A big THANK YOU to our Swarm girls!

Thanks to all who participated in our Cricut swarm this Saturday!
Here's our Cricut queen Leslie showing how to use the gypsy: A Cricut lunch:

Hard at work:

Cartridge exploration:

Mom & daughter duo hard at work:

We hope that everyone had a good time!

Scrapping with Carrie

For March's class with Carrie it's a cooking theme this time! Such a cute layout--don't you just love the little apron? Class month will be Tuesday the 23rd from 6-8. $15

Ultra fine Flower Soft

For all you fans of Flower Soft......and there's alot of you......we now have in their new product.

Here's how they describe it:

This new Flower Soft Ultra Fine range gives crafters the ability to use the 3D-effect product on much more detailed, finer designs, allowing them to be even more creative in how and when they use the product. This exciting new product works perfectly with adhesive sheets and tapes to create perfectly geometric designs such as textured borders and frames. For stampers who love furry friends, Ultra Fine is purrfect as it creates the most realistic fur. If the long winter months have you scrapping your last beach holiday then you will be amazed at the results you can achieve by adding Sand Ultra Fine to your page. The possibilities are endless - all you need is to sprinkle a little imagination!

Available in eight exciting colors:
Raspberry Fizz (mixed color), Citrus Crush (mixed color), Sand, Koala Grey, Sage, Black, Strawberry and Toffee.

Product Description:Flower Soft Ultra Fine is tiny little colored sprinkles that are easy to use. The finer sprinkles make it easy to add touchable texture to detailed images and make realistic looking fur, sand, grass, and even food. Flower Soft Ultra Fine comes in eight new colors that complement the 26 original colors. Just apply glue to an image, sprinkle Flower Soft on, and let dry.

Shaped Sports Paper

How fun are these sports papers?! Not only are they round but they are textured as well--the tennis ball paper actually feels like a tennis ball, the golf paper has dimples--a fun twist to jazz up all those sporting event pages. Doing a 2 page layout?? Just slice these in half and place one on each side of your layout.

Project 12 class

Lisa is offering her Project 12 class on Sunday, February 28 from 1:00-3:00. Join her as she uses the cute, cute Bo Bunny Persuasion line. It looks like there are lots of layers of paper in this layout, but Lisa will show you how to cut frames out of the paper to maximize your paper usage. She will also show you how she used the Gypsy to get the border of mixed hearts, and how she embossed some flourishes to spice them up a bit. Martha Stewart's heart border punch adds an elegant finishing touch. You can see the one-page layout here, but don't forget that you will also make a two-page layout, and a card using more frames and folds. Come let Lisa share her tips and inspiration for February and see what she does with her leftovers. Get some layouts created and get inspired!!!

Glitter

We set up a little area just for you glitter-aholics. It's crazy how you girls love glitter!! So now we have it all in one little section right near the front door--and believe me--you won't miss it! We have in a full palette of colors right now but they will fly out the door.

Jillibean

New to our store is Jillibean paper. I saw this on their website and thought it was so cute! And yes, we have both the polka dot and the car paper!

7 Gypsies

New in the store is the ATC & Photo display from 7 gypsies. You can clip and hang any number of things from it--tags, mini-scrapbook pages, cards--anything you want to show off! The display comes with tons of the little clips and we have packages of extras if you need them. $29.99

Spring paper

A sure sign that spring is finally coming is when we start getting St. Patricks's Day paper! We also just got the new lines in from Imaginesce. Here's one of the cutest ones: Here's the whole line:

Here's just a sneek peek. There's a whole rack of Irish paper in!

Christy is back next Saturday

On February 20th, Christy will be back teaching TWO classes. One is embossing using the new Textured Impressions folders from Sizzix. The second is die cutting with Sizzix Bigz dies and the newest addition to the Sizzix line, Scoreboard dies.

Each class is $25 BUT, we are offering a better deal!! Take both classes for $40.
Texture Boutique class is from 10:30 - 12:30 and the Sizzix scoreboard class is from 1-3.

Here are some images of the projects you will be creating:

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New Cricut Cartridges

New Arrivals!
The top 3 are the Limited Editions for spring and we have those at an amazing price. $24.99 each or get all 3 for $59.99!! Plus we have 8 new regular cartridges (click on picture to enlarge) and these are priced at $49.99--amazing price on new releases!

Jillian is back!

We had so much fun at Jillian's January class and we are thrilled that she's coming back in February. Here's how she describes this next one:

I'll be teaching another class at Scrapadoodle on Feb 24th. It will be a two hour mini-album called Today. Students will be challenged to take 8-10 photos of their life in one single day. This could be your child eating at the breakfast table, your morning coffee, or your computer at work! We'll use Claudine Hellmuth paints again in springy colors as well as some fun American Crafts cardstock. I'll also be talking more about gel medium and how you can use it for an acrylic album.

If you are interested in taking the class give the store a call at: 309-691-5152. If you'd like to see the sample in person, stop by the store and check it out.

Scrappin' with Carrie

Here's what Carrie will be helping you make in her monthly layout class. This month, class is February 16 from 6-8. Call to sign up!

CHA

We are back from Anaheim, for the annual CHA (Craft & Hobby Association) trade show. Watch for all the new product that will start arriving in the store! One of my favorite parts about visiting the booths at CHA is to get page layout ideas. All the companies use their best designers and pull out all the stops to show off their new products. I wanted to share with you some of my favorites from last week: LOVE the varity of butterflies used here:

Speaking of butterflies, this one (so sorry about the blur) was amazing and we have all these coming!! Wait till you see them in person--each one has rhinestones....

From Wendy Vecchi...read the saying on the stamp...hilarious!

This one is so simple but I was impressed with the stitching across the letters--clever:

What a great idea for that old circle punch you haven't been using.....who thinks of this stuff?? I absolutely love this:

These are chipboard dress froms from Maya Road and coming soon to Scrapadoodle!

Paper flowers using distress inks from Tim Holtz...including the new colors he launched at the show:

Just a little eye candy for you to get inspired.

Make and Take this Saturday!