Technique Tuesday with Kat Glossop
Ribbon Inchies





Ribbon Inchies





Welcome to a new Member Monday on this post Super Bowl Monday. How about a little inspiration? This week's pick comes from Jeni Boisvert who chose the layout below by Mette Kallander. Jeni said, "All of Mette's layouts are lovely. You really need to check out her A Million Memories gallery. This layout jumped out to me. It's simply beautiful; the colors, the layers, but more than that, it was as if she scrapbooked an actual feeling. I could feel the emotion. I connected with it right away and just "get" it. Capturing emotion on a layout is difficult and I think Mette did a superb job."
"19 years" by Mette Kallander
Valentine's Day Pillow Box Treats
Today I'm going to show you how to make a cute and easy Valentine's Day craft! There are lots of free pillow box templates online. I used this one.
Instructions:
1. Simply print your template on pretty Valentine's Day paper and follow the cut and fold lines.
2. If you want to make a window in your pillow box so that you can see the treats inside, just cut a rectangle from the box before it is folded. 
3. Back the window with a transparency and then continue folding your pillow box. Add ribbon and other embellishments to finish it off.
These make adorable treat boxes for all those Valentines in your life!

Welcome to a new month of design team scraplifts! This month several members of the design team chose to lift this layout by Julie Overby. You can visit her blog here.
The sketch to accompany this month's kit was designed by the talented Jeni Boisvert.
Each month a different design team member designs a sketch to accompany our kit and give you a little jump start on your creativity. Stay tuned to see what the design team does with the sketch and to see the fantastic designs of our guest designer this month, Suzy Plantamura.
Feel free to use your kit for the sketch or other product, but we would love to see what you do with it, so link us up here, or post your layout on this thread.
Song titles and lyrics are a great scrapbookig resource to convey the words that sometimes we struggle to find. For the next two weeks I challenge you to use a song title or lyrics, or even better, both title and lyrics for your title and/or journaling on a project.
For my layout for this challenge I used the title and lyrics to Wilco's song "You & I".![]()
Post your music inspired projects here by midnight PST on February 6th and I will randomly choose a winner for a $10 gift certificate to shop at the AMM store with.
Good luck and happy scrapping!!
Welcome to February and a new kit from A Million Memories, "Sew Sweet". You will love the charming sewing theme in this kit from the papers down to the embellishments. It is also the perfect way to jumpstart your creative mojo to participate in our new contest. You can read more of the details about it here.
February Kit-"Sew Sweet"
Here's what you get:
Papers:
6 Cosmo Cricket Papers from "Material Girl" and "Garden Variety"
2 Studio Calico Papers from "Homefront"
Embellishments:
American Crafts Fabric Thickers
Maya Road Banner Chipboard Kit
Basic Grey Rubons
Sassafras Lass Button Blooms
1 yard red and white ribbon
1 yard yellow ribbon
1 yard vintage cream crochet scallop trim
3 mini black safety pins
3 wooden thread spools (sizes will vary)
2 Maya Road Pearl Head stickpins
2 Maya Road Crystal Head stickpins
Coordinating vintage buttons in blue, green & white
Here are some close up pictures.
In our first post CHA Member Monday we have the fantastic Staci Taylor to share with us a new Member Monday. This week she chose this super cute card by Charity Hassel.
Staci said, "I love it when people find unique ways to use scrapbooking products, and I could not stop staring at this card when I saw how Charity used the flourish to make "hair." Genius!"
"Together Forever Couple" card by Charity Hassel
Have yourself a little read of the interview Staci did with Charity for this post.
Staci: I love when people use products in unique ways, and the flourish "hair" on your girl on this card is SO adorable! Can you explain the process you used to make this card and how you came up for the adorable flourish idea?
Charity: I made the card from a sketch at cardpositioningsystem.blogspot.com. I really loved the man and wife and started digging through some embellishments trying to doll up their outfits when I came across the white flourish. It just clicked to use it as hair! hee!
Staci: Where do you get your inspiration from when it comes to scrapping and cardmaking?
Charity: Inspiration comes from many places- the energy of being around other scrappers whether online or in person, sketches, and the product itself.
Staci: What are your favorite products that you absolutely can not live without?
Charity: patterned paper, chipboard, and rubons
Have a visit by Charity's blog for more inspiration and be sure to leave her some love here on this post! You can check out her supply list for this card in the gallery here.