Happy Birthday to us!

We celebrated our one-year anniversary over the weekend. Thank you to everyone who has supported us over the past year! Starting a new business is an incredibly difficult endeavor, so it was great to pause for some cupcakes, make-and-takes and party music. Thank you for a great first year!

Rooms to go! Come see Chatterbox's new stuff.

From the bright florals of Villa (my personal favorite) to the cool blues of Guest Room, Chatterbox has come out with dozens of new papers this fall that you'll love using. We added more than three dozen new papers to our display over the weekend.

Crop-A-Dile is here

You asked for it, so we ordered it! And we've been having a fabulous response to the new Crop-A-Dile tool. It can punch holes, even through metal (as our project shows), and then you use the tool to set eyelets and snaps. It's very easy. Come and try it out at the store. We'd be happy to show you how it works.

More Bazzill cardstock!

Now there are even more colors in our rainbow of Bazzill cardstock! You gals buy so much cardstock from us, so at your request, we've added colors and raised the height of our display to try to give you as many choices as possible. It all looked so pretty sitting out (before we reorganized our display) that I had to take a picture of the colorful stacks of new paper. If you ever need something we don't have, remember that we can special order it for you. Also, come check out the new Bazzill chipboard toppers. They are a lot of fun and fit perfectly on the Bazzill chipboard line.

At your request...

We have the Cars movie characters in stock, thanks to your requests... We'll also be adding Sesame Street later this fall.

Daisy D's is fun for fall

We have the new Daisy D's Gypsy Harvest collection and it's been really very popular since we put it out last week! Come enjoy autumn colors, fun Halloween motifs, and cool embellishments with this line - while it lasts.

Ellie is awesome -- and off to Ranger University!

Hello everyone,

Some great news! Ellie, our store manager, is off to Ranger University to take classes from Tim Holtz himself in September. She was one of only 20 people from all over the country accepted to their course on ink and embossing powder, and she'll come back with an official certification from Ranger. Of course, she will be TEACHING us all what she learns later this year. This is wonderful news for us and our store, and especially for Ellie, who we know is going to have a tremendous amount of fun at the seminar.

-- Christina

7 Gypsies is in the house

7 Gypsies just shipped us a refill of many popular items, and a few new ones like these cute little jars of buttons. You can easily use both the jars and the buttons in your altered art projects and scrapbooks. Watch for another shipment of 7 Gypsies's new stuff in the next few weeks, when we receive our fall order.

More shipments!

Basic Grey ribbons are back in stock! As are lunchpail albums and chipboard elements by our friends at Basic Grey.

Today we also received a new shipment of Croppin' Companion storage binders, which are great for organizing a whole album before you scrap it. Be organized and you'll get more done!

We have also received the new colors of Twinkling H20's by LuminArte. We especially LOVE the beautiful set that includes a dark ebony color. Come see us this week and you can be one of the first to buy them.

And don't forget, we're having our customer appreciation sales event all month. Right now, we have deals with 40% off on terrific lines like K-ology. We wanted to do something to say thanks to our customers since we are turning one-year-old on August 12th.

What's on order...

Well, we've spent some long nights ordering thousands of new products for fall. Here's a sneak peak at what's coming:

We are expecting to receive another shipment of Provocraft Cricuts next week. They will go to customers who have already put down a deposit. Call the store TODAY if you want one!

Also on order...

• QuicKutz is coming!!
• New Bazzill cardstock colors
• New embellishments for our Bits Bar
• New Karen Foster lines for pets, pirates (ARGH!), bedtime, sleepovers, Halloween and more!
• All the new Basic Grey papers and products
• New Colorbok albums
• Creative Imaginations' "What was I thinking?" line for scrapbooking past decades
• New Daisy D's Gypsy and Halloween papers and embellishments
• EK Success' Sesame Street line (expect this one later in the fall!)
• New Fancy Pants papers
• New Flair Thanksgiving and fall papers
• New K-ology line in red and green (great for Christmas!)
• All of the New Me & My Big Ideas "Soft Spoken" stickers
• New LuminArte Twinkling H2O's
• New stamps by Stamper's Anonymous
• New Christmas stamps by Penny Black
• New stamps, embellishments and fun stuff from Seven Gypsies
• New lines by Cherry Arte and Urban Lily
• New Heidi Swapp
• New Chatterbox (Yes, we are ordering Guest Room for all you who called!)
• New handmade paper packs with brilliant colors

This is just a VERY SMALL sampling of what we've been working on. Check back with us regularly for more on what's just come in the store!

The PERFECT Stamp Cleaner

Kleen Hands is something you can rub on your hands while stamping and then wash the ink right off. It's sort of like wearing gloves, but you get to touch your craft products. We also just received a terrific stamp cleaner with our own label on it. We think our stampers will love these products!

New Stuff that's just in the door...

Check out these cool offerings from Paper Wizard! We've got these country maps and titles for a limited time. Don't miss out on these and other countries! Also, we have replicas of famous buildings from around the world, cut in great detail by our friends at Paper Wizard. We especially loved the Empire State Building when we saw it.