A New Cricut Magazine!

This is pretty cool - check it out!  http://www.facebook.com/SimplyHandmade.  I for one will probably be subscribing to this magazine....I'm always looking for inspiration to use my Cricut in more of my projects. What do you think?

Heather Morrow's Halloween Ceramic Art Trunk Show & Party

Join us this Sunday (Halloween!) for a fun Trunk Show & Party with artist Heather Morrow!

Sunday, October 31, 2010

12 pm – 4 pm

@KatScrap Studio

2455 N. Lake Ave.

Altadena, CA

(626) 398-0355

It’s not too early to think about the upcoming holidays. There will be lots of spooktacular deals.

Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

Enter to a drawing for a chance to win a basket full of surprises.

Wear a costume for extra savings!

Free downloads, Giveaway, and a Halloween Card

Free downloads, Giveaway, and a Halloween Card

Pumpkin Carving!

Hey Everyone:  Saturday night is the pumpkin carving party!  BYOP and tools if you have them, we'll have tools and patterns and fun ideas.  It's free, so come up and get that pumpkin  carved while having fun all at once!!

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