We're Back!!! Guess What's Happening?!

Hi!  Hi!  Hi!  It's been a few months of summer fun and computer frustrations, lol, but we're back to blogging, yay!

As Summer gives us just one more kiss good-bye this week, we've already felt the crisp change in the air, seen the first leaves fall from the trees, and smelled pumpkin spice everywhere!  Fall is making it's presence known and this can only mean one thing . . . our BIRTHDAY CROP IS COMING!!!  Time to get registered for the best cropping weekend around!

Join us for our third birthday crop!!

November 18 - 20

Friday 12 pm - 2 am - $45
Saturday 10 am - 2 am - $75
Sunday 10 am - 3 pm - $45

Join us for over 30 hours of cropping fun...for only $130 for the WHOLE WEEKEND!
EARLY BIRD PRICE - pay by October 17th and it is only $110!!

Yummy food and drinks are provided (tons of snacks on Friday, all three meals Saturday, two on Sunday),, plus make and takes, super fun games, a BIG grand prize, tons of door prizes, goody bags every day for all scrappers and a weekend filled with scrappy fun!
Come for the whole weekend or just a day!

We will be cropping at Belmead Community Hall (9109 182nd St) so there will be a TON of room...and we are packing up the store to take it there too!

Call the store to register today!  587-523-1713

Summer Scraptacular!

JOIN US FOR A FUN-FILLED SCRAPPY WEEKEND!

AUGUST 12TH - 14TH

FROM NOON ON FRIDAY UNTIL 3 PM SUNDAY!

Make and Take Projects
Goodie Bags
Awesome Prizes
Yummy Catered Meals by the Homefire Grill
And you can Crop til You Drop at your very own 6 foot table!!

EARLY BIRD PRICE OF $150
UNTIL JULY 20TH
REGULAR PRICE $175

Discounted room rates are available!

National Scrapbooking Crop - Still Time to Register!

Don't miss out, call or come in today to register!  Our crops are always a blast - lots of crafty friends, fun games, cool make n' takes, and food - oh the food! LOL!

See you there!

National Scrapbooking Day Crop!!

It's almost that time of year again - National Scrapbooking Day!  What will YOU be doing to celebrate?  That's right, cropping at the best crop in town!  

Call or come in today to register - you really don't want to miss out!

What's Up Wednesday!

SALE! SALE! SALE!

      Still two more days to take advantage!!

WE HAD SO MANY CUSTOMERS DISAPPOINTED THEY COULDN'T MAKE IT IN SO WE HAVE EXTENDED THE SALE
UNTIL THURSDAY JANUARY 28TH

STUFF A BAG SALE!

Stuff as much paper as you can in our paper bag and pay $25!! 
And we tested....you can fit a TON of paper in one of those bags!

Don't forget to comment on how many pieces you managed to stuff into your bag - there is a small prize for the one who gets the most!!  So far I believe 88 is in the lead!

ALL MATCHING EMBELLISHMENTS ARE ALSO 25% OFF!!

**Membership discounts still apply on embellishments but not on paper.  Some paper lines are excluded**

GET YOUR CALENDARS READY AND JOIN IN ALLTHE  CREATIVE FUN!

ADVANCED COPICS TUESDAY JAN 26 @ 630 PM $35

ATC CLASSTHURSDAY JAN 28 @ 6:30 PM $15

WEEKEND CROP Friday Jan 28 @10 am - midnight Saturday Jan 29@10 am - midnight Join us for a fun filled cropping weekend!!! Snacks and drinks all weekend, plus a hot dinner both nights - all this for only $75!!  And we might even have a few surprises too!! $35 from your registration fee will go to Creative (formerly Canadian) Scrapbooker's Hope For Haiti Fund - help raise $20,000 to help continue building a school in Haiti and bring hope and art to the students who attend and the community they live in.

SILHOUETTE CLASS THURSDAY FEB 4 - 6:30PM   Come learn all the tricks to your Silhouette! Bree will teach you all kinds of things you had no idea your fancy little machine could do! All participants should bring their Silhouette, laptop, and paper for cutting but are welcome to come for a test drive to see if the Silhouette is the machine for them!

WATERCOLOUR CARDS WITH KELLY KLAPSTEINWednesday Feb 10 @ 6:30pm $37 Join Kelly and learn just how easy watercolouring can be!  Take home 5 gorgeous cards and the itch to do more and more!

WE ARE THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE THE RETURN OF TWO OF OUR VERY POPULAR CLASSES... TEENS AND TWEENS ART JOURNALING SATURDAY FEB 21ST @ 1PM AND  PAINT PARTY FRIDAY FEBRUARY 26TH @ 7PM STAY TUNED FOR MORE DETAILS!

Crop for Haiti

Looking for some weekend crafty plans?  Come out to scrap and support a great cause!

                                                 WEEKEND CROP

Friday Jan 28 @10 am - midnight

Saturday Jan 29@10 am - midnight

Join us for a fun filled cropping weekend!!!

Snacks and drinks all weekend, plus a hot dinner both nights - all this for only $75!! 

And we might even have a few surprises too!!

$35 from your registration fee will go to Creative (formerly Canadian) Scrapbooker's Hope For Haiti Fund - help raise $20,000 to help continue building a school in Haiti and bring hope and art to the students who attend and the community they live in.

Thank You for An Amazing 2nd Birthday!

To everyone who made our 2nd Birthday Crop such a great success!!  It was a scraptabulous weekend all thanks to you!

The Scrapbook Fairy left plenty of goodies for all the croppers each morning, yay!

60 scrappers hard at "work" - makes for a room full of incredible inspiration!  These gals have some serious talents!

While procraftinating on Saturday I came across this and thought how perfectly it summed up the weekend, lol!

Can you relate?!

The food.  Oh, the food!  We certainly did not go hungry this weekend, Cori-Lyn and Ivy fed us well! 

And for those of you still drooling over the Gingerbread Pudding, here is the recipe - Enjoy!

1/2 cup butter or margarine

1/2 cup sugar

2 eggs

2 1/2 cups flour

2 tsp ginger

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp allspice

1/2 tsp cloves

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup molasses

1 cup water

1 cup packed brown sugar

3 cups hot water

1/3 cup melted butter

Using mixer, mix sugar and butter together until smooth.  Slowly add in eggs.

Mix all dry ingredients together.

Mix molasses and water together.  Slowly add the dry ingredients and the molasses mixture to your beaten butter mixture and mix until smooth.

Add mixture to greased 9 x 13 pan.  Sprinkle the brown sugar over top. Mix melted butter with hot water and slowly pour over cake.  

DON'T PANIC!  It will look like a giant mess right now but I promise it will come out okay!

Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes or until the top is cracked and cake is set.

Of course it would just not be a birthday crop without games and prizes, right?!  Here was a new and fun one all seemed to enjoy.

Why yes, yes they are! :-)

Thank you again, friends, for making it such a successful crop - see you next time!

Fri-Yay!!! It's Birthday Crop Time!

All my bags are packed and I'm ready to go . . . ok, so not really, I will be scrambling last minute as always, but mentally I am already scrapping and ready for the Birthday Crop fun - how about you?!

Are you cropping with us this weekend?  Take a moment to leave a comment and tell us all what craftiness you will be working on this weekend - at the crop or at home!

One of my absolute favourite parts about these weekend crops is wandering around to see what everyone else is working on - not nosy, curiosity! ;-) lol.  I am hoping to capture some photos of all the crafty fun this weekend, so stay tuned and I'll share them here!

Happy Fri-Yay!

Throwback Thursday and We're Almost 2!!

It's FOUR WEEKS away crafty peeps!!!  Our 2nd Birthday Crop!  Here's a little #TBT to last year's amazing crop.

We were honoured to have Canadian Scrapbooker's, Kelly Klapstein join us and help host a Double the Fun sketch contest and fundraiser for Hope for Haiti.  Many of the attendees completed double page layouts for the contest, based on Kelly's sketch that would be going in the Summer 2015 Canadian Scrapbooker issue, and a few lucky, talented gals got their layouts published too!

Pages 134 - 137

Who knows what fun and surprises will be in store at this year's crop!  Better join us to find out!

SCRAP ADDICTS' 2ND BIRTHDAY CROP!

November 20 - 22

FRIDAY - 6 PM - 2 AM $35

SATURDAY - 9 AM - 2 AM $75

SUNDAY - 9 AM - 4PM $45

Join us for over 30 hours of cropping fun...for only $130 for the WHOLE WEEKEND!

EARLY BIRD PRICE - pay by October 31st and it is only $110!!

**NEW** - By popular request, we are offering up FOUR spots for those wanting their own table! For an additional $25 we will ensure you have the whole table to yourself. First come, first served.

All food and drinks are provided, plus make and takes, super fun games, a BIG grand prize, tons of door prizes, goody bags every day for all scrappers and a weekend filled with scrappy fun!

Inspiration - Boy Edition!

Happy Monday Morning scrappy people! We are busy here at the store getting ready for our Crafty Kids Spring Break Camp and our National Scrapbook Crop Til You Drop Weekend...but decided it was a good day for a little inspiration!

One of the most frequent things we hear is how people struggle with boys layouts.... so I wanted to highlight some of our current awesome boy lines!

One of the best selling ones is Adornit's Construction lines - check out the layouts on the Adornit blog!

I love how the baby is sleeping in a dumptruck!  That Boys Will Be Boys paper is so adorable!!!  

And this adorable layout uses some awesome embellishments that are good for both boys and girls - chevrons and stars!

Next up is Bella Blvd's Max Collection - a great paper with a mix of embellishments that are perfect for Project Life style layouts too!  All these layouts are taken from Stephanie Smokovich's Pinterest board.

 A great mix of patterns!

More stars for embellishments!  And check out that doodle paper in the background?

I love how Becki Adams added colour to the doodle paper!

A bit on the Vintage side...check out Authentique's Suave line...beautiful blues, greens and teals in this line!

I love how Loes De Groot put hearts and flowers on a masculine layout!

More flowers on a boy layout...I love it!!  This one was created by Hilary Kanwischer.  Ivy and Cori-Lyn both loved this line so much that each of them snuck a few sheets and did layouts too!

Sticking with a little vintage and heading into a little grunge... Kaisercraft's Garage Days is awesome for scrapping those guys in your life!  Check out Rachael Funnell's tag and card set!

And last but not least, the hottest new masculine line in stock is Graphic45's Good Ol Sport....and you know that the projects that come from Graphic paper never disappoint!

I adore these Artist Trading blocks by Nichola Battilana

And THIS POST on Graphic's blog has all kinds of great ideas using this paper - like Denise Johnson's altered matchbox

Hoping you found some inspiration today - I'm off to play with paper!

NATIONAL SCRAPBOOKING DAY CROP TIL YOU DROP!

Come celebrate National Scrapbook Day with us! May 2-4th Join us for 30 hours of cropping fun!!! Come for the whole weekend or just a day! All food and drinks are provided, plus make and takes, games, a BIG grand prize, tons of door prizes, goody bags for all scrappers and a weekend filled with scrappy fun! Friday May 2nd: 6pm - 2 am - $35 Saturday May 3rd: 10am - 2am - $60 Sunday May 4th: 10am - 4pm - $45 Or enjoy the whole weekend with us for only $130!!  EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION - PAY BY APRIL 11TH AND YOU PAY ONLY $110! Plus one lucky early bird will WIN THEIR WEEKEND FOR FREE!!! We will be cropping at Belmead Community Hall (9109 182nd St) so there will be a TON of room...and we are packing up the store to take it there too! Call the store to register - 587-523-1713