Scrapbook Studio

It's been way too long!

Hello everybody,

Sorry its been so so long since I've updated this blog but I have been kinda busy! As most of you will have heard my family has re-located to Hamilton and I'm very lucky to have Lianne and Nickie to look after the day to day running of the Auckland store while I busily keep up with the admin, ordering, website etc from  home.

I manage to commute back to Auckland a couple of days per week in between running the kids around. I just got back from Auckland tonight actually, stayed up there for the Friday Frenzy Crop last night and worked today. It was great to catch up with everybody and the fantastic friend's I've made.

I decided it was high time I keep this blog updated with all the new goodies coming into the store. Obviously we get so many products in weekly I can't tell you everything but the highlight of my weekend was these new goodies just in:

The NEW style All My Memories Tote-ally Tote 5 in two new colours: Bohemian Blue & Gypsy Pink.

On top of that All My Memories have also brought out these cute Tool Caddy's in the same colour's which actually fit quite a bit, I'm planning to buy one myself but the hard decision is what colour to choose?

We got two awesome ranges of papers in for boys and as we all know, great boys papers are always far and few between. Check these out:

Bo Bunny - Block Party ........Several papers in this range, here are a few:

And Pink Paislee - Starlight

We also have a fantastic Monthly Kit coming up for you this Month. The kit will be posted on the website next week and in the online store. This kit is filled with two gorgeous NEW ranges loads with papers, alphas, journaling sheets and chipboard stickers to complete so many pages, I really went overboard on ordering for this one and its a bargain with around $99 worth of product for only $64.95!! Thats just above cost! you don't want to miss out....its called 'Delovely Petals'

Are you trying to complete your heritage albums and can't find enough Vintage Papers? Well come in store and check out the range of Graphic 45 papers just in, something for everyone plus the Men!

Graphic 45 - A Proper Gentleman Collection

So here is a sample of some yummy products in store, pop on in and take a look! Check out our class line up too, Nickie has some fantastic heritage layouts coming up and a cosy warm hottie cover, Kryshina a beautiful baby page and boys teen double layout plus Lianne is also working on a cuttlebug 2 card class after her first one was so popular.

Check out our Auckland classes HERE and if you know of anyone living in the Hamilton region you can view my classes coming up HERE.

TFL

Some gorgeous Inspiration!

Most of you who come into our store would have already met the lovely Nickie Mouncey who is the face of our shop! Working full time and running a family of four children, Nickie continues to amaze me with the fantastic projects she conjures up in her spare time (what spare time!!)

Nickie, like us is constantly inspired by all the gorgeous products that keep flooding the store, takes them home and the next day turns up with something like this!!

Nickie has used the small shadow boxes by Collections Elements, covered them in patterned paper on the sides, embossed fronts, added the Collections tree, birdhouse, birds & butterflies plus these gorgeous Prima Roses we have in that we sell individually.

This next project Nickie wizzed up at the Autumn Escape when she was given an Arrow Album for a challenge, she decided to make her cover into a house instead!! Check this out, this was so popular in the shop Nickie made it into a class...

Check out the cool Collections Street Lamp Nickie glazed with Dimensional Magic to resemble Glass!

and now my favourite of all......

We are lucky enough to stock gorgeous coloured metals from 10 Seconds Studio. We have split up the packs and are selling these by indiviual sheets. Nickie has used these to cover her Twiddleybitz Shadow Box, plus for the leaves & flower. Her large rose has tiny rosebuds in the center that again we sell in individual little packets, these have also been really popular.

Check out how awesome her Twiddleybitz opening gate has come out!! You would never know its chipboard! Nickie has made her metal rose using the Fiskars heart template (for the shapecutter), Collections new butterflies, trees & 2Crafty chipbord birdcage.

Here are some close ups:

Now, I'm sure you are all envious and want some of the projects for your house! As I write this we have two Twiddleybitz opening gates left in stock, these have been going like hotcakes! Don't despair because we will certainly be ordering more. We do have more shadowboxes left in stock, some coloured metals & Collections butterflies. We are out of the bare trees though but are ordering more next week.

Well, thats it for now. Hey have you checked out the Design Team's challenges over in the forum? They are having a Winter Warmer Competition but don't worry its not too late to join in! The second challenge has been posted HERE, I am off to make my example!!

Hero Arts Stamping Evening

Last Thursday we held a Hero Arts Stamping Evening here at the shop! It was a fun night for all playing with some of the gorgeous new release of Hero Arts rubber and clear stamps.

On the night we made two cards, one scrapbook page plus a make 'n' take stamping loot bag. Here are some of the ladies that attended.

And here is one of the displays with some of the new wooden rubber mounted stamps:

We were featuring hot embossing and colouring with an aqua pen and colouring pencils. We also used the speech bubble sentiment stamps that everybody received on the evening.

This first one is what we made on the night also using the new Hero Arts large shadow ink pads for the scalloped stamp. I have actually used the reverse stamp on this sample with embossing powder, we got a nicer effect with the shadow ink.

Its a bit hard to see here but the background was also embossing using the cuttlebug.

 

Here are my other two examples I made up showing more of the stamps. This first one was using an idea I found online.

 

I quite often prefer to make square cards so thats what I decided for this one:

Here is Nickie's card and loot bag that she made for the night. All of the customers that attended made these. Instead of adding buttons we threw in some smartie lollies. I think these loot bags are super cute and great for kids birthday parties.

Nickie used the Hero Arts Crown stamp on this card and cut out the scalloped circles using the nestabilities.

 

 

Lastly here is the layout that Lianne made up for the night. Everybody made a page to take home using the scallop border stamps plus a background stamp and speech bubble set. Also provided was a cut out title and printed quote.

Yummy NEW products just arrived!

Just needed to tempt you with these yummy products just new in the store. I'm going to work on getting some of them up in the online shoppe this week. I have to say it Prima would have to be the best product line in scrapbooking at the moment, it sure is hot and as for the fashion trends at the moment, wow I just Love it, Love it, Love it!! Check these out for a taste:

A Spellbinding Day!

What a fab day out we had today! Lianne and I headed off to the North Shore for a Spellbinder's Event put on by Sanzi Imports for all papercrafting retailers. It was loads of fun with lots of impressive techniques taught by Spellbinders Owner's Stacey & Jeff Caron.

A great day was put on for all and wow did we learn some hot new techniques! Some of these techniques will be introduced in classes in the near future. We were both so excited about what we learned that we just wanted to get home and have a play with our dies we already own.

Here is a random photo of some of the lady's at the event.

Check out all those little green bugs on the table! The majority of the ladies brought their own and boy did they get a work out! I must say I really was impressed with the Spellbinder's machine though, it embossed beautifully and a lot less plates to work with. They have this adorable pink bag which I'm really tempted to get that also fits the Cuttlebug!

Here is Stacey working hard, boy she must have been all 'demo'ed' out after today.

There was loads of samples for us to look at, get ideas from and also take photos, this was my favourite, the majority of this page done with the Spellbinders. (What a gorgeous photo too!)

To sum up, a great day had by all! A big thank you to Stacey & Jeff for coming all this way from the US to little ole NZ and also to Tony & Chris from Sanzi and all their wonderful staff for making this fabulous event possible.

So watch out everybody, more exciting Spellbinders will coming to the Store!

A pic of Lianne, Stacey & Me

Calico Christmas Quilt Show

A couple of weeks ago Kryshina and I headed off to the North Harbour Stadium over in Albany to the Calico Christmas Quilt Show. Calico Christmas is run by the Patchwork and Quilting Guild in Auckland. They certainly put on a great show, fantastic venue and a fabulous set up.

We only had a small stand and certainly found some tips there for next time:

some other stalls at the show, there was some fantastic products I must say I did my fair share of donating to the show....LOL

 

and here is one isle of the Quilt Exhibition, all the quilts were stunning:

Here is the pic of the quilt that got the top award, this is absolutely stunning:

As the Show was a Christmas theme, the stand with the best decorated stand won a prize, this was the best stand, look at all the lengths they went to to decorate their stand, the theme was A CHILDS CHRISTMAS: isn't it so cute and check out the beer and cookies on the mantel!

So, all in all it was a great show and I'm looking forward to doing it all again next year!

SENZ 2008

Hello everybody! Yes its been a while since I posted on here, we have been flat out busy at the shop getting ready for Senz 08. Lianne and I flew back into Auckland this morning and my husband Steve arrived home safely tonight after a long tiring drive with all of our stock.

The weekend was lots of fun, great opportunity to catch up with many people and have a few laughs. Inspiration was everywhere and also great to see loads of beginners excited about learning new techniques. We had great feedback from the classes held by various Tutors from around the country and I think everybody is looking forward to doing it all over again in 2009!

We had a good size stall and plenty of help to set up. A big thanks to Yolande Fenneman for helping also.

Friday and Saturday were both equally busy and Sunday had quietened considerably, I think most visitors were all shopped out. I must admit I did my fair share of shopping!
What was our best sellers at the show?

For one, our Hambly overlays always a favourite:

Our new shipment of NEW designs from 2Crafty from Australia: these were very HOT, this pic is just a sample of the range we had.

And what was hot hot hot was our NEW Prima Clear Paintables just in last week literally off the plane! Check out this gorgeous layout by Ingvild Bolme from Norway taken from Prima's Blog

Jump on over there and check out more fabulous ideas with Prima products. We also have some gorgeous new double-sided papers, chipboard, flowers, clear stamps, felt mattes etc

All left over show stock will be put into the shop this week and believe me there are alot of cool new things! So pop on in when you can to check it out.

Hope to see you soon :)

Upcoming Event!

Hello everybody, my name is Lisa Walker and I am the proud owner of Scrapbook Studio. This is our NEW Scrapbook Studio blog where you will find information related to 'what's happening' in our store situated at 62 Lunn Ave, Mt Wellington, Auckland.

P.S Excuse the banner but I'm doing this from home and didn't have the right file on my computer...lol, all the banners on the main website will all eventually be changed also to SCRAPBOOK STUDIO

We have all sorts going on in our busy store, from night classes, private classes, children's birthday parties to special events. Last week we just came back from Tauranga where we hosted a stall selling our papercraft products at the Dunkley's Craft Show.

You will also find us at SENZ this year in October, so keep watch for updates.

If you have been into our store recently you will also find we have widened our range and branched out to Patchwork & Quilting products. The gorgeous designer fabrics we have in our store sit beautifully with our fabulous paper range and they both compliment each other. If you look around the store you will also see that we have been incorporating the fabric range with our papercrafts and our popular Monthly Kits.

If you regularly check down the sidebar of this blog you will see links to other blogs of interest and also links to our Design Team Blog and Sewing Room Blog, these two places will also keep you updated with fun things going on in the forum, DT projects each month and updates of new Fabrics and Sewing products. On the Design Team Blog you will also find links to the blogs of all of our talented Design Team and if you are at all interested in what I have been up too, my blog will link off the sidebar too! 

Now, enough about all that, now for some info on an exciting night coming up in the store.

Our Cuttlebug Evening!

On Thursday 4th September (7-10 pm) we are holding a special event showing you lots of cool ways you can use your Cuttlebug Machine. Our team at the store have been very busy experimenting with this great little machine and boy have we come up with some great products to enhance your projects. So exciting infact that we can't wait to share them with you.

This evening will only be $10 and you will go away with a little tag book full of new ideas of what you can do with your Cuttlebug with products you more than likely will already have in your stash at home. I think you will be surprised to try these techniques that you would not have even thought about.

This evening, supper will also be provided but you better book quickly because the phone calls and emails have been coming through thick and fast and within two days we are almost booked out. To book simply drop us an email scrapbookstudio@xtra.co.nz or phone 09 5703200.