Happy October!
Here are our 5 favourite Instagram pics this week.
Canadian Scrapbookers Photo A Day - a great motivator to take more pictures!
Sneak peek from Amy Tangerine
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Tuesday, 30 September 2014
Mixed Media Mania - Feeling Stumped?
Did you ever pull out all your art journal supplies and sit there feeling stumped? Sometimes it just takes a quote or an object to get me started but every once in a while...I resort to youtube.
Don't get offended if you are a youtube fan...but most of the time, I am not a fan of the videos. I just don't like sitting and watching someone gesso a page and have 15 minutes evaporate in the blink of an eye :)
So, let me share with you my hints about searching for an inspiring video on youtube.
1. Don't type in Art Journal - you will get soooooooooooo many videos, you won't know where to start!
2. Check out the time of the video - if it is over 10 minutes, I likely won't be watching it!
3. Only click on the video if the picture catches your eye...regardless of the title. Avoid the bunny trails!
4. My biggest hint......... add the following words to whatever you're searching for
FAST FORWARD
Yep, that's it.
The videos usually don't have talking, they don't go on and on and on about how to gesso a page....they simply share their quick and easy page with you!
Just to prove my point, please enjoy this quick and inspirational video made by Ronda Palazzari!
She takes very little product and makes a gorgeous page!
Ronda will be teaching some fabulous classes here at the end of October - you can read more about them HERE
Wishing you a fabulous week!
Monday, 29 September 2014
What's Up - Monday September 29
Happy Monday!
I am spending the day getting the store back together after a fabulous weekend in Calgary with Canadian Scrapbooker. We met some new friends and even caught up with some old ones too! It is good to be back, even if it's only a few short days until we pack up and head out to a crop in Red Deer next weekend :)
There are some fabulous classes this week in the store. Bree is teaching a super cute Halloween Wreath on Thursday the 2nd at 6pm
It is so perfect to welcome fall on your front door!! Give us a shout at the store and we can register you to join in the fun.
And for those of you who have taken Jenn's Beginner Guide to Hand Lettering, she is offering the Advanced Class this Friday from 630-830pm.
This is such a great way to step up your Art Journal or Scrapbook pages and Jenn makes it so easy! Class is only $27 and all you need is paper, pen, pencil and eraser!!
We are expecting a shipment on Wednesday this week - the metallic Distress Stain Sprays, Websters Pages, new dies, all the Bloom Sprays will be back in stock and much more!
Have a fantastic week!
Friday, 26 September 2014
Spark Your Inspiration - Friday Sept 26, 2014
We have been pinning away this week... are you on Pinterest too? Give us a follow so we can follow you back :)
Wishing you all a fantastic weekend - we are headed to Calgary to join the Canadian Scrapbooker Carnival...if you're in Calgary, pop into our booth and say hello!
Here are our 5 fave Pins this week!
Thursday, 25 September 2014
Happy Stampers - Inks, Inks and Inks!!
One of the most common questions we hear is
"what ink do I use with ...."
There are so many kinds of inks out there. Here in the store, we currently carry Ranger's Distress Inks, Ranger's Archival Inks, Staz On Inks, Memento, Brilliance and Versamark. And yes, each of those inks are all different from each other!
Our staff is always happy to help you out when you have questions, but after highlighting Jennifer Maguire last week, I remembered a fantastic video she did on inks and such.
Enjoy!
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Mixed Media Mania - Karenika Style
Several years ago, I was at a scrapbook event that was held for retailers in town. At the time, I taught for a store and was thrilled to be given the opportunity to go and take classes from amazing people in the industry like Tim Holtz (an incredible instructor), Vicki Boutin (fabulous and funny!), Liz Hicks (ah-maz-ing and totally got that my hands were my best paintbrush) and companies like Tattered Angel, Bo Bunny, Graphic 45 and many more. It was a fun weekend and I really learned a lot.
At the time, Margie Romney had just started up a company called The Girls' Paperie, sadly gone now :( and so we were very excited to see it. As we wandered through the booths, we stopped and chatted with many of the salespeople and artists who were in them. Margie had us chatting for a long time...her warm and genuine spirit had us from the get go. As we were chatting, a layout caught my eye and I was stunned by how much I loved it. It was nothing like most layouts I had seen before.....lots of white space and random, messy journaling....random?... messy? that was my kind of style!
After gushing over it, Margie allowed me to take a picture of it and so I went home and googled...and came across a blog that I have now followed ever since - Karenika.
Imagine how happy I was to discover that not only did she scrapbook like me (one pagers, lots of white space, love of banners and stitching...I was in heaven!) but she also ART JOURNALED!!
I was a little bummed out by the fact that most of her pages involved drawing but was still drawn to them and found myself just wandering through her galleries for inspiration.
I encourage you today to wander her blog or search for her work on Pinterest and feel inspired!!
Here are some of my favourites
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