Hey everyone and welcome to “Pin-spiration” Tuesday!  OK, show of hands – how many of you have logged onto Pinterest for a few minutes and ended up spending hours lost in all the inspirational goodness?  (Yes, my hand is waiving wildly in the air right now.)  I love browsing through Pinterest, but I can never seem to limit it to just a few minutes.  Maybe I need one of those ...

Hi everyone!   Do you also have such wonderful spring-weather outside? Well.. here it is almost like summer already but technically it’s still spring *lol* It’s getting warmer, days are getting longer and everything is green and blooming outside. What better time to be outside and enjoy it, right?

Hi, here is Zora with a very sweet blog post that will make some of you very happy! I am glad to get an opportunity to showcase some beautiful layouts from Mari’s gallery at Sweet Shoppe Designs! I really enjoyed browsing the gallery and seeing so many pretty pages around! I dug a lot deeper into the gallery as this is the first stand out for me and ...

Hello! Today I want to show you how you can use your own handwriting on your pages if you don’t have a custom font. I myself love to do that because it gives the layouts a special and unique touch. And it really isn’t hard to do. All you need is a piece of white paper, a black pen and a scanner.

Hey everyone!  Judie (aka HeyJude) here with my first post as a member of Mari’s blog team. :)  I’m so excited to be joining you for Inspiration Tuesday because I get to talk about one of my favorite design elements – FONTS!  I am a confessed font-a-holic, so it should come as no big surprise that I love subway art.  I adore it as a decorative element in my home, but also as ...

Hi, it’s Amber here and I’m so excited to bring you all the news for iNSD weekend and some brand new goodies in Mari’s store too!  The craziness has begun because iNSD is finally here!  In case you don’t know,  iNSD is interNational Scrapbooking Day and it is one of my most favorite days of the year.

Hi! Zora here with her very first blog post as a member of Mari’s crew! I am so thrilled to join such fabulous designer’s team and we’ll be meeting each other at this place regularly. While scrapbooking and photography are my biggest hobbies, when it comes to addictions, I am a chocoholic and tea lover as well.

This week I have a tutorial to share about how I organize and print my photos in Lightroom. It really makes my life so much easier and literally in a few minutes I can have bunch of photos printed and ready for my album. I must warn you I am not a Lightroom Guru and I barely know the basics but this has really streamlined my process.

Welcome to a new feature on the blog! I have always said that the best thing about designing is seeing my customers use it to record their memories! In this feature I want to showcase some beautiful pages that has caught the eye of my team.