A Few of My Favorite Things Sneak Preview

We wanted to show you a few more views of this clever and cool project.

The basis for each page is an envelope or a pocket. Some are hand folded, some a re-purposed envelopes. So many great ideas to use in other mini books and layouts.

Darcie used the cool My Minds Eye Lost & Found collection, Paper Accents kraft envelopes, canvas, chipboard, Cosmo Cricket letters and then added many more of her fantastic touches for a truly unique mini book.

Family Moments Library Tray Sneak Previews

Here are a few more views of this wonderful project.

In addition to this clever brand new Library Tray we are using the 7 Gypsies Avignon Paper and Tags, Gypsy Ephemera, 7 Gypsies Family Stickers, 7 Gypsies Market Labels, 7 Gypsies Journal Pages, Tim Holtz texture plates, hand dyed seam binding, and lots of other fun goodies.

This is a big tray- 11" deep- so you have lots of room to display your photos. I plan to put a copy of all of my photos for the year in my tray rather than have them tucked away in a photo album. But, if you don't want to use that many photos we also devised a way to use part of the tray and still keep all of the dividers and photos from falling over. Ahh, such clever chicks!

Enjoy!

Project Sneak Peeks for October 16th & 17th Workshop Weekend

Whew- what a weekend!

Darcie and I (Kerry) had a marathon project session and got 3 of the big projects done for our October Workshop Weekend. Check back every day this week as we feature photos of a different project.

Here is what we have coming up for sneak previews for Tues, Weds and Thurs this week:

A Few of My Favorite Things- book of envelopes and pockets. This is Darcie's creation made with My Minds Eye Lost & Found collection plus so many cool ways to use envelopes and pockets in a mini book. I love love love this project.

Family Moments Library Tray-We used the Brand New Seven Gypsies Library Tray, their fantastic papers, ephemera, some custom dyed seam binding, hand embossed cardstock, and many many more cool things on this project. This is a wonderful way to display a year's worth of photos, or even a special trip or event.

My Circle of Friends Embroidery Hoop Album- Get ready to learn some new shabby chic techniques with this project by Kerry. This mini book is full of pearls, antique glitter, brads, buttons, ribbon, crepe paper and lots more detail. Featuring the Lilac House collection by Fancy Pants.

Next week we will feature three more projects.

Sweet Treats Recipe Book using Maya Road Chipboard book on acrylic stand featuring Walk in the Park by Echo Park Paper Co.

Crafty Girl Art Journal with some excellent metal embossing work using Ten Seconds Studio products.

Fall Days Mini Book featuring Catching Fall by Lily Bee Designs

We still have space if you want to sign up for this super fun weekend!

Enjoy the sneak peeks!

Kerry and Darcie

New Kit- Baby's First Year

This kit is 26 pages of fantastic and cute babyness. It is a kit to make Baby's First Year in a scrapbook, two 12 x 12 pages for each month with a few spots to do some quick journaling, plus a birth page and a 1st birthday page.

We used the Snugglebug paperline by Little Yellow Bicycle, the patterns are just perfect for all kinds of baby photos. The boy papers have glazing, the girl papers have glitter.

Lots of fun stickers and embellishments, buttons, brads, ribbon, custom die cuts, pre cut photo mats and so much more! This is going on our website in the morning. Updated- Click HERE for more information about this fantastic kit.

$65 for the kit, includes everything to complete all 26 pages, except adhesive.

More Changes for the Scrap Yard Chicks

Visit Kerry's Blog to read about the change in her teaching schedule at The Mad Scrapper. I also posted some photos of my latest class layouts from July and August.

I hope you are enjoying this gorgeous summer day!

And then there were two. . .

Ooh that sounds very ominous doesn't it? Maybe because I have been looking at too much cool Halloween paper lately.

Well, as we all know our world is always a changing, and we have a change here at Scrap Yard Chicks too. Some of you might already know, but our good friend and fellow Chick Kathy is no longer working with us. We wish her well with her future endeavors and will miss her fun personality at our events.

So that just leaves two original Chicks left, Darcie and Kerry. It is funny since we have known each other the longest, we figure we have been scrapbooking together for 10+ years. We met scrapbooking at our friend Serena's library crop in Issaquah. Wow, there has certainly been lots of scrapbooking and photographs along the way.

What does this change mean for our upcoming events and classes? Its all good for our customers. We will be bringing in some outside teachers to develop projects and teach classes at our upcoming events- be on the look out for the samples for our Fall Workshop Weekend very soon. Darcie and I have been talking to a few different ladies- we are lucky to have so many talented paper crafters in our area. It is really inspiring to see some of the amazing work that people have put together. So our customers get a wider range of project styles, but with the same Scrap Yard Chicks attention to every detail, TONS of new products, and all of the extra touches that set us apart.

If you have any questions about the changes at Scrap Yard Chicks, or have an amazing paper crafter that you would like to introduce us to- please send us an email at mailto:scrapyardchicks@hotmail.com.

Thanks Chicks!

Christmas Page Kits Available in our Kit Shop!

Yes, we are really putting out Christmas kits in August-what better time to get caught up on those hundreds of Christmas photos! The pages pictured are from the 10 Pages of Christmas-Basic Grey- Wassail collection.

We have a new kit- 10 Pages of Christmas- Basic Grey- Wassail, and a kit back in stock for a limited time- 10 pages of Christmas- Basic Grey- Figgy Pudding.

With the 10 Pages of Christmas kits you get EVERYTHING to create 10 complete 12 x 12 layouts, beautiful patterned papers, Bazzill cardstock, sticker letters, pre cut cardstock mats, custom die cuts, stamped and punched pieces, jewels, tags, brads, May Arts ribbon and Trim, plus step by step color instructions. These are all great designs that you can use over and over again.

So get your Merry On and finish those Christmas pages!