A Million Little Things

Card ~ using KI Memories lace cardstock

I love the versatility of the lace cardstock from KI Memories. It comes in so many colours and designs, the options are endless.

I decided to make a card with a lace border down the side by simply cutting the front of the card shorter than the back of the card. I then covered the front of the card with patterned paper (Crate paper) and embellished it with KI Memories ribbon and Basic Grey buttons. Super easy but with some flare. Give the lace cardstock a try on your next craft project.

{one minute MONDAY}

Hey guys!  Rebekah here bringing you today's {one minute MONDAY} from our awesome Courtney Kelly!

CK has come up with a GREAT way to organize your themed supplies, saving your time and helping you get all those photos scrapped!

"Ive been in a scramble to get caught up before school starts so I don't DROWNED in photos," said Courtney. 

So here's what she did to help her stay on top of it all!  She organized all her themed supplies into the 12x12 vertical cropper hopper paper storage keepers.  For example, she put all her Christmas papers, stickers, diecuts and other embellishments together in one section, the same with Halloween supplies, etc.  So when she has a few minutes to scrap, she just pulls out the holiday she needs and there it is all packed nicely TOGETHER and right at her fingertips!!

"That way I have it ALL in front of me and I don't have to remember that I had those cute KI stickers that are with the letter/accent stickers," she said.  "It's real easy to find it all this way."

I love CK's idea!!  I usually organize my supplies by type rather than theme but this would be a great way to keep all those fun themed supplies together in one handy stash!

Thanks, Courtney, for today's {one minute MONDAY}!

Winners x 2..

Hi everyone!... I have 2 winners drumroll please....

First for the Challenge I threw all the vote getters in a hat and have drawn this beautiful layout as the winner:

Congratulations to Ann Cicile Flaat who created this lovely layout! 

And as fate would have it the winner of the Basic Grey Lot is Cass, who was the lovely lady who told me about the raffle idea in the first place!  When random.org came up with #14 that was a doo doo moment!  Cass's question was easy for me to anwer so I'll give it a jab.

I would like to know who your favourite manufacturer is. :)

My favorites have changed over the course of the time I have scrapbooked, and I can't name just one, that is for sure. I do have some that if I were scrapping I would most likely want everything they have been making lately!  I am particularly attracted to anything that has a slight whimsical feel and anything with a pretty but shabby chic look.  I love floral paper, which was always so hard with 2 boys!  Now that I just get to look at it, I feel my craving satisfied. Over the course of the last year I would say these companies have been my fav's (personally that is...business wise they are ALL my favorites, LOL):

• October Afternoon
• Heidi Grace
• Pink Paislee
• My Minds Eye and Crate, for that floral paper I crave!

I told you I couldn't pick just 1, lately I can't pick just one of anything!! Thank you to everyone for posting, I loved your questions and will use them/answer them all eventually.  Both winning ladies please email me at info@amillionlittlethings.com so I can verify your shipping addresses

Altered 'Guest Book' project

Happy Friday everyone! Elizabeth here with a project to help inspire the scrapping mojo ;)

I recently made a guest book for my brother-in-law's wedding from an accordian album. I kept the design very simple (and flat) on the outside of the box so it would not get damaged when being handled and stored on their bookshelf. I put pictures on both ends of the album and decorated all the pages on one side of the album (this was to give them flexibility if they wanted to eventually frame the guest book)

It was fun to think outside of the box , made me wish I did something cool like this for my wedding, {sigh}.

Find some time today to do something creative!

Sketch Challenge

Hey guys, Courtney here. Most of you know I'm a mama to 3 children, but last year I went back to school full time (majoring in Mechanical Engineering and minoring in Math). Since then my free time is, well, limited. To make the most of my scrap-time I rely on generic sketches. I keep them very basic so I'm not tempted to do the exact same things each time, or leave some room for embellishment or flair. It works well when I'm in a hurry and can't spend the time creating several individual pages. Here's one of my favorite sketches:

 

Here are some takes on it:

 

(Supplies: All KI memories and Love, Elsie)

And here is a version from the talented Elizabeth van der Wier:

 

Give it a try! Be sure to share your creations in the AMLT gallery too!

A Little Basic Grey Contest!

Good Morning!

Thank you to everyone that has emailed me in response to the contest!  I had a wonderful customer in Australia who used to own a store give me a fabulous idea for contests that I think we will adopt here at AMLT.  There were so many beautiful, wonderful layouts with this challenge, and I want all of you to continue to feel like it is worth your time and "fair" to enter.  We all have different styles and things that catch our eye and so far the votes I have received so far are pretty much spread between all of the entries, even further proof that choosing was going to be so hard!  What I want most is for everyone to end up with a layout they love by participating in the challenge as well as a bunch of inspiration for everyone that gets to view your creations.  I love to see your work, it is like having our own online magazine!!  Since I am a woman, and especially a woman who easily changes her mind (oh my poor DH) I have decided that we will pick a winner for all of our challenges and contests by random draw.  In essence participating in the challenge will "buy" you a raffle ticket for the prize.  This time I will still take into account those that are voting and throw the top 12 vote getters in a hat and draw from there.  The rest of our prize related challenges we will do by the raffle ticket method.  I hope that is ok for everyone.  If you have comments you are more than welcome to pass it onto me.  My thoughts are that this method will hopefully encourage people to participate for the fun of it, maintaining a positive environment is so important in my opinion.  Honestly a second benefit is it takes the pressure off us as choosing a winner is so subjective, and afterall I hate contests :).

Moving on now -- I have another little giveaway... as promised here are 3 brand new and entire paper collections from Basic Grey, Ambrosia, Eva and Offbeat... (Granola and Urban Prarie I am going to have to hold for another contest (hee hee) as they don't release until October):

I wanted to come up with a Trivia game for fun, but then I realized I couldn't think of any questions!  AAGH... So in your comment ask me a "trivial" question about AMLT or myself, I'll take my favorites and make a game for another contest, see how I put you all to work?!  I'll leave this contest open through Saturday evening.  These papers and the Bazzill (new egde strips, tulle, pom pom ribbon, stitch templates) still haven't been listed, so look for them in the next day or so.

Have a super Thursday!

Contests....

Hello!

So ladies... I really do not like contests.  Please let me explain....I first found myself on the "other side" of contests 4 years ago with my first dt contest.  It was torture, I really wanted to pick everyone.  It didn't get any better one year later, it got much worse as more people tried out and I really, really wished I could pick everyone.  I have swore off contests for a very long time.    I know those of you that enter contests on a normal basis hear this alot... "we wish we could pick everyone," and you probably then think yada yada yada....  Please know that I am being 100% honest when I say this.  I really want all of you to win, and I am heart wrenched to think we can only pick 1!   I was so inspired by the entries that I had emailed to me for the August contest.  I have decided that even though I personally don't like contests, I think for awhile I will "man up" and keep having them, as I can see so many of you were inspired to create so many beautiful pages, and after all that is what it is all about.  The "august contest" album on the sidebar is now full of all the entries. 

My team and I need to pour over them in the next few days and come up with a winner... but HOW OH HOW... do we do that??  I would also like to have the opinons of all those that read this blog as to which layouts you are most inspired by.  If you click on the August Contest photo album you will notice that each entry has a corresponding entry # on it when you enlarge it, and the name of the layout has it's entry # (example August_3, etc). I have spent the last hour trying to figure out how to add a poll to this blog, with no luck I can only find how to do a multiple choice blog with only 10 choices.  Needless to say I am extremley frustrated and wasting too much precious time so we will go about this differently.  I have a "select a number" poll created that is email only, I can't figure out how to post it here, as it won't show me the html.  I know, I a blog idiot.    If you would like to participate in helping me pick a winner (a % of the entries total score will be based on YOUR votes) please email me at info@amillionlittlethings.com and I will either send you a link to my email poll, or you can give me your top 2 choices via email.  I would LOVE LOVE for all of you to participate.  I will take votes until SUnday August 17 at Midnight.

So... guess what else I have in my hot little hands?  Dare I say??  It has alot to do with the drawing I was going to post today that I am too frustrated (notice the theme the blog is causing today? LOL) to do so so I'll wait and do it tomorrow..  I have a give away that involves 1 sheet of each of the new BASIC GREY papers that I may have sent my trusty assistant to retreive for me today.  Three of their collections of paper are now shipping, embellishments will come in September, and the other 2 lines will come in October.  So you'll want to come back tomorrow to answer a few little amlt/jill trivia questions and enter yourself to win these new papers.  I am SUCH a tease :)

Too Bad....

I had in my mind that #55 was going to be the winner today because today is my momma's 55th birthday.  But, too bad we didn't even get 55 comments this time so I had to rely on random.org, which ironically picked 13 (mom has a thing for hating "unlucky" 13 badly!)

Congrats to Bibi! Who is the winner of the AC cardstock and pink Paislee Papers!  I think I have your mailing info from last weeks order, but if you would drop me an email so I can make sure :) (info@amillionlittlethings.com)

That's all I have to say today..  I'm running around trying to finish musts up so we can go celebrate with my mom tonight, you only get one mom, you have to spoil her, which means a night out of the norm, YEAH!  I'm still not done listing new product for anyone that may be wondering, we've had a really crazy in an out weekend.  We'll "get'r done" this week, promise!"

Enjoy the rest of your Monday!  I'll be back hopefully tomorrow with a big big contest...!

{one minute MONDAY}

We all LOVE our letter stickers, right?!  But sometimes it's hard to get them all lined up exactly right without having to do too many adjustments.  So here's what I do.  I cut a very thin line of cardstock and line up the bottom edge of my letter stickers on it.  Using the straight edge of the cardstock works great to keep them in line and since it's such a thin piece, I can easily place my stickers on my project at once, gently pulling the cardstock strip off after the letters are in place.  Hope today's {one minute MONDAY} will help ya! 

2 Prizes today...

Hi there!

I'm a day late, and a dollar short, but what else is new? :)

Here is the !!PRIZE!! for all of you that I KNOW are working on the challenge..right??

Lots of things that go along with the challenge here... including some fun new goodies, the NEW AC Everyday line (all 24 papers!), some flairs, flowers, ribbon, new thickers, a bit Ki Memories, some MM, and some lovely lovely specialty papers and foiled embellies from the Sei Poppy line.  Remember... the ONLY way to win this prize is to enter my challenge posted on Wednesday August 6.  Right now I only have 3 entries, the rest of you must be saving to enter at the last minute!?  Those 3 girls have good odds right now!  So a little refresher in case you missed it...

to enter to win this prize you have to email me @info@amillionlittlethings.com with ONE entry fitting the challenge posted a couple of entries below. 

• Create ONE of your own original layouts based on one of the dt girls assignments last month.  You have 2 choices, you can do a layout using specialty papers, or choice 2 is the color combination pink/green/blue.  Please note that if you send more than 1 entry we will just pick one of them to enter.
• or... Scraplift any layout in our AUGUST DT gallery (it must be August).  If you do this one please let us know who you have lifted.

I must receive entries by 10 am moutain time on Wednesday August 13. Good luck everyone!

So... for the rest of you that haven't entered yet.... just something to keep you interested in the old blog here, where does everyone go when we don't have a prize??  WAHHHh.... LOL, to win this one all you have to do is leave a comment and I'll pick on Monday:

This is 25 sheets of the NEW AC Cardstock, and both lines of the Pink Paislee New Papers.  Fun stuff!!

In other news this week, I have been SLAMMED with boxes this week...YEAH!   Right now we are back to the point I can't get in my front door again.  So look for these things starting soon.  (I will do my best to work on them as I have time this weekend that is already jammed with extended family obligations):

• Narratives Easel Albums
• Teresa Collins Papers
• Glitz Items
• Daisy Bucket Collections
• More American Crafts
• Chatterbox Papers
• 7 gypsies Savannah Papers
• Bazzill Items
• Restocks of Cosmo Mr. Campy/Jack's World

Have a good weekend everyone!  Get working on those entries and keep watching the blog next week. I am sensing a !!HUGE!! giveaway involving Basic Grey!