The October issue of Creating Keepsakes is now on newsstands, and we’re thrilled to share it with you. We’re especially excited because this issue is themed as our “Top 10” issue for 2009. In the magazine you’ll find the top 10 tips and ideas for numerous topics. Since I can’t fit them all in one post (without making it over 10 feet in length), I’ll share an overview of 10 of my favorite articles from the issue. Did I mention that the magazine provides over 10 outstanding ideas for each of these topics?
1. Clever new ways to dress up chipboard
2. Fun and inexpensive font finds for your most-scrapbooked themes
3. Pictures to capture your life every month of the year—that’s 120 photo ideas in the article!
4. The best photos to take this fall
5. Design tips for scrapbooking Halloween festivities
6. Fun activities to participate in throughout the month
7. Free type paths for journaling in a shape (You’ll find them as free downloads in this article.)
8. Top tips for adding stitching to your layouts
9. Layouts about yourself (I know you may not want to make them, but it’s worth taking the time! Get started with one of these six easy quizzes.)
10. The best adhesives in 10 categories (Our editorial team spent over eight hours testing boxes of different brands and products to find the best ones for your creativity.)
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And now for a little behind-the-scenes peek into the creation of the October 2009 issue.
In our April issue, we called for your “Amazing Pages.” Boy, did we have a hard time narrowing the submissions. The task was too difficult, so rather than stopping at just 10 pages, we selected 20. We shared 10 of them in the magazine, and you’ll find the other 10 here.
On pages 50–51, you saw a glimpse of the amazingly talented Mou Saha’s craft room. We’re pleased to share her blog with you as well, so you can get to know her (and be inspired by her) even more.
To test the adhesives for #10 above, we scored all the products using this rubric.
CK Adhesive Lab Scoring Sheet
We saw many more Halloween-themed products than we could fit into the magazine. For example, you saw some of this great Trick or Treat line from Little Yellow Bicycle, but I couldn’t resist showing you these accents as well.
Little Yellow Bicycle Trick or Treat accents
And check out this festive Eerie collection from BasicGrey.
BasicGrey Eerie collection
You’re sure to find this delightful Spooky Town collection from Imaginisce to be a real treat. I love it!
Imaginisce Spooky Town elements
Plus, I can think of plenty of ways to use Glimmer Mist from Tattered Angels to add a spooky feeling to my scrapbook pages.
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist
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A Halloween Giveaway
In addition to the 10 great sweepstakes being held in conjunction with the magazine, we have a special giveaway just for our blog readers. Our team has put together 5 goodie bags filled with Halloween product (including the fabulous products in this post) waiting for you! Leave a comment on this post by this Friday (September 18) telling us your favorite article or tip from the October issue for your chance to win. Winners will be announced early next week.
Enjoy!
Brittany Beattie, Managing Editor, Creating Keepsakes
Loved the stitching article and thought the whole issue was a great one!
I took a look for your magazine at the local newstand and the most current one they had in stock was August!
My favorite article was Ali’s on stitching – love all the ways she made stitching more accessible. I’m going to try stitching a title – I love how that looked.
I liked the different ways to use chipboard, and of course, I loved Ali’s column and Amanda’s too!
I know you have a ton of experts on your staff. . . like to see what others out in the real world are doing so enjoyed the “10 readers” in print and on the site.
The entire magazine has lots of great information, but I keyed in on the “tools & techniques” this month. Sometimes it great to be reminded what you can do with chipboard, or any other technique or tool!
I love Ali’s sewing tips. Beautiful layouts and inspiring ideas. Thanks!
October was a great issue. My fav article is the 10 amazing reader pages. The layouts were truly amazing and it gave me hope that one day I could grace the pages of CK. Also all the giveaways in this issue is amazing. It’s unreal all the prizes that u guys have come up with for this month. Good Luck to all the ppl who enter.
10 Shortcuts to fast pages was one of my favorites. Although it would be very difficult to pick just one. I loved the whole publication. An excellent way for me to destress is to comb those pages. Thanks for the chance to win, I am a Halloween Queen!
I loved the article about fast and easy layouts using 4×6 photos.
cute stuff
Got my magazine today in the mail – just in time! I really liked the Easy Stitching Techniques article. I love to stitch on my cards and that article gave me some great ideas!
So much to love! I have to say the article on quick and easy pages with 4×6 photos is among my faves. Also the article on what’s missing from my scrapbooks. The quizzes in this article really helped me to junmpstart the journaling for these types of lo’s! Thank you CK!
I loved the whole magazine but my favorite article was the 10 photos to take every month, I am going to post it up by my calendar to remind me to take some different pictures each month!
I love the “Cool Things” who knew there was designer duct tape (I didn’t). Thanks for the chance at your giveaway
The ten most important pages missing from your album article.What a great article!
I love the photoshop tips, I’m a new ps user so can use all the help I can get!
I loved the sewing techniques and the 10 photos to take every month.