Anna's Craft Cupboard:
 

• Pink Paislee Pop Fashion and Blue Moon Papers
• Pink Paislee Fashion Script Alpha Stickers
• Pink Paislee Topsiders - combination of 12 x 12 stickers and matching chipboard

• Restock of Threading Water punch
• Restock of Kaiser Papers and Off the Page Albums/Album Rings (coloured)
• Restock of Making Memories Felt Alphabets
• For a quick link to the new products click here!

This Sunday, August 24, 2008 Heaven-Sent Scrapbooking will be at the Stamping & Scrapbooking Fair at the Morphettville Racecourse in Adelaide from 9.00 am until 4.00 pm.
If you visit our stall and mention ‘Aussie Scrapbooking’, you will receive a free gift (valued at $3.99, while stock lasts). Tickets are $5.00 and will be sold at the door. Parking is free! We’d love to see you there! For more information, please email me!

Bella-Kay Scrapbooks and Beads have added Thinga-ma-jigs! Thinga-ma-what? Bring the coolest design elements to your papercrafts with this stylish template filled with 27 dingbats and punctuation marks. Trace them with a .08 Zig Millennium and fill in the centers with a brush marker, or trace them onto paper and cut them out. You can also stipple ink through the template shape or outline the shapes, then use a background rubber stamp (like a polka dot!) through the template. The possibilities are endless!

Cyberscraps have one of the best newsletters around..well - it always gives me a giggle - l loved some of the products showcased in the August newsletter, especially this Little Yellow Bicycle diecut Christmas paper below!

Click Here to view the Cyberscraps newsletter in full!

If you have been meaning to try cardmaking, Creative Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine has plenty of variety and really clear instructions. The supply lists are detailed and the photography is amazing.

Julia Matthews, previously at For Keeps, is now at Derwent Howard Media and the new look for this magazine has got her clean style all over it.

I also saw on Aussie Pub Calls that she is looking for submissions and has made a call for a magazine design team. It’s past the deadline but she probably hasn’t made any decisions yet.

Send submissions to letters@creativecardmaking.com.au

Here’s the press release from Julia:

Press Release
August 19 2008

We’re very excited to be revamping Creative Cardmaking and Papercraft. Our philosophy is simple. We’re filling the magazine with cards you will love to make and everything you need for foolproof results!

There’s something for everyone, and all levels of experience. The Spring issue is packed with projects, 50 cards to recreate plus scrapbooking layouts. The magazine is beautiful to flick through but it’s much more than a gallery, it’s loaded with simple-to-follow instructions and many of the projects come with helpful ‘step-by-step’ photography to refer back to. Each issue also features articles, interviews and reviews to enjoy leisurely over a cup of tea, and plenty of product reviews. More than ever before, cardmakers can break out their supplies with total confidence, knowing that making great looking cards has never been easier! 

Creative Cardmaking is onsale in newsagents nationally and in New Zealand. Look out for the free stickers on the cover!

Julia Matthews
Associate Publisher –Craft Division
Derwent Howard Media

Sue Madex's post from last week reminded me about my own experience with baby scrapbooks and a project I'm very proud of. To set the backdrop to the story first though, I started a cross stitch when I was pregnant with my first child. I had grand intentions of tending to it with love and attention each week when I lay on the couch with my feet up glowing with maternal bliss. It's still waiting to be finished and my son started prep this year (go on, I know I'm not the only one!)

When son number 2 came along. I was presented with a lovely named album by some scrapbooking friends and another project was embarked upon and this time I was determined to finish. To journal (not just photograph) the details of my son's first year. Read more to see how this one turned out...

A reader recently left me a comment asking what I was talking about in reference to the journaling on my “Pebble” layout. I was completely puzzled, until I realized…she couldn’t see it! Hopefully you’ll clearly see in the layout that the journaling is on a half-circle path, in very light blue. But if you can’t, then perhaps you need to do some fiddling about with your hardware!

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We all love to create with our buddies, but I’m always surrounded by mine!

I was looking through layouts I did a year ago and noticed one I’ve done of my scrapping area, mess that it was…some things don’t change! But what I did notice is some little trinkets still sitting there with me in the same place they were sitting a year ago. These guys are my scrapping friends!!

I say "scrapping friends" because lots of them were given to me by friends or loved ones and remind me of them!

Kel {my son} made the little caped plasticine guy who sits on top of my monitor…he’s pretty funky! Then I have my little easel that holds ATC’s I’ve been given, a glass ball that was a gift…and then the little glass elephant and mouse that Kel gave me because the match the glass ball. I have my favourite Scarab Beetles to hold down stray receipts and bits before they get put away… tins, pegs, tags, angels, fairies, candles and little wind up toys that make me giggle! They’re all here keeping me company every time I sit at my desk, and I couldn’t part with them! I have a new bear as well who travels with me, my last one stood in for a friend when she couldn’t go to a retreat with the rest of us…and then went to live with her afterwards!

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Allcraftz News

As you all know there have been plenty of items recently released in the US, and plenty that is due to arrive within the next few weeks. To help make room for the new items coming I've now listed some at "extra special" prices, some below Australian wholesale cost.

Basic Grey pre-order items are available to order now with 25% off.
Basic Grey in-stock items are available now with 40% off- includes all ranges in stock now.
Sassafras pre-order items are available to order now with 15% off.
Pink Paislee items are all 25% off, including in stock and due soon items.

The special prices will be available for a limited time and will not be repeated. Check our website for details!

The Scrapbook Establishment
To coincide with the introduction of A2Z Scraplet products to our store we are pleased to bring you this great competition with the wonderful support of this fantastic supplier of Chipboard and Acrylic shapes.

The criteria for this competition is to create a Layout, Card or Off the Page Father's Day Project using A2Z Scraplets. We are pushing the closing date of the competition to the 13th, which will also allow you a few days to complete layouts using photos you take on Father's Day 7th September

The competition is now open and will conclude on Saturday 13th September 2008. Please have your entries in the appropriate section of the Gallery by Midnight on the Saturday 13th.

Prizes will be as follows:
1. Scraplets, $10 TSE Store Voucher, Design a Scraplet (this involves designing a Scraplet for A2Z Scraplets to create)
2. Scraplets, $10 TSE Store Voucher
3. Scraplets, $5 TSE Store Voucher

Happy creating!

I found this definition for the word hoard:

A supply or fund stored up and often hidden away...

How much patterned paper do YOU have? Come on now and be honest...lol. Do you use it up as soon as you buy it or do you hoard it away and wait until just the “right” project comes along?

Surely I have enough now to pretty much start my own scrapbook shop - well one that just sells patterned paper and maybe Green Tara Flowers!

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Everyone's favourite Australian scrapbooking manufacturer, Kaisercraft, has just launched their brand new website!

Check it out here.

You can chat with fellow scrappers and Kaisercraft lovers in the forum, browse the latest product releases, and get great ideas from their Project Sheet Library!

Did you know that all the Kaisercraft wooden albums and scrapbooking papers are made right here in Australia? How cool is that?! It's so fabulous to have such great quality Australian made products available at such an awesome price.

You can sign up to Kaisercraft's newsletter by going here.

Whilst checking out the site, I noticed that Kasiercraft has just released some new clear stamps!

How cool are these:

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Sometimes a page calls for a grungy handmade feel - and I've discovered a fantastic technique to achieve it!

Flicking through a US scrap mag the other day, I came across a cool idea for using chipboard to stamp with...so guess what I've been doing on this last cold, indoors-by-the-fire, perfect-for-scrapping weekend?

Grab some of those chipboard letters and shapes sitting neglected in your stash, an acrylic block and some paint and join me...

KI Memories are holding a Design Team Star Search...

As announced on their blog, KI Memories is looking for new Design Team members and is currently accepting submissions!

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