Stash Fav: Journal Cards

I'm not sure who came up with the concept of journaling cards initially, but I've loved them for years!  Not only the single cards, but sheets of 4x3 cards that you can cut apart.  The possibilities with a 12x12 sheet of these little gems are many.  Of course, it goes without saying that you can cut them out individually and place them onto a layout to journal on, but you can also:

♦Cut into a 1 card x 3 card strip to create an accordion album

♦Make instant card fronts

♦Tags for gift bags

♦Add your own personalization, cut to size and slip into a luggage tag holder...great for back-packs!

♦Attach to a wooden skewer and create a cake topper or plant poke

♦Create a 12x12 collage by adding photos to every other card

♦Frame it or add to a canvas block and embellish

Here's my take on using a card on a canvas block

 I used the "Splash" Journal Card and "Big Stripe" by Echo Park

 Most companies now include this functional element as part of their paper lines...each little square is its own piece of artwork.  I hope you enjoy these new ideas and try them out!
Shellye

Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'

The product keeps rolling on in!

I had heard a rumor that more product was shipping this week but I wanted to wait until I had a tracking number from the shipper before I removed it from Pre-Order.

- Cosmo Cricket is on its way!
- We have added some Coredinations Cardstock from Fancy Pant.  Look for more Coredinations to match your favorite paper lines.
- Tim Holtz Sizzix Dies - Rosette and Sewing Room

So you can add those fabulous papers to the list from our Big Monday post.

You will also find the following lines available for Pre-Order later today.

Echo Park Summer Days
Echo Park 6x6 Pads
October Afternoon 5 & Dime (ships next week)*
October Afternoon Rocket Age (Ships mid April)*

* These are estimated ship dates from the manufacturer.   We may receive them earlier or later.  As soon as we receive the items in stock, we ship all pre-orders first.

Don't forget the Sketch Challenge we issued.  Please link us to your project using the Mr. Linky link in that post.  You have until 3/31 which is next Thursday.

Another quick update

Since we still have tons of orders to fill and not enough time in the day to get them all done - we'll make this fast.

We have some product shipping out this week.

Echo Park - Playground

Fancy Pants - Its the Little Things and To the Moon (also, a special line called Wishful Thinking that will be added today) and the Brag Book (very excited to get mine!)

Pink Paislee announced shipping begins today

Bella Blvd will be shipping by the end of the week

......and more.  We're trying to keep up with everything coming in and the pre-orders going up in the shop this week.

Don't forget to take advantage of the 15% off coupon code.  Enter MARCH15 during checkout to save.

New Echo Park : For The Record

Hi this is Bente!

I received so many lovely items in my latest kit from Erica. The store is overflowing with gorgeous *must-haves*.One of the collections was the new Echo Park called 'For the Record'.
Beautiful saturated colours and pretty stickersheets. I'll include some pictures of parts of the collection after my layout in this post.

Ok, this is my first lo I created with the kit. I have posted more close ups on my blog if you would like to see them.. You can use the link in the sidebar.

I started with distressing all the edges, then painted some of them and finally used my sewing machine to add some more interest to the project.

The photo is of our boots and how girly they are.

I pleated a piece of green cardstock just randomly and added that below the photo.

The flowers are as you can see *homegrown' ...lol...and a tutor

ial is coming up with those. They are so easy to make th

at of course you do not need a tutorial, but still, I made one.

I even used bakers twine here. That is a design element tha

t can be seen on many pages right now, a real fashion item! Erica has got lots of lovely colours in the store. They come on pretty little spools, and now you even get more on each spool, I think 3 yards actually !

Now please enjoy the photos of this lovely collection, and don't hesitate to check out the store for these and other gorgeous new products!

Happy Shopping!

We owe you some winners and a {NEW Contest}

I guess October 15th has come and gone and we never did pick winners for the Fall/Halloween and Altered Projects contests....

Here they are!

Denise C. with her fabulous Halloween Banner

Irit with her altered printers tray!

Last but not least, we asked you to create something using the sketch that Julie Bonner supplied.

The winner is Scrappin_in_AK with Time Flies.  I love the monochromatic feel of this one!

How about another contest?  This time its for a pack of the new Echo Park Little Boy line.  We know you love Echo Park by the way you grab up these papers every time we get a new release in!  So lets see how you're using them.

Echo Park is one of our favorite new companies.  They release something new every month, the lines are affordable and easy to get and best of all - these papers are good for ANYTHING!  Cards, layouts, altered projects.....

So lets see them.  Winner will receive the brand NEW Little Boy line (we can substitute this is you do not want the boy line)

Deadline is November 15th.  Use any of the previously released lines and link your idea to THIS post using the Mr. Linky link.

Stash Faves - Echo Park's Happy Halloween!

This new line, Happy Halloween by Echo Park, is the cutest Halloween paper I have ever seen! The colors are just so fun and vibrant and the designs are perfect for scrapping your little ghosts and ghouls!! Just like their other lines, it includes several sheets of double-sided paper, a sticker sheet of the cutest diecuts, a set of border stickers, and a sticker sheet of 3 alphas.

I made the card below using one of the diecut stickers with some of the border stickers and paper.

You can find the complete line of Happy Halloween in the YSS store! And don't forget that if you use the coupon code OCTOBER2010 through the end of October you will receive 15% off your complete order!!

Valerie

Stash Faves!

There's a line of fabulous papers and embellishments made by a company called Echo Park. The line is called "a walk in the park" and I absolutely love it!! The colors are so fun and summery and the quality of the papers and sticker sheets are thick and fabulous!!

All of the papers are double-sided and the 12x12 sheets of stickers are full of adorable diecut images!! One of the sticker sheets has 4 alphas on it - what a great buy!!! (All paper images are from the Echo Park facebook site)
One of my favorite papers is the elements cards page. It contains lots of sentiments that are perfect for cardmaking. These are a few of the cards I made with that piece of paper - and many of the other beautiful items that are available with this line!

Everything that you need from this line is found in the store!! And remember, everything in the store is on sale this month - just use AUGUST2010 as the coupon code and you will receive 20% off of your complete order!! Enjoy!!

Valerie