Back to Basics Workshop - Tool featuring WeR's Sew Easy

This Saturday, May 7 from 10:00am to noon, will be the third in our series of Back to Basics Workshops.  This edition of the workshop will feature the Sew Easy Tool from WeR Memory Keepers.  Just in time for the holiday, we'll be making a fun Mother's Day card for our Make & Take.  If you're planning to attend our workshop, please call the store at (503) 259-9130 to RSVP, so we know how many Make & Takes to prepare.  But if you don't get a chance to call, don't worry, we'll make a few extras.

We Whimzee's Girls are very excited about the Sew Easy tool.  Just imagine being able to give your papercrafting projects the up-to-the-minute look of handstitching without buying a sewing machine or dusting off the one in the back of your closet.  Purchase a Sew Easy tool that includes a handle and a straight stitch head and you're ready to go.  Now, if you're looking to add more fun stitches, just grab a couple extra stitch heads and add even more variety to your projects.

Check out these videos and project photos to see some of the many things you can do with your Sew Easy tool.  And don't forget to stop by the store Saturday to try one out for yourself!  Or if you already have one at home, bring it in & we'll show you how to use it.

In addition to our Back to Basics Workshop, we also have our National Scrapbook WEEK Sale going on on Saturday!  We'll have the front tables covered with sale merchandise and we're offering some special discounts just for Saturday:

Spend $25 - Get 10% off your purchase of regular priced or sale merchandise


Spend $50 - Get 15% off your purchase of regular priced or sale merchandise


Spend $75 - Get 20% off your purchase of regular priced or sale merchandise


Spend $100 - Get 25% off your purchase of regular priced or sale merchandise

(These discounts are only valid Saturday, May 7, 2011 during store hours 10:00am to 3:00pm.  Discount not to be combined with other discounts, coupons or waived crop fees, except where specifically mentioned by Whimzee's Scrapbook Studio.)

Now keep reading & get inspired, we know you'll love the Sew Easy as much as we do!

See you in the store!  -The Whimzee's Girls

A Quick Overview of the Sew Easy from WeR

A WeR rep demos the Sew Easy at CHA

See a variety of Sew Easy heads used

This video shows some of the different stitches you can make with the different stitch heads.

Paperbag Mini Album - 4th of July

If you're looking for a fun mini album idea, that's also economical, you really should check this one out! This mini album came to us from our customer Gina Smith. It's made from small paper bags and is covered with all sorts of great 4th of July embellishments. Tags, photos & memorabilia fill every page and are tucked into each bag.

We don't know about you, but we all can't wait to give this album idea a try!

Thanks for sharing Gina!

Nana's Coupons Mini Book

This week we're featuring a mini book created by Gina Smith's mom for her daughter. The book is full of cute coupons for a little girl to redeem for fun activities with her grandma.

Cheerleader Mini Album by Gina Smith

Fall is here, and that means the kids are busy with sports & activities! This mini album was created by Whimzee's customer, Gina Smith. Gina used our custom high school papers from Stamping Station and a 7 Gypsies album. (Album size is 6" x 8", page size is 6" x 6".) This album showcases Gina's daughter's youth cheerleading experience. (After reading the article, scroll down to see the inside pages.) This album shows us that you don't have to have a child in high school to use these cool custom papers. You might use them to create an album for your child's youth sports season. And if you do have a high schooler, you could use this idea to create an album celebrating a special event in your child's high school years. Still need some ideas...how about marching band, science fairs, school plays, homecoming, drill team or just freshman year. Twila scraplifted this idea and created a mini album she plans to use to document her son's high school football season at Aloha. We'll share her album soon!

Yes, we all scraplift, even those of us who are seasoned scrappers, in fact seasoned scrappers probably to scraplift more often than beginners. Scraplifting is a term used by scrapbookers to describe borrowing an idea from another scrapbooker. You might recreate an entire page layout from the design to the papers & embellishments used. You might use another person's design and placement of page elements while using different papers & embellishments. You might borrow only the color scheme of the layout, card or project. These are all forms of scraplifting.

For those of you out there who are beginners, don't be afraid to scraplift! In scrapbooking, we consider it the highest form of flattery when someone appreciates one of our creations enough to scraplift it!

My Favorites Mini Album by Gina Smith

We are so happy that Gina Smith has shared some of her original creations with us! This week, we feature Gina's My Favorites Mini Album. On each page, is a journal box where her daughter wrote a list of her favorite things, from TV shows to candy, video games & even school subjects. Now she'll always have this cute record of her favorite things when she was 11. Gina used Bo Bunny's Double Dot papers to create this album. She used the dotted side of the paper on the front side of each page and its solid side on the back of each page. This technique creates a rainbow effect when the book is viewed as a whole project. Check back next week to see another of Gina's mini albums.