Sales for Week of Jan. 23rd to Jan. 29th, 2011

Welcome to our weekly sales feature on Scrapbook Update! Retailers can easily keep up here on what their competitors are doing, and shoppers can find out where there are deals!

Please note that sales may be subject to regional variations or conditions. Scrapbook Update is not responsible for errors or omissions.

Jo-Ann Stores

  • Papercrafting Supplies: 40% off
  • Organizing Essentials Baskets: 50% off
  • Print & Cardstock Open Stock Papers: 4 for $1
  • Cricut Cake Machine: $199.99 (find at Joann.com)
  • Cricut Accessories: 25% off
  • Cricut Cartridges: $39.99 (find at Joann.com)
  • 12 x 12 Paper Pads, Packs & Stacks: $9.99 (find at Joann.com)
  • Papercrafting Storage: 40% off (find at Joann.com)

Michaels

AC Moore (print coupon)

  • Coupon: 50% off any one regular priced item
  • Coupon: Double AC Moore rewards points with $25 purchase
  • Coupon: 25% off entire purchase (Sunday only 1-7pm) (Print coupon here)
  • Valentine’s Day Papercrafting Supplies: 40% off select items
  • Liquitex Basics Acrylic Paint: 40% off
  • Decorative Steamer Storage Trunks: $7.99/$9.99/$12.99
  • Sandylion Essentials & Touch of Jolee’s Stickers: 2 for $3
  • Photo Boxes: 5 for $10
  • Topload 12 x 12 Album Refills: 2 for $3
  • 25ct Value Pack Cards & Envelopes: 2 for $5
  • Spool O Ribbon: 4  for $1
  • Americana Craft Paint: $.86/ea

Hobby Lobby

  • All Artist Tube Paint: 30% off
  • Ribbon By The Roll: 50% off
  • Scrapbooking Rub-Ons, entire stock: 40% off
  • Cricut Cartridges: 2 for $79.99
  • Letterpress Products, entire stock: 40% off
  • Single Sheet Paper: 5 for $1 (8.5 x 11) & 3 for $1 (12 x 12)
  • Scrapbook Totes & Organizers, entire stock: 40% off

Scrapbook.com

Addicted to Scrapbooking

  • Current Specials: Save 15% off all Martha Stewart Crafts, Making Memories, Doodlebug Design, Jenni Bowlin, BoBunny, Reminisce, Glitz Design and Kiki Art (expires 1/25/2011)

Addicted to Rubberstamping

  • Current Specials: Save 15% off all Stampendous, Inkadinkado, JustRite Stampers, Dandelion Designs, Victorine Originals, GCD Stamps, and American Art. (expires 1/25/2011)

Two Peas In A Bucket

Selected highlights of some of the items currently on sale at Two Peas In A Bucket.

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Paperclipping Roundtable #53: Getting It All Together

The process of how to organize all the stuff we accumulate in the course of our hobby challenges many scrapbookers…this week on the Roundtable, Angie Lucas and Molly McCarthy sat in with Noell, Izzy and I to chat about how to keep that stash under control!

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CHA Winter 2011 Keynote Speaker Replaced

The Craft & Hobby Association announced today that there has been a last-minute change in the keynote speaker that is scheduled for the CHA Winter 2011 Conference & Trade Show that opens on January 29th.

Randi Zuckerberg, sister of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s Marketing Director, was originally scheduled to give the keynote address for the show on Saturday morning. Zuckerberg is unable to present “due to unforeseen circumstances” according to the CHA announcement.

Stepping in at the last minute to deliver the show’s keynote will be Nick Bilton, the lead technology writer for the New York Times. Bilton is the author of I Live in the Future & Here’s How It Works: Why Your World, Work, and Brain Are Being Creatively Disrupted. Bilton will speak to CHA attendees about the advantages that businesses gain by staying on the cutting edge of technology. He’ll discuss the impact of Facebook and Twitter, and how technology has altered the next generation of consumers.

Nick Bilton will speak to CHA Winter 2011 attendees on Saturday, January 29th at 8:30am in Concourse Ballroom 153 of the Los Angeles Convention Center. Tickets are available to registered attendees at www.chashow.org until pre-registration ends January 25th.

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Trend Watch: Rosettes

As the new year gets underway and winter CHA products are revealed, there is an obvious trend that continues to grow and flourish: Rosettes. Whether made from crepe paper, ribbon, or patterned paper, they are a hot item to purchase and make. Something I like about them is that they can be used as a circle embellishment, as a center to a larger embellishment, or as a flower. They don’t have the super feminine look that flowers so often do, and the colors and designs can vary from a bright and graphic look, to a more vintage and soft look. In other words – rosettes can be made to suit most any style!

(shown above: American Crafts)

To see how rosettes can be used in something besides a scrapbook layout, check out this Jennifer Gallacher tutorial on making cupcake toppers on the American Crafts blog.

Rosettes are created from strips that are either folded, crumpled, or otherwise pleated into a circle. It’s simple enough to make your own, though I tend to find the process time consuming unless you’re going for a more rustic crumpled look. Here is a link to a great vintage rosette tutorial video by Lain Ehmann.

To make your own folded paper rosette, you’ll simply need to fan fold a strip of paper. I find this tends to be tedious. I never can keep the folds the same size (without considerable amount of effort and time), and the look is never just right when I’m done. When I want to make this style of rosette, I reach instead for my Tim Holtz Alterations rosette die.

If you like the convenience of the die too, you’ll be happy to hear that Tim recently showed a sneak peek on his blog of a new (smaller) rosette die coming soon. So there will be more size options available for those choosing this method of making rosettes.

For a full how-to on using the die, I recommend Tim’s how-to video for his rosette die, as well as a custom rosette video where he doubles up the die cuts to make a bigger (very cool!) rosette.

The Girls’ Paperie has some cool crepe paper layered rosettes available, and I’ve heard that in 2011 the Girls’ Paperie will be one to watch for more vintage inspired rosettes. In fact – as a design team member – I’ve been able to work with some new designs already, and I believe they’re going to be a hit!

In researching for this article, I also found these new K & Co. ribbon rosettes. So lovely! I am excited to see not only new products featuring rosettes, but also more tutorials and project examples with handmade ones popping up on my favorite blogs.

I have been wishing rosette ribbons would start to pop up, and Jenni Bowlin just released this sneak peek of ribbons coming soon. So fantastic! They will be available in several colors, and are already at the top of my wish list.

To show how I put rosettes in action for my own personal style, I created a layout featuring a few of my favorite photos from my girls’ recent meeting with Santa to share today:

Supplies:
Fancy Pants Tradition flocked transparency and buttons
The Girls’ Paperie Tinsel & Twig alphabet stickers, snowflake rosette, and chipboard letters
American Crafts City Park rosette sticker
Tim Holtz Distress Stickles in Rock Candy
Hipstamatic iPhone application
Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L foam adhesive squares
other: rhinestones, kraft cardstock, black pen

From childhood pages filled with whimsy to vintage inspired pages, and for every color out there, there’s likely a way to make a rosette work. I’m sure that the rosette trend is here to stay for a while. It goes so well with many other existing trends (such as banners, vintage, etc) and the materials and options are nearly endless – I’m glad to play with them more this year.

Do you like this product trend? What is your favorite way to put rosettes to use? Please feel free to share with us in the comments!

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Paperclipping Roundtable #52: Hook Drugs

Everyone has CHA on the brain right now…and the Roundtable is no exception! Stacy Julian and Ana Cabrera joined Noell, Izzy and I to talk trends and new products that we expect to see in Los Angeles!

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