Maya Road Arrivals and Layouts

We just got a new shipment from Maya Road on Thursday...so very fun new products. Great boxes and chipboard letters. We love the cute little tins that they package everything in...great for even more projects.
Love this new banner album. I think I'll do with the word Halloween. Banners are one of the hottest things going in paper crafting and mini albums right now.
Great rub ons.
Fun felt embellishments
Even little felt birds, the buttons and birds come in those cute little tins, too.

We also got in some fabulous new clear ribbons by Maya Road....they just didn't photograph so well. Two ribbons that are clear with black polka dots and scrolls and the other are colored with stars and flowers. It's sold by the yard and is kind of thin plastic almost rubber like material. They are just awesome, you have to come in and check them out. I will try and do a project with them in the next few days and see if the photograph better.

Plus, some great chipboard key chains with several little birds shapes including an owl and some sheer oval scallops perfect for the cuttlebug, alcohol inks and rub ons.

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Now on to a couple of layouts and some question for you!!!!

I was recently asked by the Rapid City Journal to start a blog on scrapbooking and paper crafting. (If your interested you can go to http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/, scroll down on the home page to where you see staff blogs, next click on community blogs and one more click to the scrap n play blog.) So far I have not had a lot of comments left on it but lot's of views, but I posed a couple of questions on there and thought I would ask you guys, also.

What's your style? Tell me about your scrapbooking style...Do you scrap lots of photos on one page? Do you do two page layouts? Do you title your pages? Do you journal? Do you just use one photo? Do you consider your pages a work of art?? (You should)

I scrap with usually one photo or two. I like to work with 5x7's, 4x8's, and a couple of other unusual sizes. I don't usually journal, I let the picture speak for itself. Sometimes I spend hours on a layout and other times 5 minutes. I love to work with all types of products and tools.

For both scrapbookers and card makers, I'd like to know your favorite line of products? I love Fancy Pants, Basic Grey, Prima, and about a million more...but tell me about what you love and what you would like to see us carry in the store.

I'll leave you with a couple of my recent layouts and my new favorites...KI Memories Lace Cardstock on both layouts, Fancy Pants Glittercuts, and Tim Holtz tickets.

Please leave some feedback with your style and favorite products. Everyone that leaves feedback will have their name put in a drawing for a couple of sheets of KI Memories Lace cardstock and a couple of the Fancy Pants Glitter Cuts. We will draw a week from today. Thanks so much!!!

Fancy Pants Sweet Spring Cards

Fancy Pants Sweet Spring Card Class, Saturday the 28th at 10:15 am. Wonderful new line from Fancy Pants. You will make 5 cards, and go home with 7 more pieces from the sheet to make more cards or tags. Grunge board and Glimmer Mist accents make these cards so much fun, and just a little different. Cost is $18.00, call to reserve your spot and don't forget prepayment is required.

More new stuff and photos

This is Tabi, prettiest and sweetest little one. Look at that beautiful hair and gorgeous eyes. The other day went we went four wheeling, all of the wild iris's were blooming. It was gorgeous.
Okay, now to the new product...Lots of new stamps from Imaginisce from .99 to $2.99. How perfect is that?
Great new Birthday Rub ons!!!!
More stamps!!!!
KI Memories White Daisy Lace Cardstock! Love this Stuff. Just imagine the possibilities...they're endless.

A wonderful new Baby Line by Imaginisce. So sweet and adorable!!!

Glittery and embossed Birthday Papers from Imaginisce, too!

Plus, we have some great new chipboard shapes from Scenic Route, more Tim Holtz Idea-ology, lots more Bazzil StiTches Templates and several new Glitter Cuts from Fancy Pants.

New alphabets, Jack and Ella and a couple photos

Tried out the macro on my camera for the first time the other night...great shot of some teeny, tiny flowers on my snowball bush. Kind of cool! Our friend Angie was baby sitting this little guy...Griff...oh how I love puppies...makes me want to run out and get another one! Don't think my two would welcome that thought! Griff is a sweetie and just full of all that puppy energy!

We got tons of new things here at the store this week! Lots of new alphabets, everyone wanted alphabets, so that's what we ordered. Making Memories Shimmer Alphas, cool American Crafts vinyl Thickers alphas, and a couple of more. Okay, bear with me while I learn on this laptop, can't figure out how to rotate the pictures! But I'm working on it! A great new Baby line from Making Memories...Jack and Ella. Just the sweetest line ever...darling trims, shimmery papers, velvet brads, felt embellishments, and cute epoxy embellishments, too. Even some darling flocked papers. So sweet!

Tons of other stuff, too! I just don't quite have time to post it all this morning...but I will add more photos tonight or tomorrow. Some of the new includes the new summer Glimmer Mists (pineapple, kiwi, watermelon, sandy beach...there are two more but I can't remember the names). Great new birthday papers from Imaginisce...glittered and embossed. Also, another darling baby line from Imaginisce...lots of new .99 to 2.99 stamps from them, too. Get 'em fast. The birthday one's are very cool, and there's a couple in the baby line that are so cute. All the new Tim Holtz Ideaology is here, too. Such fun stuff, you'll love it!
Come by and check it all out!

Tessa wins the Prima Paper Kit!!!!

Tessa won the drawing for the Prima Paper kit that I posted on the blog a couple of weeks ago. Great kit with gorgeous papers, ribbons and flowers. It's the perfect kit!!! Tessa is an amazing talent, can't wait to see what layouts, cards and projects she'll come up with using the kit! Make sure you check out her blog, just click and go with the column on the left that says Blogs I visit...

Tessa stop by anytime this week to pick up! Congrats!

Basic Grey Chipboard Album and Baby Visitor

Look at our little visitor, sweetest little thing ever! He was just waiting for his Mama to bring dinner. Boy! Could he make some racket!! Noisy little fella! I guess it was just a cute, cute, kind of day!

Wanted to share this sweet little key plate album that I made to show off the darling chipboard stickers from the Sugared line of Basic Grey! Great papers and the cutest chipboard stickers ever! All you have to do is stick them on, just darling and so easy! You don't have to ink, distress, or nothing, just stick and go! Love them and they are way too adorable!!! Okay, some of these got turned around! But it's still a super cute project!!!
Funny flamingo!


Oh my gosh, the giraffe is so cute!

Okay, I know it's a lot of cute! And defiantly a lot, lot cute for me! But sometimes I just have to do something way adorable like this!

Birthday Sale Continues

Just wanted to let everyone know that our sale that was set for last Saturday, continues thru this Saturday, June 7. Lots of you requested that we continue it, due to Graduation Celebrations and travel plans over the weekend. Spend $25.00, save $5.00, spend $50.00, save $10.00 so on and so forth in $25.00 increments. Hope to see you this week, great chance to stock up for summer paper crafting!!!

A couple photos from this past weekend...how wonderful to have everything so lush and green, once again!

These two look innocent, but don't be fooled!

Trip photos,upcoming classes and more

Thought I would share a few shots from our trip with you and some upcoming classes. Kind of a long post, so bear with me!

This was out view out of our hotel window in Seattle. Beautiful City! Lush, gorgeous green foliage every where!

A penguin made from all scrap metal in a Seattle shopping plaza. Very cool!
The first picture on the boat of my sister-in-law, Ricky, drinking a Bahama Mama, out on the 12th deck. I guess we we're hoping that tropical drinks would make us feel (or maybe pretend) that we we're somewhere warmer than North to Alaska. More cruise pictures to come!

Father's Day Card Class, Saturday, June 7 at 10:30 am. Five great guy cards featuring Fancy Pants About A Boy and Papa lines. Perfect for Father's Day or masculine birthday's. We will be using Bazzill Stitching Templates, Tim Holtz's Grungeboard and Crackle Paints, transparencies, alcohol inks, and Ranger Paint Dabbers. Very fun! Try out the Grungeboard, (we love this stuff) crackle paints, dabbers, blending tool and more!

5 cards for $15.00, scissors and adhesive required. Call 721-7529 to reserve your spot.

One Sheet Wonder Card Class, Saturday, June 14 at 10:30 a.m.

Eleven cards from one sheet of Basic Grey's Two Scoop Collection. A great class that shows how to use every bit of one piece of 12 x 12 paper. Lots of fun embellishments to match!

Cost is $20.00, scissors and adhesive required. Again call to reserve your spot, 721-7529.
OOOOppppppS! same photo! I'll fix it later...but the class is 11 different cards.


Next, on Saturday, June 21, we are making a Mini Clear Birthday Book at 10:30 a.m. We will be using clear coasters from Clear Scraps for the book, Cuttlebugging the covers, using fun scallop punches and birthday rub ons from Bo Bunny and some fun embellishments for Cloud 9. Great mini project to get you acquainted with the hottest trend in scrapbooking...clear acrylic albums.
Cost is $20.00, scissors and adhesive required. You know the drill, call to reserve your spot...721-7529.

Last, I thought I would share this Bo Bunny Word Book that I made for Leslie's son, James, who is graduating this weekend. It's the Grade album, I just took the E off. Great quick project, lots of room for pictures (hint, hint Leslie). Can't wait to get the photos in it and add some blue n silver ribbons and embellishments for Stevens. We have several other Bo Bunny Word Albums to choose from...Party, Love, I (heart) you, Family, Believe, Team! Very Fun and they make great gifts.