Busy Bee Buzzes In

It has been a hectic few weeks with loads of projects getting done and lots of plans getting made!  Amongst other things, I finished a 34 12x12 page Baby's First Year scrapbook for my newest niece Caroline.  I didn't dare share any of it with you guys until the album made it to Alaska which it did, just this week! I'll post the pages to my gallery in a few days!

I've also been working on making 50 wedding invites for a dear friend of mine in Montreal.  They have been quite a challenge but I am so pleased that I was able to put together a great many of the symbols that mean so much to her and her fiancé! It is my own fault if they took so much time, I designed them with 19 different pieces that needed to be printed, cut, scored, folded, and or glued!  Really, I need to have my head examined, but they did turn out well! Here are a couple of pictures.

In the middle of that, I've been hosting a Birthday card swap with my dear rec.crafts.scrapbook friends, (the newsgroup regulars who are now on Facebook) and though that hasn't taken up tons of time, it has taken up some!
And of course there are the layouts for my July class.  We will make 6 pages and the cost is $25.

I have a couple of trips coming up. The first is to CHA (Craft and Hobby Association) show in Rosemont, IL a suburb of Chicago the week of 18-22 July.  I plan on blogging and posting videos! I am so excited to be going again this year and this time, I get to attend a few workshops! After a week back at home, which will include giving my monthly layout workshop, I'm off for the long drive to Montreal to drop off the invitations.  I'll spend one night in Montreal followed by a few days in Quebec City to visit my brother and his family while they are on vacation and then back to Montreal to spend more time visiting with old friends! 

Your Coupons - Week of July 11-17, 2011

AC MOORE
Click here for the AC Moore 40% off coupon!

ARCHIVER'S
See the email ad that I got which includes a link to a 30% off coupon (one item.) which is good until July 13th.  Did you know that you can get 50% off copies every Tuesday in July? In addition, they have announced a contest for who makes the best decorated 7Gypsies tray with each in-store winner winning a $100 store card and the overall winner getting $1000. Last year the entries were simply amazing!

HANCOCK FABRICS 
Here is the latest email.

JOANNs
Here is the link this week's email.

HOBBY LOBBY
Click here to see this weeks in store special and coupon. Another week where I just must go to HL!  This time they have a weekly sale on McCall patterns, $0.99 each with a max purchase of 10.  If you sew or like using pattern papers for other proects, this is such an aswesome deal, especially if you consider that patterns cost around $15 each!  Love pattern sales! Now if I could only get sewing, LOL!

MICHAEL'S  
Go to their interactive weekly ad and see what they have in store for you this week! Good week to buy T-Sirts as they are $2.00 each this week! 

NEW FOR KNITTERS!

LION BRAND YARN
Here is the latest email from Lion Brand.

MARY MAXIM
Here is the latest email from Mary Maxim. It's been a while since I got a new one!  What's up with that Mary Maxim?

NEED TO SELL THE FOLLOWING:
I upgraded to a Big Shot Pro machine so I need to sell the following:
- Brand New Still in Box Grand Caliber Machine - $99 + shipping
- Blue Big Kick with new mats, only used a few times. $45 + shipping (sold)

If you are seriously interested, please contact me and I will send you a Paypal invoice!

Thanks and have a great week!

M-C

For the record, by posting the coupons here, I am not endorsing any of the stores, just including them for your convenience and mine! Nor do I purport to have listed everything or not made a mistake.

Did You Know...
That Archivers, and Hobby Lobby will allow you to show the coupon on your smart phone and just enter the code in their registers? That Michael's will scan the coupon code directly from your smart phone?

AC MOORE
Click here for the AC Moore 50% off coupon!

ARCHIVER'S
See the email ad that I got which includes a link a 30% off coupon (one item). Good until June 28th!

HANCOCK FABRICS 
Here is the latest email.

JOANNs
Here is the link this week's email.

HOBBY LOBBY
Click here to see this weeks in store special and coupon. Just a note, I didn't see a code on their coupon so you might have to print this one out if 40% off as many paper trimmers as you could possibly want actually floats your boat!

MICHAEL'S  

Go to their interactive weekly ad and see what they have in store for you this week! 

NEW FOR KNITTERS!

LION BRAND YARN
Here is the latest email from Lion Brand.

MARY MAXIM
Here is the latest email from Mary Maxim.

NEED TO SELL THE FOLLOWING:
I am upgrading to a Big Shot Pro machine so I need to sell the following:
- Brand New Still in Box Grand Caliber Machine - $110 + shipping
- Blue Big Kick with new mats, only used a few times. $45 + shipping

If you are seriously interested, please contact me and I will send you a Paypal invoice!

Thanks and have a great week!

M-C

For the record, by posting the coupons here, I am not endorsing any of the stores, just including them for your convenience and mine! Nor do I purport to have listed everything or not made a mistake.

 

Coupons for the Week of June 18-24 2011

AC MOORE
Click here for the AC Moore coupons, two weeks worth are included!

ARCHIVER'S
See the email ad that I got which includes a link to two 30% off coupons (one item, and cardstock). Good until June 22nd!

HANCOCK FABRICS 
I had to sign up again for these, so sorry, nothing right now.

JOANNs
All I got from JoAnn;s coupon wise this week is an online code for 40% off. EED173.  Also on sale this week 40% off die cutting machine and accessories and $9.99 on DCWV 12x12 stacks. Here is the link from the email.

HOBBY LOBBY
Here are this weeks specials including a 40% off 1 regular priced coupon. They are also having a 40% Scrapbook Blowout sale with loads of items at 40% off. This is also the week that Simplicity patterns are $0.99 each!  Whether you sew or love using pattern paper to make paper flowers, this is one of the weeks to go and buy all the patterns you may want!

MICHAEL'S  

Go to their interactive weekly ad and see what they have in store for you this week! 

NEW FOR KNITTERS!

LION BRAND YARN
Here is the latest email from Lion Brand.

MARY MAXIM
Here is the latest email from Mary Maxim.

Have a great week and please let me know if you are looking at and using these as I'm not sure ?I need to continue these posts when no one comments.  Thanks!

M-C

For the record, by posting the coupons here, I am not endorsing any of the stores, just including them for your convenience and mine! Nor do I purport to have listed everything or not made a mistake.

 

Coupons for the Week of June 13-18 2011

New this week: I've added a couple of links for the knitters out there!

AC MOORE
Click here for the AC Moore coupons, two weeks worth are included!

ARCHIVER'S
See the email ad that I got which includes a link to a 30% off coupon (one item). Good until June 15th!

HANCOCK FABRICS
Here is the web version of the latest email I got from them. Click here for 40% off instore coupons (1 for notions, 1 for fabric) good until June 15th!

JOANNs
Here is the latest email with coupons that I received from JoAnn's!

HOBBY LOBBY
View the weekly specials email I got here! Go here to print your 40% off one regular priced item coupon. Amonghst other specials, Spellbinder dies are 40% off.

MICHAEL'S   

Go to their interactive weekly ad and see what they have in store for you this week! 

NEW FOR KNITTERS!

LION BRAND YARN
Here is the latest email from Lion Brand.

MARY MAXIM
Here is the latest email from Mary Maxim.

Enjoy!

M-C

For the record, by posting the coupons here, I am not endorsing any of the stores, just including them for your convenience and mine! Nor do I purport to have listed everything or not made a mistake.

What a week!  I've been sick, again!  Sinus and ear infections have me down and this antibiotic is making me just a little woozy then again, maybe it's taking Zertec,or to be precise one of it's genric forms. Anyhow, I didn't get a whole lot done this week.  Just five 12x12 pages in the baby book, two cards, and a bunch of posts on Facebook. Oh and I attended part two of my favorite class ever, with the every talented Marion Smith!  I love that we learned the old fashioned art of book binding!  Maybe I'll offer a class of my own doing that!

There are a few things I haven't shared with you yet so I thought now might work! First a coupld of pictures of a larger size mini I made using the various butterfly inspired paper collections:

Next a few birthday and congratulation cards.  I'm actually pretty proud of myself!  I took out and used some cookie cutter diesfrom QuicKuts that I had purchased and put away before our last move.

So what's on my creative to do calendar?  Let me see:

A. Finish my little niece Caroline's baby book;

B. Finish and send or deliver my Mom-in-law's 70th birthday album.

C. Prepare the kits for my the class I'm giving next Wednesday.  You can see the 6 layouts on one of my previous entries, here.  This means a lot of cutting, since when my students come to the class, all they do is adhere everything to the page!  So the flowers must be cut, the doillies cut and misted, all the mats, paper pieces etc need to be ready.  Everything for each page is then packaged separately to make the class super easy.. It's a lot of work, but I really enjoy the time I spend with them each moth! And last but not least:

D. I also have 50 wedding invitations to create and put together by the end of the month! 

E. I nearly forgot, I am also hosting a Birthday card swap for an online group of crafty friends which needs to come on and go out by the end of the month!

Phew... I guess I am busy! As for July? The only things I expect to work on is my monthly layout class.  The thing I am looking forward to the most? CHA, the Craft and Hobby Association summer show in Chicago!  My room is reserved, my pass purchases and the workshops scheduled.  I am so looking forward to it!

Coupons for the Week of June 6 - 11, 2011

Archiver's coupon updated 6/7/2011.

AC MOORE
Click here for the latest from AC Moore, including a 50% off coupon good until the 11th!

ARCHIVER'S
See the email ad that I got which includes a link to a30% off coupon (one item). Good until June 15th!

HANCOCK FABRICS
Here is the web version of the latest email I got from them. Click here for 40% off instore coupons (1 for notions, 1 for fabric) good until June 15th!

JOANNs
Check this out, only good until the 7th.

HOBBY LOBBY
View the weekly specials email I got here! Go here to print your 40% off one regular priced item coupon. Amonghst other specials, Spellbinder dies are 40% off.

MICHAEL'S  

Go to their interactive weekly ad and see what they have in store for you this week! 

SCRAP-MART
Scrap-Mart has a monthly coupon code. I have3 not yet received the June code. If you have, please let me know what it is so I can post it!  thanks!


For the record, by posting the coupons here, I am not endorsing any of the stores, just including them for your convenience and mine! Nor do I purport to have listed everything or not made a mistake.

Enjoy!

M-C

 

Elegant Eclectic Butterfly Mini Albums

I recently made a couple of minis, out of some of the collections that recently came out that had butterflies and similar color pallets!  I wanted to share a few of the pictures, first of the super mini (6x6) which I sent to my swap partner Loretta! I want to thank Loretta for her pictures, mine weren't as good as hers and so she agreed to share hers! I'll post the other mini separately, when I get a chance!  There are also video's available on my You Tube channel if you'd like to see those.



I really love this shot Loretta took of the
decorations I put and made for this mini.



Prima flowers, some lace, crystal lacquer on the letters,
flowers on the rings and a little bling that is what this
book is made of, LOL!

The Butterfly is also from the Pink Paisley Butterfly Garden
Collection and the white pearl flower is from Zva Creations.

I pierced holes and ran and tied lace to use as tag holders.
The white lace was tied here and the blue on the other side.

There are three tags slipped into the lace on the left hand page!

Prima and Zva flowers, and ephemera are used on these
pages that I wanted to leave open for larger pictures.

The little tags shown here out of their pocket, go into the
bird nest ephemera which I pop-dotted up for dimension.

The pocket is created from a Prima journaling tag from
their Botanical Collection. I proped up using folded cardstock.



This mini in a mini is held together with a pink crystal
brad which is inserted from the back allowing the
legs to be hidden under the flowers.

 I hope you like the book!  Here is a list of the products I used:

Paper Collections:
Pink Paisley Butterfly Garden
Prima Botanical
Webster's Pages (Various)
BoBunny Gabrielle

Flowers
Prima Marketing
Zva Creations
Wild Orchid Crafts
Recollections

Metal
Tim Holtz swivel clasp
Prima, Marion Smith Trinkets

Beads are from Michaels

Lace
Miscellaneous

Coupons for Memorial Weekend and May 30 to June 4th 2011

Hobby Lobby, Hancock and Archivers updated 5/31/2011


AC MOORE
Click here for the latest from AC Moore, including a 50% off coupon good Sunday and Monday!

ARCHIVER'S
See the email ad that I got which includes a link to the two 30% off coupons (one item and cardstock) that we;ve become used to! Good until June 6th!

HANCOCK FABRICS
Here is the web version of the latest email I got from them. Click here for 40% off instore coupons (1 for notions, 1 for fabric) good until June 15th!

JOANNs
Nothing new yet.

HOBBY LOBBY
View the weekly specials email I got here! 30% off needlecraft items coupon...really? However if you check the flyer, there are a number of scrapbooking items 50% off!!!

MICHAEL'S  

Go to their interactive weekly ad and see what they have in store for you this week! 

SCRAP-MART
Scrap-Mart has a monthly coupon code. I thought I would add it here for those of you who might be interested. Their email says you need to enter KETTLE in the customer comments after checkout!

For the record, by posting the coupons here, I am not endorsing any of the stores, just including them for your convenience and mine! Nor do I purport to have listed everything or not made a mistake.

Enjoy!

M-C

 

Two Pink Paisley Butterfly Garden Mini Album Kits for Sale

I've been working with the Pink Paisley Butterfly Garden collection and I thought I'd put a couple of mini album kits together for you! I do mean a couple as in there are only 2!  So it really is first come first served!

Here is a picture of the kit:

Check out the video showing you everything that is in the kit here!

 Thanks for looking! 

Project Post - Thank You Cards

I wanted to make a couple of cards to thank some special ladies who sent me some fun scrappy stuff this week.  I hope that these will let them know just how much their kindness touched me and was appreciated! 

I used the following to make the cards:

The Girl's Papery

Bazzill Petunia cardstock

Zva roses

Offray Ribbon

Thank You Rub-on: Pepples Inc

Spellbinder's Labels Seventeen

Hand made flower on first card : Sizzix Flowers 3-D/Girl's Papery2010

Hand Made Flower on second card: Various Punches - Misc pink paper, Tattered Angel's Tattered Rose Mist.

Hope you like them! 

Coupons Week of May 22-28, 2011

AC MOORE
Click here a 40% off coupon good all week as well as their weekly ad.

ARCHIVER'S
See the email ad that I got which includes a link to a 30% off coupon good until May 25th. 

HANDCOCK FABRICS
Here is the web version of the latest email I got from them.

HOBBY LOBBY
Here is the email I got from HL for this week for in store promotions, which includes a 25% off one regular priced item coupon. Amongst other specials this week stamps and all Slice products are 40% off and some of the bling and all ribbon by the spool are 30% off. Click here to go directly to the 40% off one regular priced item coupon.


JOANNs
Click here to see the email I got from JoAnns this week!

MICHAEL'S  
Go to their new interactive weekly ad and get your 40% off coupon plus 12 more covering a multitude of products. 

SCRAP-MART
Scrap-Mart has a monthly coupon code. I thought I would add it here for those of you who might be interested. Their email says you need to enter KETTLE in the customer comments after checkout!

For the record, by posting the coupons here, I am not endorsing any of the stores, just including them for your convenience and mine! Nor do I purport to have listed everything or not made a mistake.

Enjoy!

M-C

Michael's have a new interactive ad whcih you can find here! From what I see, you can print the weekly coupon directly from the ad.

Layouts for my June Class

The layouts for the June class use the Echo Park for the Record kit. We all seem to love what Echo Park has been doing lately and you'll notice that many of my classes have used their collection kits. This is a glimmer/shimmer misting class.  There are three doilies as well as a flower that are misted and we will also be making the flower on the first page.  For the Record, LOL, there is also lace to be applied and bling.I'm looking forward to it! You may be wondering why my layouts never have pictures!  They do, eventually, but for the class they are actually "naked" and for the picture taking I add some standard size photo mats just so people can get an idea of the pictures that can be added.  The white mats are just a suggestion though!

And here they are in their pairing:

I hope that you enjoy the layouts!  I may have a couple of extra kits for sale, all pre-cut and premisted, ready for you to put together.  The cost is $35 and you can reserve one by emailing me.  I'll let you know and send you a paypal invoice as soon as it is clear how many will be in the class.  I believe that I have 8 of the paper kits on hand!  Thanks ahd have a great day!

Coupons for the Week of 15 - 21 May 2011

FOLLOWING WERE UPDATED on 5/18/2011:
Archivers, JoAnns

AC MOORE
Click here for loads of good coupons at AC Moore for this week. 40% off all week. 10% off all your purchases all day Tuesday.

ARCHIVER'S
See the email ad that I got which includes a link to a 30% off coupon good until May 25th. 

HANDCOCK FABRICS
Here is the web version of the latest email I got from them.

HOBBY LOBBY
Here is the email I got from HL for this week for in store promotions, which includes a 25% off one regular priced item coupon. Amongst other specials this week stamps and all Slice products are 40% off and some of the bling and all ribbon by the spool are 30% off. Here is the email I got for online promotions. Use online code 05255 to get 25% off one regular priced item. Shipping is $3 on all orders this week.

JOANNs
Get 40% off one item online when you use code EEDN38 in your shopping cart. All embelishments are 40% off this week.  UPDATE: Free Shipping is also a choice with a minimum purchase of $40 and by using code EADX140 at checkout.

MICHAEL'S  
Go to their new interactive weekly ad and get your 40% off coupon.

SCRAP-MART
Scrap-Mart has a monthly coupon code. I thought I would add it here for those of you who might be interested. Their email says you need to enter KETTLE in the customer comments after checkout!

For the record, by posting the coupons here, I am not endorsing any of the stores, just including them for your convenience and mine! Nor do I purport to have listed everything or not made a mistake.

Enjoy!

M-C

Michael's have a new interactive ad whcih you can find here! From what I see, you can print the weekly coupon directly from the ad. This week it is 40% off any regular priced item with the usual exceptions!