WINNERS

Hello Everyone! We have some winners to announce from our Houston Giveaways…

Post #1: Houston, We Have a Problem, posted on October 15th

WINNER: Colleen Ryan, who wrote:

holy moly – meeting Miss Jennifer McGuire – Sara, how awesome for you!!!

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Post #2: The Paperie in Houston, posted on October 16th

WINNER: Denise Tilley, who wrote:

Great photos! What an awesome trip

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Post #3: GIVEAWAY, posted on October 17th

WINNER: Tracey Patey, who wrote:

They all look awesome. Can’t wait to be able to try some of the new techniques at the paperie. ENJOY!!!

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Post #4: Last Houston Update, posted on October 18th

WINNER: Peggy Fennemore, who wrote:

One of these days I can see Sara leading one of those sessions all on her own! Can’t wait to hear about all the fun projects!

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Facebook Giveaway, “Tell us your favourite reason to visit The Paperie”, posted on October 17th

WINNER: Melissa Moore, who replied:

Yeah I have to agree about the paper. I am a bit of a paper addict so seeing all the new lines and gorgeous paper gives me inspiration!

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Congratulations to all of the winners! Your prizes will be available for pick-up at The Paperie next time you pop by. Don’t forget that today is the LAST day to enter our Mojo Monday-Month Long Contest! Create something Pink and upload to our Mojo Monday Facebook Gallery by 11:59pm this evening! The Winner will receive a PRIZE PACK of goodies we collected in Houston, valued at over $40!!! Please note that our prize challenges are for local participants who can arrange prize pick-ups at our shop.

November Classes & Events

Tuesday, November 8th - Christmas Card Class (6:30pm)
Friday-Sunday, November 11th-13th - Scrapbook Retreat
Tuesday, November 15th - Private Booking (7-10pm)
Friday, November 18th - Pedi-Crop Night (6pm-Midnight)
Sunday, November 20th - December Daily Album (10am-3pm)
Monday, November 28th - Girl Guides Private Booking (7:30-8:30pm)
Sunday, November 27th – Sara’s Year Long Album Class (10am-2pm)
Tuesday, November 29th - Holiday Card Class (6:30pm)

Appointments available for Introduction to Scrapbooking

Introduction to Scrapbooking – by appointment only
Call ahead to make an appointment for a one-on-one Introduction to Scrapbooking (we can also accommodate groups). We will focus on how to get started, introduce you to the basic tools, and show how to use and care for your tools. We will take you on a tour of our store, passing along lots of helpful advice and discuss popular scrapbooking terms. You will also learn how to use the tools in our fully stocked workshop and create a basic Scrapbook Layout. A copy of Canadian Scrapbook Basics Magazine is included in the fee.
Price: $15.00 per person (Children under 12 are $5 when accompanied by a registered participant & one magazine will be provided to share).

We kindly request that you respect our SCENT-FREE Policy in our store and at all Classes and Crops as many customers and staff are severely allergic. This includes perfumes, lotions, hairsprays and other strong scents.

Included in Nov. 8th Class

 

Christmas Card Class – Tuesday, November 8th (6:30pm)
Join us for a different kind of card class where each participant will create SEVEN simple handmade Holiday cards using just ONE package of Echo Park Season’s Greetings Chipboard Accents with minimal supplies & effort! Featuring our new Kraft-Core cardstock from Core’dinations and some of our favourite texture embossing folders used with the Big Shot (feel free to bring yours along). 

Don’t forget your paper trimmer, sanding tools and pop dots for this class, you’re going to need them! We will pass along some useful tips and tricks so that you can maximize a limited amount of cardstock and turn these die-cuts into the perfect accents for your holiday cards! The only stamping we’ll do in this class is some simple backgrounds and sentiments! 
Members: $25.00
Non-Members: $50.00

 

Scrapbook Retreat – Friday, November 11th – Sunday, November 13th
We have had four spaces (two bedrooms) open up for our Scrapbook Retreat at The Wilds! We have two packages available – you can book for the whole weekend or just for two days.  Please see our Retreat Posting for more details!

Pedi-Crop Night – Friday, November 18th (6pm-midnight)
Come scrapbook your heart out and treat yourself to a pedicure with our Retreat Estheticians! Pedicures are optional and must be signed up for in advance (manicures are also available), but if you wish to simply come and Crop you have that choice too! Spend up to 6 hours paper crafting with other paper artists and maybe even treat your feet to an autumn pedi, those feet don’t have to go into socks until December! Pedicures are also available to anyone who doesn’t want to crop! First come, first served
Members Price: $5.00 (or $35 for Crop & pedi)
Non-Members: $10.00 (or $40 for Crop & pedi)

December Daily Album Class with Cathie Reed – Sunday, November 20th (10am)
Join Cathie to learn all about this awesome project that Ali Edwards does every year on her Blog. The idea here is to take some time before December to create an album in which you can easily add your photos/words during the actual days of December. Documenting the everyday activities of December. Cathie will make this project easier for you, providing the entire kit you need to prepare this project in one session. This is a great way to capture the magic of Christmas in a 6×8 Scrapbook, focusing on your daily holiday habits, family traditions, and the everyday moments of Christmas. Class participants will receive a Fancy Pants St. Nick collection pack as well as assorted embellishments and journaling pages to complete your project. Space is limited so sign up early to avoid disappointment!
Members: $60.00
Non-Members: $120.00 (or purchase a membership and pay only $85!)

Included in Nov. 30th Class

 

Holiday Card Class – Tuesday, November 29th (6:30pm)
In this class we will focus on fun techniques and show you how to make four gorgeous, one-of-a-kind Holiday cards that you will want to save for somebody special this holiday season. Come try out several fun embossing techniques, play with mists, Copics and more. Each person will go home with a set of the Sizzix/Basic Grey embossing folders featured in this class! Feel free to bring your Big Shot or your Texture Boutique if you have one!
Members: $30.00
Non-Members: $60.00

AccuCut Showcase – Spooktacular

Hello everyone! In case you missed our Make’n'Take on October 1st, we are giving you another chance to join in on the fun and make a cute card and a spooktacular treat box this Saturday! Join us any time from 11am-4:00pm on Saturday, October 29th to create these two fun projects for $5:

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Featuring the AccuCut Pillowbox, an adorable Unity ghost stamp and our favourite EK Success label punch. We’ll show you TWO cool new ways to use the fun label punch to create a border and a smaller tag. All you need to bring is some double sided tape!

Houston Show & Tell

Join us this week on Wednesday evening, October 26th, as Sara and Chris give us the details of their trip! A casual get together, the ladies will pull the goodies out of their bags and show us what they made. We’re hoping that they will share with us the ideas they have for upcoming classes too!

Time: 7:00pm

Members Price: FREE

Although there is no cost associated with this session, please call or email thepaperie@warp.nfld.net  to let us know that you plan on attending so that we know how many to expect. Thanks!

Last Houston Update!

Well Sara is in the air on her way home now but she sent me two more pictures before she boarded her plane. Yesterday Chris and Sara took an ALL-DAY class with Tim Holtz and made this awesome Configuration Box…

Tim's Configuration Box

 

Here’s a snap of Chris, Tim and Sara:

Houston, October 17th, 2011

That concludes our Houston Chronicles, we hope you’ve enjoyed living vicariously through Sara and Chris this week and we can’t wait to see what kind of classes they are cooking up for the Fall & Winter seasons. We already have a great new Yearlong Album class planned for 2012 and that’s just the tip of the iceberg!

In case you missed the posting, Cathie Reed is teaching a FANTASTIC December Daily Class, based on the popular project developed by Ali Edwards years ago.  Featuring the St. Nick collection from Fancy Pants and some wonderful embellishments and FUN techniques, you will complete a ready-made album for December where all that’s left to do is add some pictures and journaling. Here are the details:

DECEMBER DAILY CLASS with Cathie Reed!
On Sunday, November 20th you can learn all about this awesome project that Ali Edwards does every year on her Blog. The idea here is to take some time before December to create an album that can be easily added to (photos + words) during the actual days of the month. Documenting the everyday activities of December. Cathie will make this project easier for you, providing the entire kit you need to prepare this project in one session. This is a great way to capture the magic of Christmas in a 6×8 Scrapbook, focusing on your daily holiday habits, family traditions, and the everyday moments of Christmas. Class participants will receive a Fancy Pants St. Nick collection pack as well as assorted embellishments and journaling pages to complete their project, space is limited so sign up early to avoid disappointment!
Members: $60.00
Non-Members: $120.00 (or purchase a membership and pay only $85!)

GIVEAWAY

Hi everyone! Sara here to say that Chris and I are having a fabulous time in Houston. We’re seeing and learning lots of new, fun things – we can’t wait to get back and start classes to show you everything! In the meantime, we thought we’d share the love with some GIVEAWAYS! Comment on all of the Houston blog posts here on The Paperie Blog and, when we get back, we’ll do a random drawing from each post! We have all kinds of goodies to give away, so be sure to comment to qualify! We will also do a Facebook Giveaway, so be go LIKE us on Facebook for another chance to win!!!

Pictures from the Ranger Booth at last years Orlando trade show – click on thumbnails to view larger image.

The Paperie in Houston

Sara has sent another update from Houston, here are some more pictures followed by what she had to say:

Sara writes:

The 4 canvases from Ranger were a blast. The Claudine Hellmuth look might not be for everyone, but her products are incredible and I see a lot of potential. The melt art class was great, some really neat things can be done with the melting pot and the shrink plastic. Loved the Perfect Pearls Canvas – one of the pictures shows the sides of the canvas which are painted black with the new Perfect Pearls colours and it looks fantastic in person. I’m in love with kraft glassine. Awesome to do an entire canvas with only distress stain too, fun to use that and really see how different it looks from the inks.

The Basically Bare albums are amazing – corrugated cardboard, canvas, acrylic, chipboard, the pages and varying sizes are very cool. And although I am most definitely not a theme girl, the Graphic 45 Wizard of Oz papers we used on this album are awesome.

Make and takes were good tonight, did the Impression Obsession; two Sizzix, one a pop-up; Vintage Street Market; Creative Imaginations with the new cancer line of paper from Bazzill and the new cancer line of Twinkling H2O’s; Basically Bare; Ranger; Hero Arts; and Doodlebug.

Funny people here, I’m laughing harder and more than is good for my stomach muscles. 

Talk soon!
-S

Thanks again to Sara for keeping us in the loop while she and Chris are in Houston. We really, really can’t wait to see all of these projects in person! I must say – Sara really looks like she belongs right beside Jennifer McGuire, Shari Carroll, Tim Holtz and Cheryl Mezzetti.

Houston, we have a problem!

Just kidding – there is absolutely no problem in Houston!  But there is TONS of inspiration, and Paperie Instructor Sara Case Strickland just emailed me a few pictures from the classes she did yesterday…

The first picture is a snap of Sara with Creative Imaginations instructor Cheryl Mezzetti. I met Cheryl last year in Orlando and she was a hoot and a half, but she also brought tears to our eyes with a touching story during one of her classes. The second photo shows cards that Sara made in the Impression Obsession card class with IO founder Mitra Friant. I see a lot of fun techniques in these cards that Sara will surely feature when our order of stamps comes in!

The third picture shows the cards that Sara made in the Hero Arts class with Jennifer McGuire and Shari Carroll (pictured with Sara in the last photograph). The rainbow album is a mixed media project that she made in Cheryl’s Creative Imaginations class – love the look of that album!  The black and white project is a Shadow Box that Sara made in a Canvas Corp class.

BIG thanks to Sara for sending me these pictures so I can keep you all aprised of the fun she and Chris are having in Houston. The only problem in Houston is that we are not ALL there too, right?!

Wendy & Krista thinking pink!

Today we’re sharing TWO of the projects that were uploaded to our Mojo Monday Gallery on Facebook for the Think Pink October challenge. The first is a beautiful holiday card from Wendy Skinner…

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This card features the Hero Arts – Basic Grey poinsettia stamp, the glittered edge and pink pearl center add a lovely touch, and the strip of patterned paper from the Basic Grey Sweet Threads 6×6 Paper pad brings in another splash of pink. Thank you for participating in the Think Pink challenge Wendy!

Next up is a layout from last months Spotlight alumni, Krista Wells…

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Love everything about this layout, the pictures and the journaling really tell the story here which is what we like our layouts to do. If a layout doesn’t tell a story then what are you going to remember about it in 50 years? Thanks for sharing this with us Krista!

Don’t forget to upload your PINK projects to Mojo Monday Gallery on Facebook all month long for your chance to win a great prize! See our previous blog post for more details.

Have a great weekend everybody!

Breast Cancer Awareness

For our weekly Spotlight & our Mojo Monday Challenges for October, we are going to do something a little different… 

For the ENTIRE month of October, our Mojo Monday Challenge is: THINK PINK.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month so your “Think Pink”  Challenge is to create any card, layout, project or artwork that incorporates the colour PINK.

Upload your project to our Mojo Monday Challenge Gallery on Facebook, and one random winner will be selected at the end of the month for a prize pack valued at $40!

Every week on our Blog we will feature at least one of the projects uploaded to the Facebook Gallery, so the more you upload the better the chances of being featured on our Blog Spotlight!

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We will also be selling our Breast Cancer Awareness cards downtown at a local shop with a portion of proceeds going to charity, I will let you know more details soon!!

In honour of Thanksgiving, we would love it if you would comment and tell us what you are most Thankful for in your life.

As for me? I don’t even know where to begin… I think, right now, I am most thankful for the local music scene. This province is SO rich with talent, and I have been involved (as a fan) in the local music community since 1993. I still feel privileged, 18 years later to be attending local gigs and supporting many of the same talented musicians I saw when I was 13, as well as so many new talents. I could go on and on, but I’ll stop there!

 

AccuCut Showcase – Wedding Show

It’s always a busy time preparing for a wedding show, but we have  lot of fun coming up with the designs and all the coordinating details for our display, it’s also a great time to create brand new samples. For our AccuCut Showcase today, I want to share pictures from our booth at Devotion Wedding Show this weekend past, as well as colourful pictures from our booth neighbour By Sharpe Design.

More details about all of the AccuCut die-cuts we used can be found in our Facebook Albums.

October 2011 Classes

 OCTOBER CLASSES & EVENTS

OCTOBER IS BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH! 
Think Pink and use your Paperie Tote Bag to receive a 20% DISCOUNT of all of our TSUKINEKO INKS - that includes our NEW Memento Markers!

Appointments available for Introduction to Scrapbooking

Introduction to Scrapbooking – by appointment
Call ahead to make an appointment for a one-on-one Introduction to Scrapbooking (we can also accommodate groups). We will focus on how to get started, introduce you to the basic tools, and show how to use and care for your tools. We will take you on a tour of our store, passing along lots of helpful advice and discuss popular scrapbooking terms. You will also learn how to use the tools in our fully stocked workshop and create a basic Scrapbook Layout. A copy of Canadian Scrapbook Basics Magazine is included in the fee.
Price: $15.00 per person (Children under 12 are $5 when accompanied by a registered participant & one magazine will be provided to share).

We kindly request that you respect our SCENT-FREE Policy in our store and at all Classes and Crops as many customers and staff are severely allergic. This includes perfumes, lotions, hairsprays and other strong scents.

Christmas Card Class – Tuesday, October 11th (6:30pm)
We are in love with our Big Shot, and we want to share the love with you! Come play with our new Spellbinders Nestabilities products in a fun Christmas card class where we will show you how you can create four gorgeous clean and simple cards with these fun die-cuts! One lucky class participant will win a set of Nestabilities dies featured in this class!
Members: $25.00
Non-Members: $50.00

One Sketch, Two Styles - Tuesday, October 18th (6:30pm)
This class is perfect for those of you who are curious about the latest techniques, AND for those of you who don’t have a ton of time to devote to scrapbooking and are interested in finishing beautiful layouts as quickly and easily as possible. We will show you two ways to take ONE Sketch and create two totally different layouts. One will be a clean and simple layout and the other will a more complex layout jazzed up with fun techniques including a fun handmade embellishment. We will feature our NEW Mister Huey’s Mists from Studio Calico!
Members: $25.00
Non-Members: $50.00

Pedi-Crop Night – Friday, October 21st (6pm-midnight)
Come scrapbook your heart out and treat yourself to a pedicure with our Retreat Estheticians! Pedicures are optional and must be signed up for in advance (manicures are also available), but if you wish to simply come and Crop you have that choice too! Spend up to 6 hours paper crafting with other paper artists and maybe even treat your feet to a summer pedi! Pedicures are also available to anyone who doesn’t want to crop! First come, first served
Members Price: $5.00 ($35 with pedicure)
Non-Members: $10.00 ($40 with pedicure)

Introduction to Copics – Monday, October 24th (6:30pm)
Chris will be back from a tradeshow in Houston where she will be taking a ton of great classes, including a refresher for her Copic Certification. Join us for this Introduction to Copics to learn more about these fabulous markers and find out why they are a cut above the rest. You will get to practice with Copics and make two cards, plus you will go home with two brand new Copic Sketch Markers of your choosing! Please bring any Copics you may have to this class (labeled clearly with your name).
Members: $25.00
Non-Members: $50.00

Halloween Make’n'Take – Saturday, Oct. 1st or Saturday, Oct. 29th
We had so much fun at our World Card Making Day Make’n'take on October 1st that we are doing the project again on Halloween weekend! Visit us on Saturday, October 29th to make a funny greeting card & spooktacular treat box for just $5! Skip Hallmark and make your own card to really wow the lucky recipient – you’ll be amazed how easily you can make a cute treat box - with treats included! Drop in anytime between 10:30am and 4:30pm.
Price: Only $5.00!

Halloween Make'n'Take

COMING IN NOVEMBER:

Ali Edwards December Daily Class with Cathie Reed!
On Sunday, November 20th you can learn all about this awesome project that Ali Edwards does every year on her Blog. The idea here is to take some time before December to create an album that can be easily added to (photos + words) during the actual days of the month. Documenting the everyday activities of December. Cathie will make this project easier for you, providing the entire kit you need to prepare this project in one session. This is a great way to capture the magic of Christmas in a 6×8 Scrapbook, focusing on your daily holiday habits, family traditions, and the everyday moments of Christmas. Class participants will receive a Fancy Pants St. Nick collection pack as well as assorted embellishments and journaling pages to complete their project, space is limited so sign up early to avoid disappointment!
Members: $60.00
Non-Members: $120.00 (or purchase a membership and pay only $85!)

Click here to view our Class Archives.