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.

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

......and its probably because I have been over come with boxes since we got back!

I wanted to share this thoughtful gift Debbie and Todd aka a guy who scrapbooks, gave me last week. They are both so sweet and drove all the way down to the store to give this to me. My new name for Todd is "The Metal Dude"!

I am off to my sons Valentine party, but promise to post this weekend. I have awesome pictures of the first altered window class. If you are signed up for this, you are going to have a blast.

Have a great weekend!

Home From Market

I made it back from CHA around midnight Wednesday night. I was glad I missed most of the ice that had been here in the area while I was gone. Thursday, I hopped right back into the usual routine at the store. I am so excited to show you all the new things I ordered, but that would be nearly impossible. I hope you are excited to see them as they come in.



Friday night we had 22 here for late night cropping and Saturday the store was busy with the usual traffic and two classes. The class this week was a very popular one taught by Brook. This is the fourth and fifth time she has taught this class now. Every time she teaches it, I say I want to get pictures and Saturday I finally did.





One of the really cool things about this class is how different each person has done their album. Everyone starts out with a different record album and then chooses papers to compliment it and makes a book. As you can see from the pictures, it has appealed to many different groups; teens, adults, males, females, etc. Brook may not be teaching this exact class again (at least for a while), but she will have others each month for making books and using the Bind It All.



The classes have been really filling up which is great news for us. We are really trying to broaden the scope of the classes, so that many can find something of interest. Be sure to check out other classes here We hope you can join us for a class or a crop soon.

A Quick and Easy Item

And it was inexpensive too!



Using a $3.99 frame from Walmart I took one piece of Flair paper and a clear sticker and framed it. While I cut the paper and put the birds in a specific order, the paper would actually do this without cutting it. I thought it could make a nice gift for someone or nice to hang in my house. The cost was under $5.00, it took very little skill and took less than 10 minutes to put it together. In real life the sticker is not visible like it is in this picture.

What kinds of things are you framing?

A quick update.....

Well I did more damage today, we ordered more stuff;
Fancy Pants
Imaginace
Paper Loft
Crate Paper
Fiskars you're going to love the new border punches
Technique Tuesday
Lots and Lots of ribbon, even added some expensive ribbon from Europe

And I know there's more, I am just to tired to think, so I will leave you guys with a picture from today!

Can we say "I want Donna Downey to teach her new Canvas book in Waxahachie!"

A morning with T!m.......

Sorry about not posting last night, all the pictures are on Heidi's laptop and she has been having trouble getting them loaded. Plus all the cool video we took yesterday will not load either. But for now we have our pictures with your favorite grunge and distressed artist T!m. He filmed a Taco Tuesday with Cheryl and Megan, so be sure and check that out in the upcoming videos on their website.

We could not keep Megan off him, I think she licked his ear during the Taco Tuesday filming!

We will try and get more photos for you guys. We do have paper packs from every company we ordered from that we are bring back to show you guys. So design team get ready, you guys have a lot of stuff to play with to make projects before all the goodies arrive! Here is a list of everything we have ordered so far, because I know your dying to know what is coming in....
Prima Marketing
Little Yellow Bicycle
Ranger
Bo Bunny
October Afternoon
Graphic 45 (should be at the store anyday)
Basic Grey
Cosmo Cricket
Jenni Bowlin
Crafty Secrets
Creative Imaginations
Maya Road
Doodle Bug
Glitz
Moxxie
Stampers Anonymous (Wendy & T!m's stamps)
Advantus (T!m, Heidi Swapp and AMM)
Sassfrass
Chatterbox
Jelly Bean (new company)
7 Gypsie
Karen Foster
Petaloo
Making Memories

We also ordered a ton from Simply Swank, this is a soldering company. I am really excited about bring all this in the store and teaching soldering classes. It has brought back my days of making stain glass. Yoy guys are going to love this, and those of you that bought the soldering kit at GASC and have never taken it out of the box....its time!

And we still have several to hit tomorrow, plus finish checking out the new exhibitors.

Another busy day.......

First I must say, Cheryl and Megan are a blast to hang out with, my stomach hurts so bad from laughing so hard!

Check out these projects Cheryl made for her booth.......



And yes I asked her to teach this as another class at the store soon......


After I helped them for a while I headed over to Maya Road booth to help Caroline. When they started unpacking all the projects, I was blown away with the talent. Here are some pictures of the great stuff all these girls made....

Aubrey, Katie, Lisa and Laura, Maya Road Designers.......




As usual Creative Imaginations put on a great party! This year the theme was Star Wars. We had a blast and got to visit with Cat from Mineral Wells and Terry from Wichita Falls. We all feel a shop hop in the future......



Back at the Hotel as all four of us were talking and cutting up, Cheryl remembered her friend was sending a special project Fedex.......well check this out! We all stood around it speechless for over 10 minutes.....


This was made with all their new molds, is this not beautiful?