Doodling at The Scrapbox!

I just sent out my weekly newsletter and in my hurry-hurry-hurry I didn't get in an article about a new class we are trying at The Scrapbox - Intro to Doodling! with Tammy Menard! Check out this great technique based class that will show you how to get funky and eclectic with your pens!

So with this class you get a notebook, as well as a 4 piece set of black Pitt Pens from Faber Castell! It's an awesome value and you will learn so much!

Can you join us? Call us at 613-745-2215 for this class on the following date:

Wed Sept 26 at 6pm - 9pm
Cost : $28/$25

Come Play!

Crop & Create Ottawa 2012!!!!

Crop & Create Ottawa registration opens tonight at 8:00 p.m. EST!

Join Scrapbook & Cards Today magazine on September 28^th and 29^th at the beautiful Minto Suites Hotel in Ottawa, ON for two days of inspiration, education and pure fun!  Come crop and create with some of the best teachers in paper crafting.  Starting at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, join experts Kelly Goree, Vicki Boutin, and Kelly Purkey for fabulous classes that are full of tips, tricks and techniques for every level. With 24 hours of cropping time, delicious dessert buffets, a gourmet soup/salad/sandwich lunch, AMAZING prizes, special make n’ takes, challenges and a goody bag you will be talking about for a while, this exclusive event promises to be a weekend all about creating with their closest friends…YOU...and one that is not to be missed!

Crop & Create will also have two onsite stores...and we are one of them!  For more information be sure to visit the Crop & Create website at http://www.scrapbookandcards.com/crop-and-create-ottawa-2012

Glee!!!

Jenn

Scrapbox Yard Sale this Saturday May 26th!!!

THIS IS AN INDOOR YARD SALE!!! RAIN OR SHINE!!!

Anything that can be used to make handmade crafts can be on sale here and you never know what treasures you will find and at such an amazing deal!

Stamps, papers, stickers, chipboard, inks, sprays, paints, stencils, dies, embossing folders, totes, die cutting machines, storage - I've seen it all go at incredible prices at our Scrapbooking Yard Sale. Be sure to show up early to get first pick!

This Saturday May 26th at 9am - 12pm!!! No Admission Cost!!!THIS IS AN INDOOR YARD SALE!!! RAIN OR SHINE!!!

 

     Interested to be a vender at The Scrapbooking Yard Sale? It's easy! Call the store to reserve your spot now - you will get a half of an 8' table to sell your items! Anything you sell will become instant credit at The Scrapbox for any future products or services (i.e. classes, crops, membership renewals) that you want! Start now to go through all of your crafting area to purge out the unused, unwanted but perfectly good supplies that you just don't see a need for! If you have any questions, please call me at 613-745-2215 for more info or to sign up!
THIS IS AN INDOOR YARD SALE!!! RAIN OR SHINE!!!

 

Hope to see you there!!!

So here we go! Let's get right down to the good stuff shall we? The Prizes!

This is the "Grand Prize" that is worth Retail $250 in product!!! and it just needs a picture to do it justice.

Curious about the tower? This is a new product to The Scrapbox called a 'PortaInk' and you can see more about it on this video!

As you can see I have stocked it with lots of fun product that you can take home and have fun with if you win it this Saturday. How can you get into this fab draw?! Easy! Tickets! You can get tickets by just doing the following:

1. Signing up for and paying for classes & crops in May & June (1 ticket per class or crop)
2. Every $20 spent at The Scrapbox after discount and before taxes get you a ballot into the draw as well!
3. Bonus tickets given to Special Products - you just have to come into the store to see what they are - they will be tagged (quite literally)
4. If you enter the May Sketch Challenge for either a Layout or Card and hand it in by Saturday May 5th at 6pm!
5. If you come and complete the FREE Make & Take this Thursday May 3rd from 5pm - 8pm.
6. Renewing your Membership - gets you a bonus ticket!!  

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The Scavenger Hunt!

     This is a new event that we are happy to organize for you! Basically we have put together a list of things to check out in the store and you have to answer 13 out of the 15 silly questions and then submit to a staff member before Sat May 5th at 6pm.  

     To get all the details for the Scavenger Hunt- come to the store to pick up your copy!

The Prize for the Scavenger Hunt is a $50 Gift Certificate to The Scrapbox that can be used exactly like cash for any product or service! This will be drawn at 7pm on Sat May 5th. You do not have to be present to win!

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Daily Savings!

Each day this week that we are open will have its own awesome Sale! Here are the specifics:

Wed May 2nd (courtesy of Luce) is : Cling-Mount Stamps! 

Thurs May 3rd (courtesy of Stephanie) is : All Prima Paper and Products!

Fri May 4th (courtesy of Tammy) is: All Embossing Folders - Any Brand!

Sat May 5th (Courtesy of Jenn) : 25% off your item of choice - choose any one item of anything in stock and you get it at this Special Discount! (items on special order or being held are not included).

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FREE Make & Take with Vintaj and Tim!  

Thursday May 3rd from 5pm - 8pm

 

Come and make this Lovely tag using the new Spring Seasonal Ink Set and learn how to emboss Brass Jewellery Blanks from Vintaj and alter them with their patinas! Please understand that you may get a different shape of brass blank than the one shown. The possibilities are endless! Get a Bonus ticket into the Grand Prize Draw! 

So lots to choose from to celebrate our favorite hobby! I hope you can join us in the fun! If nothing else, join us for the Cake at 1pm on Sat May 5th. Free to anyone who comes into the store!

Thank you and Come Play!

 

Bust a Move Charity Silent Auction!!!

So I am doing a Silent Auction to help raise fund for the Bust a Move Event I am trying so very hard to attend at the end of April. If you want to make a donation and get me there - please do so at my personal page on the Bust A Move Site.

Back to the Silent Auction - here are the items that have been so generously donated to help my team and I reach our goal. Starting in no particular order...

Handcrafted Oil Painting in Frame donated by Helene Seguin!

"Never Give Up" Altered Canvas Donated by Heather Millar

Purple & Green Hand-Knitted Designer Scarf Donated by Donna Brown

Teal and Blue Hand-Knitted Designer Scarf Donated by Donna Brown

Hand Crocheted Lap Blanket in Ottawa Sen's colours! Perfect for the Hockey Game! Donated by Helene Seguin

Hand Crocheted Lap Blanket - perfect for cool cottage nights! Donated by Helene Seguin!

Hand Crafted Blanket - approximately 4.5' x 7' - made and donated by Suzane Richmond!

Last minute donation - A Big Shot Machine from Sizzix donated by Multicrafts!!! Whoa! Retail Value $115!!!

Hand crafted Designer Earrings Created and Donated by 9 year old Victoria M.! They are beautiful!

Hand Crafted Designer Earrings Created and Donated by Anne Miller!

Also up for Auction are 2 Gift Certificates:

$50 Gift Ceretificate from Perkins Restaurant and Bakery on St. Laurent

And

$45 Gift Certificate towards your first Massage with Vikki Taylor at Hampton Massage Therapy.

These items are really beautiful and I want to put out a huge thank you to those who donated - it really means alot to my team and to Breast Cancer Research. Thank you!

If you want to place a bid, please come to the store or call us at 613-745-2215. We can tell you what the bid is that you have to beat and write down your bid for you. The Auction will be closing Sat March 31st at 7pm.  For full rules on how the Silent Auction is being conducted please email jenn@thescrapbox.ca

Jenn

CHA Post #3

     My plan to send back most of my catalogs and samples (such as they were) via UPS was a good one, although hardly original  (they had a mini business depot set up in the convention centre outfitted for just such service) so I expect that it will arrive by Monday or Tuesday in time for my "CHA Q & A" next Tuesday night at The Scrapbox. The ordering of product continues and is a time consuming process so I hope to have updates on that as well for Tuesday. There was so many booths to see that often times I was simply stopping in, getting the catalog, snapping the pics of the product I want on my phone and moving on to the next one.

I plan on doing a Spellbinders Pre-order so keep an eye out for it, after I send out the weekly newsletter (late this week for obvious reasons - my apologies!).

Yesterday ranged all over 2 halls (B & C) which was a lot to cover. A few things that jump out in my memory quickly before I have to dash to my shuttle to the airport.

- Queen & Co's line of Patterned tape and Twine is just as lovely as shown online.

-Pink Paislee and Christy Thomlinson is a match made in heaven, and the other Pink lines are beautiful as well.

-Spellbinders has a new line of dies that allow you to cut and flip parts of the die cut into beautiful patterns - the name of the type of die escapes me (lack of sleep) but it will be HUGE hit with my cardmakers for sure!

- DIY Thickers - I saw these on day one but didn't mention them in my other post - double sided adhesive on plain white thickers of  all your favourite fonts - peel and stick then peel the top to add any kind of glitter, flocking or microbeads and they stick beautifully!!! These will be a big hit for sure!

I see I need to get to the shuttle so will try to post more later. It's been an overwhelming experience so will have to go through my pics to help get my thoughts organized. Thanks for following me along on my adventures and I hope you are looking forward to the nex product as much as I am.

Cheers and pray for clear skies!
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Jenn

Day 2...

Greetings from Anaheim Morning #2!!!!


I had full and sincere intentions of sitting down at the end of my first day here at CHA to summarize my findings, go through order forms, plan a blog post and upload a tone of pics to FB and Blogger (I took 170 pics…not bad). Then I got an invite to have dinner with a peer and it turned out to be a wine and cheese party that eventually ended up at restaurant and by the time I got back to the hotel room it was 1:17am EST precisely and I was cut off from the hotel lobby where the free internet was.

They say the road to hell was paved with good intentions too…anyways. I did manage to sit down and do write this blog post which I intend to post as soon as I am ambulatory in the morning.

Let me see what I can remember at this point…

Vintaj – LOVE it! Maybe its my heritage or just being part raven but I love metal and being able to play with it. I took a blank metal shape (this time a butterfly) and turned it into a beautiful charm that was so easy and fun I wanted to make a whole flock of them. Vintaj has dies that can emboss and etch thin metal charms and pieces!!! They also have “Patinas” to colour and enhance the metal! Then you can put Glossy Accents on top or dip into a melting pot to give it an enamel look – I tell you the list just goes on and on with what you can do with these. LOVE LOVE LOVE! Got the 3 “LOVE” rating with this make & take.

Ranger – Didn’t get a chance to play with the Distress Markers but I saw them – and anyone who did use them just loved them too. I have put in an order already for the Distress Markers, new Ice Stickles colours (which are bold and beautiful instead of being washed out) and Dylan’s new Dylusional Sprays which are bright colour sprays that are rich and perfect for wanting to add just colour to a project without any sparkle. They are water reactive and so fun to play with.

As a side note, I want one of those cash receipt journals but Dyan was very circumspect with her source of such journals. Me LIKEY!!!!

As I was passing through the Ranger booth I saw that Debbie was doing a Demo with the new Tire Treads. Since this was a request from a dear friend Monica to check this out, I happily obliged. Besides, there was a melting pot involved, so I stepped up to the counter to check it out. SUCH FUN!!!!!

 

As you can see I made a lovely heart shaped pendant from UTee, poured into a mold made from 'Mold&pour' that was sitting on softly flexable Texture Treads that are beautiful and easy to use. I see this happening in your class Monica! I couldn't help but put my sweet little Vintaj Charm on there too! Happy!

And Tim was Tim – busy, doing demos and impossible to reach on a personal level. Or should I say when I saw him relaxing at the Ranger Booth at the end of the day with Mario I didn’t have it in me to go up and bother them with small talk. They really bust their butts to put together a great show and it just didn’t seem to be the time. On a funny note though – did anyone see me in one of Mario’s first BTW on Facebook or Twitter? While he took a picture of us, I took a picture of him. He ended up using a different pic but I thought it was ironic.

I also spent a goodly amount of time at the Faber Castell Booth and received some instruction on their gelatos, pitt pens and different pencil crayons and was able to play in an art journal with how they react with water and blend so beautifully. I will be placing an order of these beautiful mediums so watch for them to be in store soon! Here is the sweet little M&T I did with them too! Awesome girls there...very helpful too.

Oh and then there was Prima. I must have taken more pictures at their booth than any other. I have an album started over at FB to put all of the pics I took (its taking a long time to update though) and I couldn't stop taking pictures of their beauitful demos and products. WOW!!! Anyways - here is the last M&T I did of the day at Prima. There wasn't a real demo to work from, the lovely designer just said my old line of "Here is the product, here are the tools, here is what we did - you do your own thing!!!" And this is what I did...quite lovely I thought.

So I hope your appetite has been 'whetted' for more. I seemed to be able to get my phone hooked into the free internet at the convention centre about half way through the day so was able to get a few fun shots up there. I will do more posting as time and internet connection permits!
I also bumped into some chums from Ranger U in line for a book signing with Wendy Vicci (which I also got - very cool!) and will be having lunch and dinner with them too. Anyways...time for breakfast and then heading over to the convention centre. If I have more time I will try to upload more pics to my FB album.

Later!

Jenn