Put Mom in the Photo – my Mother’s Day Mantel!

Jen — Mon, 02 May 2016 02:31:18 +0000

Put Mom in the Photo – my Mother’s Day Mantel. Thanks for all of your sweet comments about my post last week about putting mom in the photo. Putting ourselves in front of the camera is something I really believe in and something I am trying to be better at. I know it takes a little planning and effort sometimes. I find myself with second-day hair and in my yoga pants most of the time. But it was so fun having Hannah’s high-school friend Lauryn come and take some photos of my family. I got the metal prints back and I am so excited.I love my new Mother’s Day mantel – with me in the photos. I am passionate about www.CVS.com/photo‘s Put Mom In the Photo campaign.

I showed you last week some of the cool photo projects you can makes at www.cvs.com/photo. I knew about the photo books but I didn’t know about the other options like how they can print photos on wood AND on metal as well as on canvases. SO cool! I ordered some metal prints and I just picked them up a couple of days ago. They turned out SO good.

The metal is so light that it would be easy to hang up. And the effect the metal has under the photos is so pretty!

I ordered one square metal print and one that is printed on a metal with a part on the back that makes it an easel. How fun is that? So it’s so easy to put on a shelf or my mantel.

I knew that www.CVS.com/photo as well as photo books. But as I was checking out their website I was excited to learn that CVS has some really high-end ways to display your photos. Like canvases in all different sizes, metal prints and even photos printed on wood. SO cool!

Many www,CVS.com/photo products are even available for same-day pick up in-store at your local CVS Pharmacy so it’s a terrific convenient option for busy moms and families.

Now whenever I walk past my mantel I smile. It makes me happy to remember that day and to see my family surrounding me. I will treasure these prints always. AND I am so glad that I AM in the photo!

Put Mom in the Photo – my Mother’s Day Mantel

I also wanted to tell you about an awesome Instagram contest that www,CVS.com/photo is running to give away a $50 gift card. Be sure to follow along and tag yourself in their #PutMomInThePhoto hashtag. I love the idea of all of us moms getting out from behind the camera and getting IN the photos!! And even if you can’t hire or ask someone to take photos, you can always put your camera or phone on your “timer” setting and hop into the photo!

CVS also has a really easy to use www.CVS.com/photo mobile app – you can:

Order prints
Print from Camera Roll (same-day pickup)
Print from Facebook (same-day pickup)

Let us know in the comments how YOU plan to put yourself in the photo!

I would love to know your ideas!!

This post was sponsored by www.cvs.com/photo but all opinions and ideas are mine. See my disclosures for more information.

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Summer Memory Box

Jen — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:00:26 +0000

Welcome to the Summer of Paper series – where we’ve invited fabulous guests to create projects using supplies from my Home + Made paper decor line.

Hello Tater Tots & Jello friends! I’m Becki, I blog over at BeckiAdams.com. I’m a passionate memory keeper and paper crafter. My home is in Idaho. I was born and raised on a wheat and potato farm. Interestingly enough, I don’t eat wheat or potatoes (my dad is mortified). My husband, 3 kids and I have made memory keeping part of our lifestyle. My husband takes lots photos for me and my kids (sometimes begrudgingly) let me take their photos. My kids also scrapbook right along with me. My goal is to find the magic that comes when a story and a photo come together. The project that I have today is a Summer Memory Box. I created this memory box with the recipe card box from the Home+Made collection.

Then I collected a few embellishments from the Home+Made and Cottage Living collections.

I added a bit of patterned paper to my stack of supplies and started creating.

The first thing I did was create a label for my Summer Memory Box. I used a chalkboard sticker, some Thickers, and a gold metal label.

This label fit perfectly on the recipe box. The adhesive on the chalkboard label is really sticky so there’s no worry of it falling off.

I chose a few photos that I’ve taken this Summer. I print my photos at home. I printed the photos at 3 1/2 inches square so they would fit perfectly into the Polaroid frames.

Next, I cut some die cuts using the dies from the Home+Made collection.

Using the file tab cards that come with the recipe box I created 3 dividers for my Summer photos. The categories I chose are “Get-a-way”, ” Hello Family”, and “Let’s Stay Home”.

I used the recipe cards that came with the recipe box for my photos. I put photos and the die cut Polaroid frame on the front of the card and left the back of the card blank. My kids are writing their memories on
the back of the photo cards.

That’s it. This is such an easy fun way to document those Summer memories. And it gets the kids involved with the memory keeping process.

Thanks for joining me today.

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Thanks Becki! What a fun project, and I bet your kids love looking at it over and over again! Becki has great ideas on her blog. Here are a few I know you’ll love:

I love this Photo Framed Canvas Tutorial for a fun way to display family photos!

And she has this great idea for How to Make a Thanksgiving Banner!

And I can’t wait to try her tips on photo restoration from her post, How to Restore Old Photo Albums the Easy Way

Make sure to follow BeckiAdams.com and

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And if you’d like to try this project she shared today, you can find my Home + Made line at craft and hobby stores near you!

xoxo

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