Friday, April 30, 2010

Celebrate National Scrapbook Day with us! Sale details

Hi Everyone,

Our Celebration for National Scrapbook Day is SO Big we needed two weekends to fit everything in.

This weekend May 1 & 2 can you say.... Sale....Prizes....Crop Parties and Scraps Cash? 

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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

New BasicGrey is Here!

Hi Everyone,

In between having six Make'N'Take cards today, we got lots of BasicGrey boxes.  This release was huge.  Capella is an elegant wedding inspired line that will also look wonderful with heritage photos.  Max and Whiskars is a funky pet line filled with lots of cats and dogs.  Basics is a line of wonderful neutral papers that will work with any line, not just BasicGrey.  You will be seeing lots of these amazing papers since we will be using them for our Design Team in May!
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Here are the Little Yellow Bicycle Snugglebug Boy & Girl lines.
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We moved the Fancy Pants About a Girl line and Little Yellow Bicycle Free Spirit to the girls section.
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New Little Yellow Bicycle.

Hello

Today we received our new Little Yellow Bicycle Snuggle Bug baby line.  Adorable as usual.  I forgot to upload my photo so here is a bit from the Little Yellow Bicycle site.
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Tina made a great Father's Day card for our next Demo Day.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

May Calendar & New Class Photos

May Calendar is here.
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Thursday April 29th 6-8 PM

Green at Heart Chipboard Album  Fee $25
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Sunday May 2nd  2-4 PM
BasicGrey Mothers Day cards and Card Holder  Fee $24
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Monday May 3rd 6-8 PM
KaiserCraft Family Tree
Just in time for Mother's Day. We will be decorating our tree with the brand new my Mind's Eye So Sophie papers.  Fee $20

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Tuesday May 4th 6-8 PM
Fun in the Sun
Join Gina for this adorable Bo Bunny Mini Album. Fee $26
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Wednesday May 5th 6-8 PM
Stamping 101


We have had many requests for this class. Come learn all the basic stamping techniques from Lisa Hetrick. Fee $20



Thursday May 6th 6-8 PM
Flutter Clear album
You will be all ready for spring with this adorable clear album using the Bind-It-All and Making Memories Flutter paper and embellishments. Fee $25
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All Day Crop for National Scrapbook Day


Join us for an all day crop filled with food (Lunch & Dinner), prizes and friends. Fee $30

Closed for Mother's Day

Monday May 10th
Scrapping 101

Intro to Scrapbooking with Gina -
Gina will teach you all you need to know to make your first scrapbook pages. You will learn how to use tools, pick colors and how to adhere your photos safely. Fee $12

Tuesday May 11th 6-8 PM
Quick Quotes Summer Layout class Fee $25
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Wednesday May 12th 6-8 PM
Copic 101 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 get to pick 3 Copic markers.

Thursday May 13th
Copic 102 class with Lisa Hetrick. -



The class will include how to: 1. Shadows and Light Source. How to shade with the light source in mind.2. Colorless Blender Technique. How to fade to white and marker to blender pen pushing. 3. Blending Solution Techniques. Using the colorless blending solution to create texture (and a surprise technique Fee $22 (if you bring your own Copic blender pen) or $28.49 including the blender pen.

Sunday May 16th 1-3 PM
 Here are the final card samples for Lisa's Tim Holtz Distress Ink Techniques class. You will also me making a technque sample sheet. Fee $25
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Fancy Pants and Maya Road Envelope Album
Join Tracy for this adorable chipboard album filled with beachy embellishments. Fee $26
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Monday May 17th
"Write" On! June 10th  6-8 PM


Still wondering how to add more meaningful journaling to your scrapbooks? 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! **** We may substitute a different paper line.

Each student should bring:Paper trimmer & ScissorsAdhesiveFavorite journaling pen in BLACK A photo or embellishment that represents the following topics:(one for each topic) Home, Childhood, Laughter/fun Fee $25
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Quick Quotes Sweet Summer Fun Album

Summer is just around the corner and you can enjoy adding your pictures to this 5"x7" Canvas "Sweet Summer Sun" inspired kit. With vibrant blues from our Summertime Blues Paper line this book will catch everyone's eye. In this 6 page kit you will receive Chipboard,Cardstock Laser Die cuts, Vellum, Ribbon and Jewels for a touch of bling. Bonus this month! We have added an extra mini accordion book as a Bonus project. Fee $30
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Saturday, April 24, 2010

New My Mind's Eye arrived today!

Hi Everyone,

If you know me at all, you know I love My Mind's Eye.  They have created So Sophie and Meadowlark filled with springy patterns.   Meadowlark has such wonderful black and white patterens that it would make a gorgeous wedding album.
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Wednesday  April 28th Copic & Cuttlebug Demo Day 11-8 PM
We are all ready for our Copic & Cuttlebug Demo Day.  This time we created six lovely cards using some Hero Arts stamps, Stampendous stamps and even SRM stickers.  We do the cutting and you do the gluing and coloring. Just drop in anytime after 11 AM and purchase tickets for $2 each at the front counter for however many Demos you want to create. We provide glue sticks so if you prefer tape, please bring a labeled tape runner. If you get to the store by 7PM, you should have enough time to do all the demos.
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Friday, April 23, 2010

New Memory Box, Creative Imaginations and We R Memory Keepers

The newest We R Memory Keepers line arrived today. 
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New Memory Box Butterfly stamps.  Great card samples too.
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These are mixed with a few of the new Impression Obsession stamps.
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Here are the new wood block Hero Art stamps.  We got more of their cute $1 stamps.
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New Memory Box 12 x12 papers.
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We got tons of Creative Imaginations products.
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All the New Distress Inks are back in stock.
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Tuesday May 18th  6-8 PM
Fancy Pants and Maya Road Envelope Album
Join Tracy for this adorable chipboard album filled with beachy embellishments.
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Coming in June! June 10th to be exact.  6-8 PM
Quick Quotes Sweet Summer Fun Album


Summer is just around the corner and you can enjoy adding your pictures to this 5"x7" Canvas "Sweet Summer Sun" inspired kit. With vibrant blues from our Summertime Blues Paper line this book will catch everyone's eye. In this 6 page kit you will receive Chipboard,Cardstock Laser Die cuts, Vellum, Ribbon and Jewels for a touch of bling.  Bonus this month! We have added an extra mini accordion book as a Bonus project.   Fee $30
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Here is one of our next Demo Day cards.  Linda M. will teach you how to color these beautiful butterflies.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

New Hero Arts Stamps are here!

Hi Everyone,

We didn't know that we would be recieving our Hero order today, so we planned a 2 card Demo for tomorrow (Wednesday April 21st) using the New Stampendous stamps.  Each card is just $2.  We have everything ready for you to stamp and color with Copics.
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Since this is also a premiere of the Stampenous line, we will have the catalogs available for ordering.  Any $20 purchase of Stampendous stamps, in stock or pre-orders, will receive a Stampendous catalog filled with great card ideas.


We have all been waiting patiently for our Hero Arts order to arrive.  It's HERE!  It has all been entered in the computer. Gina has been hard at work trying to price it and put it all out.   Here is a photo of the basket filled with Hero Stamps.
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Here are a few clings we got.
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Monday May 3rd 6-8 PM
KaiserCraft Family Tree
Just in time for Mother's Day.  We will be decorating our tree with the brand new my Mind's Eye So Sophie papers.  (They will be in the store on Friday)
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