March Sketch Winner Announced!

Congratulations to our March Sketch winner, Sophia Allison. We had so many great layouts to select from this month that it was super hard to pick just one! But how could you not love the way Sophia put together our very popular Fairest of them All Collection.

Here's a little bit about Sophia:

A little about me…

I have reached that age, where they say life begins at 40, which I think is really true. Married to my loving and supportive husband Murray for 8 years. We have 2 beautiful girls Amy (6 years) and Chloe (2 years), they are my inspiration to scrapbook. I am born and bred in Durban, South Africa, a little city along the coastline. I had always been a keen card-maker, until my sister-in-law introduced me to the world of Scrapbooking in October 2001. I went for my first class at a local craft shop in November and you could say I had been bitten by the Scrappin Bug and am now hooked! When my husband and I had started to think about starting a family, the birth of my daughter motivated me to create a legacy to leave behind for her one day. As well as it being a hobby that I can actually loose myself in! My style….. well I don’t know that I have one, as my layouts range from simple to shabby to heritage and I am not afraid of colour or stretching my comfort zone. I try to keep as much focus on the photo`s - sometimes my style changes with the wind but I guess that is creativity for you. My most comfortable size is 12x12, although I also enjoy putting mini albums together and even venture off the page to home decor often. My weakness is that I try to be too perfect and my strength would be focusing on the photos.

Sophia also has a great blog full of inspiring ideas, check it out!!

iSpy: Happy Spring Card

We found this darling card creation on the Danderella Blog the other day by Danielle Shaffer. And even though the For Peeps Sake collection is a past collection, we still love how cute this collection is and loved this project. Thanks for sharing!

Sticking with Tombow! Blog Swap Winners....

We had tons of fun teaming up with our friends at Tombow this past week and are excited to share with you the winners from those who followed along and shared your comments with us!!
Layout by Cindy Stevens

Thanks to everyone for participating in our BLOG SWAP last week with Tombow. It was great fun sharing with your our ideas using Tombow Adhesives and checking out what the Tombow team created with Imaginisce products!!

And you've patiently been waiting to see if you were selected as a winner from the many blog comments throughout the week on both blogs. Tombow has already selected their winners (it might be one of you) and here are the winners from the IMAGINISCE BLOG. The winners from Imaginisce blog commenters are WENDY CROWE and SHANNON WHITE. And the winners from Tombow are BETH WARREN and LISA HAAS! Oh wait there’re more! We’re giving away more product on both our Facebook pages...check out Tombow's Facebook and the Imaginisce Facebook page to see if you won there too?? THANK YOU ALL FOR PLAYING ALONG!

If you are a winner on Imaginisce's blog or Facebook pages, please email us at contact.imaginisce@gmail.com and tell us your shipping information. We'll get your goodies sent out soon!

Scrapbook Steals: Lucy Bird

If you've been putting off getting the popular Lucy Bird Collection, then you won't want to miss out on today's steal at Scrapbook Steals. They are selling the entire Lucy Bird collection for only $29.00 (that's 56%) off retail. It's running low in our warehouse so get it while you can!!

Here's some of our favorite Lucy Bird projects to inspire you (to buy)!!

Tombow Blog Swap: Working with Markers

In our box of goodies from Tombow, they also sent us their dual brush markers. These are great for stamping and recoloring flowers, stickers, chipboard, etc.
Check out what a couple of our design team girls did with the markers and Imaginisce products. First, Renata created this fun layout. She even recolored the Foam alphabet stickers to coordinate with her layout.And Cari Locken created this cute layout where she created her own background paper using the cute robot Snag'em Stamp from the Live Loud Collection.
And today is the last day to leave a comment on our blog and Tombow's blog. We'll be selecting 2 winners from each of our blogs from posts made throughout this past week. AND we'll select a winner from each of our Facebook pages!! Good luck, but in our eyes you're ALL WINNERS!!!

Metal Glue and Buttons with Tammy & Aida

If you're like me, you've wondered about that Tombow Mono METAL Glue...right? I assumed it was only good for metal embellishments, but apparently that's not the case.
The Metal Glue, features a super strong bond that will securely adhere metal trinkets and embellishments to paper. Safely glue photos, cardstock and small plastic adornments with glue that dries completely clear.

Here's some creative ideas from Aida and Tammy from our design team. Be sure to click through to their blogs and check the projects and their tips out in detail. Aida created this fun tag album with tons of buttons she needed to glue down. Tammy's below created the cutest frame and she too loved how well the glue worked for her buttons!!

Click HERE for Aida's blog and HERE for Tammy's blog. And don't forget to leave us a comment on our blog and Tombow's blog for great prizes. Thanks!!

Tombow's Mono Adhesive with Robyn Schaub

Tombow's Mono Adhesive has to be my all time favorite and I've used it for years. In fact, I buy the refills in bulk because I love it so much and use it on all my layouts, cards and home decor projects.

I'm learning so much about the other adhesives from our Design Team and wanted to share Robyn's cute music card project with you today (oh and she loves this adhesive too). Be sure to click through to Robyn's blog to see more great pictures of this cute project.

Since it's BLOG SWAP week with Tombow, be sure to leave a comment on our blog or their's and we'll select a winner at the end of the week.

Tombow Featured Layout by Julie

Who can't help resist the playful ideas our design team is coming up with using the new Live Loud collection?? And even better, we've teamed up with Tombow this week for a blog swap. So we invite you to visit Julie Bonner's Blog to find out why her fAvoRiTe adhesive is Mono Aqua Liquid Glue....read more.

Just a reminder to leave us a comment on our blog post each day this week AND Tombow's blog where Imaginisce is mentioned, to be entered into a give away!

Tombow Blog Swap this week!

We are excited to share this week some great things we've created with the goodies that Tombow sent to our design team. Today we're excited to have Kim Holmes share her tips and tricks for her favorite adhesive (read below).

And be sure to check out Tombow's blog off an on this entire week for great ideas from their designers too. Today they're featuring a super cute home decor idea. Here's a link to the Tombow Blog.

Some people seem a little concerned when it comes to adhesives and which one does what job the best. Well we asked Kim Holmes why she loved this Mono Multi Glue so much and what was the best way to use it. "It has been my adhesive of choice for almost 4 years now and even when I try something new, I always come make to my faithful bottle of mono." Read more here....
Kim created this fun project with her favorite adhesive....


And since you all love FREE STUFF...be sure to leave a comment on either our blog or Tombow blog posts whenever you see Imaginisce's name and we'll select a winner at the end of the week to receive a fun fill box of STUFF!!

Live Loud CD Holders

You can't create a rockin' music themed collection, Live Loud and not expect some creative projects that feature your music. These fun "CD Holders" from Tammy and Aphra don't skip a beat!

by Tammy Wark

by Aphra Bolyer

In stitches with Live Loud

Have you ever tried stitching on a layout or card? Whether you like to machine stitch or hand stitch, it's a great way to add detail and texture to a project. We hope these two layouts inspire you to give it a try!

Melinda Spinks created this fun two-page "Giggle-Pot" layout with the Live Loud Collection and it's one you need to look close at...check out the bottom right hand corner (scroll down)...what great detail!!


Liz Qualman created this fun Live Loud layout featuring hand stitching for the microphone cord. What a rockin' fun way to feature Henry!

Live Loud: Cards the ROCK

Our awesome design team ladies have been rockin' it with the new Live Loud Collection and we couldn't wait to share with you some very hip cards. Let us know which one vibes with you!!

by Tammy Wark

by Shemaine Smith

by Sarah de Guzman

by Erin Bassett

by Cristal "Pinky" Hobbs

y Tammy Wark

by Cristal "Pinky" Hobbs

by Erin Bassett

by Aphra Bolyer

iSpy: Cousins Layout at Anna's Craft Cupboard

We happened upon a darling online store website called Anna's Craft Cubpoard this morning. And featured on their blog was this darling cousins layout with awesome directions on how the amazing designer, Nerrida Mitchell created it. Personally I love the wrinkled flowers she cut from one of the Lucy Bird papers.

Anna's Craft Cubpoard is an Australian based scrapbooking store. They're are just about to celebrate our fourth birthday and stock all brands of scrapbooking products including a large range of Imaginisce. (Note: They only post within Australia, but they have cute ideas for the rest of you non-Australians.)Created with the new Lucy Bird Collection products. You better hurry and pick yours up soon, I just heard from our warehouse that we're almost out of this fun collection of papers!!

March Sketch Challenge Reminder

Just a reminder that you still have until March 25th to submit your sketch for our March Sketch Challenge. Once you've created one and posted it online, simple return to the original posting about the challenge and add your name to "mr. linky" with a link directly to where we can find your layout. We'll select a winner by the end of the month!! Good luck!

Teens & Kids that Rock featuring Live Loud

Aida Haron

Here she scrapbooked her 17 year old daughter. Love that the Live Loud collection works well for boys AND girls!

Sarah de Guzman

We loved how this layout really showed Alex livin' it up and out loud!!

Aphra Bolyer

Wii love this layout too..what a fun way to spotlight those kids rockin' on their Wii game systems!

Shemaine Smith

Cutest little "Rock Stars" I've seen out there!

Tammy Wark

Even beautiful girls have a rocker side and what a fun way to feature it!!

Julie Bonner

This little guy is Rockin' it with he sunglasses and very hip hair!!