What's Up - Sept 22-28

Happy first day of fall!!  

You would never know that summer has ended with the absolutely gorgeous weather we are having (28 degress!!).  

Last week brought a lot of fun ladies, teens, and tweens to join in the fun here - Bree had a Project Life class, Jenn had a Harry Potter Canvas Class, and Cori-Lyn taught the Art Journal class on Tuesday and again on Sunday.

We are looking forward to some more fun things this week:

Tuesday - A shipment is due in ...including the fabulous new Tim Holtz Distress Sprays!

We also have the advanced Copic class at 6:30.  This month, we are colouring two super cute Whimsy Stamps - if you have taken a beginner's class with Cori-Lyn, you are welcome to join in the fun!

We are also expecting Stencil Girl and Blue Fern to arrive back in stock this week as we sold so much of it in Sherwood Park last weekend!

This weekend, Ivy and Cori-Lyn are packing up the store again and heading off to Calgary to join Canadian Scrapbooker for another fun weekend!  We are looking forward to meeting some new scrappers :)

Wishing you a fantastic, fun-filled and crafty week!

Spark Your Inspiration - Friday Sept 19

Happy Friday!!!

It has been a pretty busy week around here and I am definitely glad the weekend has arrived :)

We started up a brand new Instagram this week and now we would like to introduce you to our sparkly new Pinterest Board as well!!

Pinterest is a fantastic source of inspiration - whenever a new line comes in, I love checking out different pins and seeing what is out there!

Here are our top 5 pins this week - hope you enjoy them!  Please click on the links below each picture to follow the Pin.
Have a fantastic weekend!

Super cute layout using American Crafts brand new Shimelle line.

Cigar Box Secret Layou by Shirel for Prima

Frank Garcia's STUNNING altered clock for Prima

(did we mention Frank is coming to teach here in February?!)

This one gave us a good giggle!

And Gabrielle Pollaco's gorgeous Maya Designs Canvas

Happy Stampers - Jennifer McGuire

Happy Thursday!

Today, I wanted to showcase a Happy Stamper that I have followed for years.

Jennifer McGuire is one of those stampers that takes a simple stamp and makes a card so quickly, you almost miss the techniques hidden in it.

Her style is crisp and clean, even when she uses Tim Holtz's Distress products!  She is a great blogger - always willing to share her techniques, organization tips, and pictures of her adorable family :)

Please check out her blog - make sure not to miss some of my favourite posts!

Altering Stamped Images

Organizing Clear Stamps

Stencils and Distress Ink

Gradients 

Her favourite Copic colours

Let us know what your favourite post is!  And if you happen to create something from one of her fabulous tutorials, we would love to see it!

Wordless Wednesday

I know it's supposed to be wordless...but allow me a few quick words to tell you that we have a brand new Instagram account!! We had a blast last night at our Art Journaling class - met some fantastic new journalers and even welcomed back an old friend :)

When I instagrammed our background page, I added a few hashtags as I usually do.  After class, I have a hard time sleeping so I was clicking on our hashtags and seeing what else came up. And so, today I will share some of my favourites with you.

 Check us out - http://instagram.com/scrapaddicts !  Follow us and we will follow you!  

# artjournal - from instagrammer marksqueen

#yeg - from instagrammer breezy252

#mixedmedia - from instagrammer scrapwitchlisa

#izinks - from instagrammer yvonneyam

#ScrapAddicts - from one of our instructors!

Mixed Media Mania - Spotlight on Stencil Girl

Last weekend, we packed up a lot of the store and headed out to Sherwood Park to join Canadian Scrapbooker's Carnival... and let me tell you, deciding what to take to fit into a 10x10 booth is a tough job!!  

We really wanted to focus on items that we carry in the store that people may not have seen before but we love - we knew that Stencil Girl was coming with us for sure!

I was very grateful we made this decision because those stencils FLEW out of our booth!!  We actually came back and placed an order on Sunday so that we have some to take with us to Calgary in two weeks :)

As a mixed media gal, I love my stencils...I love the different ways you can use them and how they add that unique touch to your art journal, your cards, or even your layouts.

When we decided to open a store, we made a very conscious decision to find unique items..and Stencil Girl was one of our first finds.  They are a great company to deal with and their stencils are top quality with unique designs.  

Have a poke around their blog and check out some of their fantastic tutorials and their awesome Creative Team.  And if you see a stencil you must have, let us know and we would be happy to bring it in for you!

What's Up - Sept 15-21, 2014

WHEW!!!!!!! 

We just finished a very busy and fun-filled week!!

We packed up and headed to Canadian Scrapbooker's Carnival and let me tell you.......what a fun couple of days!!!  We met so many new friends, visited with some old friends, and had a ton of fun doing it!  Those ladies at Canadian Scrapbooker know how to have fun :)  We are already looking forward to next year's show...where it will be an 80s theme!!  We get to do it all over again in two weeks as we are joining Calgary for their show as well - look out Calgary!

We wanted to send out a HUGE thank you to our staff for keeping our (empty) store running.  Also a big thank you to Bree and Andrea for helping design kits and another big thank you to Bree for doing a make and take on Friday and helping out in our booth.

Thank you also to Meaghan for your help on Saturday and to the awesome guys who helped us take down, haul back, and put away on Saturday!

This week in the store, we have our Art Journal class on Tuesday - we will be playing with the awesome new Izinks (which were a big hit at the show this weekend).  And Saturday, Jenn will be re-running the very popular Harry Potter inspired canvas for our teens and tweens.
Bree's Project Life make and take was a big hit at the Carnival...come check out her class this Sunday from 10am-1 pm.  Class includes pretty much everything but your adhesive!!

We are expecting two big shipments this week - one today and one on Thursday!

Hope to see you soon!

Art Journal Class

Tues. Sept. 16th 630-930 pm

or

Sunday Sept 21st 2-5 pm

$23.50*

Harry Potter Inspired Canvas

Sat. Sept 20th 1-4pm

$40

Project Life
Sunday Sept 21
10am-1 pm
$35

Mixed Media Mania - Mumkaa Style

It's Mixed Media Tuesday!

Today, I wanted to share with you one of my favourite Mixed Media Artists - most people know her as Mumkaa but her real name is Magda Bolinska.  She uses many different medias on her layouts, in her art journal, and her fabulous Project Life pages.  Check out some of my favourite projects of hers!

And if you are looking for inspiration, be sure to check out her Flickr page or do a quick search for her on Pinterest!