I'm back from the Great American Scrapbook Convention

Hi Everyone,
I'm back from the Great American Scrapbook Convention in Chantilly. I was happy with the classes I took for the most part. The Pazzle class was great. The instructor is extremely knowledgable about the Pazzle and helped me a lot. I can't wait to play with it. I got to see some of my scrap buddies and LOTS of Photo Scraps customers. It was fun running into people all day long. Some of you had lots of bags. There were some good sales. It seemed the theme this year was $1 bin and clearance. For those of you that like the new stuff, no new stuff. Well, there was cool sand that I never saw before, so of course I bought some for the store. Here are some photos I took at the show.

Hi From Boston...again, but not the same

Hi everyone,

Hope everyone had a fun weekend. I spent my Sunday driving to Boston with the kids to visit my mom. We are staying in Falmouth on Cape Cod. Shon stayed home for this adventure. He promised to clean while we are gone. If I get home to a clean home, I may be taking more trips. We will be walking around the town tomorrow and doing a little shopping. Of course, Kirstin has high hopes of buying lots of stuff, but I saw mostly boutiques so I think she will be a bit disappointed. The town looks very nice and I can't wait to take photos in the daylight.

This past Saturday one of our wonderful customers Kate Blue hosted a Charity Crop for Children's Miracle Network and the Johns Hopkins Childrens Center. She has a fun blog and you need to look at her cool blog header and her photo. Very Creative. http://www.kateblue.blogspot.com/

Lots of new Products

The new K*I Memories products are so cute that they almost out cute Doodlebug. We got a bunch of lines from them including Travel, Baby and Birthday.




The new A*Muse summer line of stamps are here and I am loving the card samples. They even came out with a rainbow of shades of tiny gingham print papers.





Beautiful A*Muse cards by Laura.


New Sizzix 3 dimentional dies.


Inkadinkadoo buy 2 get 1 free stamps.

New June Calendar is available

Hi Everyone,
This month really got away from me. Sorry I'm so late posting this calendar for June. There will be a couple of additions towards the end of the month. So, keep your eye open for additions.

Click here for a larger view of the calendar.

Tuesday June 2nd 6-8 PM
Bo Bunny Surprise Birthday Explosion Box
Join Gina Painter for this fun three dimensional album in a box. You will need your paper trimmer, scissors and adhesive. Fee $25

Wednesday June 3rd 6-8 PM
SEI Bridgeport Mini Album
Join Tracy and you will whip up this 20 page mini book in less than 2 hours. There are lots of extra embellishments for you to really decorate your book. Fee $24


Thursday June 4th 6-8 PM
SEI Lovebirds Mega Kit
oin Gina for 8 lacey layouts with SEI Lovebirds line and you will leave with lots of extras. Fee $29

Lots of new products this month

Hi eveyone,

We have been keeping the UPS man very busy as usual. We have all new $1 stamps and glitter glues.



Luxe has fun color me paper that works great with the Copic markers. No need to stamp with this great paper. The shapes are big enough to cut out and use as embellishments or on your cards.



Three new Bo Bunny lines. I can't resist ordering full lines from Bo Bunny. Thay have such great papers and embellishments.




New patriotic papers from Reminisce.



Newest Creative Cafe layout.

Demo Day on Saturday

Hi all,

Here is the 6th project for Demo Day. I just love the colors in this layout. We used some of the great new Spellbinders for cutting the mats.



Here are the other two layouts that we will be making.

Happy Mother's Day!

Hi Everyone,

I hope everyone has a Happy Mother's Day. We are closed today so we can all be off with our families. The all day crop yesterday was a lot of fun. Lots of laughs as usual. 14 hours makes people a bit crazy (not as crazy as the Lisa Lisa duo) even though the time flies.

Here is a preview of two of our Demo Day cards. Cindy and Chrissy have made a couple of perfect cards for giving. Demo Day is Saturday May 16th from 11-4 PM. Just drop in to make 6 fun projects. Just $2 each. If you do all six demos, you will recieve a coupon for 10% off all your purchases for the day (not valid on classes or crops).

Lots of new Products

Hi Everyone,

Another busy weekend behind us. National Scrapbook Day was a lot of fun. Lets just say that there were some spilled jimmies and lots of laughs. If you haven't been to one of our crops, why not? We have a great time and chocolate. What more could you want? We are having an All Day Crop this Saturday for Mother's Day. Crop from 10 Am TO Midnight. 14 hours of cropping fun. We will be serving lunch and dinner and there will be crop prizes. Call in your reservation.

We spent lots of time entering in new products this week. Three all new My Mind's Eye Products, tons of new die cuts from Paper House and lots of new shades of Copics. I know that Doddlebug will be hitting next week. So on to the photos.





New Dew Drops



New Heidi Swapp Invisibles



New Copics



New Paper House



New Cat's Pajamas

Save a Tree, Be a Photo Scraps Bag Lady.

Photo Scraps wants to do our part in the movement to go Green. Many manufacturers are using recycled papers and soy inks. Karen Foster and Little Yellow Bicycle have given us fun tote bags to give out to our customers who want to go green. Spend $100 and you will receive a free tote bag. Here is the good part. All of our Photo Scraps Bag Ladies will enjoy 5% off of all future purchases in 2009 just for reusing your bag. (Bag must be present for discount to apply. Discount can not be combined with any other discounts or promotions. Not valid for classes or crops.)

National Scrapbook Day Celebration Join us on Saturday May 2nd to celebrate National Scrapbook Day. We are having a Pajama Crop that evening from 6 PM to 2 AM. Our crops are lots of fun and we serve dinner, beverages and this crop includes chocolate fondue. Just $15 Spend $25 on May 2nd (before tax, not including crop fees), you will receive a FREE Creative Cafe layout to go. We will have a few different layouts for you to choose from. Limit one per customer.

New May Calendar

Creative Café’ is here with new layouts weekly.
Fee $3 all packed and ready to go.

TGIF & Ladies Night Crops – We’ll be cropping every Friday and Saturday night from 6-midnight. Dinner and dessert will be served. Fee $15

Pajama Crop-Crop til you drop and chocolate fondue too. 6 PM to 2 AM Fee $15

Scrapping 101- Join Gina for this beginners class & learn the basics to page design and color selection. Bring 5-8 photos & make 2 great pages. Fee $12

Photoshop Elements – This intro class will teach you how to make a page from a digital kit. Fee $20

Basic Grey’s All About Me Page of the month club.
Join Gina and make 2 pages for each month. We will start with May & June layouts. If you decide to take all 6 sessions, you will receive a 13th set of layouts for free.

All Occasion Card class - You will be making 6 cards in this fast paced class. Fee $24

SEI Lovebirds Mega kit layout class – Join Gina for 8 great layouts with lots of goodies to spare. Fee $29

“Write On!” - Make a resolution to add more meaningful journaling to your scrapbooks in 2009! Join Gina A. to learn the art of story-telling on your pages. Each student will create a beautiful 6 x 6 scrapbook while learning WHAT and HOW to write, HANDWRITING tips, COMPUTER JOURNALING tips, How to add HIDDEN JOURNALING to your layouts, And MORE! $25

Copic & Cuttlebug Demo Day- Join us for 4 great projects using Copic markers and the Cuttlebug. We will be teaching coloring techniques and cutting & embossing techniques. 1 Free project – additional tickets $1.

Copic 101 class with Lisa Hetrick. - The class will cover practicing the 1,2,3,1 technique on the stamped images that you will build the cards with & demystifying the number coloring system and practicing the techniques. Fee $22 (if you bring your own Copics) or $39 and you will receive 3 Copics of our choosing in the same color family.

SEI Bridgeport Mini Album - Join Tracy and you will whip up this 20 page mini book in less than 2 hours. There are lots of extra embellishments for you to really decorate your book. Fee $24

Bo Bunny –Surprise Birthday Explosion Box class. Fee $25

Bo Bunny – Little Man – Flip Fold Layout – Join Tracy to make this interactive page all about your little guy. Fee $17

Flair Summertime Album – join Tracy for this 20 page 8x8 mini album class perfect for your summer photos. Fee $26

Bo Bunny Friends Layered Chipboard Album with the new Alyssa paper line. Fee $29

Lisa Hetrick Card classes – Join Lisa as she uses some of the newest stamp collections available along with Copic markers. Fee $21

Tiffany Backpack with Mini Cards and Candy Tower – Join Chrissy for this adorable project where you will learn how to make a paper backpack filled with mini cards. $24

Good Boy Doggie Album – Join Gina for this special mini book all about your doggie. Fee $19

6 Glittery Zoo Animal Cards with Jill – Fee $21

Splash Layout Class from Technique Tuesday – You will make a beautiful wave layout using Technique Tiles, inks and rubber stamps. You also get to keep the stamp set, ink pads and stickles. Fee $29

Preview of Copic & Cuttlebug Day

Happy Sunday!

It was nice going in late today and leaving early. Many of you know I always go in late but I usually stay late. We had a great crop yesterday but we had a ton of left over Italian food from J & P New York Pizza. Shon cleaned the house (ahhhhh, I'm very happy about that) and invited a bunch of people over for dinner. We still have left overs but now it is a managable amount.

We now have all our samples for our Copic & Cuttlebug Demo Day. You may be thinking that one card doesn't look like it has either Copic or Cuttlebug. True but since I made the card I wanted to play with new die cut cards we got in and the Tim Holtz ink blending tool we used at the convention in Boston. I like getting inky.

Join us Wednesday from 11-2 or 6-8 PM for our Demos. Just drop in and buy a ticket for each Demo you want to do. Each ticket is $1. We have having a special coupon for anyone who does 4 Demos, 20% off all Rubber Stamps (in stock and on the floor, not valid on special orders). We will also be having a Preview of our Photo Scraps Bag Lady Promotion. Details coming soon.

Preview of one of our cards for the Cuttlebug Copic Day

Hi all,

I got to play with paper and ink today. I'm working on a card for next week's Demo using Tim Holtz Distress Ink and the ink blening tool. Ok, I probably have too many steps but it will be a fun card.

Cindy has made an adorable owl card for the demo that uses the Copics. I'm happy that we finally have great paper for coloring with the Copics on our demo. The blending is fabulous with the Prism paper. Here is the Card from Cindy.

New Colors of Glitter paper from Best Creations

Hi All,

Today we got more boxes from Best Creations. They make the best glitter paper available, in my opinion. We restocked their adorable baby paper that has glittery zebras. Wait til you see the cards that Jill made with these papers. Class is coming soon. Of course, we also got some new stuff from them. I'll post photos tomorrow. I especailly love the new cards with die cut fronts.

Here is the class photo of the new card class I added to the calendar on May 6th from 6-8 PM. I used Basic Grey Eva paper pad along with fibers, letters and rub ons. Fee $21

Free Make N' Take Wednesday

Hi Everyone,

We have a pretty card for you today. Lisa Halstead used one of the new Cornish Heritage Farms stamps and some pretty Basic Grey paper.



We had some fun new customers visit our store for the first time today and they must of had a good time because Chela even put photos on her blog. Check out Chela's blog for some fun fashion scrapbooking inspiration.

New Layout of the week available

Hi everyone,

We had a fun and busy Demo Day on Saturday. Not as crazy as the cupcake Demo Day but lots of fun. I actually did a demo using the Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist. We got a little messy but that is the fun of the sprays.

Here is this weeks Layout of the Week.