Hello SCT friends! It’s Aly Dosdall here, and I’m so happy to be back with you today sharing another one of my favourite crafting tools. I love when tools make crafting not only easier, but more creative and fun, and the tool I’m featuring today does just that.
Say hello to the DIY Party Confetti Punch from We R Memory Keepers. With the popularity of shaker pockets and confetti in paper crafts currently, this handy little punch will get lots of mileage at my house. With one punch this awesome tool makes several bits of confetti in two different sizes. Plus, the design in the leftover paper is perfect for saving and using on another project like the layout I made below.
To create this layout I used several leftover scraps from punching confetti and scattered them throughout my layout from the top left corner to the bottom right.
After punching lots of confetti I set it aside and saved it for another project I’ll be sharing with you soon.
Then I used my circle cutter to cut out the negative confetti designs. I backed some circles with coordinating cardstock to let some color show through.
I filmed a short video sharing some of the cool features of the Confetti Punch, and to show you how I created the circles for this layout. Check it out below!
To finish off my layout I added a title that I cut from the patterned paper in the Urban Chic collection by We R Memory Keepers.
I also added some typed journaling sharing some of my feelings about my daughter’s personality and my hopes for her future.
Well, that’s it for me friends! Thanks for letting me be here with you today. I hope this project inspires you to look at your crafting tools in a different light. See if you can find unexpected ways to use them on your projects. Happy crafting!
~Aly
Partner Celebration DAY 30!
We're sure if you've been papercrafting for a while then you are very familiar with our friends We R Memory Keepers. Here's a little background about We R Memory Keepers:
"Over 90 years ago William R. Hiller and his two sons began building a reliable book binding business. The old Provo Book Bindery emerged as one of the premier bookbinding and preservation resources in the United States.Always looking for ways to help people stay in touch with their histories and memories of the past, Hiller Bookbinding began manufacturing one of the first albums intended specifically for keeping memories stored safely and securely in more than just a photo album.
With the emergence of the wonderful art of scrapbooking and paper crafting, came the ever-increasing need for high quality, functional, and creative scrapbook products that were specifically designed to preserve and enhance memories that would last for generations."
In 2014, We R Memory Keepers joined the American Crafts family of brands and they continue to manufacture some of the most functional products including albums, amazing tools, paper collections and so much more! We've loved partnering with We R Memory Keepers for many years and of course they were only too happy to join our celebration by offering one lucky SCT reader this fun Confetti punch and a selection from the Urban Chic collection!
For an opportunity to win this collection be sure to leave a comment below by September 7th! We would also love to know if you have a favourite We R Memory Keepers product in your craft space!
To see even more inspiration from We R Memory Keepers, be sure to visit them in the following places:
website: http://www.wermemorykeepers.com/
blog: https://wermemorykeepers.wordpress.com/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/wermemorykeeper/
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WeRMemoryKeepers (<— give them a big thanks!)
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/WeRMemoryKeepers
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wermemorykeepers/
And there you go! What a great day of inspiration from our sweet friend Aly Dosdall and our friends at WeR! We've also heard from so many of our partners that they have LOVED hearing from you! Thank you for taking the time to visit the links we've provided each day. You just never know what you might find. Perhaps each day we should start with an "enabler alert!"
Have a great Tuesday!
~ Catherine Tachdjian, publisher, Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine
We R Memory Keepers make the most innovative and quality tools! Their tools are a staple in my crafting. This confetti punch looks like it would be a great addition to my collection. What a fun prize!
I’ve been a fan of We R Memory Keepers products for a long time. The Crop-a-dile is an often-used tool in my craft room. Thanks for the chance to win this great prize package.
Love that confetti punch!!
Very clever way to use this confetti punch.
OOOOOOOOOOO! I have had my eye on the Confetti punch since it first came out! I have so many ideas on how I would use it and would love to win this fantastic prize so that I can get my Urban Chic on and make Confetti to my heart’s content!!! Thanks for the chance to!! Off to FB to leave WRMK lots of love!
wow, what a neat tool. very cool. We R Memory Keepers has really fantastic products and ideas. thanks for sharing
Love the Confetti punch. Thanks so much for offering such great giveaways.
The confetti punch would be a great prize to win. My favorite We R Memory Keepers item is my envelope maker. I love to make coordinating envelopes to match my handmade cards for family and friends!
Thank you William Hiller and Sons for thinking up the scrapbook! My favorite We R Memory Keepers tool, so far is, the envelope punch board. It has its place on my craft table as I use it often. A confetti punch would also be used for multiple projects I’m sure. Thank you for the opportunity to add this to our tool choices!
Great ideas,thanks for the chance to win!.
That would be lots of fun to play with (and a a little messy too! Hee hee!) Thanks for the chance to win! :)
What a great idea for that punch. Thanks for the chance to win.
I don’t have any We R Memory Keepers products yet. Maybe that will change! Thanks for the chance to win!
The punches have really intrigued me! The confetti punch is awesome!
We R Memory Keepers have some really useful tools, like the corner chomper. This confetti punch looks really fun. Thanks for the chance to win.
What a wonderfully creative layout using that sweet picture of your daughter! Such a fun prize from WRMK–thanks for the chance to win!
What a fun punch…I already envision using it for a piece of cheese and centres of flowers! Love We R Memory Keepers and already own several of their tools! Would love to win this prize! :)
You guys never cease to amaze me with the great creative ideas!
That confetti punch is so much fun!
I love the LO you showcased here with the confetti punch. This is wonderful.. The prize is awesome too.
What a cool idea for a punch! Shaker cards would love this handy tool!
Hard to pick just one WeR product, but I think my Fuse is my current favorite! The confetti punch looks like fun – I love using negative spaces!
I am in love with punches, and I could use that one right now!! ?
What a darling punch! I love We R Memory Keepers’ tools! My favorite one right now is the Envelope Punch Board. I haven’t bought an envelope in ages. I use one-sided lightweight scrapbook paper for my envelopes using it. I just make them so the patterned-side is on the inside of the envelope and the white side is on the outside. Great way to use up paper in your stash! Thanks We R Memory Keepers’ for all the great innovations! Keep it up :)
WRMK invented lots of cool and handy crafting tools for sure. The layout is super fabulous with those circles. Love it!
Love the colours in the Urban Chiccollection, very nice. Thanks for the chance to win.
Cool punch…would be nice as I make a lotta shaker cards.
Lovely layout!!!
Thanks for sharing with us!
I love the We R tools that I have and this looks like a fun one. Thanks for the chance!
I love so much We R Memory Keepers!!! All their products are must have! I think they’re the best in the handy crafting tools!!! So innovative!!!
Loving what Aly did with the punch! Gorgeous page!
I’d love it. I need to make some cards soon…
I love WRMK punches!
I love the Big Bite Crop-a-Dile. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
Love their products,
I have several of the
punch boards and paper
and love the Fuze tool!
Carla from Utah
My favorite WRMK tool is the Envelope Punch board. Just made some bows with it. Thanks for the giveaway!
We R Memory Keepers has been one of my long-time loves in crafting! What a joy to see this beautiful partnership between the two of you!!! Thank for continuing to bring us some of the most innovative and unique crafting products in the industry! May you have many more wonderful and successful years together!!
Aly made a beautiful layout using the confetti punch. My favourite WRMK tool is The Cinch. I like making my own albums and this tool makes that happen easily.
Loving this punch, thanks for the inspirational tutorial, Ally, looking forward to the sequel with the confetti.
Such a fun tool! Love this collection!
WRMK is one of my favorites – they have the BEST albums and tools (especially the Fuse!). Love that punch!
Super Idea Aly with the punch and using the negatives on your layout! Love this and will have to try this! I LOVE WE R Memory Keepers! Had to go say thanks as I do everyday to the partners but they are one of my favorites. Yes of course I have many of their tools but my all time favorite has to be the Fuse! Just love it and don’t know what I ever did without it! Thanks again We r and of course SCT! Love you both!
We R Memory Keepers were my very first tools I ever had when I first started scrap booking way back when! That started me on my path to tons of paper crafting over the years and I still enjoy all of it today! To try to name one tool as my favorite would be like trying to say which is my favorite brother! It’s just not possible, I love it all!
The confetti punch looks like fun! I could definitely use that for the shaker cards I love to make. Thanks WRMK for the fabulous giveaway!
What a fun gift! I still love my Corner Chomper! It’s a great finishing touch on so many projects!
My Crop-A-Dile is one of my fav tools ever!
Love the Confetti punch idea! I have wanted to learn how to do shaker cards! Thanks!
What a fun way to use the tool! Good idea to keep all those negatives…
WRMK has tools for this industry that no one else has thought of….great company.!
Awesome layout! This confetti punch looks awesome, too! I love shaker cards more than any other type (I’m making all my birthday cards as shakers this year, as a challenge) so this tool would be perfect. Thanks for the chance to win it along with goodies from the Urban Chic collection.
Love We R’. Their products are so well made and trendy. Can’t wait to get the Urban Chic collection.