Memorial Day Scrapbooking Sales at Michaels and A.C. Moore

We are so excited, this week is starting off as a good week. Not only is it the first Summer holiday weekend, the sales at the local craft stores here are unbelieveable. If you are looking for the best sales or coupons for arts and crafts items, in this case scrapbooking items, always check the Sunday paper for deal from local crafts stores. This week Michaels and A.C. Moore have some great deals you won't want to pass up.

A.C. Moore Sales

• Value Pack of Cardstock - 25 ct. and 50 ct. 5 for $10
• Topload Scrapbook Album with 10 pages - 2 for $9
• Open Stock Paper - Solid, printed and glittered cardstock - 40% OFF
• Scrapbooks and Photo Albums - 12x12 and 8x8 - 30% OFF
• Nicole Stickers - 4 for $3

Fantastic Savings

Papercrafting Clearance - red and yellow stickers - 90% OFF
Cricut Expression Bundle - Cutting mat, machine, sample kit, paper pups and storybook cartridges - $199.99
Cricut Cartridges - Select styles - $34.99
Cricut Cartridges - Select Styles including quarter note, elegant edges, every day pop-up cards and damask decor. Regular $49.99-$99.99 ON SALE FOR $44.99

Don't forget about the fabulous coupons you can find in the Sunday paper or on the A.C. Moore website. There are two coupons for this week: 50% OFF and 40% OFF, as well as another 50% OFF coupon to use next week June 5th through June 11th.

Michaels Sales

Bazzil 12x12 Open Stock Paper - 2 for $1
Value Pack Paper 81/2x11 - 4 for $10
Scrapbook Paper Pads Regular $19.99 - 40% OFF or $11.99
Cricut Cartridges - $39.99
Recollections Stickers and Embellishments - 40% OFF
Martha Stewart Craft Tools - 30% OFF

There are three coupons in the Sunday Michaels ad: 50% OFF one item, 40% OFF one item and 25% OFF entire purchase. Visit the Michaels website or blog to print coupons that you may have missed in the Sunday paper.

Hope everyone has a chance to catch these great sales this week and get to scrappin' those scrapbooks and keepsakes.

Scrapbook Challenge

Mom and I have decided to motivate ourselves to create more unique scrapbook pages and layouts. We haven't decided if we will do a scrapbooking challenge every week or every other week, but we are very motivated and excited to share with you what we will be working on. At the end of this article I will announce what are challenge will be for this week.

Mom and I were sitting around the table today at lunch and we were talking about ways to get us motivated to try new things. We were reading about some other challenges on blogs that we like to visit, such as the Just Rite blog that post new challenges every couple of weeks to get those brain juices flowing. That's when I came up with the bright idea to create our own challenge. Mom and I first made a list of 10 scrapbook page themes and a list of 10 different colors. We cut out each theme and color so it was on a strip of paper and folded each in half. We placed the themes in one bowl and the colors in the other.

Here is us drawing our pieces of paper from each bowl. We were to choose one strip of paper out of the theme bowl and two strips of paper from the color bowl.  After choosing the theme and colors I told mom that we needed to utilize some of the numerous tools and embellishments she had by different companies. So we created two more categories. One for tools and embellishments and the other for certain companies. After placing the strips of paper into a bowl we took one strip of paper from each bowl.

 

Rules of the Challenge:

1. Challenges must be complete by next Friday
2. Scrapbook layouts may incorporate other embellishments, colors or tools but must be minimal. The bulk of the page should consist of the items or themes listed on the strips of paper drawn. 
3. The theme of the page can not be changed ,however; three of the other four items on the strips of paper can be used. If a contestant (Mom and I) choose to use all five of the items listed on our strips of paper we only get brownie points. LOL!
4. HAVE FUN SCRAPBOOKING!

Here is a picture of the first three strips of paper Mom and I choose. (No we didn't peak)

And here is what we have to do our challenge scrapbook page(s) on.....

MOM --------
Beach
Red
Pink
Rhinestones
Stampin' Up

ME -------
Grandkids or Kids
Orange
Yellow
Martha Stewart
Sizzix Punch

Can't wait to show you guys what we come up with for next Friday. Feel free to try one of these lists for your own challenge and post a link to your challenge scrapbook page in the comments section below. Don't forget to follow us so you'll know when new posts are up to view.

Get to scrappin' those scrapbooks and keepsakes!

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K and Company Wedding Scrapbook Page: Black and White

Items Needed:

KandCompany Black & Ivory Designer 12-Inch by 12-Inch Paper Pad 
The Paper Company, P89000, Cardstock Starter Pack, 12 by 12 (50 Sheets) 
Fiskars 1298937797 Fiskars 12" Personal Paper Trimmer, 10-Sheet Capacity, 12" Cut Length 
Cuttlebug Machine V2 
Cuttlebug Embossing Folders, Love's in the Air Set, 6 Folders 
Provo Craft Cuttlebug Plus 5x7 Embossing Folders-Fanciful Labels
Anna Griffin rubber stamp
3-D dots by EK Success

Scrapbook Page Instructions:
This is one of my favorite scrapbook pages made by my mom, but the page also features products from my favorite scrapbook company, K & Company. As I said in a previous post my sister is getting married in July so we are creating a scrapbook to give to her as a wedding gift. Some of the scrapbook layouts we are creating will have pictures in them, but a few pages we are creating specifically for her wedding pictures, even though they haven’t been taken yet. This wedding scrapbook page has a black and white theme, but are not the colors chosen for the wedding party. We have also created a wedding scrapbook page dedicated to her wedding colors which are purple and a shade of olive green. That page will be posted later on this week, Mom and I aren’t completely satisfied with its (the new wedding page) appearance yet.

The left page background is a ivory and black specialty paper from K and Company. This paper is also featured as a small bordering piece on the right side of the opposite page. The heart shaped picture holders on the left page were made using a heart cuttlebug embossing and cutting folder and ivory white cardstock. The background behind the heart-shaped photograph holders uses black cardstock. In the bottom right corner of the left layout are two hearts. These hearts were hearts created using the same heart cuttlebug embossing and cutting folder. At the top right corner of this page is a small place to journal with a date or the name of the couple getting married, in this case my sister and her soon to be hubby.

The right page is a very simple page, but looks very elegant, perfect for a wedding scrapbook page. There isn’t a special technique, special tool or special product used on this page; just regular ivory and black cardstock, a silver quote brad and two pearl embellishments on each side of the silver brad quote.The stamped image on the side of this page is a Anna Griffin stamp that is absolutely beautiful.

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Sneak Peek: Martha Stewart Sunburst Scrapbook Punches. Not Available In Stores!

Here are the new punches we got! These will not be released in stores until almost the end of this year. This is a new line of Martha Stewart punches. She still has three new set to release later next year, but we will have them before then. Keep an eye out for the other punches we will be using that Martha Stewart hasn't released in stores yet.

I haven't decided if these punches are to be used to create celestial looking pages with stars on them or are they actually really pointy flowers. I will probably use th punches for both. There is one large border punch, one small border punch, one corner punch and a medium size punch that can be used anywhere.

Scrapbook Page Using NEW Martha Stewart Punches

This is a two page layout mom created, but I decided to only post one. ( I need a new camera.) This scrapbook page, made using K&Company scrapbook papers, can be used for pictures with a more outdoorsy feel or pictures that may not have a particular theme. The picture is of my sister, catching her first fish. It's a good memory, but a picture that may be hard to place or create a scrapbook page for. Look below for a list of items we used or are similar and how we created the layout. Oh, by the way, there is a sneak peek of a new Martha Stewart item used on this page that isn't available in stores yet!

Items Needed:

KandCompany Wild Saffron 12-Inch by 12-Inch Paper Pad

KandCompany Tim Coffey Cottage Garden Tag Pad, Journal

The punch used to create the floral design on the top of the page can't be purchased in stores yet because it is an exclusive Martha Stewart punch set. We will have three more unreleased Martha Stewart punch sets available in the next couple of months. These punches will be released between the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012.

Cardstock - Butternut (or that's what Mom calls it) and Brown

Putting it Together:

Mom has been wanting to figure out a way to use this picture for awhile now and I think she made it look good. I can't tell if the K&Company paper has daisies or sunflowers on it, but the background is a deep red and the flowers are a beige color. She used the butternut colored cardstock to enhance and bring attention to the picture and not the background. There is also room left above the picture for journaling or dates. She placed the journaling tag, also K&Company, on the right side of the page to give a brief description of what was going on in the picture. The brown cardstock has a punched floral border around the top edge. The punch used hasn't been released in stores yet, but you can see a sneak peek of the new punch set in another post.

This page will be going into my sisters scrapbook as a gift to her for her wedding in July. Be on the look out for a few of her wedding scrapbook pages soon.

We will also be posting a few more spring and Easter layouts and later this week we will see a couple scrapbook pages that I created and spent less than a couple of dollars to make.

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