June has arrived and so has the heat

Hi everyone,



I hope you are managing to stay cool in this crazy hot weather. Kirstin had her last football game on Saturday (they won) and it was blazing hot out there. I love going to her games but it was a bit much. Luckily, Shon brought a beach umbrella.





Now that school is out, you may not think you have time to scrap, but we have many solutions for that problem. Our classes are 2 hours of creativity and a dose of fun. If you want some major time to work on your projects, come out to a Friday or Saturday night crop from 6-midnight. Most days you can even come in early to crop to make the most of your time.





Only have 10 minutes, come in with some adhesive and whip up a quick Creative Cafe layout. I have kits already to be put together. I've got the ink out and pieces cut. Just $3 per page. Here is this week's project.











Here are some of the New KaiserCraft paper that just happen to match Creative Cafe. Do you think they planned that? hmmm...











I'm so excited that Jill has decided to teach her first class for us. She is a gifted card maker and is creating a batch of Elzybell cards just for us ladies. Here is a sample of the type of cards you can make in her class on June 17th from 6-8 PM.














Join me on Monday June 23rd from 6-8 PM for this adorable Luggage Tag Album from Basic Grey using the papers from the Sultry line. Please Bring an Exacto knife and cutting mat along with your paper trimmer, scissors and strong adhesive.


Great Impressions card class with Susan
Wednesday June 25th from 6-8 PM



Join Susan as she makes 4 of this months’ stamp of the month cards. You will learn wonderful coloring techniques and play with stamping on vellum. Fee $20








Basic Grey Sugared & Spice Mini Album by Gina Adolph -
Monday June 30th 6-8 PM



I finally talked Gina Adolph into teaching a class for me and I can't tell you how adorable this mini album is. Gina will show you how to create this 12 page mini album from cover to cover in this 2 hour class. You will be altering some of the chipboard pages so please bring your basic tool kit, including paper trimmer, scissors, strong adhesive (for Chipboard) and an exacto knife and mat. Fee $29











Demo Day has been moved to the last Saturday in June, June 28th from 11-4 PM. We moved the demo day to be sure that anyone going to the Great American Scrapbook Convention would not miss our demo day.





Here are a preview of a few of our Demos.





Imaginisce A Shore Thing Layout





Scenic Route Liberty layout.





Adorable owl card from Hero Arts.

Have you heard the news? We are taking part in A*muse*a*palooza. This week long event is sponsored by A*muse Stamp company and is sure to be lots of fun. As soon as we have all the activities planned, we will post the schedule. I do know that Monday July 7th will feature a free card make and take and that we are planning an all A*muse demo day on Saturday the 12th. Stay tuned for details.

In the mean time, we just received a large order of A*muse stamps including a great selection of the adorable Elzybells line.

Do you love red, white and blue paper? We just got in lines from KaiserCraft (boy papers), Scenic Route Liberty line and Bo Bunny Freedom Line.

More great Birthday papers from Creative Imaginations.

Bo Bunny Summer Cottage line is perfect for all your summer picnic & BBQ photos.


Two more fun lines from KaiserCraft with their fabulous double sided papers.


BLING Galore. Every color of Kaiser rhinestones and pearls are available, including the new black pearls and rhinestones.

Bo Bunny has done an amazing job with their new sports paper lines. All the paper are double sided and very grungy. Futbol (Soccer), Grid Iron, Slam Dunk and Home Run papers are all in stock.

I couldn't resist showing off my boy in a layout from KaiserCraft. He was posing for me at Kirstin's football game.

June Calendar & Class Descriptions

Creative Café’ is here and Happy Hour ideas will be served. New ideas weekly. Fee is based on your creations. Pre-packaged layouts $3 each

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

Intro to PhotoShop Elements 5 - 1 page – This class will teach you the basic steps involved with creating your first digital layout. Please bring at least one digital photo with you on disc or memory card. You will leave with your first 12 x 12 digital layout. Fee $20

Intro to Going Hybrid with Lisa Hetrick – Lisa will show you some great photo editing techniques in PhotoShop and then you will print out your photos to use on a paper scrapbook page. Fee $22

Great Impressions Stamp of the Month card class – Join Susan as she makes 4 of this months’ stamp of the month cards. You will learn wonderful coloring techniques and stamping on vellum. Fee $20

Make 8 scrapbook pages using Scenic Route’s or Liberty line Or My Mind’s Eye Bohemia lines. Join Gina as she shows you how to create 8 bright cheery pages and still have embellishments left over. Fee $26

Make 10 scrapbook pages using Scenic Route’s Grafton line. Join Gina as she shows you how to create 10 bright cheery pages and still have embellishments left over. Fee $29

My Word Travel Album from Bo Bunny – This fast paced class will teach you how to cover and embellish a TRAVEL word album. Perfect Coffee Table brag book. Please Bring Exacto knife and cutting mat along with your paper trimmer, scissors and strong adhesive. Fee $28

Basic Grey Luggage tag Mini Album- You will receive a 6x6 Sultry paper pad, full sheet of matching stickers, button pack, ribbon pack and a Luggage tag Album to create this adorable mini album. This class will be a fast paced class using an exacto knife. Fee $29

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

Beachy Keen Coaster Album Class – Lisa Hetrick will show you how to take some round coasters and 2 pieces of paper and make them into an adorable interactive mini book. Please Bring Exacto knife and cutting mat along with your paper trimmer, scissors and strong adhesive. Fee $22

Aloha Stamping layouts and cards- You will get a whole set of Aloha flower stamps to take home and make 4 great pages and 3 cards. Fee $33

Lucky Star Mini Album – This bright boy’s album will be perfect to use for showing off your son’s starring moments. Fee $28

Amuse Stamps Card Class- Join Jill and Elzybells and make adorable rubber stamped creations. Fee $22

Best of Times 20 page 6x6 Chipboard Mini Album
Class. Perfect for family reunion photos. Fee $30

Very Happy Birthday Cards with Lisa Hetrick- You will make four adorable birthday cards using clear stamps and you get to keep the stamps too! Fee $22

Sand bucket Chipboard Album Class featuring Totally Tropical papers. Gina made another mini book masterpiece. Please Bring Exacto knife and cutting mat along with your paper trimmer, scissors and strong adhesive. Fee $26

PhotoShop Open House – Tracy be demonstrating all the cool things that can be created digitally and answering questions. Free

Photoshop Brushes class – Join Tracy and learn how to make and use brushes in Photoshop. This class does require basic PhotoShop knowledge. Please bring some photos that you would like to creat a brush with. Fee $20

Basic Grey Sugared Album class – Join Gina as she teaches you great techniques with chipboard. You will make this 12 page 6 x 6 chipboard album and have paper left over. Fee $29

New for Summer ---- Children’s Classes
Father’s Day cards with Cindy Fee $10
Blackboards to Go – Fee $10

The classes will have 2 back to back sessions with the little ones (4-8) from 10:30-11:30 and the older children (9-14) from 11:30-12:30. The second sessions will have more difficult projects.

June Classes and of course, New Products

Hi Everyone,

I know it has been a while since I posted some news. I've been chatting with all our great instructors and trying to come up with the June class schedule. It is almost ready and should be out by Friday.

The good news is that Cindy Kneise (I may have spelled that wrong) has agreed to come back and teach our children's classes this summer. Yeah!!! We finalized the classes and talked dates. This year we will be breaking up most of the activities into 2 groups; younger children 4-8 and older children 9-14. The classes will be held back to back so that if you have 2 children in different age brackets, they can both take the class and have fun. Cindy will be making the projects for the older group more complex and challenging for them. Class sizes will be limited so sign up soon.

First class is Friday June 13th from 10:30 to 11:30 for 4-8 year olds and 11:30 to 12:30 for the older children. We will be making Father's day cards. Fee $10

June 25th from 10:30 to 11:30 for 4-8 year olds and 11:30 to 12:30 for the older children. We will be decorating a chalkboard with paint and embellishments. This project can be used for their name or for them to draw and have fun with chalks at home. Fee $10

Check back here soon and I'll have dates and class descriptions for the rest of the summer program.

We still have a couple of kits left from last week's Creative Cafe layout (the one on the right). For this week's layout I used some of the new Scenic Route graph paper background and the adorable stripe paper from Little Yellow Bicycle.

Preview of next Week's Creative Cafe layout. I used the new Worn Graph Paper from Scenic Route, a bit of Basic Grey Two Scoops and our new library pocket and tag. This layout will be available on Monday June 2nd for $3.

Sand Bucket Chipboard Album Class with Gina -

Thursday June 12th 6-8PM

Gina created another mini book masterpiece. This adorable sandbucket album is perfect for highlighting your fun beach photos. Fee $26

Great Impressions card class with Susan

Wednesday June 25th from 6-8 PM

Join Susan as she makes 4 of this months’ stamp of the month cards. You will learn wonderful coloring techniques and play with stamping on vellum. Fee $20

Idea book central is here. I am an idea book junkie so I have LOTS of new idea books. We have Page Maps on order for those of you that requested that wonderful book.

New Heidi Grace papers and embellishments.

Get ready for carnival time with all our amusement park papers and stickers.

Glue dots to go are a great new tool. I always get the dots stuck all over the place from the paper rolls so these will be my new favorite toy.

Lisa and I went ribbon shopping and found some great new ribbons and cords from Beaux Regards.

Creating Keepsakes magazine featured these adorable chipboard albums from Cosmo Cricket and the Graph paper chipboard albums from Scenic Route in July's hottest 10 new items column.


I couldn't resist getting the Laurel, Loveland and Liberty collections from scenic route. Once you see the ten layouts you can create with these papers, you will want them too.


New Happy Birthday lines from Creative Imaginations. We have the boy paper and embellishments also.


Just when you thought that there are no other adorable baby lines out there (since we have them all), we found Baby Powder from Imaginesce. Their birthday line is too cute. The best part is that they have matching $1 stamps and $3 stamp sets. There are even invitation sets for birthday and baby shower.

If you haven't seen our stamp sections lately, you need to stop in. We have gotten orders from Hero Arts, Stamps by Judith, Stampendous, Inkadinkadoo, Autumn Leaves, Amuse and Great Impressions.

Our Travel section is overflowing with selections.

New (for us) Basic Grey Pheobe and Perhaps. I just love these colors.

We received a new album order from Colorbok.

This is the layout of the week from May 18th. We still have a few available behind the counter.

This is the layout for June 1st.

Cosmo Cricket, Flocked papers and NoteWorthy all in stock now.

Hi All,

We loved our UPS man today because he brought us Cosmo Cricket, Noteoworthy, new Doodlebug papers and some of the new Crushed velvet flocked papers. We also got some great scrapping totes and huge art bins to store your papers, layouts or even albums.







Preview of next weeks Creative Cafe layout. This will be available on Monday. All pieces will be cut and ready for you to make. I am now offering Creative Cafe to go for those of us that can't manage to spend some creative time in the store. I'll have this weeks layout all packaged up to either make in the store or to go.