CTMH Planners Are On Sale

When December ends so does the sale for the new CTMH planners.  The sale is a package deal and is a great value.  Planners are very popular right now.  I don't use them but I'm very excited to try this as a journal and add my own creativity to it.  Click here for the details and then click here to order from my shopping website.

Organizing Your Scrapbooking Supplies

I do not have a scrapbooking /crafting room.  I have a closet in a guest room to use to store my supplies.  I often scrapbook in the kitchen which is on a different floor.  In addition, I scrapbook at a monthly crop once a month and try to get away for a crop weekend once a year.  While we all drool over scrapbook rooms on Pinterest for many of us this is not a reality.

Scrapbook supply organization is a definite issue for most of us.  I can't count the number of times I have reorganized.  I keep trying to find the best organization to fit my scrapbooking needs.  I need easy access (we all do) but I also need to be able to take my supplies on the go. After retiring this summer, I was able to eliminate all my  teaching supplies which were taking up large amounts of space in my home so I started yet again reorganizing my scrapbooking and crafting supplies.

I love the CTMH organizers because they have a handle and the cart that goes with them is great for crops.  However, I still spent a lot of time looking around to see what else was out on the web to get more ideas.  Here's a great article on organization mistakes that I wanted to share. (I had to remove the link to the article about 5 organizing mistakes - that website is no longer valid.)  I've made all of these myself already but if you're reorganizing maybe they'll help you.

You can also go to my collection of dreamy scrapbook rooms on Pinterest here: https://www.pinterest.com/pageswithheart/.

Leave a comment if you have any great organizing tips to share.  I'm always looking for more, Karen

Card Making With Kids

Have Fun Paper Crafting With Your Children

I found a great video on using kids art to make cards.  It reminded me of something similar that I did years ago when my son was a toddler.  I let him finger paint, then I had him make his hand prints so I would have them to keep and frame.  I used his finger paintings as mattes for his photo that I put into clear plastic ornaments which opened up like plastic Easter eggs. His grandmas all got one and we kept one.  Still one of my favorite ornaments.

This video is from Jennifer McGuire Ink check her site out.