Creating Keepsakes March 2000

24 years ago

TINTING B&W PHOTOS--There is an article on page 25 about hand-tinting black and white photos using Spot Pens. I have wanted to try this for some time, but the starter kit is a bit pricey. Have any of you tried this product?

$5 OFF COUPON--On page 34 there is a $5-off-any-scrapbooking -products coupon good at Arvey Paper and Office Products or Xpedx Paper Store.

GREAT LAYOUTS--"Front Yard Campfire," page 66; "Graduate Student Living," page 74; "Grand Chenier," page 119.

2000 READERS' CHOICE AWARDS--pp.83-92--I hate the layout on these pages. the black background and fuzzy edges on the product photos made it hard to see the products! The green backgrounds and gold typeface looked terrible together. I am amazed that a magazine of this type made such poor choices! Does anyone agree? That being said, have any of you tried Un-du? And were there any products you really love or hotly contest?

A WASTE OF SEVEN PAGES OF AN EXPENSIVE MAGAZINE--"The ABC's of Scrapbooking," pages 99-105. Did any of you get anything out of that? It seems to me that people who haven't figured these techniques out already, probably wouldn't be the ones reading the magazine.

MULBERRY PAPER--pp. 106-108--I am intrigued. Have any of you ever used mulberry paper?

MUST READ--"The Magic of Everyday," pp. 111-113. This article once again urges us to make pages of fleeting moments, tell the little stories of the day to day. For example, a page is featured that documents a comment the author's grandson made about his finding a spider "bungy-jumping" off his bicycle. The page is embellished with spider webs with a snapshot of the boy and his bike and the story (p. 111). I so want to improve the quality of storytelling in my own books.

All in all, I don't think this was a great issue of Creating Keepsakes, but there were some interesting things in there. What did you think?

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Mar Ontario Canada
24 years ago
I don't get Creating Keepsakes, but did want to comment on something you mentioned. I, too, try hard to make mention of the day to day happenings in the lives of my two young boys. I have a page in one of my albums for my youngest ds, that doesn't even HAVE a single photo on it!! Just 4 borders done in a telephone theme. I have journaled all about Graeme and how he would telephone his Nanny, (my mom) if she answered the phone, he would gibber away to her..sometimes even just hummm a song since he was too young to really "chat" If, however, my dad would answer the phone, Graeme would not say a word!! We could hear my dad saying "Graeme?? Is that you son???" At that, Graeme would hold the phone away from his ear, click the "end call" button while all the time, saying "HMPH!! Nanny not home"
I laugh every time I look at that page. I think its important to remember that these aren't just "photo albums" they are MEMORY albums too!!
~mar~
Rita
24 years ago
I love CK mag. It's the only one I get actually. I'm with you though, it wasn't nearly as exciting this month as it usually is. But there were some nice things in it, which you've highlighted in your post. I always enjoy the border ideas, but lately some of them have been getting quite intricate. I don't have every punch that comes down the line, and so many of the border ideas lately seem to use punches.
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Mar Ontario Canada

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