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.

Month By Month

I can be one of the worst decision makers and thus my late post again. So again I apologise for the poor layout photo further down the post and I will fix this tomorrow in the day light.

I am excited about doing a month by month album this year to record 2010, but I will need to speed up my selection of photos or I will never make it to Dec - lol

This month I tried to take a few photos from different angles, my favourites at the moment always seem to be those taken from above and usually portraits of the children.

Below are two photos I took this month. The first is my favourite of the month and the second is my husbands. They are both of our daughter Jaime. Photography is not something I know much about, but I plan to work on that this year and so as I go week to week I will try to remember to share some of my photos with you as well. It was nice to sit down and look through the photos I took this month. Often I will take them and never really sit down to look at all of them. I will choose some to scrap, but trying to capture the whole month on one layout made me go through the photos more carefully.

As you know I have been tossing around different ideas for how I would approach my month by month. I started out thinking I would use a sketch similar to the layout I used for my 'snapshot of 2009' that I posted last week and repeat it each month.

Then after I made my 'snapshot page I decide this would be too difficult. I do not have a square punch that works well enough to make the page quick and simple, so I was hand cutting all the squares (too much each month to make sure I make it to Dec). Then I decided the divided sleeve from American Crafts (available from the website) would be a good option. Each one has 6 pockets, giving me 12 spaces I could fill with photos, journalling or embellishments. I had settled on this idea until I shared it with my husband, who decided he would like it if I could add an enlargement for something special that had happened in a month.

So ... I replaced one side with a regular 12 x 12 sleeve that will allow me to journal and use enlargements if I want.

On January's layout I have used a mixture of photo sizes and because I printed them at home was able to play around with these a little. (You can do this instore too). I have included a 6 x 4" calendar in the bottom corner and will include this each month. I copied the months activities straight from our wall calendar. Each month I can vary what I have in the pockets to suit and use as many or as few photos as I like. Similarly on the other side I can have all photos, all journalling or a combination of the two.

Thank you to those people who emailed me through the week with comments from my last post. Please feel free to add a comment using the comment tag below. I will answer any questions by replying with a comment. I think it is great to be able to share thoughts and ideas with each other. Some people have let me know they are unsure about commenting on a blog. Please let me encourage you not to be concerned, if you are wondering something chances are someone else is too. Have a great week and I will be back with some scrapping next week using January's patterned paper pack/subscription (yet to be released) :)

Sketch challenge and a snapshot

Wow! How the week flies past. Thursday comes around so quickly at the moment and I look back on haven't achieved half of what I wanted to (maybe my list was too long to start with - lol). Thanks for stopping by again and thanks again to those people who left a comment last week to let me know they had read the blog. Di joined me for the sketch challenge from last weekand below is the sketch (to remind you), Di's layout and My layout (thanks Di)

Di has used dotted swiss cardstock and RW alpha letters on her layout.


All Bazzill cardstock for me and apologies for the colours (not as bright as they really are), the light was not great when I took the photo of the layout. No embellishments - it doesn't get much simpler :)

This week I also put together a layout for 2009. I am not sure I am finished yet, there may be an embellishment or 2 to come (any thoughts more than welcome), but for now I need to grab some sleep and look at it with fresh eyes tomorrow.

I used Bazzill White, kraft, java and Berrylicious. American Crafts thickers and Patterned Paper.

Before I go. I just wanted to say thanks to Sharon for sharing her blog and ideas for a Month by Month record of 2010 with me. I will share my plan and started layout for January next week.

Have a great week and I'll be back next Thursday.

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year and already we are a week into it! Thank you to those who stopped by last week and left a comment to say hi. Remember to sign on as a follower as well if you like while you're here.

This week has been a busy one as my family finished celebrating Christmas on the 2nd, I started the Cathy Zeilske Design your life course being run by Big Picture Scrapbooking (www.bigpicturescrapbooking.com) and I started to sift through some of the 2009 photos to scrap as an end to the year (that certainly doesn't mean I have scrapped all I want to from last year). Of course this always takes longer than you think - way too many photos, so I am hoping to finish it this week to show you next week.

I did manage to scrap a Christmas page though before the New Year started. I was stoked about this because I think this is my first Christmas page. I rarely manage to scrap events, focusing more on moments (something I plan to work a little on this year), I always take way too many photos, have scrapped pages for other peoples albums from Christmas, but never managed one for any of our albums. So this year I started with Jaime's page and I am determined to do 1 for Jake before February.



It is a very simple page using Kraft and Bazzill white cardstock with RW laser cut raven alphabet letters for the title. I decided to keep the colours (or no colours) very neutral because Christmas photos are generally so bright they add enough colour to the page when you use multiple photos.

The other thing I have been pondering on this week is how I might record 2010. There are lots of ideas floating around as how different people are going to approach this. Last year I tried to join Nicole in her 52 week challenge on the Remember When blog, but I failed miserably. Because of this I think a weekly challenge is not in my league this year and a daily one is certainly out of the question. I think I might give a monthly one a shot though. So my plan to this point is '2010 - month by month'. I have some thoughts floating around in my head for this, so next week I will share these with you in more detail - trust me it will be simple. If you have any suggestions or ideas you would like to share with me about how you are recording 2010 please let me know. Or, alternatively if you would like to join me in my month by month record please let me know because I would love to have some company (it always helps to keep me motivated and on track). When I have the new gallery up and running I will set up a folder for you to share your layouts - however you choose to record 2010.

One last thing - January can be either a very busy or a very quiet month. If it is a quieter month for you then please join me in a sketch challenge this week. Below is the sketch. I will post my interpretation of it next week and hopefully share some others with you as well. Please email me yours to lee@rememberwhen.com.au


Feel free to use it as a 12 x 12 of alter it for an 8.5 x 11" layout. Have a great week and I will be back next Thursday.

Up Close and Personal

Welcome to the new Remember When Blog. Over the last few months the design team have been doing a fabulous job, but also finding life increasingly busy, so I have decided to make some changes. It is my vision that Remember When as a business will always have a personal touch to it. This is a little harder on line than with a shop front so to I have decided to maintain the blog myself. This will allow you to stay up to date with what is going on at Remember When. I will post new products, layouts and general information that will help you stay in touch and also allow you to get to know a bit about me. There will be opportunities for guest blogging and keep your eye out for challenges and competitions. Please sign up as a follower so I can get to know you all as well and leave me a comment along the way as you visit. I hope through the blog you will find a place of community that will allow you to freely and comfortably share thoughts and ideas, connecting with the wider scrapbooking community. I am excited about the change and hope that you will enjoy the journey with me.

It is very busy here at Remember When with a lot of things in the pipeline for 2010. For sometime now many of you will be aware we have been experiencing very frustrating difficulties with the website that have proven very difficult to fix. As a result of this I have made the decision to rebuild the website and I look forward to releasing the new website (free of problems) in the new year. Thank you all so much for your patience and I am so excited about the new shop and how it is shaping up.

Also the gallery has had spam problems going back to before I took over the business and we are currently looking in to alternatives for this. People have shared their thoughts that the current gallery is not so user friendly and taking this on board it is my intention to have a new gallery up and running when the new shop is released.

Now for some scrapping... It is again the end of another year and so many things left unscrapped (still in my pile), so I thought I would share with you one of my favourite photos I have from 2009. In 2008 we became a family of 4 with the birth of our beautiful daughter Jaime and the photo for this page was one of those random moments where you look down and think how fun your feet look and at the suggestion of my husband took a photo. As far as journalling I had nothing particular to say so I simply titled it "and then there were four"




This week I am going to try and set aside some time to sort through my 2009 photos and pick some favourites. I will share them with you later on.


So, again welcome to the new Remember When Blog and I will see you in the New Year.