New Ribbon Kit - Winter Chill

A Million Memories' first ribbon kit! We want to do ribbon and flower kits . . . .what do you think? Leave us a comment!


Order the kit here: Winter Chill Ribbon Kit


New ~ from Creative Imaginations . . .

These beautiful papers arrived yesterday! There are more in the collection, and embellies and different colors, also - on our site - check them out!

November Kit . . .Sneak Peek!


Okay - this is just the papers and rub-ons . . .a little teaser . . . . to wet your appetite!

You can order the kit at A Million Memories

New! New! New!


NEW Melissa Frances cardstock stickers – FAMILY & DATES

NEW Melissa Frances – GLITTER CHIPBOARD FLOWERS

We have some awesome little shabby metal embellishment holders from Melissa Frances and we picked up another ribbon organizer - cause we think it is toooooo stinkin' cute!


NEW HEIDI SWAPP – Large KIWI Flowers

NEW Creative Imaginations – We received some of the new altered items from the Bare Elements collection – the dress form, some SUPER BIG Clothes pins and some amazing jewelry boxes that could also be used to hold embellishments. We also received some new stuff from KAREN RUSSELL’s NARRATIVES line that is just BEAUTIFUL.

AWESOME LIMITED EDITION KITS * - Check out our NEW Lily Kate, Office Supplies and Christmas Memories kits (just to mention a few). They are a great buy and are only available in limited numbers!











We have been on a crazy shopping spree, so check back often. Stuff seems to be going quickly and we are shipping them out as quickly as you guys are ordering. We hope that we are making your internet shopping experiences just a little more fun!

BOO Kit - Instructions Prepared by Katie Watson


Directions for Home Décor “BOO” chipboard letters

Supplies needed:
Paper trimmer
Black ink
Black fine tipped pen (such as ZIG)
Scissors
Razor knife, swivel blade or straight (can also use scissors)
A wet glue such as Tombo, Fabri-tac (my personal choice) Mod Podge or whatever your favorite liquid glue is.
Pencil
Piece of fine-grained sandpaper

The Letter ~B~

Cut thin strips of the White Bazzill textured cardstock. Vary the widths from ¼ “ to ¾” , this is apx and they don’t have to be exact. Make sure that some strips are the same width as the “B” specifically the top, Middle and bottom of the “B”.

Using black ink, ink the edges of the strips (don’t worry about the ends, you’ll be cutting them off anyway)

-Layer strips across the B making them straight and flush against each other to make the background

--Using sharp scissors, razor knife or a coluzzle swivel blade, trim all edges so that the cardstock is the same shape as the letter. (see pic)

-Using thinner pieces of the strips of White Cardstock and arrange them in a criss cross pattern onto of background layer. Adhere them down and trim edges. Ink the outside of the letter around the edges.

Glue the Google eyes on the right side of the “B”. Wrap 3 pieces of ribbon around left hand side of the letter and tie in knots. Snip edges of ribbon at an angle.

The Letter ~O~

Trace the “O” onto the patterned paper. Cut out with scissors. Adhere to letter, lightly sand edges for a more finished look (this also helps to get rid of any paper that is over the edge of the letter).

-Ink edges with black ink.

-Using a fine tipped black pen, draw an oval border around the center of the O. Glue 4 buttons in a row and draw a decorative scroll (see pic)

Wrap polka dot ribbon around the edge of the letter criss crossing in the middle. Tie in a knot and snip ribbon edge at an angle. Glue buttons down ribbon.

The 2nd ~O~

Follow the same directions for above. Then randomly glue orange crystals around the “O” (it will look more spaced if you don’t glue them on the actual dots in the print of the paper)

Tie a bow and glue on the upper right hand side!

I custom sized printed my pictures to fit the openings in the letters. For the “O” letters I printed my pictures to a size 6” x 8” and for the small opening in the B, I printed them out to a size 2 ½ x 3 ½ and trimmed them to fit in the holes. Then I just glued the pictures to the back and trimmed whatever edges need to be trimmed.

~ New ~ May Arts Ribbon ~

Oh WOW - well, I can't wait to play with A LOT of this new ribbon . . .the HUGE ric rac is awesome as is the "leaf" ribbon and the hydrangea ribbon . . .okay - I love it all!

New May Arts Ribbon

Post Your Projects to the AMM Gallery!


We would love to see all of the projects that you guys are doing . . . . to gawk, ogle and learn! Please post to the gallery. If you need help uploading your photos, please email alison@amillionmemories.com or michelle@amillionmemories.com and we will gladly walk you through the process, also all the friendly members on our board would be more than happy to walk anyone through the process too!

Don't be SHY - GO BIG!

Ali Edwards - ABC's of Color - Online Class Kit


We are lucky enough to be providing supply kits for Ali Edwards' online class: ABC's of Color.

If you are interested in finding out more about Ali's classes, check out her blog at http://www.aliedwards.typepad.com/ and then come by and buy the kit from us! We have put all the supplies for her class into one kit at a discounted price!

AMM IS NOW SHIPPING INTERNATIONALLY!















We are now shipping internationally. We charge actual shipping, but there are no handling fees. Unfortunately, we are unable to honor free shipping for orders over $75 on international orders. We are in the process of having the website updated - once it is done - we will let you know. But until then - just place your order and shoot us an email and we will get back to you with the cost of shipping and then charge to your card or paypal account!

This is very exciting for us and also the many people who have been waiting for international shipping from AMM!

New Products ~ In This Week



Wow! The goodies have already started to roll in from Memory Trends and there is some CUTE stuff!

New GOODIES this week:

HEIDI SWAPP – NEW * Large Kiwi Flowers

HERO ARTS – NEW * CLEAR STAMPS & some wood mounted stamps

KI MEMORIES – NEW * The JOYFUL and ALPINE Christmas paper lines & chipboard

CREATIVE IMAGINATIONS – NEW * Bare Elements Jewelry Box, Dress Forms & some Karen Russell
Narratives goodies

MUSTARD MOON – NEW * Harvest Moon collection papers & BIG HONKIN ALPHA RUB-ONS

COSMO CRICKET – NEW * Souvenir and Wanted paper and embellishment lines

A MILLION MEMORIES – NEW * Limited Edition kits – Savannah Romance & Epiphany Jewel

Please stop by and post your projects in the gallery and say Hi on the boards!

Orders rolling in from Memory Trends . . . .

Hello Everyone! We received our first order from Memory Trends . . . .Cosmo Cricket . . . .the papers are gorgeous - as are the matching die cuts and journaling spots! We got the Wanted and Souvenir collections. ** There are only limited amounts of the Cosmo Cricket items ** . . .get 'em while they are HOT HOT HOT! We have also added more kits to the A Million Memories' Limited Edition kits - some of them from two of our very own fabulous designers, Katie Watson and Suzanne Brooksbank. Check them out! Just a reminder that Chatterbox, almost all of the Primas and all Basic Grey is still 20% off - we decided to keep this sale going for another week or two - because people have really been taking advantage of this great sale . . . Check back daily because we have orders coming in from Creative Imaginations, Basic Grey, Hero Arts, Autumn Leaves, Maya Road, May Arts, Heidi Swapp and more in the weeks to come through the end of the year! Stay tuned for the newest and hottest products on the market to hit our site!!!

www.amillionmemories.com

New Goodies at Memory Trends . . . . .

There are plenty more but we are having a camera "download issue"! Will post more tomorrow! Enjoy!

VEGAS BABY!!!
















So, we walked down to see where the Sands Convention Center was tonight and then we noticed that the doors were not locked. Hmmmm. Ali and I look at each other...Should we go in?......YES ~ let's do it!!!! So we walked in and then snuck into the show. The vendors were still putting up their booths. We saw Daisy D's, but they had blankets over their stuff. Boooooo! We mapped out where MAMBI, Heidi Swapp, Autumn Leaves, Bazzill and Inkadinkoo were and a bunch of others. We want to map out where we are going to go first so we can get our orders in first. Yahoo! It was so fun! We were so sneaky. Ha ha ha! No one ever even said anything. It was so funny. And then we found a shortcut on how to get there in the morning. And then we went back to our hotel and gambled and got tipsy ~ which brings us to this post! Ha ha ha! We're having fun guys!!!Tune in tomorrow!!!Michelle & Alison

Memory Trends . . .












Well, we are here . . .arrived safely and to prove that we are working hard . . . .we took some photos of ourselves on the plane! Wait a minute . . .what is that? I swear - we were parched!

A Day At The Pumpkin Patch



We spent the afternoon at the Pumpkin Patch with the kids . . .it was fun . . .they had a blast. There were rides and a petting zoo . . .they were like . . .pumpkins? What are you talking about . . .do you see these rides!

Memory Trends


We are off to Memory Trends. We are really excited about our first show! We will be posting photos every night of the hottest new products. . . .keep posted!