GARAGE SALE at Scrapper's Friend

We are having our very first Scrapbook Garage Sale on Saturday and Sunday, March 1 and 2 during our regular store hours. We are looking for scrappers and/or stampers who want to get rid of their new in package or gently used scrapbook and stamp supplies. Table fee is $10 for 4 ft. Sign up starts Saturday, February 2nd at 10 am. Sign up early as space is limited!!

Explosion Box Class

I taught this cute project at the Fall Scrapper's Jam and had several requests to teach it again at the store, so here you go... It's a box, no, it's a scrapbook--no, it's an expolosion box! Learn to create this cute explosion box album. You'll be taking home a 4x4 album in a box which opens or explodes into a cool little album when you take off the lid. Think of the possibilities--center piece for graduation or baby's first birthday party, a cute gift box, a thank you box, anything you could think of! Class is scheduled on Saturday Feb 23rd from 1-2:30 p.m. Class fee is $15. I only have 2 seats left for this class. Please email me at scrapbooks@hawaii.rr.com to reserve your seat!

PRE-ORDER your CROP-A-DILE II: Big Bite & Case

Limited Time Preorder Special! 10% off!!! Crop-A-Dile II Big Bite, MSRP $39.99....pre-order now for $35.99! Case is sold separately for $12.99...pre-order now for $11.69!

This is a preorder for the much anticipated Crop-a-dile II Big Bite and Big Bite Case! The products are due to ship from the manufacturer in March and we will keep updates to shipping dates posted here.

Please email me at scrapbooks@hawaii.rr.com to pre-order.

The 6" reach of the Crop-a-Dile II allows you to set Gromlets, eyelets, snaps, and anything else you need a hole for in the middle of a 12" x 12" page!

NEW from QUICKUTZ

Look at all the new products from Quickutz. We have a very limited number of new Quickutz dies coming in. If you're interested, please email me at scrapbooks@hawaii.rr.com to pre-order. Pre-order the full line of the January Quickutz new alphabet set and shapes and receive 30% ($172.12, reg $245.89)off. Receive 25% off ($104.99, reg $139.99)if you pre-order Diesel alphabet set and 25% off($79.42, reg $105.90) if you order the 9 shapes. Klub QK members will receive an additional 5% off.

LOVE-ly CD Album Class

How LOVE-ly! Join Marisa as we use all the toys available at the store--errr--almost all, that is! :) Let's recycle those Clear CD dust protectors and create this cute album ready to give away to your Valentine on Heart Day. :) We'll play with the Zutter binding machine, Quickutz cookie cutters, scallop punch, alcohol inks, paints, stamps, cardstocks, chipboard, flowers, bling, lasercut, and really ladies, what's Valentine's without ribbons and lace? :) Please bring your Crop and Glue adhesives or gluedots, clear adhesive (tombow or similar) and scissors. Class will be on Saturday, Feb 2 from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. Class fee is $25.00. Seats are limited. Please email Marisa at scrapbooks@hawaii.rr.com to reserve your seats!

WARNING: This class is not for the manicured, weak-at-heart Scrapper! :D

More from our Philippine Design Team Member, Cabbie Lopez

cherish gift jar using alcohol ink.

materials:
plastic jar ( you can substitute any glass jar)
pebbles ribbons and red ribbon
alcohol inks: bottle, terracota, red pepper, pesto, copper mixative
wrmk white out layered chipboard
kandc grand adhesions sticker

instructions:
1. clean your jar well and apply alcohol inks with the mixative on the outside surface.
2. tie the 2 ribbons on the mouth of the jar.
3. attach sticker to layered chipboard.
4. place your gift/stuffed doll on the mouth of the jar.




title : stripes

materials: dcwv cardstock black and orange, flair designs heavyweight alpha cardstock and bake out pattern paper ( hidden tag), fancy pants felt shapes, basic grey buttons, tulip puffy white, CI brad, american craft plastic arrow, ek success corner adorner; diamond glaze

instructions:

1. adhere picture.
2. position heavyweight alpha cardstock irregularly beside the picture as the title.
3. coat the alphas with diamond glaze. let dry.
4. you can alternate the use of pop dots for title.
5. glue felt shapes on the lower right part of the picture and attach brad.
6. put buttons on the title edge.
7. write broken lines with puffy paint on lower left side of the picture.
8. cut out tag shape with orange cardstock and mat with bake out pattern paper.
9. write your journaling and insert on right side of the picture partially exposing the tag.

Correction

Friends, I made a boo-boo. There were way too many coupons I sent out that I didn't catch one where I reversed the prices.

CORRECTION: Coupon for Quickutz Spotlight Cookie Cutter Grand Unicase Alphabet Set shows sale for $129.99 (reg 69.99)--I reversed the sale and reg prices. Coupon should read SALE for $69.99 (reg $129.99).

This error was made even after I proof-read the coupons twice before I sent out. Sorry for the inconvenience, I blame it on old age. :)

If you didn't receive the coupons email and/or want to receive the coupons, please email me at scrapbooks@hawaii.rr.com and I'll email you a corrected coupon list. :)

CARD CLASS

We're having our card class this month and our new teacher, Melissa Padilla, will be teaching this class. Melissa brings in a fresh outlook and techniques to her cards--please see picture below. Space is limited, so please hurry and sign up. Also, those of you who asked to reserve seats for this class last month, could you please email me at scrapbooks@hawaii.rr.com to confirm?

So, without further ado, below is Melissa's class description and picture of the cards she'll teach you.

"Happy New Year, Everyone! I'm Melissa and I'll be teaching card classes on January 26th. Inspired by the film Moulin Rouge, the color scheme and embellishments harken to a bohemian look with a bit of bling. Techniques we'll be using include embossing powder and glossy and crackle Accents. Remember to bring useful tools such as your usual adhesives and tools. Optional: heat gun and cropadile (for eyelets). 10 cards for $15.00
All Occasion Cards from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm and St. Valentine's Day Cards from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm"

COUPONS

I sent an email with COUPONS attached--2 pages worth! Coupons are good until January 31, 2008. A lot of Quickutz products in line with Quickutz sale--discounts only available this month.

If you didn't receive an email or would like to receive email with coupons, please email me at scrapbooks@hawaii.rr.com.

See you soon and HAPPY SHOPPING! :)

NEW PRODUCTS!

Two Scoops, Basic Grey's new line, came in late last week to grace our store together with K and Company's Smitten and Cloud 9's Be Loved. View all these and other new products at the store:

DT Layouts: Donna's

Note to self (altered notebook)

Materials:

Notebook, preferably not the spring-type
1 Fresh from the vine Flair Designs pattern paper
1 prima flower
1 brad
transparency
Tim Holtz Alcohol Inks (Mountain Vineyard)
Black permanent marker
Black journaling pen
Glitter pen (that coordinates with the paper - Orange, Brown or Red)
Brown sheer ribbon

1. Adhere Fresh from the vine paper (double-sided adhesive advisable). Trim as necessary.
2. On the transparency, dab alcohol inks and when dry, draw a flower using the permanent marker. Cut to flower shape and adhere on the lower right most of the notebook. Trim as necessary.
3. Place the Prima flower on top of the transparency flower and secure with a brad.
4. Gather and tie the brown sheer ribbon as shown. Hand-write NOTE TO SELF as shown with black journaling pen first then with glitter pen.

NOTE: to hide the pokes of the brad (notebook's flap, inside when opened), adhere a strip of paper and write PROPERTY OF to make it look like it's part of the design.



Love of Coffee (mini-album)

Materials;

1 Rust DCWV cardstock
1 Coffee Talk Flair Designs patterned paper
1 Wine Red DCWV cardstock
2 18inches coordinating ribbons
Brown writing pen
Floss and a big needle

1. Cut RUST cardstock in half yielding 2 pcs of 6x12 cardstocks.
2. Score in the middle so you can fold it in half. Thread floss through the middle in even spaces, this will create the base of the mini-album. You should have four panels after doing step two.
3. Cut patterned paper in 6 3x6. Tear the edges (3 on top and the other 3 at the bottom).
4. Adhere the 3x6 pps in middle of the front and back covers. Then alternately adhere the rest of the patterned papers on the panels EXCEPT on the 2nd to the last one. Make a pocket for memorabilias (tickets etc) and tags (adhere only the two sides and bottom part of the pattern paper). TAGS - cut two 3.5x4 Wine Red DCWV cardstock and staple a piece of Coffee talk patterned paper on each tags.
5. Decorate front cover with die cut hearts, doodlings and a hand-written title.
6. Gather the ribbons in the middle of the mini-album and tie as shown.



Our Holiday Tradition:

Materials:

1 DCWV Green cardstock
1 DCWV White cardstock
2 Pebbles Inc. patterned papers
1 MM green with dots brad
6 buttons (red, green, white)
1 Pebbles Inc. magnetic clip
2 push pins (green and red)
2 small heart chipboards
Chalk ink (red)
ribbon
glitter pen (red)
Stickles (Diamond)
Writing pen (brown)
Optional: scalloped decorative scissors

1. Cut 6x6 from 2 patterned papers. Scallop edges, it may be free-style cutting or draw scallops around the edges of the 6x6 patterned papers first then cut. Adhere on the green base cardstock and doodle around with glitter pen.
2. Mat photo on white cardstock and adhere as shown. Dot the edges with glitter.
3. Cut strips from two different patterned papers. Adhere on top and bottom of the base cardstock. You may add details on the bottom strip by cutting scalloped edges. Decorate with 3 buttons on each strips. Scallop the left-side edge of the layout and add some doodling with a glittered pen.
4. Cut 2 2x3 1/2 white cardstock. Decorate one with a Christmas tree with glitters and doodlings. On the layout shown, the tree was handcut from a lighter shade of green cardstock and the trunk is a scrap of beige paper. The other one is for journaling. Adhere both with a brad.
5. Cut the big clip in half (for personal choice, I peeled away the magnets on the clip), adhere on the right upper-most of the photo as shown. Tie two ribbon knots and use push pins to top it on the big clip/s. I pinned two hearts (painted and glittered) to the other end of the push pins.
6. The title/s on the layout were hand-written/cut. Ink a bit of red chalk and run some glitter on the letters. Adhere as shown. Doodle "our" and a swirl to finish off your title.



Through Scrapbooking

Materials:

1 Wine Red DCWV cardstock
1 Light green DCWV cardstock
1 Spicy Dots Flair Designs pattern paper
4 Prima flowers
2 Brads
Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink (Cabin Cupboard)
Tin foil
Black permanent writing pen
Brown ribbon
Optional: a portion of Fresh from the vine Flair Designs pattern paper (handcut flowers)

1. Cut:

1 9.5x9.5 inches green cardstock
4 1inch strips of patterned paper (scalloped freehand or with decorative scissors)
2 10.5 brown ribbon
2 8.5 brown ribbon

2. Mat wallet-sized photo on the same color as base cardstock. Corner-round (all four corners) of the two bigger photos.
3. Adhere the green cardstock first on the base cardstock (middle part), the patterned paper strips (just above the green cardstock) and then the photos, as shown.
4. Adhere ribbons, covering the edge where the green cardstock and the patterned paper meet.
5. Using a tin foil (on the sample layout, I used tin foil from a powder milk can), dab alcohol inks that matches your papers. Draw small flowers using black permanent writer (I used American Craft Slick Writer). Handwrite your title as well, as shown on the layout. Then cut. (NOTE: Careful with the tin foil, it has sharp edges and may cut your hands)
6. Place flowers with brads (as shown) and glue on the tin foil flowers. Optional: handcut flowers using green patterned paper. Instead of handcutting the flowers, you may use any other flower that matches your papers and photos.
7. On the two Prima flowers at the leftside upper-most of the greencardstock, I used the same green patterned papers and mounted it on foam tapes before gluing the small tin foil flowers.
8. Cut strips of patterned paper for your journaling. Adhere title first and then the journaling strips. Doodle around the strips.

DT Layouts: Cabbie's

title: the little moments

materials:

pattern papers: prima romantica
basic grey book clips
KI memories pop art culture lace paper
MME bohemia title cards
scenic route chipboard
jenny bowlin scallop notes
imaginese rub ons
stickles

instructions:

1. adhere picture. crop some pictures if needed.
2. cut lace paper into a size of 5x1.5 inch and apply stickles on upper exposed area.
3. cut pattern paper strip 5.5x1 inch and tear one side horizontally ( the torn area facing downwards).
4. position paper strip and lace paper horizontally side by side on left side.
5. place title on top of the 2 paper strips using pop dots.
6. attach bookclips and chipboard.
7. attach scallop notes and use rub ons.

IN-STORE SPECIALS

We are preparing for our trip to attend the WINTER CHA at Anaheim in February and we need to make space for new products we’ll order. Sooo...from now until February, we will have weekend in-store specials between 25% to 50% off!

To start, on Saturday and Sunday, January 5th and 6th, ALL Halloween and Christmas-themed products are BUY 1, GET 1 50% off!

Please don’t forget our new Sunday hours from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. See you at the store! Mahalo! :)

HELP WANTED:

We are looking for someone to help us at the store on weekends to start immediately. Are you a scrapper or stamper or both, loves to be around people, knowledgeable of the scrapbook industry, and has experience in retail? You might be the person we are looking for! If so, please email your resume to Marisa at scrapbooks@hawaii.rr.com by Friday, January 11th.

ORANGE LABEL SALE EXTENDED!

We are extending our ORANGE Label SALE until February 29th: ALL PRODUCTS with ORANGE Labels are 50% off regardless of the discount written on the orange label.