Happy Belated Birthday

OK, so the Birthday wasn't late, but getting the post up here has taken a little too much time. Sorry about that.

On Saturday, April 18, we celebrated our 4th year in business here at the Crafty Scrapper! We were joined by many of our friends for this celebration. 35 ladies cropped all day from 10 am to midnight and many others came in throughout the day to say Hi.

There were so many fun things throughout the day--give aways, clowns, cotton candy and of course, hanging with friends! Thanks for making our 4th year possible.

Sharon Tomlinson comes to the Crafty Scrapper....

I received a phone today from my buddy Cheryl at Ten Second Studios, who very nicely (NOT) informed me that I am letting down my readers and better get my act together and post something. I think she just wanted to see her pictures up here.

This last Saturday we were all excited to bring something totally out of the box to the store. Sharon Tomlinson, a mix media artist who has been published in several magazines, came to teach a class. We all brought JUNK and made a altered junk journal, learning golden medium, transfers and other fun stuff. Cheryl and her friend Karen joined us, but all I heard from Cheryl was "did you know I am Ranger certified?" Last class she came to all I heard was "do you have I glock? I need a glock"! We still love you Cheryl!

Here are a few photos from the class, and us digging in the junk for our book. Check out Sharon's blog for a flip she took of the class. Thank you so much for trekking down to our store and inspiring us. I cannot wait to learn how to paint faces.

A Little Photo Challenge

I have a little challenge today. Take picture from your child's (pet's or anything else's) point of view. After you take the picture you can post a link here or in the forum here .

On April 24th I will draw a name and the winner will recieve a nice little RAK from me.

I am a bad blogger........

....things have been so crazy, with all the product coming in, classes, and I have had to start on GASC. Yes we are doing it again, and wait until you see the classes we are teaching with Cheryl from TSS. Caroline from Maya Road is going to sponsor us and hopefully help teach a class or two. If you want to take the class, hurry, 2 have already sold out!

Last year we had a VERY special customer that had heard of us and traveled all the way from Italy, and no that's not Italy, Texas. She and her husband come to the states to shop. She looks for scrapbook supplies and he looks for great music stores. I wanted to share this layout she sent me of their visit.
Awesome layout! I am loving the Texas state and stitching...thanks for sharing Francesca, cannot wait to see you guys again!

Being Green and Beautiful

Saving the environment doesn't mean we all have to wear hemp and clunky huarache sandals made of old tires. This is my new shopping bag that I made so I don't have to collect all those annoying little plastic bags. This bag is very environmentally friendly. I reduced my stash, reused some scraps and items I had around the house and recycled this tired old bag. If you would like to know how I made it check out my blog.

Soldering 101.....

When we go to CHA, we always try and find something new and fun to bring into the shop. This year we decided on soldering, and we are sooooo lucky to have the talented Tina Wright local to come teach these classes. Tina has been published in Somerset and many other magazines. She is also the co-host in a new retreat called Paper Cowgirls. If you are looking for something new, fun and different be sure and check out the Paper Cowgirls Retreat.

Tina made each student one of these adorable little envelopes to hold their class kits.These two sisters, Jennifer and Gena enjoyed a day out taking a class together.
Tina helping her students get ready to start soldering.......

Susie had a great idea for her charms. She used Waxahachie Indian paper and made soldering charms to hang off her scrapbooks.
Someone got down and serious with her project............
We are so excited about all the classes Tina will be teaching at the store. We will still offer Soldering 101, but are adding advance and intermediate classes. You will have to complete the soldering 101 in order to take any of the advance classes. The store has also started carrying Simply Swank soldering products, we have 29 different size glass sets, charms, solder, foil, books, and a whole starter kit for the beginner, so come check it out!

A day with Cheryl from Ten Seconds Studio....

If you guys haven't figured it out yet, we love Ten Seconds Studio and Cheryl! A couple of weeks ago Cheryl and Megan came down for dinner. When they were leaving, Cheryl saw this in the window of the antique shop next to me. She didn't even know what it was, but could see metal on it and had to have it. When she came down Saturday to teach the metal cross class, we surprised her with it...cannot wait to see what you do with it!

Here the crosses are drying while everyone worked on their metal. Loved how everyone had a different look. If you were in the store while they were distressing their cross...sorry about the noise!

Creativity Runneth Over...

Just wanted to share a few things that are at the store! These are made by members of the design team as well as some guest designers. There is so much new product coming into the store, the team has been hustling to get some examples done. There will be more coming, but here are a few to hopefully jump start you on a project of your own.

Made with the new Maya Road Tag Book. Love the way it is turned and the dog house he is peeking out of!



Believe it or not, there are a couple pictures even cuter than this one in the book!


Using the new Maya Road Mini Banner Set....cute as a little book too!


Perfect with the boy/man paper coming in from Cosmo Cricket.


Such a great layout with the new line of Pink Paislee.


Another adorable layout! Have you used the sheer sheets yet? Here is a great usage.


A twist on the recipe book. Using papers from the new American Craft line as well as some of the Heidi Grace valentine paper.



Show us what you are working on!

I'm Loving Ten Second Studio

These are some new papers that are at The Crafty Scrapper or soon will be. I didn't have elements though.....so I made my own using Ten Second Studio's metal. For this Skateboarder that I made to go with Pipeline from Moxie, I turned the metal upside down. Then I place my paper on top of it. I used a stylus and traced over once of the skaters. I freehanded some designs. Cut him out. Sanded him. Then I used popdots to add him to my LO. In this Snorkle and Another Fish in the Sea line by Cosmo Cricket, I loved the Current Paper...but I didn't have enough of the paper. So I freehanded som e currents on the metal and used the balls and cups as well as some other tools to make my own currents. I think it turned out really cute!

If you would like to see the rest of these projects, you can check out my blog.

Happy Valentine's Day.......

I spent Friday up at my sons school helping with their Valentine party. Here is a little something I made his teacher, its a Maya Road mail box, We R Memory Keepers valentine collection. One of the girls on the Design team made these awesome sweets that we sold up at the shop to help raise money for the Susan B. Komen Foundation. I put some tissue in side and filled it with sweets.
On Thursday my son was working on his Valentines before his dad came to pick him up, I keep thinking he sure was taking forever to do them. After they left and I was getting all our stuff together, I noticed he had drawn a picture on each one....how sweet is that. I was afraid to ask him about the one on Alexa's valentine, it was of him and her holding hands, hum!
Annette and I loved this one, we thought it looked like Picasso! When we told him, he looked at us like we were crazy and said, no its a man picking his nose...that's a boy for you!


Here are a few windows from the class last week. Wish we could post ALL the different ones that have been done. Mine is here if you haven't seen it yet.


This last Wednesday was the 1st of 4 classes Annette is teaching, altered window. It was great to see how each one was different.