Christmas Express!

Scrapbooking Techniques with Tracy - Christmas Train project
Date: Monday 13th December at 10am and Thursday 16th December at 7pm
Class fee: $35 including materials
Please bring: Your basic kit (scissors, paper trimmer, ruler and pencil) and adhesives.

All aboard the Christmas Express! Tracy has turned one of the Kaisercraft Train kits into an eye-catching table feature. Fill with Christmas lollies and presents this Holiday Season. Always wanted to make one of the Kaisercraft Beyond the Page projects but not sure where to start.. this is a great opportunity to have a go. Suitable for beginner and experienced paper crafters.

Phone 09 912 0665 to book.

Scrapbooking Techniques with Tracy - Four tiered gift box

Gift box - closed

Scrapbooking Techniques with Tracy - Four tiered gift box
Date: Monday 6th December at 10am and Thursday 9th December at 7pm
Class fee: $25 including materials
Please bring: Basic kit and adhesives

This is such a lovely project. With the lid on it is an unsuspecting gift box but when you open it up it reveals stacking drawers perfect for filling with treats. In this workshop Tracy will show you how to create the box and you will be able to decorate it in your choice of papers from the store. Choose Christmas papers if you wish or papers to suit the recipient.

Phone 09 912 0665 to book.

Gift box open

Serviette Canvas Instructions

Decorated Canvas using serviettes

Heyas!
Over on my personal blog I have posted instructions on how to make a Decorated Canvas using serviettes... reeeally easy.. you have seen that big basket of gorgeous serviettes in the store right?

Here's how to use them!... check out the blog post HERE


Oh and the canvas I made is in store if you would like a closer look :)
~Kathleen

Tuesday Classes! Start the week crafting.

Happy Monday!
As always, classes at New Zealand Scrapbook are pumping along... boy it is good fun keeping up with our ever growing schedule.

Tomorrow - Tuesday 29th June, we have FOUR classes you can be involved in. Check them out:

Samantha with her Beginners Workshop page featuring her brother David - nice one!

Beginners Scrapbooking
Date: Tuesday 29th June
Time: 10am - 12noon or 7-9pm
Class fee: $20 including materials

Would you like to try Scrapbooking or have a friend who is interested in giving it a go? Fortnightly we run Beginners Scrapbooking workshops and this is your opportunity to learn the ins and outs of scrapbooking, what you need and where to start. Our tutors will guide you through making a page and you will leave with a finished layout for your album. No materials needed - just bring yourself and a photo or two.

Gift box closed - love the vintage style flower

Gift box open - lovely layers!

Four Tiered Gift Box
Date: Tuesday 29th June
Time: 7-9pm
Class fee: $25 including materials

The first time I saw this gift box my response has been the same as everyone I've shown it to since - Wow! so cool! This clever gift or storage box has a lift off lid and opens from the side. As it opens it reveals four stacked drawers for goodies. You can see it in action on the beginning of the School Holiday Program video or come and see it in the store. Attend the class and make your own. You will be able to select papers of your choice for a truly personalized project. No experience necessary. Tutor/designer: Paula Saunders

Heritage Workshop layout for Tuesday

Heritage Workshop
Date: Tuesday 29th June
Time: 7-9pm
Class fee: $25 including materials

Don't miss this specialised series of Heritage Workshops. Creating your own family history album can be challenging so in this special class you can have some excellent guidence by scrapbooking tutor Deborah McCollough. This week she will be teaching her torn edge layered layout perfect for scrapbooking smaller photographs up to 4" x6" photos. You will be able to select papers from the store and will leave with a completed layout for your Heritage Album.

It's all in the details - lovely

For more information about these classes or to book your space please phone 09 912 0665
Have a fab week!
~Kathleen, Linda and the team at NZ Scrapbook

Workshops this week at NZ Scrapbook

Time for some workshop inspiration! Here is the line up of classes from Tuesday - Saturday this week at NZ Scrapbook...

Decorated Canvas sample - choose your own colours and papers if you wish

Decorated Canvas Class
Date: Tuesday 22nd June
Time: 7 - 9pm
Class fee: $29.50 including materials
Please bring: A photo to include on your canvas, basic kit (adhesives, trimmer, scissors and pencil)

Come and create a beautiful decorated canvas for your wall, easel or to give as a personalised gift. Bring a photo of your choice and you will have the opportunity to match it up with papers from the store. You will learn how to make the pretty scalloped flowers and use texture paint pens.

Suitable for beginners through to advanced paper crafters.


Daytime Crop
Date: Wednesday 23rd June
Time: 10am - 2pm
Class fee: $10
Please bring: Your current projects, tools and materials.

Daytime opportunity to work on your scrapbooking pages and papercraft projects. Crop tutor Tracy is on hand to offer helpful assistance. Optional: You are invited if you wish to bring a lunch plate to share. All welcome.


Copic Marker - Bonus Class three
Date: Wednesday 23rd June
Time: 7 - 9pm
Class fee: $20 plus specific marker colours. (approximately 7 markers depending on what colours you already have - please phone the store for more info).
Please bring: Scissors, adhesives and Copic markers (clearly labeled) that you already have in your collection.

This class is for those participants who have attended Weeks One and Two. This session we learn about Shading, light sources, hair and skin colouring! Super fun. Interested in future Copic classes and missed the first two? Register your interest by phoning the store on 09 912 0665


Crop Night
Date: Thursday 24th June from 6pm
Class fee: $10
Please Bring: Your current pages/projects to work on. Tools and materials. Additional product may be purchased during the evening from the store.

Crop nights are our weekly social night. Work on your pages, share ideas and get help when you need it. Bring your current project and prepare to be inspired!

'Dirty' Speedyway journal spread

Kathleen's Journal Workshop
Date: Thursday 24th June
Time: 6.30 - 8.30pm
Class fee: $35 includes full colour handout, materials and a journal to keep.

Creative Journal keeping is more than just writing a diary, it's creatively responding to inspiration in our every day lives. At this introductory class Kathleen will share with you strategies for successful journal writing, some creative presentation techniques and get you started on a journal of your own. Class fee is $35 and includes materials and a journal to keep. All welcome.

Scrapbooking Techniques with Tracy - Paper quilling flowers layout

Scrapbooking Techniques with Tracy - quilling flowers page
Date: Thursday 24th June
Time: 7-9pm
Class fee: $25 which includes materials
Please bring: a photo, adhesives and your basic kit (scissors, pencil, paper trimmer)

In this class Tracy will be teaching you how easy it is to create a pretty page using the new Quilling dies and tools. Such a pretty floral wreath to go around a central photo. Suitable for all levels of scrapbooker and paper crafter.


Top Secret Cuttlebug Class - Week 10!
Date: Friday 25th June at 10am (repeated again Monday 28th June at 7pm)
Class fee: $20 including materials
Please bring: Cuttlebug and boards, basic kit (scissors and adhesives)

Wow already we are at the end of our 110 Techniques! If you have been to any of the sessions during this series you are welcome to join us for the last ten (101 - 110) techniques in this series. For the next two weeks we will put into practice what we have learned with two project nights (more info to come). If you missed this series don't worry we start back up with Week One in July!

MEGA Crop
Date: Friday 25th June
Time: 6pm until Midnight
Class fee: $10
Please bring: Your current pages/projects to work on. Tools and materials. Additional product may be purchased during the evening from the store.

MEGA Crop has become hugely popular at the store. Last month we even had people working upstairs and downstairs - the place was buzzing! We would love for you to join the fun. Come along and work on your layouts, create our Make'n'Take project, and enjoy a light supper. All welcome.

Paula and Tracy teaching the Mother and Daughter Workshop

Missing Summer? Come to the Mother & Daughter workshop to create this HOT page!

Mother and Daughter Workshop
Date: Saturday 26th June
Time: 3 - 5pm
Class fee: $15 per person which includes materials
Please bring: Basic tools if you have them (scissors, trimmer, ruler, pencil) and adhesives (glue and photosplits)

Mums and children, aunts and nieces, neigbours and friends come along for an afternoon of scrapbooking, afternoon tea, scrapbook game and prizes at our "Mother and Daughter" Workshop. Summer fun layout project - please bring photos to suit if you have some.

Friendly ladies, friendly classes - ALL WELCOME

With between TEN to FIFTEEN classes a week, no other store offers such a comprehensive range of scrapbooking and papercraft workshops. We know you will enjoy your products and crafts so much more if you know the ins and and outs of using them! We encourage you to come along and broaden your scrapbooking and papercraft skills... plus you are likely to make a friend or two. All our classes are friendly and relaxed, we love to papercraft and look forward to sharing techniques and project ideas with you.

Phone 09 912 0665 to book your space at any of these great classes today.
Have a fab week!
~Kathleen, Linda and the Team at NZ Scrapbook


(edit 22nd June to add Mother and Daughter workshop project layout)

Canvas Workshop this Tuesday

Firstly WELCOME to scrapbook and craft teacher Paula Saunders! Paula has been with us before and took a break with other commitments. We are very happy to have her friendly face and craft talents back as part of our team.

Paula will be teaching so beautiful off the page style projects over the coming months - check out the stunning Canvas Workshop she has prepared for this Tuesday 18th May.


Decorated Canvas Workshop
Tuesday 18th May at 7pm
Class fee: $29.50 which includes canvas and materials.
Please bring: A photo (approx 4"x6"), your basic tools (scissors, craft knife and mat, pencil, ruler) and adhesives (recommended: photo splits, a wet glue such as Quick Dry Tacky Adhesive and Glue Dots for embellishments)

Always wanted to make a decorated canvas but not sure where to start? Paula will show you how! Bring a photo of your choice and you will have the opportunity to match it up with papers from the store. Learn how to make the pretty scalloped flowers and use texture paint pens.

Suitable for beginners through to advanced paper crafters.
Phone 09 912 0665

Note: This class will be repeated Tuesday June 22nd at 7pm. Come to both and make two!

Customer Inspiration... and a half! Sue Knibbs

Sue with her stunning canvas

When Sue Knibbs, one of our dear customers (and past participant of some of my workshops) came to visit the store on Saturday with a black wrapped parcel under her arm she exclaimed some nerves on showing me. Nerves of what I'm not quite sure since what she presented could be described as masterpiece!

What I adore about this beautiful piece of art work is it is every bit Sue, handcrafted with care and thought and truly made with love.

Detail of the crackle finish, stamping and serviette design

Sue and I spent some time discussing the method and details in the creation of this artwork. Here is some of the techniques and thoughts of note:

• Sue started out with a sketch and an idea stemming from an idea to use the beautiful SevenGypsies Victoria bird stamps. As her artwork developed the only idea that resulted in the finished piece was the use of the stamps as her ideas evolved so much.
• Background colours were brushed and sponged with acrylic paint.
• The colours she chose were a new combination for Sue. They work together brilliantly!
• The vine images are from serviettes. It is worth noting that she painstakingly cut each vine out buy hand to get a perfect result. Edges of the serviette were pushed inwards as she glued to get a slight bit of edge texture.
• Each of the stamped images (birds, text, doll images) were stamped onto tissue rather than directly to the canvas with Stazon ink. By stamping onto tissue, miss-stamping was avoided. Stazon ink doesn't run when adhesive is added and produces a nice black sharp image.
  
• Each stamped image was carefully cut out before adding to the canvas. The white parts of the tissue turn clear when adhesive is added but cutting out produces better clarity in the background colours.
• Sue's glue of choice is Mod Podge.
• Some of the background texture was created by applying acrylic in her various colours directly to fiberglass mesh (Magic Mesh) and then using that as a stamp to apply a grid texture.
• The ornate classic image was from a $2 shop frame.
• If any lines or areas didn't stamp dark enough or wasn't defined enough she would go back over them with her pen/acrylics to get the result she wanted.
  
• The crackle medium Sue used is our favourite Helmars Brand (available at NZ Scrapbook).
• Sue completed her art with one of our other favourite products - Bullseye Spray Shellac. So easy, so yum! 12 light coats to finish.

I liked how Sue also commented that she would say to herself "How am I going to fix this?" So often that is the case. Its persisting and problem solving that art evolves. Much like life! hehe



So wouldn't you agree - WOW! Sue has done a beautiful job.

Thank you Sue for bringing it in to show me, and letting me show my Blog readers. Enjoy it in your home, I am happy you are proud of what you have created - you should be! Yay you!!

~Kathleen x

Beautiful!

Customer Inspiration: Decorated gift bag

Check out the lovely gift bag customer Jinny has been making this week. I snapped this pic as she was shopping for more black, white and red supplies to make more baggies. Incidentally she chose the Kaisercraft Shaken not Stirred range - the perfect colour combination. I especially liked how she covered the front and the back of a standard brown gusset bag with cardstock and patterned paper and then to form a closure a big circle hole punch was punched in the top to use as a handle and tie with ribbon.

Thanks for the inspiration Jinny!

KaiserCraft Christmas!! New products now in!

Off the page Gingerbread Man decorated with Cheer paper collection

Kaiser Craft Christmas products have arrived! These have been a much anticipated arrival and now is the time to get started on those personalized handmade cards, Christmas decorations and gifts. Also, this is a great time to choose from a full range of Christmas scrapbooking supplies to scrap those years past!

While most companies bring out just one or two Christmas paper ranges, Kaiser Craft have offered up SIX new paper ranges that will delight all tastes! From the Wish Upon collection with its pastel holly and subtle stars... to Dash Away All with its strong traditional designs of rich reds and greens...

the real question is: how to choose?!

As always, Kaiser Craft excels in their Beyond The Page products and when you see the inspiration in the latest FREE Kaiser Workshop magazine prepare to be wowed! My personal favourites are the Days Til Christmas freestanding advent tree (page20) with its interchangeable hanging number tags, the Gingerbread Men (page 13) - oh so cute! and the Bauble Tag Album (page 23) - very very pretty, I would love to see a Baby’s first Christmas inspired by this project.

Bauble Tag Album decorated with the Wish Upon paper collection

Call in store to pick up your FREE COPY of the Christmas edition of KaiserWorkshop.

Kaiser Craft Christmas Rub ons

Perfect for cards and pages there are ALOT of designs on one sheet. I can see that the sheet aptly entitled Christmas Cards is going to be very popular. This is a large sheet FULL of sentiments perfect for that Christmas card finishing touch.

Six new Rub-on sheets have been released in this Christmas 2008 range. Yay!!

To fully round out the selection we have in stock now the new Kaiser Craft Christmas Clear Stamps. There are two releases: Merry Christmas which is trees, snowflakes, stars and sentiments. Doodled Christmas: Christmas ornaments, tree, holly, sentiments and a journal box with a cool swirly doodled flair.

Right now, our shipment is getting priced and out onto the shop floor, samples are being started, calls are going out for pre-ordered items and products are being uploaded onto our website for online ordering. Its all go when a yummy Kaiser order arrives! Be in quick to see this fantastic new range!

Have a great day :)

~Kathleen, Linda and the team at NZ Scrapbook

Swivel Christmas Tree decorated with the Christmas Spirit paper collection

Product Preview: Three Bugs in a Rug "It's snuggly in here!"

Hi all,
Time for another fab Product Preview Event! A brand new range to NZ Scrapbook, Three Bugs in a Rug is fun, bright and very on target with the kind of product we look to use everyday in our scrapbooking.

You are going to love making our main project for the evening. Using the Three Bugs in a Rug exploding box kit we are going to make this Boy or Girl themed Memory Box and card.

Our Boy themed memory box project (girl option is available)

Product Preview: Three Bugs in a Rug "It's snuggly in here!"
This Tuesday 26th August at 7pm
Entry fee just $20 which includes a Project/product pack of the Memory Box kit, card project and Take Home Project layout kit- total value over $30!
You will be automatically entered in to win some great door prizes
Tea, coffee and refreshments will be served at the end of the evening

Memory Box project shown open with its pages and additional card

Phone 09 912 0665 to book your seat and your preference for a boy or girl kit.

Hope you can make it!
~Kathleen, Linda and the Team at NZ Scrapbook

Memory box detail

Mid-winter Christmas Decoration Contest - Everybody's a winner!

Hi All!

Thank-you to our kind sponsors KaiserCraft, everyone who entered our fun Mid-winter Christmas Decoration Contest walked away with a cute KaiserCraft CAR (album...heheheh). We loved all your entries and the ideas have really made me rethink my own decorations for this upcoming Christmas.

I especially loved how many kids entries we had and the number of FAMILIES that got involved. I am very pleased our event gave you impetus to spend family time creating!

Here are our wonderful entries in both the Adults and Kids Categories, each entrant could enter up to three times:

Adrienne Brewer

Adrienne creatively cut aluminum fizzy drink cans with her Cuttlebug to create her decorations.

Conner Dalton cleverly combined popcorn and die cut shapes in his tree decoration... I think I have spiral stuck in my teeth! oh noes.. you mean it was only for looking at?? douh!

Second prize in our Kids Category went to Eva McGregor. What a great idea combining a Barbie, KaiserCraft wooden wing album and specialty papers and flowers in this stunning entry!

Jamie Rogers and her glittery snowflake santa.

Katrina Dixon our Second Prize winner in the Adults Category. Check out her cute snowman reading about our Mid-winter Christmas Celebrations!

Blair McIntosh. Glitter Santa!

Emily McIntosh. Cos well Santa has to wash his digs too!

Kate McIntosh. Glittery snowflake and Tinkerbell.

The McIntosh Family...

...something tells me maybe DAD is the scrapbooker??

Tracy Sparke. Bold blue.

Victoria Sparke. Cuttlebug shapes work great!

Victoria Sparke. Cute snowman!

Johnathan Sparke. Even snowmen need little houses. Joy!

Alister Sparke. I like the sticker shape combo here.

Victoria Sparke.
Great use of the KaiserCraft Mini-circle Album pages!

Tracey Sparke. Clever paper folding.

The Sparke Family with their prizes!

Sharell Grass

Sharell Grass - So vibrant just like her!

Sharell Grass - Great Kiwi feel decoration with the Paua and Green spiral handmade paper punches.

Meg Schermbrucher. This clay molded decoration mobile is SO sweet!

Myles Lasham. Cool Cuttlebug Poinsettia

Erica Lasham. Christmas scrapbooking paper becomes a striking decoration fan.

Erica Lasham. Ooh I wonder what could be held on with those pegs? notes? Lollies!

Erica Lasham. Love the Christmas coloured buttons.

Myles Lasham. Myles how did you know birds are so IN?! :)

Jensen Lasham. Metal charms look great in this.

Jensen Lasham. That is some serious Cuttlebug work!

Myles Lasham. Cute star.

The Lasham Family!

Liam Dixon. Twisty fun.

Liam Dixon with his great decoration and prize!

Lucia Challinor. KindyGlitz santa - cool!

WHEW! Thanks for all your great entries!! and enjoy your car albums :)
~Kathleen