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Valentine kits - sneakie peekies!

Wow --- this feels so strange not having a monthly kit to show (*sniff*)! But I am really excited to show
you some glimpses (and these are just glimpses because we don't have everything here yet) of the goodies that are going to be in our upcoming vintage project kit and addons to that kit. The main vintage kit is called Beloved, and the add-ons are Cupid and Sweetie Pie. The main kit centers around a project using, from the girls at Maya Road, a lovely Heart Shaped Chipboard Box with a translucent heart shaped window that lets you see the contents. It will come with a Maya Road heart shaped chipboard binder - and oh so many lovely goodies from Making Memories' new Love Story Collection, the enamel heart shaped clips are delicious. And you'll get some vintage styled beauties as promised - just LOOK at those gorgeous crystal head pins in sparkling pink, red and clear and the darling polka dotty mushrooms! And the sweetest Alice in Wonderland White Rabbit scalloped diecuts found on Etsy and handprinted, silkscreened labels from Remake SanFrancisco. The beauty of this project is that you don't have to keep the binder in the box, you can use the box as a gift containing cookies or candy if you like, or use it to store valentines. It's lovely.

The add-on will have a mini project - a sweet banner made from the vintage styled alpha flash cards - new
from Collage Press plus it will be packed with some of the goodies shown to enhance your main project! My favorite from the add-on is that breathtaking filigree style metal Cupid's arrow -- how gorgeous is that!

I can't show you the projects yet because we don't have everything yet to make them, but I am expecting a shipment by mid week. If everything goes as planned, I might have this up as early as Monday or Tuesday next week for sale and we'll start shipping shortly thereafter. You'll want to grab some Martha Stewart Glitter in garnet or clear from Michael's if you can to add some glittery goodness to this project!

I will have atleast one vintage styled image printed for you to use with the project. So many lovelies... enjoy the peek! So what are you doing for new year's eve? Be safe and have a wonderful evening!

 

Happy New Year to you!

Here's our new year greeting digicard of Alekha. I wanted to keep it simple and wintry and focus on the one word message which is in my heart after the tough year much of the world has had. The digital brushes were seen at Keisha's blog and they are Rhonna's Snapshot Frames and Snapshot Brushes available at Two Peas. For those who were wondering, I am still waiting on a few items - but we're putting together a breathtaking Valentine Project Kit and add-on for you. I hope to have some pictures up shortly here. And I'll post some pics from our Disney Cruise when I can. Happy New Year to all of you and may 2008 bring you and your families many blessings of peace, happiness, health and creativity.

Silver Bells Christmas Cottage

I loved Candice's cabin so much that I had to take a quick stab at my own! I chose some different
papers and I added just a light touch of Martha Stewart coarse crystal glitter on the roof, the window shutters and the frame around the door. A few notes -- I used Martha Stewart decoupage glue and sealer to apply the glitter. This comes in a plastic jar with a brush. Initially when I applied it, the paper I had already glued to the roof began to bubble up. After it set for a bit (10 minutes or so) I took a small stick pin and made holes in the bubbles, smoothing out the top. When it dried, the paper lay back down properly and dried flat. The blue glittery star paper will crack when you fold the walls of the chipboard house. You can cover this with a bit of trim (I was going to use silver cord - package and tag trim) or you can leave it cracked for that distressed effect. When you trace the roof pattern, cut the paper a bit larger than the pattern you trace, because when you fold the roof, the paper will shrink leaving the edges exposed. I cut a window into one of the walls so that I could stick a battery operated tealight inside -- Simply trace a small square onto the chipboard and cut carefully with a sharp craft knife. The crystal tree is a Joann's ornament that I decked out with aqua and pink
pom pom balls.

Silver Bells Christmas Tree Album

This little Melissa Frances Christmas Tree Album that was in the Silver Bells Holiday Kit charmed me the minute I laid eyes on it at CHA. There were lots and lots of possibilities as to what to do with it -- but in the end, I was so attracted to the Hambly Rubons that I couldn't help but take the simple and elegant approach. I left the chipboard cover plain with only the rubons as adornment. The Hambly Rubons are SO very beautiful and graphic and lovely that they need little other adornment. The finished look is that of letterpress without the texture of letterpress.

I applied the rubons, then I tied chartreuse velvet ribbon (the perfect complement to that hot pink hambly!)  around the front of the album, I tucked in some glittery berries (a Christmas pick found at hobby lobby) and attached a chipboard charm I made from vintage images taken from Luna Girl (Joyeux Noel Collage Sheet). The chipboard circle was popped out from the little chipboard house included in this kit. I just punched out the image and glued it to the circle, set an eyelet with my Cropodile and voila. It makes a gorgeous gift or you can fill the insides with Christmas pics from this year or years past. Or do an album about all your favorite Christmas tree ornaments and their stories. I will also be uploading my little chipboard house (similar to the one Candice did) and will try to get that uploaded later tonight.

Runs With Glitter & The Snow Queen

I am happy to be back at blogging. I am happy that I am going to have time to blog once again. I realized that I had the same header on this blog that I put up back in July. It's high time for a change -- but it simply attests to the fact of how crazy the past few months have been, and how grateful I am now to have some normalcy back in my life!

Changing the blog header is always such a challenge for me -- I am so technically challenged that it's a miracle when the changes actually take! So I was trying to think of a blog name that would sort of launch me into this new stage of life and this new direction for scrapologie. And Runs With Glitter seemed to fit. Well, the glitter part does anyway. The last time I ran anywhere was too long ago to relate without some degree of embarrassment... but in any case, those are two things I'd like to see more of in my life, running, yeah, and glitter.

So in case you missed it on the site ... we have a fabu kit this month - Nordic Holiday -- and a gorgeous Nordic inspired project kit called The Snow Queen. The inspiration came, of course, from Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen which I read and loved as a child. The colors and direction of the project were totally inspired by my recollection of that reading. The banner is made from a Maya Road chipboard banner coaster album, lots of patterned papers from Webster's, some old Foof, old Daisy Ds and Whimsy Press plus maybe another sheet or two here and there, lots of gorgeous ribbons, laces and trims. The supplement is sold out now - so if you got one -- congrats, you are going to LOVE the way this banner looks on your mantel or hanging over an entryway - it's perfectly gorgeous.

For those who missed it in the newsletter, the December Kit, Nordic Holiday was indeed our final monthly kit. I will be doing for the most part, vintage inspired project based kits that we will sell on a first come first served basis hereafter. Thanks again to all of you who have supported scrapologie these past two and a half years. I can't tell you how much that support has meant to us, and a thanks again to my wonderful design team - without which, scrapologie would not have been what we became to so many people. I will miss the monthly kits, but I am happy in knowing that this change simply represents the closure of one chapter of my life and the start of a new one. And though I am sad about this ending, I am happy about the new beginning and the good things that will come as a result of it.

So we leave on Friday for our Disney Cruise - the first time ever doing Disney Cruise Line, though not our first cruise. Looking forward to some much needed escape time! We hope to have the majority of shipping done by Friday so it's safe to start stalking your mailman in the next few days!