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12 Days of Christmas - Day 6!

Hey everybody!  This is Erica and I'd like to welcome you to day 6 of the 12 Days of Christmas here at A Walk Down Memory Lane!

Today's sale item is Unity Store Exclusive Stamp sets, buy 1 get 1 50% off! Be sure to check back everyday from December 1st through the 12th for new sales each day! You can wait until the 12th to "checkout" if you'd like. But, when the items are saved into your shopping cart, it doesn't take them out of inventory, so you may miss out if items go out of stock. The best thing to do is check out every day and we'll combine the orders on the 12th. The first day you will pay shipping...every order after that, just click "store pickup".  Leave us a little note on your order and let us know you are combining shipping at the end of the sale days!

Now for today's project! 

We're going to use products from one of this month's Featured Manufacturer, Just Rite Stamps and create some really cute to/from tags!  We're using the 2" Stamper, the Girl Time Set, and the Small Letter Set.

 

First, you want to put the ornate border on the stamper and then spell out "TO" and "FROM" in the center section.  Make sure you check out the picture below for placement help or you may end up with a tag that says "OT" and "MORF"!  (Don't ask how I know that.  Hee!)

 

Next, ink up your stamp and stamp it on cream colored cardstock.

 

Now, grab your large scalloped circle punch, flip it over so you can center your image and punch it out. 

 

Next, use a 1/16" inch punch to punch a hole in the top of the tag.  Then, thread some red and white baker's twine through the hole, knot it to create a loop to hang the tag on your gift and it's done!

 

You can make lots of different versions of this tag by using the same stamp set up and just changing out the inks, papers, and twine.

Below, you can see the original cream and red tag, a brown on kraft tag with brown and white twine and two layered tags using Crate Paper's Snow Day line and some yummy teal baker's twine! 

 

For the layered tags, follow the directions above but instead of using the scalloped punch on the stamped image, use it on a piece of two sided patterned paper.  Using a circle cutter set to 2 1/4", cut out the stamped image and adhere it to the scalloped piece.  Embellish with stickers and follow the rest of the instructions to complete your tag.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and have fun making your own gift tags!  (I'll be making a bunch and giving them as gifts to my son's preschool teachers!)

12 Days of Christmas: Day 5

Greetings and welcome to Day 5 of the 12 Days of Christmas at A Walk Down Memory Lane!  It's Scarlett with you today and I will be sharing what today's deal is soon, but thought I'd share some inspiration for you first!

I don't know about you, but I adore making and giving out handmade Christmas cards.  The thing is though there are a lot of times when you may think well what in the world am I putting all this time and effort into a card for when it may just get thrown away? Well, I have the solution for you!!  Turn your card into an ornament so the recepient can keep it for years to come.

Here's the card:

Simply start off with a circle card base and layer up some circles and a sentiment in any way you would like creating the look of an ornament.

Inside:

Loop some twine or ribbon and add a button on top with a glue dot and you have created the piece that will allow this card to hang on a tree branch.  All the receipient needs to do is cut off the front half of the circle and they will have a new ornament for their tree.

Supplies Used:

Patterned Paper - Bella Boulevard December Details

Cardstock Sticker - Bella Boulevard December Details

Cardstock: Bazzill

Hope you like this idea and give it a whirl!

Now for today's deal:

Today's sale item is AWDML kits buy 3 get a Scrap Pink kit free! Be sure to check back everyday from December 1st through the 12th for new sales each day! You can wait until the 12th to "checkout" to save on shipping. But, when the items are saved into your shopping cart, it doesn't take them out of inventory, so you may miss out if items go out of stock.

Merry Christmas from A Walk Down Memory Lane!

Day 4 of the 12 days of Christmas..Fun with the Cricut

Hey there everyone and welcome to the 4th day of Christmas.  Today there is a FABULOUS special at the AWDML store......WOW...Cricut Cartridges for $39.  WOOHOO!!!  Today's project features the Cricut.  Hurry and stock up on those cartridges now everyone.

I'm going to show you how to make a super fun centerpiece while rocking your cricut!  First you want to gather your winter paper and you will need a 10" green floral wreath, and some ribbon of your choice.  The first step is to tie ribbon around 4 areas of your wreath as shown below.

 
Your next step is to cut out a bunch of snowflakes using the shadow button on the cricut.  You will use these as your base flakes.  My paper of choice is the BoBunny Winterfrost Line.  Place your snowflakes around the wreath and using a hot glue gun adhere them to the wreath.

 
Now that you have your base layer down you can cut out a bunch of different snowflakes in a variety of sizes.  Place some of them flat on top of the first layer of snowflakes, and on some of them use a pop dot under them before placing down.

 
What I did after this is places some Kaiser Craft pearls in the center of the snowflakes.  Now for the final touch....place a candle in the middle of the wreath. 

 
Now you have a beautiful centerpiece for your table for the Holidays.  Don't forget to stock up on your cricut cartridges today while they are on sale.

Hope you have a fabulous day!

~~Stacy~~

12 Days of Christmas: Day 3

Welcome to day THREE of AWDML's 12 Days of Christmas.  Be sure to read all the way to the bottom of this post to see what today's new sale item is!!!

Today's tutorial is how to make this Christmas Ornament! 

 

I made a video for you to show you how.  Enjoy!!

Products Used:  Doodlebug Cheerfully Christmas 

Today's sale item is American Crafts Thickers- Buy FOUR get ONE FREE!! Be sure to check back everyday from December 1st through the 12th for new sales each day! You can wait until the 12th to "checkout" to save on shipping. But, when the items are saved into your shopping cart, it doesn't take them out of inventory, so you may miss out if items go out of stock. Merry Christmas from A Walk Down Memory Lane!

Thanks for stopping by today!  Don't forget to stop by tomorrow for a new project and a new sale!!

~~Nicole

12 Days of Christmas - Day 2!

Today's sale item is on the Basic Grey 2011 Calendar Kits!  You can buy them today for $13 each!  That is a fantastic Deal!  I am creating them for all the grandparents on my Christmas List!

One thing I love about these kits is their flexibility!  They give you extra embellishments so you can customize them to fit your needs!  There were a few months that I wanted to turn my picture a different direction and I was able to do that and still make it look fantastic!  In addition, they allow you to personalize them by giving you ideas for inking and doodling.  Here are my inside pages done my way - Love that this kit can be uniquely yours!

January:

February:

March:

April:

May:

June:

July:

 
 August:

 
 September:

 
 October:

 
 November:

 
 December:

 
 
Be sure to check back everyday from December 1st through the 12th for new sales each day! You can wait until the 12th to "checkout" to save on shipping. But, when the items are saved into your shopping cart, it doesn't take them out of inventory, so you may miss out if items go out of stock. The best thing to do is check out every day and we'll combine the orders on the 12th. The first day you will pay shipping...every order after that, just click "store pickup".  Leave us a little note on your order and let us know you are combining shipping at the end of the sale days!

Merry Christmas from A Walk Down Memory Lane!

12 Days of Christmas- Day 1

This gift idea is great to give to someone special.  I saw this clear card box in large at AWDML and knew exactly what to do with it. Its sturdy and acid free. It great for paper and photo storage. The ideas are endless with this so I made a card set to give away as a gift.

 

 

 

 

I used Echo Park Merry Christmas Line

 
Here is my project

 

Supplies
Echo Park Merry Christmas Carol paper-3 pieces

Echo Park Merry Christmas Element Stickers

 Echo Park Merry Christmas Tis the Season Cards

Bazzill Cardstock(Maraschino)- 3 pieces

Martha Stewart Scoring Board

Ink

Pop Dots

Adheasive

Directions

For the Box 1. Cut 5x12 of the Echo Park Carol paper and using your Martha Stewart Scoring board, you want to score at 1,2,6 1/2 and 7 1/2 from the 12 inch of the paper. Then cut a 1x12 piece of paper and score it the same way. Adhere the 5x12 onto the box then the small piece on top near the bottom

2. Cut out a Echo Park Oh Christmas Tree Card and adhere to a green scrap of cardstock; Glue down on top of the box

3. You are done...now for the cards

The Cards

I made 6 cards and have envelops to go with them. I created 3 of each style seen below

* Cut the Bazzill Cardstock to make the cards(4 1/4 x 11) total of 6 bases

Card #1

* 2Cut 2 pieces of PP - 4x5 and 1 1/2x4; Ink them and adhere them to the base of your card

* Add Santa sticker as your embellishment

Card #2

* Cut 2 pieces of PP- 4x5 and 2x5; Ink it and adhere to the card

* Add pop dots to ornament sticker and adhere to the card on top of the 2x5 strip of pp

I hope you enjoyed it and come back tomorrow till the 12th for more great ideas.

Lucy Chesna (DT Coordinator)

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Day 1 of the 12 Days of Christmas: Cricut CGull Cartridge Totes are just $49

Don't forget to check back everyday from December 1st through the 12th for new a new sale to be added to the list each day! You can wait until the 12th to "checkout" to save on shipping. But, when the items are saved into your shopping cart, it doesn't take them out of inventory, so you may miss out if items go out of stock.

Merry Christmas from A Walk Down Memory Lane

 

December Featured Manufacturer- The Girl's Paperie and JustRite Stamps

Today is reveal December's Featured Manufacturers AND the first day of A Walk Down Memory Lane's 12 Days of Christmas and Sale!

Let's get started with the new Featured Manufacturers-The Girls' Paperie and JustRite Stamps. You'll get to love them all month at 25% off!

Here is what the designers did with The Girl's Paperie products. Keep an eye out on Dec 15th when we show eye candy using JustRite Stamps :)

The DT will be posting soon so keep an eye on the blog for beautiful ideas for Christmas and great sales.

Made You Look Monday..Inspiration Station

Hey there everyone and happy Monday.  I hope everyone has had a fabulous weekend full of lots of family time and shopping :)  So now that the holidays are over and you are getting ready for the next one, you may have lots of pictures to scrap already.

Sometimes I have a very hard time with titles on my page.  I always want something a little different, not the same old titles I always use.  Have you ever thought about using a quote for a title, or putting quotes on your layouts??  I have come across this TOTALLY FABULOUS book!!!!  I'm telling you this is one you want to pick up!!!  The first time I saw this book I feel in love. 

The book is called Inspiration Station.  It's by a fabulous Iowa author Betsy Flot.

 
This book is like 600 pages of fabulous page titles, toppers, & quotes.  This book makes is super easy to find any type of title you want.  The table of contents breask eveything down in categories.  You have holidays, travel, it's all relative (which is mainly family things), courtship to marriage, birthdays, pastimes, sentiments, sports, seasons.....I could go on and on.

The fabulous thing is it's on sale right now over at the AWDML store.  Hurry and grab yours today before they are gone!  I promise you...this is one book in your scrapbook room that will get a work out!  It may get more of a workout then your paper trimmer :)

Until next time ....

~~Stacy~~

Alcohol Ink Gift Tag Step x Step

Hi All!  Happy Tuesday.  It's Scarlett here today a bit later than I had planned but the weather around here has just not been cooperative.  It still isn't all that great but at least I was able to get a bit brighter pictures for you.  So let's get started!

Here are the supplies you will need to complete the gift tag we are going to create today:

Supplies:

Alcohol Inks

Alcohol Ink Applicator/Felt Pad

Spellinbinders Nestabilities Scalloped Circle Dies

Marvy Scalloped Circle Punch

Embossing Folder (I used Sissix Tim Holtz Retro Circles)

Patterned Paper (I used Crate Paper Snow Day 6x6 Pad)

Cardstock

Metallic Cardstock

Not Shown: Baby Wipe, Shimmerz Spritz

Step 1:

Cut circle from metallic cardstock using a Nestabilitie die and emboss with embossing folder.

Step 2:

Ink up applicator tool felt pad with choice colors of alcohol ink.  I used butterscotch, stream, and wild plum.  Apply alcohol ink to embossed circle in a pouncing type motion.

Step 3:

Using a baby wipe, rub away alcohol ink from select embossed areas revealing the metallic color below.

Step 4:

Punch out large circle from cardstock. Cut small circle from patterned paper. 

Step 5:

Adhere embossed circle to cardstock circle.

Step 7:

Ink up small patterned paper circle with remaining alcohol ink on applicator.  Spray with mist to give a shimmer.

Step 8:

Attach patterned paper circle to tag with dimensional adhesive and get ready to attach to gift. 

Hope you've enjoyed this step x step and give this uniquely beautiful gift tag a try!

Made You Look Monday... Echo Park: Merry Christmas!

Echo Park has done it....AGAIN!  They released TWO wonderful lines of Christmas themed paper this season.  One has non-traditional colors (pinks and blues) mixed in with the reds and greens, and there is also a more traditional line called "Merry Christmas."

There are 12 double sided pieces of paper and TWO sticker sheets!  One sticker sheet is all alphas:

 And the other sticker sheet has images and titles:

 
Isn't it GORGEOUS!!  I have been using it for Christmas Cards and Christmas layouts.  And, of course I'm hanging on to some to scrap this year's fun, too!  Check out Echo Park's Merry Christmas line in the AWDML Store today!!

~Nicole

Inspiration Friday-Use Punches on Your Journaling

Hi guys, it's Erica! 

Today's layout is inspired by the November 1st Challenge over on the forums.  The challenge was to use a punch on your journaling.  You could punch out a custom journaling spot, use a small punch to punch a shape out of a portion of your journaling spot or use border punches on journaling strips or spots.

 

I chose to use a scalloped border punch on my journaling strips and then layer them to create a ruffly journaling box.  I also punched along a shorter strip and used it as my sub-title. 

Products used~Patterned Paper-The Girl's Paperie, Cardstock-Bazzill, Bakers Twine-Divine Twine, Plastic Flowers-Maya Road, Ribbon-Maya Road & Bazzill, Cardboard Embellishments-Jillibean Soup, Pen-American Crafts, Letter Stickers-American Crafts & October Afternoon, Punch-Fiskars.

If you'd like to join in, you can find all the guidelines here.  :)

Grungeboard Stamps!

Happy Thursday everyone!  Kim here with another fun grungeboard idea for you!  Textured grungeboard is so much fun to use as a stamp.  You can start with already textured pieces or run it through your embossing machine to add your own texture. 

Step #1 - Gather your supplies

- a sheet of textured grungeboard

- acrylic paint

- paper plate or paint tray

- Cardstock

-a brayer

- and a sheet of scratch paper of a craft mat

Step #2 - add small amount of paint to your  paint tray and add water until paint is thin. 

Step #3 - using brayer, add paint to your grungeboard.

Step #4 - flip grungeboard over onto your cardstock and rub to apply stamped image.

Step #5 - Stamp sheet twice before reinking to continue.  I love the look of both images --one with heavier ink and one with a more subtle look.

Step #6 - Let dry and use for your creations!

 
Have a great day creating!  

Kim :)