NEW YEARS Sale Promotion

Get it while you can! Our first big sale of the New Year! Save 20% off your entire order between 1/1/08 - 1/5/08.

Enter coupon code NEWYEAR during checkout to receive your discount.

Ring in the New Year with savings on your favorite older product and the newer product.

Low prices are EVEN LOWER! We will be donating some of the older items to a charity crop in a few days so this is your last chance to get it at rock bottom prices!

Making Memories Love Story

has arrived.

There are only a few more days to use your December Coupon to save 15% off your order total!
Enter coupon code HOLIDAY15 during checkout.

We have a lot of paper available in the sale section priced at 50-75% off. This is your last chance to get this paper. On January 1st, we will be donating everything that is left from American Crafts, Scenic Route and a few other lines to a charity crop. American Crafts papers are priced as low as 18 cents!!!

Tags

So, I've been trying to think of some really cool tag idea for my husbands gifts for his guys. We (I) put together a Movie Night in a Bag deal for 14 people. A bag of microwave popcorn, candy and a Blockbuster Gift Card. So, how to present it?
I'm all for the brown bag look this year so I put everything in brown lunch bags. After several days of nothing clever, I emailed Nora Griffin. She's the Queen of crafty, especially tags. Love her tags.

Her answer was simple: keep it simple. Movie theme = red and white stripes. So, I searched high and low for a cute lined stamp and found a cute Technique Tuesday stamp. I've had this in my stash for quite some time. With a little bit of embossing powder, I came up with this. Nothing special, but it works. And I ended up liking my simple but cute popcorn tubs.
Movie Night font is also a TT stamp. Thank you NORA!

More Holiday stuff

Have you seen the little gift bags from My Minds Eye? Perfect for the small gift or Gift Card. Each sheet comes with one gift bag and 4 gift tags.

We have lots of Christmas/Holiday goodies left in the store. Save 15% off any order now through the end of the month by entering HOLIDAY15 during checkout.

And here are more of the Pageframes Acrylic Ornaments. I love working with acrylic!

Busy time of year.

I need to update my Gallery at the Store with my recent projects. So many of them laying around.
Its been a busy month. A trip to New York to see family, working on Christmas presents and making this the best first Christmas I can for the baby. Not only did we take him to New York, but we gorged ourselves. Its our yearly 'fill up on Italian pastries' trip. We hit the bakery almost everyday. We took a red eye flight and they first day my dad was at the bakery almost the second they opened. He bought what he called 'the starter kit' of pastries. Enough to get us through the first day. And the Entemans cakes! Oh my! They were stacked 5 high and 3 deep on the counter in my aunts kitchen! It was crazy. Now that I'm home, I'm eating bread and water to make up for it!

Then I had to bake the Christmas cookies and goodies for friends and family. Crazy! I'll post pictures of the finished product later. My dining room table is a mess. Nick got his first taste of fudge......








I've been working on Christmas presents for the family. I'm making everyone a little something this year. I found that Michelle Hills kits from Polka Dot Whimsy make some great gifts. If you've ever taken one of Michelles classes, you know her love of 'extras' or 'doodahs'. She searches out the perfect 'extras' for all of her kits and classes. She started her own Kit Club in September - one smart move! She's got an eye for cute stuff. I'm addicted! And since I can't get out and take classes like I used to, this is the perfect thing. Michelle Hill delivered to my house!


I'm addicted to mini albums. Here are some of the ones I'm giving away this year to some lucky family member - design courtesy of Michelle. I also made some of my own mini albums and those will be posted in a couple of days. I need to take more pictures, upload new product for the store, get the rest of the Christmas cards out etc. You know, its a busy time of year. I'm trying to get it all done today so I can enjoy the last week before Christmas.

One thing I've been dying to do (and I had the perfect photos sitting here for it) is lift this layout I saw on 2Peas. It was the Layout of the Day a few weeks ago. Awesome. Of course, I couldn't use pink for a boy, so I tweaked everything a little. I used the new Pageframes 12 inch antique frame, Prima Crystal Swirls, Scenic Route paper (worn lined paper by Scenic Route) and some chipboard embellishments by Lil Davis Designs. I chalked and glittered the stars and letters (both LDD). All embellishments are placed on the top side of the acrylic sheet while the paper and pictures are on the backside. I edged the acrylic sheet with light blue Stickles. I've got a collection of Stickles and other glitter glues that you wouldn't believe! I love that my little boy likes to cuddle. He'll cuddle with me under the down comforter in the morning when he wakes up and sometimes goes back to sleep.



Also, I used the smaller acrylic shapes from Pagesframes to create some ornaments for the family to commemorate the baby's first Christmas. I used glitter and Stickles on some of them and I embossed the rest. I used a 3 inch Marvy scalloped circle punch to punch out the picture of my little 'elf' and attached it to the center. Some of the acrylic shapes already have holes punched in the top, but some don't. You can use your trusty Crop-A-Dile to make the hole. (This is the best money I've ever spent on a tool.)

More to come later! I need to get the Pageframes items uploaded to the store.

Don't forget to add items to your Wishlist! Anyone can access your Wishlist and purchase items from there for you! Wouldn't that be the perfect gift! Orders can be shipped to you directly or to the person purchasing them for you. We also offer cute Gift Certificate holders. You have until Friday to request the Petal Envelopes for Gift Certificates. This should guarantee a Christmas delivery. A Stash Gift Certificate would make a perfect gift for you or someone you know!

Updates

Sometimes, you have too much on your plate and when you try to get it all done quickly, you screw it up. Before I left for vacation, I updated the blog with pictures of the winner and their name. Of course, I didn't actually POST the update to blogger so it was saved under the drafts section.

So, if anyone was wondering who won, check out the last post. The rest of the album can be seen in the Gallery. Amazing little book.

We've been trying to decide if we should have a contest this month and finally decided to have one. With everyone so busy with the holidays, we weren't sure if anyone would participate, but what better contest than Holiday Projects and Layouts!

So, our contest for December is the Holiday Cards and Layouts. Did you make a Mini album for Grandma and Grandpa? Did you alter something for a friend? How many hours did it take to finish those Christmas Cards? Here is your chance to show off your creations and win something for them!

2 winners will be announced in January. Contest will run from now until January 5th. I will announce the winners in the Newsletter the following week and their work will be featured on the Home Page for the month of January. Winners will also receive a prize package from the store which includes a Gift Certificate.

More details to be posted on the Pub Calls blog.

Contest Winner

Here is the winner:

Terri Hayes - Live The Life You Imagined *** Has been removed for publication. ****

Please check the June/July 08 Paper Trends magazine for her mini album 'Live The Life You Imagined'.

We have picked a winner and sent them an email. We're just waiting to hear back from them before we post their name and work.

There were some AMAZING albums posted. I'm glad you all found the store and posted your ideas - these were awesome to look at. Lots of inspiration. If you haven't checked out the Contest Gallery for November, head over there now.

We have a small order from Prima that includes some Prima Paintables and more flowers that we'll have loaded in the store today.

ETA: Some more of our Rusty Pickle order came in today. Acrylic Albums, chipboard and some stamps.

We are a proud sponsor....

for the Crop Out Diabetes Crop for 2008!

Check out their website to see if there is a location near you! Sign up early to receive a goodie bag and all the extras!

Here's what you can expect at your Crop-Out:

*A goodie bag filled with products from national scrapbook companies
*Reserved crop space*Make 'n takes by awesome vendors
*Fantastic door prizes
*Great auction items
*Delicious lunch
*Fun surprises

Silent Auction Details:Silent auction items will vary by location. Silent auction tickets are $1 for 1; $5 for 7; $10 for 20; or $20 for 50.You do not need to be present to win, but you must make arrangements to pick-up any items you win. You may place as many tickets as you like into any auction.100% of silent auction proceeds benefits your local chapter of JDRF.


California, Colorado, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Tennessee & Georgia

We'll be donating lots of product for their goodie bags and the raffle!

Last Day of the Black Friday Sale!

Today is the last day of the big sale.
Enter Coupon Code THANKS during checkout to receive 30% off your entire order.

American Crafts Paper priced at 18 CENTS!!
Papers that were previously 25% off are now 50% off....
Papers that weren't on sale are now on sale!

Items are going quickly and most won't be reordered!

Happy Thanksgiving (Black Friday Sale)

Happy Thanksgiving to all of our Blog Readers and Customers. We hope you enjoy your day with family as much as we do!

Starting tomorrow, we will be marking down prices on items in the store. Look for great deals on some of your favorite products.

You can also save 25% off your entire order when you enter the code THANKS during checkout. This code will be good from 12:01 am (PST) 11/23 to 11:59 pm 11/25.

Save all weekend!

Inventory

Any orders placed between Wednesday 11/14 and Saturday 11/17 will be processed on Monday 11/19. We will be taking inventory for our BIG Black Friday sale.

KI Pop Culture....

is here. I know a lot of places are sold out already.

We now have the lace cardstock, softies and ribbon.

Also, if you haven't placed your order, you have until Midnight PST Monday to save 25% off your entire order by entering coupon code VETERANS when you check out!

October Afternoon

We got in their line of papers - County Fair
Their rubons
AND their acrylic stamps.

We've already sold out of some of the stamps and rubons so get them while you can!!

(Yes, we've already placed a reorder so we should have them back in stock soon!)

Saved Cart

You asked for a Saved Cart feature so we added it to the store. Now, you can save your shopping cart or add things to your Wishlist.

Just to recap this weeks new products:

Autumn Leaves Rhonna Christmas and Manhattan lines (and stragglers from the French Twist reorder)

Sassafras Lass Whale of a Tale, Sweet Skully and Starry Night

Love, Elsie Noel

Queen & Co Felt

Rusty Pickle French Market and Chipboard Albums

American Crafts Thickers and Black Tie Velvet Letters

My Minds Eye Bohemia 2

Maya Road

Basic Grey Figgy Pudding

Some mini books I've been working on:

LOVE mini book using products from the Jenni Bowlin kit (Octobers Kit) and the Super Steno Notebook coasters from Imagination Project

And another mini book using a Maya Road chipboard album and the new Basic Grey Mellow papers. I still need to add photos and embellishments to this one, but I'll do that as my son grows up and spends more time with Rascal.

And a Summer Memories Book made with the November Kit. Features papers and embellishments from Glitz Designs.

Love Elsie....

Noel is here!

Very cute holiday line. You've got to love the doodles paper from this line with its 'Naughty/Nice' list!

A big update with project ideas and contest news to follow.....

Its SCARY!!

How much product we've been getting.

The Autumn Leaves - Rhonna Christmas and Manhattan lines are in.
More stragglers from the French Twist reorder.....
Clear buttons....
Acrylic Stamps.........

Queen & Co. Felt Fusion in the new borders, scrolls and fall. These are self adhesive!

The November kit will be available in the store later today.

Rusty Pickle and more!

Rusty Pickle French Market and chipboard albums arrived yesterday.

Just got another UPS delivery this morning with Sassafras Lass and more American Crafts goodies!!

ETA: We FINALLY got our SL Sweet Skully and Whale of a Tale. I know some of you had been asking about it. There was a glitch in the ordering and SL left this off our original shipment. We also got in their Holiday line - Starry Night.

American Crafts sent us more Thickers. The new Velvet thickers (Black Tie) and some backordered vinyl.

New Manufacturer added.

We now carry Maya Road products!
We got a small order in from them today with their velvet ric rac, mini albums and more!
Rubons, more mini albums and the new sheers coming soon!

We also got out My Minds Eye Bohemia 2 order in! Lots of photo frames, clear border and accents and delicious papers!

Basic Grey Figgy Pudding

Now in stock!

ETA: Some of our Heidi Swapp order from CHA finally arrived!

Making Memories Notewothy

Just arrived today (finally)!

Hambly.....

is in stock.

Mod Circles Paper and Screen Printed Transparencies
Mod Trees
Urban Chic Frames and On Edge Rubons in Black are back in stock.
Woodgrain Transparencies and Journaling Bits 2 Rubons.

Contest Winners..

I know this is the post that everyone has been waiting for. :)

Holiday Card Contest

Mummy Card by Kathi G.

Christmas Cards by Carrie L.

Fall Layout Cards

Family Chipboard Book by Carrie L.

Almighty Gourd by Barbara E.

Basic Grey Contest

Life is Good by Gabrielle P.

When I First Saw You by Kathi K.

American Crafts Contest

Pink Love by Kathlyn H.

Life as a Dog by Cassandra L.

Misc Newsletter Info

I had to do this in 2 posts to break it up a little.

The November Kit will be up for sale on November 1st. Have you seen the Glitz Designs line? If you like that, then you'll want to pick up this kit! The DT is working hard on getting their projects done using this cool new line of papers, 'frosting' and Netz.

SALE Section - I added more items to the Sale section of the store today:

Making Memories
Gelatins
Fancy Pants
Creative Imaginations
Basic Grey
Autumn Leaves
Lil Davis
Love Elsie
Junkitz
Sassafras Lass

We're expecting a TON of new product in the next week so look for lots of updates. We're finally getting some of the stuff we ordered at CHA Summer and Memory Trends. KI Memories, Autumn Leaves, October Afternoon, Heidi Swapp, BG Figgy Pudding........

New Items and Contest Winners

Just waiting to hear back from all of the Contest Winners!

If you submitted anything into any of our contests, please check your email. I've emailed all of the winners. As soon as I hear back from everyone, I will post their names and entries.

We have another contest coming up. If you didn't win this one or didn't submit anything - get ready!

Also, we had a few small orders show up today.

Bam POP! Volume 3 and their new Chipboard Journal Bubbles. Very cute!

Sassafras Lass Indian Summer and Felicity Rubons and Sticker letters. There was also a mixup on the rest of our original Sass Lass order from CHA and the Whale of a Tale and Sweet Skully papers never shipped. We finally got that resolved and they should be here next week.

And I'm sure you've seen these cute notes popping up on layouts everywhere. These cute little notepads are made by KNOCK KNOCK and make the cutest addition to any page! We have several of these in stock and for 20 cents, how can you pass them up! I just finished a page using the Mood Alert one - I had the perfect picture of my 3 month old son screaming at the top of his lungs. Talk about Mood Alert! :)

Next week should be busy for the store. We received a bunch of shipping notifications for some more of the CHA and Memory Trends items. Since the store is starting to grow, so with the products we offer! We'd like to thank our loyal customers.

Just a few new things.....

Check out the My Minds Eye Frost collection of papers and gift boxes. Perfect for the holiday season (which is quickly approaching)!

We received some backordered items from Basic Grey and Creative Imaginations and the rest of our Glitz Designs orders.

More items were added to the sale section this morning.

A newsletter will be sent out later today with more information, pictures, sneak peeks of the November kits, and more!

October Kit is on sale!

The October kit is in the Stash Kits area of the store!
Only a few remain!

We will be announcing a raffle winner later this week!

Glitz Design

Check out the new Glitz Designs stuff we just got! Love their 'Frosting'!!

See more from their booth at Memory Trends HERE. The Frosting is bendable so you can run it around anything. The ladies at the booth decorated their sign with the frosting.

Very cute!

Contests, Prizes and October Kit Sneak Peek!

We just announced several new contests on the Pub Calls Blog.

1 - Fall Layout/Project contest. Show us your best Fall layout or project for a chance to win great prizes. There are no restrictions. Entries must be received by 10/15/07 to be considered.

2 - Holiday card contest - Fall, Halloween, Thanksgiving or Christmas cards can be entered for a chance to win prizes.

3 - Use the new Basic Grey papers, rubons etc to create a project or layout and receive a prize pack. Contest deadline 10/15/07.

4 - American Crafts contest - use the new American Crafts papers to create a project or layout.

Contest deadline 10/15/07.

*** There will be 2 winners for each contest. ***

Sneak Peek at one of the prizes. Can't tell you whats in it! New American Crafts papers and Thickers to be won as well!

You will need to upload your entries to the Contest Galleries located HERE for a chance to win.

The October kit will be available for sale on October 1st.

There are still a few kits left from August and September. These can be added to any order from the store.

Memory Trends coupon (MT07) has been extended until the end of the month. Use this coupon when checking out to save 20% off your entire order!

If you haven't seen THIS blog, check it out. One of the Stash Girls has been published in the latest Memory Makers magazine. Congratulations Emeline!

The rest of our time in Vegas.....

was spent partying with other Kings fans before the Frozen Fury game on Saturday. I love the fact that Memory Trends was the same week so we only had to make one trip.

We missed this last year when we were in Europe and were supposed to miss it this year to be in Hawaii. With the business and the new baby, we stayed home.

So, what do the cool Kings fans look like?

Thats my friend Mandy in her Avs Suck jersey. She's been wearing that every year now. The Avs fans hate it.

And of course, there were about 3 Duck fans that felt the need to show up. Not sure why. We made them feel welcome. :) Actually, we didn't. :0

You can see more pictures HERE.

We took Nicholas to the Shark Reef at Mandalay. He made friends with the alligator.

And we had dinner at Hofbrauhaus - the annual get together for the Kings fans on Friday night. This year, the celebrity beer tapper was Neil Diamond. Yes, THE Neil Diamond. I thought he was an impersonator but this was the real thing. He had the entire place singing Sweet Caroline and standing on the tables with beer steins in hand.

Speaking of beer steins, my husband HAD to get the 34 oz Stein. This is German Beer so the alcohol content was just a tad bit higher than the American Beer. 6.5% to be exact. I had to drive back to the hotel.

Oh yeah..... WE WON!!!!!!!!!!

Dustin Brown scored the winning goal in the shootout. It was great to start the season with friends we've made at the games in the past. Frozen Fury is always the annual start of the season for us, even if it is a pre-season game. It has a playoff game atmosphere.

New stuff!

Ordered lots of new stuff at the show today.

Rusty Pickle has new acrylic albums out. Very cute. These look awesome with their new lines of papers.

Making Memories has several new diecut papers coming out. They added scalloped journaling books too!

Hambly Studios turned their popular Journaling bits into rubons. So there are now 2 different styles. These ship in Mid-October so look for those. We picked up some of their new transparencies and reordered some of the popular ones that are out of stock in the store. Being one of the first companies to really work with transparencies, they came out with a 12x12 sheet of acrylic that can be trimmed using your paper trimmer, decut machines or a pair of scissors. These can be made into ANY shape you want to use. Yes, we ordered some!

Ranger - Tim Holtz was there today demonstrating his cool new diecuts. They're fabric, their chipboard - they're awesome! You can distress these any way you want to. And because they're designed by Tim, you know they will accept any kind of ink! He was doing some amazing things with these! The best part is, the apha and number packs come with many different fonts in each pack for only $20.00!! I'll post more pictures of these later!

Glitz Designs - A new company this year. We placed our order for some of their 'frosting' and papers. These girls did an amazing job on their banner for the booth. They took strips of their 'frosting' and outlined their logo! The strips are flexible and can be adhered in any pattern. Also ordered some of their plastic mesh. Lots of cute stuff from this company!

More updates later! For now, we're enjoying the lions at MGM!