Happy Forth of July!

Happy Independence Day!
I hope you are having some fun with the family on this great holiday! I have some fun things to share with you today.

PRINTABLES!! First up is this link to some really great vintage Fourth of July images including some sheet music with some festive songs such as the Star Spangled Banner or Yankee Doodle for use on your Fourth of July Projects. Just click here and save to your computer.

Next up is this layout I created using a pic I had from my class trip to Washington DC last year. This pic is at the National Archives building, specifically in the Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom where the original Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and Constitution are housed along with other important documents.

Next, we have this really cute banner made by Rachel Hall. Here is a list of the supplies she used:

Supplies Used:

Jenni Bowlin Mini Bingo Cards

Rusty Pickle Patterned Paper

Bazzill Basics Cardstock

Scenic Route Chipboard Alphabet

Heidi Swapp, Li'l Davis and Making Memories Chipboard Stars

Stickles

MayArts & Offray Ribbons

Scrap Chipboard

Last, but not least, are these holiday pinwheels made by Mia Caniza.
"I used a free template that is available at Heather Bailey's blog & altered it to the holiday theme. I used papers from the Sceninc Route Liberty line."

I hope you all have a wonderful and safe holiday!

What's New in the AMM Store??

First up are the two new lines from Basic Grey, Lemonade and June Bug, two very summery lines. But you better hurry because much of these items are already sold out!

Here is a sampling of Lemonade, which has some really pretty and soft colors reminiscent of a tall cold glass of pink lemonade.

Lemonade Elements Stickers

And here is a sampling of the papers, some of which are in the July kit!

Basic Grey also introduced these beautiful doily papers for each line. This first one is from Lemonade and the second is from June Bug. These are not the only two patterns of the doily papers.

Here are the Element Stickers for June Bug.

How about a sampling of the papers from the June Bug collection. You need to hurry though, these are going fast!

On to the next new line in the store, October Afternoon's Road Map line. I love the quirky but sort of vintage feel of this line. See for yourself. Here is a sampling of the papers from Road Map

And here are the super duper cute Wild Cards that go with this collection. How adorable would these be inside a mini book of your summer travels!

OK, enough enabling from me. If you are looking for any of these lines in the store, just click on the links above to get some for yourself before it is all gone!

Design Team Scraplift

Not only does the design team work hard to keep you inspired with new projects and techniques but we get inspired by YOU! In the spirit of inspiration, a few of the design team members, Mia Caniza, Tonya Dirk, and Larissa Albernaz chose this layout by AMM member, DaniseTX, called "Spring Break" to scraplift. You can see the designer's interpretations below Danise's layout.

"Spring Break" by DaniseTX

"Fly Me to the Moon" By Larissa Albernaz "Danise´s layout is so well organized and cute. I love her design. I love the way she worked with multiple photos all displayed in circles. and, especially, the clouds. My version of her layout shows the same background, some of Danise`s clouds and circles. I also got inspired by the happiness of her layout, so I worked on a love theme. Congrats, your work is very inspiring!"


Here is Design Team Coordinator, Tonya Dirk's layout based off the same layout.

"Lovely You" by Tonya Dirk "I was inspired by the placement of her circular photos and used those as the placement for cluster of flowers. I also chose to go with the bright color scheme with less white."

And here is Mia Caniza'a take on the lift.

"Online Girlfriends" by Mia Caniza "When I first saw this page by Danise, I loved all the circles she had here. I don't often do too many circles on my page and I wanted to challenge myself to do so. So for this lift I wanted to take the circles she had going on and incorporate them in my own way on this page."

The July Kit is here!!

This month's kit is designed by Mia Caniza, a girl who knows her product! So after a ton of fun, off the wall guesses, and three scantily clad hotties here is the July kit, "Summer Brilliance" for your viewing pleasure!

Here's what you'll get:

1 October Afternoon Paper

3 Prima Papers

4 Basic Grey Papers

1 American Crafts Glitter Thickers

4 or 5 October Afternoon Cherry Hill Flash Cards

1 Pink Paislee Rubons

1 Zva Crystal Flourishes

1 sheet Sassafras Lass Chipboard

1 October Afternoon Cherry Hill Labels

1 yard pink vintage crochet trim

1 yard blue vintage crochet trim (the style of this trim may slightly vary)

Due to a delay from Basic Grey on the brand new Lemonade papers, the design team will be a little late in getting their projects posted, so stay tuned!

Technique Tuesday with Wendela Lam!

Fences are hot!
How cute are is the tiny fence in the June kit?!!! I really love them! Last weekend here in Hellevoetsluis, the place where I live in the Netherlands, I saw this fence in a garden.

And it was so inspiring to make a fence by my own! The only things you need are little wooden sticks and iron wire.

I saw the wooden sticks at McDonalds, for eating ice cream…..:) and I cut them in half.

Next you cut off 2 lengths of the iron wire, approximately 12 inches. Twist the beginning together like this.

Add a wooden stick between the iron wires….one wire on the upper side and one on the under side.

And twist together again.

Do the same thing on the upper side, to make the fence more stable.
Your fence is finished and ready to scrap on your layout! And if you like, you can paint it a favorite color. Have fun, and I would love to see your work with the handmade fences in the gallery!

Member Monday!!

Today Corien brings us a new Member Monday with a layout she chose by Elaine DK.

Surf Adventure

Corien chose this layout because she, "loves the painted and crackled background with the fishing net."

If you want to see more from Elaine check out her gallery here and be sure to leave her some love on this layout by clicking here. Stop by tomorrow for a Technique Tuesday with Wendela.

Little Something Sunday with Mia Caniza!

Here's a quick and simple card I created using the Pink Paislee Enchanting line.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1) Cut a sheet of 8.5x11 kraft cardstock in half horizontally then fold in the middle to get 5 1/2" x 4 1/4" card.

2) Cut out a piece from the Pink Paislee Enchanting Adorable paper measuring 5 1/8" x 3 7/8". Distress the edges with your edge distresser.

3) Adhere the paper to the base of the card, centering it while you do so. If you want, break out your sewing machine and stitch a border on the paper. I did two passes for a funky sewed border.


4) Take the green and pink border sticker from the Pink Paislee Enchanting Sticker Book and adhere it to the bottom fourth of the card with the fancy border edge facing upwards. Trim off the excess.


5) Take the striped border sticker, also from the same sticker book, and place it on top of the first border sticker, overlapping it a bit onto the first sticker border. The fancy edge will be facing downwards on this.


6) Pick out a foliage chipboard shape from the Pink Paislee Enchanting Chipboard Elements set. Adhere piece to the left hand side of the card.


7) Poke a hole in the center of the bud with a paper piercer. Take a velvet brad from the Pink Paislee Enchanting brads and place in the hole in the chipboard.


8) Add a sentiment using the Pink Paislee Fashion Script Alphabet Stickers on the lower right hand side of the card over the border stickers.


9) Since I wanted the sentiment to pop and also give it some dimension, I filled it in with Stickles for an added shimmer, thus also changing the color of the alphabet.





All that's left now is to write a note inside and send it off to someone special. You can find some of these Pink Paislee Enchanting products at A Million Memories. You can find them in the store here.

More "Early Bird"! Manufacturer Sponsor Spotlight!

Today I am going to share some more projects the design team created using the new "Early Bird" line from Cosmo Cricket.

For You Gift Card Holder & Envelope by Jennifer Findlay
I found the pattern for both on the 2peas site but an Internet search would also pull up some great envelope templates.

Chicks Dig Me by Susan Dupre
I really love the flowers on here with the patterned paper stems and leaves.

The Two of Us by Lucy Edson
I love all the journal spots on this layout and the adorable picture.

Young Love by Rachel Hall
First, I love how Rachel displays her layouts for photographing and second I love the layers here with the old school pics.

Happy by Hilde Janbroers
I love Hilde's hand stitching border and the bracket shape here.

Hey Good Lookin' By Larissa Albernaz
I love all the clusters of embellishments on this one, and the pic is so adorable!

We (heart) Grandpa by Stacy Cohen
The detail work Stacy put into embellishing the ribbon paper is outstanding!

If you want to see more of what the design team did with these new papers and embellishments, check out the design gallery here. want some "Early Bird" of your own, then be sure to check out the shop here, especially now with the 25% off sale going on. Just enter 2122 at checkout!

See you tomorrow with a Little Something Sunday from Mia, who brings us a really pretty card.

July Kit Sneek!!!

The July kit is so awesome!! We have had some fun on the boards with Mia, who designed this month's kit, playing a little guessing game. Here is a sneek at what has been guessed at so far. AMM will be one of the first, if not THE first, to have Basic Grey's Lemonade line in their monthly kit!! You don't want to miss this one at all!




You can keep track of the game and see what else is added to the kit by watching and guessing on this thread here. I can't wait to see the full reveal or to see what Christine Middlecamp does with it!!