Happy, Happy! Joy, Joy!

I just got the best thing delivered today. NEW INVENTORY!!!! Yup, it's feels like Christmas to me. So I thought I would give you a very quick listing of what came in and trust me there is great stuff for everyone. And eventually I will get some of it listed in the on-line store. So here goes....

• Bazzill Cardstock with an Edge Multipacks - four collections to choose from: Ruby Slipper, Tink Pink, Lily White, and Precious. Don't those names sound great.
• Bo Bunny Flex Ruler - these babies are hard to get and so much fun
• Bazzill Multipacks - Places We Love (Scottsdale, Yellowstone, Golden Gate, and Heartland) and New special value packs (Fun, Earthtones, Fall and Summer)
• Lime Crop-a-dile with case
• Scallop punches - these are all the rage and will add that little bit of extra zing that we all look for. I can't decide which size or shape I need first
• Autumn Leaves Clear Stamps - Word flourishes and Sentiments

That's just a start. There is still more to arrive this month. I can't wait. I'll try and get as much loaded to the site as fast as I can or if you are local stop by during store hours and see why I am soooooo incredibly excited.

Take a moment to sign up!

I have added a sign up box to the right so that you can receive my newsletter. Don't worry your mailbox won't be clogged with tons of mail from me. I only send out 2 newsletters a month.

On the first of the month you can check out my Mini Project for the Month and then of course I totally expect you to run to my webstore and order. Mini Projects are created in very limited quantities.So if you like it order fast.

On the 15th of the month you can catch a peek at the products in my 2 kits clubs. One club "It all in the Cards" is designed just for card making and includes directions for completing 2 cards.
The other club, the Memory Kit Club, is designed for scrapbooking. Although to be honest it would be great for card making too.

Both newsletters tell you all about the great classes and crops I have planned for the month, new products and sales or product promotions. Trust me these newsletters are filled with valuable information. So think it over and then sign-up.

I've been awared the title of Rockin' Girl Blogger by my great friend Sandra Brindley of Memory Workshop. Now normally I would tag her as a Rockin' Girl Blogger because her blog and her business ability amaze and inspire me. But since she tagged me and I don't think I can tag back. And the other person that I would have tagged right away would have been Kim Guymon, but she probably will be tagged a zillions times over. Soooo, I thought I would share some other blogs that belong to my Scrapbiz sisters. Each and everyone of them brings something fun and creative to the scrapbooking world.

• First there is Shannon of K.I.S.S (Keep it Simple Scrapbooking) her crops look like they would be a fantastic time. I'm not sure I would get much accomplished at one of her crops. I would be way too busy checking out everything that she has going on.

Then of course, I would have to list Christy, of 1 Creative Bug, I ordered these custom cut titles from her and they were perfect. It's amazing what the girls can do with die cut machines they have. Top of the line with abilities that will make you drool. Trust me these babies are what the Cricut wants to be when it grows up.

• Okay and for the next one I'm going to break a rule. Technically Marcie doesn't have a business blog, but she should and very much like me sometimes she can't think of a thing to write about. Marcie of http://marciemodesigns.com/ designed my on-line store and my logo (you can't blame her for the rest of my website. That was all me.)and trust me I'll be putting her to work again in the future for more additions to my site.

Wow, this is hard. You would figure that tagging 5 people would be easy. It's very hard to narrow it down to five.

• And I would like you to met Wendy, of Lickety Split Scrapbooks. She is new to blogging, but you will love what she has to say and her stories from the road of scrapbook conventions. Stop by her blog to see where are practically famous Wendy has been.

Lastly, Edmonton's Crop for Kids. I couldn't find a blog for Vancouver, so you get Edmonton. I believe in Crop for Kids. In fact this year I am donating 3 kits to the Vancouver crop. However I also have to mention how great the Edmonton one is and that the hospital they are supporting,The Stollery Children’s Hospital. Stollery holds a special place in my heart and that of many of my friends, as the child of a fellow scrapbooker was at Stollery for a year and without the support and dedication of the staff at Stollery we won't have the opportunity to this beautiful little girl grow and blossom into the wonderful, special child she is becoming. So I really do have to say thank you to everyone who supports Crop for Kids and to the dedicated organizers who spend countless hours of planning to make it happen.

• And in a full circle this leads me back to my original tagger, Sandra at The Memory Workshop as she has dedicated time and expertise to this years Crop for Kids in Vancouver. Good luck to all of this years crop locations.

Finally, to everyone I have tagged. Go forth and tag some Rockin' Girl Bloggers.

Links to some very interesting blogs....



So today I wanted to share some of my favorite blogs and websites with you. Check out the new listings along then side the side bar. I will continue to add more blogs of interest. I'm sure you will find this time well wasted, because each of these blogs will have fantastic creative ideas.

Interesting Statistics

So I found out an interesting statistic in a magazine and I just had to share. This is what Papercrafts Essentials (which is an awsome magazine, by the way) has to say about croppers. "45% of scrapbookers would travel up to 60 miles to attenda a crop, while 27% woudl travel to the 'ends of the Earth'!" So how far would you travel? Post your reply in the comments. I would love to hear your responses.

I thought I would also share a card I did for a card swap. The subject was "ribbon and things", so this is what I came up with. I'm not sure if I totally love it, but it was fun to make. Let me know what you think.

Happy Canada Day!!!

So I whipped up a card to celebrate Canada's Birthday. And it is much better "in person" than this shows. But I did get to use my Cuttlebug. Now I will admit that the electronic die-cut machines are cool, but I loooovvvveee the embossing that you can do with the Cuttlebug.

For this card I used red and white cardstock, red and white ribbon, a small and large maple leaf punch and most importantly the "spots & dots" embossing folder.

I hope you all are having a fantastic holiday weekend and that you may get to do a tiny bit of scrapbooking or cardmaking. I've managed to get 5 pages done so far this weekend. I'm currently working on April 2006. It feels good to only be a year behind, but the stack of photos doesn't seem to be shrinking. In fact it may be growing. Now that's scary.

Oh, well the joy is in the creation. Not in being up to date.

Could I Be This Years Mompreneur??

This is a very interesting and cool contest to celebrate entrepreneurial women, but more specifically entrepreneurial Mom's. Hence Mompreneur. Learn more about the contest here or nominate a Mompreneur you know. There are lots of them out there from every walk of life and with many different types of businesses. Or vote for me here.

Very Few Kit Clubs for Card Makers

So I have been thinking and researching (of course) and I have noticed that there are very few kit clubs designed specifically for cardmaking. So I have decided that I need to do something about that. I have the first kits on order for a new kit club -"It's all in the cards!"

Each kit will include tons of product for your wonderful card creations. Plus two card design layouts complete with sample cards showcasing each months products. Kits will include cardstock, envelopes, and many embellishments. If you are a card maker you will love this kit club.

I will release the full information about pricing and membership in the July Newsletter. The first kits will be available August 15th. Reserve yours today! Remember only a certain number are produced each month and once they are gone, they are gone.

Wow, what a weekend!

First, I want to thank everyone that attended the 2nd Annual 2-day crop. I had a great time. I hope you all did as well. For those of you who couldn't attend boy did you miss a great time and a ton of door prizes. I can't remember the last time I sat around and laughed so much. I even managed to create a thing or two. Although I am pretty sure I gave most of my best ideas to other people for their pages.

I think everyone who attended received at least two prizes and they were good prizes (if I do say so myself). Here's a quick rundown of what some people won. Bazzill gate-fold albums, boxes of Prima flowers, Queen & Co cases filled with goodies, paper packs, ribbon, and so much more. On top of that everyone received a supply of goodies. We had loonie draws and two contests.

The creativity for the contests was unbelievable. For the first contest each person was asked to decorate a butterfly. Congratulations to Susan for winning the book "What to Write".

The second contest was to decorate a sun visor. Congratulations for Shannon for winning the Fiskars Card Emboss kit.

The picture shows some of the butterflies and visors. But, it really doesn't represent exactly how fantastic the final projects were. Now to come up with something even better for next year.

Of course the chocolate fountain was flowing on Saturday afternoon. Did you know that just about everything tastes phenomenal when it is dipped in chocolate? Pretzels, marshmallows, cookies, fruit, rice crispy squares, cream puffs........

For everyone who couldn't attend. Sorry you missed a fantastic time. You will definitely need t plan this event in for next June. And again to everyone who was there thank you for attending and keep being the wonderfully creative people you are. Oh, and tell everyone one you know about the great time you had.

PS - Continue to check my blog I will be unveiling a great new program later in July.

Didn't Make It To My Card Class?

This is what you missed.

I just wanted to show everyone what a few of my creations for the class looked like.

This was a fun card. I used Lil Davis Glitter Glaze (it doesn't show very well in the photo), which gave a really neat effect on the white paper. And everyone got a great lesson is using their trimmers for measuring and scoring folds.






Yet another card. I have to admit even though the colour wheel puts orange and blue a complementary colours I am usually hesitant to use them. But I love the way it looks on this card. Fancy pants paper, DCWV ribbon and cardstock and then a Bazzill Chip Topper, which I very rarely put on a chip. I tend to mat and then mount on the card. This time we use foam pop dots. I really like the simplicity and clean design of this card.

The third card created for the class. A simple quick card with a masculine look. Feminine cards are much easier to create so I always try to do at least one masculine looking card. This one features Bazzill Horizon cardstock and Scenic Route papers.

The fourth card is shown below. And I won't waste time posting the 5th card as it doesn't photograph very well. But if your curious about future cards you'll either have to attend a class or check my blog and gallery for updates.

Keep creating and I'll have updates soon.

Tracey

Create, Create, and Plan

I have been busy working on my cards for this Friday's card class. I have playing with Pigment Powders. I haven't really used them until now and I find them fun for a punch of shimmery colour. That card is already in my gallery . I'll be posting the rest there over the weekend. I can't wait to get them posted.

And the plans for the 2nd Annual Celebrate Summer 2-day Crop continue. Today I placed the order for the decorations and contest items. Goodie bag and door prize items should be here next week. So far this is what I have planned. There is a contest using an alterable item. A summer related "make & take". Tons of doorprizes. And most importantly great food and tons of scrapping time. Did I mention 20 hours in a 29 hour span? Now I need to decide chocolate fountain or no chocolate fountain. Let me know what you think.

Well time to get back to my creating and planning. If you haven't signed up for the crop you are going to miss a huge amount of fun.

It Been Awhile. So it's time to start blogging again.

I have many projects on the go for June. So far I have my Mini Project for June done. And yes, I am proud of it. My cards for the Cardmaking class on June 1st are turning out better than I have planned. I can't wait to share them with my participants.

But mostly I am excited about the 2nd Annual Celebrate Summer Crop on June 22 and 23rd. Last year I have such a great time and I look forward to doing it again this year. Imagine this, 20 hours of scrapbooking in 29 hours. Wow!! I'm going to be exhausted. And you should see what I have planned. There will be decorations, a mini summer related contest, doorprizes (bigger and better than ever), bigger goodie bags and at least one Make & Take.

My store is slowly growing. Man, does it take a lot of time to put all those products into the system. Bear with me I will continue to keep adding.

And lastly I promise that I will try to give you all at least one new posting each week to read. Keep coming back to see how I do.

I'm in love......

with an adhesive!

I have to admit I don't get excited about adhesive very often. After all glue is glue, right? Wrong!

Okay, so I have sold Wacky Tacky Tape for a while and hadn't really used it. So the other night I was making up a ton of cards and wanted a good narrow adhesive. So I grabbed a roll and tried it out. WOW!!!

You know how sometimes textured papers don't hold very well or you are working on a project that you need narrow, straight adhesive. It's great. Unfortunately you can't remove it with Un-du and it is a serious stick, so you had better be sure where you want stuff. But I really like it.

And since we are talking adhesives I thought I would give you my top 5 favorites.

1) Xyron tape runner
2) Xyron X150
3) Wacky Tacky Tape
4) Glue dots (regular and mini)
5) Glue lines

These may be my 5 favorites, but I still use Pioneer photo mounts all the time too. Mostly because I can get a little crazy with the runner and use way more adhesive than I really need. Yup, I'm one of those crazy people use a runner to cover an entire back of a project. So the mounts are my way to control my consumption.

Tell me about your favorite adhesives and why? I look foward to hearing your opinions.

Tracey

September newsletter and web update will be complete by August 29th.

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Yup, it's been almost a month again.

But I haven't been goofing off completely. I have been planning and creating. In the past four weeks I have booked my crop space and dates for the rest of the year. I have booked the Skeena Valley Golf and Country Club, sorry no web addy for you to check out, but it is truly beautiful there. When you have "scrappers block" the view will inspire you or give you a beautiful backdrop for daydreaming.

I also in the midst of planning out classes for the rest of the year. I am going to be sooooo incredibly busy. I love it. Card classes, altered items, new techniques and product demonstrations. Stay tuned for more pics to show off my creative endeavors. The one here is an altered paint can using items for my July Memory Kit Club kit. Some of you may recognize the papers. They are Fancy Pants Frou-Frou. Talk about cute papers. This was a fun project. I hope to share a class with everyone this fall.

And a quick update on my new insulin pump. I'm in love. Well, to be honest it did border on hate for the first day or two. I needed time to adjust to all the new bells and whistles. I think this thing has the power to run a small country single-handedly. But I have noticed a change and an improvement on my life already. It is absolutely amazing what a few year can do for technology. If you're diabetic you have to check these babies out. But if you decide to pursue pump therapy you had better put your work boots on because there is a lot to learn and adjust.

Again I promise to try and post more frequently. I may even have some new projects to show off.

Tracey

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I fell off the blog wagon!

Please forgive me fellow scrappers it has been 15 days since my last blog. Yes, I do feel like I am confessing a sin. I have these great plans to post to my blog on a regular basis. You know keep you all up to date on what's going on and what coming up. So here goes my update for you all...

It's already mid-July and I have my kits ready for the month. August and September are figured out, on order and good to go... I hope. I'm already planning for September and October. I can't believe I admitted that out loud. And coming up later this month I get to scrapbook. Yup, I actually get to enjoy the hobby that I promote so enthusiastically. I have found that since I started my business ( a mere 18 months ago) that I spend more time researching products and techniques for my business than I do actually scrapbooking. Not that I mind. I really love to share scrapbooking and card design with others. There is nothing better than helping someone who says "I can't do that. I'm not creative."

And tomorrow is an exciting day for me. Some of you know that I have been on Insulin Pump Therapy for about seven years and that I have been a diabetic since I was sixteen. I won't tell you how many years that has been. A girl has to keep some secrets to her self. Anyways, tomorrow I get my new pump. And the improvements and new features on this machine make my current archaic. Well, I guess by computer standards seven years is pretty much the dinosaur era. Well, my new pump is purple. I figure give me a few more years and I can join the red hat society and my purple and red will be in place.

I really wish that every diabetic had the opportunity to use pump therapy. Yes it does take a bit of work to get it set up and to understand how it works and how your body uses each unit of insulin, but the advantages are amazing. And I'm not just talking about glucose control and future health issues. I am talking about real life- having the flexibility to enjoy your children's birthday cake with them, having a late dinner with your husband, sleeping in on a Sunday morning. If you are a diabetic or there is a diabetic in your life who uses insulin injections then you may want to research pump therapy. www.minimed.ca

Enjoy the summer weather and I promise it won't take me 2 weeks to do my next post. After all I have to update you on my new insulin pump and how I'm doing with it.

Sales and Kit Clubs - two of my favorite things!

One of my favorite events is a great sale. Come on admit it, everyone loves a good sale and a garage sale is one of the expected events of summer. In fact, there are people who plan their entire weekend around them. So I figured it was time for everyone to plan their weekend around my sale. Remember This! Scrapbooking is having a garage sale. And this is sale not to be missed. New items for a dollar. Items a 30-50% off. Stock up on cardstock, pattern papers, embellishments and even Memory Club kits.

My second favorite thing for scrapbooking is a great kit. They make it so incredibly easy to put together a great page, card or altered item with little or no stress. I love kit because when I scrapbook the pick out of the paper is the hardest and most time consuming part. Once I get past the paper selection getting creative is the easy part. So pick out a kit club and join. Preferably mine. I have added pictures of my kit for July and a sample of an altered notebook using it. It was quick and easy and truly enjoyable because the hard work of paper selection was already done. Your scrapbook time is precious, so if you need help making the most of your time consider a kit club to help you make better use of it.

Tracey

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Happy Canada Day!

The official start to a Canadian summer. What do you have planned? For my family it is the traditional trek to the in-laws to watch the Canada Day Parade and feast on all kinds of ethnic foods at an international food fair. After all the best way to celebrate Canada is to celebrate all the wonderful people that make this country to special and unique and to spend time with family and friends.

So my challenge to you this weekend is.... take part in at least one activity that celebrates Canada. There is lots to choose from: parades, concerts in the park, fireworks, food fairs, anything at brings us all together to be proud of who we are and where we live.

Make sure your camera is loaded or memory card is empty and get ready to make some memories.

I love summer!

Of course most people do, but I love the way that a sunny day seems to make everyone happier and more relaxed and that each day seems to hold so much more promise than any other time of the year. I love the fact that summer is so much less structured than the rest of the year. Now don't get me wrong I thrive on structure and routine, but every so often you need a day that doesn't require you to be anywhere at a specific time and that allows you to just go with it.

I think the feeling of freedom brought about by summer is something that should be reflected in scrapbooking. Yes, there are certain approaches or techniques that make your pages look better and more cohesive, but shouldn't there be joy and freedom in the creating. So the next time you sit down to work on a page or card strive for joy, happiness and satisfaction in what you have created. Scrapbooking shouldn't feel like work, it should feel like summer.

Busy, Busy, Busy!

Wow! What a busy weekend. First I want to thank everyone that took part in my first ever two day crop. I also need to say a special thank you to my friend Lorie, who always supports me and my adventures. And of course to my Mom, who so willing to help with my children and be part of my moving company.

I had such a good time this past weekend and enjoyed catching up with everyone. I hope everyone else enjoyed themselves just as much. There were some amazing pages created this weekend. I saw a Halloween page featuring "Shrek" that was simply amazing. The talent and creativity in this awe inspiring group of women never ceases to amaze me. I can't for my next crop in September.

What's Next?

Well, while most people are getting ready for a relaxing summer I'm already planning for fall and making sure that I have all my events in place for the summer. For July and August, I have free crops planned, an altered clipboard class, card classes and of course I have a few other things up my sleeve. I'm just not ready to share all my plans just yet. Check the events calendar on my website for more informatin on what's up for summer.

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Gearing up for summer.

I can't believe that the first day of summer is just around the corner and schoool is almost done for the year and before long I know I will hear a Mom or two saying they are ready for their children to head back and not too soon after that I know I will hear the kids saying the same thing.

I have a little over a week to finish getting ready for the 1st Annual Celebrate Summer 2-day Crop and I am sooooo excited to be organizing a 2-day event. I hope that I will continue to see this event grow over the years. My list of things to organize before the 23rd is growing. I have the final catering arrangements to be made, goodie bags to pack, demos items to complete, a store to pack up and of course I need to figure out which of my stuff I'm going to bring. I don't usually bring my own scrap stuff because I feel I need to accessible to my scrapbooking friends, since that is what they are paying for, but I figure in 19 hours of scrapbooking they will get tired of me checking on them and I will be told to go work on some of my own stuff.

I also wanted to share an altered clip board that I completed using my June Memory Club kit. It's a cute project and I am really enjoying the whole altering idea. I have plans to complete a clock, note books, glass bottles and probably whatever else I can get my hands on. Keep checking back to see whatelse I have altered and to find out what I have planned for the summer. Stop by http://www.rememberthisscrapbooking.ca often to see what is happening.

Tracey