Photo Opportunities for June
Welcome to June...This is your reminder to set a day each week or so to check and charge your camera batteries. Remember to download your photos and format your memory card. Format only when you are ready to erase all your pictures and clean off your card for a fresh start. If you don’t know about formatting your card, be sure to stop by and we will show you how.

Photos on our list of must haves are:
Flip Flops and Fun Polish on your Toes
Monthly Photo of Everyone including Yourself
Barbeque and Outdoor Food Favorites
Family, Kids and Pets Outside Playing
Bare Feet on the Green Grass

June is National :
Perennial Gardening Month - Make a layout about your outdoor flowers…document what you planted and take some photos of your flowers this year.
Potty Training Awareness Month - Make a layout with some of the funny “potty training” moments. If you don’t have kids ask your parents about your own training mishaps.
Adopt a Shelter Cat Month –Make a layout to honor your furry friend with the new Basic Grey line Max and Whiskers. Journal about where you got your pet and the funny things they do.
National Rose Month –Use some flowers on your next layout we have the Prima Fairytale Roses and many others to brighten up a layout or project.
National Flag Month – Do you fly a flag? Take a photo of a flag and journal about what it means to you when you see an American flag. We have many great Americana papers in the store to get you going on a patriotic layout.
It’s also Father’s Day this month and we have several great lines of paper and embellishments for this special day.
The Graphic 45 A Proper Gentleman is restocked for your Dad layouts and cards.
The Dude line is also restocked and makes great “manly” layouts.
The Bo Bunny Roughin It line is awesome as well for outdoor and camping photos.
The Generation Z line from Little Yellow Bicycle suits an array of ages and possibilities.
There are also lots of new sports papers and embellishments too…

We gathered some Father's Day quotes to get you started:

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968

Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown

New Arrivals

Boy have we been busy unpacking new goodies. Stop by and check out the Graphic 45 that we have added: A Proper Gentleman, Playtimes Past and Botanicabella. These papers are beautiful and have so many possibilities to be mixed and matched. We are super excited to have this brand of papers for you. We also received Basic Grey Max and Whiskers, Basics and Cappella. Wow, they are all awesome! Max and Whiskers has a few animal themed pages, but the prints are just sooooo versitile. Basics is just that, great basics. These leger and notebook style papers are sure to go great with all the other new lines we have and will be super for journaling. Cappella is going to be a big hit, it's already flying off the shelves today. This line is really pretty.

We are loading up the calendar for June, so get ready for a fun filled summer!
Hope to see you all soon!

New Boxes of Goodies

We had a great day yesterday, opening the new boxes of Pink Paislee. I received the brand new 365 degrees, Bayberry Cottage and the Queen Bee Collection. The papers and embellishments are so versitile; I think there is something for everyone. The Ribbon Pleats are so awesome and I especially like the new Blackberry Letters.

Also the new Artisan Frames, Alphabets and Swirls came in too. You can paint, ink, marker, spray and play with these wonderful new elements.

We have the new Pink Paislee in it's own special section by the crop room, so stop by to check it all out.

Easter Inspiration

The Ribbon Used on the "Spring is Here" card, is brand new seam binding ribbon. We just put out gorgeous colors for you to add to your spring cards. Best of all it's just .39 a yard. It makes awesome bows and you can glimmer mist it for a different look.

National Scrapbook Day Registration Open

We are celebrating National Scrapbook Day with a weekend of cropping!

Friday April 30, 6pm-2am

Saturday May 1, 10am-2am

Sunday May 2, 10am-5pm

Goody bags, prizes, page kits, shopping discounts and lots of cropping!

There will be goody bags for each person attending. There will also be lots of great prizes that will be given away. We will be doing tickets again. Each person will receive a ticket in their goody bag and will have several opportunities to earn more tickets throughout the weekend. We will draw these tickets for prizes, so the more you have, the better your chances of winning! You will also have the opportunity to win more than one prize! You will earn a ticket for bringing a snack to share.

I have been ordering in some great prizes...

The fee for the weekend is $45.

Registration is now open!

Classes and Crops

"Sugar Rush" 4 Page Layout Class
Tuesday, February 23, 5:30pm
You won't want to miss these 4 great pages using Basic Grey's new Sugar Rush Collection! We will be making a great paper flower that we used on our Valentine Cards! See some sneak peeks below. Taught by Holli and Gina. Class fee $32

Retreat Weekend

The February Weekend Retreat will be Friday, Feb 26, 6pm-2am, Saturday, Feb 27, 10am-2am, Sunday, Feb 28, 10am-5pm. Don't forget you get a 10% discount on crop weekends! Bring a snack to share. Retreat fee $35.

Page of the Month for March "Lucky Me"

Saturday, March 6th, 9:30am or 2:00pm

This month's page of the month will feature Basic Grey's new Origins Collection! We will be using the new I-top tool by Imaginisce, canvas tags, Tim Holtz Ideology, velvet leaves, and Kraft journaling squares. We will be making our own paper flowers and brads! Please let me know as soon as you can if you would like the morning or afternoon class. Taught by Holli, Melody and Gina. More details to follow!

CHA Excitement

We are so excited about all the new goodies we have been seeing and ordering from the recent CHA show. We will have new items on the way from lots of your favorites, including: Basic Grey, Fancy Pants, Pink Paislee, Maya Road, Tattered Angels, Bo Bunny, Tim Holtz and so many more! The new Tim Holtz line is so extensive that I would love to get an idea of what you may be interested in. Please visit the Tim Holtz Blog to see a video and also be sure to click on the January 2010 link under the Archives on the left side of the page to see all the pictures of the new goodies up close. If you let me know soon that there is something(s) you would like to preorder, I will be sure to get that taken care of for you. I will be carrying some of the line, but with so many new offerings, I won't have it all in stock. Items are due to ship mainly between now and March, with the new electric die cutter available this summer.