I am having fun watching the Virtual Showcase.Don't miss the new Tools video on the Virtual Showcase. Wow! They have thought of everything. Tell me how you like the new tools and the new logo.
Did you read about CM's partnership with the Cricut Machine? OMG!
I will have all the new product here to see and play with for our Team Meeting on Saturday, August 21st. You won't want to miss it!
Friday, July 30, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Virtual Showcase
Be sure to tune in to our Team Page on Creative Memories Virtual Celebration website, which you can connect to through http://www.cmc-network.com/ on the rotating icon at the top. You'll need to register as a guest. PLEASE DO! There are already Showcase video clips posted and tons of new pictures direct from Showcase right now! The team page is under my name.
New product shipments are on their way and if you signed up, you already have a SNEAK PEAK to the list of what's coming out! I won't tell! You'll need to tune in to the Virtual Celebration site over the next couple of days to see it all!
The best place to stop for on-site videos and more information besides our Team Page is the Headquarters page!
DON'T MISS IT!
New product shipments are on their way and if you signed up, you already have a SNEAK PEAK to the list of what's coming out! I won't tell! You'll need to tune in to the Virtual Celebration site over the next couple of days to see it all!
The best place to stop for on-site videos and more information besides our Team Page is the Headquarters page!
DON'T MISS IT!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Tonya Grimes
I wanted to share this great lesson from Tonya Grimes:
I found myself 3/4 of the way up and I just didn't know how I was going to position myself to make it the rest of the way. You see, I'm scared to death of heights. My kids challenged me to a climb the side of a quarry hole (a VERY big one). I accepted the challenge because I knew it would be nothing but good for me to push myself through some of this fear. I was focused for 3/4 of the way up when all of a sudden, I ran out of rocks to grab....and I did the worst thing ever...I looked down. So there I was, positioned on the side of a dirt mountain, knowing that I had crossed the point of no return. I couldn't go back down (way too long and risky) and I didn't know how to move forward.
Just then my 13 year old encourager (Josh) came to the rescue. He came right up beside me and said, "Mom, you can do this. Besides, the moon is going to come up soon and you just need to move faster before it gets dark!" (It was 2:00 in the afternoon!) I said, "Josh, I'm just so close but I don't have anything left to grab a hold of." He replied, "You don't need to grab anything...just dig your feet in and take little steps. Once you start to move, don't stop...just keep digging your toes into the dirt and don't look down."
Well I did just as my little mountain climbing teacher instructed me to do and what a sense of accomplishment when I put my feet on firm ground at the top...and what a view!
So many business applications ran through my mind as I experienced this challenging event. I'm going to list them, trusting there will be golden nugget that will help to make your life and business enriched!
1. Put yourself into challenging situations that will cause you to grow. Make yourself do some cold calling, not because it's the most effective way to build a business, but it will help to sharpen your wording and phone skills. No growth EVER takes place unless there is some kind of adversity or stumbling block to overcome (and this goes for business and spiritual growth)! So, the next time something yucky happens just think: I'M GROWING! I love this saying: If your gut is churning, you're learning!
2. Never look back. Once you make a commitment to run your business and work it hard, don't look back and never get discouraged. Don't allow negative people to talk you out of your decision. Don't let YOURSELF talk you out of working hard. It's worth it to keep pressing on...so don't hand yourself over to wimpy excuses!
3. Get someone to come alongside of you. Grab a mentor, sister consultant, upline, or anyone who has your best business interest at heart. That means choosing someone who will encourage you (Mom you can do it) and also add some tough love (Mom...the moon is coming up...do this before it gets dark). Pace with someone who is willing to dig their toes into the dirt with you to help you reach the top (and what a view it will be....think big commission checks and a sense of accomplishment!).
4. Many times consultants will get discouraged 3/4 of the way through their business and they'll give up; walk away; quit. I always felt sad for these people because if they could have pushed themselves the other 1/4, it just may have been the turning point in their business. In the last 1/4 they may have recruited the person who ended up shooting to the top, making the upline a lot of money; or they may have found a recruit who became the top salesperson, selling well over $100,000 by herself each year; perhaps this person would have set themselves on track to eventually make $15,000 per month or more. But, they never experienced what could have been because they quit 3/4 of the way up the mountain. Don't let this happen to you....press on. In this economy, it's the smartest decision you could ever make!
5. Dig those heels in and just plow through the work it takes to build big. It's work and there's no two ways about it....but I have always said, "You have to work hard at something during this lifetime, it might as well be at a business that allows you to invest yourself into people's lives, give them a great product/service, and leave your fingerprint on those you touch. What a mission we're on!
I found myself 3/4 of the way up and I just didn't know how I was going to position myself to make it the rest of the way. You see, I'm scared to death of heights. My kids challenged me to a climb the side of a quarry hole (a VERY big one). I accepted the challenge because I knew it would be nothing but good for me to push myself through some of this fear. I was focused for 3/4 of the way up when all of a sudden, I ran out of rocks to grab....and I did the worst thing ever...I looked down. So there I was, positioned on the side of a dirt mountain, knowing that I had crossed the point of no return. I couldn't go back down (way too long and risky) and I didn't know how to move forward.
Just then my 13 year old encourager (Josh) came to the rescue. He came right up beside me and said, "Mom, you can do this. Besides, the moon is going to come up soon and you just need to move faster before it gets dark!" (It was 2:00 in the afternoon!) I said, "Josh, I'm just so close but I don't have anything left to grab a hold of." He replied, "You don't need to grab anything...just dig your feet in and take little steps. Once you start to move, don't stop...just keep digging your toes into the dirt and don't look down."
Well I did just as my little mountain climbing teacher instructed me to do and what a sense of accomplishment when I put my feet on firm ground at the top...and what a view!
So many business applications ran through my mind as I experienced this challenging event. I'm going to list them, trusting there will be golden nugget that will help to make your life and business enriched!
1. Put yourself into challenging situations that will cause you to grow. Make yourself do some cold calling, not because it's the most effective way to build a business, but it will help to sharpen your wording and phone skills. No growth EVER takes place unless there is some kind of adversity or stumbling block to overcome (and this goes for business and spiritual growth)! So, the next time something yucky happens just think: I'M GROWING! I love this saying: If your gut is churning, you're learning!
2. Never look back. Once you make a commitment to run your business and work it hard, don't look back and never get discouraged. Don't allow negative people to talk you out of your decision. Don't let YOURSELF talk you out of working hard. It's worth it to keep pressing on...so don't hand yourself over to wimpy excuses!
3. Get someone to come alongside of you. Grab a mentor, sister consultant, upline, or anyone who has your best business interest at heart. That means choosing someone who will encourage you (Mom you can do it) and also add some tough love (Mom...the moon is coming up...do this before it gets dark). Pace with someone who is willing to dig their toes into the dirt with you to help you reach the top (and what a view it will be....think big commission checks and a sense of accomplishment!).
4. Many times consultants will get discouraged 3/4 of the way through their business and they'll give up; walk away; quit. I always felt sad for these people because if they could have pushed themselves the other 1/4, it just may have been the turning point in their business. In the last 1/4 they may have recruited the person who ended up shooting to the top, making the upline a lot of money; or they may have found a recruit who became the top salesperson, selling well over $100,000 by herself each year; perhaps this person would have set themselves on track to eventually make $15,000 per month or more. But, they never experienced what could have been because they quit 3/4 of the way up the mountain. Don't let this happen to you....press on. In this economy, it's the smartest decision you could ever make!
5. Dig those heels in and just plow through the work it takes to build big. It's work and there's no two ways about it....but I have always said, "You have to work hard at something during this lifetime, it might as well be at a business that allows you to invest yourself into people's lives, give them a great product/service, and leave your fingerprint on those you touch. What a mission we're on!
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Hybrid Scrapbooking
HYBRID SCRAPBOOKING WITH STORYBOOK CREATOR PLUS
By Lori Willcox, Independent Creative Memories Consultant
Do you love traditional scrapbooking but want to incorporate some digital scrapbooking into your work? Try “hybrid” scrapbooking which is the best of both worlds!
Make your own “Kit”
Create an 8.5x11 page in Storybook Creator Plus (SBC+) and design embellishments for a 2‐page 12x12 layout. You can make a border, title, journaling box, embellishments, framed or matted photos, etc, print it off on your own printer, and cut up the pieces to use on your layout with some coordinating background papers! I like to print these on photo paper for the safety and quality.
Create Titles
Do you need lots of titles for your album but are low on ABC stickers? Create a page in SBC+ and fill it with all the titles you’ll need in various sizes, colours and fonts! Sometimes I’ll do a few on a 4x6 page and print it on photo paper, and sometimes I’ll do a bunch on an 8.5x11 page. You can match the title colours exactly to your photos! On my son’s Shot Put page, I used a photo of the shot itself to replace the “O” in Shot.
Make Embellishments for Cards or Scrapbook Pages
Only have one particular flower sticker and need 3 for your card? No problem! Duplicate as many as you like on a 4x6 SBC+ page and print! I like using photo paper with a satin finish for this. Then you can either cut them out with scissors or use a circle punch. Cut some mats with the Scallop Circle Maker.
Almost Fully Digital
Create an 8.5x11 digital page, print it, mat it and mount it on 12x12 paper. You can use a template, a predesigned page or your own design. Use paper from the matching traditional kit! You could also make an 8x8 page to center on your 12x12 paper.
Make Borders
You can buy 12x4 photo paper now. If your printer supports it, design your own borders….one 4” border, two 2” borders, or four 1” borders! You can also do 11” borders using 8.5x11” paper. Also, you can fill a 12x12 page with borders and upload it for printing (unless you are lucky enough to have a 12x12 printer)!
Create Journaling Boxes
Go crazy with your journaling! Make your journaling fit inside of a shape like a circle or a heart. Journal along a wavy line or make a nice rectangular box. Match colours to your photos and use any font on your computer. Make it fit nicely to 4x6 photo paper or fit a bunch of them on an 8.5x11 print.
Mat your Photos
There are several options for matting your photos but I like the triple matting. You can use a patterned paper or match a colour in your photos. A great alternative if you don’t have quite the right colour of cardstock to use for matting. Then print your photos and they are ready for mounting in your album!
Add Text to your Photos
Is your page short on journaling space but you have a big chunk of sky in your photo? Put your title or journaling right on your photo!
Use Digital Templates to Plan your Traditional Pages
There are many different template designs that could work well on a traditional page! Depending on the type of template, you could drag your photos into the template for sizing and placement, and then move the photos to a separate page for printing. Or, you could drag your photos into a photo cluster, print the cluster and then cut out the cluster as a whole.
Make Photo Globes
You can use the Sphereize tool in SBC+ to make a photo globe or a soccer ball using several photos. Use the circle cutting system to cut it out and then mount it on your page using foam squares.
Traditionalize a Digital Page
Make a digital page and then add traditional embellishments.
For example, put digital flowers on your page and layer paper flowers on top of them.
Make Filmstrips
Use a filmstrip template and fit lots of photos inside. Fit 3 or 4 strips on 8.5 x 11 photo paper and trim. Place them a different angles on your 12x12 paper.
Make Bubbles
Use a digital glass brad with the metal trimmed off as a bubble to place over your photo! Great for bath or beach pics.
Create a MosaicCut your photos into a grid for a quick mosaic page.
Traditional Titles
Like the look of ABC titles on punched out squares? Print your letters so that they are spaced out enough to be cut with a square punch. Mount each square on cardstock.
12x12 Photo
Sometimes a photo is so great that it deserves to take up a whole page. Create a 12x12 full bleed photo page and upload it for printing. Adhere it to your scrapbook page or slide it into a Picfolio Max album.
Create “Anne Geddes” type PhotosPut a photo of your baby’s face in a daisy or a pea pod. Be creative!
Make a Photo Wheel
Use a wheel template to make a circular group of photos. Cut with the circle cutting system and mount with foam squares.
Make Paper and Embellishments out of a Photo
Use a skinny rectangular slice of a colourful photo and stretch it into background paper or a border. You can make plaid paper by copying your stretched paper, rotating it sideways and reducing the opacity so that the first paper shows underneath….beautiful
By Lori Willcox, Independent Creative Memories Consultant
Do you love traditional scrapbooking but want to incorporate some digital scrapbooking into your work? Try “hybrid” scrapbooking which is the best of both worlds!
Make your own “Kit”
Create an 8.5x11 page in Storybook Creator Plus (SBC+) and design embellishments for a 2‐page 12x12 layout. You can make a border, title, journaling box, embellishments, framed or matted photos, etc, print it off on your own printer, and cut up the pieces to use on your layout with some coordinating background papers! I like to print these on photo paper for the safety and quality.
Create Titles
Do you need lots of titles for your album but are low on ABC stickers? Create a page in SBC+ and fill it with all the titles you’ll need in various sizes, colours and fonts! Sometimes I’ll do a few on a 4x6 page and print it on photo paper, and sometimes I’ll do a bunch on an 8.5x11 page. You can match the title colours exactly to your photos! On my son’s Shot Put page, I used a photo of the shot itself to replace the “O” in Shot.
Make Embellishments for Cards or Scrapbook Pages
Only have one particular flower sticker and need 3 for your card? No problem! Duplicate as many as you like on a 4x6 SBC+ page and print! I like using photo paper with a satin finish for this. Then you can either cut them out with scissors or use a circle punch. Cut some mats with the Scallop Circle Maker.
Almost Fully Digital
Create an 8.5x11 digital page, print it, mat it and mount it on 12x12 paper. You can use a template, a predesigned page or your own design. Use paper from the matching traditional kit! You could also make an 8x8 page to center on your 12x12 paper.
Make Borders
You can buy 12x4 photo paper now. If your printer supports it, design your own borders….one 4” border, two 2” borders, or four 1” borders! You can also do 11” borders using 8.5x11” paper. Also, you can fill a 12x12 page with borders and upload it for printing (unless you are lucky enough to have a 12x12 printer)!
Create Journaling Boxes
Go crazy with your journaling! Make your journaling fit inside of a shape like a circle or a heart. Journal along a wavy line or make a nice rectangular box. Match colours to your photos and use any font on your computer. Make it fit nicely to 4x6 photo paper or fit a bunch of them on an 8.5x11 print.
Mat your Photos
There are several options for matting your photos but I like the triple matting. You can use a patterned paper or match a colour in your photos. A great alternative if you don’t have quite the right colour of cardstock to use for matting. Then print your photos and they are ready for mounting in your album!
Add Text to your Photos
Is your page short on journaling space but you have a big chunk of sky in your photo? Put your title or journaling right on your photo!
Use Digital Templates to Plan your Traditional Pages
There are many different template designs that could work well on a traditional page! Depending on the type of template, you could drag your photos into the template for sizing and placement, and then move the photos to a separate page for printing. Or, you could drag your photos into a photo cluster, print the cluster and then cut out the cluster as a whole.
Make Photo Globes
You can use the Sphereize tool in SBC+ to make a photo globe or a soccer ball using several photos. Use the circle cutting system to cut it out and then mount it on your page using foam squares.
Traditionalize a Digital Page
Make a digital page and then add traditional embellishments.
For example, put digital flowers on your page and layer paper flowers on top of them.
Make Filmstrips
Use a filmstrip template and fit lots of photos inside. Fit 3 or 4 strips on 8.5 x 11 photo paper and trim. Place them a different angles on your 12x12 paper.
Make Bubbles
Use a digital glass brad with the metal trimmed off as a bubble to place over your photo! Great for bath or beach pics.
Create a MosaicCut your photos into a grid for a quick mosaic page.
Traditional Titles
Like the look of ABC titles on punched out squares? Print your letters so that they are spaced out enough to be cut with a square punch. Mount each square on cardstock.
12x12 Photo
Sometimes a photo is so great that it deserves to take up a whole page. Create a 12x12 full bleed photo page and upload it for printing. Adhere it to your scrapbook page or slide it into a Picfolio Max album.
Create “Anne Geddes” type PhotosPut a photo of your baby’s face in a daisy or a pea pod. Be creative!
Make a Photo Wheel
Use a wheel template to make a circular group of photos. Cut with the circle cutting system and mount with foam squares.
Make Paper and Embellishments out of a Photo
Use a skinny rectangular slice of a colourful photo and stretch it into background paper or a border. You can make plaid paper by copying your stretched paper, rotating it sideways and reducing the opacity so that the first paper shows underneath….beautiful
Saturday, July 10, 2010
June Recognition
Congratulations to the Top Sellers for June:
Top 10 Sales
Debbe Haley 2522
Heather Campbell 1726
Liz Friesen 1460
Ming Ming Angouw 1004
Natalie Ramos 941
Dianna Baker 854
Karen Fraley 791
Toni Ensz 627
Annett Aiken 588
Cheryl Monnier 500
Recruiter for June
Regina Leathers 1
Top 10 Sales
Debbe Haley 2522
Heather Campbell 1726
Liz Friesen 1460
Ming Ming Angouw 1004
Natalie Ramos 941
Dianna Baker 854
Karen Fraley 791
Toni Ensz 627
Annett Aiken 588
Cheryl Monnier 500
Recruiter for June
Regina Leathers 1
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Lyn's Webinar for July
Lyn Johnson’s July Unit Webinar (Recorded)
We have 4 amazing guests on this month’s webinar!
· Karen Bowser who shares a Heartfelt Story about a quilt (and the album that went with it) that will bring tears to your eyes.
· Denise Mason has great tips and fresh ideas for ways to use Storybook. You won’t want to miss this!
· Margaret Bennett shares inspirational and very practical recruiting tips.
· Melode Hall who has more than 100 first line consultants shares her success tips.
· And then there is recognition and Lyn Johnson always has something to say!!
Here is the link to our July recorded webinar!
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/996458864
· You can watch the webinars at your convenience. You will want to watch as SOON as you receive the link. It should work for Mac users too!!
· I have a “Prize Phrase” hidden in the webinar.
· As soon as you have watched the webinar, email me at CM@inst.net with the Prize Phrase in the subject line and your name and mailing address in the body of the email along with any comments (It is great to hear what you enjoyed!)
· I will have a drawing on the 10th of each month.
· I will send small gifts to 10 people who win the drawings!
Now that we have a recorded webinar, I hope that you will commit the time to watch the webinar each month as this will be my primary way of communicating with you. I will be working diligently to make the webinars as fun, informative and inspirational as possible! If you have problems opening the webinar you can call (888) 259-8414 for technical help.
Lyn Johnson
We have 4 amazing guests on this month’s webinar!
· Karen Bowser who shares a Heartfelt Story about a quilt (and the album that went with it) that will bring tears to your eyes.
· Denise Mason has great tips and fresh ideas for ways to use Storybook. You won’t want to miss this!
· Margaret Bennett shares inspirational and very practical recruiting tips.
· Melode Hall who has more than 100 first line consultants shares her success tips.
· And then there is recognition and Lyn Johnson always has something to say!!
Here is the link to our July recorded webinar!
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/996458864
· You can watch the webinars at your convenience. You will want to watch as SOON as you receive the link. It should work for Mac users too!!
· I have a “Prize Phrase” hidden in the webinar.
· As soon as you have watched the webinar, email me at CM@inst.net with the Prize Phrase in the subject line and your name and mailing address in the body of the email along with any comments (It is great to hear what you enjoyed!)
· I will have a drawing on the 10th of each month.
· I will send small gifts to 10 people who win the drawings!
Now that we have a recorded webinar, I hope that you will commit the time to watch the webinar each month as this will be my primary way of communicating with you. I will be working diligently to make the webinars as fun, informative and inspirational as possible! If you have problems opening the webinar you can call (888) 259-8414 for technical help.
Lyn Johnson
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