Crate Paper

Expo

California here we come!  We will be in Pleasanton, CA this weekend at the Scrapbook Expo.  We are going to have some awesome deals...so if you are going to be at the show make sure to stop by and see us.  The show info is below.

       

2010 Pleasanton, CA
(Bay Area)
March 19 & 20, 2010

Alameda County Fairground
4501 Pleasanton Avenue
Pleasanton, CA 94566
(925) 426-7600

Young at Heart

One of the crate gals was looking over at 2 peas the other day and found these inspirational layouts.   We had to share because who can't get enough of the beach, Woody and Buzz!  Capturing these moments keep us all young at heart.

     

 

     Brook Collection {Design by Tanya Tahir} 

  

 

 

Season Collection   {Design by Nancy Damiano}

 

Email Monday

Mondays, what do you say.... they are always crazy for us and who looks forward to having the weekend come to an end?   Well, we want to make Monday's fun again.... is it possible, we think so! 

Introducing our Email Monday Posts!  We receive the best emails from all of you and we feel it is a waste not to share our favorite designs with our CP friends.  "Email Mondays" will be full of the best layouts that you have shared with us.  Remember the more you share, the more we share.  Email your designs to info@cratepaper.com.  (Also SGND's are chosen from emails, yah... a chance to win some FREE product) You will never look at Mondays the same.

Thanks to the talented designers below for sharing their beautiful designs with us.

   

 

    {Cottage Collection}  design by Debby Visser

   

 

 

 

 

 

   {Cottage Collection}     design by Amy Hoang

  

  

         {pink plum collection}  design by Kaori Watanabe

  

     

           {bliss collection}    Design By Wendy Kwok

   

 

        {season collection}  design by Glenda Tkalac

 

   

             {season collection}   design by Julie Bonner

 

 

 

     {season collection}   design by Nicole Nowosad 

  

        {season collection}   design by Nicole Nowosad 

 

 

The following six layouts were designed by Nerrida Mitchell.

                {cottage collection}

 

                {season collection}

 

                {bliss collection}

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sgnd

Congratulations Tara Orr, your our first SGND for March. When we saw all the flower tops cut out from the "spring" paper we fell in love.  First, we love they way you collaged the flowers and second, that is a lot of work so thanks for showing us a new way to make "spring" bloom. Tara receives a crate shopping spree worth $50.00.

 

 

 

        season collection

Making Season Pop!

Want a poppin idea? One that will make your next crop party the talk of town.  Check out Suzy Plantamura's adorable designs that were featured in CK's Tips & Tricks. Thanks Suzy for making our Season Collection Pop! 

 

3 x 3 + Spring 2010 = Beautiful Scraps

When we release new product at CHA we give away 3 x 3 swatch books that include our latest paper release. What can this little book accomplish?  It is only 1/12 of a page, so small, so very very small.  Well... we found out what can happen to these little samples that we sent out into the scrapbooking world, they can come back as beautiful creations.  Laura Vegas sent us these adorable projects using our CHA samples.  Thanks Laura for giving us hope that these little samples have a chance to fulfill their scrapbooking destiny.

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        paper doll collection

  

 

 

 

        brook collection

 

            pink plum collection

And all of this came from a paper swatch book.....you've gotta love scrapbooking and you've gotta love Laura.

Fastest Shopper In Town

 
We found the fastest shopper in town and her name is Timna Ashbaugh. Congratulations and thank you for supporting our new product release. Above are some of Timna's photos of her new product, because of her fast email she is going to receive 2 complete collections of her choice.  Enjoy your prizes and don't forget to share some of your designs!

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tips & techniques

Do you love spring as much as “we” do?  We happen to think that  “Pink Plum” is the perfect paper crafting collection for accenting your spring inspired layouts this year. Christine Middlecamp created this lovely layout using a variety of blossoms to get you thinking about spring. She’s also put together a host of tips & techniques for us, which you’ll find below. Check it out! 

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Window boxes, both large and small, leave plenty of room for surprises. This particular layout houses a large window box. Within the box sits a long series of pattern papers and homemade embellishments. The box serves a “frame” for these items and is the base for the title.

The window box/frame is cut from vanilla cardstock using an exact-o knife, ruler and cutting mat.  Before trimming box/frame from cardstock, pre-measure it to ensure it’s of the appropriate size to fit on your layout. Also, decide on width of the frame. Width is important because it will determine the size of the window. After trimming the window box from cardstock, trace the inside of the window on background cardstock. Cut around tracing and use as base for adding items to your window. After you’ve completed your window’s design, adhere both window contents and frame to layout as shown above.

Flower accents are easy to create and are extremely popular right now. The flowers above are created using the following four items: Martha Stewart Large Flower Punch, MS Starburst Punch, ¾” circle punch & pink buttons. Punch eight large flowers from “Pomegranate” pattern paper. Punch eight starburst circles from “Very Berry” pattern paper. Punch eight geometric circles from “Wildberries” pattern paper. Combine items together to make the flowers and use to your liking!

Speaking of popular, paper rosettes can be found just about anywhere these days. They’re really simple to make and offer up all kinds of design options. All that’s required to make them is paper, tweezers, scissors and glue-dots. Trim a medium size circle from paper. Cut circle in a spiral-like fashion. Wrap spiral around tweezers tightly. Remove wrapped spiral from tweezers and adhere rosette at base using large glue-dot so that it doesn’t come apart.  Use your paper rosettes on a layout/project either individually or as part of a grouping of rosettes. The possibilities are endless!

Decorative scissors are great for creating your own one-of-kind borders. Use decorative borders to accent a focal point on a layout/project. The “Raspberry” pattern paper above is housed between two thin borders trimmed from pink cardstock using pinking scissors.

Lastly, even though Valentine’s Day is officially over, there’s always good reason to add hearts to a layout/project. Remember the days of hand-cutting hearts from folded paper? It’s the easiest way to trim an “almost perfect” heart. Layer hearts with embellishments like the one above, Crate Paper’s newest addition – “Sparkle Chip” – layered chipboard with glimmer and rhinestones!

Thanks Christine for the beautiful inspiration.

sgnd

 

Announcing our new scrapbook girl next door posts. A SGND post will share some of our favorite layouts, projects and cards.  We'll choose from designs that are emailed to us or some that we come across on the web. Sometimes a dream layout is just the next blog or email away.  We will have 2 SGND's a month.  (or on occasion the post may be changed to SBND...for the boys out there)  A SGND will have the opportunity to shop CP product for what ever she wants!  The shopping spree is worth $50.00 (retail value). 

Our first SGND winner is Jill Cornell. Congratulations Jill, you've made the North Pole Collection shine merry and bright.  Jill's adorable designs are currently for sale as a kit with full instructions at The Scrappy Gourmet.

 

 

 

 
 

            north pole collection

 

Ready...Set...Shop

Get your cars warmed up and head over to your LSS as fast as you can... of course safely as possible.  Our new Spring 2010 product starts shipping Thursday and we want to see who is the fastest CP shopper out there.  The Details:  The first email we receive with a photo of five NEW CP products (brook, pink plum, and paper doll) will receive 2 complete CP collections of their choice.  Yeah!!  email photo to info@cratepaper.com

Grab your purse... who said you don't get anything for shopping!  

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