Creative Memories Virtual Crop

Did any of you play along with the recent Creative Memories Virtual Crop this past weekend?  I did and loved following along with the cues.  I got a good number of pages done.  I was sort of cheating because I was playing in digital but the important thing is to make progress and get those pages done, right?  I thought I'd share some of them with you here.

Using a Magazine layout for inspiration

Inspiration from Vegetarian times to make
the layout to the left

Scraplifting from the Project Center

Making pinwheels, coffee colored papers, and spring

Using "scraps"

Pinterest inspiration

Using their sketch for inspiration

If you didn't make the crop, don't worry!  The challenges can still be found on the CM Traditional 411 Blog.  There is so much inspiration there!  And you can see all the other great projects made with these cues here.

Making Monograms

I received a few private comments after the Creative Memories blog hop as to how I made the letter E that was a clue for the giveaway.  SBC 4.0 makes it so easy!

First, I went to the Insert ribbon and selected the text Shape option.  I selected the letter I wanted to use. For the E, I selected the new Creative Memories Enchanted Paper 9. I selected the line color, line width, and line style I wanted.  For the E, I used a compound style with two equally weighted lines. 8 pts, and black. And that's it! Layer a ribbon and a flower from the kit to make it a little more interesting.  When you do this on your own pages, if you don't like what you get, just delete it and select the text Shape again and it will retain all the settings you just used so you don't have to enter it all again.  How cool is that?

You can use this technique to make great titles, email signatures, too.  You can fill in big chunky text with photos! Have a play!

Enchanted and Divine

Here are some layouts featuring Creative Memories' new power palettes, Enchanted and Divine. Click on the pictures to be taken to the instructions for how to make them on the Creative Memories Project Center site. I hope you like them.