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Fiskars Rock, Paper, Trimmer

Found this on another board - this is so cool.  Thought you guys would enjoy seeing it!  I don't know what the retail cost is, but it's definitely new age scrappin!
Fiskars New Paper Trimmer Demo

Holiday Magic Scrapbook Page Kit

We have another addition to our page kit sections - it's our Holiday Magic Scrapbook Page Kit - this is a two page layout using lots of gorgeous red, green & cream plaid papers.  We taught this in Buffalo at our Holiday Event and everyone loved it.  Notice the flip journaling on the right page - it's four pages of journaling that you flip with paper clips & ribbons tied on them.  It's available now on our website at Holiday Magic Scrapbook Page Kit

CHA Summer 2008 Sneak Peeks

It's that time again for the CHA Summer 2008 Sneak Peeks.  We'll be to this post each day for you to look at - let me know what products you like the most!  Fancy Pants Designs is releasing three new paper lines and lots of gorgeous embellishments to go along with it.  These images are not the best - when I have better ones, I'll updated it!  Their lines are Fall, Christmas and The Daily Grind!

One of my favorites is Pink Paislee Pop Fashion, but then again, I'm also drawn to brights and pinks.  These look yummy!

The next one is the new papers from Teresa Collins - she has a Cooking line called Bon Appetit (one of my favorite magazines), Halloween line and Christmas line coming out.  We'll be ordering all of them for our website.  Love the cooking line!  I'm just getting ready to make a family recipe book of all of our favorite recipes and will probably use this!

MLYB - My Little Yellow Bicycle - these products were made for independent stores only and are a hit on the shelves.  I'm loving the Christmas line - there are three new lines for them - Sharon Ann Christmas, Halloween and Love Letters.  These are just a few images of each of them.

Prima Marketing Sneak Peeks will be updated throughout the day.  As usual, Prima is introducing a BOAT LOAD of great new products - papers, embellishments, flowers, say it in crystals and more!  I just totally LOVE Prima - it's that romantic, floral, girly feeling I guess.  Here are their new Christmas papers and embellishments.   The last image is a layout that was done by Mara-May Baca for Prima for these products - it's gorgeous!  This line is called Christmas Fancy:

More Prima Marketing - This is their new Halloween Line called Little Boo.  The layout preview is done by Christine Middlecamp for Prima's booth at CHA.  It's bright and vivacious and looks like it will be a LOT of fun to play with!  Can't wait to see it in person!

Picklelicious Rusty Pickle!  Love their new lines - especially the Chocolate Covered Cherries!  If I know my buddy, Lance, he will be serving them at CHA just to keep people in the booth - at Winter he had this huge chocolate fountain - we went by a few times!  If you haven't had the pleasure to meet Lance Anderson, the owner of Rusty Pickle, and you ever get the opportunity to do so, do it!  He is a super good friend of mine and is a great guy!  His classes are very well received around the world - he teaches in the US and overseas, so if you ever get the chance - take a class from him - he totally rocks!  Here are the new lines that Rusty Pickle is releasing - Candy Land, Brass Knuckles, Costume Party, Chocolate Covered Cherries and White Christmas!

Basic Grey New Releases - There are five new releases from Basic Grey - the individual pieces can be seen on their website - they are Ambrosia, Eva, Granola, Offbeat and Urban Prairie - here are the collection pack photos - we'll have all of it on line as soon as it becomes available to us.

Updated Sunday, July 20 - here are a few more cool pictures that I found - there are lots of sneak peeks now at most of the manufacturer's websites and others on other boards.  Just a few that I thought were really neat are the new Tim Holtz Christmas Grungeboard - man, will I have fun with this - love the new Grunge Books, too.  I have to be honest (aren't I always...brutally so, sometimes) that I look at some of the manufacturer's and think - "what on earth are you thinking??" - I can't believe what some of the items that are "new" releases are - lots to me look like the same 'ole of three and four years ago.  Maybe I just have seen so much that  it look alike.  Lots of it is stuff I love, though, and can't wait to see.  I think that almost every manufacturer has brought out a Halloween, Fall and/or Christmas line, so there will be plenty to choose from for the winter holidays.  I know Basic Grey's Christmas line isn't published yet, but if they stay true to form, they'll release one in September or October.  Hope you guys all enjoyed these peeks - it will be my last update on this subject!!! 

These are new Kaisercraft items - stamps, rhinestones, embellishments & more!

Baseball Diamond Chipboard Album

We have another gorgeous kit in store for you - a Baseball Diamond Chipboard Album - this is seven pages (14 front & back) and features reds, blues, yellows - lots of great embellishments.  This is perfect to highlight your favorite player's season or super for All-Star games.  We have pre-cut most of the paper and added extra sheets to the kit in case you want to customize the mounting cards for the photos to different sizes than ours.  It's one of my favorites since I spend so much time on the baseball field between the two boys playing Spring & Fall and us doing the Minnesota Twins Spring Training games.  This is also perfect for those of you who love professional baseball and go to games as well!  It's available under Scraptique Project Based Kits.  Also, be sure to check out the Inspiration area on our website - it's where we'll post photos of layouts in our booth and projects & layouts from our fabulous Entourage Team!!  It's available on our website at Baseball Chipboard Album Enjoy!

Water Boy Page Kit For Summer Swimming

Hope everyone is loving the gorgeous summer weather!  It's hot here, but I'm getting more used to it that I have before since I'm spending more time outside during the summer with the kids.  Here's a new page kit called Water Boy that we have available that is perfect for those summer swimming days!  It features a huge 11" high seahorse that's painted and glittered.  It's available on our website at Water Boy Scrapbook Page Kit.  Hope you like it!

Kaisercraft Love Album

Hope everyone had a great weekend!  I put the house (much to my husband's excitement - NOT) to work re-doing and painting my daughter's room to update it to a pre-teen style from bubblegum pink to light lavender.  Today, we're adding the finishing touches - she's so excited!!

Here's our Scraptique project for today!  This one is a gorgeous Kaisercraft Love Album using their Be Mine papers and embellishments, plus loads of ribbons, rhinestones - tons of bling!  This one is a work of art!  The kit comes complete with all of the supplies, paint, etc., to put it together.  It's available on our website at Love Album Kit.  We'll have another new kit tomorrow!  By the way - how many of you have done cards for the Troops??  I did 12 this weekend and am planning more this week before I send my envelope out.  Let me know how you're doing!!  Please join in!

Teen Girl Accordion Album Kit

Here's another one of our new releases - a Teen Girl Accordion Album Kit.  This is a 12 page album (six pages front & back) and is 5" x 8" in size.  It uses gorgeous tan, pink and coral colored papers and lots of cutesy embellishments and Prima flowers.  It's available on our website at Teen Girl Accordion Kit.  Enjoy, girls!!

For the Red, White & Blue!

Happy 4th everyone!  Very quiet here - had my parents & 4 year old nephew over for swimming - got to spend the morning with my youngest niece - grilled burgers & dogs & turkey burgers and just had a really fun, sweet day.  Hope everyone stayed safe and had a good time!!

We have a new kit together for you guys - it's an All Boy Accordion Album in the brand new KaiserCraft Thrill Seeker line and is a perfect red, white & blue colors.  It will work for any boy (big or small) - a patriotic album, baseball All-Stars and more!!!  The single page is the front cover and the full view is the front.  There are also pages on the back side that are complete with pictures.  It's 12 full pages (six front and back) and is 5" x 8" in size plus fully embellished in Scraptique fashion!!  I'll be posting a new kit each day for the next week - we've got so many beautiful ones in stock that you guys will be amazed!!!  It's available on our website at All Boy Accordion Album Kit.  See you tomorrow!!

Make Cards & Support Our Troops!!

I'm sure many of you as I did today, received an e-mail from the Scrapbook Trends, Cards & Paper Trends group, asking for our support and input to create cards that the men and women serving our country can use to stay in touch with their loved ones during their difficult time away from their loved ones.  Please join me in committing to making at least 3 cards to send to this very good cause.  I'd love to know how many of your will add yourselves to this commitment, so please send us a note and let us know "you're in"!

Kim

Here is the e-mail (copied with permission) that I received:

As we celebrate our country’s freedom, it is natural to think about our service men and women and the sacrifice they make for us. But here is an opportunity to put those feelings into action and do something for them.           

 

Last year, Northridge Media launched “Cards for Troops”, the idea of Tina Gonzales, whose husband, Brad, was serving in Iraq. Brad had expressed the desire to be able to send nice cards back to his family, and Tina knew at once that was something she could do for the soldiers overseas. The project was announced last fall in Scrapbook Trends, Cards and Paper Trends and it wasn’t long before cards were coming into our offices in box loads. Tina says: 

 

“I had captains and officers email me amazing thank yous for the cards, saying how much it meant to get cards to send back home to the families they are missing. The word has spread so much in Iraq that many now watch and wait for the arrival of more cards. Even the post office personnel want to peek inside the boxes to see the fun cards and how creative people get. They can tell how much love goes into them.

 

This experience has shown me that there are people who are very willing to give of their time and talents. Regardless of their feelings about the war, they want to support our country’s troops. It has touched my heart forever. These cards were made with love for people they don’t even know or will never meet. I would like everyone to know how much it means to get a card on your birthday from your husband in Iraq—it is priceless. The birthday card I received from Brad, along with his message, means more than any present and I’ll keep it always.” 

 

We want to express our sincere appreciation to the wonderful people who supported our troops last year by making cards. Our goal was to send 5,000 cards and we not only met that goal, but exceeded it by sending over 7,000 cards to men and women on active duty. And this was due to our wonderful readers who took the time to create cards. We also had several stores who sponsored card-making days dedicated to Cards for Troops. We have had countless notes of appreciation from service men and women who were very touched by these cards. We have also received many requests for more cards, so we invite you to once again join us in creating cards for our troops. Please send your cards for all occasions (with envelopes) to our new address:

 

CARDS FOR TROOPS

Northridge Media    

563 East 770 North

Orem, UT     84097        

Thank you for your support of this worthwhile endeavor!

Fort Lauderdale Girls - You're Awesome!

Thanks so much to all the wonderful people we met and old friends we visited with in Fort Lauderdale this past weekend at the Creating Keepsakes Convention.  We had fabulous classes and enjoyed it so much!  We're not sure if the show will be back to that location next year, but if it's not, we're planning on doing something over there (think back to the Beach Bash of years past that Debra Beagle, Kate Childers and friends) put together and we'll just have our own event!  I'm so glad that I got to see Regina who I haven't seen since last year and that Barb, Gerri-anne and Janet made it over for the day.  Thanks again, Lisa for all your help!  Bev & Leeann worked for us, too, and Jacob ran our Dollar Booth while Logan ran the make & takes.  Tim worked the register while I taught and Jordan stayed home at Gee-Gee and Papa's house and went shopping the whole time - wonder who made out the best?????

I'm planning on posting our new upcoming layouts and projects for all classes from now forward for the remainder of 2008.  We're also still going to have a warehouse sale soon, but have a few glitches.  We were going to do our crop in the unit next to our warehouse, but they sold it and that option isn't available.  I'm looking into other options and will keep you posted.  I need to know how many people are interested in cropping from Friday night to Sunday afternoon!!

Here's a look at one of our new Scraptique project based kits - it's an accordion album using KaiserCraft papers with a variety of embellishments and ribbons.  It will be posted and available for purchase by this weekend under our Scraptique section on our website.

Have a great week!