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August Class Schedule

Saturday, August 15th & Wednesday, August 18th - Georgia Sommers 1 - 3:30 $20
Under the Sea
This class will use Impression Obsession's ocean stamps and copic markers, also spica glitter pens. Copic blending techniques will be used. 4 cards will be made in this class. Please bring the adhesive of your choice.

Sunday, August 16th - Daniela 11 - 2 $32
Gypsy Trunk
Are you a Gypsy Girl? Have you always wanted to play with all their fun products and learn how to use them? In this class we'll make a Chipboard Mini Album in the shape of a house and add all kinds of 7Gypsies items from the Gypsy Trunk line and more! Come release your "Inner Gypsy" in this fun class! Bring your basic tool kit.


Tuesday, August 18th - Lelani 6 - 8 $25
Introduction to Scrapbooking
Come join Lelani as she goes over the basics of scrapbooking. You will complete a 12x12 layout during class with personal attention from the teacher. Please bring 4-5 photos from one event in varies sizes.


Saturday, August 22nd - Carrie 11 - 4:30
Disney All Day
Carrie’s popular Disney pages and recipe book continues with two new 12x12 layouts and 4 more recipe pages. If you love Disney, but want a slightly more sophisticated look, this class is for you.


Sunday, August 23rd - Connie 11 - 2 $40
Designs in Gesso
Further exploring the use of Gesso as texture we will create a small canvas with Gesso and collage. We will stamp into, stencil with and draw free hand in gesso. Will you choose to color your Gesso or leave it white? Please bring scissors and a variety of Paintbrushes.
Come and Explore!
Wednesday, August 26th - Georgia Sommers 1 - 3:30 $20
Summer Harvest
This class will use Impression Obsession's Fruit and Vegetables stamps. We will be using copic markers and spica glitter pens. Copic blending techniques willbe used. 4 cards will be made in this class. Bring adhesive of choice


Saturday, August 29th - Lisa Super 11 - 2 $40
Angelique
Join Lisa Super from Prima in creating a chunky mini book full of Prima goodness. Please bring wallet sized photos, fabritac, decorative scissors and your basic tool kit.

Saturday, August 29th - Daniela 2 - 6 $45
Twilight Altered Book
Come join Daniela in Alterering this book which is amazing! It will be a class with book club feel thrown in. If you have always been curious about this huge hit of a book and movie, we'll discuss it all. You'll also be learning all the great techniques of altering a book. We'll be altering the actual Twilight book highlighting the famous and incredible lines in it. Bring your basic tool kit including craft knife. All other supplies (including the book!) are included.

Sunday, August 30th - Ingrid 1 - 4 $45
Mini Paper Theatre
Come join Ingrid where she will teach you to create a one-of-a-kind mini paper theater, approximately six inches tall, using rubber stamps, decorative papers, colored pens, findings and much more. Each student will be able to create his or her own version using the materials provided by Ingrid. All you need to bring are your own detail scissors and your imagination!

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Coming August 7 - 23, 2009 - the 2nd Annual

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Store Update

WOW! CHA product has already started to roll in the door, and the show isn't even until next week! Just today we recieved all new Impression Obession stamps as well as their new "Cover-a-Card" background stamps. Also in are all the newest releases from Somerset, including the issue of Where Women Create with Mary Engelbreit on the cover. And if that wasn't enough we got a reorder of Smooch along with the newest colors! Plus, four new paper lines from Best Creations!

I'll keep you all posted with show updates from Diane... And, of course I'll post all the new product as it arrives in the store!

And don't forget to check out the upcoming classes in September and October from our two celebrity guest teachers Debby Schuh and Donna Downey...

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*NEW COSMO CRICKET*


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Donna Downey comes to Scrapbook Territory!

Sign-ups start TODAY!!!

Bloom "a state or time of beauty, freshness and vigor"
8 page, 6x12 mixed-media, fabric and paper hybrid album
Friday, October 16th
6:00pm - 9:00pm ~ $65
Nothing makes me happier than a scrapbook bursting at the seams with creative bits of paper, fabrics, ribbons and photos...that is unless it incorporates cardboard, stamping, acrylic and transparencies too! This album is an over the top mixed-media experience blending traditional scrapbooking products in unconventional ways that results in a collected scrapbook of memories that is artistic, personal and rich with vibrant color.

student supplies:
small pixie alphabet or word stamps
black stazon stamp pad
red stamp pad
turquoise stamp pad (optional)
sewing needle
15 assorted buttons
(in reds, turquoises, yellows and apple or celery greens)
sharp scissors
paper trimmer
glossy or matte accents (Ranger)
photo adhesive
misting spray bottle (optional)
apron (optional)
baby wipes
black journaling pen
Crop-a-dile hole punch
Pencil
17-20 photos
(3” x 2” photos used in project sample)
sandpaper or sanding block
medium and small acrylic block
box cutter
cutting mat

Fabric Scrapbooking “Gotta Love the Everyday”
20 page 8x8 canvas fabric album
Saturday, October 17th
10:00am – 5:00pm ~ $95

Fabric Scrapbooking is an exploration in melding the best of the paper world with the best of the fabric world to create one of the most outstandingly visual and completely tactile memory album experiences. Filled with dozens of techniques and applications for using my new Fabric scrapbooking line just released with Prima, in this workshop, you will create this album using the entire line of products at your fingertips. And best of all, NO SEWING NECESSARY! but be sure and bring an apron because we are going to have some messy and creative FUN!

Supply List:
paint brushes – small detail brush and 1” brush
jar, mug or cup to rinse and dip brushes into
gesso
assorted acrylic paint colors (my palette was made up of oranges, greens, turquoises, pinks, white and yellows)
coordinated/colored embossing powders (optional – if
you have them bring them)
embossing ink pad (optional – bring if you are bringing
embossing powders)
heat gun
watercolor paint (the disk kind like the kids use)
liquid watercolors (we will not have time to use these in
class and are totally optional, if you have them bring
them and I can show you how easy they are to use
http://www.dickblick.com/products/blick-liquid-water
color/)
aleene’s tacky glue
glossy or matte accents adhesive
GOLDEN regular gel matte (optional http://www.dickblick.
com/products/golden-acrylic-gel-mediums/)
Modeling or molding paste
A book you don’t mind tearing up
6 spiral notebook pages
buttons (pull from your stash a handful or so of buttons that
coordinate with your color palette)
photos – (eleven 4”x 6” & six 2” x 3”) normally I say photos
optional, but because many of the pages incorporate the
photo into the designs I would say if you are not a “photo
bringer” and do not want to bring all the photos at least
bring 1 or 2 wallet sized (2”x3”) and 4”x6”
Wire cutter
Needle nose pliers
Stapler or long arm stapler
Pop dots (5)
3 sheets of white 8.5 x 11 or 12 x 12 cardstock
1 sheet of your FAVORITE patterned paper
favorite word or quote stamps (optional)
download and print optional class text onto white or cream
colored cardstock
Stazon black and brown
Brown distressing stamp pads
Charcoal pencil or regular pencil
Cropadile
Assorted eyeletsBling (optional)


Donna Downey is a bestselling author, instructor and all-around creative force in the crafting industry. In 2000, she got into scrapbooking as an extension of her paper product and photography addiction. This was only the beginning. From working as a popular columnist for Simple Scrapbooks magazine, to traveling the world inspiring women to push the boundaries of their own creativity, to developing her first fabric scrapbooking line with Prima due out in the Spring of ‘09, Donna is consistently on the leading edge of all things cool related to memory preservation art.
As a craft-media artist, Donna is a born experimenter, blending and transforming both traditional and unexpected items into meaningful pieces of self expression. A former elementary school teacher, she has synthesized her first love of teaching with her passion for craft and brings this to women via workshops at scrapbook stores and events, writing books, and through her popular blog and website.
Donna lives in North Carolina with her husband, and is a mother of three exceptionally blonde children, and one blonde dog.

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NEW Tim Holtz Stamps...

are here!!! All 13 of them...










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Debby Schuh teaches at Scrapbook Territory!

Sign-ups begin TODAY!

The Places You’ll Go Travel Album Description
Debby Schuh
debbyschuh.typepad.com
Saturday, September 12th
11:00am - 2:00pm ~ $55
Description:
Where have you been? Where do you want to go?
Whether our travels take us to an exotic locale or just down the road, we need someplace to keep all the treasures we collect along the way. In this handmade 11x9" album we’ll find a home for the photos and memorabilia you already have or be ready for the next trip! This album would also be a perfect gift for someone starting out on a new venture.

As a Ranger Certified Instructor, Debby will teach us how to transform a plain gray piece of Grungepaper into a faux leather album cover. With her usual creative mix of product and unique pockets and paper folds, we'll create an album full of fun and imaginative elements. We'll use the fabulous new tool, the 7gypsies Binderie punch to assemble pages, pockets, bags, tags, and different size page protectors in the album.
We’ll be using a combination of the very latest products from October Afternoon, 7gypsies, American Crafts, Advantus, Bazzill Basics, May Arts, and Ranger Industries.

Supplies for students to bring to class:
12” paper trimmer, ruler, pencil, scissors, Ranger Ink Blending tool, Non-stick Craft Mat, Distress Ink Stamp Pad: Vintage Photo, tape runner adhesive, Crop a dile, stapler or Tiny Attacher, foam squares, sand paper or edge distressor, apron or old shirt to cover clothes while painting. Optional: Binderie punch, decorative border punch, craft knife.


These Are the Days ATC Holder Class
Debby Schuh
debbyschuh.typepad.com
Saturday, September 12th, 2009
3:00pm - 6:00pm ~ $55

Description:
Back by popular demand but remodeled with all new products, we’ll tranform a 7gypsies ATC card holder into a fanciful home for your treasured memories of yesterday, TODAY, and tomorrow. Sometimes we think that “those” were the good old days, but TODAY is the day to make good memories! This little holder will display your everyday memories on little layouts and pockets in a nostalgic style, but with a fresh burst of color and whimsy.

We’ll learn new techniques for playing with paper and embellishments, painting and distressing and creating something lovely. If you’ve already taken the first version of this class, these cards are designed to be added to your project or display on a new holder.

Your kit will contain several sheets of K&Company Cut n Paste 12x12” papers, a full package of 264 pieces of ephemera and October Afternoon Wild Cards, ribbons, tiny trinkets, crepe paper, a package of 50 blank ATC cards, transparencies, and more. You’ll be getting enough product to make many more projects at your leisure.

*** Please note: The class kit does not contain the ATC Holder. If you would like to purchase one, Debby will have them available at the class for a special discounted price of $15. Please let us know at time of sign up whether or not you will be purchasing the ATC Holder. Thank you.

Supplies for students to bring to class:
12” paper trimmer, ruler, pencil, scissors, Ranger Ink Blending tool, Non-stick Craft Mat, Distress Ink Stamp Pad: Vintage Photo, tape runner adhesive, Crop a dile or 1/8” hole punch, stapler or tiny attacher, foam squares, sand paper. Optional: decorative scissors – small scallop, Roladex punch or ATC punch.


Debby Schuh can’t remember a time when she hasn’t been a scrapbooker…she still has her scrapbook from when she was two years old! After teaching school for several years and then working as a staff designer for Anna Griffin, Inc., Debby now has a busy schedule teaching at scrapbook stores and events both in the US and abroad as well as doing freelance design work. Her classes at CKU (Creating Keepsakes University) for the last seven years have inspired hundreds of students across the country. She’s looking forward to teaching at Creative Escape this year and on the Ultimate Scrapbook Cruise next year. She has had many projects and articles published in books and magazines and is the author of the book Kids Scrapbooking…Easy as 1,2,3. Bringing this wealth of teaching and design experience to her scrapbook classes, Debby specializes in designing projects full of interactive elements and design details. She teaches innovative techniques step by step so that her students leave class with a beautiful finished project. Debby is blessed to be able to do what she loves…travel the world and meet wonderful people, do a little shopping along the way, and share her passion for scrapbooking. She lives near Buffalo, New York, with her husband and two college-age sons. You can read more about Debby on her blog at debbyschuh.typepad.com.

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3 NEW Anna Griffin Collections

Riley




Peyton


Flora

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