I'm excited to share a brand new program from Elmer's. They have introduced a free app to capture 1st day memories that parents and teachers can easily use. Even better, is that a donation is made to help students in need with every single upload of a photo. Brilliant! I hope you will join me in downloading this app to celebrate school memories and to help students in need.
As the Official Sponsor of the 1st Day of School™, Elmer’s® Products Inc., an industry leader in adhesives, arts and crafts, office and educational products, is proud to introduce a free photo-sharing mobile app and website created to preserve “1st day” memories. For decades, Elmer’s has played a major role in the back-to-school season and, in celebration of this special time of year, Elmer’s 1st Day app provides an easy way for parents to capture priceless moments as their child grows.
“Elmer’s 1st Day app is more than your average photo app—it was specifically designed to help parents capture, create and share milestone moments like the first day of school,” said Lisa Singer, Elmer’s senior product manager. “We’re thrilled to kick off the 2012 back-to-school season by introducing a one-of-a-kind, free app that’s perfect for parents with children of all ages.”
Using the 1st Day app, parents can snap photos and create albums to share with family and friends. Once logged on to the secure 1st Day website (the1stday.com), where images and albums are automatically synched up from the app, users can create slideshows, add colorful borders and share galleries via email and on Facebook. The app is also an excellent way for teachers to journal milestones as they upload photos of their room, art projects and events throughout the year and share them with peers and parents.
Continuing its commitment to the community and the education of young people, Elmer’s will donate one product for each photo upload (up to 200,000 uploads) to the Kids In Need Foundation, which provides free school supplies to students in need.
The free 1st Day app can be downloaded on iPhone and Android mobile devices by scanning the QR code found on select Elmer’s glue bottles and in-store school supply displays or directly from the iTunes Store or Google Play.
About Elmer’s
Elmer’s® Products, Inc. has been a trusted brand and industry leader for more than 60 years. Elmer’s produces a variety of well-known adhesives, arts and crafts, educational and office products for use at home, school or business. Elmer’s products are developed to provide project solutions and inspire people to create, build and learn for life. www.elmers.com
The Craft and Hobby Association's (CHA) summer show is around the corner. It starts July 16th and is the show where most of the scrapbooking manufacturers share their Fall and Winter lines. Themes will most likely include Halloween, Christmas, Fall, Winter, and School. It's my favorite show because of the themes, though it's the smaller of the two shows.
Around this time manufacturers start to put out sneak peeks of their collections. It starts slowly and explodes the week before the show. As of now there are a few sneaks:
1. My Little Shoebox posted on this sneak on their blog.
2. If you are a subscriber to Studio Calico, then you got a sneak peek of a new collection called "yearbook" in your box. It was posted on their forum here.
3. Technically it's shipping this month and is not a summer show debut, but Fancy Pants posted a sneak to a new collection, so I'm including it. They are revealing the full thing today, so check back for that if you like what you see.
4. Pink Paislee has two sneaks. One is their banner announcing a new collection on facebook and the other is an image of new Artisan Collection products they just posted on facebook.
If you like to follow the sneaks, then these are great resources to follow:
That should keep you busy. I'm looking forward to what's in store for us.
Lori
Happy 2012! It's a new year and it's time for CHA Winter sneak peeks to begin. The winter show is the biggest of the year and typically includes lines for Spring and Summer.
If you want to see all the latest sneaks (they usually start coming fast one week before the show) be sure to check out the following sites:
So, what has been shown up to today? Here's my current list:
Prima - a small sneak.
Teresa Collins debuted her new partnership with Xyron on Good Things Utah
Ruby Rock-It - posted these sneaks on their blog.
Webster's Pages - has released Sunday Picnic and announced their new Clean and Simple addition.
Little Yellow Bicycle - has sneaked a new collection on their blog:
Tim Holtz - just announced on his blog his new book debuting at CHA W.
Helmar - is debuting 3 new varnishes that are used to protect your artwork
Tattered Angels - they posted a sneak on their blog.
Tsukineko - they posted on their site that sneaks are coming soon.
GCD Studios - Sneaks will start on their blog soon.
One of the new designers is Heidi Sonboul. She announced it on her blog and here is a peak of her new line.
Pink Paislee - has shared a sneak peek of their new collection Spring Jubilee in their latest newsletter. They said they will be debuting 5 new collections at the winter show.
Copic Markers - They have introduced twelve new sketch colors here.
The show is at the end of the month. It should be a good one this year.
Happy New Year!
Lori
Hello blogger friends. I've been on a self-imposed creative break. I knew I needed to take a small break to restore my creative side. I just didn't realize I would need such a long one. After spending the summer doing nothing creative, I finally feel rejuvinated. I'm excited to get back into my tiny space and craft away. I decided that for 2012 I would pick some projects to focus on doing. I've picked out three projects to do for the year; One Little Word 2012 with Ali Edwards, Move More, Eat Well with Cathy Zielske and Project Life with Becky Higgins. I'll start with the first two and come back with a post for the last in a day or two.
1. My word for 2012 is "action". I have two very specific goals I want to accomplish this year. I can only do this by taking action, step by step, decision by decsion. This word really resonates with me and keeping it in the front of my mind each day will help me when things get tough because they will get tough. I'm excited to get started and really see where I can go with it.
I used some of the recent Crate Paper releases for the little title card. While I no longer design for this fabulous company, I am still obsessed with each and every release. They just do it right each and every time!
2. Move More, Eat Well. Yep. That's basically goal #1 this year. I need to get healthy. I need to change my self talk. I love that Cathy is doing a class on this. She very bravely posted her journey for moving more and eating less on her own blog last year. She posted the good, the bad and the ugly. I respect anyone who can be real and put it out there.
This class is a year-long class and it's about inspiration and motivation. I like that I'll be hanging out with a big group of gals all trying to reach their own personal goals with their own ways of getting there. I love that Cathy will be creating templates to help us document the journey.
I will be chaning my way of eating completely. I will be exercising regularly for the first time in 10 years. This is a huge, life changing goal and I plan to take it one decision at a time, day by day. This isn't the kind of project for me that needs to be creative or more than it is. I plan to just follow her design plan and put my effort on working hard on my goals. Basically, this isn't something I plan to get creative with, it's something I am doing to keep a record and to stay motivated.
I plan to follow Natalia Rose's Detox 4 Women plan in January, then move forward with her overall way of life after that. I need to detox and her way of doing it makes sense to me. It's not all fruit juice and other crazy ideas that just sound bad. It's simple and it's something I know I can do.
My husband and I will be starting P90X in January, too. This program is insane and I love it. It is hard, but it feels so good. It's amazing how fast I went from feeling weak and pain to feeling strong and sore when we starting it this past summer. We failed at keeping up with it, but we are determined and will do it in January.
It's hard to believe it's so close to Christmas and the New Year. I'm excited to have goals, despite my usual avoidance of them.
Anyway, thanks for continuing to check out my blog despite my long absense. I hope you are enjoying your Holiday time with your families and that this time of year is a blessing for you.
Lori
I was asked to create a sketch for the Scrapidees Sketch blog. Their blog is full of inspiration. Their team is amazing!
I have a really hard time when I'm asked to guest design because I never think I'm good enough. I tend to put a lot of pressure on myself when I commit to doing them, which is why I never seek out guest design gigs. When someone seeks me out, I'm always a little amazed. I loved this blog when I took a look and I'm so glad I commited.
I'm realtively new to creating sketches. I'm a hacker in photoshop and it's my understanding I do sketches backward, in that I create my layout, then do the sketch. I don't think I would be a very good digi sketch designer because I can't look at that blank white canvas and visualize a sketch from scratch. So, I cheat, apparently, but it works for me. Here is the sketch:
And here is the layout I created:
I like to use themey products in non-themey ways. This is the Holiday Collection from Girls' Paperie (sniff, sniff) and I thought the colors in the background would really help the photos pop off the page. These two are always joking around when we take family photos and those photos are always my favorites.
Thanks to the Scrapidees team for having me this month!
Lori
The show is happening now. I have to say, I'm really loving a lot of the releases. I think I will blog my favorites soon.
In the meantime, I thought you might be interested in where you can find pictures of the show floor. Here you go:
If I find more, I'll keep adding to the list. This should keep you for now!
Enjoy!
It's CHA time, the big craft and hobby trade show at the end of July. There have been several sneak peeks already. This year the manufacturers seem to be sneaking a bit earlier than normal, which is fun!
So far:
Good places to see sneaks:
Enjoy!
Lori
Crate Paper's Wedding Week has debuted. I'm loving the inspiration so much, it makes me want to plan another wedding. There are so many lovely ideas to think over. I can imagine using some of these ideas for other parties, too.
I have a project on today's post. It's the seating chart (using escort cards) for the reception. You can see a close and an explanation on the blog.
For those who feel inspired, there is a challenge with some great prizes. The deadline to enter the challenge is this Friday, June 11th.
The kiddos are almost out for the summer. It's crunch time for end of the year stuff, but it's all good. I'm looking forward to summer and relaxing with the boys!
Have a wonderful day!
Lori
Crate Paper has a really, really exciting week coming up; Wedding Week. The design team has been working really hard on wedding specific creations for every aspect of a wedding and we cannot wait to share them with you.
This event starts Monday, June 6th and ends Monday, June 13th.
Not only will there be daily wedding inspiration, but Crate Paper will be giving away four prize packs, as well. Be sure to mark it on your calendars, as I truly believe this will be a not to miss week long blog event. See you over there!
Lori
I've been really busy getting ready to launch a business and doing volunteer work and my blog has suffered for it. I have to admit I haven't felt much inspiration to post lately. A lot of what I want to post, I can't because I'm just not ready, so I just haven't been posting.
This year has gone so fast. It's nearly summer and I'm excited to be able to spend time with my boys and relax without the pressures of last summer. Along those lines, I figured since I'm finally taking some time to plan out what we are doing, why not post about it for anyone else who might be interested in some summer fun ideas?
This year we are planning to be mellow and just go with our feelings on the day. There is one thing we will do because I think it's important and that is Summer Bridge. These are workbooks to help your kids maintain what they learned in school over the summer, so they start school on top of their game. We have done these for the last few years and I think they help. We don't usually make it all the way to the end of the workbook, so the fact that I think they help, says a lot about how good they really are.
That gets the schooling out of the way and the rest is all fun.
1. We will go to the library and do their summer program. We love to read!
2. I will be doing this fab idea starting tomorrow. You can read more about it here.
3. We will absolutely be doing a summer bucket list. Read about it here.
4. We will be using this 100 things list to come up with some of our bucket ideas and to just figure out some fun things to do. The list is here:
5. I will be utilizing this brilliant idea of a bored jar! Yep. "Bored, you say?" Pick from the jar and you have to do whatever is on the tag. It could be fun or it could be a chore! Ha! That should cure the boredom blues.
6. I purchased this book because I know we'll do crafty stuff this summer and since they're big into Star Wars, what could be more fun?
I do have to thank Pinterest, yet again, because ideas 2-5 came from there! I adore that place! I hope you enjoyed your holiday weekend. We're down to the last few days of school and then we're out for the summer. It's hard to believe, but here we are.
Have a great week!
Lori