All aboard!!! It’s time for another ride on the My Memories Suite Blog train!!

Hi to all our MMS friends and fans! We LOVE the season we can celebrate LOVE! And who doesn’t LOVE to win free stuff??? We are all gearing up for the next ride on the MMS BLOG TRAIN!! Make sure you check out the blogs for each member of the MMS Creative Team ~ each of our Team has created a blog post on their personal blogs to highlight one of their favorite features in MMS Version 2! There is some great new stuff and each Team member has chosen one to walk you through. It is not only a great way to learn something new, it is a GREAT way to enter to win some FREE STUFF! We are giving away a copy of The MMS Version 2 software/upgrade, 14 (the lucky number of love) FREE kits from the MMS Design Shop and 1 Quick Design Club CD! ALL you have to do to enter is follow the blog train through each stop, collect the key word on each blog, put them in order for a 5 word phrase, and email that phrase to me at lisaj@mymemoriessuite.com. That’s it, easy as pie! So, check out Sarah’s blog to get started, then follow the train from there! Here are the links to refer to in case you get lost on your trip:

Stop 1: Sarah’s blog

Stop 2: Mary & Jackie’s blog

Stop 3: Beth’s Blog

Stop 4: Brooke’s Blog

Last Stop: Lisa’s Blog!

Then email the 5 word key phrase in order to me! lisaj@mymemoriessuite.com

Good luck everyone…and don’t forget to make a memory today!

Lisa J.

A *Great* Giveaway!

We made it to Amanda’s Blog! If you are a FONT FANATIC, like me, you will recognize many of the fonts from posted pages that come from Amanda’s collection! At kevinandamanda.com you can find some great fonts and inspiration and ideas (and even some yummy recipes) and it’s ALL FREE! And this week WE are Amanda’s spotlight giveaway! Amanda is giving away a free copy of MMS software to one lucky entry post on her blog! Make sure you check it out and post a response, and GOOD LUCK! So, check out Amanda’s blog and post your comment to win!

… and don’t forget to make a memory today!

Lisa J.

Winter Magic kit FREE with purchase!

Here are a couple cute pages from the great kit by Sandy McDougal for StoryRock. This wonderful kit is perfect for scrapping all your wonderful winter memories or ski trip pages! Check out the entire kit here: Winter Magic. For a VERY limited time, you can have this great kit, perfect for your winter pages for FREE. Just make a minimum purchase of $5.00 from the Design Shop and add the promo code: wintermagic at checkout!

IMPORTANT NOTE: DO NOT ADD THE WINTER MAGIC KIT to your cart, it will be added automatically to your cart when you add the promo code!  Enjoy this great kit for FREE – for a limited time only!
and remember to make a memory today!

Lisa J.

Happy Digital Scrapbooking Day!! Woooo woooo… get on the BLOG TRAIN!

Hi all!  Well – it is ALMOST Digital Scrapbooking Day!  Okay – just noticed it is midnight… it IS Digital Scrapbooking Day!  The Creative Team here at My Memories Suite are really excited to be bringing you the first trip on the MMS Blog Train!  We would LOVE for you to join us for a trip around Goody Town!  We have some fun things hiding on each of our blogs!  Simply visit each blog and collect the KEYWORD that is on each blog!  When you get to the end of the line, you will have a 5 word phrase!  There will be some fun little goodies to collect along the way, but when you collect ALL the words to the phase and EMAIL them IN ORDER to Lisa you will be entered in the drawing for some GREAT prizes!  We are giving away 5 copies of My Memories Suite software AND some great discount coupons on great kits in the Design Shop!

On your trip you will visit the blogs of each of the girls on the Creative Team… from here you will visit Brooke’s Blog – Brooke is a very talented page designer and has posted some great layouts on the Facebook page!  If you haven’t visited us on FB – make sure you check it out!  We have lots of fun, give a way prizes and offer help and inspiration!

So…. ALL ABOARD!  Get on over to Brooke’s blog and collect the FIRST word in the 5 word phrase!  When you get to the end of the train at Lisa’s blog, she will tell you what to do with the phrase to get entered in the drawings!  IF you get to someone’s blog tonight and they aren’t updated yet, please check back in the am (we sleep sometimes too!)

Have a great time on the train! See all our smiling faces above (Jackie’s not there, but we will add her picture this weekend!)  We are SO happy you are here!

FIRST STOP:

http://lovingthefreelife.blogspot.com/

So, thanks for hangin’ out… and don’t forget to make a memory today!

Lisa J.

For the LOVE of the GAME!

For the Love of the Game

As summer has come to an end and Fall seems like it’s going to be shorter than ever (at least here in Utah) that means a lot of sports leagues are ending. I hope that everyone took plenty of pictures and captured some incredible memories. There are some great designs in the shop to help show off those wonderful moments – make sure you check them out. I used the Victory Road Sports Pack and Soccer Goal by StoryRock to capture my son‘s first season of soccer.

When you create your layouts don’t be scared to mix and match from other kits. In the ‘Soccer Is Life’ layout I used the Victory Road Sports Pack and Soccer Goal kit by StoryRock, elements from Magical Memories from the Ettes and Company, an overlay from Kitty Designs, and Remington Portable font from Lettering Delights.

Don’t forget to check out our Facebook page for inspiration. There are tons of great tips and tricks being shared and tons of layouts that can be lifted for quick and easy flair to any design!

**You can have VICTORY ROAD SPORTS PACK for FREE when you spend $5.00 or more in the Design Shop!  So, spend $5.00 or more in the Design Shop and add the promo code: VRTEAMBOOK at check out! **

Remember: Do NOT add “Victory Road Sports Pack” to your cart ~ it will be added automatically when you enter the promo code at checkout!

Happy Scrapping!
Brooke

Chic to Chic ~ Your Story…

As I have become immersed into the scrapping world over the past nine months, I have seen one recurring theme, over and over.  TELL YOUR STORY!  Scrapbooking is the art of telling your story to future generations; you children, your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren.  But a question that seems to arise just as often is, “Where do I start???”.

There are some great resources online to help you tell your story.  You can find tons of journaling prompts, and digidares that will help you tell stories in a creative manner, or blogs about telling your story like Baby Love Letters.  If you want to get OFF the computer and handwrite some of your story before you scrap it, you can also find books of all sizes about writing your memoirs.  Check out these books: Your Words, Your Story or That’s Life, Finding Your Scrapbook Inspiration in the Everyday.  Another great way to find inspiration is to find weekly challenges.  Here are two excellent challenge sites that will inspire you to tell your story, My Story Matters and The Book of Me Challenge.

I try to tell the story of my family in my scrapbooks, but I do have difficulty telling about myself.  Lately, I have been inspired to do this more from visiting with my Grandmother, who lost her Mother at the age of six.  If something were to happen to me, I would want my children to have something to remember me by, rather than making them rely on their young memories.  So, I was thrilled when I found StoryRock’s Chic to Chic template kit, which is perfect for helping me tell my story.  Here are a few pages from my book of me.  I just changed the backgrounds on the templates provided to match my color scheme and just filled in the journaling!

Can you think of someone who might like to have a book about YOU?  Consider grabbing Chic to Chic this week and whipping one up for them!  You may also consider creating one of these special books about someone else.  Helping them tell their story with your wonderful touch can be a wonderful gift – for them and for you!

Happy Scrapping!  Sarah

Receive the CHIC TO CHIC kit for FREE when you spend $5.00 in the Design Shop and enter the promo code: CHICTOCHIC at checkout!

**IMPORTANT NOTE: DO NOT ADD the CHIC TO CHIC KIT TO YOUR CART, IT WILL ADD AUTOMATICALLY WHEN YOU ENTER THE PROMO CODE AT CHECKOUT!**

Week 3 “Page of the Week” Facebook Winners!

Good morning!  I am very excited to share the winning entries from our Facebook fan page.  These three entries were chosen as our “Page of the Week” winners!  The winners get to choose a FREE StoryRock kit from the Design Shop as their prize!  We love these pages and hope to see more from the girls in the future.  If you haven’t joined us on Facebook, sign up today and become a FAN!  There is a FREEBIE kit available to our Facebook fans only.

Congratulations to Emily, Kathleen, and Jamie!  Keep up the good work!

Harvest Blessings!

Last Christmas, when I first laid my hands on the My Memories Suite software, I immediately realized that with all the great designs and the easy-to-use program, I would be able to find a million uses for this program!  Sure, I love digital scrapbooking, but I also LOVE with ALL the other fabulous thigns I can do with the program!  The possibilities are really endless.

Like Brooke said in the previous post, the holidays are just around the corner.  If you are like me and like to make your own Christmas gifts, or if you just like to add a little bit of flair to your purchased gifts, the My Memories Suite software can really help with that!  And, I’d like to show you an idea that I am going to use this Christmas!

I enjoy canning foods – you know, things like pickles, jams, pumpkin pie mix, cider, pie fillings, etc.  This year, I am going to be giving homemade canned treats to all the friends, teachers, neighbors, co-workers, well… you get the picture.  We’ve all seen the jars of different mixes at Christmas that have the pretty fabric and the bow on top.  While those are pretty, I was trying to think of a way that I can package my goodies and express my personality as well.  Then I thought, “What about making fun labels??!”

I’ve made some jar labels to show you, and I’d have to say that making them was particularly fun and incredibly fast! To make a jar label, simply create your own design, print on regular paper, cut out, and glue to jar.  I used a glue stick, and that worked really well.  (Hint: if you have an inkjet printer, consider spraying the paper with a light coating of clear spray paint to keep the ink from smearing the glue – use caution and cover the lid area when spraying)  In no time at all, the jars were transformed into cute gifts!  And there’s no need to measure anything, because you can cut it down to size!  I printed my designs out as a 6×6 square, and they worked great for the quart size jars.

Here are some labels I made.  I used StoryRock’s “Twilight Fanpire” to create the pickle label, and I used Corina Nielson’s “Totally Eclectic” pack to create the marinade label!

I enjoyed my jar labels SO much, I realized that making labels for jars doesn’t have to be limited to Christmas only!  I got to thinking that a cute jar full of pumpkin pie mix or cider mix would make a great hostess gift at Thanksgiving or a fall party.  I personally love the Harvest Blessing pack by StoryRock, so I made a cute pumpkin pie jar label with that pack.

So, there you have it… an easy and simple way to give your Christmas gifts some “oomph” and personality!  It doesn’t have to end there either.  Think of all the other great things around your house that you can label with beautiful labels made with My Memories Suite!  You could label not only jars, but gift boxes, kids’ toy containers, buckets, etc!

Happy labeling!

Beth

To help you get ready for the fall holiday season we are giving away HARVEST BLESSINGS by StoryRock FREE when you spend a minimum of $5.00 in the Design Shop!  Simply add the promo code: HARVESTBLESSING (no “s) when you check out!

**PLEASE NOTE: DO NOT ADD HARVEST BLESSINGS TO YOUR SHOPPING CART, IT WILL BE ADDED AUTOMATICALLY WHEN YOU ENTER THE PROMO CODE UPON CHECKOUT!**

Shabby Blogs

Last night I was surfing the net and came across a darling website that I absolutely loved the blog’s background…so I linked to it’s source Shabby Blogs and was thrilled to find so many cute backgrounds. Many of the free backgrounds actually looked familiar and that’s because I discovered that our very own Corina Nielsen had designed some darling BLOG backgrounds.  Here’s one that she made from a collection available in our shop called It’s a Woodsy Thing.

NEW Trading Card Templates

The Victory Road trading card collection is now available in The Design Shop for a variety of sports including baseball, football, soccer, basketball, and more.  You can even choose the colors to match your child’s team.

FREE  Baseball Template

For a limited time, the Victory Road-Baseball trading card template is available absolutely free from the Design Shop.

The Secret to printing real trading cards

Once you download and install the templates, simply plug in the picture, add information into the provided spaces, and you’re ready to print.

Simply use the Greeting Card button in the Share menu of software to order your printed trading cards.  When you are prompted, select the Trading Card option.  From there you will be walked  through a step-by-step process for making your cards.