If you love to touch and feel your photos and paper, chances are you are a traditional scrapbooker. Many people still enjoy the process of creating beautiful pages by adding photo mats and journal boxes, cropping photos, journaling, and embellishing with stickers. Creative Memories has always prided itself on its strap-hinged, coverset design which is second to none in the scrapbooking industry. I sell CM traditional, strap-hinged, book cloth coversets in a variety of colours and designs.
Creative Memories typically introduces a new 12×12 coverset every month, to match the newest collection release. There are colours that remain standard and are always be available, such as Cobalt, Ruby, Ebony, and more. View all our current, available coversets here.
If you are looking for a different, specific, or older coverset, I might have it on hand or know someone who does! Contact me and I will help you find a great album cover for your project.
You have the option of filling your coverset with white, spargo, natural, black, or even calendar refill pages. All refill pages conveniently come with their own page protectors. You may wish to add some Fast2Fab refills for a faster combination. Our paper packs perfectly coordinate with our Fast2Fab designs just for this purpose.
In addition to filling your coverset with pages, Creative Memories also has a variety of pocket pages to hold additional photos and memorabilia. Gone are the days of making a pocket on the inside, back cover of your scrapbook to hold everything left over. Now you can display and store all the extras, right next to your layouts. There are several styles and sizes to best suit your needs.
Memorabilia Pockets
Memorabilia Pockets come in packs of 10 with 3 size variations. Because they’re transparent, these pockets allow you to see small notes, special messages, coins, stamps, pet tags, military tags, medals, badges and more after you slide them inside. They are perfect for storing items which may contain acid, something to avoid having close to your photos.
Peekaboo Pockets
Peekaboo Pockets come in packs of 10 with 5 horizontal and 5 vertical packets. Watch this fantastic, 3-minute, video showing the versatility of the Peekaboo Pockets. They are not only for PicFolios, but for traditional layouts. You’ll be amazed at the usefulness and transparency!
Top-Loading Single-Pocket Pages
12×12 Top-Loading Single-Pocket Pages seamlessly fit all our 12×12 album covers. Use them to show off layouts, artwork, certificates, and large memorabilia like maps, brochures, boarding passes, newspaper articles, etc.
Looking for something smaller? Try the 8.5×11 Single-Pocket Pages—they fit letter sized memorabilia and documents and will fit right in our 12×12 album covers due to the placement of the staples.
Single pocket pages are perfect to showcase double sided memorabilia, report cards, and certificates. Make sure all those extra memories you couldn’t put in a layout don’t get lost!
12×12 Multi-Pocket Pages
12×12 Multi-Pocket Pages – Perhaps you find that after you have completed your layout, you may have photos left over. This is the perfect solution to display those additional pictures or memorabilia in your album, right next to your layout.
Creative Memories always offers a new designer 12×12 paper packs with every new collection. They also have a variety of cardstock colours that are solid, meaning when you cut or tear them, there is no white core. Our cardstock co-ordinates perfectly with our designer paper packs. Be sure to check out all our current available paper packs, to find several themed sets for many occasions!
If you are looking for a different, specific, or older paper pack, I might have it on hand or know someone who does. Contact me with the details of your project, or what exactly you are looking for, and I will help you find paper to suit.
Don’t forget the fun stuff! Creative Memories has countless different things for you to decorate your pages with. Whether you’re looking for stickers, borders, frames, photo mats, or anything in between. Our new laser cut embellishments are particularly sturdy and bring a lovely accent to any page. Shop Creative Memories stickers and embellishments here.
Similarly to paper and coverlets, I have amassed a large collection of embellishment products and can help you find the perfect pieces for you and your project! Just get in touch with me with what you’re looking for so I can help you find that perfect sticker.
Themes are different packs of paper, embellishments, photo mats, and stickers that all match each other.
Now last, but definitely not the least, are your tools. Creative Memories has so many tools for creating borders, punching shapes, or cropping your corners, it can be overwhelming at first. Right now, I am just going to cover the basic tools you will need to get your traditional scrapbook started.
The tape runner. This trusty tool will be used on every one of your pages. Creative Memories has also released the “Repositionable Tape” that works really well on embellishments and cutouts with intricate shapes or holes.
The black pen. Along with your tape runner, this might become your top tool. It is excellent for journaling and is dual-tipped for thin and thick lines. CM pens are bleed resistant and photo safe; make sure you don’t use anything in your album or on your photos that might smudge, bleed (think how a flood might wash away all your journaling), or damage your photos in the long-term. A bonus writing utensil to start yourself off with is a photo safe labelling pencil. When you are organizing your photos, labelling events, writing on the back of pictures, and preparing layouts, this pencil will be with you to make all your notes. Use this pencil to take care of your photos from start to finish.
There are lots of options for trimming and cutting your photos and paper. It is up to you to pick the best system for your use. The Personal Trimmer is handy and small for those quick cuts. It is also very precise for cropping photos. However, if you want to be trimming your 12×12 paper, you will need something bigger. The 12-inch Trimmer might be the best cutting tool to start off with because it gives you freedom to cut the whole 12 inches. It also has an interchangeable blade system! This makes it a very versatile tool, giving you new ways to cut.
Interested in a catalogue?
If you already have the basics and would like to see what punches and tools Creative Memories has for all your more advanced embellishing needs, please click to see stand-alone punches, Custom Cutting System, Border Maker System, and Recipe Templates.
Do you want to explore our full product line in a Creative Memories catalogue? I will post you one, free of charge! Please leave your contact details with me.
