Show Tickets Coming Available + Gypsy Cricut Giveaway

Looking for the PERFECT (& priceless) gift this year? You don't have to look any further!

Pick up tickets for yourself and for those you love and give the gift of a

"DAY OUT TOGETHER"

Your mother, sisters, friends, daughters and other special ladies in your life will Thank YOU!

The Original Scrapbook USA Expo will be here March 22-23, 2013!

Early Tickets* are available beginning tomorrow (12/12/12) for a LIMITED TIME!

Purchase tickets, print and these will be "Stocking Stuffers" that will be LOVED!

Available Tickets include:

1 Day $12.00

2 Day $22.00

Early Bird $20.00

Young Scrapper's Club $12.00 (Use code "club" for buy 1 get 1 free)**

VIP (limited quantities) - 20% off

All Night Crop (limited quantities)

Early Online Tickets will be available through December 24th (or until gone)

Remaining tickets will go on sale again on February 13th.

*Tickets are non-refundable

**Young Scrapper's Club Activities will be held Friday March 22, 2013 from 5:00-9:00 pm. Activities include: General Show Admission, Karaoke, dancing, nails, glitter tattoos, crafts and treats. Appropriate for ages 6-12. Must have a Young Scrapper's Ticket to enter. Children under 10 get into the show free but must purchase a Young Scrapper's Ticket to enter Club Activities.

PLUS! Let's spread some Holiday Cheer with a little Giveaway!

Who would like to see a Cricut Gypsy under their tree this year?

Enter for your chance to have one delivered to your doorstep in time for Christmas Morning!

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December Challenge Using our Card Sketch

Hello and good morning!!!!

It's Wendi here, and I am super excited to share the new December challenge with you today... Since this is the month of Christmas, and if you are like me, you still have a TON of Christmas or holidays cards that need to get made and sent out. So for this month's challenge we are providing you with a card sketch to get your mojo kick started.

Use this sketch to create a Christmas card:

I created this card with the sketch, using Basic Grey's Aspen Frost line

In addition I do want to add in that each time you make a card to remember to make one extra to bring to the show to donate to our "Care With Cards" program. We collected over 10,000 cards in 2012 that were donated to Huntsman Cancer Institute and Operation Write Home.

So since you have the sketch handy, why not just make another card????
Here's a second card that I created with the same sketch:

I also used the Basic Grey Card Kit which creates 12 cards!!!!! They were super easy and fun to put together. I ended up adding some machine stitching and some pop dots to add a bit to each card.
Here are the three cards, and then there is enough in the kit to make 4 of each:

 And here's what I finished with:

Talk about boosting your stash quickly...

So for the December Challenge:
Create a NEW card using the sketch above.
If you have a blog ADD your project to this blog post using the link below, NO LATER than December 31, midnight MST. If you do not have a blog please e-mail a photo of your project to info@scrapbookusaexpo.com and we will add your project here.
You can enter a MAX of TWO times, one for the card you create and the second for the card to be brought to the "Care With Cards" program.

A random winner will receive a prize from the entries for this contest and it's a wonderful prize pack from My Mind's Eye PLUS everyone who participates will receive a free ticket to our March show!!!!!

Have fun and craft away!!!!!

My Mind's Eye Christmas Layout

Hello friends! It's Heather and I have another fun holiday layout to share with you today using the ADORABLE Winter Wonderland collection from My Mind's Eye. I love the bright colors in this collection, it was really fun to work with. Here is my layout:

 My cute nephews got their picture taken with 'Santa' (it was their dad dressed as Santa, how cute is that??) and the bright colors in the photo matched perfectly with the bright colors in the papers. I used a cute sketch from Jenny Evans as inspiration, and then just ran with it. I started with some spray ink on white cardstock. I figured out that if you depress the nozzle slowly you get the bigger paint splatters, vs the fine mist you get when you depress it quickly. I like the bigger splatters so it took a lot of trial and error to figure that out!

Next I cut out a bunch of solid circles and circle frames on my die cutting machine out of several different coordinating papers and layered them beneath my photo. I topped them with some cute buttons and chipboard shapes for a fun, whimsical look.

I used a sticker as my title (love what a time saver that is!!) and added some additional stickers and my project was complete! I hope you enjoyed my project, thanks so much for stopping by today!!

Basic Grey Christmas Layout

I have another cute Aspen Frost by Basic Grey layout to show you, brought to you by ScrapbookUSA Expo! My earlier layout was fun and eclectic and pretty darn busy, so I thought I'd show you how well this collection also lends itself to the quick and simple. This layout came together very quickly, but it looks great!

I started by setting up my pictures to print onto a single 8 1/2x11 sheet, leaving that bottom middle space blank. Once I got that printed out, I just had to layer the various papers together, add a few stickers and tags, and it was done! I'm not generally a very quick scrapper, but with the awesome coordinated products Basic Grey sent me, I was able to get this done lickety-split and still feel like it has my own personal stamp. Love it!

Christmas Canvas Decor with DCWV

Hello my wonderful friends!

While searching YouTube for a video that I could remember watching, but couldn't find, I came across some fun videos about melting crayons to make art... Now, I've worked with beeswax before, but the idea of all those colored crayons had me itching to play myself.

I started out with a mini canvas. I then covered it in a stamped tissue paper. After, it was a just a matter of melting crayons and spraying inks... Tons of fun!

However, it needed a focal image... 

The "Traditional Holiday" stack from DCWV has these amazing little scenes printed in tag sizes... They are stunning! It was just the perfect size to fit the canvas.  I love these little images! 12x12 images can be so overwhelming sometimes. It is nice to have the option of going small.

Enjoy!

~Kassi

Supplies used:

Paper: DCWV "Traditional Holiday" stack, tissue paper

Ink: Distress Ink, Archival Ink

Stamps: Heartfelt Creations "Amazing Grace", Great Impressions "Magic and Wonder

Other: Rock Candy glitter, mini canvas, crayons

Crafty Christmas 2 Page Layout

Hey there! Ange here, with a Christmas layout using DCWV Crafty Christmas!

 

  It's getting to be that time of year and if you haven't already gotten your family photos done, you're probably looking into scheduling one. Every time we do a family shoot we end up with many "out-takes" before we get the "good" photo. But often I love the out-takes almost as much as the photo I'm after. It's all about the little moments, isn't it? So this layout has the "good" family photo that I used for Christmas cards last year, along with some of the funny photos that preceded it. 

 

  These papers are so awesome! I love the heavy weight and the kraft... need I say more? Ok, I will. :) I love these little embossed stockings hung along the top and since I was following a 2 page sketch from Nuts About Sketches, I grabbed both papers from the stack for my base. Then I cut 2 strips from the red polka dot for matting the photos and ran some washi tape along the top and bottom. The journaling spot is the backside of the present pp, also embossed! I cut one piece to back the journaling, cut another for the journaling and edged it with tape and then fussy cut some of the presents out for embellies. Then I used the tag pp (it's embossed too!) for the title, backing it with some green cs and tying a bit of twine around it, and fussy cut the cute little tree from that pp also. I did my beloved inking of the edges on all the cut pieces of pp but not around the layout itself. Super simple but so fun! Here's couple close-ups and a list of products used. :)Ange

DCWV- pp, cs

Nuts About Sketches- sketch #241

downtowntape- live, laugh... 

stampin up- red & green markers

smash- date stamp 

colorbox- brown ink

ektools- foam tape

tombow- tape runner 

stash- striped tape & twine

Happy Monday & Monthly Monday Challenge Winner

It's official, December is here! Last night I did something that I have never done before. I wrapped Christmas presents the first week of December. Usually I don't even start thinking about it until around the 18th or so but this year, I am on top of it! I only had 5 or 6 to wrap so it wasn't huge but everything I have bought, I have wrapped (almost).

I never like to save things for the last minute, even though it seems to happen more often than not. It is for this reason that I love our new Challenges that we will be hosting each month. Why not get things done when the Challenge is here and share them with each other? Plus there is always the chance of winning a great prize just for participating!  Last month we hosted our very first Challenge! Thanks so much to those who participated. I am looking forward to doing this each month so keep watch because our next challenge begins next Monday. The best part of December's challenge is that it will inspire each of us to get going on another one of those Holiday activities that sometimes get procrastinated to the last minute.

Our November Challenge participation prize was sponsored by Basic Grey! They have some darling products out right now including their new Aspen Frost Collection. Such fun colors and designs! I am really excited to play around with these Holiday and winter themed papers!

Our very first Challenge winner is Jill from Every Day Is An Occasion! Thanks SO much for participating Jill! If you missed her Thankful projects hop over to her blog and you won't be disappointed!

Check out below for more Basic Grey inspiration and have a Happy Week!