Card Mania & Stamp Trunk Show

Monika is back!  We had such a successful stamp trunk show with Monika last July, that we had requests to do it again.........so WE ARE!

Card Mania Trunk Show

Wednesday, October 6th

5:00 - 8:00 pm

Make 6 Cards for only $18

or

Just come to SHOP!

And the BEST part....Lots of product will be available to purchase including stamps used in

the cards you can make! 

Shop from the following manufacturers:

Magenta

(including their new releases and their new chipboard).

Unity Stamp Co.

Buttons Galore

Graphic 45

Crafty Secrets

and so much more!

If you missed the last Trunk Show Monika had - you won't want to miss this one for sure.  Her selection of product available to purchase is amazing!

Please let us know if you plan on coming

 so we can be prepared with seating for the card-making!

RSVP 626.398.0355

This is a sampling of some of the cards you can make - there will be a Christmas card too!



The Philosophy of Scraplifting

I had an artist from the gallery up the street from us, come by and ask me what "the deal was with scrapbooking".  I gave her my usual concise answer.  "It can be whatever you want it to be, it can be as simple as putting the pictures in an album, it can be a journal with drawings, scraps an odd and ends, it can be an elaborate collage of paper, ribbon, buttons and anything else you can conceive to include in the page.  It has expanded so far beyond just archiving photos and memories."  We got to chatting about art and all kinds of stuff.  She's a photographer and was thinking about trying scrapbooking as a way of putting together a portfolio, rather than just slipping the photos in sleeves, which I thought was a pretty great idea, and would make her unique.  But what she said that I loved most was, "I guess it's just like any art form, it's just a question of learning how to use the tools, and how to begin."

I think the same is true of techniques and ideas.  I personally love sharing my ideas and sneaky tricks with people, to me that is the purpose of having classes, to share secret tidbits and new ideas.  To me, creativity begets creativity.  My goofy idea, gives you a whole other goofy idea, and so on.  I love that!  I love that about the scrapbooking community, the gloating over what you created, and the sharing of how you created it, is as thrilling, relaxing, and inspiring as the doing of it.  I love the term "SCRAP-LIFTING" especially because it is completely legal, yet feels sneaky and wrong, yet is a bonding social experience all at once!

So we will continue to bring you whatever great ideas we come up with, come across, morph into our own thing, and more!  Feel free to share your ideas, tricks, shortcuts, etc. with us too! On here, on facebook or in person. That's what community and sisterhood is all about!!  And I have seen your ideas, they are pretty incredible! 

August Class & Event Schedule

Aug. 3rd - Shop Hop Kick-Off Party @ 6 pm
(for KatScrap Studio's Shop Hop Passport holders!)

Aug. 5th - Christmas Card Class - 6-7:30 pm

Aug. 6th - SO CAL SHOP HOP BEGINS
Shop Hop Crop 6-10 pm

Aug. 7th - ATC Swap N Make 5-7 pm

Aug. 8th - Jewelry Class with Faby 1-3 pm

Aug. 11th Lights, Camera, GLITTER!
Card Class with Vesta  6-8 pm

Aug. 12th  Retro Album Class with Chelsea - 6-8 pm

Aug. 13th Stewert Superior Trunk Show with Terri Sproul 3-6 pm

Aug.14th  Stewert Superior Trunk Show with Terri Sproul 1:30 - 5:30 pm
                Beach Book Class 11:00 - 1:00
Aug. 16th  Creative Journaling with Heather   7-8 pm

Aug. 18th BasicGrey Page of the Month Class 6:00 - 7:30 pm

Aug. 19th Cricut Club 6-7:30 pm

Aug. 20th  Copic Markers Class 6:30-7:30 pm

Aug. 21st  SHOP HOP EXTRAVAGANZA DAY!
Demos/Make n Takes 10:00-2:00
Tattered Angels Travel Journal Class with Cheryl McAdam 10:00-2:00
Lights! Camera! CROP! 6:00-midnight

Aug.  22nd  Vintage Memory Frame Class 1-3 pm

Augs. 26th  KatScrap Studio Reading Club  7-8 pm

Aug. 27th  Beginning Knitting/Crochet  6-8 pm

Aug. 28th  Altered Art Goddess Within with Heather 2-4 pm

Lights, Camera, GLITTER!

Lights, Camera, Glitter!

Card Class

Wednesday, August 11th

6:00 - 8:00 pm

$20 Prepaid

This class gives you hands on experience with the hottest glitter and glitter techniques from Elizabeth Craft Design. Bring your favorite 3 Elizabeth Craft Design micro-fine glitters (bring your own or buy them at the store before class!) and learn more than 5 ways to use it. After combining glitter with die cuts and peel-off stickers, you’ll go home with 4 stunning cards and the hands-on experience to make many more. Join Vesta Myers, certified ECD instructor, for a fun and sparkly class.

New Exciting EVENT - Card Mania Trunk Show!

Card Mania Trunk Show!

Tuesday, July 20th

5:00 – 9:00 pm

$15

Don’t miss out on this great time

Reservations required for this special event - Sign up today to reserve a spot.

Make 6 cards for only $15 - Choose from at least 15 cards.

Products from the cards made and LOTS more will be for sale. You will never see this many UNITY or MAGENTA stamps for sale at once!

LOTS of CRAFTY SECRETS product too!

Other lines represented:

• Buttons Galore

• Cosmo Cricket Paper Crafting Kits (matching Unity Stamps for the Material Girl line)

• Graphic 45 Paper Pads,

• Queen Kat Designs (stamps)

• Earth Art Stamps

• Die Cuts With A View (collection NOT sold in the Big Box stores!)

• Petallo Flowers

• Unity Stamps - Have you seen the Melody Ross stamps from Unity!! They are beautiful!!

• Donna Downey sets too!

• Magenta Stamps

• Crafty Secrets

• Tweety Jill line will be shown and orders can be placed – fabulous Alice in Wonderland stamps & More!

2455 N. Lake Ave. in Altadena, CA 91001 (626) 398-0355

KatScrap Studio's NEW Reading Club!

NEW!

“KatScrap Studio Reading Club”

Thursday, July 29

7:00 pm – 8:00 pm

Reading is an important part of the creative process, through the written words the author takes you on a journey completely manifested in your own imagination. With our busy lives demanding attention, this wonderful opportunity to connect with our inner creative soul is lost. “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake” by Aimee Bender has been selected as our first book.


“Eating the cake her mother has prepared for her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein discovers she has a gift: she can taste her mother’s emotions in the food she prepares. Soon, every bite Rose takes is filled with feelings—not just her mother’s but those of other people as well—and what might have been a gift becomes a burden and then, perhaps, a curse. Because this is a novel rooted in family, Rose will learn that she is not the only Edelstein with a peculiar gift or burden. How she and others learn to cope—or not, as the case may be—is the small, sad story Rose shares. Bender’s earlier work has often been described as surrealistic; however, this novel seems more informed by a kind of magical realism that struggles with transformation and sometimes—fleetingly—succeeds, as in the case of the novel’s vividly realized Los Angeles setting. But the effect soon fades, and the reader is left only with a lingering feeling of emptiness and the realization that sadness tastes a lot like bitterness. --Michael Cart”

The Reading Club is FREE to attend.

You can order the book below, or get a copy from your local bookstore!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385501129?ie=UTF8&tag=flickeringill-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385501129

July Workshops - Learn something NEW!

July 9th - Copic 101 Club 6:30 - 7:30 pm

Come and learn about these wonderful alcohol ink markers. You will learn several techniques and get to color several images as time allows. These images can be used for cards or on layouts. You will receive 2 Copic markers at this class. Come to this club once a month and grow your marker collection and learn techniques and ideas for a Certified Copic Designer. Instructor-Bronwyn V. Cost: $25

July 10th - ATC Make N Swap 5:00 - 7:00 pm Theme: America the Beautiful!
ATC’s are miniature works of art about the same size as baseball cards (2 ½ x 3 ½ inches). The cards are produced in various media, including dry media (pencils, pens, markers, etc.), wet media) watercolor, acrylic paints, etc.), paper media (in the form of collage, papercuts, found objects, etc.) The cards are usually traded or exchanged rather than sold. Our focus is on a friendly ATC art trading in a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere. Everyone is welcome here. All mediums are welcome too-stamping, painting, drawing, collage, mixed media, fabric, clay-you name it, we do it! And we are not just trading ATCs; we will be making them too. We hope that you will join our family of art lovers and join us in creating a set of your own artist trading cards to share. Cost: $7

July 13th & 15th - Kids Camp 1:00 - 3:00 pm

July 16th - Beginning Knitting/Crochet 6:00 - 8:00 pm

July 17th - KSS CROP 6:00 - 10:00 pm

July 20th & 22nd - Kids Camp 1:00 - 3:00 pm

July 21st - BasicGrey Page of the Month Class 6:30 - 8:00 pm

July 23rd - Cricut Basics Class 6:00 - 8:00 pm

July 24th - Altered Art Class - Alphabet Soup! with Heather Morrow 2:00 - 4:00 pm

July 25th - Glimmer Mist 101 Workshop with Cheryl McAdam 1:00 - 4:00 pm

July 29th - KatScrap Studio Book Club 7:00 - 8:00 pm

July 30th - Christmas in July Card Class 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Class Registration Policy
We want you to have the BEST possible classroom experience. Pre-registration & pre-payment is required for all classes/crops so that our instructors can prepare properly. Some classes may have a minimum number of students required or class will be cancelled. A kit will be prepared for the project or a store credit will be issued if you cannot make a class you have paid for.