At the beginning of August, I was invited to be on the Design Team for the Memory Box Company. It was quite an honor, and I accepted. But by mid-August Typepad had announced it was closing its doors and both Memory Box and I had to find new homes for our blog.
I found the experience very stressful, but moving my blog to a new platform was nothing compared to a company that hosted three blogs on Typepad. Since all their posts involved photos and links to products, you can imagine that the transfer of the data was much more complicated.
Before it closed down, I had published one card on their blog, but by the time I was comfortable blogging on WordPress I had forgotten all about the Memory Box card. I had two more posts scheduled for Memory Box, but those cards will go up once their new blog is live. In the meantime, here are two cards I’ve created for them. The first is the one that was published on their blog in early September, and the second is one I posted on Instagram yesterday. I would have had several cards posted by now so I’m posting a couple of them on Instagram while we wait for the new Memory Box blog.
The first card is a shaker card, and I used the Tall Evergreen Trees die from the new Joyful Season release, a basic set of beautiful frames, Heritage Rectangle Frames, Basic Circle Dies, and the Snow Flurries Stencil.
I applied Moonstone Nuvo Glitter paste through the stencil to create a snowy background on dark blue cardstock, and added a silver moon created with one of the Basic Circle Dies. Then I die cut three trees using the Greenery Paper Pack by Memory Box, adding two of them directly on the background, and the middle tree with dimensional tape.
The frame was die cut from silver metallic cardstock using the two largest Heritage Rectangle dies. I added a piece of acetate to the back and then two layers of dimensional tape to create the shaker window. From my stash, I added some pretty white snowflake and clear sequins to create the snowy shaker.
The second card is a very CAS card, so much simpler to assemble. The ornament is from the Decorative Ornaments dies. There is one basic die and three lovely decorative dies to overlay on it. I opted to leave it plain this time, and cut it from red metallic cardstock. I add the ornament hanger in gold and the sentiment from the Peace, Love and Joy Stylish Sentiments, die cut from green metallic paper.
The ornament was added to two of the beautiful Fan Stitched Scalloped Frames die cut from cream cardstock that I layered with dimensional tape. I added some pine branches from Pineneedles and Cones and some berries from the Berry Splash dies. For a bit of sparkle, I added some Rock Candy Glitter to the pine branches.
I have another card to post this week on Instagram, so will be back here again soon.
Both are beautiful cards. I like the double scalloped frames for the Joy card. The blue background on the trees makes them pop – like the shaker aspect.
I cannot imagine the stress of creating & trying to move your blog over to a new platform – well done you. In today’s age things on the previous list of the top 10 things that stress people out needs to shift so that blog moves can be added to that list.
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