A Very Magnolia Holiday

Just in time for holiday cards and products - Magnolia Galore!   Look at all the sweet new Tilda and Edwin stamps:

  

We've even got your New Year's covered:



This new release is SO cute - I can't wait to see the projects that come out of these stamps!

Baby Let's Cruise..

Well, so far this has been a damp and rainy weekend - perfect for staying indoors and stamping! 

All this water reminded me of Michelle - her mixed media cruise starts tomorrow.  Read all about the details here - if you didn't get to go this year, at least you can live vicariously through our blog!  I've seen Michelle's projects for this cruise, which are amazing, and I'm sure Cheryl's are fabulous, as they always are.  The cruisers are in for a real treat!

Tomorrow at the store Tamara will have Magnolia card class from 1pm-3pm. 

The copic colors used in thses projects are:
E: 00, 02, 07, 13, 17, 18, 19, 27 ,31, 41, 55, 57, 59
BV: 0000, 00 
BG: 32, 34
R: 20, 24
Y: 11, 21, 97
YG; 25, 63, 97
N: 1, 2
C: 2, 4, 6, 8
RV: 13, 14
V: 12, 15
YR: 23, 27

Hope you enjoy you're rainy weekend!

Here a Stamp, there a Stamp, everywhere a Stamp Stamp...

(Alternate titles for this post include "PN Strikes Again", "Rosemary Loses her Cool", or "Tam Gives PN the Old Stink Eye" - voters choice!)

Wow - it's that time again. Wednesday. That most cursed day of the week. Rosemary and I (yes, Rosemary.... she's BACK!! Yaaaay!!!) have been searching this store from top to bottom all day! It started with the Wendy Vecchi Art Parts - Rosemary and I knew they were here somewhere, but we checked where they used to be and, of course, there's a little dresser there now. And it DOESN'T have any Art Parts on it.

Nope, some fantastic new Christmas stamps from Northwoods, but no Art Parts. We looked and looked and couldn't find them anywhere. Eventually we figured they sold out and started hanging the new ones where they used to go, on the little white grid rack that has been moved to the back of the store by the cardstock aisle.

So we start hanging them and we get dreaded question number two. Where is the mulberry paper. Well. we both walk right on over to where the mulberry paper has been for, well, at least as long as I've worked here. Rosemary bends down to grab a sheet and, nope. Not there. The rest of the aisle seemed to be in order, but the mulberry paper was suspiciously absent. What are the PN has struck again....

And, my suspicions were confirmed. The very next question some poor customer asks us is where the Creative Imaginations Alice in Wonderland paper is. The customer walked to it's previous location, and Rosemary and I both walked there too, certain that our customer just wasn't looking hard enough. Nope. We looked and looked and looked. We knew we had it, just knew it. Eventually our poor customer gave up and started looking for other things. "Where are the new Tim Holtz stamps?" she wanted to know. Well, first Rosemary checks the new wall. After all, that is sort of the logical place for new stamps. Nope, no go. We did find some adorable new stamps from Magnolia's Turning Leaves collection:

Tilda's and Edwin are having all kinds of fun this fall! Right next to the Magnolia stamps were some chic little stamps from Penny Black, just in time to get started on the holidays:

And next to that the GORGEOUS new sample board and stamps from Memory Box - I swear their releases get better every single time:

Yes, all these stamps are fun and wonderful, but they're not from Tim Holtz. Since I was sitting right next to the Tim Holtz section doing my blogging I swiveled in my seat and made sure the new stamps weren't there. Nope, they weren't. (OK, so maybe all the parts of the story where I claimed to be helping look for things, I was really watching Rosemary look for things and jotting down her path of destruction. After all, I'm the blogger. I have to record these things properly, for prosperity and all). Finally, Rosemary had had it. She was tired of looking for things.

"That's it!" cried Rosemary. "I'm tired of looking for things! I'm calling her at home!" Faithful reader, Rosemary is NOT one for idle threats. She called her at home.

"Where on Earth did you put the Creative Imaginations Alice in Wonderland paper?" There is a little silence, and then Rosemary walks over to a new little side rack. "I looked here!" she exclaimed. "It's not here!" More silence. Then she grabs some paper and looks at it. "Upside down?" she asks. "Why would you put it upside down? No wonder we couldn't find it!" Yep, it's the truth. The entire line of paper we were looking for was upside down, with it's back side showing. The backside of this paper is beautiful, but it's kind of hard to identify Alice from behind.

Anyway, Rosemary was so upset with this revelation that she hung up the phone without asking about the Tim Holtz stamps.

"_____!" says Rosemary. (Sorry, reader, you'll need to use your imagination for that one. This is a family blog, after all). "I was so upset about the paper that I forgot to ask her about the stamps!" Our poor customer was a little afraid, I think. She made some noises about not worrying about it, but then all the sudden Rosemary found the stamps.

"I found them!" exclaimed Rosemary. "I can hardly believe it!" And there they were, in the stencil section.

Oh, and look. Right in with them is all the new Wendy Vecchi Art Parts, stamps, and stencils. I know, you're probably wondering why the stamps are in the stencil section. We are wondering that ourselves. Reader, this can only add more weight to our claim that Nancy is out to make us look like morons in order to advance her own career. I mean, how is it possible that everyone that came in this morning asked for items that neither of us could find? Consistently?

It's a set up, I tell you. Rumor has it that PN's son was in the store this weekend, supposedly installing a new outlet for our class area. I'm thinking, though, that the outlet was just a red herring. I'm sure there are little cameras in store, recording our Wednesday antics. PN probably sits at home at night, watching and rewatching our pathetic attempts to impress our customers and planning her next move. What other explanation can there be?

Can I tell you, friend reader, that the stress of all this is finally getting to me? I spent so much time today watching Rosemary looking for things and blogging about it, just look what happened to me:

I'm sure if I could just slide into work, find a beautiful award waiting for me, and go on to enjoy a day filled with successfully helping my treasured customers that these things wouldn't happen to me. You could call this a stress induced reaction, or you could call it me giving PN "The Old Stink Eye"....

(PS - OK, so maybe the eye thing happened at home when I was trying to lift a case of 32 bottled waters while balancing a couple of twelve packs of soda on top.... apparently I'm not as strong as I think I am and my eyeball went on strike. Don't tell anyone though - I'm hoping the sympathy vote will finally win me my award!!!)

Life's a Beach - Go Ahead and Hang it!

Be sure not to miss some of the great classes we've got coming up this week - super summer themes abound!

Saturday Michelle is finally teaching this fabulous canvas beach book that she's been teasing us with for months:

Here's a sample of an inside page:

The class is called "Life's a Beach"and will be on Saturday June 9th from 11am to 2 pm.

This week's Magnolia class is a super sweet summer wall hanging:

Here's a close up of one of the panels:

Magnolia will be on Sunday June 10th from 1-3pm. 

On Tuesday, June 12th from 6-8pm we have Nancy is a Blockhead - that's the name of the class, not Tamara's opinion of our award winning super staff member! Nancy will be enticing you with Americana themed tags perfect for summer BBQ's and July 4th. These tags are designed to fit on the blocks you made earlier this year, but if you didn't get that kit fear not - kits are still available.

We hope to see you soon!

It's Magnolia Club Time again

It's the first Sunday of the Month again and that means it is time for our Magnolia Club Meeting.

Please bring any cards or projects you have been working on to show everybody.

We are meeting tomorrow (Sunday) at 1:00pm

You do need to bring Scissors, Markers or Pencils and adhesive.
Please Call to RSVP if you are attending so that we know how many Make n Takes to prepare.

The latest issue of Magnolia Ink Magazine

just arrived from Sweden.

Sunday is the Magnolia club

It's time for the Magnolia Club Meeting again.
Join us this Sunday at 1:00pm for a free Make n Take.

You do need to bring Scissors, Markers or Pencils and adhesive.
Please Call to RSVP if you are attending so that we know how many Make n Takes to prepare.

Magnolia Class on Sunday

This is one of the cards we will be making in tomorrow's Magnolia class.

Tilda has been shopping for Small Business Saturday !!

Of course I was extra forgetful today and forgot to take a photo of the other two projects :(
So it will be a surprise for those of you who are taking the class

Magnolia Club

Sunday November 6th at 1:00pm is our Monthly Magnolia Club Meeting
There is no charge for the meeting but you will need to R.S.V.P. so that we know how many Make n Takes to prepare.

You must also bring your own markers or pencils to color your Tilda image as well as Scissors, Adhesive and Pop Dots.

Don't forget to bring some cards or other Paper Art pieces you have made that feature these adorable stamp images.

Hope to see you Sunday

Magnolia Club

This Sunday at 1:00pm is the Magnolia Club Meeting.

We will be making this cute little tag so please bring markers or pencils, adhesive and scissors.
Also bring any cards or projects you have made to show to the rest of the group.

Please call to RSVP this month. We will not be checking emails and we need to know how many are coming so that we can prepare enough tags.
Hope to see you Sunday

Magnolia Club

The Altered Tag that I posted yesterday will be our Make n Take for this Saturday.
We had to move the Mommy & Me class to October so we were able to fit the Make and Take Tag in between 1:00pm to 4:00pm. It should only take about 15 minutes to make.

Sunday is the next Magnolia Club Meeting at 1:00pm.
Please bring adhesive, scissors and either markers or pencils.
Please RSVP if you are attending so we know how many Make n Takes to prepare.

Magnolia Club

MAGNOLIA CLUB – Free

Sunday August 7th 1:00-2:00pm

We will be meeting the first Sunday of every month to show off our images and projects using these fun Tilda and Edwin stamps. Each month we will make a Tag. Please bring markers or pencils, adhesive and scissors with you.

This is the tag we will be making.

P.S. No sharks were harmed when I made this tag!

Today's Magnolia Class

Today was our Magnolia Hot Air Balloon Bungee Jumping Tilda class

If you want to read the story about why Tilda was Bungee Jumping
and what a jerk Edwin is click here

http://creativepaperarts.blogspot.com/2011/07/uh-oh-tilda-is-in-trouble.html

After I did the story I put Tilda back in the hot air balloon basket and figured that is how we would make the art piece in the class (no bungee jumping).
Just a sweet couple in love taking a romantic balloon ride

but

in today's class, everyone want to make Tilda Bungee Jump
heeheeheehee, I am such a bad influence

I have an evil plan for the couple for October's class.

Just call me . . . .


Stay Tuned . . .

Magnolia Club

It's time for our Monthly Magnolia Meeting.
Join us on Sunday July 3rd at 1:00pm to make this tag

There is no charge for the Magnolia Club but please bring adhesive, scissors and markers or pencils.

Also bring some cards/altered items you have made using the Magnolia Stamps
to show the rest of the group.

Hope to see you there.
If you can RSVP that you will be attending it will help with the Make n Take preparation

The first meeting of the Magnolia Club is

tomorrow, Sunday June 5th at 1:00pm.
We will be making this cute little tag.
Please bring any Magnolia cards or projects you would like to show

Please bring scissors, adhesive and pens/pencils or markers

Thanks Shelley, I posted the wrong day. The date has been corrected ***June 5th**

Magnolia Club

Sunday June 5th 1:00pm - Free

We are starting a Magnolia Lovers Club so if you love Tilda or can't get enough of Edwin then this club is a must for you.

This is our very first meeting and we will be discussing what you would like to get out of it.

So mark your calendar for the first Sunday of every month for a Magnolia Meeting.

The club is free but as we will be making a tag please bring your adhesive, scissors and pencils or markers.

Please bring any cards or projects you have made for Show and Tell

P.S. The latest magazine has shipped and may just be here in time for our first meeting

P.P.S. You will need to RSVP so I know how many Tag Make n Takes to prepare.

P.P.P.S. We won't be making the attached tag (we already did that one) I just wanted a pretty photo to attach to this post.

P.P.P.P.S The tag we actually make will be prettier.