simple lasercuts

Well, another week has flown by and if you dropped in last night to read the blog, my apologies for being a day late. I was simply too tired last night to do anything but sleep :). I hope you have all had a great week and maybe you could take this moment to grab a coffee and then admire the two layouts I have to share with you. I can speak so highly of them, because I did not scrap them :) I was so excited when Emma emailed me 2 layouts she created during the week using the February Patterned paper subscription and a couple of lasercuts. They are very simple layouts but beautiful, I think she has done a wonderful job of telling her stories to go with the photos, embellishing slightly and keeping the pictures as the focal point.

The second of these two layouts Emma created for Kathy Zeilske's design your life class.

I frequently leave my lasercuts raw and so when Emma sent her layouts through to me and she had also left them raw it made me smile. I know that Annie who blogged for Remember When under the previous owner used to paint hers beautifully and one day I plan to try this. If you have any lasercuts that you have decorated or painted and love how they have turned out on your layouts please email me a photo - lee@rememberwhen.com.au I pack so many orders of paper and lasercuts I often wonder how people use them on their layouts. I would also love to share some with the people who read the blog each week.

On a different note, the getaway is sneaking up very quickly and I am so excited. Excited to have some time to scrap with no distractions and excited to meet some new people. Last year was such a great time for relaxing, sharing ideas and generally just having a great time. I plan to have lots to share with you after the weekend.

Lastly for this week I am excited to say that it's birthday month. The 1st March was the 1st anniversary for me as the new owner of Remember When. It has been a great 12 months and I have loved taking over the business and starting shape it to my own. My fingers are crossed that by the end of the month (or very shortly after) the new website will be up and running and there will be no more ordering problems. I have been busy uploading all the products on to the new site and can't wait to share this with you shortly. Also included in the new site will be the full range of Bazzill colours that we have in 8.5 x 11 inch and A4 - too exciting! :)

Have a great week and please remember to email me any layouts using lasercuts that you just love. See you next week.

Blue Skies

This week I sent out the February patterned paper pack to our subscription customers and I was able to send them some of the latest releases from American Crafts Blue Skies range. It is a gorgeous range that while on the girly side, it has enough stripes and colours other than pink to be used for the boys.

Having said that the layout I did tonight is of my daughter when she was first born. I used the Blue Skies - I'm like a bird paper for the background and then cut out one of the flowery shapes from the Oh Happy Day page as an embellishment. The letters for the title are RW classic font laser cut letters which are available individually or as an alphabet set.


I didn't want to say anything else on this page so I didn't include a journalling block. I arranged the photos in a collage so that I could incorporate different sized photos while still maintaining an ordered look to the page. This is great when you have lots of photos that you don't want to crop to the same size or sometimes you can't crop to the same size. By making them into a collage block you add order to the page, it looks attractive and purposeful. You can use as many photos as you like to do this and it also works well over a two page spread.



Apologies for the colours in the photo of my layout. I will retake the photo tomorrow in the light so it reflects the gorgeous colours in the papers better.

All the papers and letters I have used today are available through the website. If you are enjoying the patterned papers I have been using lately, make sure you check out the patterned paper subscription - a great way to keep your patterned paper stash fresh.

Have a great week and I will see you next Thursday.

An interview and a Sketch

As I mentioned in last weeks post (and the week before I think) I had interviewed my son. He is 4 1/2 and I have often seen pages of interviews with children and thought what a great way to record some of their thoughts and favourite things. So now that he is old enough to answer the questions with some consistency we had our first interview. I hope I will remember to do this on a semi regular basis - maybe once a year. Below is the layout I created from the interview. I have used Bazzill Cardstock - Road Runner and White, American Crafts Metropolitan Chicago (great colours for boys), American Crafts white foam dacquiri thickers (which have just arrived back into stock) and RW Raspberry Whirl Alpha Stickers - Raven.



Also this week, I scrapped the Sketch Challenge from last weeks blog. Below is a reminder of the sketch and then my interpretation of it. I didn't want to cut down my photos too much so I made the page larger than I first imagined I would and moved the title into the bottom box rather than sitting below the patterned paper. Again I used the American Crafts Metropolitan Patterned Paper range, Bazzill Lily White and Whirlpool and Amercian crafts black dacquiri thickers. Emma joined me for the sketch challenge this week and her interpretation is 2nd. Thanks Emma for sending me your layout, I will email you your 20% store wide discount voucher.

Have a great week and if you are stopping by regularly to read the blog, please join as a follower so I know who you are and say hi by leaving a comment (click on the comment tag below) to let me know you were here.

Sketch Challenge

I had every intention of sharing a layout I had scrapped this week of my 4 year old and an interview I had with him recently. However, as the week goes by something usually goes wrong, and this week was no exception, I refilled my printer ink and now it's not working properly :( So that will layout will have to wait until next week.


Instead I have a sketch challenge for you and an older layout. I would love you to join me in using this sketch to create a layout this week. You can email your page to me at lee@rememberwhen.com.au. I will randomly choose someone's layout for a 20% discount voucher storewide and announce the person next Thursday.



Below is a layout I did at the getaway last year. It is very simple and thank you to Nicole for the layout. It is a lift from one of her pages scrapped on the weekend that was used by a number of people - one of the great things about scrapping with others :)


Have a great week and next week I will have the interview page finished and my interpretation of the sketch challenge.

Getaway

Well a busy week and no time for scrapping, so I thought I would share some layouts with you that I scrapped during the getaway last year.

July last year was the first Remember When Getaway since I took over the shop. I searched for accomodation that I thought would fit my image of what the getaway should be. Being an online store I don't know many of you, but many people I run in to who scrap have children and/ or very busy lives, so my goal was to find a place that would allow the weekend to be a real break. Peaceful and relaxing with nothing to do but scrap. So I found Noonaweena. My first reaction was the same as the girls who came on the weekend - 'Wow', 'It's Perfect', 'How long can we stay'.

So with accomodation sorted, I made sure all food would be taken care of (remember I said the only thing to do was scrap) and plenty of Bazzill was on hand...

and I was ready.

The weekend was a really enjoyable time, with a mixture of people who were brand new to scrapping through to those who had been scrapping for quite some time. The thing I love about all the people I meet through scrapbooking is how generous and friendly they are. With a group of people like this you are certainly never short for inspiration or ideas or someone to chat to. We scrapped for hours, late into the night (even though you knew you could keep scrapping the next day). There was plenty of space for everyone. So we set up on arrival and packed away reluctantly on the Sunday afternoon. There was time to squeeze in a couple of workshops and a few challenges, some freebies to give away and if you needed there was space to do your own thing as well (a bush walk, tennis, spa)

So if you would like some time to relax, meet new people and indulge yourself in someone else doing the cooking and unlimited scrapping make sure you book in to the March getaway. I would love to have you join me for the weekend. you can book through the website www.rememberwhen.com.au , by phone 0412 016 426 or emailing me at lee@rememberwhen.com.au.

Places are very limited in March so grab a friend (or 2) or just come by yourself and join me for a great weekend. I have never completed so many pages at once and below are a few of the pages I scrapped last July.

Next week I will be back with an interview I had with my 4 year old this week and a sketch challenge. Have a great week and I can't wait to hear from those of you who are keen to join me in March.

Using the January Pack

This week I pulled out the January Patterned Paper pack and scrapped a couple of layouts. The colours are great in these American crafts papers and the just the edge cardstock, and Bazzill tropical flowers co ordinated perfectly. I will definately be using the papers to do some more layouts very soon.

In the first layout I have used Bazzill cardstock with the Spring & Summer - Tea Cups paper. Along the bottom I added a strip of the Bazzill just the edge cardstock (Ruby Red) and a lasercut title. Most of the time I end up leaving my lasercuts raw - the way they come when you buy them, but I will soon be venturing out to see what else I can do with them. Often I use photos in my layouts that have been taken outside and at the beach so the raw feel and colour fits perfectly. I only used a title on this layout as I didn't have anything I really wanted to say, I just adore the photo.



The second layout I scrapped this week was again of my little girl (the colours in the pack didn't really suit Jake's photos - lol) and I chose a photo that is taken from a different perspective - behind. Most of the time we take photos from in front, with faces and smiles, but every now and again it's nice to step behind to take the photo. I challenge you this week to step behind your subjects and see what you come up with. If you feel like it please email me what you come up with as I would love to share some of them next week.

When I took this particular photo I was thinking about the curls. I have straight hair and so does everyone in my family. So when my son had curls when he was young it was all new to me. Unfortunately as his hair grew and we cut it the curls stopped growing back. Jaime has more curls than Jake did and hopefully if I don't have to cut them too much they will stay around for a bit longer.

Again I have used Bazzill cardstock and I found as I scrapped this week that Java really helped to ground the bright colours in the American Crafts papers. The American Crafts patterned paper is Spring & Summer - Saucer. I also cut out some of the butterflies from the Spring & Summer - English Garden patterned paper to use as embellishments. Again I used the Bazzill just the edge, but this time I cut the strip up and used the butterflies individually and a small left over piece for the tag in the right hand corner from the strip I used on the previous layout. This is the first I have really used the edge strips and they are great. Very versatile. Some of the packets are just pattern strips, but others such as the Ruby red have strips of butterflies and flowers that you can easily cut up and use individually as I did this time. The title is American Craft Thickers.



Because I have had so much fun using the January Patterned Papers I have decided to leave the January Pack Special on for another weekend, so grab one quickly before they run out. Also if you are oohing and ahhhing over the patterned papers that we are getting in, order a patterned paper subscription as they offer 10% off the retail of the papers and when you have received 12 packs the 13th one is complimentary.

Have a great week, go and stand behind your subjects for me and snap a few photos (don't forget to share them with me at lee@rememberwhen.com.au) and I will be back next Thursday. Please sign up as a follower and leave a comment below to let me know you stopped by.

Patterned Paper

Last week I promised you layouts using the January Patterned Paper Pack (a sneak peak). Now I have a confession - I had way too much fun this week and left no time for scrapping. Instead I jetted down to Melbourne to spend some time watching the tennis. I watched Roddick bow out of the Australian open in a great match. Henin stay in the Australian open in a great match. The Williams sisters both move on to the next round and my favourite Pat (Rafter) play in the Legends doubles (plus other matches). I ate great food in Hardware lane and visited Victoria Road where Vietnemese food is at its best with soooo many restaurants to choose from, all with great food. And of course drank coffee and shopped along Bridge Rd. Not a bad way to celebrate the Australia Day long weekend :)


But... back to scrapping. I did not scrap the January pack. I did get it out though and will share it with you soon and next week will share a layout or two I scrap with it. I particularly like the January pack as it matches so nicely with some of our other stock in store such as the Bazzill just the edge and the Bazzill tropical flowers. Because of this I have decided to pack some of these up into a kit this week as a special weekend release. Keep reading to see what's included.


Before I show you January's pack I do have some patterned paper layouts for you, kindly scrapped for me by Emma. Emma subscribes to our monthly patterned paper pack which comes with matching Bazzill cardstock. It is a great way to make sure you have some matching papers to go with the patterns. All too often I pull out some patterned paper I like and then can't find the matching colour Bazzill paper and need to wait until the local store is open again - very frustrating. Ok, I tell a little fib, this is what scrapping was like before I took over Remember When, now I have sooo many colours to chose from it's like paper Heaven :)


The first layout below is a layout Emma put together with the December Patterned Paper subscription. The next 2 she created after receiving her October Pack.

Ok, this months pack has some gorgeous girly paper by American crafts. They are bright (while not being over the top) and combine well together for using on the same layout. Below are the 5 patterned papers included in the pack

For our regular subscription these will be combined with 6 matching papers. In addition this weekend order the Jan pack and receive half a packet of Bazzill Just the edge Ruby red cardstock strips, a mixed packet of tropical bazzill flowers and a packet of white vinyl poolside thickers. This product retails for $38.65. (Note that half packets of Bazzill just the edge and mixed flowers are only available as part of the pack) The weekend special is available for $32. You can order it through the website under - subscriptions - patterned paper packs. Remember also that this weekend is 10% off for a 12 month patterned paper subscription (10% off for all 12 months) and 10% off any other subscription.

I am currently putting together a new subscription pack and would love to hear any input you have on what you would like to see. You can email me at lee@remberwhen.com.au or add a comment below. Let me know your thoughts on what you consider a good monthly price and product ideas to include. Then I will toss the ideas around and see what I can put together.

I am now off to watch the rest of the Murray, Cilic match - have a great week.