CLOSING

If you have done a page or an off the page project and it is still in the store, could you please pick them up next week sometime.

CLOSING THE DOORS!!!!!

Next week will be the last week that we will operate as The Creative Artz Cottage.

Pop in next week to grab your bargains. Everything must go. Prices slashed storewide.

The following week we will be getting rid of all the fixtures and fittings in the store.

Stayed tuned for more info.

CLOSING DOWN SALE!!!

Yes, that's right. We are closing down. So therefore we are having a closing down sale.

Everything must go. Everything is half price.

So hurry while stocks last.

Classes!!!!!

We did great texture paste classes on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. I did manage to remember to take a couple of photos. (It was Cassie really! Thanks love).

We had a lot of beginners in the classes so I was pleasantly surprised with the finished results.

Thanks for allowing me to show your finished projects ladies.

If you scroll down a bit you will come across the Workshop calendar for October.

Next week we have a fantastic 'Page with a View' class. I can't wait for this one. It will certainly be different to anything I've done before.

If you would like to join us then please just give me a call or an email to let me know.

Thanks

We're back!!!!

As some of you may be aware we have been having phone line problems of late. Well we are up and running again. Everything seems to be working fine.

Our number is still the same, so if you want to call you can on 07 4151 8388.

We have a change of email address though. The new address at the moment is

creative11@dodo.com.au

This will hopefully be only a temporary email address, but I will let you know when we get the permanent one up and running.

As you can see below we have a month of wonderful classes again in October.

Every one is welcomed when they come to our classes. We are a friendly bunch and the store is cool and comfortable and very relaxed. So if you're a bit nervous to try something new, then please know that we will look after you here.

October Classes

September Classes

Come along and have a great time while scrap something fantastic in September.

Friday Night Happy Scraps

It's time for our Friday night Happy Scrap again this Friday. Everyone is welcome but please let me know in advance if you are coming.

Thanks

Thankyou Cassie

for your fabulous photos :)

Sneak Peek - in store now

Heidi Swapp bits and pieces

Pink Paislee - Enchanting paper range

Sneak Peek - in store now

Little Sprout Collection by Crate Paper

Sneak Peek - in store now

Cosmo Cricket Early Bird Range

Packets of 50 paper flowers $2 ea

Challenge Packs

We're still waiting on a few Challenge Packs to come in. If you got one and would like to be entered for judging, then please bring it in as soon as possible.
I will leave it open until Saturday morning.

Don't forget the Midnight Happy Scraps this Friday night.

If you would like to come along and join in the fun I really need you to book in.

Thanks a lot and have a great day.

Midnight Happy Scraps

Midnight Happy Scraps will be this Friday night.

Give us a call or call in to book in.....

Closed Thursday & Friday

Just to let everyone know that the store will be closed this Thursday and Friday 23rd & 24th July. We will be open Saturday 25th. 9am - 12pm.

Wednesday night class

Shandell is our guest teacher on Wednesday night as Cassie has other commitments. Have fun Cass, we will miss you.

Shandell is teaching us to make a waterfall card and by looking at this sneek peek I borrowed off Shandell's blog it is going to be awesome.

That's Wednesday night at 6.30pm. Or you can come and do the same class on Thursday morning 9.30am with me.

Call or call in to book.

Congratulations

Colleen has picked up her prize.

Thanks Colleen and everyone who bought in their coupon.

Bargain Bargain Bargain

Everybody loves a good bargain and we at The Creative Artz Cottage aim to please. We have a super duper deal at the moment with our huge range of papers.

Choose 50 sheets of 12x12 paper for just $20. That's just 40c per sheet.

But be quick because this deal is for a limited time only.

And don't forget to print out the flyer and bring it in with you to receive your free gift*.

*One per person per day.

And The Winner is

C. Farnham...........

Yay, You have won this gorgeous black, embossed album and refill pack just for bringing in your entry to the store. Congratulations and I have emailed you to let you know to come in and pick up your fantastic prize. Thanks to everybody who came in and entered.

Sherril came all the way from Mackay to draw the winner of our competition, thanks Sherril and Happy Birthday to Jim our gorgeous helper.

Classes

Cassie Thorne: Ladies this coming week on Wednesday night we are doing an interactive page. I think we will call it spin a winner. Want to know more??? See you Wednesday night at the creative artz cottage over north at 6.30pm

Check this out

We are now on facebook. Check it out.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/The-Creative-Artz-Cottage/91413243353?ref=ts

Sale - Last day

Our stocktake sale ends today 3.30pm.

The CHALLENGE PACK is back

Sneak Peek

A limited number of Challenge Packs are available this month.

If you had an entry in the last challenge we did before we moved then let me know and I will give you one of the new challenges.

Grab yours and have it back in before the 30th July for your chance to win the gorgeous prize.

Workshops, Workshops, Workshops

click on image to enlarge and print out

July workshops are locked in and ready to go. If you would like to join us and have fun while you learn some sensational scrapbooking techniques then just give us a call or pop in to book in.

Don't forget we have the HUGE HUGE HUGE SALE on until Thursday 2nd July. With up to 30% off storewide. That is all the papers including new stock at 30% off until this Thursday. Call in to bag yourself a few bargains....

And don't forget to scroll down and print out the entry form for your chance to go into the draw to win the fabulous embossed album and refills.

Just a note

Midnight 'Happy Scrap' is tomorrow night. Come along and join in the fun.

And the store will be closed on Monday during the school holidays.

STOCKTAKE SALE

Don't forget to come and have a look at our Stocktake Sale.

With up to 30% off storewide for 2 weeks only this is a great opportunity to grab a scrapbooking bargain.

** STOCKTAKE SALE **

Starting Thursday 18th June for two (2) weeks only. Up to 30% off storewide.
Come in to grab your bargains now.

Don't forget to bring your coupon in for your chance to win a gorgeous black, embossed album and a pack of page inserts. Valued at over $45.

Click on coupon to

print out.

Scrapbook & Papercraft Convention & Expo

As you know I went to the Scrapbook & Papercraft Expo in Brisbane at the long weekend. What a great excuse for a girls weekend. Shandell, Jenny & I had the funnest time (I know that's not a word but it is so true).

We had dinner and drinks at The Brekky Creek Hotel on the Saturday night. If you haven't been there before, you should try next time your in Brissy. The atmosphere is wonderful and the food was absolutely divine. On Sunday we went to the Scrapbook Expo and shopped and shopped and chatted and I did a Printblocks Class and made a lovely album with the new Your story machine. The Your Story is a brand new laminating and thermal binding maching from Provocraft. It hasn't arrived in Australia yet but will only be a couple more weeks. I'll let you know when they're available. The expo was great, imagine all those scrapbooking stores under one roof with heaps of demos and presentations. We easily spent the whole day there checking things out and learning heaps.

Sunday night we were invited to a Printblocks party at Southbank. It was great to get together with other shop owners and suppliers and let our hair down for a few hours. There were a few 'famous' scrappers there and it was really nice to meet them. They were such lovely ladies and so down to earth. And just about everyone there won a prize (except me) but I had so much fun it didn't matter. We got heaps of photos of the evening and you can see how much fun we had.

Monday was another trip to the Expo where we did a class each. I made a gorgeous memo board and Shandell made a stunning mini book. I will have to post photos when I get them.

And the drive home which was quite eventful and a great way to top off one of the most enjoyable weekends ever. A quick stop into Krispy Kreme donuts didn't hurt either.

Pumpkin Pink

Tammy from Pumpkin Pink is giving away some of her gorgeous chippies. Just head over to her site to see how to enter.

We have all of Tammy's designs in store if you miss out on winning.

Good luck and congratulations Tammy on your wonderful new chippies.

One More Sleep!

Tomorrow Shandell and I head off to the big smoke for the long weekend.

Road Trip!!!

We're staying at a friends place for 3 days of friends, fun & scrapping and no children. We are really going down for the huge Scrapbooking & Papercraft Expo being held at Southbank this weekend but will find time to hit the town as well.

If you haven't checked out the expo site yet, you really should and if you're in Brissy this weekend you should try to get over and have a look. It is a massive exhibition hall FULL of scrapbooking stores showcasing all their latest and greatest. We're all booked in to do some groovy classes so will be full of lots of wonderful ideas when we get back.

Now the reason for this post is to let you know that the store will be closed tomorrow. Sorry for any inconvenience.

If you would like to visit the store but work full time we are open on Wednesday nights between 6.30pm & 8.30pm. We have a class running at this time but the store is available if you want to come and have a look or buy something.

Anyway I hope everyone has a splendid long & safe weekend.

Xyron! Xyron! Xyron! 35% OFF

We have Xyron sticker makers in store now.

150
Make stickers up to 1 1/2" wide and as long as you like. Perfect for memory book and paper craft projects. Create your own self-adhesive punch art, mini die-cuts, mini photo stickers, borders, labels and more. Easy to use machine puts a uniform adhesive coating only where you want it-on the item...

250

The Xyron 250 Sticker Maker, with a 2 1/2" opening, applies an even layer of acid free permanent adhesive to the back of items up to 1/8" thick. Insert the item, Turn the Handle, Peel and Stick. Turn clip art, drawings, special papers, die cuts, photos, fabric, dried flowers and almost anything...

And now with 35% off you can't get them any cheaper at the chain or online stores.

Get yours today. Hurry, before they're all gone

Please read the below post

and support this worthy cause!

And keep reading below the last post for our monthly calendar.

Message from Petrina re: Biggest Morning Tea

Thursday last week I held an online morning tea to raise funds for the Cancer Council. The invitation you are receiving is for the morning tea (a little belated!) but I thought I would send it out to you so you can get the link to my online secure donation page at the Cancer Council. In conjunction with the morning tea I am doing a raffle and it will be drawn tomorrow night. I figure the more people I tell - the more money we can raise. Details of the raffle are on my blog http://scrap-petrina-just-scrap.blogspot.com/ and the prizes are fantastic. For every $5 you donate I will give you a ticket. Please pass this message on to all your scrapbooking friends!! Every dollar raised helps :) Thank you! P.
Warm the teapot and break out the bickies! I'm holding Australia's Biggest Morning Tea as part of Australia's Biggest Morning Tea 2009 and I need your support.
Would you make a donation to help fight cancer? You can do it securely online, right now, using your credit card.
All money raised at Australia's Biggest Morning Tea will help the Cancer Council continue its research, education and patient support services to help all those affected by cancer.
Just click on the link below to make an online donation now:
http://qld.cancercouncilfundraising.org.au/personalPage.aspx?SID=145526
You will receive a Cancer Council tax receipt immediately by email once you have made your donation. And you will be able to see your gift added to my online fundraising if you go to my personal page.
For more information on Australia's Biggest Morning Tea 2009, please visit http://www.blogger.com/www.biggestmorningtea.com.au.
Thanks for your support!

JUNE IS HUGE

Check out this months Workshop Calendar.

Here is a sneaky peak of a class that is coming up this month.

Cassie has come up with some exciting techniques to make your pages really shine.

Wednesday night classes fill up quickly so if you would like to join in on the fun and creativity then please book in.

Classes

Classes have been super full and super fun since we've been at our new location.

Cassie, our new new teacher, is crazy and an extremely talented scrapbooker. (Watch out for Cassie's layout to be published this month). I forgot which mag she is in but will get back to you with it soon.

Cassie has wonderful ideas and techniques that she shares with us each Wednesday night. If you would like to attend a Wednesday night class with Cass, please call or pop in ahead of time to book in. Due to the lack of room, numbers are limited and classes have been filling up.

NEW NEW NEW NEW

Unfortunately my new stock didn't arrive in time for 'Sew What's Crafty'

but the upside is that now I have heaps of new papers in and stock in and you will benefit.

Come in now to check out the latest Sassafras papers 'Bungle Jungle', 'Anthem' & 'Vintage Yummy". We have brand new die cut papers from Crate Paper & We R Memory Keepers and the extremely yummy glittered and embossed papers from We R Memory Keepers.

We have the full range of colours in the 3 ring binder albums. These are the best and easiest 30x30 scrapbooking albums. No more unscrewing and screwing to add new pages to your album. The albums are very popular and the colours are often hard to get, so hurry in before the colour you want is gone.

Glimmermist has arrived. We have a great range of colours in now. Very popular product so if you are after any you'll have to hurry.

Sew What's Crafty

Was great fun and very tiring. I love catching up with everybody at the expo.



Thanks to Cassie, Shandell and Kylie for coming and giving me a hand and Tracy and Mum for helping me set up and take down.

Workshops, Workshops, Workshops

Check out the great workshops we have got in May.

Click on the timetable to make it bigger and you can even print out a copy to put on the fridge.

Sew What's Crafty

The store will be closed on Friday 15th May. We will be setting up our site at Sew What's Crafty.

We will have heaps of super duper show specials so make sure you pop past and say g'day.

See you there.

REMINDERS

Wednesday evening classes from 6.30pm - 8.30pm. Classes are $10 and you receive 10% off anything you purchase on the night.

Friday night Social Scrap from 6.30 - 12.00am this Friday 24th April is $10 and you receive 10% off everything you purchase on the night. Bring extra money if you would like to have dinner with us.

Bookings are essential for all classes and social scraps and places fill quickly so please call or call in and book your place.

Remember numbers are limited so book in early if you want to come along and join in the fun.

This Friday we are having a party to celebrate moving to new premises so we will have a lot of fun and give aways.

Come in between 6.30pm and 8.30pm on Friday 24th to be the first to see the brand new stock and receive 10% discount of your purchases. You will also be in with a chance to win the lucky door prize.

Hope to see you there.

Cassie's Classes

Book in to one today.

Remember bookings are essential for all classes.

Come along and learn in our comfortable, relaxed creative studio.

We are open today

Yes, we are open today until 12pm. Come in and have a look at our new store.

We are finally here and almost settled in, by the end of the weekend I’m hoping we will look like we’ve been here for years.

We have lots and lots of new stock in and arriving shortly. I’ve got a huge Kaiser order being sent today, so hopefully that will be up and available for Tuesday (all going well). Will let you know as the orders arrive.

The rubon foils, flocks and glitters from We R Memory Keepers have finally arrived. They are just so delicious to glam up any page.

And that is just what Kylie is doing on Thursday night in her “stitching and glamour” class. Kylie has lots of funky and fresh ideas to incorporate into your scrapbooking layouts, so do yourself a favour and book in to Kylie’s class today.

Kylie is a breath of fresh air for the team at The Creative Artz Cottage and we welcome her with open arms. Come and say Hi and check out the layouts Kylie will be teaching this month.

The new cottage is absolutely gorgeous ( I might be a little bit biased). It’s bright and fresh and just a relaxed, very comfortable space to be in.

And don’t forget the Pizza, Music, Scrap & Chat which is being held on April 24th. We will be having a bit of a lauch party that night as well. so mark it in your diary.

We have moved

Yay!

We are officially in our new home at 103 Gavin Street, North Bundaberg.

If you haven't been to see us yet, please pop in and say gday. We still have huge paper and cardstock ranges and lots of new and yummy products coming in each week.

Classes are being at the usual times, with the fabulous Kylie taking Thursday classes. Kylie's classes are held at 9.30am and 6.30pm.

Beginners classes on Tuesday nights are held at 6.30pm with the tremendously talented Cassie.

If you would like to attend any of our classes please call or pop in to BOOK your place.

Scrapbook & Papercraft Convention & Expo

Dear Papercrafters and Scrapbookers,
Class bookings for the 2009 Scrapbook & Papercraft Expo & Convention are now open and available to book online. Spaces are already filling up fast so go to the website http://emarketing.expertiseevents.com.au/lt/t_go.php?i=469&e=NzQ5MjQ0&l=-http--www.scrapbookexpo.com.au/Brisbane2009/app/pages/view/welcome762678/ and click on the "Class Information" page for details on how to book your classes.
A fantastic line-up of Australian and American tutors wil be presenting the latest techniques and ideas with gorgeous new products.
Go online and book today!The Craft Team
Scrapbook & Papercraft Convention & ExpoBrisbane Exhibition Centre June long weekend, June 6-8
Organised by Expertise Events, organisers of the Craft & Quilt Fairs

Simply Crafty

If you would like to join a group of like minded ladies and do something crafty on Sunday, be sure to join Dylis and Linda and the Simply Crafty group when they meet at the Neighbourhood Centre. Check out their blog for more details.

Please note that due to our moving shop next weekend we will not be holding our midnight scrap this month.

Sale Sale Sale

As you are by now aware, we are moving to 103 Gavin Street, North Bundaberg on 28th March 2009. To help make moving and unpacking and setting up a new store easier we have decided to have a MASSIVE MOVING SALE from now until the 28th March we have 1/2 the store at 1/2 price. So come in, check out the bargains and say goodbye to our lovely little cottage that was The Creative Artz Cottage.

Check out Cassie's blog to check out the list of classes in this series.

Beginners Scrapbooking Classes

Just a reminder to all about Cassie's Beginners Scrapbooking Classes that are being held at The Creative Artz Cottage each Tuesday night. Classes start at 6.30pm and run for 2 hours. Each week Cassie will go through an aspect to make your scrapbooking easier and more enjoyable. This week is distressing. Cassie's classes are very educational as well as being heaps of fun. Please give us a call and book in if you would like to learn scrapbooking and design basics in a very comfortable and friendly environment.

Inkurable Stampers

Have you seen this very groovy challenge blog Inkurable Stampers. They are having a bring a friend promotion this month with some great prizes to win. Just click the link to check out more.

Congratulations Rachel Baker

You won the last scrap challenge.

Yay, you can come in and collect your prize.

It's Official

We are moving to 103 Gavin Street, North Bundaberg.

We will be there to trade from the Tuesday 31st March 2009.

Our new building is on the right just over the new bridge on the north side in the old, green fruit and vege building (opposite the Railway Hotel bottlo). Please make sure you come and see us in our funky new cottage.

We will be having a massive clearance sale from 17th March, 2009 ( I don't want to have to move everything and count it all lol) so keep an eye out for that

Bushfire

we CAN help

This time in a more hands on way.
A woman with a very big heart has offered to coordinate the making of "memory gifts" - family albums for those who have lost everything in the Victorian bushfires.

I've copied this from Sarah Gladman's blog:

As scrappers, one of the most important things we deal with on a daily basis are memories. Family memories, memories of loved ones, memories of holidays, birthdays, christenings, bbq’s and days at the beach. These families in Victoria have got no tangible evidence of their lives left. No family photos. No happy snaps. You can replace a fridge, but you can’t replace years of momentos.

In order to help out these families begin to put their lives back together I have started a scrapbooking plan - called “MEMORY GIFTS”.

Quite simply, I ask each and every one of you who read this blog to donate a 12 x 12inch completed scrapbook LO to the “Memory Gifts” program. Each page will be sent to me. I will collect them and bind them, then hand them over to the head of Pastoral Care for the Victorian Catholic Education Office, Maria Kirkwood in Melbourne.

Each family devastated by fire will be (in time) given album pages to help them begin their memories again. Those families can then approach their own families for copies of photos to put into the albums, or simply start putting in fresh memories.

Sarah asks that you leave a comment on her blog if you can help. If you are in Bundaberg and you are going to make some layouts for this cause you can drop them off here at The Creative Artz Cottage. Petrina is organising to post them all together so if you would like to help and make some layouts you can either leave a comment here or email Petrina at petrinamcdonald at bigpond dot com.

Bazzill Sale

Get 10 pieces of Bazzill for a crazy $7.00 for one week only.

From today until next Wednesday 18th February we are having a huge bazzill sale.

We have just had a bazzill order arrive so we have a full range to choose from.

Come in and pick up your bazzill today.

Thanks Ladies

A big thankyou to all the ladies who attended my first ever product launch party. I had a wonderful night and judging by all the laughing and smiles I think everybody else did too. We certainly had a full cottage of scrappers and shoppers and socialites. And I forgot to get the camera out, doh. What sort of scrapbooker/blogger am I? (please be nice when you answer that, lol).

Congratulations to Karen who won the lucky door prize (and she said she has never won anything!)

If you would like to attend the next one to scrap please call and put your name down soon as places are filling up fast.

And congratulations to Carrie for winning the challenge last month. I have got a photo of the winning layout and i will post that soon.

Sorry Jane and Kylie

I have put up a new class calendar for February because i forgot to add Jane's 'ME' classes. Woops.

And you will notice that we have some new 'technique' classes starting with Kylie. Kylie will be showing us a great new technique each week that will give our pages that extra 'WOW' factor.

The hour long classes will be fun and informative and we'll get to take something home each week. Please support Kylie by booking in to her classes each week. Check out Kylies blog to and see the cool stuff she does

Midnight Happy Scrap

Just a reminder:-

We have Midnight Happy Scraps on the last Friday of the each month. Come in and create your own masterpieces in the comfort of our airconditioned studio and enjoy the company of great friends, new and old, from 6.30pm - Midnight.

It's a great opportunity to get in a few hours of scrapping, without the interruptions that you get at home. There's lots of laughter and fun, we order in and there's a lucky door prize, and some scrapping. What more could you want in a night out with the girls.

The next one is this Friday 30th January, please call to book in if you would like to join us.


New Products & Huge Savings

Between 6.30pm - 8.30pm this Friday 30th January we will release our new products for the month. If you shop between these hours you will receive a huge discount of 20% off everything in the store, including the new and latest products.

See you there

I have had another OMG moment.

Check out the Primadonna blog to find out some more about the classes that Jill Geraghty - Groves is doing at The Creative Artz Cottage in February. Scroll down to find Jill's name and the details of the classes.

Thanks Jill

Thanks Kylie

Just want to say a great big thankyou to Kylie from Kylie M Designs for the delightful C.A.C blinkie. I love it.

If you would like to use our blinkie on your blog or website please feel free.

If you need some advice just leave a comment and I'll get Kylie to help you.

The picture to the right is Kylie having her usual afternoon drink after a hard day sewing. lol

OMG

I just happened to check out the Scrapbooking Memories site (procrastinating) and whilst there I found a lovely picture of their newbie of the month our very own Cassie Thorne.

Just a reminder Cassie is teaching beginners classes each Tuesday night at The Creative Artz Cottage beginning February.

Sneak Peek - Jill GG class 1

Explore the effects of bright colours and delicious textures in creating this layout which look fabulous with a black and white photo. Learn how to use 'non traditional' colour schemes combined with simple, yet effective techniques to create a layout that is bold, yet very sophisticated.

Challenge Packs

I have 1 challenge pack left, so if you want it you had better get in fast. There is 10 days left to get your pack completed and bought it to be in the running for the fabulous prize on offer.

February Workshops

The calendar for Feb is out now. Vicki is back from holidays and is raring to go. She has come up with some remarkable pages and techniques that she is keen to teach us.

New Class

We have a lovely new teacher starting in February to do a Beginners Scrapbooking Course. The classes will run on Tuesday nights 6.30pm - 8.30pm and will give the new scrapper the confidence and skills they need to produce outstanding pages on their own. Cassie Thorne (see below) is a teacher at a local school and am so excited to have her come in weekly to The Creative Artz Cottage.

Call to book yourself into a class today.

And don't forget to click on the calendar to make it bigger, you can even print it out.