Stash Faves

I am so in love with MME's Life Stories! The printing on the kraft papers is so beautiful, making them even more fun to play with.

Here is a gorgeous mini album by Anam Stubbington, using Life Stories, of course!
http://mymindseye.typepad.com/blog/2010/01/an-everyday-love.html

I was so excited when I opened my box from the Stash and found the Life Stories line inside! I sat down and started scrapping, happily creating a layout a day using those beautiful kraft papers. Below are the 3 layouts that I did in those 3 days:

(1) after school

(2) s.a.m.

(3) Simply Fun

The last layout was inspired by the design of a layout ("photo shoot") by our March Featured Member - Scrappycat. You can check out her beautiful works here:
http://www.yourscrapbookstash.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=lastupby&uid=660

Hope you have fun creating with these gorgeous kraft papers like me! We can't wait to see what you create in your gallery.

Stash Faves - Special Edition

I've been hoarding this post for too long but I have to share.

How often do you pass over a line of paper because its 'themed' or more specifically a holiday line?

I'm guilty of it.

I wanted to create a Valentine Banner and Valentines for my son to give away at school this year but I wasn't impressed with the papers covered in hearts and Love words. Nope, I wanted something a little different.

As I was going through the warehouse making room for new products I came across the My Minds Eye Colorful Christmas line. It was full of fun pinks and teals (my new favorite color combination thanks to Elle.)

After a few days of thinking about designs, I came up with these. Nothing special really but would you guess they were made with CHRISTMAS paper?

(Those are crayons in the baggie. I melted old broken crayons in heart molds for the kids.)

I used the same paper line for the banner and added stickles. The school loved it and his Valentines were a hit!

So here is an extra challenge - use themed papers for something other than what they were designed for. Use Christmas papers on a Valentines layout or card, use Valentines paper on an everyday layout. Look past the design and theme. Link up your ideas to this post (post a comment with your link) and we might have some CHA goodies to pass on to you!

New Arrivals!

Just digging out of the many boxes that arrived to day to let you know about the new arrivals.

We have two new lines from My Minds Eye 

Colorful Christmas is playful and fun.  And you can't go wrong with the adorable embellishments!

The Merry Days of Christmas is their vintage line.

And since we all love cupcakes, here is Basic Grey Nook & Pantry - our personal favorite line

 from CHA Summer!

Don't forget that you can save 20% off your entire order this month by using the special Online Shop Hop promotion code.