Fun Fun Fun at Scrapbook Expo

We had such a good time last weekend at The Scrapbook Expo in Puyallup. We met a bunch of new fun scrapbookers, got to see friends from all over Washington, we did a super cute make and take, sold some of our kits, ate some really delicious food from Don's Drive In just across the street from the fair grounds, and came home exhausted.

These are a few new kits that we sold at the EXPO, they will be online in our kit shop later this week as soon as we do an inventory.

Great Escape Travel Book Kit Online

My goal for the summer was to blog more, but here it is almost a month after my last post, and I am just now getting around to posting a new project. Yikes!

This is a fun kit based on a project class that I (Kerry) taught in spring 2009. It is a book entirely made of cardstock, with lots of fold out flaps, pockets, tags and other fun stuff. I ramped up the embellishments, and added a lot more details and photo spots with this version. Visit our KIT SHOP for more details and to purchase this fun kit.

We are using a lot of Making Memories fantastic embellishments, their metal and epoxy clips, rub on set (there are actually 2 sheets of run ons), their coordinating ribbon and trim and one of my favorite things is the Wordfetti by Making Memories that comes with the kit. It is such a fun way to personalize a mini book with phrases, words and funny sentences. It reminds me of the magnetic refrigerator poetry sets.

To make the construction of this project easy, the cardstock pieces are all pre-cut, pre-scored and actually numbered to coordinate with the directions. So fantastic. That way you can concentrate on the fun stuff-embellishing and adding your photos.

Have fun!

Summer Retreat Registration is Now Open

All Inclusive Summer Retreat with

Scrap Yard Chicks

The Chicks are mixing it up this summer with an All Inclusive Retreat Weekend

Icicle Village Resort-Leavenworth, Washington

Friday July 30th - Sunday August 1st
Noon on Friday until 3 pm on Sunday
$275* per person (includes all taxes)

A Relaxing and Fun Weekend Full of Scrapbooking with Friends New and Old! You bring your own projects, photos, and layouts for a weekend that is all about YOU! Stay up all night or sleep in-you deserve a weekend of rejuvenation!

Summer Retreat Includes:
¨ 6 foot table for a weekend of cropping goodness- hey chicks- everyone gets their own stinkin’ table!
¨ 24 Hour Crop Room Access-51 hours of scrapbooking deliciousness! Safe and secure-we will staff the Crop Room all weekend long.
¨ Sleeping Accomodations in the Luxurious and Comfortable Icicle Inn (rooms contain 2 Queen sized beds and rate is based on double occupancy-see registration page for other options)-rooms include fridge and microwave.
¨ Hot Breakfast Buffet Saturday and Sunday
¨ Delicious Lunch Saturday and Sunday plus Snacks
¨ Electrical Access at Every Table
¨ Tool Station- Including 3 Cricuts with Lots of Cartridges (you provide your own cutting mat), Design Studio and Sure Cuts A Lot, Computer and Wide Format Printer, Compact Photo Printer (small per print charge), Punches, Stamps, Paint, Scor Pal, Cropadile, Corner Chomper, Cinch Book Binder, Bind it All Book Binder, Sewing Machine, Heat Tools and more things that we will think of as we start packing!
¨ Onsite retail store with some of our favorite new scrapbooking stuff, great basics and lots of fun Scrap Yard Chicks project and page kits
¨ Plus lots of extras-prizes, goodie bags, maybe some contests and other fun treats.


*Rate is based on Double Occupancy-Rooms have 2 Queen Beds

Double Occupancy $275.00
Other Options:
Triple Occupancy $225.00
Quad Occupancy $200.00
Single Occupancy $425.00

Choose your own option on our Registration Page.

But Wait- What would a Scrap Yard Chicks weekend be without some of our fantastic classes?
Of course we will be offering a few classes on Saturday-class descriptions, times, and prices to be determined (class fees are not included with registration fees)


Just in case you are looking for something other than scrapbooking to do. . .

The Icicle Village Resort also offers-
Year round pool and spa and professional massage facility.Wi-Fi is available throughout the hotel-hey we know that there are Farmville Farms that need to be tended during the weekend!
Spa Treatments in one of the resorts soothing treatment rooms

Visit our Registration Page for all of the payment options, or Coming Events Page for more information (scroll down to the bottom and read all of the q & a's)

We can't wait until our retreat- we hope to see lots of our favorite Chick Friends there!

12 x 12 Layouts from our Spring Workshop Weekend

Here are a few pages from our 12 x 12 layout class from our Spring Workshop Weekend.

We used 3 different paper collections from Basic Grey-

Max and Whiskers

Cappella

Kioshi

Another Sneak Preview-Life 24/7 Album

This wonderful mini album features the Artist Multi Media Album from Fancy Pants. It is a combination of canvas, felt, corrugated, chipboard adn printed acrylic.

Darcie designed a beautiful mini using the new 365 degrees collection by Pink Paislee.

We will even be making our own glimmer mist to use with this project, it features a lot of different techniques for using spray dies.

8x8 Family Album Sneak Peek

Hey Spring Chicks!

Here is another sneak peek for our Spring Workshop Weekend projects.

It is an 8x8 Family Album, on an acrylic stand. This Bella Boulevard Paper Honey I'm Home is one of our favorites and we were so sad to find it was out of print a few months ago.

But . . .

They decided to reprint some of the pieces, so here we are.

We didn't show you all of the pages-we will be doing a total of 8 different layouts.

Thanks for peeking!

Schedule for May Workshop Weekend

Hey fellow scrappy chicks

We have a tentative schedule for our May Workshop Weekend.

Friday May 21st
7 pm-Midnight- Early Bird Crop in the Denton Room

Sat May 22nd-
8-8:30 Registration & Welcome
8:30 - 10:30- 8x8 Family Album Class (2 hrs)
10:30-10:45- Break
10:45-12:15- Folded Flowers Book (1 1/2 hrs)
12:15-1- Lunch-provided
1-3:30- Life 24/7 Multi Media Album (2 1/2 hrs)
3:30-3:45- Break
3:45-6- N is for Nest Printer Tray (2 1/4 hours)
6-7:30- Dinner Break-on your own
7:30-9- Oh Happy Days Portfolio Album (1 1/2 hours)
9-Midnight Free Crop Time

Sun
8:30-9- Ball room is open for free work time
9-Noon- 12 x 12 Layout Class (3 hrs)
12-12:45- Lunch-provided
12:45-2- Mini Class-Celebrate Birthdays Reminder Book (1 1/4 hours)
2-3- Free Time in Ball Room
3-6- Free Time in Denton Room (we will move everyone who wants to stay and work on their projects into the smaller room for 3 hours of free work time)