I was stopping by Scrapbook.com and happened to notice that the set of 3 distress ink pads with the limited edition winter colors is on sale today! You only pay $9.99 instead of $17.99 for the set! That's what I'd call a good deal! So if you haven't picked up your winter distress ink pads yet, now is a good time. There was no word of how long this sale will last, so hurry if you'd like to take advantage of this offer.
Last week, Two Peas had a big Halloween supplies sale. This week, it's time for the big Christmas sale
! Get all of your holiday card making supplies at discounts of 25% to 50% off the original retail price. Sale runs 10/16/2011 through 10/28/2011.
Christmas is my favorite holiday and my favorite paper theme! I have loads of Christmas products in my stash but I love every piece dearly so I don't feel like I have too much of it. And, there's room for more so here's a list of the Christmas collections this year! I hope it will help you to choose your own favorites! Some of those lines are just winter-themed and can be used both for Christmas and winter projects.
American Crafts: Hollyday
Authentique: Wonder
Basic Grey: Nordic Holiday
Bella Blvd: Christmas Wishes
Bella Blvd: Winter Wonder
Bo Bunny: Blitzen
Bo Bunny: Snowfall
Bo Bunny: Father Christmas
Cosmo Cricket: Dear Mr. Claus
Crate Paper: Peppermint
Creative Imaginations: Barb Tourtillotte's Dear Santa
Echo Park: Holly Jolly Christmas
Echo Park: Season's Greetings
Echo Park: Dots & Stripes Christmas
Fancy Pants: Saint Nick
Graphic 45: Christmas Emporium
Imaginisce: Santa's Little Helper
Jenni Bowlin: Vintage Holidays Christmas
Jillibean Soup: Christmas Eve Chowder
K & Company: Very Merry
K & Company: Visions of Christmas
KI Memories: Holly Lane
Lily Bee: Jingle
Little Yellow Bicycle: Wonder & Wishes
My Little Shoebox: Winter Wonderland
My Mind's Eye: 12 Days of Christmas
My Mind's Eye: Lost & Found Christmas
Nikki Sivils: Gingerbread Land
October Afternoon: Holiday Style
Pink Paislee: Snow Day
Prima Marketing: North Country
Reminisce: A Christmas Story
Reminisce: Dear Santa
Simple Stories: 25 Days of Christmas
Teresa Collins: Christmas Home
Webster's Pages: A Botanical Christmas
Webster's Pages: Winter Fairy Tales
If you're a 7 Gypsies fan like me, here are some big news for you: Starting Monday October 10, the Gypsy Journal blog will begin to post instructions to make the most amazing 7 Gypsies project (see the pic above)! This event will last for a whole month! I'm so looking forward to follow this Artist Advent happening! I guess we'll get some tips and new techniques along the way.
There's a limited edition kit from 7 Gypsies that contain all you need for the project and can be bought from BlueMoonScrapbooking. If you're like me, you probably have a lot of the kit content in your stash and then you'll just have to add the things you don't have (or find similar items to substitute), so here's the content of that kit:
Vintage Mini Clip Receipt Holder - 1 Receipt Holder
Miniature Keys in 3 different designs: Antique Brass - Full Package
Binding Ring: Ring Dangles: Crystal - Full Package (Seems like only BlueMoonScrapbooking have these in stock.)
Hardware: Fortune - Full Package. This particular hardware item seems hard to find in stores but I have substituted it with another hardware piece pack above. The bird piece is kind of similar to the fortune piece that has wings on it. I suppose that you get the original Fortune package when you buy the kit!
Display Trim Studs: Pyramid: Antique Brass - Full Package
Apothecary Bottles: Clear 4 pcs - Full Package
Gaffer Tape - Venice - 1 Roll of Tape (Only TwoPeasInABucket.com
have this item in stock right now.)
Mini Label Sticker: Naked Black - 1 Sheet of Labels
ATC Photo Display Kit: Tags: Gypsy - Full Package
Collage Tissue: Paris - 1 Sheet of Tissue
Chipboard Alpha & Number: Paddington - Full Package (In stock at TwoPeasInABucket.com and BlueMoonScrapbooking.)
Tag Kit: Affirmations - Full Package
Lille: Clearstamp - Full Stamp
Lille 6x6 Paper Pack - 1 sheet each paper style
You will also need a few more things like inks, scissors, glossy accents etc., so check your stash for these products (or similar): here's a list of those extra items.
You can find the things from this kit, and the extra stuff, at BlueMoonScrapbooking, Scrapbook.com, TwoPeasInABucket.com or at Simon Says Stamp. None of the stores have every item in stock right now (except for the full kit that you can pick up at BlueMoonScrapbooking) but you can find almost everything if you combine them, except for the Fortune Hardware that I substituted. Almost everything could be substituted with other products. Here are a couple examples:
Corked vials from Tim Holtz.
Labels from Tim Holtz or other brands. Or why not stamp the labels? Hattie Remember stamps from My Mind's Eye have lots of labels to choose from!
So just take a look at what's already in your stash and play along. Can't wait until next Monday! :)
Just a quick note to let you know that Two Peas are having a sale: 25% off all 6x6 paper pads (even the newest ones like this from Simple Stories!)
until October 8. Happy shopping! :)
My Pink Paislee box arrived today! Woohooo! Well, I'm not a fan of haul posts but they could be justified if it's a warehouse sale. A couple of people have already posted the contents of this Pink Paislee box on the internet, but I'm still making an exception to my principles: Here are some pics of the wonderful contents of my box. Just so I will remember when there are new warehouse sales next year. (It wasn't possible to catch all the goodies in one shot, so I had to take three different photos to get it all.)
I usually don't buy boxes from warehouse sales since the international shipping fees are sky high, but this time around the contents of this $49 box were worth more than $250 (almost $260 - I checked!) and if I would buy all these things in Sweden it would cost me about $500! :o
So in the light of those facts, the $45 for shipping seemed quite affordable. And the final push to buy this particular box was that it's chock full of my favorite Pink Paislee collections ever! And there were a lot of products that I didn't even have before! As for the things that I already have, I don't mind stocking up on my favorite lines. This box was like a big Christmas present! I'm so happy right now! Thank you so much Pink Paislee!
And yes, it is one of my Paper Pile Cats on the pics below. She did not waste one second before placing her big butt on the new pile of paper. lol! As you can see, she very carefully chose the two papers from the brand new and limited House of Three/Pink Paislee collection, Phantom. :)
I wanted to make the advent calendar from Kaisercraft with their 'Tis the Season collection. One calendar for me and one for my niece as a Christmas gift. My niece is really too young to use an advent calendar but I hope that she'll treasure it in a couple of years. I have fallen in love with this specific advent calendar since it's so vintage Christmas and the patterned paper of 'Tis the Season reminds me of all the happy Christmases when I was a little girl (I was truly blessed with a happy childhood).
The big problem was that the advent calendar was sold out everywhere. My LSS tried to get it for me but she got the response that it was sold out (from the distributor) or she didn't get any response at all (from Kaisercraft). Desperately googling for the calendar and for 'Tis the Season, I finally found it in stock in San Jose, California. At Scrapgrlz! And, at a very decent shipping cost! I didn't wait one second to place my order.
Today, the box arrived at my post office in Stockholm. Not only had Scrapgrlz been so kind as to mark the value down so that I didn't have to pay any VAT to the customs (which is a whopping 25 % in Sweden), when I opened the package there were 10 gorgeous patterned papers extra and a chipboard alpha from Cosmo Cricket! I couldn't believe how generous they are! And, get this: The patterned papers were all in the same colors as my December Daily: yellow, red and aqua. How did they know? LOL! I'm so happy for this gift. Thank you, Scrapgrlz! I will certainly buy from you again!
