Merry Christmas and Christmas Hours - We are OPEN

Linda and Kathleen

Hello friends,

We had a wonderful turnout for our 12 Days of Christmas Event Party on Tuesday night. Thank you to everyone who attended and made it such a great evening.


We are OPEN over the Christmas period. Our hours are as follows:

Thursday 23rd December: OPEN 9am - 9pm
Friday Christmas Eve: OPEN 9am - 6pm
Saturday Christmas Day: Closed
Sunday Boxing Day: Closed

Monday 27th December: OPEN 9am - 6pm
Tuesday 28th December: OPEN 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 29th December: OPEN 9am - 6pm
Thursday 30th December: OPEN 9am - 6pm
Friday 31st December: OPEN 9am - 6pm
Saturday 1st January: OPEN 10am - 6pm
Sunday 2nd January: Closed

Monday 3rd January: OPEN 9am - 9pm Normal hours resume (Open 9am - 9pm Six Days)



Linda and I and all the team at NZ Scrapbook would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas. We love offering you a unique store with the very best classes and selection in the world of scrapbooking and paper craft that we can come up with.

This year has been a very challenging year... its tough out there in the world of retail! We are a family business and your support is valued and appreciated. So we want to send you a heartfelt THANKYOU for your loyal custom. We love that we can assist you, get to know you, be inspired by your craft and hopefully inspire in return. So many of have become very good friends. We wish each and everyone of you much joy and laughter over the Christmas season.

With love and kind wishes
Kathleen, Linda, Tracy, Paula, Kathy, David, Fenn, Michelle, Chantelle, Deborah, Sarah, Shanez, Mary, Crystal and Leanne.

12 Days of Christmas Event Party TOMORROW (Tuesday night)

Hi Friends,
A reminder that our 12 Days of Christmas Event Party/Shopping Night is tomorrow night Tuesday 21st December from 6pm.

We have a wonderful evening planned!

Twelve Days of Christmas Party
Customer Shopping Night

Tuesday 21st December
Anytime from 6pm, finishing at 10pm

Join us for:

• FREE Christmas Make'n'Takes
• Christmas Cake and Bubbles
• Product demonstrations
• FREE goodie bag for everyone who attends
  

PLUS

ALL SPECIALS from the past 12 Days will be on special again FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY

That is:

$1.00 Bazzill Special
Face and Bodycare products 50% off
Die Cuts with a View stacks 30% off
Copic Markers 30% off
Patterned Paper 30% off
Kaisercraft products 30% off
Prima products 30% off
7Gypsies products 30% off
Basic Grey products 30% off
Cuttlebug products 25% off
Albums and refills 25% off
Tim Holtz products 30% off

ONE NIGHT ONLY
Tuesday 21st December 6pm - 10pm

Christmas Gifts for everyone

There is a wonderful Christmas gift from us for the first SIXTY people through the door from 6pm. After that, the gift is equally good... just not Christmas themed.

The gift pictured above includes:

• Kaisercraft Christmas Rhinestone word
• Tim Holtz Birdcage and Bird Diecut
• Fibre collection
• Christmas Ribbons and Button embellishments.

FREE for just attending our Fun shopping night and to thank you for being wonderful customers during the year.

We have THREE awesome Make'n'Take Projects to participate in:

Make'n'Take One: Lacy paper Christmas embellishments

Make'n'Take Two: Vintage Decoration

Make'n'Take Three: Copic Marker Coloured Santa (sorry no photo)

These are all FREE projects that you can create during the evening if you wish. Suitable for beginners and experienced crafters alike.

Special event WORKSHOP

Of course our 12 Days of Christmas WORKSHOPS were a wonderful highlight for the past two weeks. We can't re-run all our classes on the night but we can offer a very special REPEAT of Tracy's popular Christmas Gift Box class during the evening.
So if you missed it the first time around be sure to book in by phoning 09 912 0665. Class runs from 7pm - 9pm so come at 6pm and join in the festivities before and after the class.

Four Tier Present Box closed

Eighth Day of Christmas Repeat class - Four Tier Present Box
Date: Tuesday 21st December at 7pm
Tutor: Tracy
Class fee: $25 including materials
Please bring: Basic kit (scissors, pencil, ruler, paper trimmer) and adhesives.

Four Tiered Gift box open

It's all GO here at NZ Scrapbook. Take some time out and enjoy our fun evening. We would ove to wish you a Merry Christmas in person.
~Kathleen, Linda and the team at NZ Scrapbook

Stylish Gift wrapping and easy!

On the Blog a year ago today:

Beautifully wrapped makes a little gift super special

When the lovely Fenn arrived a work this morning bearing wee gifts for myself and the girls I just had to show you! At first look you would be sure it was packaged that way but it is actually hand wrapped with scrapbook paper! They feel crisp and smart and the little details really sing.

Crimped and zig zag edge

So I hit up Fenn to find out how create them too...

1. This works best with a small compact gift.. something tells me there is a chocolate bar inside :)
2. Cut scrapbook paper so it folds around the gift snuggly and adhere closed with double sided tape.
3. Insert two strips of double sided tape at each open end and PRESS closed rather than fold.
4. Trim each end with zig zag pinking shears.
5. Heres the super cool part: Insert each end into paper crimpers to create pinched fold ends.
6. Cut small Christmas images from Christmas scrapbook paper or stickers, add little embellishments such as rhinestones, flowers and kindy glitz to decorate the gifts.
   

Inserting the end into the paper crimper

Congratulations David!

David teaching one of last week's Make'n'Take projects.

So it seems my little brother is going into the NAVY!

He doesn't move on until February so be sure to ask him tricky crafting questions in his last month or so... only if you have time for the answer though... he's become a bit of a dab hand with the double sided tape and Kindy Glitz!

Apparently competition was fierce with just a few people getting in for this intake. I forget the numbers but he did well.

Congrats David!

Saturday FREE Make'n'Takes

Glittered Transparency Window Card

Using adhesive images, glitter and transparencies you will get to make this lovely window greeting card. We will show you masking techniques so that you can use different colour glitters and then you can take this card home to give to a loved one. This card takes approximately 20min to complete.

Transparency Tag Copic Markers FREE Make'n'Take

In keeping the the Transparency theme for this week our second Make'n'Take project is using clear stickers from PeelCraft, Transparency sheets and Copic Markers to colour. Copic Markers on shiny surfaces gives you another option for creativity that most coloured pens don't give you.

Comments from past Copic Marker Make'n'Takes include "The are so soft to use!" and " Very smooth colour" Once you have tried them you will see why Copic Markers are such a favourite. This project takes approximately 15min to complete.

Saturday 18th December
Call in to the store anytime between 10am - 3pm
to make one or both FREE projects.
You don't need to bring anything and all tools and materials are provided.

All welcome.
Happy Friday!

~Kathleen, Linda and the team at NZ Scrapbook

Vintage Christmas Card Workshop Photo Highlights

Heyas,
Photo highlights from last week's Vintage Christmas Card Workshop. Everyone had a wonderful time and yes, by request I have started working on the next Vintage Card class for the new year. I haven't got the Vintage Card roll I'm on out of my system yet. :)

Thanks to Els who took all the lovely pics. Of course she is behind the camera and conveniently avoids being IN any of the pics. Thanks for your contribution!

Enjoy peeps...

~Kathleen

Crop Nights this week

Christmas Decoration made with scrapbooking paper by Theresa McDonald

Hi scrapbookers,

Take some time out from the Christmas rush by attending this week's Crop night events. Crop nights are a great time socialise, be productive with your scrapbooking and papercraft... even work on Christmas gifts without prying eyes around!




Thursday night Crop
Date: Thursday 16th December, 6pm - 10pm
Class fee: $10
Please bring: Current projects, kit and materials

Crop Night fee is just $10 and is an open night where you can work your pages, meet like minded crafty gals, enjoy a cuppa and scrapbooking inspiration.
We also have the convenient option of keeping a running tab during the night should you wish to purchase from the store for your project. Suitable for beginners and experienced scrapbookers.



Mega Crop
Date: Friday 17th December, 6pm - Midnight
Class fee: $10
Please bring: Current projects, kit and materialsincludes light supper and mini project

SIX hours of uninterrupted cropping time. Use our lovely big tables, chat to your new friends, be inspired and create wonderful pages and craft!

No bookings necessary - see you then!