Saturday, December 27, 2014

LCOM - Sketch #104 - Reveal

Good morning!
Last sketch of the year!  Can you believe it?  How time flies.  It has been an amazing one, filled with loads of memories and great times.  Hope you get a minute before the year ends to reflect on the past year and maybe even set a few resolutions or even a bucket list for 2015.  

Here is the sketch provided by Laura Whitaker  



Let's take a look at what our designers created using this sketch 



The great thing is we are not done!  we have a card sketch also by Laura Whitaker  


Ready for some amazing cards?   


And there you have the last reveal of 2014.  What a great way to finish it off.  Hoping you all have some time to craft a little in the next week.
Should you be inspired by these layout  and cards, don't forget to share with us your creatons! We would love to see them. When you submit your design(s) using today's sketches, you'll get a ballot for to win an awesome LCOM prize. And... if you submit your designs using sketches #100-101-102-103-104, you'll get a ballot for each submission. YAY!

December Prize
A $10 gift certificate to Let's Capture Our Memories!

How to Play Along:
1. Make a newly created project using the provided sketch and upload it to your blog or online gallery.
2. Then leave a link to your project using the Inlinkz widget at the bottom of this post. Please use a direct link to your LCOM Sketch post and not just your blog address.
3. If you upload to online galleries, please also use tag/keyword LCOM104. LCOM products are NOT required to participate, and you can enter as many times as you want. If you don't have a particular shape indicated in the sketch, feel free to substitute.
4. There is no time limit - you can always play any week at any time, but the linking form will close on the last day of the month at 11:55pm (Atlantic Standard Time) to allow us to find a prize winner.

Happy scrapping!

Thursday, December 25, 2014

Merry Christmas!

May all the sweet magic of Christmas
conspire to gladden your hearts 
and fill every desire.


Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas.


Isabelle and the LCOM family

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Product Shuffle - Zipper and a Paper Bag

Good morning!

Have you seen all the goodies that have been appearing in the LCOM shop lately?  I had the privileged of seeing some of the new addition in person and I must say, I hope I find some of them under my tree!  I got to play with some brand new Vivienne by BAsic Grey last weekend and it is simply gorgeous!  Check it out here.
All the pinks and greens and browns, I could not wait to play with it.  So I was gathering my papers and pictures and this paper needed some sort of trim.  I went hunting in my bin of ribbon and came across a pink zipper that I had saved from one of my daughter's old sweater.  It was the perfect color!  
I placed my zipper on my background and trimmed large pieces of paper to go on either side of the half opened zipper.  I then went on the hunt to find cardstock to mount my circle sticker and my picture.  Like Goldilocks, I found papers that were too dark, or too light, to plain or too busy.  I then found myself looking at the brown paper bag that my paper was in and though to myself "that one is just right!"  I krinkled it a little more and found that just a mat around the sticker was too plain, so I took my scallop border punch and then folded and layered the scallops around the sticker. 

                             

Here is the finished layout.  Other than Basic Grey, I used CTMH ribbon and American Crafts Thickers.

I hope you like it!  

Saturday, December 20, 2014

LCOM - Sketch #103 - Reveal

Hello, hello! Can you imagine that it's the last weekend before Christmas? I know! AMAZING, eh? To get you even a bit more in the Christmas spirit, the Let's Capture Our Memories design team were asked to create this week's set of scrappy creations with a bit of Christmas je ne sais quoi. Hee!Hee! This week's sketches are by the oh! so inspirational Becky Fleck over at PageMaps. Here's the layout sketch:



And the wonderful designs by the LCOM crew:



















And here's this week's card sketch:













Inspiration at its best, eh? Love it! Puts me in the merriest and scrappiest of moods for sure! Don't you just want to head to your scrappy happy place and start scrapping? If so, and if you use today's sketches, please link your creation(s) to today's post by using the link button below. You'll even get a chance to win a fabulous LCOM prize! And... if you submit designs using sketches #100-101-102-103-104, you'll get a ballot for each submission. It's like a Merry Christmas to you from you with a bonus! Hee!Hee!

December Prize
A $10 gift certificate to Let's Capture Our Memories!

How to Play Along:
1. Make a newly created project using the provided sketch and upload it to your blog or online gallery.
2. Then leave a link to your project using the Inlinkz widget at the bottom of this post. Please use a direct link to your LCOM Sketch post and not just your blog address.
3. If you upload to online galleries, please also use tag/keyword LCOM103. LCOM products are NOT required to participate, and you can enter as many times as you want. If you don't have a particular shape indicated in the sketch, feel free to substitute.
4. There is no time limit - you can always play any week at any time, but the linking form will close on the last day of the month at 11:55pm (Atlantic Standard Time) to allow us to find a prize winner.

On that note, I want to wish you all and yours the merriest of Christmases and the happiest of new year's . Thank you for making LCOM the brightest of places to be!

Happy scrapping!



Saturday, December 13, 2014

LCOM - Sketch #102 - Reveal

Hello everyone!

I love Christmas and winter.  I love seeing a fresh blanket of snow and all the Christmas lights .  It gets me in the Christmas spirit.  Today, I am so grateful  to be writing this blog from my dry basement.  We have been experiencing some record breaking rainfall in the area and considering that my scrapbooking stash is all in the basement of my home, I can't help but count my blessings.  Since the ground is certainly not white and there is no snow in the forecast, I will just have to be content with some holiday themed projects.  I can't wait to see them and I am sure it's just the thing we all need to get even more in the Christmas spirit.  

First of all let's take a peak at the gorgeous sketch provided to us by the very talented 



Ready for some Holiday cheer? Prepare to be amazed by the creations of our designers.  



I told you they would be amazing right?
The great thing is we are not done!  we have a card sketch aslo by Shirley Mijares Mascarina


Ready for some Christmas cards?   






Those cards deserve a front row display on any mantle in my opinion! 

I am taking out my red, green and white, my glitter and glue and am creating a Christmas layotu this weekend.  I might just finish my Christmas cards!  Should you be inspired by these layout too, don't forget to share with us your creatons! We would love to see them. When you submit your design(s) using today's sketches, you'll get a ballot for to win an awesome LCOM prize. And... if you submit your designs using sketches #100-101-102-103-104, you'll get a ballot for each submission. YAY!

December Prize
A $10 gift certificate to Let's Capture Our Memories!

How to Play Along:
1. Make a newly created project using the provided sketch and upload it to your blog or online gallery.
2. Then leave a link to your project using the Inlinkz widget at the bottom of this post. Please use a direct link to your LCOM Sketch post and not just your blog address.
3. If you upload to online galleries, please also use tag/keyword LCOM102. LCOM products are NOT required to participate, and you can enter as many times as you want. If you don't have a particular shape indicated in the sketch, feel free to substitute.
4. There is no time limit - you can always play any week at any time, but the linking form will close on the last day of the month at 11:55pm (Atlantic Standard Time) to allow us to find a prize winner.

Happy scrapping!

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Inspiration Station - Jazzing up stashbusting!

Hello, Let's Capture Our Memories fans! Aurélie here with another instalment of Inspiration Station where I hope to inspire you by being inspired. As of late, I've heard many fellow scrappers say that they are attempting to use the scrappy stuff they have accumulated through the years. You know what I mean. Oh, yes. All those scrappy buys we've made, telling ourselves it'll be for this or that. I know you know what I mean. ;) Honestly though, I am totally into doing some stashbusting myself. However, sometimes, I just want something new. Some people want a new pair of shoes. Others want a new mascara. Me? I want new scrappy supplies! Hee!Hee! SO, with that in mind, as of late, I've been a "bit" more strategic while scrappy shopping... I try to find pieces that will go with all those beautiful collections I already own. Really! Still don't believe me? Here's the proof!


Last Saturday, while at the LCOM Happy Holidays crop, I noticed that Jocelyne was using some beautiful pieces of Carta Bella's Hello Again collection. It reminded me that I had that very same collection sitting at home just waiting for me to sit down and start scrapping with it. Well. ;) I mean, I was at a crop. And Isabelle just happened to take some brand new products out of a box. Hee!Hee! No, nobody had to twist my arm, but I found some awesome add-ons that look like they were made for that line - or any line for that matter. See it? Or them, actually? Yes, that's right! American Crafts' Dear Lizzy Printed Foil Letter Stickers (to be added to the LCOM very, very, VERY soon!!) and Jillibean Soup's Mix the Media Smile Wire Word . Those products have versatility written all over them and then some. They go with absolutely everything and make using older collections just a tad more exciting. I also used Simple Stories' DIY Shop Chalk Speech Bubble Stickers, a few pieces of patterned papers by Fancy Pants and House of Three (now, that's old! Hee!Hee!), a Studio Calico frame, Stampin' Up and Bazzill cardstock, American Crafts alphas, Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze, Stampin' Up denim ribbon, stitching using, now get this, a new stitching template (!) by Close to My Heart and some dear ol' DMC floss, and hearts punched from Creative Imaginations corrugated paper using punches by Stampin' Up and Epiphany Crafts. Sketch by Becky Fleck over at PageMaps.com

The moral of the story? There's always room for a scrappy pick me up purchase once in awhile! We are all in this together!! Hee!Hee!

Happy scrapping!

Saturday, December 6, 2014

LCOM - Sketch #101 - Reveal

Hello, hello! Aurelie here today to reveal another awesome set of designs by the fabulous Let's Capture Our Memories design team. And guys, really, this one... is... totally... A-W-E-S-O-M-E! This week, the girls had a beautiful set of sketches by the oh, so talented Emma Stafrace over at PageDrafts.com. Here's the layout sketch:



And the designs by LCOM's very own:












It's like the perfect storm - a great sketch meets a bunch of great designers! ;) The same can be said of our awesome cardmakers. Here's the card sketch:



And the designs (please note that some designers made two cards using the same sketch and came up with two totally different looking cards!):









I mean, can you imagine receiving any of those cards in the mail? WOW! I am SO inspired to scrap, like, right now. Aren't you? ;) And when you do design your own fabulous creations using today's sketches, please link them to this post using the link button below. You'll get a chance to win an awesome LCOM prize!! WOO!HOO! And... if you submit designs using sketches #100-101-102-103-104, you'll get a ballot for each submission. Can you do say, "Happy dance!"? Hee!Hee!

December Prize
A $10 gift certificate to Let's Capture Our Memories!

How to Play Along:
1. Make a newly created project using the provided sketch and upload it to your blog or online gallery.
2. Then leave a link to your project using the Inlinkz widget at the bottom of this post. Please use a direct link to your LCOM Sketch post and not just your blog address.
3. If you upload to online galleries, please also use tag/keyword LCOM101. LCOM products are NOT required to participate, and you can enter as many times as you want. If you don't have a particular shape indicated in the sketch, feel free to substitute.
4. There is no time limit - you can always play any week at any time, but the linking form will close on the last day of the month at 11:55pm (Atlantic Standard Time) to allow us to find a prize winner.

Happy scrapping!