There are only FIVE spots left for our September retreat, and I would love for YOU to fill one of them!

Rocket City Scrapbook Retreat Mission 19
Thursday, September 18 - Sunday, September 21
(Starts and ends at 3:00 pm)
Huntsville Marriott US Space & Rocket Center

For more details and the registration links please click here:

Rocket City Scrapbook Retreat Info and Registration

I was lucky enough to see this great new organizer at the Creative Memories Advisor Training retreat I attended last weekend in Fresno (the main reason I came to California — the Disneyland part was a bonus!) I was sworn to secrecy and photos/videos were absolutely forbidden, but everyone who saw it was thrilled. It has a sturdy foam insert with cutouts perfectly positioned to fit 12 of our Border Punches.

However — due to some unexpected shipping delays, CM has only received part of the organizers they have coming. SO, they are limiting the orders to ONE per Advisor for the first 48 hours. IF there are still some remaining after Wednesday at noon CT, they will let us order more. (But they told us they anticipate selling out before then). However, more are en route and my guess is this is going to be popular enough that if/when the second shipment sells through they will reorder.

If you would like me to either try to order one for you on Wednesday OR whenever they come in, OR you would like me to email or text you when I hear that the second shipment has arrived, please fill out the Local Pickup Order Form that will be linked to at the end of this email. (Even if you are not local but would like me to contact you — just fill out the first section and ignore the rest!)

OR, if you have been considering signing up as an Advisor, if you do that on Sunday you’ll be able to order one on Monday - using your $50 join credit! (Don’t join just for this, but if you’re on the fence already, this might be a good reason!)

You may remember the Rainbow Cardstock Bundle from last fall, with the Cardstock Sampler Pack, the Rainbow Dividers and the cute Rainbow Dot Pod Insert to store them in. It was only available as a bundle with 15 dividers and 19 sheets of cardstock.

Well - the new and improved version comes with 25 dividers and 29 sheets of cardstock - including four BRAND NEW colors that are not yet available any other way except in this bundle! The colors are Songbird Blue, Cornflower, Plum and Caramel. Yet more delivery delays mean that CM can’t yet sell these colors individually (which is a shame because they are gorgeous) but they did have enough for the sampler packs.

Best of all, now you can purchase the items individually! Get JUST the cardstock sampler (the previous 21 piece set plus two each of the four new colors), just the dividers (which are fantastic for sorting your cardstock scrapb by color - that’s how I am using them) OR just the Rainbow Dots Pod Insert — which fits in the Ikea Kallax cubbies and is so great for organizing your papers by theme!

Just one sale punch this time, but it’s a great one! I love the Tab Punch for my Happy Album/Scrap Journal, and it is also great for putting a tab on your Peekaboo Pockets so that people know to lift up the flaps! Just $12.50!

Many of us have the Rainbow Dot BMC storage case, but I know some of you prefer the classic black fabric organizers. You’re in luck! Now you can create your own organizer with a solid Organizer Case, and your choice of BMC insert trays. Choose from our existing set which has one tray with space for the Paper Guide and Cartridge Housing, plus cartridges that fit in the spaces on their “backs”, and a second tray where the cartridges fit flat. OR the new trays which are just two of the “flat” style - but that means you can fit THREE trays in one case.

Now - CM is only selling the inserts in a two pack, but if you are local to me, I am willing to split a pack so if you want a third, I will sell you just one. :)

Please note that the new Organizer Case is exactly the same size as the existing Tools Organizer but DOES NOT include the Velcro dividers.

Many of you know and love the Happy Album sized albums CM has offered for the past several years. Well - they are not going away, they’re just getting a new name to better describe them. Now they’re going to be called the Scrap Journal. Still the same 6.75 x 10 size, but hopefully there will be less confusion with the Happy Planner brand of planners (which is not a CM product!)

I don’t know exactly why CM is changing the name, but I do like the new name better. It’s just going to take me a while to get used to it!

There will still be a 2026 dated album cover - it’s in Robin’s Egg Blue, and I will be honest with you, I am very disappointed because it’s almost identical in color and design to the 2024 version. I am going to hope that CM gives us a different colored option — so if you also have the 2024 version and want to dare to wait for a second choice, maybe do that? OR you can get one of the pretty new solids or the cute Gold Grid instead of the dated version.

The Scrap Journal Planner Bundle includes the 2026 dated album, one set of white pages, one set of the Happy Album Planner papers (these are an existing product so they haven’t changed the name on those yet), a repositionable Tape Runner and a Black Dual-Tip Pen. There is no cost savings when you buy the bundle, it’s just a one-click convenience.

There are also five new color options, the Gold Grid I mentioned above, plus Currant, Pewter Gray, Pebble Gray or Boysenberry.

I wasn’t emotionally prepared for the Happy Albums/Scrap Journals to be released this early (in the past they’ve come out in October!) so I haven’t quite figured out what the plan is for next year’s Happy Album Circle — it’ll probably need a new name, at least! I also do not think these are likely to sell out right away if we want to wait and see what happens with the color choices.

To go along with the new Scrap Journal concept, CM is releasing a 12x12 paper pack called Wildflower Wishes which is designer paper on one side and has a cutting guide on the other side to help you size it to fit your Scrap Journal. Of course you can still use it on a 12x12 page as well, and there is a coordinating sticker pack to go along with it.

I really don’t know exactly how this is going to work, but I have some ideas floating around in my very tired brain (literally I am writing this at 11:52 pm Pacific time after spending the whole day at Universal Studios so that you can read this on Sunday morning while I am hopefully still sound asleep in my hotel room!!) and I think we will continue to get some ideas and tips about how to utilize this fun album size as the weeks go by. So stay tuned for that as well!