Challenge #1 – Create a Page Layout from a Magazine Ad!

Inspiration is all around you.

This article is from the CM Product Solutions page.  You can check out their other posting if you click here!

Visualize yourself walking through the grocery store. Look on the shelves. What jumps out? The colors of the macaroni and cheese box. The layout of the cereal box. The piles of produce, stacked layer upon layer.

Or how about the magazine rack in your living room? Pull out any magazine and look through the ads. 
Ads (and cereal boxes) are created by designers, who typically have a good eye for balance, color, font and placement. A great source for layout inspiration can be found right on your coffee table or inside your cupboards!
For this challenge, interpret this ad as a scrapbook layout!

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Croptoberfest Event!

It’s that time of the year again – Croptoberfest!   As many of you know, I have an overnight scrapbooking get-a-way every November.  This year it will be held again at the Johnson & Wales Inn in Seekonk MA from Friday November 2^nd to Sunday November 4^th.  If you are interested in coming check out these details and let me know right away as space is limited! 

·         Package #1 – Croppers Delight – this includes scrapbooking space, meals, prizes and giveaways for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  The cost is $195 per person.  If you wish to share a table save $20 and it’s only $175 per person.

·         Package $2 – Daisy Scrapper – this includes scrapbooking space, meals, prizes and giveaways for Saturday and Sunday.  The cost is $175 per  person.  First come, first serve for your own table!

·         Package #3 – All Day Scrapper - this includes scrapbooking space, meals, prizes and giveaways for SATURDAY ONLY!

Friday – 7pm to midnight on your own scrapbooking time.  Receive a gift for attending!

Saturday – 8:30am to 11pm.  All night to early morning scrapbooking time, raffles and more!  From 5pm on scrapbook alongside your consultant.  Hot lunch and Light Dinner is served.  Continental breakfast is included in your hotel stay.  Receive a gift for attending!

(Saturday Day Scrappers – 8:30am to 11pm)

Sunday – 8:30 am to 2pm scrapbooking time, raffles and more!  Boxed lunch is served.  Continental breakfast is included in your hotel stay.  Receive a gift for attending!

Johnson & Wales Inn room rate is $89 plus tax per night.  Call them at 1-800-232-1772 and mention you are with Carol’s Creative Memories Group to get this rate!

Looking forward to seeing you there and hope to meet a lot of new scrapbookers!

Click Here to go to my Creative Memories Website for all of your photo solution needs!



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Fall Border Ideas!

It appears that fall has finally struck!  I have to admit I do love these brisk mornings, but I am not looking forward to shoveling snow in what I am sure will come all too quickly!  I hope everyone has been out enjoying all that our wonderful New England Autumns have to offer – apple picking, pumpkin patches, hayrides and getting ready for Halloween!

If you have taken lots of pictures doing these activities then I am sure you are looking for some great fall border ideas!  Check out the photos sent to me by a fellow consultant.  She has used the new pumpkin and rustic fence border maker cartridges in some very creative ways.  If you haven’t invested in this system yet now is the time!  It is a fantastic tool with so many options and Creative Memories is continuing to add more cartridges each month or so.  Click here to go directly to the Border Maker Page on my shopping site!  This would also be an excellent item to add to your holiday wish list! 
My favorite border is this new sunflower chain!  Can you believe the stem of the sunflower is the evergreen maker upside down, the tree tops are cut off?  (Note: the evergreen maker is no longer available on the CM website but if you really want one let me know and I can see if there are any in stock in my unit)  If you attend my upcoming overnight, I will have the entire Border Maker System with all the cartridges and you can try before you buy!

I look forward to reading feedback from you!  And don’t forget to keep reading, commenting, and forwarding to friends!  As I said in my earlier blog, I am going to Raffle off TWO $10 FREE Product Certificates!  Here is how you can win:

·         LIKE me on Facebook and get an entry

·         SUBSCRIBE to my Blog and get an entry

·         REFER friends to both sites and get an entry (have friend send me a message with your name in order to qualify) - Each referral gets one entry!

·         I will pick a winner on November 14^th – just in time to kick off my Black Friday Weekend Shopping Specials!   Stay tuned…

Click here to go directly to my CM Shopping Site!

Welcome!

Welcome to Carol's Cropping Community, your source for creative inspiration and online connection to my CM Community! 

The world we live in is non-stop and crazed!  We are all going a million miles an hour  and there never seems to be enough time in the day for YOU!  Many of us used to get together on a monthly basis to work on our albums.  Some of you come to my overnight events twice yearly.  And a few are former CM consultants with whom I had the wonderful opportunity to work with!  I know how difficult it is to keep up with your projects and this is one of the many reasons I decided to create this blog! 

Many people have been asking me for quite some time now to jump on the bandwagon and get on Facebook!  I send out email blast quite frequently (and it took me long enough to get that going!) and now it is time to change gears AGAIN!  I have consulted with quite a few of you as well as folks in this social media industry and have come up with the best of all world solution – I am creating a BLOG!  This will tie in with Facebook and should help me to stay connected to all of you and vice versa!

Every week I will be creating at least one new post.  Some of these will be scrapbook ideas direct from Creative Memories.  Some will be Challenges for you to create something using a new product (and prizes will be awarded!)  Some of these will be "Virtual Workshops" where you can create new stuff in the comfort of your home at your leisure.  I invite you to scroll through these for your own ideas.  These posts are meant to keep you involved in the CM Community.  You know those women you only see at the overnights, or how about the ones you only get together with monthly to scrapbook with and then when you do there is never enough time to pick their brains for all of their ideas!  Right?!  Well, now you can stay connected all year long!  I invite you all to post on my FB Wall, tag me in photos of your recent projects or if you have a website or blog connected with scrapbooking send me a link and I will add it to my page!  The beauty in all of this is that you can check out “What’s New!” in those brief snippets of time you have during the day when you are browsing the internet on your phone or tablet – just add me to your favorites!

This BLOG is being set up as a COMMUNITY for YOU my CUSTOMER!  If there are things you would like to see let me know!  If you have a friend who might enjoy this forward her the blog!  I can’t wait to hear from you!  And just to see who is paying attention, I am going to Raffle off TWO $10 FREE Product Certificates!  Here is how you can win:

·         LIKE me on Facebook and get an entry

·         SUBSCRIBE to my Blog and get an entry

·         REFER friends to both sites and get an entry (have friend send me a message with your name in order to qualify) - Each referral gets one entry!

I will pick a winner on November 14th – just in time to kick off my Black Friday Weekend Shopping Specials!  

Stay tuned…;

Click Here to go to my Creative Memories Website for all of your photo solution needs!