Design Team Wednesday

Happy Wednesday! I hope everyone's enjoying this brief spell of unseasonably warm weather. I've got a few layouts to share with you today. The first features October Afternoon's fabulous Farmhouse collection. The title is the first initial of each kid's name, which made perfect sense to me until my 16-year-old son asked, "What the heck is tadma?" Oh well, I still like it and I adore all of the papers and embellishments in this line.

I hope you're not totally sick of Christmas pages, because that's what I'm scrapping these days. I love the Lost & Found Christmas line by My Mind's Eye so much that I accidentally bought it twice. No worries, though...it will definitely get used. If you're a bit intimidated by patterned papers like this one that have large bold elements, I find that a single simple photo, especially a black and white one, works well.

I say this all the time in my posts, but the next page is so much prettier in person. If you click on the photo, you can see just how intricately the Silhouette can cut designs like the frame I used to mat the photo. The background was created using one of Pink Paislee's Mistables resist papers. These papers start out white with various patterns of resist ink, and it's up to you to make them beautiful using whatever combination of spray inks, ink pads, watercolors, etc you like.

I sprayed the paper with red (Mister Huey's Schoolhouse), two greens (Maya Mists avocado and October Afternoon Sprinklers Spruce Tree), and metallic gold (Maya Mists), and then used a tissue to dab the excess spray off the resist areas. I love the way it turned out. I also love those gold Thickers alphas.

I hope you get some time to create something today!

Marathon Crop March 17!

By request, we are scheduling another all day crop to get caught up!

When: Saturday, March 17
Time: 10am-11pm
Fee: $35

Marathon Crop includes snacks, dinner, door prizes and a goody bag!

The next one will be May 4&5 for National Scrapbook Day! Details coming soon!

NEW! from Lifestyle Crafts "Sweetheart Cutting Dies"

New from Designs by Reminisce

Perfect for St. Patty's day!

Just in time for Valentine's Day!

Closing at 7pm tonight!

We are closing tonight, Sat., Jan 21 at 7pm for our employee holiday party. Be sure to shop early! Thank you!

Registration for August 3-5 Retreat in Glen Allen is OPEN for Alumni!

Join Scrapdoodles for the best scrapbooking retreat in Central Virginia! Escape with us August 3-5, 2012, for a weekend of make n takes, classes, scrapping those beautiful family memories or just be crafty for the weekend with your friends!


This is the perfect time and place to take some time for yourself...this retreat has been thoughtfully put together with you in mind! Your weekend of scrapbooking includes breakfast and dinner on Saturday, breakfast and a champagne brunch on Sunday, a candy bar, a 6 ft x 30 inch table with electricity, wi-fi in the crop room & the guestrooms (included in this retreat), an ergonomic chair, spacious crop room, free make and takes, gifts, and prizes, on-site mini-store and so much more! Your meals will be served in the restaurant with so many amazing choices! Breakfasts will include an omelet station, waffles, cereals, fresh fruits, and muffins while dinner will include soups, deli and vegetarian choices, hot entrees and chef's specialties and a dessert bar!

All of this at the luxurious Wyndham Virginia Crossings Hotel & Conference Center in Glen Allen Virginia. For hotel registration see below or the sidebar with room rates. The hotel may need a few days to get the group rate up :)

Registration Opens

Friday, January 20, 2012 @ 10am for Scrapdoodles Retreat Alumni

Friday, January 27, 2012 for the Public

Please note that your registration is NOT complete without your registration form.

Please do not send checks by mail.

Registration Options:

Early Bird Rate $179.00 expires February 4

**Special Alumni Layaway Rate Good for 1st week**

**$79 down, 2nd payment of $100 due by March 17th**

After February 4, 2012

Single Payment at Discounted Rate $189.00

Layaway Payment ($50 down) $199.00

Balance due by June 1, 2012.

$50 non-refundable after May 1, 2012.

No refunds after June 1, 2012.

Register by calling 540.548.3788

The Hotel & Rate

Wyndham Virginia Crossings Hotel & Conference Center, 1000 Virginia Center Pkwy

Glen Allen, Virginia 23059

Single Room Rate $89 per night

Double Room Rate $99 per night

Triple Room Rate $109 per night

Quad Room Rate $119 per night

Mention code SCRAPDOODLES RETREAT to take advantage of discounted group rate. Reservations must be made by July 3, 2012 to receive the group rate. Reservation Line - (877) 999-3223 or for hotel registration click here.

We look forward to you joining us!

Notations Mini Book Class

Hi!

Hope you are enjoying your week! I've got some photos of my upcoming class to share today. I'll be teaching this great mini book on Saturday, January 28th:

The Notations line is perfect for just about any theme. I used it to showcase my favorite family photos from 2011 but you could create this book for any occasion.

You can see that each page is a little different. Little tags, tabs, and envelopes make this book a lot of fun!

I've added lots of little details here and there. I added color with a few of my favorite mists as well.

The kit comes with plenty of diecuts and letter stickers to decorate each page any way you'd like to.

I had lots of fun putting this little book together. I hope you can join me for class!

Here are the class details:

Notations Mini Album with Tessa
Saturday, January 28th, 2012 at 1:30pm
$25.00

Please bring your basic tool kit as well as your favorite edge punches and any mists you would like to use in your book.

If you are interested in joining me for class, please call down to Scrapdoodles at (540) 548-3788 to sign up.

Hope to see you there!

-tessa