FEATURE FRIDAY

Today we are featuring World Card Making Day and the work of some of our fabulous card making customers.  Tomorrow is the day and there are celebrations and challenges all over the blogosphere.   We have some very talented cardmaking customers and I want to showcase the work of a few of them.

 This cute creation is by Allison Graves.  It just shows how you can creatively use die cuts.  I LOVE this card!

Another Allison Graves creation using all white and the sentiment is a sticker by SRM.  Very elegant!

Sandy Trefger crated this adorable scarecrow card.  She used the woodgrain Impression Obsession cover-a-card stamp to make that really cool wood background. 

Another Sandy creation featuring an adorable Santa.  Love her use of baker's twine on this card!

Look at this fabulous creation by Valerie Light.  This is such an amazing card.  I was pleased to see that she entered it into the Our Daily Bread Designs challenge.

Another fabulous card by Valerie.  I love the simplicity of this card.  Simplicity is something I really struggle with, but admire so much.

These two cards were created by Pam Conover.  She does such an amazing job. Pam's mom passed away and she has been going through her mom's things.  Pam found the cards that she had made for her mom over the years and has been featuring them on her blog.  What a treasure the cards were to her mom and are now for Pam.

Scrapbooker extraordinaire Shaunery Wharton created this fabulous card.  LOVE the distressing on it!

This cute card was made by none other than Cat!  It is adorable.  However, Cat regretted starting it after she "fussy cut" the window and put the photo of her and Ray in it.  Fussy cutting really earned its name...she fussed just a little! 

I want to share just a very few links to some of the many events being held for World Card Making Day.  Operation Write Home is hosting a blog hop.  Unity Stamp Company is hosting challenges every hour on their blog.  Splitcoast Stampers hosts a big event every year combined with "Hope you Can Cling To", where you make cards for various challenges and then send the completed cards to MD Anderson for cancer patients.  And, of course, Papercraft Magazine, the creator of this fabulous holiday, hosts a huge event.  These are a fraction of the events being held for this holiday.  We are having a crop at Cat's on Saturday.  Call and reserve a spot so you can scrapbook or make a few cards to celebrate World Card Making Day.  Whether you create at home or come to the crop, I hope you can find time to make a card or two for this fun holiday. 
 

IT'S A PUNCHY THANKFUL THURSDAY

It's Thursday, what are you thankful for?  At Cat's we are very thankful for YOU, our customers.

The Thankful Thursday special is going to put a smile on your face.....it is:

DOUBLE PUNCH THURSDAY!

TODAY ONLY, show this post to Ray or Valerie (Cat is out of town), and you will get double punches on your card...purchase $50 worth of merchandise and get punches for $100.   You could fill up a card really fast that way!   Remember, we are open until 8:00 pm tonight, so you have some extra time to come by the store to take advantage of the sale.

Fall is in the air and it is the perfect time to pick up those fall paper collections you have been thinking about purchasing.  There are lots to pick from with the added incentive of getting double punches for your purchase. 

 There is this cute collection from Bella Blvd.

BoBunny and Reminisce both have some very rich colors in their collections.

Authentique just arrived in the store last week.

Echo Park has this "mini" collection of fall cuteness.

Remember, you can make some really cute tissue boxes for the fall season.

I hope you are able to come by the store today to take advantage of this fabulous double punch offer.  Come on down to the store and get punched twice!

WOW WEDNESDAY BLOG HOP & LAST WEEKS' WINNER

The winner from last weeks' blog hop, chosen by random.org, was #6 - Shaunery Wharton on Allison's blog.  Congratulations, Shaunery...contact Cat at the store to claim your prize!

We love seeing the work of our wonderful customers and there is always inspiration to be found while visiting their projects.  Would you like to participate, but do not have a blog?  You do not have to have a blog to participate.  Denise Case has been participating by linking up her creations on Sketch Inspiration. This is how she is doing it: If you have an online gallery at Two Peas, Splitcoast Stampers, Scrapbook.com, Sketch Inspirations (must be using a sketch inspiration sketch), FlickR, or any other online gallery, you can participate. When Mr. Linky asks for your url, just copy and paste the url (that part up at the top where it says http://www/......) of the page of your creation. I have an online gallery at Splitcoast Stampers and if I wanted to link up a card, I would go to my gallery and then click on the card I wanted to link up...let's say it is the Things are Looking Up card. So, I click on that card and then copy and paste the url (http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/photo/2081676?&cat=500&ppuser=192963) in the blank. TaDa....it is linked up to Mr. Linky! I hope this encourages more to participate in our WOW Wednesdays.

To be considered for the blog candy, you must post a project that you have created. WOW Wednesday must also be mentioned in your post and be sure to let your blog readers know that there is blog candy being given away to a random participant or commenter.

I hope you will share your fabulous creations with us. If you didn't have time to create anything, I hope you will share some love on everyone else's creations--we all love that positive reinforcement!

TUESDAY TEMPTIONS FROM HEIDI SWAPP

Heidi Swapp has arrived at Cat's.  OK, maybe not Heidi Swapp herself, but her products have arrived.

Her new file boxes and displays.

These are the beautiful memory files.

Look at all of the cool embellishments.....

These stickers are really dimensional.

and then there are the mists.....

and all of the cool mistable products.

Oh me, oh my...I can't wait to see what we can make with all of these cool products.

I couldn't stay out of this paper.  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these colors!

Cat took some of these home Saturday night to work on Sunday and Monday.  I can't wait to see what her creative mind comes up with.  Get your wallets out, because I'm sure it will be a class that we will all want to take!  LOL!

More boxes are coming in this week.   My head is spinning with all of the beautiful new products and my wish list is getting SO long!   

I hope you are as inspired by all of these Heidi Swapp products as I am.  Make sure you get your's before they are all gone!

MARVELOUS MONDAY WITH AUTHENTIQUE AND SKETCH INSPIRATION

 Nita Griffith has been rocking the sketches the past few weeks using the "Genuine" collection by Authentique.  This is the layout she made this past week using sketch #339 by Sketch Inspiration.  I love the embellishment cluster at the base of the page.

She made this layout for sketch #338 and

this layout for sketch #337.

Being the friend that I am, I have alerted her to the arrival of the new "original:" collection that coordinates nicely with this collection.  Nita is making a travel album using this collection, and since she and her husband travel so much with his job, she probably needs MORE paper.....

Yes, she definitely needs this....think I might need some too!

The Authentique "Thankful" collection will look great for all of those fall foliage photos, pumpkin patch, and Thanksgiving holiday photos.  These collections both feature the fabulous heavy, textured paper that we all love about Authentique. 

Don't delay....hurry on down to the store to pick up these beautiful collections before they are all gone!  If you live too far away to visit the store in person, give Cat a call and she will mail your goodies to you. 

SUNDAY INSPIRATION

What inspires you?  I know that Tim Holtz's creativity always inspires me.  I love that we have our own Holtz here...Nanci Holts-ford.

Nanci is going to teach the Tim Holtz inspired Christmas tags classes.  There will be three classes, held on October 27, November 3, and November 15, during which we will make 12 tags. If you attend all 3 classes and complete all 12 tags you will get your own frame to showcase them absolutely FREE!  I am so excited that we are doing this.  Nanci does a great job teaching these classes and I can't wait to make the 12 tags and display them in the frame.

 Creativity was all over the store yesterday during the Christmas Chaos.  

Tammy and Kourtneigh Foster took this project and put their own spin on it.

Tammy got into the new Authentique papers and used them to make her's into a western themed photo holder.

Kourtneigh used the "When Pigs Fly" paper by Graphic 45 to make her's into a board to use at work.

Everyone was hard at work on their snowman screens.

Linda Pettigrew busily painting the signs for her snowman.

Teryia putting the letters on her sign.

Karen Willett was a necklace making machine!!!   They were all so cute.

Some who couldn't be there bought kits to go so that they could create some of the projects at a later date.  Everyone had a great time creating Christmas projects all day long.  

I hope you can join us for the Christmas Tag classes and enjoy creating these beautiful tags to display in your home. See you there!

IT'S CATURDAY CHRISTMAS CHAOS!!!

 

It is Caturday at Cat's and it is CHRISTMAS CHAOS around here!  No, we aren't dressing Cat up in a reindeer suit....we value our lives, after all!  LOL!

 

What is Christmas Chaos???   Well, it is your day to choose the things you want to make.  Which will it be.....or will it be all????

Christmas mini album

gift card or small gift bag

Wine bottle bag:

Christmas list organizer:

 

 Christmas Card/Photo display canvas

Will you make a necklace

or will you make the snowman screen with this

or this?

I know I'm planning to be in on the Christmas chaos.  It's a great way to get some Christmas gifts out of the way.  Plus you can create some Christmas decor or an organizer to help you with the chaos around the holidays. 




While you are at the store, you can check out some of the fabulous new products that have arrived.  The Christmas collections are beautiful and there is one to fit everyone's preferences.  There are beautiful fall, Halloween, and Thanksgiving selections to pick from.  In addition, Cat has the beautiful new Heidi Swapp mists and mistables for you to purchase and play with. 

 

Come on down to the store and join in on the fun surrounding

CHRISTMAS CHAOS! 

See you at the store!