Scrapbooking Bus Tour Brisbane To Gold Cost

by Jill on February 8, 2010

Scrap of Difference has a new scrapbooking bus tour running from Brisbane to the Gold Coast on Saturday 27th February, 2010. The tour will take in four stores including the new Kaisercraft Factory outlet store at Robina.
There are two options available for tickets at this time…
1. A TOUR ONLY ticket which gives you your ticket [...]

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American Crafts Ink Pads

Manufacturer Watch 8th Feb

by Jill on February 8, 2010

First up some big industry news, Rusty Pickle announced it is closing down. Very sad news indeed.
Let’s have a look at what else the scrapbooking manufacturers have been up to this week.

Studio Calico has a paper rose tutorial and a Sunday sketch idea to try.
Simply Renee covers some trendy techniques including reverse stenciling, letter pressing [...]

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Manufacturer Watch 2nd Feb

2 February 2010
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If you thought the scrapbooking manufacturers were finished revealing new products, not quite:

American Crafts revealed some new adhesives called This To That (pictured). The new range includes tape runners, glue runners, double-sided tape, foam dots and foam tabs.
Creative Imaginations unveiled new collection Beach Days.
Fancy Pants showed off new collection Rusted Sun and a new range [...]

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GCD Studios 2010 DT Call

1 February 2010
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GCD Studios is looking for a new 2010 design team. There are 15 spots up for grabs including 3 altered item specialists, 5 card makers, 5 for layouts and 2 international members. Two spots are being reserved for new talent (ie unpublished scrappers).
Call closes 27th February. New team members announced 5th March.
For further details, read [...]

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Basic Grey CHA Winter 2010

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Some readers may have noticed I’m not entirely impartial to a bit of Basic Grey loveliness, although in general being a scrapbooking manufacturer groupie is not really my thing. (No offence intended toward any manufacturer groupies who may be reading. )
Basic Grey has several brand new collections up on their website including:

Green At Heart [...]

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Sale-A-Bration At Trace’s Craft Time

28 January 2010

Trace’s Craft Time along with Stampin’ Up!® is celebrating the launch of Sale-A-Bration.
For every $100 purchase receive a free stamp set from the Sale-A-Bration catalogue. If you join up as a demonstrator during Sale-A-Bration you will receive a free stamp set of your choice from the idea book & catalogue.
Call Trace to place an order [...]

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Video Of The Week 27th Jan

27 January 2010
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This week I’ve enjoyed watching a video from Shimmerz demonstrating a technique called “monoprinting” to create a scrapbooking page background. The technique involves dripping various paint colours onto a transparency (or acetate) sheet. A second transparency sheet is then placed over the top of the paint droplets. The top sheet is pressed down to “squish” [...]

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Manufacturer Watch 26th Jan

26 January 2010
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The scrapbooking manufacturers are full of everything CHA at the moment. If you’re looking for all the latest products from CHA, visit our CHA Winter 2010 Sneak Peeks page. (I think my fingers are bleeding from typing all the updates. )
Fortunately there was at least some non-CHA related news this week:

Studio Calico features a [...]

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Recommended Blog: The Hybrid Chick

22 January 2010
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Today I thought I’d recommend one of my newest favourite blogs – The Hybrid Chick. For anyone who may not know, the term “hybrid” refers to the use of both of digital and traditional techniques in a project. If you’re not a digital scrapper (I only dabble), don’t necessarily be put off. There’s plenty of [...]

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Top 6 Reasons We Don’t Scrap

21 January 2010
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I have a confession to make. I was once a scrapper. Note the past tense. I can hardly claim to be a scrapper in the true sense of the word these days when I probably haven’t completed a page in the last 6 months. I can also count the number of pages I’ve completed in [...]

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