Congratulations to Patty Frisbee on winning our Creative Imaginations Valentine’s Day Drawing!

We are back from the CHA trade show and have ordered many new items to our stock.

New shipments are arriving daily. Don’t forget we are open 7 days a week for your shopping convenience. We have a comfy couch to park the husband on while you shop. Sorry, no TV and remote control included.

Have you seen our commercial on television? You can also see it on our web site. Can you find the happy male scrap booker? Visit the site often to see up dates on classes and special sales. 

Scrap Booking Dept

Discover those hard to find shamrock, Celtic knot, and claddah images here! Both Reminisce and Rusty Pickle have designed cheerful, shiny, bright green embossed Irish themed tags, self adhesive die cuts, stickers, and papers.

Graduation will be around the corner. We have papers and embellishments for that event and the prom, too! It’s never too soon to dream about Summer vacation!! We have beach and tropical themed papers with matching die cuts for journaling. palm trees, lighthouses, shells and flip flops.

All varieties of dance are represented- ballet, tap, and hip hop.

Cute Easter papers are also in! Chicks, eggs, and bunnies.. They will make great background papers of the little ones in their Easter outfits. There are also lined die cut shapes for journaling about that egg hunt adventure.

 

Provo Craft Cuttables are in. These are adhesive backed vinyl 12”x 24” sheets that are used with the Cricut machines to make large words or sayings that can be applied to your wall. This would be adorable in a nursery or teen’s room.

New stamps from Technique Tuesday are coming soon, but Changito doodle-style funky monkey stamps are in (theses will put a grin on anyone’s face). Monkeys are big this year.

Have you been “selected” to make a project for church, school or clubs that calls for making multiple copies of booklets or albums? Fret no more! Zutter’s Bind It All will make them at a fraction of the price at a copy shop. Think of fund raising cookbooks, and handbooks, for seminars and workshops.

We have ordered a variety of attachments for your Cropper Hopper rail systems.

Tim Holtz storage cases are in for square inkpads, paint dabbers, alcohol ink bottles, embossing powder containers, clear and unmounted stamp storage. Speaking of Tim……his Distressables digital kits  have arrived! Choose from alphas and numbers, elements, papers and frames!

7 gypsies-ATC transparencies-one of their most elegant products yet!  Use in mini books, ATC’s or just for accents.

Scrappin’ Sports cardstock stickers are here-colorful photos and graphics for cheerleading, swimming, volley ball, soccer, basket ball, etc. These are definitely not ho-hum type embellishments with interesting close up shots, and unusual angles.

Outdoor games paper- jump rope, hop scotch, slides is in.

By request, we now have beads!!!!

Create jewelry and embellishments with our new addition of semi-precious beads!

(Carnelian, quartz, tiger eye, to name only a few.) we also have a rainbow of Swarovski crystals too. To keep the price of these special beads low for you, we will not be able to accept coupons on them.

 We carry findings- spacers, and ear wires (for both pierced and non-pierced ears) in a variety of styles. We have beading needles, threads and cements.

Jewelry tools-Miracle Point’s Pleezers -pliers with a small magnifying glass attached so you can see where the holes in the beads are!, or you can customize the magnifiers  to fit pliers that you already have. With a 5x magnifying power they are really useful!  Are you new to jewelry making? We have many books on how to get started with this fun hobby.

We now have an even bigger selection of Hero Arts collage stamp kits. Each includes a woodblock stamp, two Kraft cards with matching envelopes, and assorted tiny glitz gemstones to customize your greeting.  

Accent Design- bendable glitter stems in a variety of colors (they are like classy pipe cleaners.)

Magenta fiber mesh is in-colors come in bone, parchment, and also with metallic gold threads interwoven in yellow, brown, and rose, green. This is very pretty in collages.

Bazzill paper flowers are blooming on our walls, in colors to coordinate with your favorite Bazzill spring colors.

Art Department News

More large sheer sheets of handmade paper-in delicate patterns of abstracts, birds, and florals, and waves.

Diamond pointed glass engraving set- no chemicals involved, great for engraving glassware or any teeny tiny glass pieces you can think of (chandelier drops? Monogramming eyeglasses?)

Art Books and Booklets!

Many new titles have just arrived- cartooning for kids, ATC. Celtic calligraphy, oil painting, clear albums, and much, much more!

We will be going on a shopping trip to the big NAMTA trade show—art supply heaven! Let us know what you would like us to scout out for you.

CLASSES, CLASSES, CLASSES

Corrine Stubson returns with a new bookmaking class- piano hinge books. For those who missed her beeswax collage class, there will be one in April, this time, and using wax encaustic crayons. These have been specially formulated without toxins. 

We have added drawing classes with Liz Shepard (who also teaches watercolor and our very popular Japanese Brush Painting class). You will love her energetic, enthusiastic teaching style. She has taught both children and adults alike. Beginners will gain confidence and skill with her classes.

 Make an Easter Bunny Piñata class with Lupe! 

Every Thursday evening is drop in Scrap booking class- bring your photos. Only $10 gets you six sheets (your choice of papers), use of all classroom supplies and one on one personal instruction with the latest machines. Test them out before you buy! We also have a variety of DVD’s that you can view on the Cricut, Wizard, etc. that you can watch at any time.

Contest! Bring in your Spring/Easter cards. Winner gets a packet of paper. We know we could always use a few more nice sheets for our collections.