January 18, 2016
A Year to Remember Blog Hop!
Make 2016 A Year to Remember! Our new collection of the same name offers the perfect opportunity to scrap your life one day, week, month or year at a time, and in a number of fun, unique ways.
Join us as we hop through the blogs of our CM Content Contributors who’ve come up with the most clever ways to use these products you could ever imagine. From monthly page spreads to fun, tiny baskets with daily journal cards and loads of ideas in between… you’ll be inspired beyond measure.
Scroll through the page layout ideas featured here in this blog post first, and when you reach the bottom, we’ll send you on your way to the first blog hop!
After you’ve hopped through all the blogs, pop on back here to this post and leave a comment on your favorite thing about the new Year to Remember collection. Doing so qualifies you for entry in a drawing where you could win the entire collection of Year to Remember products, shown here:
Awesome, right?
Before we send you off exploring through all the ideas we’ve collected up, we thought we’d offer a few suggestions and tips on how to put these products to use:
- Hang a calendar grid (with date numbers added) on the fridge and jot down events as they happen – everything from little Susie’s first lost tooth down to that tax appointment. When the month is over, scrap the events you’ve noted on pages that follow the calendar page in your album. It’ll be fun to look back one day and see what that month in your life entailed! Example:
- Begin with a collection of photos from a given month, then scrap them and add a calendar page as an “intro” page for that month. Journal important dates onto the calendar that correspond to pages and photos you’ve scrapped. (Example shown below.)
- Use a calendar grid page to highlight just one specific date of the month, then add photos around it. Examples:
- Use calendar grid pages as a simple backdrop for an actual page layout. Use the calendar grid squares as a journaling spot around your photos. Highlight the special date on the page (i.e. 2nd birthday on the 28th as shown in this example):
- Trim a section (a row, two rows, etc.) of calendar grid to use on a layout to highlight just a week or two, too!
- As you’ll see in the example below, use the calendar grid squares as spaces for fun 2″ photos – PERFECT for all those photos you post to Instagram but do nothing with. ;)
First, we’ll start here with a fun layout by CM Project Designer Melissa Ullmann. In this sample layout, she used the calendar sheet as a way to track things as they happened during the month including things like paying rent, pay day, doctor appointments and trips up north to the cabin! After the month has passed, she’s including it in her scrapbook album followed by pages filled with photos from some of the events that are noted on the grid. Keeping in mind that while in the “now”, things like pay days and paying rent may not seem critical to note, think of how fun it will be years down the road to take a spin through days gone by when life is different :)
To create this 2-page layout, you’ll need:
- White Scrapbook Pages
- A Year to Remember Paper Pack
- A Year to Remember Sticker Pack
- Foam Squares
- Paper Trimmer
- Cardstock – Green
- Tape Runner
Step 1: Wallpaper the calendar grid to the left page.
Step 2: Add the “days” sticker strip along the very top of the calendar grid.
Step 3: Cut a strip from the striped patterned paper to measure 12” x ¾”. Adhere along the bottom of left page.
Step 4: Use the black pen to write in the dates.
Step 5: Adhere the embellishments and stickers to the calendar as needed.
Create a layout to highlight your photos from the month. To duplicate the page shown above:
Step 1: Cut a piece of paper from clock patterned paper to measure 2” x 12”. Adhere along the right side of page.
Step 2: Cut a piece from the blue dots paper to measure 1” x 12”. Adhere along the edge of the clock paper.
Step 3: Cut a piece of green cardstock to measure 7” x 9”. Adhere to layout.
Step 4: Add the embellishments using foam squares.
Step 5: Add photos and journal using the black pen.
Next, Melissa shares a tad bit different take on the same type of layout, however you’ll notice she used the Shape Maker with Square Cartridge to punch out photos – they fit perfectly on the calendar grids. How fun!
To create this 2-page layout, you’ll need:
- White Scrapbook Pages
- A year to Remember Paper Pack
- A Year to Remember Embellishments
- A Year to Remember Sticker Pack
- Cardstock – Blue
- Shape Maker with Square Cartridge
- Custom Cutting System with Circle Patterns
- Border Maker System with Lace Flower Chain Cartridge
- Black ABC/123 Stickers
- Foam Squares
- Tape Runner
One note in preparation for creating this set of pages – Throughout the month, take photos of random projects that you do throughout the day. Capture the little things you LOVE about your life!
Step 1: Adhere the calendar grid page to the right page.
Step 2: Add stickers and embellishments to the layout.
Step 3: Punch out photos using the Square Shape Maker and adhere to calendar days. Add ABC/123 Stickers to remaining days that don’t have a photo.
On the left page, create a layout to highlight your month with photos. To duplicate the page shown above:
Step 1: Cut a strip of red dotted paper to measure 3” x 12”. Adhere to the far left of the page.
Step 2: Cut a strip from blue cardstock to measure ½” x 12”. Adhere along the far left edge of the page.
Step 3: Cut a strip from pink chevron patterned paper to measure 1” x 12”. Adhere along the edge of the dotted paper.
Step 4: Using the border maker with the lace flower chain cartridge, punch a 12″ border from blue cardstock. Adhere to the top of the chevron paper.
Step 5: Cut two mats from the blue cardstock to measure 6-1/2” x 4-1/2”. Adhere photo to each mat, then adhere matted photos to page, angling each as shown. Tuck corners of photos under border strip as shown.
Step 6: Adhere the embellishments to the layout and journal to finish.
And now, on to the rest of the fab ideas. Here’s the order that we’ll be hopping in today – just remember to stop back here after you’ve hopped all the way through and leave us a comment on your favorite thing about the Year to Remember collection. You’ll be entered to win the entire collection when you do! Happy hopping!
Stop 1: Candace Bouldin’s Scrappin Jpegs
Stop 2: Julie Tambrini’s Creative Memories Blog
Stop 3: Diana Brinsley’s Memory Keeping Blog
Stop 4: Stefani Jones’ Crop with Stef Blog
Stop 5: Lisa Graham’s Click, Crop & Create Blog
Stop 6: Noreen Smith’s Organized & Creative Mom Blog
Stop 7: Sarah Fitzgerald’s Click Write Share Blog
A huge thank you to all our contributors for sharing their creativity with us!
Thanks to all the contributors to this page – the ideas are all great!!! I love Diana’s borders, Stefani’s Monthly Planner, Noreen’s Family Album pages, Lisa, Sarah & Julie’s ideas. They are all great. I especially liked Candace’s Patriotic page. Thanks CM & contributors for all the great idea I can share with my customers.
thanks for all the border ideas….I look forward to using them. I have done border crops once a month for years and always had to come up with my own ideas…sometimes that is easy and sometimes my brain is just blocked and I struggle to come up with ideas. This blog will be a great assistance….thanks again
Thank you Marilyn!! Glad we could show you how to think outside the box. :) Good Luck!
Thanks for bringing calendar pages back with a double sided paper!!
I love these blog hops as a way to get multiple ideas about how to use our new products. Thank you for doing this!
I really liked Melissa’s cute little photos included in her calendar. If I won this prize I would use Melissa’s idea for the calendar and add the pocket pages on the other side. Great way to journal a year. Thanks for all the ideas.
Love this album!
This is a great set !cant wait until I can start my scrap booking with all these new supplies !
I love the stickers. Perfect way to compliment a page.
Love the calendars and all the ideas great for school day album or baby albums.
I love the look of adding pictures to the calendar! and adding the banner across the top is such a neat idea! I would have never thought to do this with the calendar. It teaches you to think outside the box! As I think about this, perhaps I would incorporate these ideas ~ and maybe in each family members birthday month, put their name, one letter per block and a picture of their favorite activity as an outside the box idea!!! Thank you for all the wonderful inspirations!
Love all of the ideas. I can’t wait to order the new product. I liked the daily planner book such a good idea
What a great bunch of ideas! The bright colored paper and all the go-withs make this a fabulous set to work with! I loved Julie’s pages with all the detail. They really caught my eye!
So many great ideas, but I just love the big Month title blocks. I have so many calendar pages with the old Creative Memories Month titles in black, but wow these are so much fun and colorful. Love it!!!!
I love the Year to Remember collection, by using the calendar theme that would help me to keep up with my scrapbooking each month instead of waiting to go back and scrap the year at then end of the year. The calendar theme falls into theme with the planner craze that is all the rage this year. I love the colors of this collection also. Hope I win the collection. Thank You Bridget Mills
I have been a calendar page user since the grids were printed on white pages, through to the Spargo grids you added to your pages. It has been a drought since I used the last of those grids. I am beyond exited to see the CM products back and so much better than before. Putting together my calendar pages for 2016 is going to be a breeze and bring a smile to my face each time I look at the calendar for this year. Thank you so much from a devoted calendar page user.
these women are incredible! LOVE all their ideas!! So thankful for them for sharing their talents!
Saw this package at a workshop this past weekend, love the fact they are double sided and are 12×12.
LOVE the planner, perpetual calendar and multi-pocket page ideas! This hop really showed the versatility of this pack :)
I love all the ideas, especially the borders. I’m so glad you’ve brought the calendar pages back. I like to use the for year long baby albums.
I too am a “old” consultant who is excited to see those pages came back! They are much cuter than the old ones. So many things to do with them. Thanks to the new home office!
Love Love Love this blog hop. Best one yet. I have several calendar pages in my albums. Each hop demonstrated great ideas that I will definitely put to use! I liked all the hops, but I think my favorite was Diana’s. I loved the use of the borders for the 2-page spread. Great idea to start each month in our Family album. Keep up the great work!!! :)
I liked the ideas – I plan to use this for my daughter’s high school years – especially her Senior Year to capture all of those special memories. I love that Creative Memories is back!!!
Wow! Such fabulous ideas and ways to encourage us to think outside the box. I’m very thankful to have the calendar grids back in the line. Love the colorful additions in the embellishment pack. I have not generally been a border person but can’t wait to make the ones Diana shared. Also love Melissa’s use of the tiny photos. Thank you CM. You rock!
I love that the calendar grids are big enough to put a picture.
I have been printing out calendars from my computer, hanging them on the fridge, and jotting down things as they happen. Then using these to scrapbook. This Year to Remember collection is going to make my scrappin’ so much faster and easier. Everything is already there for me!
All of these are great But I love DIane’s borders the best.
Thank you for a fun blog hop. I am very excited to share the ideas at my crop this weekend and show potential customers the versatility of this collection .
Personally, it gave me an idea for taking the calendar of photos I receive from my daughter each year and putting them in an album to keep forever. Otherwise, they just get set aside after a year of viewing. These calendars that are made online have the previous months pictures published on the back of the next months calendars. Now I can write the special occasions to match the pictures on my own calendar grid to match the photos.
This was so fun! I love using calendar pages in my album. I’m always forgetting to take pictures. This way I at least have a record of what we did. Adding pictures to the calendar in little squares really makes the calendar. I will be adding some borders to the facing page like Diana showed us.
Thanks for the Blog Hop! I enjoyed all the wonderful ideas, but my favorite (and the one I will use the most!) is Diana’s border ideas–the months. I am anxious to get started!
Happy to have calendar pages once again!! LOVE these!!
I love the patriotic page Candace created. I have an event this August in Philadelphia which celebrates the centennial of the National Park Service. There will actually be a lot of events over a full week, and this will be the best way for me to capture all that goes on. Thank you!
We gave one set to each of our attendees at our January Retreat because I know from past years how very important and FUN it is to look back on the calendar pages I’ve made in the past. Nice job ladies on the blogs- SUPER fun and cute ideas.
Love calendar pages. Inspires me to scrapbook each month even if only a few pages.
Love your blog hops!
I love the year to remember calendar pages! Sooo cute! It reminds me of the old Creative Memories but this version is even cuter!Great job CM Team! I love it! I love including a calendar in my scrapbook pages! It helps me remember the activites of the month/year.
Thanks for bringing back the calendar pages . I used them in my kids baby books and now you inspired me to use them again and I love the bright colors.
I think it is a great idea to have a calendar page in the scrapbook. I never thought of doing that. I like the embellishments that go along with it.
So happy to see new ideas from old favorites. I have always loved melissa’s style. Also I agree with several of the posts, the calendar grids will help me to stay up to date on scrapbooking through out the year! Can’t wait to see all the ideas…thanks
Love the Blog Hops to see different ideas from all of the creative Advisors. Loved the Borders on Diana’s page………but loved all the other ideas too!
So many fun ideas were shown in the blogs. Love the idea of the calendar pages and especially liked Diana’s borders…very fun! I am mainly a chronological scrapper so this gives me great ideas to hopefully get some scrapbooks done quickly!!! Thanks for all the ideas!
Love all of the great ideas! They are easy to incorporate in my own albums as well as well received by my customers. Thanks for your contributions!
I’ve always loved to scrapbook calendar pages. thanks for occlusion embellishment choices!
The ideas were tremendous! Such creative and talented people. I especially loved the ideas for a personal planner.
Luv this! Very vibrant and creative. Thanks for sharing. The borders are awesome.
I love the colors in this new collection. The daily planner book is my favorite idea on the blog hop.
I love these blog hops! So fun and gives such great ideas!!
So many wonderful ideas to incorporate into any project! Especially the borders and use of pics!
I have retreat this weekend and giving the calendars to my customers so these are great ideas to show them how to use them….or additional ideas!!! Thank you to the ladies that help out with these blogs!!! It is so helpful!!!
I love the colors and can’t wait to add these fun embellishments to my date book
I love that calendar pages are back! I’ve used calendars in my family albums for 12 years, and love the design of the new CM ones. I liked all the blog ideas, especially Diana’s borders.
Love having the calendar pages back! And the double sided paper gives us even more options. Motivates me to get my album set up for 2016 and get going!!