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Happy New Year

Wishing you and yours a New Year full of Happiness, Health, Laughter, Love and Blessings. 

(and more scrapbooking time!)

Michele

A Guy's Christmas Card

Just wanted to share this Christmas Card with you.  Sensai Ron (the girls Karate teacher) came into the store before Christmas wanting to make a card for his wife.  He had been intrigued by all the scrapbooking supplies in the store, but had never ventured into that area except to look.  He asked for help to make a card, as to Tash, the card is just as important if not more than the present.  We talked a bit about the look he wanted and colours he would use.  He wanted something elegant and liked the idea of nontraditional colours.  I showed him the Bazzill Bling and he loved it.  I showed him how to use the cutterpede and cut a sheet of 8.5x11 cardstock in half to use as the card base (and the scoring blade to get a nice fold) Then showed him the die cut machine and he decided to layer snowflakes. I hadn't tried that with those snowflakes and thought it looked great.  Of course I had to show him how to put glitter on a snowflake too and the magic of gluedots!  He picked a matching ribbon and then wanted to put words on the card so I showed him the new Making Memories glitter rubons.   At this point I had to pick up the girls at school, so he said he would take the rubons home.  Not only did he put rubons on, but he used the words on it and altered them a bit, to spell his wife's name on the envelope.  Brilliant!  He loved the card so much, he brought in his son a few days later to make a card for his mom.

I wish more guys would take the plunge into cardmaking and scrapbooking.  They are very artistic and creative and have great ideas and a different perspective.  Encourage the males in your life to give it a try.  Help them make a card as that is an easy project to start with.

85% off Clearance December 31st only

December 31st is also the only day to get 85% off the regular price of all items in our Clearance/Last Chance Section.  There are tons of fabulous products in there, we just need the room, so you get great savings. 

If you missed the rest of the fabulous post-boxing day sales info, find it here.  Super deals until 5pm December 31st.

Trust Us With Your Memories,
Michele

$5 off Prepaid Print Cards ends Dec 31st

Sunday December 31st is the last day for this fabulous club member special.  100 high quality prints for only $24!  That's only 24 cents a print for super PE quality.  You can buy up to 5 cards at this price and they have no expiry date.  (Though if you are a digital photographer, 500 pictures won't take that long to take! :)  )  If you can't make it in, you can also order and pay for them over the phone (604-463-3654) and pick them up next time you are in.

Trust Us With Your Memories,
Michele

Post Boxing Day Sale

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas day, I know we sure did.  Today we are continuing the festivities at my parent's house with a little bit of shopping on the way.

In case you missed the email, here is the link for PE's Post boxing week sale .  Some fabulous savings are yours this week only.

Happy Boxing Day!

Michele

Merry Christmas

I'd like to wish all of you a very Merry Christmas full of laughter, love, and scrapable moments.

Michele

Last shopping day

Can you believe it is Christmas Eve day already.  This year more than any just seemed to come so fast.  I wrapped very late last night again, one year I need to get that done earlier!  As I was wrapping, made a list of all the batteries I need to pick up at PE today - holy smokes, I need a ton this year.  This will be not so much the year of those annoying plastic ties that you need to cut to get the toys out, instead it is the year of the batteries.

We'll be at the store from 10 until 4:30 today for all your last minute gifts - cameras, accessories, frames, batteries, film or digital cards and of course all your scrapbooking supplies ;).  Everything in the scrapbooking section is on sale minimum 20% for members.  Huge savings up to 85% off for our preboxing day sale and you can tell your significant others we will even gift wrap it for free.  We always tend to have more men shopping on Christmas eve day than women.  They walk in with a look of panic on their face, and walk out with a smile as they find the perfect gift and get it wrapped all in one place!

Enjoy all the last minute hustle and bustle of today.

Michele

Revolution is here!!!!!

The Revolution arrived tonight and it is even better than when I saw it at Memory Trends.  My mom and dad had given me birthday money that I hadn't used yet, so guess what I bought tonight!!!  Yipeee.  Love the mini album die It is so stinkin' cute and I know I will have tons of fun with this one.  I see lots of little projects for Children's Hospital with this one also.  There are 20 new shapes for the initial release of the Revolution with more coming on a continual basis, just like they do for the regular size dies.

The alphabets are gorgeous also.  I had a hard time picking which one to get (so I got 2!) - Beauty Queen and Spicy Chicken.

To see all the shapes and alphabets available for the new Revolution, go to the QuicKutz website and click on Revolution or come in to PE and see them in person.  Saturday and Sunday when you buy a Revolution, you can choose up to 5 dies at

Vixen almost gone

If you were wanting to get a Vixen set from QuicKutz, hurry in soon.  There are only 4 left at PE and once this limited edition set is gone, that's it.

Last minute quick Christmas card ideas

Over the last week, I have made over 800 card kits to do with the kids at my daughters' school and to send to Children's hospital.  The projects had to be quick, simple and not use lots of fancy tools or anything like that.  Here are some of the cards I did. (Sorry the pics aren't great, but I snapped them very quickly before they went out the door).  I'm sure a school in your area wold love it if you volunteered to come in and make cards with the children.  (I also do a spring session where we make Mother's Day and Father's Day cards). The cards don't have to be fancy (in fact the simpler the better)and the kids enjoy it so much.  I've been doing it for 6 years at my daughter's school and the kids look forward to it every year.  It is great seeing their cardmaking skills improve every year also.  And they love glue dots and pop dots and anything with glitter. This one was one of my favourites.  The circles are punches and the hat is from the Vixen Gift set from QuicKutz.

Make it one of your goals in 2007 to share the love of scrapbooking, cardmaking or stamping with a group of children.  You'll get just as much enjoyment out of it as they will (and they don't know what is the latest and greatest, so even if you use paper from years ago, they will be happy!)

Michele

Preboxing Day Sale

We will be closed on Christmas day and Boxing Day (recuperating!) to enjoy time with our families, so we are having a boxing day sale early.  Now until Christmas Eve at 4:30, you can save BIG time on many many items in the store. Just some of the items you will find on sale are the Tote-ally cool totes from All My Memories, Cricut Cartridges, Ellison, Sizzix, QuicKutz, Bohemia, Organizers, stamps and more. Plus it is double member discount on all regular priced items, meaning the entire scrapbooking part of the store is at least 20% off. click here for the sale details and hope to see you at PE.

Trust Us With Your Memories,
Michele

Some of the new this week

Back in stock, the super cool Tote-ally Cool totes in large, and now also in medium and small! These always fly out the door and we never have them instock long enough to talk about them.  They now come in even more great colours (7 in all!) These totes are made of heavy duty material and come with tons of pockets and even a secret hidden drawer.  Great for keeping all your frequently used supplies organized and right at your fingertips.  And if you want to go crafting somewhere else, just pick up the handle and go.  The new mini ones are so dang cute and I'm stuffing one with chocolate and putting it under the tree for me!  (All pink one of course!) Don't wait to come in and get your favourite colour.

These new 12x12 albums are so cute and are already Done! 14 pages scrapbooked and ready for you to just add photos.  They make great gift ideas, and also great gifts for kids.  5 different themes and the best part is that while they last they are buy one get one free! The reg price is only $24.99 and until Christmas you can get 2 for that price (if they last that long).

Yummy new winter from Pebbles Inc

and Christmas.  Love this line and how fresh it looks and how easy it is to use.

New Bohemia Transfer titles from My Mind's Eye . Gorgeous styles including all the months of the year.  Come in to see all the styles.

Thomas the tank papers and stickers and album

Jumbo new chipboard designs from Fancy Pants Design.

Also Claire de Lune winter line which includes this gorgeous snowflake paper - my favourite from Memory Trends.  So beautiful, just add photos and you are done. 

 

Sale details coming

Working on Sale details for this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and next week.

Watch for details :)

Michele

Don't Let Your Child be a Kangaroo

If you have children or grandchildren, or deal with children in your day to day life, take a moment to watch this short video called Animal School (click on this link then click on the purple box) from Raising Small Souls.  My sister sent it to me. (They have just found out their oldest daughter who is 5, has some processing differences - her outgoing skills are above average, but her incoming skills are at a different level than her age.  She needs extra assistance to learn and understand what is being asked of her.)

This video reminds us that each child is a unique soul - as unique as their fingerprint and they can't all be fit into the same academic mold.  It is beautiful and a great reminder. 

Michele

Free Make and Take Thurs and Fri

Stop in for a visit on Thurs or Fri (Dec 21 and 22nd)from 1-4 (while supplies last) to make this adorable free make and take card. With it's Winter theme (from the new Pebbles line) it could be used as a Christmas card, Thank You card or Just Because card. You can easily use this design to recreate using other papers and embellishments also.

Trust Us With Your Memories,
Michele