{"id":1532,"date":"2016-01-18T17:47:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T17:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/?p=1532"},"modified":"2016-01-22T09:06:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T15:06:22","slug":"yr2-bloghop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativememories.com/apps/thepages\/2016\/01\/18\/yr2-bloghop\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year to Remember Blog Hop!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Make 2016 A Year to Remember! Our new collection of the same name<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

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Awesome, right?<\/p>\n

Before we send you off exploring through all the ideas we’ve collected up, we thought we’d offer a few suggestions and tips\u00a0on how to put these products to use:<\/p>\n

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  1. 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\u00a0appointment. 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:
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  2. 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.)<\/li>\n
  3. Use a calendar grid page to highlight just one specific date of the month, then add photos around it. Examples:\"JapanLO1.jpg\"
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  4. Use calendar grid pages as a simple backdrop for an actual page layout.\u00a0Use 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):
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  5. Trim a section (a row, two rows, etc.) of calendar grid to use on a layout to highlight just a week or two, too!<\/li>\n
  6. 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. ;)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    First,\u00a0we’ll start here with a fun layout by CM Project Designer Melissa Ullmann. In this sample layout,\u00a0she 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. \u00a0Keeping in mind that while in the “now”, things like pay days and paying rent may not seem\u00a0critical 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 :)<\/p>\n

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    To create this 2-page layout, you’ll need:<\/p>\n