Wine Fest Weekend

Well, there's no wine at the store this weekend (kinda makes your pages turn out a little crooked) but there are several events of interest. Saturday night Oct 9 4 PM - 11 PM the crop room will be available for crafters. For only $7, you get full access to all the dies and lots of room to work on your projects.

Sunday Oct 10 1-3 PM the store is hosting an Intro to Scrapbooking class for $15. This is a great way to get started in the hobby. Bring 3-5 photos and you will leave with a completed 12 x 12 layout. All supplies and equipment are provided.

Card Swap anyone?

The store has hosted a card swap for the past several months. You may have noticed the samples posted by the cash register. Here are three cards that were recently swapped for our Halloween themed swap. We swap cards twice a month with varying themes and supplies. If you would like to be included in the details, please email me at marcie.cards@yahoo.com and I will add you to our email list.

Upcoming Events

Saturday, October 9 4-11 PM Crop Night $7

Sunday Oct 10 1-3 PM Intro to Scrapboking Class $15 This is a great way to explore this hobby, learn new techniques, and leave with a completed 12 x 12 layout.

Saturday October 16
Crafters' Garage Sale! The store opens an hour early at 9:00 for this event. All sales in the garage sale are CASH only. This is a great way to collect supplies at a discount price if you're just starting the hobby.

If you're a veteran and are running out of room at home for all your supplies, consider purging the surplus as a seller at the garage sale. Just call the store by Oct 12 to get a vendor number. Drop off your items on Oct 15 and then collect your proceeds afterwards. You get to spend the day relaxing while the store volunteers sell your items. Proceeds can be collected in two ways: 50% of your sales in cash OR 100% of your sales in store merchandise.

The Canon representative will also return on Oct 16 11 - 3 PM to demonstrate her fantastic photo printers. Bring your memory cards and have her print out a photo for free.

Anyone for Tea Bag folding?

Are you intrigued by the tea bag folding card samples in the store? Janet will be at the store on Saturday, Oct 23 to teach a kite fold card class 10:30-12:30. Cost is $20. Everyone will make the wonderful snowflake card complete with glimmer and starburst. Attendees will use a Gemlet (an acrylic tea bag tile guide) and mini stamps to complete a unique medallion for the other card. You will have your choice of three different designs (Halloween, Christmas or Ladybug). The fold is so easy and versatile that you won't want to miss this class.
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Still Time to Join the Class

Toni's class "Creating Cards with Texture" will be held Sunday, October 31 1-3 PM. There are still some seats available. Samples of the class projects are posted in the store.

Crop!

The store is hosting a crop Friday, Oct 1 4 PM - 11 PM. Call to reserve a seat.

Technique Tuesday arrives!

If you're a card maker, you'll want to make a trip to the store to look at the new acrylic stamp sets by Technique Tuesday. There are two new border stamp sets that might interest you. There is also a biblical verse set by Ali Edwards.

The store has had many requests for peace sign stamps. The card pictured above was created with just one stamp set. The set includes several different styles of the peace sign. If you are looking for a unique design, there is also a single stamp of a peace sign created by flowers. Great if you like to use your copic markers to color.

The other card was created with a cupcake stamp set. The icing on the cakes was actually glitter. It really makes it a celebration!

All the Technique Tuesday stamps are located on the same display wall in the store.

Tim Holtz is in!

The store has received several new Tim Holtz items. Have you checked out his new enbossing folders? They come in a set of two. I snatched up the flourish set as that is a favorite design element. There is also a flourish die cut that I used on a store layout.

New Merchandise Arrives

As you can see from the fabulous photos, the store has received ALOT of new merchandise. The Autumn choices include Best Creation and Karen Foster. Halloween offerings include Best Creation (two different collections) and SEI. For Christmas, you can choose Karen Foster. AdornIt has a collection called "Vintage Groove" that has some amazing coordinating patterns/colors. Best Creation is known for offering glittery thermo embossed paper at a reasonable price.

My favorite collection is Best Creation "Bella"- that's the two bright photos above. It is perfect for spring-summer- happy little layouts. I love the bright green and pink colors!

Halloween Mini Album

Sept 26 4 - 6:30 will be a Halloween mini album class featuring the Best Creations Halloween collection. As you can tell from the photos, the book is adorable. You will leave with an album ready to fill with photos next month! (Doesn't that mean we will be ahead in our scrapping? Now that's scary!) Cost is $25.

Another disclaimer: If the photos look a little strange, you're right. I loaded the photos in order so you could see the album from front to back. As you can see the photos are arranged in reverse order. Sorry for any confusion. The book really is cute and is on display on the counter at the store.