WEBINAR!!!!
Have you ever wondered how to make a template? Do you find some pages that you really wish you could have a copy of that page? Well here is your simple answer on how to copy/make your own templates. This webinar is only 8 minutes long and will teach you how to make your own templates.
Click this page to watch the webinar.
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The kit used for this page is Candy Cane Digital Kit for the background paper and the second background paper. The embellishments are from the Cheerful Christmas Digital kit. Fonts for the corner text boxes is Christmas Card, the text path and bottom center text is Andy
Wishing you and yours the Merriest of Christmases. May you have a joyful season and remember to take lots of pictures and document your holidays. Get those photos off your computers and cameras and printed and into your lives.
I made a book for my grandson after he came for a visit. He loves that book and it is always his goodnight story book. When I went for a visit in October, he told me “Gamoo made for me” he is 2 1/2 years old and loves his story book by Gamoo. That is just one example why we must record and print those precious memories.
Merry Christmas
There have been a lot of requests for instructions on how this quilt page was created. There is not a template for this one, just instructions on how you can create the page. Click on this link to download the instructions. Have fun creating and it would be fun to see them on facebook after you create them.
As everyone is getting ready for the Christmas season and shopping all the shops. This page was made using the Reminisce Christmas kit. The word art is from the Jewel Christmas Digital kit.
Welcome to the Christmas season! I have been busy making lots of fun cards and thought it would be fun to share with you some of the ones I have had fun with. These are 4x6 portrait.
For this card I used the Reminisce Christmas & Reminisce Digital power palette for the papers, embellishment and ribbon. The overlay is from the Digital Christmas Overlay8.
The other card that is really a lot of fun, is the View Master Card that is on www.pixels2pages.net. Watch that webinar and create a whole new bunch of cards. Click this link to take you directly to the webinar.
This is a sample of my view master cards.
Welcome to the busy holiday season and to celebrate
The digital kit used for this page was the Hummingbird collections.
This webinar will teach you how to create shapes with your photos and also create fancy edges on your photos. The webinar is about 10 minutes long. The following instruction pages are provided for you to save and follow. Please let me know if you need further help or have questions.
Fancy Frames and photo shapes webinar, click here.
To use the shape again simply right click on the photo/frame and choose remove photo from frame.
The papers used in these examples are the photo mats from the Hummingbird collection.
Sorry for the repost of this one, realized that the second page needed more instructions.
Hey everyone you have to head on over to www.pixels2pages.net. Shelly has posted a really great webinar on how to create your own pages called start2finish workshop. She gives you some really great ideas and techniques to create from scratch your pages. I loved this video and you will also. This is the page that she teaches you how to make.
Happy scrappin’
If you want to learn how to make the plaid paper, head on over to www.pixels2pages.net and you can learn how to make the plaid and a whole lot more. Hope you enjoy this template.
The kit used for this page is from Cottage Garden Digital Kit.
Paper is paper14 and all the embellishments are from the same kit. Text box font is Andy 14
With this page I selected a dark brown color and added the grass texture to the whole page. Then I added the Cheerful Digital Overlay1, the text box it Andy 14.
To get the soft edges, put your photos into the photo boxes, make sure they are the way you want them to be and then flatten each one. On the Format ribbon, select Filters and choose Soften edge. I used 57 for the number on the soft edge. You can use the slider to adjust and make more softness if you like.
Sometimes you just want to have a full page with a beautiful photo you took. Well, here are a couple of pages for you to get ideas from. You might even use the photo boxes as a text box to tell your story. These are 12x12 pages. Enjoy!!
These are 12 x 12 in size. Paper used is the What a View Digital kit P8, Title font is Fancy Alpha Set and text box font is Andy 14
This page with the deer was suppose to be the second part of a two page spread with the first one above.
Paper was What a View P18, Text box is Andy 14
What makes a beautiful sunset, one might ask. I think it takes clouds, storms and the right timing. Here is a two page spread for you to enjoy.
Paper is from Explore Canada Digital kit 04
Embellishment is from What a View Digital Kit
Text is DJ Script 14
Here are two new webinars for you to watch.
Madelyn covers the lunchtime webinar Sept 14, 2010. She covers new products, folded cards and more.
Here is the link to this webinar Click Here Webinar is 30 minutes
Cathie covers an evening webinar Sept 20, 2010. Items covered at this webinar remove red eye, create templates and pages from scratch and more.
Here is the link to this webinar Click Here Webinar is 25 minutes Or try this link if the first one does not work
Paper Beach Vacation Digital Kit pg 12
Overlay from Cheerful Digital Overlays 6
Embellishments are from the Cheerful Autumn Digital Additions
Font on left page is AdLib BT 14. The one on the left is from the Playful Digital Alpha Shapes
These are also 12 x 12 in size.
We all have little kids around us that we take photos of and often times we might look for the ABC blocks to add to our pages.
Add variety to your blocks, fill them with photos, surfaces and filters. Just play and have fun with the blocks and add some fun to your children’s pages.
To create your own set of blocks, make a square and fill it with paper. Then add a second color on top of that and cut out the letter using one of the Alpha shapes.
This webinar teaches you “How to complete a page in 20 minutes or less” Michele Kingsford teaches this 30 minute webinar. Webinar link The following page was created during this webinar.
A friend of mine, sent me these templates to see what I would do with them. So here is my pages with her templates. Thank you Becky for sending them to me, These have lots of possibilities.
Here are two page and if you need more room for journaling, add a picture to one of the photo boxes then fill it with color. Then you can add a text box on top of the colored box. Remember to click on the grey template photo to download your copies.
The papers used are from the new Reminisce Digital Power Palette
Today’s webinar covered several areas: Recorded webinar link
See - Hear/Read - Do - Teach
J:\Creative Memories\StoryBooks
Browse feature of Storybook
Have a great day and happy scrappin’
July 22, 2010 webinar focused on many topics. Covered were:
1) reviewing your book before printing
2) how to insert text from other sources
3) Memory Manager auto rotate of photos, and calendar find
4) shapes and changing their colors
5) create fast pages using your own design, predesigned pages
6) making templates and saving them for use later
Click here to download the recorded webinar Webinar, templates and more.
Here are some of the screen shots with instructions that were shown in the webinar. Click on them to open in your internet explorer and then go to File> Print, to print and save.
Here are some new webinars to teach you some new tricks, and what is new. Madelyn Brownell does a great job teaching and these are no exception. Have fun watching and learning.
New Webinars
July 14, 2010 – lunch time webinar by Madelyn Brownell
I used the new Disney Pixar Cruisin Cars kit for this page. On the photo mat background, I used a color, 3-D, put a texture to it, and a heavy shadow.
You need to head on over to www.pixels2pages.net and learn all that our Pixies have to offer.
Would you please send your feedback to either or all of these: Go to your consultants website, and when you click on the Project Center then click on Digital, there is a "Send Us Your Feedback" link or your can copy this email address: ideafeedback@creativememories.com Also make sure you send your feedback to info@pixels2pages.net. Here is the home address if you want to write a letter.
Creative Memories Home Office
3001 Clearwater Road
P.O. Box 1839
St. Cloud, MN 56302-1839
Consultants go to the CMC-Network and scroll all the way to the bottom and there is “Questions/suggestions” click this link and then choose “Other” and submit your feedback.
Our Pixies would love to hear your comments and feedback, on how P2P has helped you start and finish your projects. Any ideas you have loved, things you wish they would teach us and in general any kind of feedback you are willing to share. Come on join in the digi love and share it with everyone you know.
The background paper is from the new Disney Fairies Digital kit. The text box font is Andy 16 and the font for the banner is LongIsland 48.
Happy Scrappin’
The other day my husband took me for a ride so we could take pictures of the sunsets over Salt Lake City. The view was beautiful that night and so were the colors. Enjoy your new template!
The center shape has the opacity turned down to about 50%, used one of the photos as the background and sampled the sunset for the text. The embellishment is one of the freebies from the P2P website, with the glitter added, 3-D filter and heavy shadow.
Well it is about time, there were more lunchtime webinars posted to this blog. Sorry for being so slow getting around to posting them, sometimes life gets in the way of things we most want to do. So lets play a little catch up here! Remember the files are large and take time to download, so be patient.
Edges, Corners, Alpha Shapes and more by Cathie Owens
Lunch time webinar by Madelyn Brownell – May 13, 2010 covering click and fill pages, MM star ratings, calendars & more
Lunch time webinar by Madelyn Brownell – March 19, 2010 covering content manager, keywords and more
Remember there are a lot more webinars on the right side of this blog under the category “Webinars to learn Storybook & Memory Manager”
Have you checked out Pixels2Pages.net yet? If you have not, you are sure missing out on a lot of great helps, ideas, webinars and blueprints! These ladies are FANTASTIC, in the ideas they have taught us. This site has been in a beta test for 3 months and that time will be up July 15th. Come on everyone get on over there and check out what is going on. What are you waiting for? Please give these Great Ladies your feedback, CM is waiting to hear how it has helped you.
I have a friend Bonnie, that said she copies the pages into Memory Manager and then writes the instructions so she can remember how to make the pages at a later date. What a GREAT idea Bonnie! So everyone get on over there and create all the pages, save them in Memory Manager and write the instructions too. As for me, I burn the trees and print, print, print everything. So now I have a binder 2” thick. Bonnie, is saving the trees.
It sure is fun the different ideas we can learn from each other. You ladies are all so much fun, and I love hearing from all of you.
Here is a sample of the latest blueprint on the Pixels2Pages.net website. There is no link for this file, you have to visit the site to get the blueprint.
Happy Scrappin’
Have you purchased a few new fonts (some are shapes & not fonts) and can not find them? That is because, you use them differently than the rest. There are two at the present time that are Alpha Shapes and not the regular fonts. They are Playful Digital Alpha Shapes and Formal Digital Alpha Shapes. To use these alpha shapes use the following instructions:
You will now be able to resize, move and apply filters to your font shapes.
Have fun with these, as the possibilities are endless!!
A big thank you to Brenda DeJong. She has some really fun templates. Here is her blog address, if you are interested if seeing what she has http://www.scrapitdigi.blogspot.com/
The other day, I thought it would be fun to turn the macro feature on, on my camera and shoot a bunch of flowers. These are all in my yard this time of year. Pansies are a favorite because of their beauty and different colors. Lilacs are a favorite because of their fragrance and forget-me-knots remind me of you youth. When I was a teenager I asked my Dad if I could plant some flowers, and he agreed. However, over the years, he had a hard time getting rid of the forget-me-knots. He use to say “how can I forget you Cathie, I can not get rid of those flowers, they are like weeds.”
Have fun and happy scrappin’
What is a template or blueprint you may ask? Well simply put, it is a predesigned page with shades of greys or blue. You select the element, and choose "fill the item with" and choose your background and embellishments. Then you drag your photos on and your pages are done quickly.
When you download a free template, save it to a file on your desktop. I like to save them in my "exchange folder." After you have downloaded the template open StoryBook if it is not already open.
This will bring the pages in at the bottom of your project. You will then need to left click on the page and drag it into the order you want the page to be. If you have never made a folder on your desktop, right click on top of the desktop. Choose "New" then "Folder" At this point name your new folder, as it should be highlighted in blue, unless you hit the enter key. In which case you would right click again on the folder and choose rename, then you can name the folder "Exchange Folder"
Remember that your exchange folder is for things going into or out of the folder. Example: you download a template and bring it into Storybook, or you save your page and want to upload it to your favorite photo center for printing.
Would you like to get rid of the white edges some of our papers have? Well there are three ways to accomplish this task.
Another thing I have been doing, so that the paper can be used as "fill this element" option, is to cut the paper with the rectangle cuter. Next, right click on the paper and choose "Save as Content" Save it in Your stuff as paper and you can name the paper at this point. Now you will be able to use the papers without the white edges.
