Scrappin' Great Deals is Celebrating their 7th Anniversary!!!

Wow ... It's so hard to believe it was seven years ago we turned our on-line store into a fabulous retail store!! All together we've been in business for 12 years!! Through these years we have met so many wonderful people and have formed many life-long friendships. For seven years we have been in our 3400 sq.ft. haven of crafting supplies. We have seen many changes in techniques and products used and are always excited to get the newest gadgets in our hands. We truly are as passionate about our hobby as you are and we plan to continue to grow & learn to be the best we can be!! Thanks for coming along for the ride ... now it's time to celebrate!! Join our talented Divas, Kim, Lori & Lynn, and create these gorgeous Prima Doll Tags!! You will be working with a variety of mediums, while learning helpful tips & techniques that can be applied for all of your crafting projects. All you need to bring are your fine-tipped scissors, liquid adhesive (such as Tombow) and 3D foam squares. If you have one, please bring a Craft Nib Holder (for your own personal use), otherwise some will be available for sharing. Everything else will be provided for you!!

Each registered student will receive a FREE 6x6 paper pad. You will be using a few sheets from your paper pad to create your tags and then you can take your paper pad home to re-create even more tags & projects! As a registered participant, you will also receive a BONUS GIFT FROM US!! There will be yummy treats and in-store specials too!! Seats are going quickly, so get yourself registered and get ready for a fabulous crafting celebration with our Divas on our 7th Anniversary of having our retail store!!

If you are not registered for our Prima Doll craft, please still come and join us for cake & fabulous in-store specials!! TOY DRIVE RAFFLE TABLE! Bring an unwrapped toy(s) for our annual Toy Drive and receive a FREE raffle ticket for where you could win FABULOUS prizes including a Grand Calibur Machine!! Let's see how many toys we can collect and make sure every child has a gift this Christmas! See you December 6th - Doors open at 9am!!
REGISTER TODAY:
Saturday, December 6: 9am - 12 noon

Eat Cake

Here is a birthday card I made for my FIL using the line Gear Head by Paper Loft!  Love the masculine colours, shapes!!  I used a couple of Memory Box Gear Dies, (from Scrappin' Great Deals!) as well to continue the theme!

Happy Wednesday!!

If you can dream it...

I love mixed media.  Here is a 12"x12" canvas that I created with a ton of fun products, Prima paper, tissue paper, Dreamweaver embossing paste, distress paints.....so happy!!  I am teaching this as a class at Scrappin' Great Deals on March 16!  Click here for details!!

All Boy Mini Album

Happy Monday Everyone!!!  I am sharing one of my upcoming classes with you today, that I will be teaching at Scrappin' Great Deals.  A super cute little mini album perfect for those boys in your lives!!  The class will be November 23, 2013 from 10am - 3pm and you can register online HERE or in person at the store!

The album has a ton of details, hidden pockets, bright colours - great as a Christmas gift for grandparents or just as a special keepsake!! Here are some pictures of the inside of the album: 

 

 

  

 

If you can't make the class, there will be kits available as well!!

Have a fantastic day!!

SGD is hosting a free Halloween Crafting Event!!

FREE HALLOWEEN CRAFTING EVENT FOR CHILDREN!

Saturday, October 26: 1 - 3pm

 

 Calling all crafty kids!! Join my fellow Scrappin' Great Deals Divas for a fun afternoon of crafts & treats!! The Divas will be on hand offering free Halloween themed make n takes for your children!

No need to register ... simply have your child(ren) bring a donation for the London Food Bank! They can see first-hand how much food they will be donating to those in need and be able to leave with adorable crafts and yummy treats!

They are welcome to come dressed-up!! Hope to see you there!!

National Scrapbooking Day!!!

We are celebrating at SCRAPPIN' GREAT DEALS!!

 

Saturday May 4th!!

  10am - 2pm  

 

Join us for a creative celebration!!  Our amazing Divas will be on hand to show you how to make a gorgeous decorative floral box!!  This is a FREE customer event and there is no need to register!!  Our busy Divas are prepping for 100 projects!!  

There will be door prizes every half hour, a fabulous raffle table + we are giving away a Big Shot Machine!!  In lieu of any fees, we are asking that you bring a toonie (or two or three!!) to donate to Breast Cancer Research!  Scrappin' Great Deals will match whatever we collect!!  

So mark your calendars & join us Saturday, May 4th!!

Wild Ones!

This is a kit I put together for Scrappin' Great Deals.  Perfect for those dinosaur lovers out there!!  Everything you need to complete the above layout, except adhesive, is included in the kit! It will be available soon over at Scrappin' Great Deals, both in store and online!! 

Create Together

This is my second layout from Scrappin' Great Deals' May Scrapbooking Kit.  My two boys having so much fun with water, chalk and a scrap piece of wood.  Little artists in the making, so I go a little artsy with my layout!  Lots of misting; I made my own stencil of a "paint splat", and sprayed some glimmer mist through it, then outlined them in black.  I also made some splats with pumpkin coloured smooch ink on white cardstock, covered it in glossy accents for dimension and cut them out to add to the layout. My Tim Holtz alpha mask was used for the word "create" in my title.  I also used my WRMK Sew Stamper to add the cross hatching around the layout.  A few different Tim Holtz stamps were also used for the background.  I coloured the white Thickers with the same pumpkin coloured smooch ink.  LOVE my smooches!!

A couple close ups:

Enjoy your day, and I hope to see you tomorrow out at Scrappin' Great Deals to celebrate National Scrapbooking Day!!

Oh So Lovely Ladies!

It's that time of the month again!!  Scrappin' Great Deals' May Scrapbooking Kit will be released this week.  Sheila and I played with the kits during our weekend retreat at Woodeden a few weeks ago.

Here is the kit, it's theme: "Colours of the Rainbow":

Here is my first layout to share:

Oh So Lovely Ladies!

I layered the background with Basic Grey, White Cardstock and lastly American Crafts Vellum.  Some Prima flowers, Pebbles Candy Dots, a Prima Art Tile, American Crafts Fabric Brad, lots of layers!!  The American Crafts Thickers included in the kit are white foam, and I coloured them with Peridot Mixed Media Ink.  The pink floral burst border is punched from an EK Success punch and is included in the kit.  The white scroll border, is also an EK Success punch,(not included in kit).

Another note: Remember that it is NATIONAL SCRAPBOOKING DAY on Saturday, May 5, 2012!! 

COME CELEBRATE

WITH SCRAPPIN' GREAT DEALS!!!

SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2012

FROM 10am until 1pm

We are having one of our famous

FREE CUSTOMER EVENTS!!

MAKE 'N TAKES ~ RAFFLES ~ DOOR PRIZES ~ TREATS

THIS IS A  EVENT!

PLEASE CONSIDER BRINGING A TOONIE TO HELP SUPPORT BREAST CANCER RESEARCH!

I hope you all can make it!! It will be a truly outstanding day!!

Moments in Time

Today I have a project up today on the Scrappin' Great Deals Blog.  It is a layout I completed on the weekend at the retreat, titled "Moments in Time".  Here is a glimpse of it, and you can pop over to the blog to see the whole thing!!

Happy Crafting!!

What I Like About You!

 

Another Layout using Scrappin' Great Deals' April Scrapbooking Kit!  Really like all the colour in this month's kit - the navy paper by Authentique, yellows & oranges, splashes of red!  And the MME of course - love the latest releases (On the Bright Side, Fiddlesticks and Follow Your Heart are represented in the kit), they are all so versatile!! 

Hope you all have an amazing Easter Weekend!

Oh Baby!!

 

A beautiful picture of my sister-in-law Julia holding my Benny just days after he was born.  The layout was put together using the incredible March Scrapbooking Kit from Scrappin Great Deals.  Loving those blues and yellows.  And the MME Bright Side Line "Sawyer" - that is the wood look background paper - Adore it!!  There are several different styles in the new collections and they are flying off the shelves!!!

Nap Time?

I found this picture recently of my son Malcolm, from ages ago.  He is just too cute, can't help but smile at it!  He however informed me that that couldn't have been him! (Oh yes dear, it was!)  Here it is scrapped using Scrappin' Great Deals' March Scrapbooking Kit:

Gorgeous new papers from MME - Miss Caroline collection and BoBunny's new Weekend Market.  A Tim Holtz mask helped with the background and his matching Sizzix die made the chipboard timepiece and is included in the kit.  Yellows and blues - very hot right now!!!

You can head over to the stores blog today to see what the whole kit looks like and check back in here over the next couple of days to see the other layouts I have done!

Heartfelt Sentiments!!

Happy February Everyone!!!  Although outside it feels more like the end of March, crazy winter we are having here in SW Ontario!!! Today I am sharing Scrappin' Great Deals February Scrapbooking Kit, its theme "Heartfelt Sentiments"!!  It will be available for sale later today or tomorrow.

Full of designer paper by Lily Bee, Basic Grey, Kaiser and MME, with a ton of co-ordinating embellishments!!!  Love is in the air, in the shades of pink & turquoise!!! 

Here is one of the three layouts I made with this kit, a wedding picture of my valentine, my hubby: (side note: wow does he look young! It was 9 years ago!!)

Lots of fussy cutting, distressing, embosssing, stencilling.., my usual!!  I don't know that I have ever used grey in a layout before, but it certainly looks nice with the turquoise of the Kaiser & Lily Bee papers!! 

So there you are, I'll share more over the next couple of days! 

Want to win some blog candy??

All you have to do is pop over to Scrappin' Great Deals blog this week and leave a comment on every post!!  The more comments you leave the greater your chance of winning!!  You can read Sarah's post from yesterday that gives all the details - click here!!  Good Luck!!

And stay tuned for more pictures from my December Daily Album!!

'Tis the Start of the Season!!

Welcome December!  The most wonderful time of the year!!  Today is the release of Scrappin' Great Deals December Kits, and I have the Scrapbooking Kit to share with you today!  It's theme: An Enchanted Christmas!!

(Full details about this magical kit and the kit clubs can be found here!)

I blogged earlier about using the kit to create my very first December Daily Album. Today I have a little snippet to show you of the first page of it:

Love this cute little guy popping out of a box!!! He is another fabulous Mo Manning Image by Stamping Bella! I coloured him with my pencil crayons and mineral spirits.  The number one is chipboard coloured with a fabulous new colour of Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze - Chianti!!  Add a little Tsukineko champagne metallic ink to the edges and it is perfection!! The holly is cut from a Tim Holtz mover & shaker die - Tree & Holly, and has also been treated to a little champagne!!  

I will show you the whole page after I add the pictures I took this morning of my two boys opening their Lego Star Wars Advent Calendar.  (I might be missing the Christmas connection there?? When did Star Wars = Christmas???) Ah well, they were both happy!  And that is part of the Christmas spirit at least! 

Enjoy your day!

The Pumpkin Patch

This is my latest layout created using the November Scrapbooking Kit from Scrappin' Great Deals!  Our Trip to the Pumpkin Patch!!  My son Malcolm, my nephew Alex & I had a fantastic day at that farm petting animals, playing games and searching for the perfect pumpkin.  These pictures were way back from 2007, the boys look so young! 

A couple of close ups, (double layouts are so hard for me to photograph!)

I sure got a work out pulling two sleds full of pumpkins & three year olds!! It sure was a great day.  Really happy that I scrapped the pictures finally and remembered all the fun we had!

Natural Beauty

I simply can't stop looking at this layout!!  Actually at one of the pictures I used in the layout, how stunning is she? A forest princess, pixie, fairy child - you name it, she is it!

 

I don't think I could have gone wrong with this picture as the focus of my page.  In fact I probably could have just put it on a plain piece of cardstock and said "Done."  But of course I didn't and created this:

Love the blues and oranges together, that brown lace from May Arts- WOW, petaloo flowers, prima resin birdhouse, specks of glimmer glaze popped around, die cut leaves to mimic her crown, love love love! :)

Me & You Together

Welcome to November!!  I hope you had a fantastic Halloween and that it didn't rain too much on your trick or treaters!!

Scrappin' Great Deals is releasing their November Scrapbooking Kits today and here is the kit, with its theme Autumn Journeys:

Love all the bold colours and the mix of warm and cool tones.  Lots of paper in this kit, as always!!  And a ton of embellishments too!

Here is one of my layouts, titled "Me & You Together":

It uses some of the SEI paper that is in the kit along with Bazzill cardstock.  I used one of my new Spellbinders, Orchard Harvest, to create the maple leaves in the upper corner.  Included in the kit is a solid brass maple leaf made by Vintaj, a brand new product in the store. It is called a "blank" because it is meant to be embossed!!  That is right!!  I embossed it to create the lovely little veins that you see!!!  How awesome is that!  A little close up of it:

I used the cricut cartridge "Graphically Speaking" to cut out the title using cardstock.  I then used my Cowboy Glimmer Glaze (by Tattered Angels) on the brown cardstock to give it some texture & depth; love how it now looks metallic!

I will show you another double page layout that I also made with the kit in the next day or so (as soon as I finish it up!!  In the mean time you can pop over to the store's blog to see my layout titled "Natural Beauty", I gave you a sneak peak of it yesterday!! 

Thanks for stopping by!!

Autumn Journeys

That is the theme of Scrappin' Great Deals November Scrapbooking Kit!  I love Autumn, it is my favourite season and I LOVE this months kit!  Can't wait to share it with you.  Here is a little sneak peak of the kit:

And a little peak at what I created with it:

Sheila was back this month creating with me, and WOW her layouts are spectacular!!  Come back tomorrow for the big reveal!!! 

Happy Halloween!!!