March 2012 Classes & Events

Saturday, March 3rd – All Day Crop
Friday, March 9th – TGIF Card Make’n'Take
Sunday, March 11th – Sara’s Canvas Class
Friday, March 16th - Pedi-Crop Night
Tuesday, March 20th – Clean & Simple Scrapbooking
Sunday, March 25th – Sara’s Yearlong Album (FULL)
Wednesday, March 28th – Sara’s ATC Tray

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.
Price: $12.00 per person
(Children under 12 are $5 when accompanied by a registered participant).

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. Soliciting, vending, and advertising are prohibited at our classes and events. If you have a severe allergy and are attending a class, we would be happy to notify the other class participants.

All Day Crop – Saturday, March 3rd (10am-5pm)
Another great chance to get together with friends, or with a whole new group of people and get some scrappin’ done! Distractions of home are left behind as you spend all day paper crafting with other paper lovers. You have unlimited use of all of our die-cut machines, punches, scissors and access to countless idea books! A Lunch will be provided for this special All Day Crop!
Price: $15.00

TGIF: Hero Arts Make’n’Take – Friday, March 9th (12-1pm)
Join us for our new monthly lunch time make’n’take showing off the versatility of one sketch! We’ll show you how to make three different cards with ONE sketch in a flash. Pre-registration is required for this make’n’take, but you can call us right up until 11am on March 9th. Skip Hallmark and make your own cards to really wow the lucky recipients!
Price: $12.00 for everyone!
If you don’t have time to make all three cards, you can make your favourite card for just $5!

Sara’s Canvas Class – Sunday, March 11th (10am)
Join Sara for the last of our Houston series of classes! She’ll show you how to make a 10×10 canvas inspired by Jennifer McGuire that’s full of techniques, yet beautiful enough to hang in your home. Each element on the canvas showcases a different technique or two for use in later projects – hang it in your craft space and have some inspiration to look at when your mojo leaves you!
Members: $30.00
Non-Members: $60.00

Pedi-Crop Night – Friday, March 16th (6pm-midnight)
Come scrapbook your heart out and mayber even treat yourself to a pedicure with our Retreat Estheticians! Pedicures are optional and must be paid 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 spring pedi! Pedicures are also available to anyone who doesn’t want to crop! First come, first served

Clean & Simple Scrapbooking – Tuesday, March 20th (6:30pm)
In this class Guest Instructor Rae Lynn will show you how to create TWO beautiful clean and simple layouts featuring one of the hottest trends right now – wooden embellishments. Using photos, cardstock, pattern paper, and Rae Lynn’s trusty 2″ square punch, you will create stunning layouts with minimal fuss. Each class participant will go home with a new Jenni Bowlin Paint Dabber and a coordinating Jenni Bowlin ink pad used to create their layout. This class is great for beginners to experts who just love the clean & simple look.
Members: $25.00
Non-Members: $50.00

Sara’s Yearlong Album Class – Sunday, March 25th (10am-3pm) FULL
Our most popular class to date, we have 20 participants who pre-registered and will be working on an entire album spanning the whole year, from February until December. We highly encourage you to sign up for Sara’s other classes if you’re missing out on the Yearlong Album – you’re sure to have fun and learn a lot. Contact us right away if you’d like to reserve a basic kit of the products used in this class, including the American Crafts 8.5×11 Powder Blue Modern D-Ring Album, Year.o.graphy papers and stickers from Simple Stories, and more!

Click to enlarge Yearlong Album Peek

Sara’s ATC Tray Class – Wednesday, March 28th (6:30pm)
The ideas keep coming for our talented head Instructor! Join Sara and complete an altered 7 Gypsies ATC tray to display or give away to someone special. We’ll be using the popular Simple Stories Year.o.graphy line, multiple dies, and distress stickles to make this dimensional home decor project. This project will be published in an upcoming issue of CREATE magazine! Way to go Sara  
Members: $35.00
Non-Members: $70.00

Here’s a Bonus Sneak peek of one of Sara’s April classes:

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Mojo Monday – DIY

Mojo Monday DIY Challenge: Handmade Embellishment

This week your challenge is to create a layout, card or mini book that features a DIY (Do it Yourself) embellishment. Be creative – whether it is an embellished tag, a fussy-cut stamped image, or something you’ve upcycled, the options are wide open. You can use any technique and supplies as long as you have handcrafted the embellishment yourself.

If you play along with our challenge you should share your art by uploading your project to our Mojo Monday Group on Facebook! We also have a Facebook Club called The Paper Community where you can share ANY paper projects you make – no holds barred! We’d love to see your work!

If you’re not on Facebook and you want to play along, comment with a link to your Blog or email us a picture of your project.

This adorable card was created by Denise Tilley for one of our previous challenges (A Banner Year). I love her DIY flags made with sticks and paper – so cute! Upload your projects to our Mojo Monday Gallery and maybe you’ll see your card appear on our site sometime soon!

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One Little Stamp: Cruising Through Life

Stamp of the Week: Lawn Fawn Cruising Through Life acrylic set

This week we are sharing some great ideas that showcase the Lawn Fawn stamp set Cruising Through Life in our One Little Stamp feature. Check out our board on Pinterest to see some cute and creative cards we’ve found online featuring this fun stamp set.

One Little Stamp on Pinterest

We’re doing a Hero Arts order this weekend, so email us with any requests you may have before Sunday at 5pm! 

 

AccuCut Die of the Week

AccuCut Die of the Week: Bag #1

We love our AccuCut GrandeMark machine and we’re planning a fun way to label our dies so that they will be even easier to find in our workshop. Does that excite you as much as it excites us? Here is one of the dies that will be even easier to find, featured as our AccuCut Die of the Week…

This bag has so many possibilities, we’ve made it for Weddings, birthdays, Halloween, Christmas, baby showers and so much more!

Here are a few of the ideas featuring this versatile bag die-cut…

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AccuCut Bag #1 decorated with Flowers #2

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AccuCut Bag #1 decorated with Butterfly #8

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Here’s a purple ensemble from a Wedding Show featuring several different AccuCut dies. The A7 Jacket Card #4, Truffle Bag,  Bag #1 decorated with one of our custom printed wedding labels, and Hourglass Bag.

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One more, bird woodgrain ensemble featuring Bag #1

You can pop by anytime we’re open until next Thursday and cut out this bag with Bazzill cardstock for $1.00. We’ll even provide some scraps for you to die-cut the butterfly, birds or flower embellishments!

Mojo Monday – Wedding Inspiration

INSPIRATION CHALLENGE: SOFT & PRETTY

 

 Have you ever looked at the Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger? Every Tuesday Cath posts a picture to inspire paper crafters to create a card. We thought we’d try something similar this week, so here is a picture we found on Pinterest to jumpstart your creativity.

Image from MarthaStewartWeddings.com

Image Credit

Create a card or layout that is inspired by this soft & pretty wedding cake. Your project doesn’t have to feature a cake – use the colour scheme, the scallops, or even the theme of soft and pretty as your inspiration. If you play along with our challenge you should share your work by uploading your project to our Mojo Monday Group on Facebook! We also have a Facebook Club called The Paper Community where you can share ANY paper projects you make – no holds barred! We would love to see your work!

If you’re not on Facebook and you want to play along, email us a picture of your project or comment with a link to your Blog.

We had a great turnout at the Devotion Wedding show yesterday at the Convention Center. February is always an incredibly busy month for us, booking and preparing bridal orders for summer weddings. It was great to see so many happy faces, and if you happened to pop by our booth and liked what you saw, we encourage you to call us and make an appointment with Meghan!  

We took some pictures of our booth, take a peek at our new photo gallery on The Paperie Wedding Invitations Facebook page.

Pin To Win: Tie-breaker!

Well, we deliberated after noticing that Alexis tied with Sara for top picks. The tie-breaker vote came from Colleen R. whose vote had actually been removed so that we wouldn’t accidentally count it among the “Voter Prize” due to having a Pin To Win Board. HOWEVER! We feel her vote should count as the tie-breaker since she was sweet enough to vote for one of her fellow competitors. Great sportsmanship, and we’ll have to dig something out of our magical prize drawer for her

The tie-breaker vote was for…. *drumroll*… ALEXIS O!

Congratulations Alexis!

The best part?? The Paperie will choose one mystery item from your Top 10 Picks for your prize!

Now for the VOTERS, the randomly chosen winners are….

KAREN Y

and

ELISABETH P

We will also choose some fun CHA goodies for your prizes too!

Ladies, we will notify the three of you as soon as your prizes have arrived in stock. The first wave of CHA orders has just started shipping, and we’ll continue to see stuff ship every other week for the next two or three months. Are y’all as excited as we are??

One Little Stamp – Zig Zag

This week our featured stamp is the Hero Arts Zig Zag Background which was released with the Hero Arts 2012 Catalog in December. There are already dozens of fantastic ideas popping up all over the internet, and we’ve pinned a small fraction of those fab ideas to our One Little Stamp board on Pinterest.

Here’s a card we pinned which Meghan made for our February Make’n'Take.

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http://pinterest.com/thepaperie/one-little-stamp/

Be sure to pop back every week to see which stamp we’ve featured. We’d love to see any cards you’ve made with the Zig Zag background, or anything you’ve made recently that’s been inspired by our Blog or Pinterest pins! Upload to The Paperie Community on Facebook if you feel like sharing!

PSSSST! SPIED ON THE WEB TODAY….

The Jillibean Soup Blog showcased one of Krista Wells layouts over on their blog today AND it uses the Paperie December Kit! Congrats on the shout out Krista, we’re proud to have you on our Design Team! We’re lucky to have SO many talented Design Team Members, Instructors and customers at The Paperie – we treasure all of you

Mojo Monday – Design Team Inspiration

Mojo Monday Challenge: Design Team Inspiration

This week your challenge is to create a layout, card or mini book inspired by ANY of the projects posted below in our Design Team gallery. If you play along with our challenge you should share your art by uploading your project to our Mojo Monday Group on Facebook! We also have a new Facebook Club called The Paper Community where you can share ANY paper projects you make – no holds barred! We’d love to see your work!

If you’re not on Facebook and you want to play along, comment with a link to your Blog or email us a picture of your project. 

This weekend we debuted our February Club Kit during our Cupcake Event and we are almost sold out again! The best way to get your hands on these hot little kits is to join up for a six month subscription. Sara had some great things to say about our kit (and kits in general) over on her blog today.

Here’s a peek at all of the February Design Team projects, made by Wendy Skinner and Rae Lynn O’Keefe using our Club Kit. The Amy Tangerine “The Little Things” Daybooks that we planned to include in the kits did not arrive until the day before our debut, so Wendy offered to use Amy’s Hug Life mini book as a substitute to show you how to create scrapbook with these adorable quirky books. Can you believe these projects were all made in 9 days or less?!

The first 8 pictures are Rae Lynn’s projects (I  love how she altered the bright pink ribbon with distress ink (see close-up). The rest of the pictures are from Wendy’s projects, including a few pages from her mini book. Click on each thumbnail to view the larger pictures.

AccuCut Die of the Week will move toThursdays!

PIN TO WIN

Don’t forget that voting has been extended for our PIN TO WIN contest. Cast your votes before midnight tonight for your chance to win a FUN prize!!!

Pin To Win Voting extended

We have a bunch of ties, so there is no clear winner yet - Voting has been extended until the end of the day today! See previous post for Boards and comment there to vote. Remember – TWO Voters will win prizes as well!!!

Voting Time: Pin to Win!

LET THE VOTING COMMENCE!

Ok! Just to remind everyone of the rules, we want all of our local readers to VOTE for your favourite CHA board. These fabulous boards have been pinned by local Pin To Win participants on Pinterest.

Your votes will determine the WINNER, who will receive an extra special fun prize. But the fun doesn’t end there, we will also randomly select TWO voters to win prizes too! Comment on this post with your vote, and don’t forget to include your name (your email address is required, but will not be published, shared or made public.

PIN TO WIN PARTICIPANTS:

Alison B: I couldn’t resist! Here’s my board with my 10 faves!
http://pinterest.com/thepetitcadeau/my-top-10-cha-must-haves/

Liz D : Here’s a link to my board… you know I’m addicted to Pinterest.
http://pinterest.com/liz_s_davis/my-top-10-cha-must-haves/

Sara CS: Can I only pin 10? I have 10 and I’m not finished yet…
http://pinterest.com/saracee/sara-s-top-10-cha-picks-2012/

Tanya P: here’s my 10 pins, actually it’s 11, but 2 pins are of the same stencil – one used in a card and in a LO.
http://pinterest.com/tanyanfca/my-top-10-cha-must-haves/

Krista W: I’ve pinned my 10 favs but man was it ever hard!
http://pinterest.com/klwells/cha-pin-it-to-win-it/

Colleen R: omg – just 10 … I pinned 11 before I even knew it! One came off … but I still love it so
http://pinterest.com/colleenryan/my-top-10-cha-must-haves/

Stephanie R: Now I want so many many things…. and thanks to wonderful Pinterest, I can look at them and dream about them whenever I want http://pinterest.com/stephkoop/my-top-10-cha-must-haves/

Cathie R: love this contest. looking at everyone’s boards is so much fun. And it’s helped me narrow down my wishlist to a respectable level…
http://pinterest.com/cathiereed/cha-me/

Denise T: Fun contest, here’s my list:
http://pinterest.com/dhigdontilley/my-top-10-cha-must-haves/

Alexis O: More than 10! I need it ALL
http://pinterest.com/alexis_o/cha-top-10-must-haves-/

Wendy S: here is my list finally
http://pinterest.com/wdskinner/top-10-cha-must-haves/

Pin To Win Deadline…

Don’t forget that 11:59pm TONIGHT is your last chance to finalize your Pinterest “CHA Top 10″ list for the Pin to Win contest! We can’t wait to share your boards with everyone tomorrow! Email the store with your link, or comment on the first Pin To Win contest announcement.

Did anyone NEW sign up for Pinterest and enter?? Are you addicted yet?

Scratch Ticket Tutorial

I found this idea on Pinterest, and couldn’t wait to try it! When we confirmed that Sweet Love Bake Shoppe would be coming back to The Paperie the weekend before Valentine’s, we knew we had to sweeten the deal for such a special occasion.

Picture one shows all the supplies, two shows the mask in action, three shows one coat of paint, and the last picture shows the first ticket I made scratched to reveal the discount below! This would be so fun for a Kid’s birthday party!

To start, I added a little squirt of dish liquid to some silver paint and mixed it with a toothpick. After printing my little scratch tickets, I covered the box that contains the discount with a small piece of clear packing tape. I was able to paint inside the lines just as well without the mask, so I discarded it and painted freehand.

I painted one layer and set the tickets aside to dry, then came back to add a second layer which was enough to conceal the discount so it could not be read through the paint. You can see in my prototype that the discount box was larger, but I smartened up with the final version. It saved us all some trouble in the long run; I didn’t have to paint as much and thus you won’t need to spend an extra 5 seconds scratching

Tomorrow with any Paperie product purchase, you will receive a scratch ticket which must be scratched at the cash desk. A discount will be revealed of 20%, 30%, 40% or 50% off one product! (One per person).

Can’t wait for some yummy cupcakes tomorrow, hope to see you there!

Spoiler Alert! Class Peeks

We have some great events and classes this month!

A ‘Sweet Love’ Saturday at The Paperie

Sweet Love Bake Shoppe and The Paperie are hooking up again to make this Saturday even sweeter!

For those of you that missed out last year, this ONE DAY event is your chance to purchase a variety of delicious gourmet cupcakes from Sweet Love Bake Shoppe – with no minimum purchase required. You can take home one or you can take home a dozen!

The Cupcake Sale is CASH ONLY, and runs from 10am-5pm (or until cupcakes sell out*).

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, we at The Paperie will also be serving up some sweet greetings with a Valentine card make ‘n’ take. Create an adorable handmade greeting card for somebody sweet using stamps, paper, ink and other fun supplies ($2 per card). All ages welcome!

Any Paperie Purchase made on February 11th will be elligible for a scratch and win ticket valid on the same day, simply scratch the box to reveal the discount percentage! Discounts of 10% – 50% off will be available to win – one day only!

*While we do our very best to estimate quantities, these cupcakes do have a tendency to sell quickly! RSVP to our Facebook event so we can better predict demand, and we also recommend calling ahead if you plan on stopping in after 1pm on Saturday.

Here is a sneak peek at two of our upcoming classes!

Groovy Glassine Mini Album with Sara – Sunday, February 12th (10am-2pm)

Have you wondered, “What is that kraft wax paper like stuff and what do I do with it?” Come join Sara for Groovy Glassine! This class will take you through making a Mixed Media Mini Album with a focus on different techniques for that cool Kraft Glassine Paper. You’ll also get to play with Kraft Resist paper, Acetate, Sticky Back Canvas, Cork Paper, and more! See below for a sneak peek of the album.
Members: $30.00
Non-Members: $60.00

 

Scrap Happy Layouts – Tuesday, February 21st (6:30pm)

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With so many pictures and so little time, many of us need a springboard to get our ideas started. Scraplifting is borrowing and using ideas and designs from somebody else’s already created layout to inspire you to complete your own pages. As long as you are giving credit where credit is due and not submitting your work for publication or payment, Scraplifting is a very common and encouraged practice in our scrapbooking community! Join us as we re-create 2 layouts from the most recent publication of Scrapbook Trends magazine using lots of fun materials. This is a great class for someone who is interested in having their pages done and ready to go in albums by the end of the class. Suitable for all levels of experience – check out the picture below!
Members $20.00
Non-members $40.00

Pin to Win Tips….

Hey folks, the deadline for pinning your Pinterest boards is this Friday night at 11:59pm. We will post the links to everyones boards first thing on Saturday morning here on the blog. The voting will take place in the comments section of that blog post from Saturday morning until Sunday evening at 11:59pm.

Here are some GREAT tips for creating your Pinterest Board for the contest (you have two days to edit!)….

1) Explain why you love each item or tell us how you plan to use it!

2) Do a little internet sleuthing and see how the company’s Designers have used one of the products on your wish list.

3) NEW: Here’s an extra opportunity to help your board stand out! You may pin FIVE additional pins which show projects that showcase five of the products on your Top 10 list!

Please remember: you can only pin TEN produts + 5 projects. That’s 15 Pins maximum.

Don’t forget that TWO VOTERS will be randomly selected to win a fun prize, and the Pinterest user with the most votes on their board will win a prize too!

Pin to Win!

We would LOVE to see your Top 10 lists from CHA, so we have a fun contest for our local Pinterest addicts (and local readers too). There are prizes involved so take a moment to read a little further :)

We challenge YOU to create your own Pinterest board called ”My Top 10 CHA Must-Haves” with the TEN things (no more and no less) that you LOVED from all of the releases at CHA. Please comment here if you are on Pinterest and you intend to play along.

For the rest of you who don’t have Pinterest accounts, don’t fret! You will play an important role in this contest which also includes a chance to win a prize! We want you to VOTE on the best Top 10 Pinterest Board from our local Pinners! We will provide the links to their Top 10 CHA lists here in a Blog post and then YOU will comment on that post with your vote for the board you identify with the most.

The Person/Board with the most votes will win a super fun prize, AND we will also randomly draw TWO winners from all the voters to win prizes too! It’s not a popularity contest, we want you to pick the board that you feel best represents YOUR tastes, and if you want to start a Pinterest account instead to play along we say “go for it”! This contest is open to residents within Newfoundland & Labrador only.

The deadline is Sunday, February 12th at 11:59pm!

Click on the image below to see Meghan’s personal CHA Top 10 List and if you want to see a big compilation of great stuff that you can repin, visit our CHA Must-Have’s Board.

Meghan's Top 10