Our October Water Color Journal class with Elizabeth Merriman was a total delight!

Some of the class members carpooled from Cave Junction, Merlin and Grants Pass. A fun idea to get friends together and craft. Elizabeth is relocating to California, but we will continue to have watercolor, pen and ink classes with our new instructor Hebert Veitenhans . Hebert has a wealth of art information about color theory, composition, and design. He tailors his encouraging teaching style to benefit whatever level his students are at. His classes will be of special interest to beginners.

New to the Fine Arts Department---------

Fredrix corner canvas -These fit into corners, or hang on a flat wall for a “floating effect”.

Koi Water Colors- in field boxes. We also carry other brands of compact sets.

Holbein oil pastels – non sticky in use

Airbrushes-Iwata Eclipse, Iwata BCR, Badger Mini Sandblaster Abrasive Sprayer Set, Compressors-Badger Whirl Wind, and Paasche. These are useful for ceramics, magna cartooning, t-shirt painting or you name it. They make a nice guy Christmas gift too!

Windsor-Newton- large water color pans with extra large surfaces for juicy, flowing washes.

Do you like to make books? We have all sorts of supplies-pincushions, large eye needles (and even larger eyed tapestry needles), binding threads in all colors and of course, handmade papers, glue, and chipboard. We have classes in book making too. These are really a lot of fun. Snacks, beverages and lunch included in class price. 

Mats, mats and more mats! Precut from sizes 5x7 on up. Some have an inner core of contrasting color for an attractive beveled edge. We also have a new shipment of mat boards in a variety of colors and metallics. You can cut your own mat using our mat cutter (you purchase blades…1.25 pack of 5) and we will show you how to set up the cutter.

Washi paper is in- it is the combination of the paper mulberry, mitsumata, and gampi bushes. Translucent and sheer yet flexible, and strong (it was used in armour at one time!) it can be used in bookmaking, printing, lamps, screens and of course, Japanese calligraphy.

Golden has a vast variety of gels, glosses and mediums. Our latest addition large gold mica flakes. Put a twinkle on your paper, wood or metal crafts!

New to the Scrap Booking Department-------------------------------------------

Girl Scout albums! The photo album holds up to 200 4x6in photos. We carry scrapbook kit (12x12) with page protectors and 76 piece embellishments included. This would make a wonderful Christmas gift for a scout. She will have hours of fun putting this together. We also have Girl Scout stickers, button embellishments, chipboards in soft feminine colors.

We have family tree posters, pedigree charts, family story papers, and guide books all beautifully done in the lithography style similar to that of Currier and Ives.

Ancestry.com (world’s largest family history website) has a free 7 day subscription with purchase of their album. Use this to find and print family history documents for the pages. We also carry their exquisite, decorative, penned black and white calligraphy rub-ons to give your pages and elegant look.

Heidi Snapp Bling now has self adhesive cherries in pink and red for a sweet, sparkly subtle accent on your paper crafts.

Ancient Dynasty Coins continue to be hot sellers, and we have refurbished our stock. They are just the thing for anything Asian- cards, papers, jewelry and clothing.

The Spellbinder Wizard is in! It is a light weight metal universal die and embossing machine that will work with just about any die or metal stencil!! DVD and instruction manual included.

Colored craft foils in shiny colors of green, copper, gold, blue and red are here! They are simply beautiful when used with the Spellbinders Wizard! Think embellishments for pages and cards, holiday ornaments, picture frame decorations, and whatever your creativity calls for. We will soon be offering a class on the many uses for this versatile machine.

Stitchez eyelet and perforated papers are in. These have pre- punched holes in heart, star, scallop and straight lines. Thread them with thin ribbon, embroidery floss or eyelash yarn to add beauty and dimension to your projects. These would be nice to use with romantic pages or valentine cards.

Congratulations to Cheryl Darling who won a Tim Coffey album and papers in our drawing at the Grants Pass Scrapbook Expo. We had a lot of fun there, made new friends, and look forward to seeing everyone again at the next one in April.

 This month, Lupe taught a class on making Party Piñatas. We now carry the crepe paper for them. Wouldn’t some child (of any age) just love to have a handcrafted piñata at a birthday/graduation party? Even adults would appreciate one. If you don’t have the time to make one yourself…. Lupe is very imaginative and can create a specialized one for your favorite person! We have a sample of her art hanging in the store. 

Creative Imaginations has come out with lovely, nostalgic (1930’s?) black and grey toned Christmas transparency papers. These would look nice as overlays for your holiday pages, particularly black and white vintage photos.

My Mind’s Eye has come out with lovely Christmas line with papers in non-traditional, muted tones of turquoise, sienna, burgundy, and olive. They also have Christmas Card Kits that will include enough goodies to create 10 unique cards by you!

If you like to create your own gift boxes, there is a matching punch out that fold into a box, or use them as templates to trace for your own creation.

Daily Dose mini cards and metal stickers are in. Nice embellishments for pages and albums where something metallic yet lightweight is needed.

When is Kraft paper not Kraft paper? When Scenic Route redesigns it! Now you can have that familiar brown paper, not only patterned, but thicker, acid, and lignin free. This would be very attractive with outdoor themes, and decorated with raffia, twine, found bird feathers and forest floor gleanings.

Ballet papers from Karen Foster are perfect in pink. We also now carry more ballet stickers, too.

We are not leaving the guys out- we have stickers and papers for poker, pool and even ping pong. Sports, sports, sports! Have we got stickers, papers, rub-ons for you! - track, tennis, weight lifting, martial arts, lacrosse to name a few!

Creative Imaginations has come up with some mouth watering epoxy  (dessert and tea party ) cooking embellishments that are sooo  yummy you could almost gain weight just by looking at them!  A sure conversation piece to put on cooking pages.  We have had some questions about the difference between acetates and vellums. Acetates are clear (we carry colors), makes good peek a boo windows and can be stenciled with dimensional paints. Both can be glued with glue dots. Vellum is translucent, can be stamped, or drawn on with gel pens. Place them over an image and trace for an embossed look.

Stampendous Clear Pails –these let your creativity go wild. The metal lids can be decorated with papers, stickers, stampings, and the clear bottoms will reveal whatever you decide. Fill with tinsel, stamp the outside, paint the inside. Fill with holiday candies or trinkets. Make one into a New Year’s” time capsule”, or create a chore or wish jar. Possibilities are endless. We will be having a class on creating with them soon.

EZ Mount Stamp and Stor System- put on your un-mounted stamps to create hybrids.

Bo Bunny Naked Binders and the Flex Ruler are in. Flex rulers can be bent into wavy lines and you can get a perfect tracing with no bumps, lumps or jagged edges. 

Bo Bunny’s chipboard Word Albums are in--, Friends, Family, Believe, Party and Baby, and love.

Back by popular demand!!! Corinne Stubson will be having another amazing beeswax collage class Nov. 3. 

We now carry self adhesive lampshades. Jeannie taught a fun lampshade class on the 23^rd. We liked the results so much that we ordered more. Jeannie made a cute shade for her granddaughter using the “Little Mermaid” embellishments, and Joyce made a Spiderman one for her grandson’s room. Teens would like the jungle and contemporary styles Amy and Sam made of our handmade and animal print papers. Pull out all stops and use bead fringe, feathers and whatever bling and glitz in your craft room!

Krylon’s Glitter Spray in silver, red, green and multicolor is just the thing to fairy dust projects. It stays on and can even transform a tool/craft box into something magical.

As always, we honor local competitors (Michael’s/ JoAnn’s, etc) coupons for non sale items in the store.

Don’t forget you card makers out there—our troops always enjoy receiving news and cards from home. You can drop off your creations here. Remember it will take awhile to get to the destination, so plan your Easter and Spring cards now!

If you have any questions about product or classes, please call us here at the store, 512-0040.