Scrapbook Parade Garage Sale

We’re having another Garage Sale!

SATURDAY, MARCH 20th from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm

You can start dropping off your items Saturday, February 20th

HAPPY CLEANING!

Dig out your unused SCRAPBOOKING or PAPER CRAFTING ITEMS and bring them in to the store.  No table rental required!!  You don’t even have to be here to sell your stuff!!

Price the items you want to sell, label them with your initials (ie Cindy Elizabeth Adams would be CEA) and drop them off between February 20th to March 17th.  We will put them out for sale on the 20th of March.  How easy could it be?!

Please make sure to package your items in baggies and seal them well.  We will not accept loose items.

The purchaser pays cash, the seller gets a store credit for the exact amount – we take no commission or fee.

PLEASE NOTE – CASH ONLY! No debit or credit card payments.

Hint — if you really want the item to sell price it accordingly — we will not barter with purchasers.

The store is not liable for shoplifting, fire or any damage incurred to garage sale items.

EXTRA NOTE:  You can park in the parking lot beside the store to the RIGHT if there are no spaces left in front.

Joyce’s Tea Today!

What a wonderful afternoon we had today with Joyce!  Thanks to Robin Mowat for bringing in her china tea cups and saucers.  What a nice touch!  Thanks as well to Robin for the great lemon poppyseed cake and Chris Gale for the cookies.  Thanks to everyone else that showed up and shared their stories and memories of Joyce.  You will really be missed by many people Joyce and I am so grateful that I was able to get to know you as a friend too!  Here are some great photos from the tea…enjoy…

Upsy Daisy Series with Lana

The ladies are working hard today!  Here are some photos from the first and second class…they run until 5:00 tonight!  6 layouts and 12 cards!

March Heritage Class

Here is the first of MANY Heritage Classes now with Elizajane.  Joyce inspired this layout and Elizajane is teaching it.  You need to bring three 4 x 6 portrait photos, your basic kit, distressor, popdots and heritage inks.

We will be using “A Proper Gentleman” in the April Class!

Dates: Thurs, March 4th, Sat, March 6th and Thurs, March 18th

Time: 10:00 – 12:00       Cost: $30.00

Seasons of Play Kit is HERE and NOW SOLD OUT!

OVER 1/2 SOLD ALREADY! 

Another fun and fabulous kit from Scrapbook Parade!

Are you ready to play?  Rich, earthy colours and fun, playful images help us to welcome the change in seasons with a terrific kit featuring the “Seasons” line from one of our favourite companies – Crate Paper. 

Each “Seasons of Play” kit includes cardstock, patterned paper, an alphabet, ribbon, buttons, felt flowers, journaling spots and rubons to help you create at least 4 layouts and enough left over for some friendly greetings for friends!  If you want help creating your layouts, samples and detailed instructions for four layouts are available for each of our exclusive kits on the Scrapbook Parade BLOG!  We will let you know as soon as the instructions are posted for each kit.

Our last kit sold out in less than 24 hours!  Please email us at scrappix@scrapbookparade.ca or call the store at 250-727-0372 to reserve your kit today!

NEW – KIT SUBSCRIPTIONS!

Available March 2010 – Scrapbook Parade Kit Subscriptions

You’ve told us you love our kits, and we want to make sure that you have the opportunity to purchase each one, as soon as it is available.  Beginning in March, Scrapbook Parade Kit Subscriptions will be available QUARTERLY.  Sign up with your credit card at the store for a 3 month subscription to our kits and you will receive a 10% discount on each $29.99 kit!  That’s a $9.00 savings!

Your credit card will be billed on the first of each month, and your kit will be available in store for pickup on the 8^th of each month.  We can also mail your kit to you for the actual cost of shipping.  If you prefer, you can also prepay for all three kits using cash or debit and still receive the discount!  Please call, email or drop into the store to sign up!

Basic Grey POTM Program!

Just wanted to let you know BOTH POTM Programs are now FULL!

That’s 24 students in total!!!

Woo Hoo it’s going to be FUN!

NEW PRODUCT LINE-UP!

Jacquelin and I met this morning and planned out more orders and wanted you to know the timing of the arrivals.  Even though CHA has TONS of new stuff many of the products aren’t even shipping until mid to late March.

We have so many exciting NEW companies coming in that we’ve never carried.  Here goes…

FEBRUARY ARRIVALS

My Minds Eye – 4 Lines

GRAPHIC 45 – 2 Lines

A Proper Gentleman

On The Boardwalk

MARCH ARRIVALS

CRATE PAPER – 3 Lines

Paper Doll Collection

Brook Collection

Pink Plum Collection

My Little Yellow Bicycle – 2 Lines

Generation Z and Lucky Me

 

My Little Shoebox – 3 Lines

Lil’ Critter, In The Garden and A Little Birdie Told Me

I couldn’t get the zip file to work to add photos.  Here is their blog:  http://www.mylittleshoebox.typepad.com/

 

MORE NEW PRODUCT BEING ORDERED – Many of these lines will arrive Late-March, April and May — we will update you as they arrive.

KI Memories – Enchanting Line

Bo Bunny – 2 Lines – Mamarazzi and Jazmynne

American Crafts – 2 Lines – Botanique and Letterbox

Kaisercraft – 4 Lines – Shaken Not Stirred, Devonshire, Gypsy Sistr, Peachy Keen

I think this covers most of the orders…I have a pile of papers to sort through!

Thanks Jacquelin for all the GREAT work putting together the orders.

Finally posting…

…Joyce’s last class this past Saturday.  You will be so missed Joyce!

Update!

Was off for the weekend so I didn’t do any blogging…

1)  Basic Grey POTM Program is now FULL.  We are taking names for a possible 2nd class.  Just send us an e-mail scrappix@scrapbookparade.ca or give us a call 250-727-0372 if you would like to be put on the waitlist.

2)  12 Layouts in a Day x 3 is now FULL.

3)  60 Page Club Members – you have until this Friday to tell us your numbers and get entered in the draw.  Call or e-mail them in.

4)  Joyce’s Tea is this Sunday from 1:00 – 3:00.  Hope many of you can come by and say farewell and good-luck to Joyce.

5)  One spot left for the Basic Grey Sugar Rush class on Feb 13th.

6)  Watch for more classes in March…

Basic Grey Page-of-the-Month (POTM) Program

Featuring Basic Grey’s LATEST RELEASES!

Registration for Basic Grey’s POTM Program is NOW Open!

Basic Grey’s POTM Program is a monthly class kit program where students create one double-page layout every month using the NEWEST papers from BG paired with classic embellishments.

Here are some of the highlights:

• Color Instructions
• FREE EXCLUSIVE Basic Grey Designer 12 x 12 D Ring Album.  You will have a place to put the year’s layouts once you have completed the program. It is a limited-edition collec­tor’s product that only Page-of-the-Month students receive!
• Only the newest papers and embel­lishments will be used in the kits!
• Generic themes: you will have different themes to choose from, with different journaling prompts so you can scrap about whatever you want.
• Be the first to purchase the new release products!
• Learn new techniques each month to incorporate into your scrapbooking.

Each class will be held on the 4^th Sunday of the month from 1:00 – 3:00

Our FIRST Class is Sunday, March 28^th

Cost for each class is $24.95 + GST and your first payment is due upon signing up for the full year.  On the 15^th of each month we will charge your credit card for the following class.

THIS YEAR LONG PROGRAM IS SURE TO SELL OUT FAST!  MAKE SURE TO CALL 250-727-0372 OR E-MAIL scrappix@scrapbookparade.ca TO ENSURE YOU GET A SEAT!

Help for Haiti

Please check out Jacquelin’s blog for an easy way for you to help raise money for Haitian relief.

Her kids’ school, Rogers Elementary has organized a district wide bottle drive for THIS Saturday, and all you have to do is drop off your bottles!!!

Here is the link with all the details:

Help Rogers Help Haiti

The kids at Rogers School thank you in advance for your support of their initiative to help out Haiti!

Lana’s Class last night…

The mini album for this class was so nice.  Anything with Graphic 45 turns out amazing.

NEW Card Class with Tammy

Come and join Tammy and make these 6 GREAT Birthday and Thank You Cards!  She always makes such beautiful cards.

WHEN:  Wednesday, February 24th   TIME: 7 – 9  COST:  $25.00

Note from Pat to Joyce!

I wanted to share this great note Pat sent to Joyce.  Enjoy!

Hi Joyce,

 

Just read on the Scrapbook Parade blog that you are leaving….I KNEW IT!!  When you said a couple of months ago that you saw a house you really liked, Cranbrook or somewhere in that area - and I saw the look in your eye? – I thought.hmmm – that lady is out of here soon!

 

I just want to throw my 2 cents into other comments etc that I am positive you have heard by now.

 

IT IS ONLY BECAUSE OF YOU - that my old family pictures come out of shoe boxes, envelopes, plastic bags, magnetic photo albums etc, and were put in some kind of safe order for my future generations. I knew very little of my family heritage. When my mother died in 1990, I inherited these shoe boxes etc of pictures with very little idea of what to do with them.

So  for almost 15 years after she died I just left them in the old boxes etc that they were already stored in. BTW – I love your suggestion to use the original pictures, as where is the better place for them – in that shoe box or on a magnificent scrapbook page!

 

My mom was really interested in genealogy, but I had no interest in it 20-25 + years ago, as much as she tried to get me involved.

 

But as I got older and my health suffered I did take an interest. I joined the Victoria genealogy society a few years ago and one day attended the Lancashire SIG  -  I think it was the 2nd meeting I went to that you brought your magnificent scrapbooks in for show and tell – and then put together a scrapbook page for us all to see (with an English birth certificate – I think you said later it was published?) and then a few weeks later you arranged for a field trip to Scrapbook Parade at Royal Oak -  I still love the original 2 pages I did that day – they were very basic, but told a story…and from that day forward - I was completely hooked!

 

I thank you, my kids thank you and I know some day my grandchildren will appreciate what I have done!! My girls love to come over and sit together going through the albums that I have created and reading the stories that I have made sure are on each page. They always ask to see my new pages, but never tire of going over the ones they have already seen.

 

I now am in the process of creating not only a written genealogy record of our family history but also an amazing picture story of our family,

 

I will miss your classes –  SO MUCH! It is the one outing of the month that I always looked forward to.

 

I wish you and your husband much happiness and fun in your new home. Good luck to you both.

 

Again, have a great time as you embark on your new adventure!!

 

Pat

Year in Review Class last night with Lana

This is the first of 12 Year in Review Classes.  Looks like everyone had a GREAT time!

Do you need Cricut mats?

At the All Day Crop January 16th one of the girls beside me mentioned that she can never seem to get Cricut mats.  She said they are always sold out when she goes to Walmart or Michael’s so, I told her I would check with all of you to see if perhaps you wanted me to do a BIG BULK order so we could stock you up.

The cost for these would be:

7″ x 14″ Mat = $15.95

12″ x 12″ Mat = $18.95

12″ x 24″ Mat = $24.95

You would have to Pre-Pay for them and it will take approximately 2 weeks from the day I send in the order.  If anyone is interested please e-mail scrappix@scrapbookparade.ca and let me know.  I’m going to place an order on February 8th which gives you plenty of time to decide.

Thanks, Carol

Another NEW Class

Figures as soon as I send out a note to update people on classes, Lana shows up with another NEW Class!

Circle Album Class

DATE: Sunday, February 28th   TIME:  1:00 – 3:00   COST:  $25.00

Here is another fun way to display your memories.  This time you will be making a 4 sided circle album using the Domestic Goddess Line from Graphic 45!  Another GREAT gift idea and FUN!

Class Yesterday with Tammy

Two of the girls came from Duncan to do the mini album.  Amanda bought Teena the class for a birthday present so they could come together.  Nice friend!

Layouts from the January Kit by…

…Betty Dawson.  Wanted to show off the pages Betty did with the January Kit.  I like how she sewed on one of the layouts too.  Great job Betty!

BIG NEWS!

After almost 10 years teaching classes at Scrapbook Parade Joyce Lennard is moving to the Kootenay’s.  Joyce and Barry have lots of family in the area and have been thinking about this move for quite some time.  They’ve recently purchased a home in Cranbrook and are getting ready to pack and move.  I want to first say how much I’m going to miss her at the store — her over the top humor and talent is going to be missed by so many of us!  By the way, can I buy your gun rack?  Ha Ha Ha!  Second, thanks Joyce for the last 2-1/2 years staying with the store and teaching when I took over.  You have so many friends that are going to miss you but like they say “when one door closes, another one opens”.  Third, we are still going to have “Heritage Classes” and Elizajane will be taking them over.  In fact she is going to teach the March Class that Joyce designed.  We will post pictures next week about the class.  Please join me in saying thanks to Elizajane for picking up Joyce’s classes and also saying “GOOD LUCK” to Joyce!

 

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

We’re going to have a tea at the store on Sunday, February 7th from 1:00 – 3:00.  Come and join us to congratulate Joyce on her New Adventures!  

 

Here is a note from Joyce:

 

The time has come to say goodbye to everyone who has made me smile over the last 9+ years.  Scrapbook Parade was more than just a workplace to me, it was a place where people were my friends and shared with me the stories of their ancestors.  I’ll never forget dead Fred and Alma.  I would like to say I’ve met so many good people here, both past and present, and that is what has made this job truly enjoyable.  It was a special time for me.  I feel honoured to have been given the opportunity to help you preserve your cherished memories.  

 

I’m going to miss working at Scrapbook Parade.  I will always remember each and everyone who took my classes, and I know that you will remember me every time you ink, distress or rip your scrapbooking papers.  I hope that you all continue to preserve your history “one page at a time” with Elizajane.  She is very talented and is looking forward to teaching you.

So thank you for everything,

Joyce