SALE TODAY!!!!

That's right ladies, we are having our after Christmas sale today. So bring in those Gift Certificates that you got for Christmas and enjoy 25% off your entire purchase(excludes classes and gift certificates)!!! Monday 27th December from 11am-6pm.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Girls at SnS

Christmas is both a sacred religious holiday and a worldwide cultural and commercial phenomenon. For two millennia, people around the world have been observing it with traditions and practices that are both religious and secular in nature. Christians celebrate Christmas Day as the anniversary of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, a spiritual leader whose teachings form the basis of their religion. Popular customs include exchanging gifts, decorating Christmas trees, attending church, sharing meals with family and friends and, of course, waiting for Santa Claus to arrive. December 25–Christmas Day–has been a federal holiday in the United States since 1870. (history.com)

What are some of your family's favorite holiday traditions?

After Christmas Sale

That's right ladies, we are having an after Christmas sale. So bring in those Gift Certificates that you got for Christmas and enjoy 25% off your entire purchase(excludes classes and gift certificates)!!! Monday 27th December from 11am-6pm.

Holiday Hours

Merry Christmas everyone!! All the girls at Scrap-n-Stamp hope you have a wonderful Christmas. If you haven't made it to the store to get some fabulous stocking stuffer's for your favorite scrapbooker or card maker you only have a couple of days left. Don't forget we have gift certificates. Here are the holiday hours for this week.

Thursday Dec 23rd 11am-4pm
Friday Dec 24th Closed
Saturday Dec 25th Closed
Sunday Dec 26th Closed

Baker's Dozen

Ladies if you didn't get a chance to take our Baker's Dozen Christmas card class, I have bad news. The class is sold out :-( Thank you to all our customers who took the class, we hope you enjoyed it.

There is a silver lining for those that missed out. We will have another Baker's Dozen card class in the spring. So make sure you sign up early for our Spring Baker's Dozen card class. I will post it here and on Facebook when the class is available.

Holiday Gift Ideas

If you are like me you are trying to get your Christmas shopping done so you can get it all wrapped and not have to worry about it last minute. We have some great gifts at Scrap-n-Stamp, not only do we have a ton of paper, stamps, and embellishments. You can purchase gift cards for that special someone.

In addition to all those fabulous gift ideas the girls have also created a few other options. We have beautiful handmade necklaces that are made with Asian paper. These make wonderful gifts and they are only $10 for a small and $15 for a large.Debbie and Renee have been extra creative this year and came up with some fabulous metal bulletin boards. They have a piece of cork on them so you can pin notes, magnets so you can put pictures on them as well, or you can use the post-it pad that comes with it. They can be custom designed, so if you have a teenager these are great. We can customize them by high school, sport or any other theme. You have to come check these out. These would make an awesome gift for that special teacher. See a couple of the designs below.

Christmas Baker's Dozen

That's right the Christmas Baker's Dozen card class is here. All the girls at Scrap-n-Stamp have been working hard coming up with fabulously creative Christmas themed cards. This is one class you will not want to miss. You will make 13 different cards and for just $40. That is $3.00 a card, what a great deal for hand made cards. Hurry we only have a certain number of kits, and we have already had people sign up. Did I mention you can take the class any time during store hours(must start two hours prior to closing to allow enough time), that way you can come when it's convenient for you.

Black Friday and Saturday!!!

Now that you have stuffed yourself with Turkey, come to our sale. It's a good time to get all your supplies for your Christmas cards or gifts for the special someone. If your like me you have to get your own stocking stuffers, a few ideas: Stickles, ink pads, and glue are a few great ideas. 25% off your entire purchase this Friday and Saturday from 10am-6pm (excludes classes and gift card purchases). Hope to see you at the store.

Happy Thanksgiving...digital scrapbooking in minutes :-)

So I thought I try this digital scrapbooking since my sister in law is in town and all she does is digital. I'm all for technology but always so hesitant with digital which meant more time in front of the computer. But seriously, took my 30 minutes and I came up with the awesome creations, so very simple! The best part is I can send it "video" to my family members or I could take it to Scrap -n- Stamp and print all the pages out! Fantastic! Need more info...come by SnS and we'll hep you out!

We hope you have a fantastic Thanksgiving and may you have plenty of memories to carry on for generations!

Free scrapbook generated with Smilebox

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!! The girls as Scrap-n-Stamp hope you have a wonderful day filled with friends, family and all the turkey you can eat :-) We are closing at 4pm on the 24th and we will be closed Thanksgiving day.

Black Friday at Scrap-n-Stamp starts at 10AM, hope to see you there...and yes there will be a sale on Friday and Saturday. Will post more details on Thursday.

Elk Grove Turkey Trot

This really doesn't have anything to do with Scrapbooking or Card Making but it is something my husband and I decided to do this Thanksgiving. The Elk Grove Turkey Trot is a 5K / 10K race for participants of all ages and fitness categories. Turnout at the first annual event, held in 2009, was amazing and raised $6700 to support Courage to be You. Please visit the C2BU website to learn more about the ways the money raised through participating in the race went towards the Courage House. We look forward to seeing you on Thanksgiving morning!

If you are interested there is still time to register for the race: Elk Grove Turkey Trot

I guess you could scrapbook some great pictures from the race. I will post mine after the race :-)

Giving Thanks

OK ladies, I'm a bit behind in blogging. I know Thanksgiving is just around the corner and many of you will have friends and family over for a huge feast. Do you need some decorating ideas?? How about some cute napkin rings or place cards. You have to check out what the girls at invitations ink have put together. They are super creative and talented!! Check out their website or facebook page every Friday they post some great freebies.

Ideas from the girls at Invitations Ink
http://www.invitations-ink.com/

It's time to scrap those Halloween memories...

Bo Bunny always comes up with the most FUN papers and embellishments. Check out our ONE eye monster 6x6 corrugated album. This was pretty fun class! It's not too late to get that paper while we still have it...

To celebrate the end of World War 1 - hostilities ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

US President Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed an "Armistace Day" for November 11, 1918. In proclaiming the holiday he said...

"To us in America, the reflections of Armistace Day will be filled with lots of pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and for the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of nations."

In 1954, Armistace Day was changed to Veterans Day to pay honor to those that fell in World War 2. And those words that were spoken almost a hundred years ago, apply even to this day.

Wishing one of our very own Scrap-N-Stamp gals, Sommer (Army helicopter pilot), a very happy Veterans Day. We appreciate that you are here with us "scrappin" away and thank you for the service that you provided to make us safer. The girls at Scrap-N-Stamp thank those that served and those that are currently serving our country. We would also like to thank all of the people that support the armed forces of the Unites States. Especially to the spouses and significant others who deal with long deployments, late nights at the office and other hardships that a military life may bring. It takes a special person to truly understand and deal with this lifestyle. In honor of Veterans Day, we will be offering everyone our military discount of 20% of every purchase on Friday November 12 through Saturday November 13 (excludes classes and giftcards).

Thank You Veterans

Happy Veterans Day to all my fellow Veterans!! Thank you for your service and Thank you to those who continue to serve. Here are a few interesting facts about veterans.

9 million: The number of veterans 65 and older in 2009. At the other end of the age spectrum, 1.7 million were younger than 35.
21.9 million: The number of military veterans in the United States in 2009.

1.5 million: The number of female veterans in 2009.

Tool Time

Here is another one of my creations for one of my husbands employee's. He is really into tools and gadgets. So I decided to make him a toolbox card. I used my pazzle and created all the hardware on the toolbox and the lettering. I think it turned out pretty good. Brads and pop-up foam also added dimension.

Just in from 3 Bugs

We just received the Tool Time and the Snow Much Fun Collections. OK, we didn't just get these I'm a little behind on blogging. They are both great papers and you could use them for all kinds of wonderful creations. Come by and check them out.

Scrapbook Expo Sacramento!!!

Ladies tomorrow is the start of the Scrapbook Expo right here in Sacramento!!! Scrap-n-Stamp will be there and we have a fabulous Disney themed Make-n-Take. If you stop by Scrap-n-Stamp you can pick up a coupon for $2.00 off admission. Here are all the details:

Scrapbook Expo Sacramento
Sacramento Convention Center
Friday 10am-6PM
Saturday 9am-5pm

A few new collections from The Paper Company...

Here are a couple of pictures, but as you know the papers always look better in person. So come on by and check out the rest of these collections:

So Delish:

Back to School:

Rockets n Rayguns:

Halloween is just around the corner

My Little Yellow Bicycle's Boo-ville collection just arrived at Scrap-n-Stamp!!! Come check out these great papers for some inspiration. We also have coordinating embellishments.

Facebook Fan page

Did you know Scrap-n-Stamp has a Facebook page??? Well if you didn't, now you know. What's great about the Facebook page is all our blogs post to our Facebook page as well. So if sometimes you don't have time to check our blog but you are addicted to Facebook like me you can keep up with the latest and greatest things that are happening at Scrap-n-Stamp!!! Just click on the link on our website and you will be directed to our Facebook page. Or in the search field on Facebook type Scrap-n-Stamp.

BoBunny Challenge

OK Ladies, this is a challenge in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Come by Scrap-n-Stamp and get some free BoBunny goodies(First 12 Customers). Use those goodies to scrap one 12x12 page sharing a story about cancer. You layout must contain at lest 75% of BoBunny Products. Bring your layout to Scrap-n-Stamp By the 18th of October. The girls will then pick one layout to submit to BoBunny. BoBunny will select a winner from all the layouts they received. Call Debbie if you have additional question.

Party for an artist...

Kaitlyn's 3rd birthday is coming and I wanted to make a super cute party invite. But first I had to come up with a theme. Her first year I did cupcakes, and her second was a Halloween Costume party. This year was pretty easy to come up with a theme since she loves to color and paint. So I designed this Crayola box invite below using my Pazzle.

You lift the flap and pull out the crayon's.

I used glossy accents on the end of the crayon's to make them shiny.
Since it's her 3rd Birthday I used three crayon's.

I glued the three crayon's to a piece of black paper and on the back is the party information. I picked Orange since it's Kait's favorite color. And the other two colors just looked good with the Orange.
Here is the back of the invite. I used Orange Ink around the edges and Tattered Angle's spray to give it that painted look.

Tool Time

Here is another one of my cards I made for one of my husbands employees, and once again I can't take the credit. I copied this one from a fathers day card that one of the girls at Scrap-n-Stamp made, but it works great for a Birthday card too. The one that I copied had super cut brads that looked like screw heads, but we were all out of them at the store.

Twilight Lovers....

You know Halloween is right around the corner, and since Twilight is such a huge hit I figure there will be ton's of people dressing up as Twilight charters. So I picked Fearless Vampire Killers as the Font of the month. Also we have Twilight paper at Scrap-n-Stamp!!! We have the paper below and it has Vampire written on the top. The coordinating stickers are available too!

Happy 3rd Birthday Jack!!!

Here is the card I made for Jack, his party is baseball theme, so I thought this would be perfect. You could also use this a party invitation and just put the information on the back of the glove instead of making it a card that opens. Or you can use Kim's super cute idea and cut out the baseballs and put the party information on the back. Either way they are sure to be a hit!!! Happy Birthday Jack, I can't believe you and Kait are already 3.

Lettering Delights

I was chatting with Rachel at the store one day and she was telling me about this really cool website, Lettering Delights. This site is great if you are a card maker, digital Scrapbooker or a traditional Scrapbooker. You can purchase all kinds of different fonts, images, digital papers and they even have freebies. Right now they are having a dollar day sale!!! So check it out and let me know what you think. Also if you have a favorite site you like to go to let me know so I can share it with everyone.

For the guys..

Here is a great card for the guys. This card was originally designed and created by Lisa, unfortunately she no longer lives in Elk Grove :-( I stole her design and re-made this card. I think it turned out pretty cool. I used glossy accents to make it look like water is dripping down the mug. we can cut the mug out on the Pazzle if you would like to make your own beer mug card.

Circus

My mom took Kaitlyn to the Circus when they were in town, so I thought it would be nice to send her a cute Thank You Card. I had an idea in my head, but I wasn't sure I would be able to find the images on my Pazzle, but sure enough there was a circus tent and a cute elephant. I think I'm going to cut out another tent for Kaitlyn's scrapbook. If you need a circus tent for your scrapbook come by the store, you can pick out the paper you like and have it cut to the size you want.

Jan Ken Po Gakko Craft Fair

Just another reminder ladies, tomorrow Saturday, September 25th (9am-3:30pm) is the Gakko Craft Fair here in Elk Grove. Get some of your Christmas shopping done early with very unique gifts. Did I mention Scrap-N-Stamp will be there? The girls have been busy this year creating some new things for the craft fair, so you have to go check them out. My favorite by far is the memo boards painted and decorated in fabulous papers from the store. The boards are really neat they feature a metal surface where you can post notes with magnets and a cork board section. There are a limited number of boards so you better get there early if you want one.

Stop by and visit Debbie and receive a 40% off one item coupon to use a Scrap-n-Stamp on Saturday as well!!!

Location: Sacramento Asian Sports Foundation (SASF)
Saturday, September 25th
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Jan Ken Po Gakko Craft Fair

I know there are several holidays before Christmas, but this is a great event to get a jump start on your gift shopping!!! So check out this craft fair for some great Asian inspired gifts.

Saturday, September 25Location: Sacramento Asian Sports Foundation (SASF)
Time: 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM

www.jankenpogakko.com

Do you have a daughter that loves Juicy Couture?

Then you have to come to the store and check out this new line of paper!!! It from TPC Studio and it's called Girlfriends. Here are a couple of pictures, it's much sassier in person :-) Perfect for party invites, birthday cards or scrappin' those teenage years. You may not want to remember those teenage years now, but someday you will want to look back and laugh.

Two new BoBunny Collections....

We just received The Peacock Lane and The Block Party Collections!!! Check out the pictures below, we also have some of the coordinating stickers and embellishments.

City by the Bay

New San Francisco paper and chipboard embellishments from Paper House Productions!! Perfect for Scrapbooking a trip to San Francisco or for school projects. We also have Washington D.C. paper and stickers. When your kids are doing a report don't forget to come by the store and see what we have :-)

Another great collection from TPC Studio.

We just received the Undersea Adventures Collection from TPC Studio. The School of Fish and Bubbles papers are actually metallic, they are very cute.

School of Fish

Follow the Yellow Brick Road.....

You guessed it, we have Wizzard of Oz paper and stickers from Paper House Productions. This would be perfect for me, My girlfriend and I just went to San Francisco and saw "Wicked"!!! Or this would be great for a Halloween page, which by the way is just around the corner.

National Grandparents Day

Sunday, September 12th is National Grandparents Day!!! So don't forget to thank those wonderful Grandparents that love and spoil your precious children. Maybe send them a Thank You card. Come by Scrap-n-Stamp for some great pre-made cards.

Creativity

I'm currently going back to school for my MBA. I was doing one of my reading assignments and I came across this in my text book:

Research suggests that we are more creative when we’re in good moods, so if
we need to be creative we should do things that make us happy. Perhaps that is
listening to music we enjoy, eating foods we like, watching funny movies, or
socializing with others.32 There is also evidence that suggests being around others
who are creative can actually make us more inspired, especially if we’re creatively
“stuck.” (Organization Behavior By Stephen P. Robbins, Timothy A. Judge)

This made me think about Scrap-n-Stamp and what a great place it is for inspiration.

New Back 2 School Line...

Just in from Best Creations the Back2School line, it's supper cute. It was a must have for me since my little Kaitlyn just started her first year of pre-school and I'm super excited to Scrap the memories!! We also received some basic glitter paper from Best Creations, it will look great with a wide variety of papers. We currently have yellow, black and two shades of pink available. It reminds me of the Bo Bunny double Dot, except it has glitter!!! You can't go wrong with that. You can see the picture below, but it is sooo much cuter in person.