Loads of new stuff just arrived at TheScrapbookStore.ie

Had a great day last Saturday at the Midlands Craft Club crop in Tullamore. Debs and Sandie really made it a fantastic day out with lots of home baking, chat and cropping. I even got a Christmas album half finished and will post it up when it's complete. I don't know what date they're holding next month's crop but I'll post it up as soon as I know.

Then on Monday morning I was at Elaine's Monday Morning Crop in Castleknock. Nearly managed to finish my Christmas album and would have done if I hadn't been so busy chatting and drinking tea. Love these Monday morning crops!! What better way to start the week. The next one is on Monday 19th November from 10am to 1pm and admission is only €5.

This Saturday myself and the shop will be at the Cabra Crop from 10am until 3pm. The class is full up for this month but if you're interested in coming along to the next one on December 8th then you can email Elaine at happydaymemories@yahoo.com

Finally, the new stash:

Christmas papers, rubons, stickers, ribbons and buttons from Daisy D's:




Christmas papers from Junkitz:



Great bargains in the paper sale from American Crafts, multi packs of The Goods Collection in Pinks, Blues, Pastels and Wedding designs for only 30c per sheet!

Also, arriving soon ... goodies from Prima Flowers, Making Memories, Creative Imaginations and more.

TheScrapbookStore.ie at the Midlands Craft Club on Saturday

This Saturday TheScrapbookStore.ie is heading to Tullamore for the first meeting of the Midlands Craft Club. It's a new Club which has been set up by Deborah and all papercrafters are welcome. It's being held in St. Mary's Youth Centre, Harbour Street, Tullamore from 12.30pm to 4.30pm. There's a large crowd already booked in and if you'd like to come along you can contact Deborah at dehadley@gmail.com or by telephoning 083-3323273.

Why not bring your tools and stash and come along and meet some other crafters. It's a great chance to get some projects done and to stock up on some stash too! Well done Debs on getting the whole thing off the ground, really looking forward to it!

Congratulations to the Cyber Crop Winners!

Many thanks to everyone who participated in last Sunday's Cyber Crop on the ScrapWest blog. So many of you put in a huge effort, joining in the classes and uploading your work to the various forums for everyone to see. I hope you enjoyed the classes and well done to the ScrapWesties who did such a great job preparing the classes. I'm proud to be a member of such a talented team.

The winners have been announced over on the ScrapWest blog tonight and congratulations to:

Littlebit/Liz ... the winner of a €30 voucher from The Scrapbook Store

Tracy Kedney ... the winner of a prize from Craft Supplies

Evonne R ... the winner of a €30 prize from the Crafteire shop

To a very special small person called Lucy who won a special prize (sponsored by Crafteire) for being the top up and coming young scrapper and finally to .....

Jackie C for being voted Queen of the Crop. Well done Jackie for all your hard work and enjoy your €50 voucher from The Scrapbook Store.

ps. I've been tagged! Thanks Kate!

ScrapWest Cyber Crop Kits and October Monthly Kit - Now on Sale!

Just a quick post to let you know that the three ScrapWest Cyber Crop Kits are now on sale at The Scrapbook Store. The Cyber Crop will take place on the ScrapWest blog on Sunday October 21st and there are kits for the other classes available at the Crafteire shop. Look out for further details on the SW blog.

Also The Scrapbook Store's new October Kit featuring Love, Elsie! Jack & Abby is now available. It's packed with papers (including embossed cardstock and fabric papers), chipboard, rubons and cardstock stickers and we've posted up loads of ideas (created by the very talented Eva Birdthistle) on the gallery to show you the kind of things you can get up to!

I've won 1st Place in the Daisy D's Back to School Competition!!

I was recently checking out the Daisy D's website - as you do - and noticed that they were having a Back to School competition. As luck would have it I had just finished a layout for ScrapWest using some gorgeous Daisy D's paper from their new Autumn range (it's also the layout that I used as a Layout Idea with the September Kit). So I submitted the layout and was absolutely thrilled to get an email from them at the weekend telling me I'd won 1st place. As it turns out 1st place doesn't actually mean 1st place as there was a Grand Prize Winner and two 1st place Winners?? but I don't care ... I love the layout and I won something!! The results are up on their blog so you can take a look at the other layouts. Plus you might be interested to see that they're looking for people to join their Design Team which would be fantastic as their stuff is really yummy.

This is the layout I submitted ...



It really topped off a great weekend in Cork at ScrapFest by the Lee. Mary did a brilliant job organising such a fantastic event. There were 7 brilliant classes, challenges and prizes galore. I even won a beautiful pack of new Rusty Pickle papers which I was delighted with. It was great to meet up with everyone again and meet loads of new scrapbookers. The Ambassador Hotel where the event was held was really lovely and the staff were so attentive they even helped me to unload the shop.
Thanks again Mary - looking forward to next years event. Can't wait to see how much she raised for Action Breast Cancer.