How to use My Memories Video

*Using PHOTO ONLY Template Albums & Pages* from Lisa Jurrens on Vimeo.



Dont forget to use this $10.00 discount code on your MyMemories.com digital Software, STMMMS36408. When you get your software there will be an additional $10.00 to use on any of the wonderful kits available..

My Memories Freebie Wednesday and Giveaway

What all do you enjoy scrapbooking, kids, family, nature, places? Here is the latest freebie from My Memories Digital Scrapbooking. I am curious to hear from my readers. Don't be shy- what kit from My Memories are you dying to get for Christmas? Here's an early Christmas Gift. I will Give one lucky reader a free kit when we hit 200 GFC. Right now we are at 121. Please share with your scrapping friends this Giveaway.

Dont forget to use this $10.00 discount code on your MyMemories.com digital Software, STMMMS36408. When you get your software there will be an additional $10.00 to use on any of the wonderful kits available..

                                                         

Free My Memories Layout

Here is another FREE cute little layout to share with everyone. 


This Digital Kit Includes:
2 Digital Papers
5 Page Elements
2 Quick Pages

Dont forget to use this $10.00 discount code on your MyMemories.com digital Software, STMMMS36408. When you get your software there will be an additional $10.00 to use on any of the wonderful kits available..

Fun Freebie Wednesday

I am so happy to announce that each Wednesday I will be posting a new digital  kit from My Memories Digital Scrapbooking site, this week I will start off with 2 kits. I just love this site, and love all the creative digital art that they offer. Get the quick page kits and all the elements needed to complete your layout. 

Dont forget to use this $10.00 discount code on your MyMemories.com digital Software, STMMMS36408. When you get your software there will be an additional $10.00 to use on any of the wonderful kits available.. 

Paper Coterie Giveaway

I love that my family has kept every photograph through the years. And now I have the honor of preserving them for future generations. Someday my great grand children will have a well preserved memory books of several generations, along with letters, post cards- that personal touch that is so often lost.

Paper Coterie is one of those companies that provides beautiful books, calendar, decor, and memory keepers to preserve those special moments. One of my personal favorites is the Memory Keepers. They are perfect for those special moments, such as our concert tickets from Paul McCartney live in Sandy, Utah in 2010 with my husband. It was a dream come true for him to see his favorite Singer live... These are also great for the little special cards the kids make for us. 

Another favorite of mine is the Growth Chart for kids. My kids love seeing how much they have grown. I write their name and date each time, and it is something that will last forever. As a military family we often move and this will always be something we can take with us. Doesn't damage walls, doors, is the perfect keepsake.  

So whether you’re looking for a great gift or something for yourself that you’ll treasure forever, you’ll find it at Paper Coterie.

Paper Coterie has generously donated a $30 gift code for (4) lucky winners! 


To enter, comment when each is done to earn more entries:

1. Just stop by Paper Coterie before midnight, Oct 30th and check out their product line.
    Then come back and mention which one you’d order if you won!


2. Follow Dawns Delights through Google Friend Connect, or through Email. 


3. Follow Paper Coterie on Facebook and Twitter

4. Follow Dawns Delights through Facebook

5. Share this giveaway with your Facebook Friends.

6.  Place Dawns Delights Button on your sidebar.


A random winner will be selected and notified via email shortly thereafter. The winner will then have 2 days to claim their prize.


This will make a perfect keepsake for a loved one and just in time for a loved one. 

This giveaway is open to US addresses. Good luck!

This post was written for Paper Coterie who provided the information and item for giveaway. By entering this giveaway, you are acknowledging that you have read, understood, and agree to our disclosure policy.

Win an iPad 2 through My Memories

Follow MyMemories.com on Facebook for a chance to win an iPad 2. There are so many creative digital scrapbooking kits on MyMemories.com and takes only a few minutes to create a wonderful scrapbook, card, even a movie of your family memories. Here are some of the available kits for the fall season.

A few samples of the digital kits available through Mymemories.com. When you use code STMMMS36408, you will be able to save $10.00 off the Software and receive an additional $10.00 off digital kits available through MyMemories.com. Many are free digital kits. 

Forever Together

I chose two special layouts from My Memories tonight to highlight special relationships. The first one is of my Grandma and I on my Wedding Day, back in 2004. I was so blessed to have her as an inspiration in my life and she was so happy to be able to make the trip to be with me that day. 

This other layout is a special page for Topaz and Jazzy. These two always were together, cuddling on the couch, chair, on the stairs. For 10 years these two never left each other's side. This page just captured for me their special relationship, love and respect for each other. 

Created using Mymemories.com software, promo code for $10.00 off is STMMMS36408, with an additional $10.00 gift certificate for digital kits, layouts. That is a $20.00 savings all together.  

My Memories Suite How to Video

My Memories *Short & Suite* Video Tutorial! from Lisa Jurrens on Vimeo.

Lisa Jurrens shares how to begin with My Memories Software to create beautiful and quick pages. I created this one below of my Great Grandma with one of her younger sisters, either Ora Lea, or Lovealla.

A $10 discount on the purchase of the My Memories Suite v2 scrapbook software. (Software also comes with a $10 coupon for downloads-a total value of $20!) Discount code STMMMS36408

Daughters of Gip Akin

My Grandma was the Daughter of Ula Mae Akin Durbin and Raymond F. Durbin. The Akin sisters, Joy, Ula Mae, Ida Faith, Ora Lea, and Lovella had a special bond, the love of family. Aunt Lovella was only a few years older than my Grandma and was able to share so many stories with us of those memories with her sisters. My Aunt shared this photo with me, and it was perfect for this MyMemories.com layout.

The Akin sisters were Gip and Nancy Ola Akin five daughters, and lived in Dawson, Texas; later Venus, New Mexico. Gip was an interesting gentleman from all that I have read on him. While Lovella was a young lady, Gip Akin had become a local Baptist Minister. In his early years he had been part of the Night Riders of Dawson Texas, and had written short stories. 

This is part of a story that was shared by Lovella Akin Moore, who first heard this from her father Gip Akin. I will have to transcribe the complete story at a later date.  

Gip came to Howard, Texas 1890 and lived there for 35 years. They worked on a the Slaughter Ranch, where he was a horse wrangler--he was 17 years old. He took care of 150 head of horses and lived with the wagon - it was home. Started out in the spring about the first of April--worked until Christmas. The Ranch covered 5 counties. The year 1897 branded 18,000 calves, stamped Lazy S on both sides--ear marked figure 7 under bit in each ear and worked for Slaughter 3 years. Then went to work for Barts Ranch - 200,000 acres. Headquarters where the city of Lamesa is now (worked there for 2 years). Then took up 4 sections of homestead Land. Post office called Chicago - got the mail two times a week from Big Springs. Built the house on what was called the home section, a little one room house facing the South. Part of this Land is in the city of Lamesa now, then went to Live 16 miles North of Big Springs.

Gip and his brother Mit Akin participated in the Texas Range Wars, and they fought against the Big Ranchers who didn't want them (the nesters) or homesteaders) in the area the outcome being many killings and burnings had occured. Gip & Mit Akin at this time earned the title "The Night Riders".

Here is Gip and Nancy in their later years, standing with my Grandma and her sister Pat Durbin. 

Created using Mymemories.com software, promo code for $10.00 off is STMMMS36408

Resale Clipart current specials

Resale clipart offers so many different clipart options for every season. These designs are cute and easy for everyone to use for scrapbooking, card making, all crafts. Here is their latest deal.

•3 CD Disk sale for $33.99 Pick whichever 3 CD's you want and have them mailed directly to you for $33.99
•15 Disk Sale get all 15 Disk mailed to your house for only $89.99 plus $6 shipping or download them directly for $89.99

Family Tree University Kits

Kit of the Month

I have been a student and huge fan of Family Tree University for almost 2 years. This is where I have gotten the 101 Brick Walls, Google For Genealogists, Photo Rescue, and Cemetery research. There are so many kits, Expert Webinars, and books to explore in Family Tree University. I will look there before anywhere else first when I am looking for Genealogy Resources. They still have plenty of the Google for Genealogist packs available.

Playing around with My Memories Software

Tonight I took out some time to play around and create a quick page from scratch of my boys playing in the water while we were on Vacation this summer. These little scrapbooks are quick, easy and perfect for me. Having 3 Preschoolers and a Teenager takes up a lot of my time. With mymemories, it is simple quick and affordable. Since many of the pages and kits are free. STMMMS36408 is the discount code to $10.00 off the software price.

Best Friends Pack

Digital Scrapbooking layouts

I wanted to share the different pages that can be made with the two programs side by side. I love them both! They both are flexable and affordable-which was important when I was looking for a way to create great scrapbooks with all these cute old photographs. I didn't want to cut up the old photos and couldn't afford to make tons of duplicates to share. Going Digital has opened the possibilities of sharing these with family.

made with My Memories Scrapbook Software, this is one of my fur babies. Squeak, we got him when he was barely 5 weeks old from the Animal Control Center in Alamogordo. He was covered head to toe in fleas and malnourished. We took him in to see if he would get along with our two other cats. And after cleaning him up and adopting him, he has become family. Its been 6 years now and he isn't as small as he once was.

Made with DaisyTrail - Everything you need for Digital Scrapbooking, Crafting, Greeting Cards, Baby Photobooks, DIY Wedding Invitations and more!

This layout is of one of my little sisters and I when we were little. There aren't many pictures that I have found of us girls. We have many years in between us 4, I am the oldest, my youngest sister is 12 years younger than me.

You can mix and match the embellishments to create true works of art.

How to use My Memories

Welcome to the Family! from Lisa Jurrens on Vimeo.

I have been creating many different layouts and digital scrapbook pages to preserve my families memories. My Memories sent me this video this morning to share with my followers on how to use the software and the digital kits. Many of the digital kits are free designs. And they are still offering the $10.00 off the software code STMMMS36408, which comes with another $10.00 worth of digital kits. Total of $20.00 with those two alone. And now that My Memories has created a new Facebook page you can get another $5.00 worth of digital kits.

More digital scrapbooking pages

I was really excited yesterday when my new Craft Artist Professional Digital Software came in. I have waited a couple weeks for this upgrade. I had played with the free version for the past year. I enjoy interchanging fonts, layouts, embellishments from each program to come up with unique layouts.

I installed the program late last night so that I could work with it today. Well little did I know that my WONDERFUL laptop would crash today. I must have overworked something on it because it wont start up. My hard drive is fine but something else is in need of repair.

But I was able to back up all my photos and software on an external hard drive. I am now using my husbands old laptop with my hard drive.

When working with photographs and technology it is very important not to have everything in one area. Back up sources are really important, rather it be on an external hard drive, thumb drives, CD Rom disks, backing up is important. I prefer the archival cd rom disks that can be bought at any office supply store. I am not always great about backing up my data and was really worried that the few photos that I was able to scan while visiting my Aunt last week would have been lost.. Thankfully this data wasn't and I am able to get it all backed up now.

While the computer is backing up my wonderful photos, I brought up the Craft Artist Professional Software and made this page is less than 10 minutes. It was really simple to add these photos and embellishments together. The first one is of my Great Grandparents Raymond F. Durbin and Ula Mae(AKIN) Durbin. I hadn't seen many photos of them together before this last trip. The layouts are from Daisy trail, it is part of the Craft Artist and Serif software company.

Versatile Blog Award

A Thank you to Terri from Mom's Point of View for awarding me "The Versatile Blogger Award." This is my first blog award and am honored to be selected. Thank you Terri!!!

I'm very happy that Terri has been a reader of my blog. I have enjoyed reading her blog, so please check her's out.

The rules after accepting the Versatile Blogger Award are:

1. Thank the person who gave the award and link back to them in your post.

2. Share 7 things about yourself.

3. Pass this award along to 15 recently discovered blogs.

7 things about me:

1. I love my family and friends, they inspire me daily :)

2. I love all Crafts, but can't sew, knit, or crochet.

3. I love the sound of rain.

4. I created a porcelain doll that looks like my oldest son. Won at the NM State Fair 2 ribbons for the doll. Beginner's Doll Guild- 1st place and 2nd Place

5. I love Couponing and saving money.

6. I am a Cafemom.com Frugalista Moderator

7. I love traveling...



15 blogs I am passing this award to that really rock the web are:

1. KathyBs Little Corner

2. Kathy's Crafts

3. Karber's Blog

4. Randomosity

5. Tennessee Honey

6. The Queen of Swag

7. Under A Cherry Tree

8. Scraptastical Kreations

9. Blogging Biz Mom

10. Getting Cricky with K Andrews

11. A day in my Life

12. Dazzling Daily Deals

13. Granite in My Blood

14. Crazy for Paper Crafts

15. Mom's Online Garage Sale

These are only a few of the fabulous blogs that I follow, please check them and my following list out for more creative ladies.

Freebie from SVG

I love scrapbooking and seeing new design embellishments to add to my albums. There are SVG designs files that can be used with various paper cutters. Here is SVGcuts.com latest freebie, Road Trip, its a fitting die cut to scrap all those wonderful summer road trips we've taken this summer and past summers. They are also offering a $20.00 discount on their latest SCAL 3 program. So go over to their site and check out all the wonderful cute die cut files.

DaisyTrails Giveaway!!!!

Competition ends soon – enter now to win an A3 printer and CraftArtist Platinum!

Time is running out to enter our amazing competition to win a copy of CraftArtist Platinum and a brand new Canon Pixma iX6550 A3 color printer! All you need to do is get scrapping – click the button for more information. Contest ends August 1, 2011 and winners announced on August 2, 2011.

Heritage Makers Christmas in July!!!

The temperature outside may be rising, but inside this “Christmas in July” issue of Club Connections you’ll find the coolest ideas to help you get a jump start on holiday gifts, greetings and décor. Check out our suggestions for 8 x 8 storybooks and 20 x 20 canvases. They make wonderful holiday gifts and are 10% off this month! You’ll also find projects that build holiday traditions, décor that sets the stage for the merriest of Christmases and gift ideas for your entire circle of loved ones. And, if you’d like to put extra presents under the tree in December or help neighbors and friends make one-of-a-kind gifts that will never be returned or regifted, contact me about joining my Heritage Makers team. I’d love to show you how this meaningful and rewarding business opportunity could brighten your holidays this year.

Back by popular demand! Save the date for our 2nd Digi-Retreat in Birch Run, Michigan. It is scheduled for September 30 – October 1st. Watch for more info to come soon.

Would you like to receive free publishing credit? Contact me to set up an in-house or online workshop with your friends today.