Kaiser Family Tree Class and Scrapbooking with Tracy

Hi everyone,

We have some great classes coming up this week.

Kaiser Family Tree Class

Tuesday 28th July

7pm-9pm

Cost $40

Join us on Tuesday evening to create this unique family tree. Display your old family photos or have a bit of fun with more recent ones as I did. This project makes a special gift for a loved family member or keep it for yourself. Guaranteed to catch the eye when on display.

All materials are supplied in the class kit. Please bring with you a craft knife and cutting mat, scissors, adhesives (suggest Tombo Aqua or Scotch Two Way glue, foam tape and photo splits) and an apron if you wish. This project takes 7 passport sized photos which can be attached at a later date.

Please phone us on 912 0665 now to reserve your place in this fun class.

Kaiser Family Tree

Scrapbooking with Tracy

Monday 27th July

10am-12pm

$25

This bright and cheerful scrapbook page contains a mini matchbox album which opens to reveal up to seven photos. Join us on Monday to complete this page, choose your own papers or copy our sample.

Tracy's example layout

Detailed photo showing the mini matchbook album

Have a great weekend everyone.

~Kathleen, Linda and the Team at NZ Scrapbook

Cricut and Cuttlebug Specials!

Hi All,

I'm very excited to let you all know about our current special offers on Cuttlebug and Cricut that are available in store and online.

-- Cuttlebug Special Offers --

Cuttlebug machines are currently reduced from $159.95 to only $99
that's a saving of $60.95!


We also have two Cuttlebug Alphabet Dies, Typewriter and Fancy Pants on sale for $99!!

Each Cuttlebug Alphabet dies contain complete alphabets, as well as complementary numbers and shapes.

Typewriter

Fancy Pants

PLUS

If you purchase a Cuttlebug at this already reduced price you can then add either the Typewriter or the Fancy Pants Alphabet Die for a total combined price of $159.95!!

Offer available online and instore until 17th August 2009 or while stocks last.


-- Cricut Special Offers --
This Weekend Only

We have an amazing offer for anyone that purchases a Cricut Expressions Machine.

Purchase a Cricut Expressions Machine for $999 and you get to choose a 'free' Cricut cartridge*.
That's a saving of $159.99!

Cricut special is for Friday 17th, Saturday 18th and Monday 20th July Only

* This offer only includes current stock available in store and excludes all licensed/Disney Cartridges.
Please phone us on (09) 912 0665 to find out availability.


but wait there is EVEN MORE....

Current Festival Prize Draw

If you make a purchase in store up until 5.55pm Saturday 18th July you will go into the draw to win your money back.

~Kathleen, Linda and the Team at NZ Scrapbook

Open until Midnight tonight!

Open until Midnight tonight!

As part of our New Zealand Scrapbook Festival of Paper Arts we are OPEN until Midnight tonight Friday 17th July
Join us here at New Zealand's largest and most comprehensive scrapbook store for shopping - there is a HUGE lot of new product. Plus enjoy tea/coffee and light refreshments while you browse the store.

Festival Prize Draw

All purchases Friday and up until 5.55pm Saturday 18th July will go into the draw to win your money back.

Friday's free mini-canvas Make'n'Take

Free Make n Take Today

Everyday during the New Zealand Scrapbook Festival of Paper Crafts we have been having a FREE Make 'n' Take project for you to enjoy. Call in between 10am - 4pm today to create a pretty mini-canvas. Saturday's Free Make'n'Take project is a pretty frame that features die-cutting and embossing techniques.

EASY, FREE and FUN!

Friday 17th July Classes still available:

Photo Tower workshop

Photo Tower
Friday 17th July, 1pm–3pm
Create this eye catching sculptural photo display in this special workshop. Colours and papers can be of your own choosing from our extensive store selection. Class fee is
$35 including materials. Teacher: Wendy Jones

Michelle's Kaisercraft Allsorts Scrapbook Layout

Kaisercraft Allsorts Scrapbook Layout
Friday 17th July, 4pm–6pm
With a bright and clever mixing of colours and patterns Michelle Whorwood has designed this striking layout using one of our favourite manufacturers - Kaisercraft. Create this page for your album. Class Fee $35 including materials.


Festival Crop Event – Retro Baby!
Friday 17th July 6pm–Midnight.
OPTIONAL fancy dress - Come in your 60’s, 70’s or 80’s garb to be in to win the Best dressed prizes. Scrap the night away to the Beetles, Abba, Elvis, Janice, The Doors… through to Madonna and Cyndi Lauper. Make a fun retro mini-project, enjoy light supper and have more than a few
laughs. Bring your current scrapbooking or paper crafts projects and be ready for a great time! Crop event just $15 to attend.


Saturday 18th July Classes

Collage Recipe Stand

Collage Recipe Stand Workshop
Saturday 18th July, 10am–12pm
Echoing bygone eras this collaged recipe stand is a delight to create and can be varied using the materials you will receive in a fabulous collage pack
you will receive by attending this class. This workshop is suitable for all levels of paper crafter. Class fee is $75 and includes materials and mixed media collage pack. Teacher: Kathleen Green



Parent & Child Class
Saturday 18th July, 1pm–3pm
Linda’s popular Parent & Child Class gets a special festival twist. Share the fun of scrapbooking and paper crafts with the children in your life. Suitable for 4-8year child with a adult guardian. Class Fee $20 including materials.
Teacher: Linda Simpson

Saturday 18th July's Kids Class Page

Kids Class
Saturday 18th July, 1pm–3pm
Children aged 8-15 years are invited to attend this scrapbooking workshop. Participants are encouraged to make creative decisions, while making a scrapbook page of their own. Suitable for beginners and experienced scrapbookers. Class Fee $15 including materials.

Scrapbooking with Tracy Sisters Layout

Scrapbooking with Tracy
Saturday 18th July, 4pm–6pm
By popular request Tracy is repeating her pretty ‘Sisters’ layout. Choose your own title to suit your photo. Class fee is $25 including materials. Teacher:
Tracy Dixon

The Fold it, Flip it, Cut it sample book you will make in this workshop

Fold it, Flip it, Cut it Cuttlebug Class
Saturday 18th July, 4pm–6pm
Want more uses and neat effects with your Cuttlebug dies? In this clever Fold it, Flip it, Cut it Cuttlebug Class Wendy will show you how to create all kinds of pretty and lacy backgrounds and die cut shapes that you can use in your cards and scrapbooking projects. Class fee $25 Including materials. Teacher: Wendy Jones

Examples of Artist Trading Cards made by Kathleen

Artist Trading Cards with Kathleen
Saturday 18th July, 4pm–6pm
Mixed Media artist and NZ Scrapbook store owner Kathleen Green has been creating and trading Artist Trading Cards from around the world for the past six years. Come along to this creative class and learn techniques that will have you trading with your arty friends in no time. Suitable for all levels. Comes with a great mixed media collage pack to get you started. $45 including materials for the class and collage pack.



Festival After Party
Saturday 18th July, 6pm–7pm
At the New Zealand Scrapbook Festival of Paper Arts After Party we will be making special
presentations and drawing of our Win Your Money Back prize. All welcome, free to attend. From 6-7pm though you are welcome to stay on until longer if you wish. Come join us for the for a free sausage and chat.

Midnight Shopping - Friday 17th July!

Shop till you drop!

As part of our New Zealand Scrapbook Festival of Paper Arts we are OPEN until Midnight this Friday 17th July
Join us here at New Zealand's largest and most comprehensive scrapbook store for shopping - there is a HUGE lot of new product
Plus enjoy tea/coffee and light refreshments while you browse the store.

Festival Prize Draw
All purchases Friday and up until 5.55pm Saturday 18th July will go into the draw to win your money back.

See you then!
~Kathleen, Linda and the Team at NZ Scrapbook

Festival Special Prize Draw!

All purchases made during our festival event puts you in the draw to win your purchase money back.

Simply fill in a money back entry form at the time of purchase.
Event Dates: Starts Tuesday 14th July (7pm) through to Saturday 18th July (5.55pm)

Prize will be drawn Saturday 18th July at 6pm.

Good luck!

Thursday's FREE Festival Make'n'Take

Free Make'n'Take for Thursday 16th July

Everyday during the New Zealand Scrapbook Festival of Paper Crafts we will be having a FREE Make 'n' Take project for you to enjoy. Call in between 10am - 4pm to learn new techniques in Papercraft!

Thursday's project is this pretty favour/gift pocket with a GIANT Pineapple lump inside. This make'n'take includes folding, stamping and diecutting techniques.

EASY, FREE and FUN!

Holiday Treat Book - Adults and Children welcome

Holiday Treat Mini-book
Date: Thursday 16th July
Time: 1pm-3pm
Teacher: Diane Warner
Class fee: $30 including materials


Create this cute mini book complete with yummy treat recipes. Pretty cupcake option also available. Special guest tutor Diane Warner will take you through the construction step-by- step. Suitable for all levels of paper crafter, children are welcome with an adult.

Phone 09 912 0665 to book

Festival Event: Painless Journaling II - Thursday evening

Painless Journaling featured layout

Painless Journaling II
Date: Thursday 16th July
Time: 7pm
Teacher: Kathleen
Class fee: $25.00 including materials


Earlier in the year we ran this great class that will give you lots of ideas to simplify and de-stress your scrapbook journaling - it was a blast!

Here's what participants had to say about our Painless Journaling Workshop...
"Keep up the great classes"
Adrienne Brewer

"Easy instructions, great 'me' project - loved it! Loved that I didnt need to bring masses of tools etc"
Jo Stanton

"Extremly helpful"

"Thank you for your evenings, always very enjoyable"

"Very informative, made me think more about journaling. I really enjoy meeting new people and creating a layout I never thought of otherwise".
Alice Mills

"Opening my eyes to journaling "It has been painful" - Brilliant!"
Tania Casey

"Thoroughly enjoyed it"
Faye Gregory

"Awesome as per usual - fab ladies and gorgeous product. Keep up the terrific work, we love the social interaction and comradeship NZ Scrapbook encourages."
Wendy Stewart

For our class running this Thursday night re-vamped with a new page using the New Release Making Memories Great Escape Products. Previous participants are welcome to attend!

Come along and create this page and be in to win some great scrapbooking prizes. Tea and coffee to follow.

Phone 09 912 0665 to book

Collage Recipe Stand Workshop

Collaged Recipe Stand example

In this hands on creative collage class you will learn collage techniques and leave with a beautiful stand to display and use. As part of the class you will receive a huge collage pack of goodies which includes a lovely selection of images and papers - you can also bring your own images if you wish.

Collage Recipe Stand Workshop
Date: Saturday 18th July
Time: 10am - 12pm
Teacher: Kathleen Green
Class fee: $75 Includes all materials and collage pack

Phone 09 912 0665 to book

Jacob's Ladder Class

So I got my young man to demonstrate the Jacob Ladder album that we have as a workshop tomorrow Thursday 16th July at 10am. Until I get my brother-in-law to show me how to edit it you will have to lie on your side to watch it! Each page flips in domino style.



Jacob's Ladder Class
Date: Thursday 16th July
Time: 10am- 12pm
Teacher: Tracy Dixon
Class Fee: $35.00 including materials

Phone 09 912 0665 to book your space.

Wednesday's FREE Festival Make'n'Take Project

Wednesday 15th July's Free Make n Take Project

Everyday during the New Zealand Scrapbook Festival of Paper Crafts we will be having a FREE Make 'n' Take project for you to enjoy. Call in between 10am - 4pm to learn new techniques in Papercraft!

Wednesday's project is this lovely gift parcel that can be opened at each end to insert confectionery or a small gift. This Make 'n' Take project includes stamping and diecutting and embossing.

EASY, FREE and FUN!

Making Memories Product Preview Layout

Featured layout for Wednesday night's Making Memories Product Preview

I love how Making Memories puts simplicity and style back into scrapbooking. When you join us for our Product Preview Event this Wednesday night (15th July 2009 at 7pm) we will be making this clean and fresh layout as well as a lovely journaling block for a wedding layout.

Please bring: One or two 4"x6" photos (or one 5"x7" photo), basic kit (fine tip scissors, trimmer and photo splits). If you have Glue dots then bring those too as they are very easy to use for adhering small embellishments.

Cost to attend this event is $25 and includes materials to make the two projects.
Phone 09 912 0665 to book your space.

Festival Event! Product Preview: Making Memories

Hi everyone,

Preparations are steaming ahead for this weeks New Zealand Scrapbook Festival of Paper Arts and we are pleased to announce the featured scrapbooking brand for Wednesday night's Product Preview event....

Product Preview: Making Memories "Just Chillin, traveling and more"
Date: Wednesday 15th July
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Fee: $25 including product/project pack


Making Memories have some innovative new products, come along to our Wednesday night Festival Product Preview Event to check them out!

New Releases:

Just Chillin' Boy and Girl Ranges

One of the Just Chillin' double sided girl papers

Great Escape Travel Range

Great Escape Word Fetti

Wedding Range

Wedding Rub-ons

Flower Patch Embellishment pack

and our featured layout for the evening will be using the very pretty: Flower Patch range.

(stay tuned for a photo of the layout to come)

At just $25 to attend you will receive product/project pack to make the page and bonus project using Making Memories products, be entered in to win some great prizes with tea/coffee to follow.

Phone 09 912 0665 to book your space!

~Kathleen, Linda and the team at NZ Scrapbook

Heaps of New Product just in time for the Festival

Stunning new papers

New Products, stands and displays!

If you have called in during the last week you will have noticed some changes, call in on Monday and you will see the store fairies (official title) have been at work!

We have been unpacking a huge amount of stock... here is just a little taste of what is now in store:

New My Minds Eye Papers, gorgeous rub-ons and embellishments

New 12" x 12" Vellums

New 8 1/2" x11" vellums

More restock on wood Kaisercraft Products

New albums

DMC Embroidery Floss

New Basic Grey Papers

Adhesive Backed ribbons

New Ribbons

Beautiful paper flowers

Kids craft products

...and everywhere through the store is MORE new papers

Come on down and check it out before the New Zealand Scrapbook Festival of Paper Arts rush!

~Kathleen, Linda and the Team at NZ Scrapbook

Product Preview Take Home Project Instructions

Hi Everyone,

My posting of the Take Home Project Instructions for last weeks Kaisercraft Product Preview has been somewhat tardy - but I think if you call into the shop and see the line up of classes for next week's festival and the INSANE amount of new stock we have had come into the store you will forgive us for being otherwise occupied. Blog post to come about the new products...


Kaisercraft Wooden Journal or Photo mount frames

1. Paint the edges or back of the wooden mounts with acrylic paint. We used brown but you could use cream, blue or olive successfully too.
2. Rub the surface of the wood with glue stick and adhere the dot paper to one mount and the design paper to the other. Trim along the edges with a craft knife or scalpel. Cut through the patterned paper to reveal the ribbon slots.
   
3. Cut a square or rectangle of blue patterned paper to fit in the center of the mounts and trim with a corner rounder.
   
4. Mat the blue patterned paper with brown cardstock and trim the corners with a corner rounder.
5. Cut the ribbon into four pieces and thread through the mount slots. Stitch a X as a decorative fastener.
6. Embellish the frames with a flourish, flower and brads.
   

Festival Class - All Boy Layout with Michelle!

Michelle's bright and playful Boy layout

Scrapbooking boy pages can be challenging at times. So many papers are pretty, flowery.. and just straight out girlie! To help you with your boy layouts the talented and friendly Michelle Reid (who also teaches our Thursday night crop nights) has created this colourful layout using the new Robot themed papers from Kaisercraft. Come along and make this page and learn how to make Ultra thick embossed lettering too.

All Boy Layout
Date: Wednesday 15th July 2009
Time: 1-3pm
Teacher: Michelle Reid
Class fee: $25 which includes materials

Phone 09 912 0665 to book

NZ Scrapbook Festival of Paper Arts - Opening night event!

Hello scrapbooking friends!

You are invited to join us for a fun creative night as we open our very first New Zealand Scrapbook Festival of Paper Arts four day event.

From7-9pm this Tuesday 14th July we will be taking a closer look at the upcoming classes, enjoy light refreshments, create a bright summer reminiscent scrapbook page and everyone who attends will receive a Festival Goodie Bag and automatically entered in to win some great scrapbook product prizes!

This is the layout we will be making on this Opening Night using the new Pina Colada papers from Kaisercraft. Features the fun technique of using clear micro beads.

New Zealand Scrapbook Festival of Paper Arts - Opening Night event
Pina Colada Layout
Date: Tuesday 14th July
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Event fee: $29.00
Phone 09 912 0665 to book your space.


Please bring: Basic kit (paper trimmer, fine tip scissors and adhesives), a black felt tip pen and a photograph (the sample uses a 5"x7" photo but the layout can be adjusted for other photograph sizes).

Scrapbooking with Tracy - This Monday

Layout for this Monday 13th July - repeat by request

Scrapbooking with Tracy
Date Monday 8th June
Time 10am
Fee $25.00 including materials

Phone 09 912 0665 to book your space

DT Layouts with Kaiser Craft papers

I just dropped off a few LOs to the shop that I made using gorgeous Kaisercraft products. I love Kaisercraft and I'm seriously excited about the launch of their new product lines on Monday. It is so easy to make a great LO using co-ordinating product from one manufacturer and Kaiswercraft have it all covered from paper and chipboard to rub-ons and stamps. then ofcourse there is all their gorgeous bling - yummy.

Thanks for looking :)Sarah G