Hambly Makes Me Happy!!

I love Hambly, and I'm not afraid to show it! The colours! The patterns! The neat-o rub-ons! Hambly has been dazzling us with their style for years, and this class will help you appreciate them even more.

We will be creating a double page layout using some of Hambly's most popular transparencies, as well as some of their new rub-ons and paper designs. Add some ribbon, bling, alcohol inks, Glimmer Mist, Jenni Bowlin and Riff Raff Designs chipboard, and we have ourselves a monster class!

And since one layout is never enough, I'm going to show you that Hambly makes for one awesome card as well! With the leftover supplies from our double page layout, we will also complete a couple of transparency cards, which are sure to make the birth-day of your son, brother, aunt or grandma!

Date: Tuesday, August 26th
Time: 6 - 8pm
Cost: $35

Please bring your trimmer, scissors, adhesive, and a corner rounder punch if you have one. All other supplies and tools are provided. And call the store to sign up for this class, or any other classes.

Lost & Found Studios "Tie One On"

Join Nadia and Laurie and create a "one of a kind" apron using paint, stamps and all of your creative juices! What a stylish way to protect your pants when you're busy getting messy with your scrapbooking and crafting!

Date: Saturday, August 9th

Time: 1 - 4pm

Cost: $30

Check the main TM website for a list of all the supplies you'll need to bring to the class. And as always, you can call the store with questions or to sign up!!

Altered Art: Vacation Memories Pizza Box

In this class I will show you how to turn a simple pizza box into a beautiful keepsake for all your vacation memories! Using a 7 Gypsies "naked" Pizza Box, we will be adding paper, ribbon, chipboard and sticker letters to create one-of-a-kind storage for all those brochures and pamphlets and ticket stubs we collect while on vacation, but can never bring ourselves to throw away! Or you can store your souvenirs, collected sea shells and rocks or post cards here. The sky's the limit!

I will also teach you how to make a little notebook to take with you on vacation to jot down all those exciting things that happened to you! This comes in super handy when you want to add some detailed journaling to your vacation layouts once you get home.

This class features product from 7 Gypsies, American Crafts, Riff Raff Designs, Prima Marketing, Jenni Bowlin, Hambly and more!! I'll even show you how to jazz up your paper flowers with a little Glimmer Mist!!

Date: Monday, August 4th

Time: 1 - 3 pm

Cost: $45

Please bring a trimmer, scissors, and adhesive to class. All other supplies and tools will be provided.

P.S. You don't have to put an Eiffel Tower on the front of your box!! Riff Raff Designs has a lot of chipboard shapes for you to choose from, to fit your own vacation theme!

July Classes

Environmentally Friendly Scrapbooking
Tuesday, July 8th
10am to noon
$30

Rockin' Ribbon
Saturday, July 12th
2 - 4pm
$30

Ranger Technique Class
Tuesday, July 15th
6 - 8pm
$40

Painting Prima
Thursday, July 17th
1 - 3pm
$35

Lost & Found Studios
Canvas Connection
Saturday, July 19th
10am - 4pm
$65

Beyond the Page (Home Decor)
Wednesday, July 23rd
1 - 3pm
$40

Glimmer Mist v2.0
Saturday, July 26th
1 - 3pm
$35

Lots of Photos
Monday, July 28th
10am - 12pm
$25

Playing with Paint
Tuesday July 29th
10am to noon
$35

Scroll down, or click on the hyperlinks for class descriptions and Sneak Peeks!!

New Blog

Hello Faithful Readers! FYI I will be moving the "Techneek of the Week" series to a new Treasured Memories "Projects and Techneeks" Blog. Right now, all that has been posted is today's Techneek of the Week...but soon you will be able to find my weekly "techneeks" along with a project created by one of the talented ladies on the TM Design Team. These will range from layouts, to mini albums, to home decor projects...whatever turns our fancy that week! Included will be an instruction sheet and supply list and lots of pictures of said project. We hope that this will continue to inspire you and keep your scrapbooking "evolving". Nothing wrong with trying something new!!

Here's the link: Projects & Techneeks Blog



(This doesn't replace any of the other Treasured Memories Blogs...just adds to them! So keep visiting here and treasuredmemories.typepad.com for class and store info.)

Techneek of the Week - Scrapbooking "On the Go"

This week's technique is inspired by an upcoming class...Altered Art runs August 4th (that's a holiday!) in the afternoon and we are making an altered pizza box and journal to store all of your VACATION MEMORIES. Today, I am going to show you how to create and "ON-THE-GO" scrapbook to take with you when you go on vacation, or to the lake, or wherever. With a minimal amount of supplies you can combine your travel journal with a mini album and after adding some photos when you get home, you have a COMPLETED PROJECT dedicated to your trip. And this makes it easier to do full pages after the fact because you have all your info in one place.



Pictured below are a couple of "on-the-go" scrapbooks that I have completed on past trips. Last year the fam and I went to Kelowna for a week (mmm...beach) and this spring we went to sunny Southern California with my in-laws to watch my brother-in-law compete in his first marathon. Even though these were two totally different trips with different amounts of free-time (aka scrapbooking time!) I was still able to create something that I enjoy and will keep forever and ever!

The top one is a 7 Gypsies mini album that I bought here at the store. It has nice neutral ivory cardstock pages and tabs along the top. The chipboard cover allows for more decoration (if you choose) when you get home. I didn't do anything to either of my journals before I left. Better to have something simple that can pack away nicely and then leave the fancy stuff for when you get home. I am planning on leaving this guy plain on the outside, aside from the rad 7 Gypsies knob!


The second journal is actually an artist's sketchbook I bought at and art supply store. It is still a nice sturdy coil-bond notebook and since it is meant for sketching, the paper inside is heavy-weight enough to allow me to glue and staple brochures and tickets to it without losing it's integrity.

Remember, when choosing a notebook/mini-album to take along you should look for something small enough to fit comfotably in your luggage or purse, but substantial enough to allow for you add things and write all that you want to write. You might want to pick one with more pages if you are going for a long trip (week plus), or if you want to add more photos when you get home.

As you can see, I did a lot of journaling...essentially documenting the trip as I went. Each evening (and sometimes during longer car trips!) I would dedicate some time to journaling about the day and adding some "found items" as I went along. I kept any maps, tickets, tourist brochures that I picked up during the day and cut and pasted what would fit in my journal. I always find it so hard to incorporate these things into my scrapbook layouts after the fact, and instead of just sticking them in a page protector at the back of my album, this is a nice way to display them. They also add a little extra decoration to your pages, so you don't have to bring as many supplies!

I purposely left space in my journal to add photos when I got home. I even wrote in the space which photos I wanted there. For example, in my Kelowna book I would journal along part of the page and leave the rest for photos...which works because my book is large enough. For my California journal, which has smaller pages, I left entire pages blank so I would have room to add lots of photos.

And this, my friend's, is all that I took with me! Pens, adhesive (glue stick or stapler work great!) and scissors (don't take on the plane!) are essential. Stamps are a nice addition, as you can pack a couple of shapes, an acrylic block and some ink pads and really get some "bang for your buck." Stars are pictured here, but labels, swirls, numbers, etc. would also do really nicely. I took 7 Gypsies labels with me to Kelowna and Scenic Route lady and gentleman with me to California. And if you bring coloured ink pads instead of just black, you get some added colour as well! I also like to take some simple label stickers (the ones pictured are Prima), in a sheet that I can cut to fit. All of these guys fit in my handy-dandy Spongebob Squarepants pencil case, along with my journal and I can pack that along with me on the road or the plane and it's at-hand whenever I have the inkling to create!

And here are some examples of things we carry that would be great to bring along, if you want some extra things to embellish as you go! But remember, you don't want to bring too much stuff and get overwhelmed. This is meant to be a simple, portable project, something that can be added to once you get home from your trip. So maybe if you really want to get creative with this book, leave more space to add these rad travel embellishments when you get home and add your photos.

Supplies pictured (clockwise from top left): Lil Davis chipboard titles; Scenic Route chipboard; Love Elsie epoxy stickers and chipboard stickers from her Forrest line; Making Memories cardstock stickers from the Passport line

[NOTE: Since Blogger is being uncooperative and not loading the rest of my photos (!!) I wil leave the post at this...for now. I have some other product ideas for you, and will try and post later today.]

I hope you enjoyed this installment of Techneek of the Week! I am currently working on getting all the August class demos done and will hopefully have something to show for it next week! So keep checking back for more ideas and Sneak Peeks for upcoming classes!

Glimmer Mist v.2.0

Here is just a sample of all the fun you'll have with Juli during her second installment of the ever-popular Glimmer Mist class. The first one was such a hit she is back with some new techniques and ideas for how to put your beloved Glimmer Mist to use. Bonus: a bottle of Glimmer Mist is included in the class! What could be better!? I know...Juli's Glimmer Misting-genius combined with beautiful Prima, Pink Paislee, Chatterbox, KI Memories and more! Join us for this class and complete 3 fabulous layouts, and take home some knowledge and product to boot!

Date: Saturday, July 26th

Time: 1 -3pm

Cost: $35 (includes one bottle of Glimmer Mist, your choice of colour, to take home after the class!)

And, as I am always open to suggestions from our wonderful customers, Chantel and I (but mostly Chantel!!) have decided that we will be offering more of our classes in the evening. So you will have the option of taking the class during the day, or at night (at the specified date and time). Hopefully, this will allow for more of you to take classes, who maybe couldn't get out during the day before. Check here and the main TM blog for upcoming dates and times. We may not get our butts in gear to offer any more in July, but look out August! Here we come!!

As always, if you would like to sign up for any of our classes, or have questions about what is included and a list of supplies to bring, please call the store: (780) 414-1540. Or if you have any class suggestions contact me here or at the store...I always love hearing from you!

Techneek of the Week

Welcome to a new segment I hope to bring to the Classes Blog on a semi-regular basis. I'm always working on new things, and some techniques the rest of the girls and I figure out just don't make it into classes! But I still want to pass on the stuff we learn...so you can skip all the hard steps of figuring things out and just reap the benefits!!! I hope you find some inspiration here, and have some fun getting your Mojo working!!


Techneek of the Week #1


This week I was playing with ideas for the "Environmentally Friendly Scrapbooking" class, and I thought it would be nice to share some things I came up with that you can use in your scrapbooking everyday to make the most out of your supplies and be a little "greener."


These two pages share the same basic layout, but with one big difference. The one on the left was done with environmentally friendlier techniques and supplies. Now get out your creative brains and dust off your imaginations and I'll lead you through the construction this page, step by step.







Instead of using pattern paper for your background or as an accent, try making your own with some stamps! On the not-so-green layout, I used a beautiful flocked pattern paper by Making Memories. On the "green" layout, I made my own background using Scenic Route acrylic stamps and some stamping ink.



First, you'll want to cut your template. I traced my 4x6 photo template on a piece of scrap paper and then cut it out and taped it down (lightly) where I wanted it on my background.



Lisa's Tip: I have a bunch of picture templates that I keep on hand when I am planning a layout. These are cut to sizes of pictures that I usually use (4x6, 3.5 x 5, wallet size, etc.), and I can just pull them out and place them on my background when I need to see how things are going to fit on a page. That way I also know what sizes my photos should be once I print them.


Next, choose the stamp you want to use to create your background. It should be one that is symmetrical, and can be repeated many times. Ink it up really good, and fill the space. You might want to either do a test run (so you don't wreck your background) or stamp the pattern on another sheet of leftover paper and cut it out to fit the space. Once you're done this step, you can remove your stamping template from the page.




I love using packaging on my layouts!! And I love to use ledger or lined paper as well. So the KI Memories Love Elsie line is the "Bees Knees"!!! And it's really great for those of us who like to add some journaling to our layouts. And I always have some packaging and some lined paper in my stash, which makes it easier to reach for these environmentally-friendly items when I'm in the midst of a creative burst.


For this part, I cut my Love Elsie packaging down to size and since it wasn't big enough to fit the whole space, I added some simple lined paper (leftover from when I was still in school!!). Since the lined paper is very see-through, I folded it over before I adhered it to my page. Now I can easily add journaling or my title to the space...I have built in reference lines!!





I am a big fan of creating my own embellishments. Sometimes I just can't find what I'm looking for in the store. You know...the "perfect thing." So I make my own in whatever colour and size I need to fit my layout. This is a great time and place to use "found items" and stamps.


First, I chose a 7 Gypsies label acrylic stamp set and some packaging, this time from a Scenic Route chipboard set. You'll want to use a permanent ink (like Staz-On) if you're stamping onto a glossy surface. Or you can emboss the image (try coloured embossing powder for a really fun look!). If you're really adventurous, try doodling an image...you can start simple with a circle, square, heart, squiggle line, but this can really add a personal touch to your layouts!


After I stamped the circle label, I punched it out with a slightly larger circle punch. These little guys come in handy when creating your own embellishments. They save you time and effort when you want a nice shape, or lots of them! Next, I added some colour with my red Slick Writer pen along the border of the stamped circle. These pens are great for adding some quick journaling or doodles to a gloss surface and also come in handy when labelling the back of your photos. No smudging, no streaking, and they come in a bunch of rad colours, and different-sized tips.


A "found item" (as defined by Lisa...that's me) is something that would normally be thrown out before you even considered putting it on a scrapbook layout! Something that is not a traditional scrapbook supply. For example: tags from your new shirt, the cute ad for ringtones that came in the CD you just bought, wrapping paper leftover from your daughter's birthday, etc. etc. etc. Anything can be a found item, and if you're not concerned with "acid-free", can be used on your scrapbook layouts.

On this page, my found item is the mesh bag that my oranges come in. I cut a bit off and used it as ribbon behind the stamped image. I save anything that can be used as ribbon, including "garbage" ribbon from presents and leftover tidbits from Starbucks packaging! You can always add a little ribbon to a page for some texture and visual interest. Try pop-dotting a punched-out image above your ribbon, as I did here.

Finish up with a little doodling around the edge, and voila! Your first (of many, I hope!) "green" layout!

I hope you enjoyed my first "Techneek of the Week." Check back in another week or so, when I hope to have some Ranger techniques up for you to try! If you have any comments or questions, or suggestions for future posts please leave them here, and I'll get back to you ASAP.

Supplies Used
Both layouts: white Bazzill cardstock

Basic Layout
Pattern paper: Making Memories, Jenni Bowlin
Ribbon: American Crafts 9by the yard)
Ticket: Jenni Bowlin

"Green" Layout
Stamps: Scenic Route "Woman Clear Stamp", 7 Gypsies "Label It"
Ink: Staz-On "Jet Black"
Pens: American Crafts Slick Writer (black and red)

Sneak Peek: Beyond the Page

Using KI Memories Love Elsie chipboard and epoxy frames, beautiful new Creative Imaginations paper, some fun chipboard keys from Riff Raff Designs and Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, you will complete this fun and unique project to hang in your home or give as a gift. All it takes is a little ribbon, glue and imagination to take these simple scrapbooking products and make a lovely Welcome sign for your home. This class is going to be super fun, and will help you take your scrapbooking to the next level!

Please note: Project completed in class will differ slightly in colour from completed project shown here. Wreath not included!!

Date: Wednesday, July 23rd

Time: 1 - 3pm

Cost: $40

Supplies List: trimmer, adhesive, scissors, pencil or pen

Please call the store to sign up: (780) 414-1540. And if you can't make it to this class or any of our other classes, give us a call and we'll see if we can't just put a kit together for you!

Sneak Peek: Painting Prima

Paint isn't just for paper anymore! Prima has recently released these beautiful paintable TRANSPARENCIES, and they are so much fun! Join Lisa for this class and complete a double page layout using new products from Chatterbox, My Mind's Eye, Glitz and Prima. Using a variety of techniques, she will show you how you can make your Prima Paintable Transparency come alive on your page!

Date: Thursday July 17th

Time: 1 - 3pm

Cost: $35

Please call the store to sign up: (780) 414-1540.

Rockin' Ribbon Sneak Peek!

This layout class is for those ladies who have a lovely stash of ribbon and no idea what to do with it!! You will take home two layouts in this class, as well as some good ideas on how to put your own bag/box/tin of ribbon to use!!

Date: Saturday July 12th

Time: 2 - 4p.m.

Cost: $30

Please bring sharp scissors, trimmer, and a pencil. Everything else will be provided.

Sneak Peek!

Here is a sneak peek for an upcoming class: Playing with Paint, designed by Lisa. In this class you will complete three layouts using different paint techniques and some really amazing new products!! You get to try out new Prima Paintables, Felt borders, and acrylic shapes. Amazing pattern paper by Cosmo Cricket, Little Yellow Bicycle and Jenni Bowlin and chipboard shapes from the locally-owned and operated Riff Raff Designs. This is a great class for any level of scrapbooker! Prepare to get a little messy and have a lot of fun!!

Date: Tuesday July 29th
Time: 10a.m. - 12p.m.
Cost: $35

Please bring your trimmer, scissors, and adhesive. Everything else will be provided for you.


Keep checking the Treasured Memories website for dates and prices for all of our upcoming classes. We have a lot planned for July and August and hope to see you in the store!

P.S. This Saturday there is a Canvas Class at the store. Teaching it are the fabulous ladies behind Lost & Found Studios. And I think there are still some spots left...if you want to join us! If you're just not up for taking a class, the girls are also running some funny mini-canvas Make-And-Takes in the morning. Call the store for more details, or to sign up for any of our classes! (780) 414-1540...don't forget to dial the area code!!