the work that you’ve already done with previous designs, as you work with different photos, papers and embellishments, you’ll find that the result will be fresh, new layouts that you’ll be happy to include in your albums and share with others!
Mini Feature: On the GO Summer Scrapping
By: Nancy Thomas, Design Team Member
The summer is in full swing and along with it the usual fun in the sun activities. Photo opportunities are in abundance. The flowers overflowing in the garden, a day at the park, the awesome beauty of a sudden thunderstorm, children splashing in the pool, adults and kids alike enjoying a day at the beach, husbands proudly displaying the “catch of the day” – the list goes on and on. Unless you have suddenly turned into superwoman, it’s very difficult to find the “me” time to scrap those great sets of photos!
One way for allotted time to scrap is to attend a crop whether at your local scrapbook store, a regular crop group or a spur of the moment get together with friends. A properly packed mini crop bag is essential in order to take advantage of any opportunity to scrap. An “on the go” crop bag could also be used to provide portability of your scrap items throughout the house. For instance, while cooking dinner I will often spread out a project on the kitchen island to work on between tasks or while watching TV with the rest of the family.
To get a jumpstart assemble some simple page kits whenever you have a moment – for each set of photos, place the photos and matching paper/cardstock into a large ziplock bag and any embellishments you know you want to use. If you have time, write down your thoughts about the photos as a jumpstart to your journaling and even draw a quick sketch. The 2-gallon bags that Jackie ships our orders in are perfect for this.
Here are some mini crop bag essentials:
Try not to overpack your bag. And if you can’t keep a bag packed, at least make you a list of your essentials and have it posted near your workspace so you may gather items quickly.
Remember, it’s your summer too so let’s keep on scrapping!
To view all layout ideas and products used, please be sure to visit the Design Team Gallery: Scraplift Yourself
Or Click each image below to see a larger view!
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Gallery Picks of the Week
By Jackie Bogert
Last week’s Design Team Feature focused on the fabulous array of floral stamps available! I went searching in the LM Gallery to see who may have been inspired by last week’s DT feature. Here’s a few of my favorites posted over the past week!
Canvas Project by Nichole
First BikeRide by Valeria
L’Amour by cathygalloway89
Camp LM Camp Out Weekend!
By Susan Berg
We all survived Camp LM's Extreme Crop Camp Out! It was an incredible
event with several challenges that actual challenged everyone! With the
Buddy System well in place, several people were able to complete the
round of challenges more than once!
This session of Camp LM ends at midnight on July 20th and the second
session starts a minute later! If you missed the first session, you can
still join us for the second one! Camp LM offers all the fun of a
summer camp without the mosquitoes and home sickness!
Paper Salon Paper Arts Contest at LM!
Get creative with Paper Salon’s boutique-inspired papers! Their current lines include: Sweet Shoppe, Garden Party, Palazzo, Cabana, Lounge, Prep School, and Bloom.
Contest deadline is Wednesday July 12 th!
See details here: http://www.lifetimemoments.com/papersalon.htm
NEW:
RESTOCK:
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
