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June Sketch with Creative Memories Serene Waters by Noreen Smith

June 19, 2022 No Comments

Well hello! It’s Noreen from OrganizedandCreativeMom.com here and I have just returned from Minneapolis where I attended the first Creative Memories Creative Minds Conference! It was absolutely inspiring and I came away with lots of new ideas and excitement for the future of CM! I also came home with new products – the Serene Waters Collection launched this past Monday and all the conference attendees received it! The vivid color palette is stunning and captures the essence of a tropical paradise, and you will love it for all of your beach vacation photos!I was so excited to use the new Serene Waters Paper Pack and the fun new Friendly Fish Decorative Border Punch so I took inspiration from this month’s Sketch, which is the first one by Jennifer Edwardson who is taking over the duties of creating the monthly sketch from Kerry Engel. I send my thanks and appreciation to…

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Creative Memories Giveaway!

May 11, 2022 No Comments

WINNER UPDATE – Congratulations to Debbie Parke – this week’s lucky winner! WIN the Creative Memoires LEAVE NOTHING BEHIND COLLECTION!!!!! Get all the decorative products in Creative Memories’ NEWEST collection, Leave Nothing Behind, plus a complementing border punch FREE! This bountiful bundle includes the Leave Nothing Behind Paper Pack (12/pk) and Texture Paper Pack (12/pk), Laser Cut Paper Pack (3/pk), Variety Mat Pack (24/pk), Embossed Embellishments, Stickers (3/pk) and Wildlife Stickers (3/pk), as well as the Boot Prints Border Punch! This prize pack is perfect for displaying memories of trips to national or state parks, hiking up mountain trails, canoeing down winding rivers, camping with loved ones and so much more! Prize Package will include: Leave Nothing Behind Paper Pack Leave Nothing Behind Texture Paper Pack Leave Nothing Behind Laser Cut Paper Pack Leave Nothing Behind Variety Mat Pack Leave Nothing Behind Embossed Embellishments Leave Nothing Behind Stickers Leave Nothing Behind Wildlife Stickers…

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Four Ways to Use Creative Memories Mini Photo Albums by Noreen Smith

April 21, 2022 No Comments

Howdy! Noreen from OrganizedandCreativeMom.com here to share four ideas and tips for making up the fantastic paper Mini Photo Albums from Creative Memories! I love this new Cherish, Treasure and Appreciate You Bundle and with Mother’s and Father’s Day coming up, these make the perfect little gift albums to celebrate Mom and Dad – or any other special people in your life! The bundle features two 8” x 8” paper Mini Photo Albums – one with a soft, more feminine palette and the other with bolder, masculine colors – and a coordinating sticker sheet with sayings like “Best Mom Ever” and “My Hero”. The bundle components are also sold individually so if you need three masculine albums and only one feminine album, CM has got you covered! I thought it would be fun to share a few ideas on how you can approach making these albums to really customize them…

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NOLA Layout by Noreen Smith Featuring Creative Memories

February 17, 2022 No Comments

Hello! It’s Noreen from OrganizedandCreativeMom.com today to share a fun and crafty layout with you today! Since I was in New Orleans back in November, and Mardi Gras is just around the corner, this is the perfect time to share a layout featuring the new “Let the Good Times Roll” Paper Pack and Masquerade Border Punch from Creative Memories! These items (and a gorgeous coordinating Album cover!) were created to commemorate the CM Incentive Trip for Advisors to New Orleans Louisiana (NOLA) that I was lucky enough to attend! The purple, green and gold are traditional Mardi Gras colors and the page of cut aparts featured all the fun things we did during our time there! Inspired by the mask in one of the cut aparts and on the Border Punch, I decided to create my own larger paper mask for a layout about visiting the Mardi Gras Museum where…

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You Are Loved Layout by Noreen Smith

January 20, 2022 No Comments

Hi there! Noreen here from OrganizedandCreativeMom.com sharing a sweet baby scrapbook layout idea with you using Creative Memories newest addition – the Lullaby Lane Collection! Inspired by the cute one-piece jammies embellishments and images in the collection, I couldn’t resist creating a full page one-piece that acts as both a design element and a “frame” for photos of my youngest son Sam when he was just a tiny newborn! (Oh the memories working with these photos brought back!) Although my babies are teenagers now, I can’t help fall in love with each and every new baby collection that CM offers. This one is particularly lovely – the three Paper Packs feature a sophisticated color scheme that not only works for baby boy, girl and gender-neutral projects, but also for grown-up boy, girl and gender-neutral projects! LOVE it! There are also two gorgeous, foiled Albums, Fast2Fab Refill Pages, Stickers, Die-Cut Embellishments…

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Gratitude Layout by Noreen Smith

November 18, 2021 No Comments

Hi friends! Noreen from OrganizedandCreativeMom.com , grateful to be here to share my take on this month’s Creative Scrapbooker Magazine’s Sketchy Challenge! I’ve been thinking about Gratitude a lot this month – it was this month’s theme in the year long course that I teach and of course American Thanksgiving is happening next week. And I just returned from an amazing trip to New Orleans that I was so thankful to have experienced! So, it was natural to want to create a Gratitude themed layout using the new “I am Grateful Project Recipe Kit” released by Creative Memories this month. The kit includes eight beautiful double-sided patterned papers, two sticker sheets and an exclusive Recipe Template, as well as instructions to cut and create two double-page spreads! When I opened the kit, I found that one of the papers featured a twelve-square grid – much like the one that Kerry…

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5 Step – 5 Minute Fall Layout with Noreen Smith

October 21, 2021 No Comments

Hey there! Noreen from OrganizedandCreativeMom.com here to show you a step-by step, super-fast layout using the beautiful It’s Fall, Y’all Collection from Creative Memories! I shared a double page layout using this same collection last month, but I’m still in a Fall mood since it has been such a lovely Autumn where I live! But, I only have a few sheets of this fantastic collection left so I’m making the most of it – and my time! – with a quick and easy 5 Step – 5 Minute Single Page Layout. Step 1: Pick your papers – I chose the cute pumpkin paper from the It’s Fall, Y’all Paper Pack and a piece from the coordinating Tone-on-Tone Paper Pack for my base page. Cut two 8” x 3” strips of the patterned paper and adhere them along the right-hand edge of the base page at top and bottom. Add a…

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Creative Memories It’s Fall, Yall! Layout by Noreen Smith

September 16, 2021 1 Comment

Welcome Fall! Hi friends…Noreen from OrganizedandCreativeMom.com here to share a double page layout featuring the gorgeous new It’s Fall, Y’all Collection from Creative Memories! The colors and patterns were inspired by the beauty of crisp autumn days and you’ll find it perfect for photos of all things Fall…like scenic fall foliage drives, corn mazes, apple picking, Halloween, Thanksgiving, family gatherings and more! I had so much fun creating SIX double page layouts with this collection and teaching a class how to make them during the recent Great Canadian Scrapbook Carnival in Calgary. The ladies who joined me for the class were amazing, and would you believe we made all six layouts in just two hours? Here is one of the layouts we created… We used my 1-2-3 method to create it – take 1 piece of double-sided patterned paper, 2 sheets of paper/cardstock or album pages for the base and…

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Creative Memories Sparks of Magic By Noreen Smith

August 19, 2021 No Comments

Hello friends! It’s Noreen from OrganizedandCreativeMom.com here to share a fun idea using a super fun collection – the new Sparks of Magic Collection from Creative Memories! With all it’s bright colors and fun icons, it’s the perfect collection to document all your favorite moments from trips to amusement parks and fairs, family getaways and countless other adventures! I hate to admit it, but I am not always efficient at scrapbooking photos from our family vacations right away. In fact, I documented a trip to Disneyland that my family and I took in 2019 BEFORE I had finished scrapbooking the photos of our 2013 trip! Yikes! So when I saw this collection, I knew it was high time to get the rest of those photos into my albums and decided to make some quick layouts using the Multi-Pocket Pages. They allow you to create almost instant pages by simply sliding…

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Creative Memories Happy Camper Collection with Noreen Smith

July 15, 2021 No Comments

Noreen from OrganizedandCreativeMom.com here sharing a layout featuring Creative Memories new Happy Camper Collection! The colors, patterns, icons and sayings in this rustic but whimsical collection will be great for capturing all your summer campsite memories and other outdoor adventures! When I was going through boxes of old photos from my parent’s home recently, I found some “vintage” photos of me heading off to Girl Guide Camp laden down with a huge backpack. I remember that I was NOT a happy camper at the time as the backpack weighed more than I did, but I do remember that I had a great time at camp! It was fun to use these photos along with the cute Happy Camper Stickers and Embellishments on this layout. Using one of the two woodgrain papers from the Happy Camper Paper Pack as my base, I layered a 4” x 10.5” strip of the striped…