Back to Basics Workshop - Tools featuring the Martha Stewart Scoring Board & Trimmer

We'd like to invite you to our very first Back to Basics Workshop, this Saturday, March 5 from 10am to 12pm.  This workshop is the first in a series of Back to Basics Workshops.  Each workshop will feature either a tool or technique.  During this first workshop, we are featuring the Martha Stewart Scoring Board and Paper Trimmer.  Everyone will get a chance to use the tools to create a Make & Take during this drop in workshop.  Whether you have one of our featured tools at home gathering dust or would like to try out something new, we'd love to have you join us for the workshop.  Our purpose for these workshops is to encourage you to pull out some of those tools that you were so excited about when you purchased them, but never took the time to learn how to use.  We'll show you some fun projects to make with our featured tools that we're sure you'll want to run home and recreate!  Of course, we'll have the tools available for purchase, in case you don't have them at home.  If you're planning on attending or have any questions, please call the store at 503.259.9130 or RSVP on our Facebook Event Page, so we know how many Make & Takes to prepare.

THANKS!

In preparation for the workshop, we've been searching the internet and practicing with our tools.  During our search, we've come up with some great demonstration videos for our featured products.  So if you can't make it to the workshop or do attend and want more information on your tool once you get it home, we thought we'd give you some links to websites and videos from around the web featuring the Martha Stewart Scoring Board and Paper Trimmer.

Check out this video demo showing how to create a box & lid with the Martha Stewart Scoring Board...

Nice demo of how to create an envelope with the Martha Stewart Scoring Board...

And a step by step slideshow on how to craft a rosette, with some nice mood music...



How about one more?  A rosette with a punched edge...

OK, we know you want one more! :)  A pearl is used to finish this rosette.  The presenter uses hot glue to create her rosette, our favorite adhesive for this project and we learn how to create a card with a half rosette...

And now for a few photos and links to create some beautiful projects with the Martha Stewart Scoring Board...

A project for the guys!  We think this is a great one for Father's Day, thanks to the CraftGossip.com blog.

Folded Paper Shirt Card

A fun birthday card created with the Scoring Board & the Cricut from The Green Cricut blog...

Celebrate with Flourish

The Imaginisce Blog combines two of our favorite things, rosettes & banners...

NOEL Banner

And from Martha Stewart Crafts, a great description of their Paper Trimmer...

We'll leave you with a few project photos to inspire you to get crafting with your Martha Stewart Scoring Board and Paper Trimmer...

We'll get back to you soon with some more links to some of these last few projects.  But since we've got rosettes on the brain, we think we'd better take a break & get back to preparing for this weekend's workshop!

Leave us a comment & let us know which of these projects is your favorite!

And of course, we'd love to have you leave us a link to a project you've created with either the Martha Stewart Scoring Board or Paper Trimmer.

If you'd like more papercrafting inspiration or would like to join our online community and post your project photos there, we'd love to have you!

Click on over to Whimzee's Girls Online Community to join us!



Holiday Card & Project Ideas from All Around the Web

In case you haven't checked a calendar in a while, it's November! Yes, NOVEMBER! And that means it's time to get going on all those holiday projects you promised yourself you'd work on this year. We'd love to see what you're working on! If you need some time away from the family to actually get any of your projects done, we totally understand. That's why we're having a crop every Monday night in November, 5pm to 10pm, $5 crop fee (waived with a purchase of $25 or more). Call the store now to sign up (503) 259-9130. We still have our Friday night crops from 6pm to 11pm, but recently they've been filling up fast, so we've added a Monday crop to our schedule. We also still have table time for $1 per hour during the days while the store is open, call to save your space. And for those of you who need more than just a few hours to work on your projects, call to sign up for our All Day crop, November 28th, 10am to 10pm, $10 crop fee (waived with a purchase of $50 or more). Call now to sign up!

And once you're signed up for a crop and know you'll have some time to get some work done, check out these sites for some great holiday inspiration, cards, projects and fun gift ideas.

As we mentioned in the newsletter, there's a great article featuring simple holiday cards & instructions in the November issue of Scrapbook Ellaments online magazine. Sign up & have the magazine sent to your inbox every month, stuffed full of fun ideas.

Sign up for Jessica Sprague's FREE online class Holidays In Hand, where Jessica will help us create a December album full of all the memories from this December. Click HERE to go to Jessica's website, on the opening page, scroll down for the info. on the class.

Another beautiful December album is featured on designer, Ali Edwards's blog right now. Ali creates a December Daily album every year. She shows us how she prepared her book for this year, creating a special page for each day, where she'll add some journaling and a photo for each day in December.

(Personally, I've checked out Ali's album and signed up for Jessica's class. I'm excited to try this for December. If I can get my album done in November, I think I'll be able to fill it in a bit each day. I think I'll combine some of each designer's ideas and come up with my own book. If everyone likes this idea, I can teach a class on it next Fall...let me know!)

If holiday party invitations are on your to-do list, check out check out the holiday invitations on the Make Your Own Invitations blog. They love to have people submit great invitations they've created for inclusion in the blog, I'm submitting some of mine soon.

Here are 25 Holiday Quotes from Creating Keepsakes to download & print and use on your holiday cards, layouts & other projects.

On Creating Keepsakes's blog, I found a cute envelope for that DVD of photos you've been meaning to send to the relatives. Put it in the envelope and send it as their Christmas gift!

I was going to include individual links on to this one, but the home page of Paper Crafts magazine's webpage has so many cool ideas, I thought I'd just link to it & let you choose what you like best. They have 12 online bonus projects for cards & gift ideas, along with a great idea for using recycled Christmas cards you received last year as your cards for this year...such a cool green idea!

Of course, search through the web for holiday ideas just wouldn't be complete without a visit to the craft diva herself, Martha Stewart. Now, I was one of those who used to follow Martha, but kind of got out of the habit when I started to find all these other sources for craft ideas. But lately, I've found myself coming back to Martha for her sense of style and ideas that seem easier to me now than her old ideas did way back then. So check out Martha's Christmas Ideas page for all sorts of fun Christmas ideas. If you give a lot of gift cards, give them a little of your personality this year and check out these great gift card holders.

And just to "toot my own horn" a bit, if you're looking for a nice project to create for your home or to give to a special friend, check out my H-O-M-E project article which is featured in Scrapbooking.com Magazine this month, complete with photos & instructions. I was very excited to be asked to write this article and have my project featured this month. As always, remember to check out my blog JulieChats, to see my latest Layout of the Week or browse through my "Get Your Creative On" section of blogs from all over the web.

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