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.