Thursday, November 02, 2006

The 2007 Holiday Gift Guide

The holiday season is upon us! But we’re ready for it with lots of cool suggestions for gifts for the paper crafter in your family (or for yourself). Here are a few ideas:

Crafting Essentials under $10

Xyron Create-a-Sticker 150 - $9
The best tool to apply adhesive to die cut letters and ribbon

Therm-o-web Vellum Adhesive - $7
New! And the best vellum adhesive we have ever found!

Perfect Printing Pouch - $6
Tap on and this powder eliminates smudging when you are printing on vellum and slick surfaces.

Fancy Pants Chipboard or Rub-ons - $5-$6
The best chipboard and rub-ons we’ve seen anyone do this year. A great value!

Fabulous Gifts for $11-$35

New Books - $19-$30
Imperfect Lives, My Creative Companion Vol. 2, The Artful Card, Collage Discovery Vol. 2, and more! Idea books are always a great gift.

Tag-a-long garbage bag holder and mug - $26
Attaches to your crop area to hold your drink and trash scraps

KI Memories Color Labs and matching Sashes ribbon - $21
Fun packaging and original embellishments (like candy-cane striped paper clips) which match KI’s seasonal fall and winter papers

Paper packs by Cosmo Cricket or Basic Grey - $16-$18
Give the gift of six two-page layouts with these paper packs, which also include coordinating embellishments by our favorite designers.

Autumn Leaves clear stamps - $15
These doodles, alphabets and journaling stamps are perfect for scrapbooking. We will have all the new ones in stock soon, too.

Frippery jewelry making kits - $15
Everything you need to make bracelets, earrings and pendants – and you can include photos in the charms if you like.

CutterBee Curvy Cutters - $18
This new cutting system for circles, ovals and rounded squares is easy to use with a glass mat to cut shapes from your photos and paper. Come in and ask us for a demonstration!

Tote-ally cool! - $30
When mixed media artist Carol Owen comes to teach, this is the bag she carries with her to hold all of her tools at arm’s reach.

Crop-a-Dile - $27
The best new tool for setting eyelets and snaps, and also for punching holes in just about any material, including chipboard and metal.

Designing with 2007 - $25
This is an idea book that takes you through all of 2007 with creative craft ideas for everyday. It is the ultimate crafter’s desk calendar.

Deluxe Gifts for Crafters

The Cricut - $249.99 (everyday sale price)
We are running specials on Cricut die-cut machine throughout the holiday season. Please call us before you buy from one of our “big box” competitors because you think you’ll get a better price. The Cricut is THE BEST new tool to come out on the market for cutting out letters, titles and shapes. We will have all of the new alphabet cartridges very soon, too.

Other products on order…

We have quite a lot of other stuff on order right now and it should all be arriving in November.

Among these other items are the:
New paper ribbons by Doodlebug
New Christmas embellishments box by Doodlebug
New ribbon packs by Chatterbox
Chatterbox gift baskets
Memory Mixer digital scrapbooking software by Lasting Impressions (So much easier to use than Photoshop Elements, you won’t believe it!)
New Calendar Creations products by Karen Foster
All of these would make AWESOME gifts. If you are interested, call us and we’ll put you on the lists of customers to call when they arrive.