Create a Victorian Photo Fridge Magnet

As of late, I've been working on developing scrapbooking embellishments and Victorian style magnetic photo sleeves.  Recently, I stumbled upon a wonderful scrapbooking program call My Memories.  It is fantastic and is the perfect companion to what I've been doing.

My biggest concern was about the backgrounds for the fridge magnet.  That's when I found My Memories Digital Scrapbooking Software and it became no problem at all.  The background by itself (shown below) is fantastic and actually could easily stand alone in the photo sleeve.

 ALL of the elements including the background, frame and grommets are all from the software.  Not only is there a bunch of embellishments to choose from that come with the program, but there are a bunch of FREE ones that you can download and add to the software!!  It was super easy to design on my computer and other than the time it took to go through all the cool embellishments, backgrounds, fonts and everything else, I made this up very quickly!

Better yet, I've been given the opportunity to offer one of my blog readers the software for FREE!  All you have to do is send me an email at kweenbee_crafts@hotmail.ca  and enter the word scrapbooking contest in the subject line.  I will enter your name for the draw on April 30, 2013.

 

If you absolutely love this idea, you can put it all together yourself! You can purchase the software for yourself right away and save some money too!  Just enter the promo code: STMMMS73054 at www.MyMemories.com and save $10 off your order!

The crocheted flower and leaf embellishments that I added to the magnetic photo pocket are of my own design and I sell them at my shop on Etsy and at  my own website at KweenBee.com.

If you're not sure where to get the photo pockets, you can buy fridge photo sleeves in any size at any Michaels store or on Amazon. I actually found the ones I use at my local drug store in their photo frame section.

Scrapbooking Goes a Little Wild

For the last year or so I've been crocheting little scrapbooking embellishments as I have time between writing patterns, knitting slippers, and making jewelry.  Recently while I was walking through the second hand store I saw a bunch of empty photo frames.  And trust me there are always A LOT of empty photo frames at second hand stores for some reason.  I picked a few up and what I did was go a little nuts.  For a first attempt I am very happy with how it turned out.

 

This happened on the heals of my scrapbooking picture frames that I've also been a little obsessed with.  Couple that with the magnetic picture sleeves I found that stick to the fridge I came up with this. It's completed so all you have to do is add a photo and you're ready to go.  Both of these are available in my Etsy shop for those who are interested.

For those of you who are hardcore scrapbookers and like to design your own pages, I'm still selling the embellishments separately.  And as a matter of fact, I am having a sale on all scrapbooking stuff in my online shop until the end of February.  All of it is 20% off.

Some of the pieces that I'm particularly fond of are the 3D flowers that I came up with recently.  They can be made in just about any colour that is out there.  Well colour of crochet cotton thread to be truthful.

I seem to be having a love affair with flowers in general and have been making up all sorts of different ones.

The other thing that really got me started was the picture frame sets that I've been making for scrapbooking.  The frame edges the photo and I've added in a few flowers and leaves.  I've also made the components available separately because I know how folks out there like to mix and match.

As I keep going making different little things, It's sort of expanded and grown.  It almost seems like with each thing that I make, I get a new idea how to use it, or how I can improve or develop it further.  That's one thing I always love about creating...one thing always leads to another and there's never really an end!