New Catalog Link 2

http://www.flipcity.com/fvx/ulib/1f57b05b-9b24-4fbb-8631-8b2b09442f2f/9147/1/Web/mybook.html

New Catalog Link 1

http://www.flipcity.com/fvx/ulib/1f57b05b-9b24-4fbb-8631-8b2b09442f2f/9184/1/Web/mybook.html For ordering information email us at shop.scraptoit@yahoo.com

Goings and Comings

Many of you are aware that 2011 has been a bit bumpy with the loss of both parents earlier this year.  It required me to close up shop temporarily and hurry home to attend to my parent's final affairs.  It seems like months have passed since this whole process began back in January.  Its now well into April and its time to return back to my life and my scrappy world.  I'm grateful for all that I've learned through this journey.  I look forward to what life lessons lie ahead.

Looking forward to seeing you all soon!

Card Club 1/5 Project

Sneak peek for our next card class project.  (eek..looks like I need to re-do this w/o the envie). 

Reminder:  Class starts at 10:30.  Please bring your own tools and adhesives.  Everything else will be supplied for you.  Cost is $4.00.

See you in class!

Christmas Project Days

We 're making a list.  Checking it twice.
Gotta be sure we've got just the right projects
To help you with your holiday shopping and gifting lists.

Check out the store website at http://www.scraptoit.com/
We've left our front page open to all our projects.
The calendare is set for the dates/times.
Now all you have to do is sign up and join us.

Online Catalog Now Available

New exciting things are available.
New products to purchase.
New tools to try out.
New catalog to browse.

http://www.flipcity.com/fvx/ulib/1f57b05b-9b24-4fbb-8631-8b2b09442f2f/5681/1/Web/mybook.html

Project Day

Are you in need of getting a few projects completed?
Are you getting ready to get back in to scrapping now that the kids will be heading to school soon?

Scrap-To-It! has the answer.
Every other Thursday, bring your project and come work at the shop.
Cost is $5.00 for the day (11:00 AM - 4:30 PM)
Includes:  use of tools, dies, etc.
                   run a tab for purchases
                   microwave, fridge, etc available if needed (or several local places deliver)
                   lots of great lighting
                   friendly atmosphere
                  
Check the calendar on the website and call to reserve a spot.
If you are just getting started -- we're here to help

Come join us - Project Fall.  Wrap up this year with your projects completed!
 

4th of July Event Photo Taking

Yesterday a friend shared a great idea with me for my son's wedding.  I've taken her idea and included it here in my July GID (Get It Done) suggestion.

This holiday, while you are running around making sure the buns and mustard and potato salad are all in place, set a few disposable cameras around your BBQ/picnic area and have your family and guests be the ones to help snap photos of your event. (Keep and eye on the small paparazzi or you'll have shots of the lawn or someone's nose!!!)

After your event and your photos are back from the lab, stop by Scrap-To-It! and make a raw chip album or order a special word book to put your photos in of your event.

It's a great way to get out from behind the camera and capture some fun photo memories.  Each photographer has his/her own eye and each of the different perspectives can be captured in a unique photo sharing/memory keeping experience.

Happy Independence Day!

Scrap-To-It! Get It Done Summer Classes

Get It Done Classes  -

With the inception of Scrap-To-It! our mantra has been 'getting around to-it.'  Finding that "to-it" to learn that new technique, organize that box of picutres or that craft table.  Finding your 'to-it' is easier said and done.  We have developed a new series of classes designed and taught by Scrap-To-It! to tackle this very process.  We are excited to offer this to you as our first 'Get It Done!" online summer class program.

Each week we will focus on a new theme or area of development and broadcast class via e-mail.  As classes grow will open up other areas of techniqual opportunities such as our message board, yahoo group or other online options to hold classes and view video programs or chat with one another during sessions. 

If you are like most of us you make to-do lists, you drop notes into your iphone or blackberry or planner of all the project you would need to get done.
You think and plan and put more energy into the what to do it than the actual doing. 

This 6-week course begins with an introduction e-mail and then a subsequent e-mail sent each Monday thereafter.  Each week we will focus on one area or theme.  The cost of this class is $35.00.  You can pay at my shop, over the phone, or via paypal. 

 Registration is now open and will reamin open until June 25.

The first session begins on Monday June 28th with an introduction and planning week session.  

To register - send an email to shop.scraptoit.com with 'join Get It Done' in the subject line.   Be sure to let me know in the e-mail your payment choice.

We hope you'll join us and Get It Done!  this summer.



Special note -- those of you who may be traveling that last week in June and want to start class but feel you will get behind  -- don't worry.  Off-setting your start date is not an issue and you will still be able to take part in all the sessions and activities from this course.

Flowers, Pretty Pretty Flowers

Have you been by the shop to see the sweet little blooms we made during Flowers 101?
They are sooo cute!

Now I'm on a flower quest.  I'm looking at punches, techniques, embellies and all sorts of things to increase my floral creativity skills.  Watch out Flowers 201 is on the way!!!

If you missed the first session -- e-mail us and we'll schedule a repeat.

Life x30 Workshop - Update

Life - x 30 Workshop  (Due to my trip to the hospital I am rescheduling this class. )

You are special, you're the only one.......   Oh wait that sounds like a child's song.  But the message of the lyric is true.  You are unique and the way you spend your day is unique as well.  What was life like for your mom or grandmom?  How are things different today than in their day?  How will your day be different than your children or grandchildren?  In this workshop we will spend 30 days recording life, how we live it on a daily basis.  We'll include some of our favorite things like music and places we shop or eat.   With the addition of though-provoking journaling prompts we'll put together a project that will highligh You and add reflection to the life you live and the goals you have for yourself.

Come join us!


"...the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all." Leo Rosten




I am going to offer two class fee options:

1.  $65.00 for the full class project.
      Includes 2 classes with projects at each session and one crop night as well as the 30 daily assignments

2.  $35.00 for the two classes and the night crop.  There will be project kits available to purchase, if you choose.


The Scope and Sequence for this workshop includes:

1.  Daily photo and journal assignments

2.  Two group class days to work on your layouts for this album project.   These days will also include additional project and journaling promts that will add interest to the project and theme.

3.  One night wrap-up crop to complete the album

A Different Kind of Class

Life - Times 30

I am developing new classes and projects for Scrap-To-It! that I hope will bring a lot of fun to why we scrap.  Years ago the reason that scrappers spent hours putting pictures into albums was to preserve memories of their life.  Time has past and  I think some of the purpose and intent has been lost as we have gotten crazier and crazier into off the chart layouts.  I'm not knocking the unbelievable design artist and their work.  We have learned a lot from them, however, what I want to get back to is the story.   That is what Life - X30 is all about.

 Its a story about you, told by you, scrapped by you -- as it happens.  Think about it as reality scrapbooking.  We all know about reality TV -- well...this project is going to be real -- the real YOU!

Join with us and see what 30 days can do for you.

By the way -- we posted a special offer on the main blog.  We are anxious to do this project and would love to have you join us.  To get the ball rolling we've posted a special discount for the first few who sign up and pre-pay.

Come on!  It's going to be a month of some of the most fun, most thought provoking moments you've scrapped in a while.

Hello March!

It is so awesome to greet this new month and all the exciting events that we have to look forward to.  Changes and growth are in the works and its a good feeling.  Yesterday we spent the day moving from the second floor where we have been since mid-2007 to the main floor.  The move went well even though  my muscles are complaining today.   Awesome friends came to help making quick work of it all. 

Today's gratitude is for windows and a view out into the world.  It is wonderful to be able to sit and look from my laptop and scrap area to the world outside.  The traffic and the train bring life to my day.  I am a main floor gal!  All you high-rise dwellers can have it!  I like to be able to see life happen around me.  

As soon as I get my boxes cleared out I'll post some pictures of our new digs.  Ironically years ago I stopped by to check out this very space as a possible store front.  The timing wasn't right then and it took me a little while to build and grow, but today I find it fitting to finally be sitting in the space that I have been drawn to for years for my little store.  I'm seeing tons of possibilities here and can see that the path I took was the one best suited for me to be where I am now.

I'm looking forward to all the great classes we have in the works.  Having all the light in the work room will be awesome.  Being able to have more space, more tables, more... Its all so exciting.

We look forward to your next visit to see our new space and share in our excitement.

Upcoming Metal Art Class at STI!

We have a new altered art project coming up next month that we are too excited to keep under wraps.  This is just the beginning of some new classes that we will be teaching at Scrap-To-It!

The cost of the class is $50.00 and includes a beginning tool kit that you keep and will use in future classes and for your own creative projects.

Sign up soon.  Space in this first class is limited.  Pre-pay is required so that we can purchase your tool kit to use on the day of class.

Move Update

Did you come in the building today hoping to avoid the stairs and elevator? 

Did you see that space on the first floor looking not so much like Scrap-To-It1?

Don't despair!  We are still planning to move downstairs.  Plans have been postponned until the current tenant has fully cleaned/cleared out.  Looks like the end of Feb/first of March now. 

I need a new countdown ticker ;)  !!!!

Let's see..let's think of something to do while we're waiting......!!!!

Moving Madness

Do you like to move?  Packing is something I put off until I can almost not get away with my procrastination any longer.  Then the after burners kick in and I am a packing machine.  I can't stop.  I clean and organize and wear myself to a frazzle and I have to say - yuck!  I dread it.  I know it is supposed to be exciting to go to a new place.  I know you are supposed to feel all refreshed with the new clean space and everything ordered again.  Ummmm....Yuck!   

Maybe its all the dry skin from wrapping stuff and the tape runner insanity....but moving is NOT! for me. 

Lucily, this time I don't think it will involve wrapping paper and cardboard boxes.  This time - its shove it in the elevator and let the elevator run down and up the stairs for me.   (little grin there at the elevator having to do most of my work for me..tee hee!!)

Seriously -- we are getting anxious now.  Everyday we come by the new space and hope the old tenants have hauled out the rest of their things.  (Drat!  can't tell...still the file cab and phone sitting there.....umm...drum .. drum ..drum....fingers tapping on the window like the woman in the old Mervyn's commercials).   

7 more days and counting!!!

Bear with us as we work at trying to get things in order without too much hassle for you.  Hopefully we can get most of the product downstairs on Monday when we are closed and by Tuesday we'll have a bit less chaos going on by the time  you arrive to shop.  My goal is not to have to drag you up and down the stairs looking for things that are still in the old place when I'm in the new place. 

Classes are still on the books for that first week in February too.  Card class is at 10:30 Wednesday and our mini-album project on Thursday.


We may adjust our hours next Saturday if we can get in the new space.  Adjustments will be on the website or you can call the shop and see if we are open.

Getting close!!  Tell your friends - Scrap-To-It! is moving.  Same building but downstairs where you can SEE!!!!! us.

Moving Sale

We are making changes in 2010.
Change #1 - Move STI!

Save Our Back Sale!
 Almost Everything on sale
 $20 - 50 purchase - save $5.00
 $50 - 75 purchase - save $10.00
 $75 - 100 purchase - save $15.00

Online Preview Party!

We had a great preview party for Hero and I thought that since Stampendous has some really fun new stamps as well we would hold an online party for them.

http://www.stampendous.com/products/32763?n=1


Visit the website from the link above and e-mail your orders to me.  There are awesome scripture and other sentiment stamps released in the clings that are very nice. 

First door prize -   20% off first order I receive over $30.00
Second door prize - 15% off the next two orders over $25.00


Keep you eye on the blogs over the holidays as we will still be offering special promotions to you. 

Shopping for a new sign...

My Sign Saga....

Many of my regulars know all about my sign drama and probably others of you have seen the post that has been loitering at the top of the weblog on the store site about the frozen ground.  So last night (on my birthday - mind you ) we spend the majority of the evening trolling the pipe isles of the local building supply store.  If this was boring to me, imagine how it was for our 8 year old dd.  After a cute conversation with the help on that isle (really nice gentleman that was a machinist by trade)  we have all our gear in hand and are ready to check out. 

I have to tell you that I am a bit leary about the whole thing.  My DH and the landlord ( a builder by profession) have concocted this course of action to help me be able to get the sign in the ground during the winter frozen months.  After having the proceedure carefully explained and pictures drawn (so I can get a 'visual') I gave the ok.  The plan  includes some nifty extensions that should help propel the signage up above the cars that park curbside.   All this with the great desire on my part for people to be able to find me.

Since having this little business I have been ever so impressed on the importance of good signage and the ability for people to be able to see where you are.   A few local restrictions have not made this easy on me.  Add this to the fact that signage is darn expensive and much of my stress has come from trying to get this just right and legal.

Construction begins this afternoon.  So....look for the sign again - up higher !!  and in its place all year round.  Wish us luck.  Time will tell when the snows come if the place holders that will be put into the ground will be accessable.  But I have high hopes for this - at least when there isn't snow.  Trying to shove the triangulared legs of a metal sign into frozen earth is not high on my list first thing in the AM when I am still frozen from my treck across town (its a blessing we live close to the shop  - but in the winter that means I'm at work before the vehicle is warm - let alone ME! ;).

And thanks DH! for standing out in the cold today to get this situation a little aid.  Hurry over so you can get started.  Its actually 37 degrees here today (compared to the 22 you would have had to deal with yesterday) .  Glad we waited.


UPDATE:  It Worked!!!   Its a little weird carrying out these long black poles - but hey -- at least my sign is back up.  First person to stop by the shop and talk to me about the sign will receive a special gift!

My New Toy!

It's not really new, but its not one of my regulars that I have used for years.  I've actually only owned if a short while and like a lot of things, have left it on the shelf more than in my work area.  But last week, when I was going mini-book crazy again (as I sometimes do) I pulled it out and found a ton of fun things online to do with it. 

Besides 3 mini books, I made a triangular gift box (could be an ornament if made smaller) and a gift bac from an envelope!

Fun!

If you want to learn how - schedule a class at STI! and we'll teach you.

But you might want to order one of these toys when you are done LOL!!!