...unless it's that wonderful glitter paper that's sitting on our shelves. This is the most amazing thing I've seen in a while. We all love a little sparkle, bling and glitter on our layouts or projects. What we don't like is the mess, scatter and having everything in the room all glittery too. This new paper is the answer to our shimmery prayers. The glitter doesn't come off, yep...no matter how hard you try, and we all tried, it's not budging. So we love it. We have about a dozen colors to choose from and we're thinking about ordering more.
Thankfully Theresa has been updating you on what's coming through the doors, so now I'll do my part and fill you in on some more. Making Memories Halloween collection, aptly called "Spooky" is here. There are a few papers in particular that I'm liking...the witches shoes and the haunted house damask paper to name a couple.
The Making Memories Christmas line, which is a completely different take on the traditional Christmas collections. How many of you love ledger? There's a festive ledger paper that I can't wait to run through my trimmer. Then there are the icon dots that will make any holiday layout a breeze. Their new journaling book has acetate pages (think transparency) and is a must have with this line. All the other accouterments such as ribbon, brads, flowers...they came along too.
And if the ledger-style Christmas isn't your thing, then we have Anna Griffin there for you. Always traditional, always elegant...My favorite thing from this line is the flocked, die-cut snowflake paper. I'm still up in the air as to how to play with that. It's just so soft and pretty...
Going fast is the Jillibean Soup line. The school line is perfect, especially as we develop our First Day of School photos and if you need help, Anne has the perfect school layout hanging up that you are welcome to copy.
And this owl craze that has hit the scrapbooking world...I just don't get it. To me, owls are okay. They aren't beautiful like flamingos or colorful like parrots, they are just brown with big eyes and weird pointy ears. Okay...maybe there's something I just can't comprehend, or maybe there's an underground scrapbooking owl cult that I don't know about, but anyway, that paper line with the owls is dwindling. Almost gone, I tell ya.
And while we're talking owls, we might as well talk birds. They have their own cult too probably. I'm not into birds either, but the bird on the Jillibean Soup Christmas paper I do like. I don't know what manner of bird it is, possibly a partridge, 'cause that is the official Christmas bird, right? Anyway it is really cute and so far, this is my favorite Christmas line.
Prima came yesterday and scattered the store with flowers...all shapes, all sizes, in any kind of container you might enjoy and along with the flowers came bling. Blingy-bling. Too much bling if that is even possible. Beautiful centers for the beautiful flowers and flourishes made from pearls and flourishes out of bling, and oh so much more.
But here's what's from Prima that is really cool, and from what I saw yesterday, we'll probably need to get some more. STITCHED PAGES. The other night I decided to dust off my sewing machine after seeing the amazing things Michelle F. did at the crops the last couple of weeks. After an hour of trying to remember how to fill the bobbin and then in what order the thread went on the machine and then deciding to call Delaney to actually put the thread through the needle, all the time cursing and screaming and ready to throw it out the window...but seriously. Unless you grew up sewing, the dang machine is a challenge. I don't know why it can't be easy, like a car. You just put the key in the ignition and you're good to go. But heck no. A sewing machine is like my krypton. I just don't have the sewing gene that my mother and grandmother had, and now it looks like my daughter has. And if you're like me and freeze up thinking about a sewing machine, but love the look of stiched pages, well...Prima fixed that for us. And they did a really fancy job too. Several different ones to choose from, using their beautiful patterned paper and fancy stitchery...a must have for the sewing-machine-challenged ones (yep, I'm raising my hand).
And if you want to step out of the box and into the world of Donna Downey, we've got her entire canvas album collection. This is the first thing I played with and actually made a couple of pages already. I've got a canvas page wall hanging on display that took no time to do and I'm liking this. I don't know how to explain this and I know this concept isn't for everyone, but there are some iron-on transfers that are pretty, not like the other ones we had a few years back; these are nice. And fabric appliques. And canvas words. I added a bit of fabric to my canvas creation and as much as I hate that sewing machine, I love fabric. And just on a side note here...we are so lucky to have probably the best place in the world to get fabric, right here off Main Street in Dunedin...Rainbow's End. Want fabric that matches our paper? She's got it. Let's talk Heather Bailey, My Mind's Eye, Moda, Amy Butler. The place is bigger than Publix and has the prettiest ribbon and the best buttons and the most gorgeous fabric in the world. Anyway...just in case you wanted to venture into the world of fabric on paper, there's your crack house.
And while we're talking crack...Tim Holtz crack is here. And yes, the Rock Candy stickles and all the new and more old distress stickles, crackle paint, and anything else you might want. We got more Tim Holtz stuff in, you know the stuff we have to reorder every week? More metal toys and the new word sticks. A few more tiny attachers are here for you too. Can I just say again, I love my tiny attacher?
We're expecting a few more boxes in this week and as soon as I know what we've got, someone will let you know too.
And before I sign off...the Holiday Workshop is full. Wow. One week and we're full. You put so much faith in us, but tell ya what, we're gonna make it rock this year. We had our design team meeting last week and there was creativity just bouncing off the table. We picked the best things from the best lines, did some research on line and you are going to be happy. Seriously. Now the workshop being full...that was the bad news, but here's a bit of good news.
Once we moved back into the old crop room, we have space for 28 people. We originally had the Holiday workshop set for 25 people each day...but luckily the way we ordered the product, we can actually make kits for 3 extra people per class. And now because we have room, we're opening up 3 spots both days. Give us a call if you're interested...
