A CASE for Mother’s Day!

Aloha, all! 

     And an early "Happy Mother's Day" to those of you who are mothers of one kind or another!  This is the day for the biweekly Stampin' Up! Only Challenges and the theme this week is Mother's Day.  Now you who come here often know that it's not that often that I have something other than a card to show off.  But here is my second 3-D project is as many weeks!

     And it's also once again a project that I have CASEd from another Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.  This time the design for this project is the brainchild of demonstrator Kirsteen Gill, who is a member of some online groups to which I belong.  I just could not imagine going for even a day before trying this out!  While I may not duplicate her instructions online, I will be including this in one of the classes in my Craft Room in the next few weeks. 

     The fun thing for me about this project is that I got to use up some of my stash of the Designer Series Paper set, Just Add Cake, which will retire in just 5 more weeks!  I've really enjoyed not only the paper, but also the coordinating Peach Parfait Card Stock, which is a 2010-2012 "In Color" and will also retire at the end of May 2012.  There's also a bit of Wild Wasabi Card Stock in this project, but that color is NOT retiring as it's one of the current groups of core colors in the Stampin' Up! catalog.

     This photo shows the box opened up to display four little boxes that are perfect for earrings or small jewelry, or even paper clips for a desktop!  I decorated the lid with some matching ribbon – some of the Peach Parfait Stitched Poly Ribbon that will also retire at the end of May.

     For the little 3" square greeting card to go with this gift, I stamped the "Packed for Mom" stamp on some Whisper White Card stock using Black Classic Ink.  Then I stamped it again on a piece of scrap card stock and colored in a small area of the stamp with coordinating Stampin' Write Markers.  Finally, I punched it with the 1-1/4" Circle Punch and matted it with a piece of Wild Wasabi Card Stock punched with the 1-3/8" Circle Punch, and then adhered it very carefully onto the black and while image.  This technique is called "Spotlighting," and it's especially fun for a large stamp such as this one.  By the way, the Packed For Mom and the other Packed For… stamps that are in the Occasions Mini Catalog were only guaranteed to be a part of the Stampin' Up! catalog until yesterday.  As I'm actually traveling as this is being posted live, I won't have a chance to update my post to let you know if it's actually no longer a currently available Stampin' Up! product.  But I'll update this as soon as I can.

     Just for a recap:

Items in this project that are retiring or possibly not being continued into the 2012-2013 Idea Book and Catalog:

• Just Add Cake Designer Series Paper (available while supplies last)
• Stitched Poly Ribbon (available while supplies last)
• Peach Parfait Card Stock (available while supplies last)
• Packed for Mom Stamp Set (in the 2012 Occasions Mini catalog which expired yesterday; status unknown as of this writing)

Items in this project NOT retiring:

• Whisper White Card Stock
• Pumpkin Pie Button (part of the Brights Collection of Buttons)
• Wild Wasabi Card Stock
• Markers used to color in the Packed for Mom Stamp (though some may no longer be available for individual purchase)
• The Simply Scored Tool and Diagonal Plate used to score the card stock for the little white boxes.

     As I look at the blog posts that I have planned for the next couple of weeks, I believe that there are no more CASEs involved.  So I'll be able to share my layouts and instuctions with you!  Meanwhile, if you have any question or comments, please leave them here on the blog where I'm most likely to see them while I'm traveling!

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Spring Colors – Summer Smooches!

Aloha, all!

     I originally created this post for a Blog Hop that had Spring Colors for a theme.  For my project for the hop, chose some products from the Stampin' Up! Summer Smooches suite of products.  Products from this suite are available to Stampin' Up! customers this month (April), and then not again until the 2012-2013 Idea Book and Catalog is published on June 1st.  The button brads are ONLY available this month and will NOT be in the new catalog.  So if you like them as much as I do, now's the time to snatch them up!

     Today's project is a box for a half dozen or so cards I plan to make with the Summer Smooches Designer Series Papers and the Bright Blossoms Stamps.  The original designer of this particular box is a fellow demonstrator, Sandy McIver.  She is one talented lady, and I've made this box – as well as some boxes where I've modified the design a bit – many times.  I like that it neatly holds six greeting cards and six A2 envelopes quite nicely.  

     Doesn't that whirlwind of fanciful flowers remind you of all the flowers that bloom in the Spring?  I know the name is "Summer" Smooches, but it all feels like Spring to me!  There are many colors in this paper, and I chose to focus on Tangerine Tango for my box.  But I have two other boxes to share with you – made by two ladies in my class just this Friday morning!

     Lucy made the box on the left, with another of the patterns in the Summer Smooches Paper Set, focusing on the Island Indigo color; and Gala made the box on the right with yet a third design from the set, highlighting the Rich Razzleberry color.  (Other colors in the set are Lucky Limeade, Real Red and Daffodil Delight.)  All of us used Lucky Limeade card stock for the leaves.  We used two punches for the floral decorations – the Blossoms Punch from the 2012 Occasions Mini Catalog for the flowers (there are two layered up), and the Blossom Petals Building Punch, featured in the 2011-2012 Idea Book and Catalog, for the leaves.

     All three of us chose to use one of the Summer Smooches Fabric Designer Brads for the centers of our flowers, which had been stamped with the Mixed Bunch Stamp Set, also from the Occasions Mini Catalog.  The brads are so much fun to use, especially with the stamps from Mixed Bunch, and I'm really sorry they're no longer available!  Oh, and I do hope that the Mixed Bunch stamp set is one that is carried over to the next big catalog!

         If you stop back here now and then next week, I'll be showing off some of the cards that I made to go in my box.  At least two of the cards will feature some of the stamps from the Bright Blossoms Stamp Set, which is also a part of the Summer Smooches Suite.  And I'm already working on an updated video for making this box using the Stampin' Up! Simply Scored, including the diagonal plate that's now available for it.  I'll be sharing this with people on my newsletter mailing list, so be sure to Subscribe to my list if you'd like to see the video!  I'm traveling beginning next week, but I'll certainly have the video ready before the end of May.

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Elegant Papers!

Aloha, all!

     Every year, there are quite a few things that I do about which I scratch my head as we near the end of a Stampin' Up! catalog period.  One of them is to treat some of my Stampin' Up! Designer Series Papers as if they were treasures, and not products to be used and enjoyed by others.  Every year!  And this one has been no exception, although there's only one set that was pristinely unopened – up until this week.  The set is Mocha Morning Specialty Paper.  It's a "specialty" paper because two of its designs are flocked.  Flocked!  I couldn't believe when I opened the package how much I wanted just to run my fingers over the flocking again and again.  Where has this been all year?!

     So for sure I wanted to use this for a large project so the flocking would not be missed.  Aha!  I was responsible for our Family and Community Education (FCE) club's door prize for this month's meeting, and a composition book cover would be just the thing.  I knew this because several of the club's members had bought my covered books at last year's fund-raiser fair and really liked them. 

     I covered the front and back covers with the lighter of the flocked papers, and then covered the spine with the black flocked paper.  To enhance the elegant look of the papers, I punched the long edges of the spine cover with the Scallop Edge Punch.  The finish touches are a piece of Basic Black 5/8" Satin Ribbon wrapped around the front cover and tied into a bow, and then an RSVP Pen which I "filled" with a piece of the lighter paper.  Just gorgeous, if I do say so myself!

     This is a really great project for craft fairs.  In fact, I went to a craft fair today and there was one vendor who had the composition books covered with very cheap paper and she was selling them for $5 each.  That's how I priced mine at our fund-raiser fair last year and people snatched them up!  This one would sell for much more than that, I'm sure, especially as I covered the inside of the covers with coordinating (but not flocked!) Designer Series Papers. 

     A hint for those who might be considering something like this for next holiday season's craft fairs:  Buy the composition books when they're dirt cheap at Back-to-School Sales in August and September!!  I have a whole shelf of them for THIS year's fund-raiser next month.  Fifty cents a piece, and I'll bet they're cheaper on the U. S. mainland!

     It's a beautiful weekend here and I've enjoyed the craft fairs that are here for the Merrie Monarch Hula Festival.  I hope you're able to do something that you really enjoy and have fun with this weekend, too!

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What a Beautiful Gift!

Aloha, all!

     I had the wonderful experience this week of meeting up with a fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrator who was here in Hawaii with her family.  Marlene Dirkes and her family are only on our island for a couple of days and we had been crossing our fingers that we'd be able to meet when they drove to my side of the Big Island.  Yay, it worked out!!

     Of course, when Stampin' Up! demos have a meeting like this, we LOVE to share our projects as gifts!  And today I'm going to share with you what she brought for me.  My, oh, my is this purse set just gorgeous (and it just matches some of the Pink Hibiscus in our garden!)

     Marlene made this purse using the Stampin' Up! Flirtatious Designer Fabric.  You can see all three of the patterns in this fabric set in this project, which includes the clutch purse and tissue holder that are shown in this photograph as well as a key fob that matches the handle of the purse.  I am SOOOO excited to have this wonderful gift from Marlene, especially as I don't own a sewing machine that would be capable of handling this project (I have a mini only).

     Along with the fabric, Marlene also used one of Stampin' Up!'s Fluerettes II, which she dyed with Pretty in Pink ink to match the purse, and attached with one of the buttons from the Twitterpated Designer Buttons set. 

     As we near the end of Sale-a-bration (tomorrow night!) I'd like to remind you that this fabric is one of the products that you can get FOR FREE by spending $50 on any products in our Idea Book & Catalog or in our Occasions Mini Catalog.  This mini catalog is where Marlene found the Twitterpated buttons! 

     You might be interested in where Marlene found this delightful pattern – it's online and it's free!  Just click here for the pattern.  Another fellow Stampin' Up! demonstrator, Dawn Olchefske, has on her website a pattern for the tissue holder – using the same fabric used by Marlene!  I have just GOT to get back to sewing with all this fab Stampin' Up! Fabric!  Maybe I'll buy myself one for my half-birthday in August (I've always wanted to celebrate a half-birthday; maybe this year will be it!)

     I've had a smile on my face all week thinking about this lovely purse.  I hope whatever you're doing brings a smile to your face this weekend, too!

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A Bit of An Addendum

     As I was straightening up a bit after some of my week's work, I came across this photo that I'd taken as I was planning how to stage the photo of the purse that Marlene gave me.  I swear that purse was not on my work table more than 60 seconds when someone else in my household decided it was hers and not mine!  Of course I had to take a photo of Cholla the Cat with the purse (I shooed her off right after photo.  Her majesty was NOT pleased!)

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It’s All About Blue!

Aloha, all!

     And welcome to my stop on the "It's All About Blue" Blog Hop!  This is a small blog hop sponsored by a group of Stampin' Up! demonstrators who get together online just to do blog hops, and you may have come from Cynthia Ferenz's blog, Stampin' Dragon.  I've been a member since this group started several months ago, and this is the first chance I've had to be able to take part in a tour.  If you can say the word, "Busy," then you know how I've been. 

     And if you can say the word, "Blue," you'll be correctly describing my project for the day!  You might remember my last blog post where the challenge was to use my favorite Christmas Colors, and I chose Blue and Silver.  Well, as happens a lot of the time, that blue and silver was still out on my craft room work table, so it was easy to conjure up some blue.  But conjuring up the design was a bit harder. 

     Earlier this week, I saw a photo of one of the tables in the White House.  It was delightfully decorated with paper-crafted Christmas Trees.  I was sure I could duplicate them, but then I ran up against my own limitations, especially in terms of my creativity.  As you can imagine, the White House has only the BEST decorators, and somehow my invitation got lost in the mail this time around.  You need not wonder why that happened!  What I ended up with every time I tried to put this tree together was something that looked like a bunch of lamp shades stacked on top of one another.  I finally got the height and width and colors organized the way that I wanted them and I like the way it turned out.

     I made the Star with some of the Silver Glimmer Paper, featured in the Stampin' Up! 2011 Holiday Mini Catalog, cutting it with the Sizzix Stars #2 Die. The next problem was decorating the tree.  I tried wrapping various kinds of ribbons around it – rats, we don't have that lovely silver trim from last year from Stampin' Up! – then I tried hanging some bells on the bottoms of the layers.  It was just too much – so I decided to leave it alone, except for some circles of the Silver Glimmer Paper that I hope look like ornaments.  Oh, and some of those delightfully sparkle-y Basic Rhinestone Brads.  The circles were punched with the Owl Builder Punch (those "eyes" are SOOO useful!) and the bottoms of the three layers of the tree were punched with the Eyelet Border Punch.  Oh, and the blue colors that are in the tree are Marina Mist (my "go to" blue for this Christmas season) and some Bashful Blue for an accent.

   I designed the whole tree as I went along so there's no tutorial yet.  But I will have one done by the end of next week which, coincidentally, is just about the time I'm going to be sending out my next Newsletter.  So, if you'd like a copy of the instructions – including a template for making the top "layer" of the tree, sign up for my Newsletter today!  The link is at the top of the column on the left.  I'll be including several different kinds and sizes of paper Christmas trees!  I can't let the White House outdo Robin's Craft Room, can I??

     And speaking of being outdone – you have just GOT to go check out Angela Walters' Blog, Life With a Weiner Dog.  I'm sure that Angela and Frank have something wonderful to share with you today.

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A Fun Way to Capture Letters to Santa

This post was originally part of a blog tour for the online Stampin' Up! Demonstrators group, SUDSOL. 
You may still participate in the tour using the links at the bottom of this post.  Lots of great holiday projects – and you don't have to be Demonstrator to enjoy it!

Aloha, all!

     There are so many wonderful products in this year's Stampin' Up! Holiday Mini Catalog that I haven't been able even to start to use them all.  One that I finally decided I had to use (because I have grandchildren who are young enough to still believe in Santa) was the stamp set, Dear Santa.  I actually bought the set because I just had to have the "To:  From", Holly, and Snowflake stamps in the set.  I wasn't so sure about the "Dear Santa," but now I've figured out how to put even that stamp to good use.

     These are two "Letters to Santa" books that I've made for two of my grandchildren (would you guess that their names are Morgan and Kiara?).  These books are made from the 5" x 5" On Board Journal sold by Stampin' Up!  I covered them with paper from the Designer Series Paper Set, Holly Berry Bouquet and decorated the front with the Dear Santa Stamp Set.  

     Inside each journal, I decorated pages on which the girls could write their letters to Santa – or this could be their Christmas Scrapbook!  Most of the pages are decorated with either the snowflake or the holly sprig from the Dear Santa Stamp Set.  But other pages I decorated with some of the stockings from the Stitched Stocking Stamp Set (also – you guessed it! – from the Holiday Mini Catalog!).

     I actually got the girls to help me out with this.  Last month, when I was visiting them, I asked if they'd each write a short letter to Santa so that I could use it when I was blogging about this project.  They jumped right into it – and they both wanted a puppy!  It was so touching, as they'd lost their last dog to an illness this summer, and you could tell right away that this was to be THE thing for this Christmas!

     For the very young people in your life, they wouldn't even have to write in the book!  Think about having them draw pictures of what they'd like, as Morgan drew a picture of the puppy she'd like.  Or have them cut or tear pictures out of catalogs and paste them onto the pages.  Hmmm, I might just have to cut some pictures out of the Stampin' Up! catalog to show Santa what I'D like this year!

     Finally, you could use the pages that are the journal as the basis for a Christmas Scrapbook.  You could make this into a fun 6" x 6" Scrapbook or even put the pages on a large 12" x 12" scrap layout.  This is a hybrid project – the background and lettering is done with My Digital Studio and the rest is the "real" stuff.  The stocking uses the Stocking Builder Punch and the candy cane is from the Sizzix Stocking Accents Die (both in the Holiday mini, of course!

     And as for that puppy that my granddaughters had asked for for Christmas this year?  It turns out that this year Christmas came two and a half months early.  Their new puppy arrived three weeks ago and the whole family is absolutely thrilled. 

          I hope you've enjoyed reading about my idea for the Dear Santa Stamp Set!  I had a lot of fun with it and I'm sure that you will, too. 

If you're a member of the SUDSOL online Stampin' Up! Demonstrators group, click here find in the patterns section of the website a set of instructions for you to use as a tutorial or class handout, including a template to use to cut the holes through which the binding wires go and the measurements for the paper to use for the cover.  Demonstrators who are NOT a member of SUDSOL can access the instructions, too – with a FREE two-week trial membership to the group!  Why not try it out TODAY!!

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Another Fun Challenge for the Holidays!

Aloha, all!

     Today is the last day I'll be posting a project from the Create with Connie and Mary Holiday Edition!  But don't forget – you can still subscribe to this fabulous series of 6 WEEKS OF PROJECTS!  I've been thinking that getting these projects all at once might be a lot of fun – and they're available to everyone who subscribes for ONE YEAR!

     Today's project was a challenge just for the Create with Connie and Mary Holiday Edition Design Team.  We were to make a bag or a box and a tag.  That sounds like Christmas to me!!  Well, it could be a birthday, or any other event that calls for a small gift.  And such a unique way to present a special gift! 

     A couple of years ago I made a lot of these "box in a bag" (or is it "bag in a box"?) containers, and I forgot how much I loved to make them – and how EASY they are!!  I looked around for a pattern and found quite a few.  But I kind of felt like "Goldilocks" when she was dealing with the Three Bears:  This one was too tall, this one was too wide, this one required retired products.  I wanted one that was "just right."  So I made my own pattern with my own measurements and found that "just right" size and set of products for this holiday season.  The base for the "box" bottom is 2" x 4" and the whole bag is 4-1/2" tall.  The closest existing pattern for the shape that I wanted is one posted by Andrea Walford back in 2008, and she in turn based her design on one by Diana Gibbs earlier the same year.  In the 3 years since, lots of people have made variations on the same design.  If you can't find a tutorial that you like for this project, just let me know in the comments on this blog post and I can point you to them.

     The card stock for this whole project is Wild Wasabi,(with a touch of Real Red on the tag) and the designer series paper is from the Holiday Mini set, Holly Berry Bouquet. I just love the little Holly and Berry overall pattern on this paper – I could almost use a whole pack of it all by itself!

     The stamp on the central motif on the front of the bag is from the Pines and Poinsettias stamp set (also in the Holiday Mini Catalog).  I used my Wild Wasabi, Cherry Cobbler and Real Red Stampin' Write Markers to color the stamp before I applied it to the Very Vanilla Card Stock. The card stock is a 2-1/2" square and it's mounted on Wild Wasabi that I cut with the Sizzix Scallop Squares Duo Die.  The gift tag is a 1-3/4" square (cut a piece of Very Vanilla Card Stock 3-1/2" x 1-3/4" and fold in half).

     I hope you've enjoyed everything that I've been sharing with you as I've participated in the Create with Connie and Mary Holiday Edition!  I've been kind of scarce here on my own blog because I've been busy with them.  But from now until the end of the year, I'll be back here in full swing, ready to show you what I've been creating in my Craft Room!

     I hope you're having a great weekend – and are having some time to get some of your holiday crafting done!  Have fun whatever you do!

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Sweet Treats!

Aloha, all!

     I'm back from my traveling and over with the cold that I brought home from the U. S. mainland.  So I've actually had some time in the Craft Room the past couple of days!

     While my big project for the weekend was a Create with Connie and Mary project, I also had to get a project done for the biweekly Stampin' Up! Only Challenge Design Team.  This was a very different project than what I'm used to doing.  In fact, I think that most of us on the Design Team were a bit nonplussed about having to make something that we ended up not spending much time on to make it a cute finished project.  Heck, I usually spend at least an hour or two coming up with my card design, then another hour putting it together, making design modifications as I go along.  That's not what happened with this week's project!

     For one thing, making that bag is a piece of cake (or candy, which is what's in it).  All I had to do was pick a piece of Designer Series Paper (Pick Your Poison from the Holiday Mini Catalog), cut it out with the Sizzix Fancy Favor Die, add some ribbon for a handle and it seemed like it was done.  But wait.  I only spent 10 minutes doing that.  How can that be a finished project?!  OK, so I went hunting for the Pick Your Poison Quick Accents, wrapped one of the designer stripes around the top of the bag and added a label to the front.  Done!  But wait.  That was only another 3 minutes.  Hmmm.  OK, make a ribbon fleurette to attach to the base of the handle.  Now that was more like it – it took 15 minutes to do that.  Then I decided that the two packages of chocolate covered macadamia nuts (yes, I live in Hawaii so what else would I put in a treat bag!?) needed some company.  I just happened to have some chocolate flavored Twizzlers on hand and wondered how they'd fit in one of the new 1" cellophane bags.  Turns out they fit fine, though they needed a little coaxing to get that last inch or two into the bag – they're a bit on the sticky side!  I added two self-adhesive die cuts from the Quick Accents pack to the tops, added them to the bag and, finally, I called this project, "Done!" 

     I'm having a card-making class in the craft room this weekend, so I may just have to make one of these for everyone who comes!  It really is that simple to make this little treat bag!

     As you're getting ready for treat season, remember that Stampin' Up! has so many products for us to use to make QUICK AND EASY treat holders.  Just look through your catalog and you'll see dozens and dozens of ideas!  Don't have a catalog?  Just let me know and I'll get one out to you!

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Easy Money Card

Aloha, all!

     No, it's not "Easy Money"; it's an "Easy Card"!   Last week I showed off a Mini Accordion Fold Album that I made for our duplicate bridge club to give to one of our members who has a brand new baby.  I mentioned at the time that we were also going to present the group gift from the club members using a card that I made to hold a check.  I've used this quick and simple pattern several times, and it worked wonderfully for this occasion, too!

     These cute little owls are printed on paper from the Nursery Nest suite of Designer Series Papers featured in the latest Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog.

     For both the Belly Band on the outside of the card and the greeting label inside the card, I cut out two of those cute little owls and adhered them to Card Stock.  The card stock colors that I used for this project are Marina Mist and Pear Pizzazz.  The strip of paper at the bottom of the fold in the card is also from the Nursery Nest paper set.  The label on the top of the inside of the card is made with Whisper White Card Stock, cut with the Sizzix Two Tag Die, and a Scallop Circle Punched piece of Marina Mist Card Stock. 

     One feature of this card is one I always try to incorporate into any cards and as many gifts as I can – and that is that this will fit into a Stampin' Up! Envelope that can be mailed.

     In this case, the money card with the Belly Band around it (to keep it closed) fits into the Stampin' Up! Small Open End Envelope. 

     Now for my treat for this blog post – I have a template for this money card!  And it's FREE, with no strings attached (actually no ribbon attached to this project either).  Just click here to download a one-page tutorial for this card.  I used it last year for a Christmas project, but, just as with the Accordion Fold Album, it's great for many occasions!

     Have fun with this project – or with whatever you do this week!

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More Fun with the Accordion Fold Album!

Aloha, all!

     Last weekend one of my online Stampin' Up! groups – SU! STARS – hosted a Blog Tour, of which Robin's Craft Room was a part.  I showed off a Mini Accordion Fold Album that I'd made for some friends who have a brand new baby.  As a bonus for visiting my blog, I offered anyone who made a comment the opportunity to win an album of their own.  Actually, the comment challenge had a little twist.  I asked that those who commented make suggestions for how such an album could be used. 

     Well, did I ever get the comments!  I was amazed at all the suggestions, and I am posting the list following this blog post so that YOU can get some ideas for using this terrific little quick-and-easy album.  And, of course, I have a tutorial for it right here on my blog!

     The winner of the "Blog Candy" suggested that this would be a good album to use to show off pictures of Stampin' Up! projects to highlight classes that she's offering.  What a fabulous idea!  In fact, not only did I make an album for her, I made one for myself to do the very same thing!

     Making this project gave me the chance to use two of my favorite Stampin' Up! Stamp Sets that I rarely show of here on my blog!  One of them, however, is only available to Stampin' Up! demonstrators who attended the Stampin' Up! convention this year, and that's the set, Workshop Words, which includes the greeting, "I LOVE being your Stampin' Up! demonstrator."  But the other set – Tote-ally Tess – is available for everyone to purchase from the Stampin' Up! Catalog.  Even if you're not a Stampin' Up! demonstrator, if you're reading this blog post, you probably are a stamper, and that stamp set has lots of cute stamps for you to use especially when you're scrapbooking about yourself!  Of course, if you ARE a demonstrator, you probably use it for hostess gifts and customer thank you notes.  I just love the set. 

     Speaking of hostess gifts, the paper that I used for the cover of this album is ONLY available to hostesses or anyone who spends at least $150 on Stampin' Up! products in one order.  It's a whole set of Designer Series Paper called Cheerful Treat, and the colors from it that I featured in this album are Melon Mambo and Lucky Limeade.

The Winner of the Blog Candy!

     Oh, and you'd like to know who the winner is!  She is Julie Camell, who has a delightful blog, Camell's Creative Cafe!  Thanks for the comment on my blog, Julie, and good luck with your craft fairs!

The List of Uses for the Album!

     Now here's the list of ideas for using this fun little album:  Christmas; Weddings and Engagement Parties; Senior Birthdays; "Firsts" such as Halloween, Day of School, Sporting Event; Adoption; Day Trips, for example to the Beach or Zoo; Pets; Anniversaries; Memory Books featuring special people; New House; Get Well, featuring pictures of tea, bandages, tissues, etc; Teacher Gift; Stampin' Up! Hostess Gift; and, of course, Stampin' Up! projects!

     Now, with all those ideas, why don't you try one of these albums yourself!  I guarantee you'll have fun with it!

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