Weekly wrapup.

Okay, so we have all of the new product in, ready for your buying pleasure.

Earth Day

Wow! Was this fun. Aimee Houston, one of our DT members started the party that day with tips on how to go Green with your scrapbooking and at home. Great job Aimee! Check out some of the links on her blog for more information.
We also had several people post their 'green tips' for a chance to win! 10 lucky winners received a gift certificate to the store. YEAH!

1. Plant more trees
2. Use reusable bags
3. Buy products with minimal packaging
4. Reuse scrap papers
5. recycle
6. switch to energy saving lightbulbs
7. Reuse the papers that come in junk mail
8. Use cloth napkins instead of paper ones
9. turn off or unplug appliances when not in use
10. Change toilets to dual flush or low flush systems

ALL great ideas - thank you everyone for sharing!

Contests

The April User Gallery contest is close to ending. Get your layouts uploaded before 4/30/08 for a chance to win!

Design Team Member needed!

We need one more person. See the Pub Calls Blog for more information (it should be posted soon!) Since we miss the creative cards and altered projects that Heidi used to make, we're looking for someone who can fill that spot. I chose each of my girls carefully. Each one of them has a talent that makes the entire team special. Different styles, personalities and talents. My goal, when I started this store was to offer something for everyone. I didn't want to cater to one kind of scrapper, card maker or artist. I wanted anyone to be able to find what they were looking for. So, if this describes you, be on the lookout for the DT Call on the Pub Calls blog!

National Scrapbook Day

We're making a weekend out of it. Join us for a sketch challenge and other fun activities next weekend! The party starts on Friday, May 2nd and ends May 4th.

We are lucky enough to have a very talented Design Team. We'd like to congratulate Emeline for not one, but TWO recent publications. Emeline was featured in the May 2008 issue of Scrapbook Trends AND their Mini Albums 2008 Idea Book. Great job Emeline! We are offering Scrapbook Trends magazines for sale - this is a limited offer and just a test run. If there is enough interest, we'll look at carrying them on a regular basis!

All of our current Design Team Members are busy working on projects for the upcoming months. Aimee with her Earth Day Projects, Emeline with her NSD Sketches for the contests and Mandy is working on a Summer Mini Album using the Scenic Route Grafton line! This will be available in a kit soon! Look for an announcement on that in the next month. If you've never seen some of Mandy's mini albums, check them out! HERE and HERE.

Busy Mail Day.

Lots of boxes today!
Lots of little boxes, but they were filled with lots of small goodness.

First, our order of Pink Paislee finally arrived. We've been waiting (not so) patiently for this to show up. Its finally here. I love both of these lines.

So, we now have Spring Fling and Office Lingo in stock. YEAH! We also have an assortment of their acrylic stamps.

Secondly, Rusty Pickle and Scenic Route sent us a collection of rubons. Scenic Route debuted their new colored rubons at the recent show. Very nice - they coordinate with just about anything. And Rusty Pickle sent us their floruish rubons - all different kinds of flourishes - something for everyone!

And Fontwerks - another company we've been waiting patiently for. Just a few of their stamps.

Lots more to update you on:

1. A wrapup of Earth Day
2. Contests
3. National Scrapbook Weekend
4. Design Team Member search (coming soon!)
5. Design Team member congratulations (2 publications - YEAH!)
6. Summer Mini Album - coming soon!
7. - MORE new product - also coming soon!

New today!

We received our shipment of Fiskars new paper line by Kimberly Poloson - Cabana Blooms!

Great mixture of greens and oranges. Flocked papers, rubons and chipboard embellishments accent this line perfectly!

And the last part of our Petaloo order came in. Large and Small dahlia boxes in our 2 new favorite colors schemes - For the Guys and Hula Monkey!

Happy Earth Day!

KEEP POSTING COMMENTS! We have lots of prizes to give away! Another winner drawn from the posts this hour!

We're celebrating Earth Day with prizes and lots of information.

Join Aimee Houston on her blog today for tips and tricks to GO GREEN! She'll be posting a project as well.

We'll be giving away 10 prizes today just for posting your Green Tips. Post a comment here letting us know some simple things you're doing to help the environment.

We'll pick one winner an hour starting at 8 am PST. Every hour check back to see who's won and what their Green tip is.

For anyone who places an order today, we'll be throwing in some extra special goodies to celebrate. You'll get a reusable tote and a gift certificate for a future order! How awesome is THAT!! (Orders must be placed before midnight 4/22/08)

WINNERS: (send me an email at admin@yourscrapbookstash.com so I know where to send your stuff!)

8am - Renoa
9am - Mich
10am - samantha
11am - Cheryl Wray
12pm - worms woman
1pm - mmleikam
2pm - carrie
3pm - gaby alcantara
4pm - vivs
5pm - pandachu

Awesome!

Just wanted to post this.
We had some pictures taken last week of our little family. You can see sneak peeks HERE.

We can't wait to see the rest! My little man in a patch of daisies! My little man will be 9 months old tomorrow. 9 months! Where do they go?

We've never done family pictures outside of a studio before so we were all a little nervous. So glad Joann could do this - just awesome!

I'm already picking out papers and embellishments to use with these!

If you're in the SoCal area, check her out. She did an awesome job and she's great with kids.

Earth Day and other things.

We're celebrating Earth Day!

We're Going GREEN for the day. Join us on Tuesday, April 22 for some inspiration, creativity and prizes!

Our very own Aimee Houston (Design Team Member and Resident Greenster) will be providing some very interesting information, including ways you can go green in your lives. Simple ways to make the world a better place. That includes scrapbooking! No, we're not saying to trash your stash, but Aimee will show you ways to turn your Trash INTO Stash.

A newsletter will go out today will more details on Tuesdays activities. It will also include some information about out upcoming National Scrapbook Day celebration. We have some cool things going on that day so keep your eyes open. One of our Design Team members will be sharing some sketches for a contest. Very exciting. She was just published in the most recent Scrapbook Trends magazine - more info on that later (and a picture!)

So, very exciting. We have some product news coming up.

Tons of things to share in the next week.

If you haven't started working on layouts for the April User Gallery Contest, hurry up! Less than 2 weeks remain before I pick a winner! You could win free stash from the store or gift certificates!

We're back!

Thank you all for your patience while we enjoyed a small vacation. Time to just relax. This is the first trip in a LONG time where we just sat and relaxed. Well, the baby was sick most of the week with a 'virus' going around Florida. Not sure where he got it, probably the plane. I was sure we'd all end up with something viral after sitting behind 'Tuberculosis Tom' on the flight. Mr. Cough without covering your mouth. All I could think about was the recirculated air.

Anyway, we're back and we're all healthy. The humidty in Florida cleared up those nasty sinus infections my husband and I have been fighting so it was worth it - healthwise. Other than the trip to the ER for the baby, we hung out by the pool. I have a tan. Yes, a real tan. None of this California tan anymore, a real tan. Now I'm not embarrased about wearing summer clothes.

We have some fun stuff that will be announced later this week. We have a Design Team spot to fill, contests, National Scrapbook Day announcement and MORE! Keep checking the blog.

All orders that were placed last week have been filled. Thank you ladies for supporting the store knowing that you had to wait a little bit to receive your 'Stash'. There is a little something in there from me - ENJOY!

I leave you with this parting shot of the Florida sunset.

More new goodies!

We received our order of Banana Frog stamps - fresh from the UK!

The infamous Shamelle and her mini album classes - you know the ones - well, she's on their Design Team! You can see some of the photos from their booth at CHA HERE.

Each stamp set comes in its own little plastic binder for storage.

Making Memories Noteworthy II is starting to trickle in. We received the new Tiny Alphas that go with this line. The papers have not been released yet. We also got in some of the diecut papers from the Animal Crackers line as well as more diecut journal books!

Hambly Rubons - I LOVE their new rubons. We now have the Mini Vintage and DIY sets. More great products from Hambly!

We will be sending out a newsletter tonight with the winner of the March User Gallery contest. Did you submit a layout? You might have won! Check back later to see who won!

ANNOUNCEMENT: The store will be closed from April 5 - 11th. We will be on a much needed vacation. You can still place orders, but they will not go out until I return. For anyone who places an order during this time, you will receive something special in with your order!

No foolin'!!

** There are still a few hours left to shop and we just received a few new items! Check out the NEW ITEMS section in the store to see more Jenni Bowlin products (and some reorders), 7 Gypsies and Maya Road. **

You can save 20% off your entire order today only - April Fools Day.

No foolin'!!

We've marked down more items and added a few new things to the store this week.

Happy shopping!

Offer expires midnight on 4/1/08 PST.