iSpy: CardMaker Magazine Feature

We just received the January 2010 issue of CardMaker magazine and we were thrilled to see our Perfectly Posh and Let's Roll collections were featured. Check it on page 9 when you get your copy!

iTop Featured at Creating Keepsakes Conventions in 2010

Have you ever attended a Creating Keepsakes Event? If not, then you're in for a treat. They have a great line up for 2010 and we're excited to be part of their class offerings. They'll be starting in Feb. 2010 with Portland, Oregon and stopping in 16 great locations around the US.

If you're interested in seeing what Imaginisce is doing at these CKC conventions, then look for the following class. It features the popular iTop Tool and some fabulous ideas from both the CK and Imaginisce creative designer minds!! This class will not disappoint. For more information about CK Conventions, visit their website.

Fabulous Flower Techniques (C124)
Sponsor: Creating Keepsakes

Class Description Flowers are all the rage right now and you’re going to love making your own! Join us in class where our focus will be learning 4 ways to create fabulous handmade flowers from a variety of papers, ribbon, and fabric. Plus, no flower is complete without a colorful center and the i-Top tool is perfect for adding that finishing touch. We’ll show you how to use this versatile tool for making flower centers. You’ll use several of your flower creations to complete a one page layout and take the rest with you for use at home. As an added bonus we will provide you with instructions to make 8 more flowers! We think you’ll find these flowers are addicting and that you’ll create them over and over again.

Student supplies needed: Basic supplies, paper trimmer, adhesive (a tape runner and mini glue dots), a paper piercer and mat, micro-tip scissors Photos to bring to class: 2 – 4x6 horizontal photos Skill level: All Levels Class length: 1.00 hours Class price: $18.00

Designer-A-Day: Aphra Bolyer

Hiya Scrappers! My name is Aphra, and I live down South in Louisiana with my Alaskan oil man Jeff and our two boys, Jonathan (9) and Ethan (2). While my husband is tromping around in the Alaskan tundra for weeks at a time, I'm home working part-time at a doctor's office, chasing around two rowdy boys, cleaning up after a miniature daschsund, and scrapbooking!

I fell in love with scrapbooking when my oldest was born in 2000, and I get more and more addicted every year. It's my passion, my creative outlet, my sanity! Mostly, I create layouts of my two sons, but I also make an occasional card or gift. Just recently, I've begun experimenting with altered items and home decor. Honestly, I just love all things crafty.

I am over-the-moon excited to be asked to design for Imaginisce, and I hope that my work will inspire you to have fun with all the amazing products you'll find here!

Visit Aphra's "My Scrappy Life" blog when you have a second. And here are some of Aphra's creations using Imaginisce's Teacher's Pet Collection, Polar Expressions Collection and Let's Roll Collection.

Designer-A-Day: Aida Haron

My name is Aida Haron, wife to Augustine and mom to two teenage daughters Stasha and Nura, we live in sunny, tropical Singapore. It's a tiny island in South East Asia but we make up for lack of size by being globally wired, fast paced and cosmopolitan. Mostly I feel thankful and count myself very blessed to have found a supportive craft community, where I've made really good friends, with the opporutunity of growing creatively everyday. I am totally nutty about all things scrapbooking, you should also know I am a talker, love being with people, love a good laugh, am positive and always hopeful. Getting on the Imaginisce Design Team is such a thrill, a huge honor and very humbling when I think of the constantly amazing work of very talented scrappers in online galleries. Other places I design for are : Singapore LSS Made With Love (where I also teach) and Cocoa Daisy Kits.

Aida sent in these beautiful creations to us a while ago, but because she didn't have access to Imaginisce products until recently, we really, really want you to check out her cute blog here!!

Designer-A-Day: Kim Holmes

I am so excited to be joining the team here at Imaginisce! There is nothing better than fabulous products to get my mojo flowing! I live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with my husband of 23 years and our 7 kids. Yes, 7 kids! We are a very large, active family and I am never without a fun photo opportunity! Scrapbooking is a wonderful creative outlet for me that is truly both my therapy and my obsession! I am blessed to have a supportive family who encourage my love of art! I fell in love with scrapbooking about 8 years ago and it literally was the missing piece of my puzzle. I enjoy creating all types of pages, cards and albums and my style is always changing. Scrapbooking has opened up many opportunities for me over the years including publications, design teams and traveling opportunities. However, meeting so many wonderful people who share this great hobby has been the best ever! That instant connection that occurs between scrapbookers is truly amazing and unexplainable. I am very excited to get to design here at Imaginisce, work with so many fabulous ladies, and add to my family of friends who love to scrap!

Visit Kim's Blog when you have a minute. Kim also created some fun projects with the popular Teacher's Pet Collection.

The More Ideas the Merrier....

To celebrate the season, we'll be featuring 12 Days of Christmas on the Imaginisce blog. In conjunction with our fun project ideas we will be posting for 12 days beginning December 1st, our design team will be busy helping us promote the Polar Expressions line around the globe. We will be buzzing around the web and you'll be rushing to your local scrapbook store to buy the Polar Expressions collection.

Designer-A-Day: Erin Bassett

Erin Bassett lives in Southern California with her husband, a Golden Retriever, and a very fat cat. She is a craft addict who loves to do something creative every day. Her current loves are scrapbooking, papercrafts, mixed media, sewing, and screen printing.

Erin’s creative journey began as a child when she collected her memories in a scrapbook…albeit one filled with acidic things and original, non-digital photos. She forgot about those scrapbooks for many years when her Grandmother taught her to sew, knit and other crafty things. It wasn’t until she was engaged to be married that the lure of photos and memories once again captured her heart. Today, her favorite scrapbook subjects are her & her husband, her nieces, and her pets. She tends to scrapbook the everyday moments more than the big events of life.

We loved these fun projects Erin sent us, but if you want to see more of her craftiness, then check out her blog.

Designer-A-Day: Tracy Gardiner

Hi there everyone – “My name is Tracy and I am a scrapaholic” (according only to my husband, Greg, of course). I am practising this little phrase for when (read “NEVER”) I have to check myself into rehab (or into Debtor’s Prison, whichever comes first … tee hee …) for this little (ummmm … errr ….) addiction I have. I am addicted to paper (patterned, plain, textured – I’m not too fussy), and craft knives and rub-ons and glimmer mist and smooch and flowers and dare I say, more paper, and … well, I believe the list goes on … and on … and on … oooh, and albums and scrapbooking tools of all shapes and sizes and die-cutting machines and Brad Makers and … Oh, I could go on forever …

You know I love my Greg (like madly) but I truly don’t understand what he is talking about when he says that there are Scrapbooking products ALL over the place (what??? They can’t be ALL over the place – let’s be realistic here …wink). Once, when my 13-year old son, Bryce, was much younger I gave him some paper and photos and stuff and told him to “unleash his creative spirit” – when his dad came home, he was horrified to see his little guy with (girly) scissors and (pretty) paper in his hands and he said something along the lines of … “My boy, you have crossed over to the dark side.” … tee hee …

I have read so many similar (sad) stories from ladies all over the world … I reckon it’s a “HUSBAND” conspiracy … there are loads of “scrappy-widowed” husbands who can keep track of us as we flit from LSS to LSS with their credit cards clutched tightly in our little paws, via their mobile phones when they beep for every transaction going through on their card … my dear husband (bless his gorgeous heart) had to cancel this sms service because he said he would develop blood pressure problems if it continued … tee hee …

All kidding aside, I adore my husband of 15 years (well 22, really because we dated for 7 years before we married … sigh …). I adore my teenage son (moods and all …). I adore this craft. I adore the many wonderful people I have had the privilege of meeting and teaching over the past 10 years. And yes, I do adore amazing paper and embellishments, etc …

I am so very, very honoured to have been chosen as a Design Team Member for a company, whose products I have long admired (read drooled over … literally … tee hee …) and I hope to bring a little scrappy inspiration your way with their awesome, awesome new lines. I am awed by the Company I will be keeping with my fellow DT-ers and I can’t wait to work with them.

I am a linear, neat scrapper and I love detail but my very, very favouritest (there must be a word like that!!!) part of scrapbooking is telling the story so you may get to know me (and all those around me I hijack for photographs) a whole lot better over the next year. Please join me in this very exciting journey … I can’t wait to get to know you too …

Visit Tracy's blog and we hope you love her cute creations using some of our popular collections.

iSpy: Aly Dosdall Projects

Today we spied some cute Imaginisce creates by Aly Dosdall. First, she created this fun project idea using the Polar Expressions collection. The project was even featured on Scrapbook & Cards Today's blog (where she provides directions and a pattern to recreate this mug).

Next we found this fun layout using the Perfectly Posh collection on Two Peas in a Bucket. If you want to see more of Aly's fun creations, be sure to check her gallery images while you there.
Thanks for sharing Aly!!

Designer-A-Day: Liz Qualman

I guess you could say I have been paper crafting since Kindergarten, but I officially started to scrapbook in the winter of 2007, when I blew out my knee during ski season. While I was recovering from surgery, I decided it was probably time to do something with all of the photos we had amassed of our daughter. I did what every novice scrapper should and joined an online site to learn more about scrapbooking. This was such a great opportunity to make friends with other artists and learn a ton about the industry. Almost 2 ½ years you can find me obsessing over paper, adhesives and embellishments, and Imaginisce has all of my favorite ingredients. I would categorize my style as Cute, Bright, Clean and Sassy, and the collections with this amazing company are just right for the two little stinkers I have at home. I live in the beautiful Rocky Mountains with my family and teach in our local school district. Scrapbooking is my favorite way to channel my creative energy and to share ideas with others.

Visit Liz's blog when you have some time to look around. And we're very excited to share some fun projects featuring our Let's Roll and Polar Expressions collections.

Designer-A-Day: Heather Carpenter

Hi, my name is Heather and I am absolutely thrilled to be here and part of the Imaginisce Design Team. I still can’t believe it all.

I am a 30 something wife to one and mother of three. Neil and I have been married for over 15 years now. I am also a pediatric ICU RN, and……..I absolutely LOVE to scrapbook. You can say it is an obsession at this point. It definitely is a big part of my life. I also try to persuade others to take up the craft as well. And the funny thing about my wonderful hobby is that my husband got me into it. After we had our first child he thought if I had a hobby he would have more time to go fishing. Well let’s just say his plan back fired a bit. ;)

I craft, just simply because I love it. I want to tell my children their stories, to them, through my eyes. I also want them to be able to remember these moments like they happened and how special they were to me.

Thank you so much for stopping by and taking the time to get to “know” me.

When you can, jump over to Heather's blog.

Designer-A-Day: Penny Smith

Hi! I'm Penny! I have been scrapbooking FOREVER! Since Mrs. Grossman stickers were about the only embellishment out there! LOL! But took long breaks due to "life". Before kids, I use to be a Registered Veterinary Technician working in emergency medicine AND a marine mammal trainer! (Yes, I trained dolphins!) I started scrapbooking continually after I moved home to the Eastern Iowa area, when my best friend opened a scrapbooking store. And BOY did she create a FABULOUS store! I started paying attention to the "outside world" of scrapbooking about a year and 1/2 ago, and I haven't looked back! Since then I have lead a book project for Pine Cone Press, designed product line for a small scrapbooking company, been published, done some design team work (including starting a challenge blog), teaching and designing each month at Scrapaganza (the Eastern Iowa store I work for), and been Certified as a Educator for Ranger! But I can honestly say, this is one of the most EXCITING things that has happened to me in scrapbooking-being chosen for this FANTASTIC team!!

I have three kids, 6, 7 and 8... and a FABULOUS husband, (and three goofy dogs!) and in addition to scrapbooking, I like to get outside whenever we can as a family (camp, walk, bike) and just PLAY! Scrapbooking, and related crafting, is my only hobby! I LOVE it! Come visit me on the web at my blog!! I look forward to a AWESOME year of creating!!

created with Teacher's Pet Collection

created with Spooky Town Collection

created with Twitterpated Collection

Created with someone else's product, but we loved the ITOP BRAD in the center of the flower...totally makes this layout ROCK!

Designer-A-Day: Cindy Stevens

Hello Everyone! I'm Cindy. I am a SAHM of a beautiful, special, crazy 4 year old little boy and wife of 9 years to my AMAZING & equally crazy husband and we are proud to call Atlantic Canada our home. I have been scrapping for 4+ years, starting shortly after my son was born. Not long after THAT, I discovered the LSS (and online communities) and was HOOKED-this hobby fuels my passion to create and shop alike!
I am a DIE HARD paper addict. I can never have enough (although, I am sure my husband wouldn't agree). I also have a fondness for stitching on my pages and buttons these days but you never know, that COULD change tomorrow. That's what I love SO much about this hobby, that it is constantly evolving. I would describe my scrappy style as clean, fun but well accessorized. I DO like to change it up once in awhile though and do something different.

I am THRILLED and feel SO BLESSED to be invited to this FABULOUS Design Team and can't wait to be inspired by all of the wonderful talent here! Thank you again, Imaginisce!!

If you have some time, check out Cindy's blog. And here are some great designs she sent us.