Start your Holiday Gifting with FOREVER

This is a busy month where we start thinking holiday gifting.  With that in mind, FOREVER has some great deals up our sleeves.

https://www.forever.com/ambassador/karenfitting/deals

* Thru midnight today > holiday cards & photo gifts are half off.  Click here for info.

* On Saturday > media conversion boxes are 40% off, including our Holiday Box!! Click here for info, load your cart and check out on Saturday!

Here’s the complete listing for all our deals > 13 Days of Gratitude

I’m here to answer your questions and to personally guide you through the process

Holiday Shopping Deals this Weekend

There’s so many deals to be had this weekend so I have a little round up here. Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday clog our email boxes but we’re all looking for great prices, right? As I find deals of interest, I’ll add to this post. Happy Shopping!

Forever has tons of deals right now, good through Monday 11/30/2020. Digital Art, Storage Payment Plans, Media Conversion Boxes and get a Bonus Coupon when you purchase a Gift Certificate! https://www.forever.com/ambassador/karenfitting/deals

Spend $150 & get Free Bundle and free shppinghttps://www.creativememories.com/user/photoskeptalive

Save $30 before 12/15/2020
https://sales.scraphappy.org/scrapsmarter-experience-2021-1/?coupon=KAREN

Fujifilm Instax Mini 7S Instant Film Camera, Red, Blister Packing $29.99 https://adorama.evyy.net/c/128267/51926/1036?u=https://www.adorama.com/FJIM7SRDBP.html?emailprice=t

Britt(ish) Designs has 30% off all weekend. Check out her Disney Inspired kits in the Project Mouse Category. https://store.brittishdesigns.com/

Rock Your Notebook has deals TODAY (11/27/2020) only. This is where I get my planner and blank journals. https://rockyournotebook.com/

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Creative Happenings this Weekend

There’s quite a few creative opportunities happening this weekend – check ’em out!

Starting today at 1pm (but truly a go at your own pace event) is my friend Melissa’s Tropical Paradise Virtual Open House.  She’ll have creative instruction, games and prizes!  Join her VIP Group for all the details.

Tomorrow at 10am I’ll be teaching how to use Forever Historian’s Album Planner feature.  I love using this, especially for my vacation books!  All the info is in my VIP Group under Events.

All weekend Creative Memories is hosting a Virtual Crop.  They typically provide a variety of sketches and ask to see your layouts, using CM products (paper or digi).  The event is run on Facebook in their Virtual Crop Group. If you’re looking for CM Supplies, I’d be honored is you selected me as your Advisor while shopping.

iNSD Celebrations

Happy interNational Scrapbooking Day!  How are you celebrating?  I was supposed to be hosting a weekend event in the mountains in Northern California but that was canceled so I’m crafting at home.  Here’s a few things that I’m doing today.  Comment with what you’re doing!

Close to My Heart all day crop.  I purchased the Card Kit #1 and will be following along making that.

Creative Memories Virtual Crop. I’m considering using one of these sketches for my Layout of the Day today.

Layout a Day Challenge started yesterday so I’ll make sure to finish at least a layout today!  Join this weekend with promo code BEATLES25 and save 25% (through May 3, 2020).

I’m also going to spend some time outside in the yard and getting some sun!

Join my Forever VIP Group  and my Scrapping Challenge Group for more inspiration!

Monogram Cards for Mother’s Day

My mom asked me to to make her some Monogram cards for Mother’s Day.  I love how these came out and they were super easy in Artisan!  Click on each image to see them in Forever.  I’d love to make some for you or your mother – just let me know!

Create a free Forever account here. Earn a discount coupon when you confirm your email and use it with your first order.  Once you login to your Forever account, click the images above and copy the card(s) you like to your Library.

Make sure to check the Deals page before you place your order as there are often discounts on printing and shipping.

Print a Picture, It’ll Last Longer!

What kind of memory makers would we be if we didn’t encourage you to do something with them?!

• Print them
• Make Holidays Cards (for printing or posting)
• Permanently Save them

We’ve got gifts for spouses, kids, parents, friends, and more. And they’re all a fraction of the price right now!

• 50% off all printed products including cards, photo books, wall art and more.
• 40% off photo prints.
• 40% off software for scrapbooking (Artisan) and photo organizing (Historian)
• 40% off Premium Video single payment plan and Forever Storage single payment plan
• 50% off monthly 10GB storage payment plan.   Pay $9.50 for just 12 months to have 10GB permanent and guaranteed storage for your photos, documents, audio and video files.
• 30% off all digital art (used in Artisan only)
• 25% off media conversion boxes

Use Promo code BLACKFRIDAY19 through Saturday, November 30th at 11:59pm PACIFIC time.

Click here to start shopping.

Holiday Card Ordering Directions

Ordering your holiday cards from Forever would be simply marvelous! You would be supporting my small business with BIG savings and benefits for you! They are so simple to create. Just follow the directions below!

🎁50% off on all cards now until Nov. 30th (Extra 5% for Club members!)

🎁Free shipping for orders over $79 ($49 if a member of Forever Club…ask me how)

🎁Heavyweight card stock, beautiful matte finish, choose your size card

🎁Choice of gold foil-lined envelopes

🎁Want it very personal? I’ll design for you for FREE!

🎁Use codes: BLACKFRIDAY19 and BFSHIP19

Club Members: BLACKFRIDAY 19, BFCLUB19 and Club5!

Forever Friday: Making Greeting Cards in Projects

This week, I’m showing you how to make greeting cards with Forever Projects.  From birthday cards, monogrammed cards and thank you cards, there’s really no limit to what you can create!

 

Also, I have a little secret… Forever is discounting all printed cards 30% in February but you can enjoy the discount now with the promo code BEMINE.  I’d love to see a screen shot of the cards you make!

 

Animated Stamps at CHA

The only video I took while at Creativation was Uchi Design’s Animated Stamps.  I found them truly innovative and interesting.

Other trends seemed to be  multi-step stamps (one stamp set, maybe three stamps that you use, one after another, to build an image) like this marble stamp.

I also saw quite a bit of stamp/die combos. The combos you could buy sometimes together, sometimes separately. We even saw one that embossed and die-cut *at the same time*.

There was so much to see!  I was certainly on overload after two days here, but it was well worth the trip!

Holiday Card Making

It’s so interesting for me to see trends develop with Holiday Greeting Cards.  It’s true that I’m seeing fewer and fewer cards sent to me in the mail.  Just the other day, I received an email with a very clever holiday poem.  Will I print it and include it with this year’s cards?  Good question.

I love crafting and for some reason, even more so during the holidays.  This year, I used the season to subscribe to Stampin’ Up’s Pumpkin Patch kit and just loved their cards.  Inside I added a sentiment from SU’s Cookie Cutter Christmas stamps and then clear embossed the reindeer from the same set for the envelope.  These cards were sent to my Scrap Happy and Our Happy Scrappin’ Place card swaps.

Oh!  Did you see my Misti in these pictures!  I’m loving this tool for production stamping!

I also made some fun winter tags.  Years ago, I purchased some metal sheets with the vision of embossing snowflakes – I just never made the time to do it until yesterday.  I am really pleased with these and plan on incorporating them in many more projects in the future.  They embossed easily with my Cuttlebug and punched out well with my [old] Creative Memories tag punch.  I’d love to try using paint or markers on this material too.

It’s already 8 days into December and we’ve only received 2 cards in the mail and 1 by email.  Mine are going out next week.

Are you sending greeting cards?  I’d love to hear your stories, let’s connect in the comments.

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