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New Month means New Vendor

We have a new Vendor of the Month. Imaginisce.

As with all of our vendors of the month, buy 5 items or more save 10%. Members save 20%.

Imaginisce had this cute description on their website:

"Just imagine a color blind visionary starting a wholesale design and manufacturing company inspiring individuals to celebrate and remember what they value most in their lives. Add some fresh color, innovative papers and gazillions of coordinating products and you have IMAGINISCE!"

More Wilton Goodies

Have you heard about Brownie Pops? If you haven't you must check these out!

In store we have the Wilton Brownie Pop molds and sticks. The possibilities with these are endless! And also they are so good. Come on, what can be better than brownies on a stick?









Gum Paste Flowers. These look so beautiful on a cake and now Wilton has an easy way for you to create them at home.

The kit includes 1 leaf mold, 3 wood modeling tools, protector flap, instruction book, 2 foam squares for modeling and 24 plastic cutters - Wild Rose, Baby’s Breath, Forget-Me-Not, Apple Blossom, Pansy, Small and Large Daisies, Calyx, Orchid Throat, Stephanotis, Small and Large Carnations, Rose Petals (three sizes), Daffodil Petal, Daffodil Cup, Lily, Tulip Petal, Small and Large Rose Leaves, Holly Leaves, Ivy Leaf, Tulip Leaf.

What are you making for Father's Day

I am gearing up to use this new line to create a mini book just in time for Father's Day. This line is called Man of the House and is designed by Bella BLVD. Stay posted for sneak peeks as I get busy. This project will be for a class. Check back here or the weekly newsletters for date, time and cost of this project.

New Wilton in Store

We have got lots of new Wilton product in store as well as having restocked some of the other stuff.

New in store we have candy colouring! This lets you colour the Wilton melting candies. We have two sets of colours available: Garden and Candy.

Watch the blog over the next few days for more info on what we just received or stop by the store and check it out!

More great ideas in store!

Just in store is the new Summer 2010 edition of Canadian Scrapbooker. This magazine is chockfull of ideas and suggestions, including playing with Copic Markers.

Stop by and pick up yours today!

Just in Store

We just got the new editions of scrapbooks etc. in store.

These are great inspirational magazines for scrapbooking and more! Put out by Better Homes and Gardens.

Come by and get yours today!

Play all day

I love the new kraft cardstock by Bazzill.  It has little dots embossed in it.  Great texture.  I sprayed with Maya Mist using a scrap of a scrolly lace paper as a mask.

I cut one of Prima's felt branches in two pieces so I could use it alongside my photo strip as well as under the lone photo on the left.

The patterned papers are by Harmonie and the chipboard accents (including the title arrow) are Crate Paper. I pulled some magic mesh out of my stash, a frame rubon and some Making Memory word stickers.

Punches + maya mist = sweet home decor

Hello scrappy girls! SO - I am currently crazy for mists. Particularly Maya Mists. They are so much fun, that I have been spraying everything. My boys are now Sunflower yellow, gunmetal gray, beautiful blue and royal red. Not really. And I don't think those are technical names for the Maya mists, so don't ask Lynette for those exact names. I'll get in trouble.
I have been making little art projects with my two butterfly punches, and I used them this week to make a mask on cardstock. My first project was very symmetrical:

It looks pretty cool up on the wall. Then I thought i would do something a little more free, and here are the steps.
I chose a light pink cardstock for the background, and punched a bunch of butterflies out of cardstock and laid them out on top.


Then I took some Bubblegum Metallic mist by Maya road and sprayed. (please note that an opened file folder is not big enough for this application and the mist will get on your floor and it will be hard to wash off)

Dump off your butterflies and you are left with: (could totally be used on it's own as background paper for a layout at this point)
(you are also left with a bunch of pink butterflies that are sprayed and can be used on any other project). So, then I punched smaller butterflies in a similar light pink with a bit of texture, and applied tiny pop dots:

I stuck them on top of the masked butterflies and folded up their wings a little for dimension.
Matted in a deep pink and then white...if this was in a white shadowbox frame, it would be smashing! Yes, smashing! And a wonderful baby gift/little girls gift/teacher gift/mama gift...you get the picture.
and of course you can change all the variables in this project : the background paper, the punches, the color of the mist, the paper used for the butterflies....so many possibilities and a fairly quick and easy thing to put together. The misting is total fun, I'll show you another layout I whipped up later this week. Heather is misting all the time and I think it looks fantastic.

Bo Bunny and border punches

I put this layout together last night using another of my Glimmer Screens and a couple shades of Glimmer Mist.  Can you see where I used my little butterflies punchies as masks?  Love doing that.

The papers are scraps from my Bo Bunny Easter pages.  I used 3 different border punches and layered the pieces before adding the bling and Prima blossoms.  The cute little bird at the bottom is from the green paper.

I had all 3 photos stacked with nothing in between them at first, but felt they blended too much so I slipped a border strip in between each picture. 

My kidlets were so cute way back when.