Not Quite....

I was working on a layout ofmy son's birthday party and it was just missing something...Then this morning I walked into the store and the Queen and Company FELT had arrived! I am so excited! I will try to post the layout when I finish it. The felt is so cute and self-adhesive! Yeah!

It's official...

no one has been able to leave the store without a new paper in hand! And now the new HERO ARTS stamps have arrived! I made tons of samples when I was in Boston using the stamps so you will have to stop by and see them! Along with the clear and wood mount stamps, we also received clear note cards, flowers (very cute!) and acrylic tags. If you have seen a Hero Arts stamp that you just love and have to have, but we do not have it, stop by the store on Saturday morning... we are going to take special orders for Hero Arts stamps! This will be on Saturday, April 26th only! And you may want to come early as we have a bus load of ladies from Binghamton invading our store in the afternoon! See you soon!

Bo Bunny is Here...

Yes, it arrived today and I already sense the need to re-order... we received 3 of the new word chipboard books: Friends, Family, and Love. I decorated one the other day and they are so much fun.

And look at the papers...

They are hard to see well in the picture but the top row is from the Star Struck Collection, the second row is the Organic Collection, then of course the Gone Wild papers and a little birthday one thrown in, and the bottom row is from the Double Dot Collection. I ordered a few new colors and then realized when I came back to the store that most of the first shipment that we had was sold out. Like I said...RE-ORDER!

In addition we also got a few chipboard shapes that I cannot wait to play with. I am really loving the chipboard. It is a fun element on scrapbook pages and cards! I am off to scrapbook a little bit for myself. With all the planning and creating we have been doing for the Windmill, I have not had any time. Looking forward to seeing you all soon!

Check out my Slide Show!

ScrapKit Club Meeting on Tuesday

If you have not checked this out yet, now is the time! We have a great meeting coming up on Tuesday! Not only will people be sharing what they have done with their kits from last month, but we will be learning a technique, SEWING on our layouts, and picking up our new kits which consists of some very fun stuff! And, everyone that comes will be getting a special coupon and will get to see some of the new products that just came in! If you cannot make it this month but want to come in May, I will make up some extra kits. Just stop by the store to pick one up!

Ideas?

Okay, I need your help... as most of you know we have a Pazzles Creative Cutter machine at the store that we us to create various titles and shapes that people can use for their cards and scrapbook pages. I am in the process of coming up with more designs and I am wondering...what should I do? Please post your comments if you have ideas on what I should create and what colors I should use. I know what I like and what I would use, but I need to know what YOU are looking for!

They're here.....

Some of the new products have started to arrive! Wait until you see the new papers from SEI - absolutely stunning! They have mother's day written all over them! Pink and brown, butterflies and hearts, glitter and foil... Yummy!

We also go new stamps in from Technique Tuesday and Verses! Hope you stop in soon to check it all out!

Here are Barb and I just before beginning our all day Ranger workshop. Notice that we are still clean! We did end up getting a little messy that day but hey, we played hard, what do you expect! We really learned a lot about so many Ranger products! My personal favorite was the paint dabbers. http://www.rangerink.com/products/prod_paint_adirondackdab.htm

We used them to stamp with, we created backgounds by blending colors, we even "splatted" with them (hence, the aprons!) ... they are so versitile! I have used them to paint on the canvases and they work beautifully. The colors are fantastic!

The workshop was so fantastic, I cannot wait to share more with all of you. Please feel free to ask me any questions about the products and I will do my best to help you out.

Before I sign out, take a look at the box of goodie I got for the workshop...

New Products Ordered

Check out the adorable chipboard albums that we ordered from BoBunny...

http://bobunny.com/word%20book%20web%20pages/family.htm

I cannot wait to embellish one of these!

We also ordered the "Organic" and "Star Struck" papers that were just released. The Organic papers are so feminine yet vibrant and the Star Struck collection really gets me thinking about fun pages - school, birthdays, playground...

http://bobunny.com/word%20book%20web%20pages/papers.htm

Of course, I could not leave without adding to our Polka Dot collection! These papers are just as versatile as regular cardstock - the colors are fantastic anyway you combine them! I cannot wait to see what the members of my ScrapKit Club came up with!

And wait til you see the Chololat collection from SEI! (The name says it all, right!) You can check the papers out on the web-site although it does not do them justice! They are foiled and glittered and shimmery...a mother's day project for sure with this paper! If you liked SEI's Holly Lane collection that we carried at Christmas, you will love this!

New kit

Just yesterday I put up a new canvas sample at the store. I am offering it as a class but I also decided to make a kit so that people would have the option of taking it home and making it. It is kind of hard to tell from the picture but I used the back side of the canvas so that the picture hangs freely in the middle. I think it would make a fantastic mother's day gift. You could even replace the one big picture with a few smaller ones all grouped together. I am anxious to find out what people think of it...

A Little More...

about what I did...

One of the things that I love about going to this wholesale show is that a lot of the owners of the companies are actually there, teaching you about their products, sharing ideas, giving you tips, etc.

I was lucky enough to work with Stacy, of Stacy stamps, for not just one but TWO classes. In the first class we learned about coloring stamped images with 2 different colored pencil techniques. I cannot wait to teach you all what I have learned! And because she designs her images to be colored, they look phenomenal! In the second class we created boxes of coordinating cards. The cards are simple and stunning and the box was so fun to make - I even got to use memory mist for the first time and loved the results! Another class you will just have to check out!

Jenni Bowlin of Jenni Bowlin Studios was another designer I was lucky enough to take a class with. She has designed for a number of companies including Autumn Leaves (one of my favorite companies!). She shared with us a lot of ideas and we got to play with some of her new products!

I will try to get some pictures posted soon of some of the projects that I made.

We're back!

Barb and I have just returned back from Boston! What a fun (and exhausting) time it was! Between the two of us we took almost 20 classes (wow!) and one ALL DAY CLASS with Ranger! That was a blast! We truly feel like we played all weekend! However, we did work - worked hard on placing orders! We left Boston with about 10 orders placed with companies such as Magenta, SEI, My Favorite Things, Stacy Stamps, Technique Tuesday, Serendipity, BoBunny, Creative Impressions, Hero Arts, Hampton Art... We just cannot wait to get those boxes open!