paper: pretty paper. true stories. {and scrapbooking classes with cupcakes.}

Greetings from beautiful downtown Anaheim! (Well, not quite downtown. Convention/Disney town is more like it. Apparently downtown Anaheim is on the other side of the motorway. But this is much closer to beautiful downtown Burbank than I usually happen to be, so I am just going to go with the beautiful downtown thing and let it be.)

Over the last two days I’ve said the same few sentences over and over again as a few hundred ladies made monogrammed luggage tags with me and my favourite butterfly punch. We’ve talked about all sorts of projects they’ve been working on and we’ve shared pages and all sorts of fabulously good crafty energy. And apparently I’ve also decided to wear gigantic necklaces.

Tomorrow everything shifts gears as the public show is now closed and the trade show opens in the morning. That’s when all the new releases will be seen and all the super exciting stuff happens! Watch for lots of blog posts over the next few days as I’ll be posting pictures and sharing my new favourites from the show!

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Just a quick little note to let you know the next post in the This is Why series will be up very soon!

In the mean time, I have three new layouts in the garden today! You can find them here, here and my favourite is here.

Back in a bit!

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These two 99 cent kits in the shop today: Aged Labels includes a printable for paper scrappers and a png for digital scrappers and the Remember page template makes digital pages in minutes. The Baker’s Dozen has been scrapping away with this template and they’ve already made these pages!

_{Pages by Kate, Yvonne, Karen and Taly.}

And for those of you who asked last week when I would start some sort of digital class, well here’s something to get you started – step by step tutorial to walk you through the process of using digital page templates.

Click here for a step-by-step tutorial on layered page templates.

…and something exciting tomorrow!

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_{minibook by Karen Cole}

If you’re looking for minibook inspiration today, check out Karen’s matchbook of resolutions and plans for 2010. It’s made with the Resolutions printable and just a little bit of other stash — and it’s super cute!

If you haven’t figured out what you would do with a scrapbooking shopping spree you might want to give it a bit of thought…by the end of this week, all the details will be here so you can find out how to win! The mystery ends soon!

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So apparently it is quite cold here. So cold that the birds don’t quite know what to do, other than stay out of the fountain. Many people were not so intelligent, and Trafalgar Square was overrun with people shouting about their cold feet, for not one but multiple people thought it would be a good idea to stand on that ice for a photo opportunity.

That ice is, of course, merely sitting on top of a very cold pool of water.

Brains: apparently some of them malfunction in cold weather.

In other notes: today’s random celebrity sighting in Covent Garden was an Osmond brother, I was responsible for a panda hat appearing in the background of a London television report on the state of our icy roads, and the total lack of non-iced pavement in my neighbourhood seems to be a wonderful bonding experience wherein everyone is suddenly chatting as we all struggle up or down the hill into the village, mostly stating our dismay that no one has bothered to sort this out but also in an attempt to deflect from the lack of grace we have suffered in our performance of the dying swan from Swan Lake, performed on iced-over concrete whilst wearing casual footwear.

Wishing we had a fireplace this week! Am having to settle for warming cardigans on the radiator, which isn’t quite the ambiance.

Stay warm!

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A very simple question for you today:
If I gave you £65 or $100 to spend on scrapbooking supplies, what would you buy?

Totally guilt-free. You can’t have this money to spend on other things in life: just scrapbooking supplies. Paper or digital. Cardstock or adhesive. Ribbon or die cuts. Pick your poison: what would you buy if that shopping spree was yours for the taking?

…because later this month, it just might be. Somebody here is going to win a $100 shopping spree to Two Peas Not today, and not just by commenting, but by playing along with something fun and crafty.

Keep your eyes peeled for details…everything will be revealed here next week.

So…what’s on your wish list?

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_{Supplies: Welcome 2010 page template and Art Greco mini kit by The Queen of Quirk.}

Sent out the final Journal your Christmas prompt this morning until next year. Save one little bonus that goes out next week, that’s the whole year of Christmas all wrapped up! I kept thinking that would mean I would discover newfound free time today but somehow that didn’t happen. Such is life!

I did want to make good on yesterday’s promise to show you a few examples with this week’s new digi template though. So here is a page from me, and two pages from the gallery at Two Peas.

The page on the left is a lovely girly layout by Wilna and the page on the right is a fabulous party page from Scrapdolly. (Click to see either layout more clearly.)

Can’t wait to see even more pages from this template!

I’ve had a few requests to come up with something for digital beginners, so I’ll see what might be useful — but for the moment you can find a few tutorials to get started if you fancy.

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Excited here because we have a new nephew! Watch this space for some crafty projects soon and check out the Frog Blog for his welcome card!

Two new items in my digital store today — and one is for paper scrappers! The Write It Down series will release a new journaling set every Tuesday for 2010 (that’s the plan anyway!) and the kit includes a PDF printable for super-easy use by paper scrappers — just print it out on the paper of your choice, no extra software required. The kit also includes the same designs in the right format for digital scrapbookers (JPG or PNG, depending on the kit) so one kit has everything for everybody! And the Written Down kits are just 99 cents. This week it has a 2010 theme, with cards for resolutions, goals and dreams, and the font matches the Rockabye Thickers from American Crafts just perfectly. Find Write It Down :: Resolutions here.

Plus there’s also a 99 cent digital page template too. I’ll share pages made with that later this week, and you can see a few here already!

UK girls — if you’re snowed in, why not scrap?! I think that sounds like the best plan yet.

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