Wow, it's hard to believe summer is over, kids are back in school and the holidays are around the corner. Our design team and teachers have been busy coming up with some great ideas for classes and gift ideas.

Congratulations Jackie

Jackie participated in the "Where's Evelyn" promotion that Art Impressions stamps sponsored. Her card and picture are posted on their website, www.artimpressions.com go check it out. Way to go Jackie, we are all proud of you.

CHRISTMAS IN JULY

I would like to thank my design team for the great ideas they came up for this month's classes. We've planned most of our classes around the holidays to help get your ceative juices flowing.
Here is a sample of what we have planned for July.So get the hot cocoa going, turn up the heat (or just open your window) and let's get going.

CHRISTMAS CARDS

Date: July 3rd
Time: 1:30pm

to 3:30pm
Cost: $18

Create 3 beautiful cards with new layouts for you to follow to make many more cards. Please bring your basic kit, detail scissors and geo dots.

The instructor for this class is Lynn and the cost of the class is $18.

CHRISTMAS TAGS

Date: July 4th
Time: 10am to 12pm
Cost: $12
Mix and match the tags you want to do. You can use them to decorate you gifts or hang them from your tree, either way they are adorable and made by you. Make 16 tags of your choice. To help keep the cost down, you just need to bring your favorite adhesives, mini glue dots and pop ups or foam tape. Everything else will be supplied by the store.

CHRISTMAS ALTERED ORANMENTS
Date: July 4th
Time: 1pm to 3pm
Cost: $12
Wow your tree is going to be full of homemade ornaments this year. You will make all 6 using paints, buttons, ribbon and lots of embellishments. All you need to bring is your favorite adhesive, glue dots, pop dots or foam tape. All other supplies are courtesy of the store.

CHRISTMAS TREE / SNOWMAN CARDS
OR WALL HANGINGSDate: July 8th
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Cost: $15
Craft your way through the holiday season with these cute little wall hangings. Certain to brighten someone's holiday. We will be using H2O's to give these guys a shimmer watercolor effect. They also make great cards. We will be making a envelope to each with each card. Bring double-sided tape, water brush and other media if you do not want to use H2O's.

Stamp Of The Month Challenge

Congratulations to Kathy, she was the winner for our first Stamp of the Month Challenge. This is one of the cards Kathy won with. You too can also be a winner, watch for our next challenge.

Explosion Box

June 30th

Birds and Branches

June 27th

Art Impression

Batik Floral Spray

June 21st

Upcoming classes

June 20th

Interactive Cards

Stamp of the Month

Can't make a class, most of the kits are available for purchase. Like the class but live too far away, we'll mail it to you. The cost for mailing is $5 and we will mail it priority mail. Call us at 954-438-0032

STAMP ZIA CLASSES (part I)

BIRD SILHOUETTE IN MOONSCAPE

Date: Friday, May 29
Time: 3pm to 5pm
Cost: $35

Create a spectacular piece of stamp art using Zia's Atlantis Series stamp images, her custom blended watercolors and a variety of unique art-filled techniques. Your finished art "sphere" will measure 12" in diameter, will be painted and stamped on her fabri-paper and will be ablaze in color, texture and underwater imagery...take home a one-of-a-kind ocean drenched fantasy! The focus/technique for this artshop is combining fabri-paper, bleach and acetate! All materials provided!! Please bring a hair dryer, scissors, colored pencils and/or colored makers.

GINKGO SCRATCH ART

Date: Friday, May 29
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Cost: $35

A new look for an old technique! Using Zia's new 5 1/2" Night Ginkgo Background we'll create the look of "scratch" art with India ink, NEON crayons and Illustration boards! Your finished creation will be comprised of 2 to 4 pieces mounted together on black core mounting board. The focus/technique for this artshop is crayon resist extraordinary! All materials provided! Please bring a hair dryer, scissors, ruler and colored pencils and/or colored markers and eraser.

Stamp Zia is back :-)

If you missed Stamp Zia last month, don't fret she will be here again on May 29th, 30th and May 31st with 7 new classes.

Wow, what a group of talented ladies. We had beginners to the experienced stampers take her classes but you would never guess, because everyone's work was outstanding. No two pieces of art work looked alike. Unfortunately we forgot to take group pictures at the end of each class, but we did take pictures of everyone working. Zia gave out a door prize at each of her classes. Teresa was the lucky one won a signed piece of artwork from Zia for the first to sign up for all six classes. Sorry Teresa you lost on this trip as someone else signed up first for all 7 classes.

Zia is doing another special for May's classes--sign up for all 7 classes and save $50. What a bargain, it's a free class (of equal or lesser value).

Save 15% when you sign up for 3 or more classes.

Save 10% when you sign for all classes any one day.

Challenge Submissions

We want to thank everyone that participated in our very first challenge and look forward to having more challenges. The following submitted their entries on time either through email or by leaving a link to their blog and we assigned a number based on the time we received the submission:

#1 Tootsie made this very pretty card and brought it to the store

#2 Kelly submitted her fabulous set of notecards
*Kelly* said...

Thanks for posting such a great challenge!
You can find my set of note cards here:
http://kbcraftcorner.blogspot.com/2009/05/first-stamp-lot-challenge.htmlMay 5, 2009 6:42 PM

#3 Ellen emailed hers Sunday and what a super cute card, love the water bubbles!

ATC SWAP

Our first meeting will be Wednesday, May 27.
Time: 6pm to 7:30pm.
Theme: Beach
You make 8 ATC's and you will get 7 back. If you are unable to attend meeting you can drop your ATC's off and pick yours up later. Live out of town you are more than welcomed to join the group, if interested call us at 954-438-0032.

Circles, circles everywhere

Good morning everyone :-)

we are really excited today because we are starting our very first challenge! We will be hosting several challenges on this blog. You have one week to submit your entries by either emailing us the picture of your card, scrapbook layout, other paper crafts....or if it is already on your blog you can simply leave a comment on the challenge post with a link to your entry. At the end of the week we will use a random number generator and select a winner for a cool prize! How cool is that?

Well, let's get started! Our first challenge is all about CIRCLES! Share your favorite project where you used circles. It could be just one big circles or many more....perhaps it is even a scalloped circle. We want to see circles lol so let's start by showing some of our designer submissions:

What's the prize for this challenge? EK's Circle Scissor Plus (est. at $29.95) Once you cut your circles with this tool you will never want to try anything else! It is great for cutting pictures the perfect circles to match your scrapbook layouts. You can cut a circle the size you want with the turn of a dial! You can also use it with a pen/pencil to draw a circle.

Stamp Zia

What an amazing time we had this past weekend with all of our Stamp Zia Worshops. Thanks to everyone who signed up and for those of you that missed on the April classes, she will return (by popular demand) in May so be sure to sign up fast before all the seats are taken again.

Blog Candy Winners

-----edited to add that we have heard from Frndly1 :-)Ok guys we have heard from two of the blog candy winners and your prizes will be on their way this week YAY!!! We are missing the information for just one winner Frndly1 we are looking for you! If anyone knows her please let her know that she won and need to contact us ASAP at stamp-a-lot@hotmail.com with her mailing information. If not we will be forced to pick an alternate winner from the list. Frndly1 you have until Noon April 23 to contact us otherwise another lucky follower will get your prize.

We have 3 winners :-)

First we would like to apologize for the delay in picking the winners for our very first blog candy but this month we have so many exciting classes going on including of course the wonderful Stamp Zia classes coming up! We are very excited at all the choices we picked this month check out this month's calendar here: April's Calendar of Classes

DRUMROLL PLEASE ..............................................................

Random Integer Generator

Here are your random numbers:

6 3 7 

Timestamp: 2009-04-12 01:50:02 UTC

Congratulations to:

#6

Prize: A Bo-Bunny Apron Kit (complete with Bo-Bunny craft scissors, bone folder, apron, etc.) and 6 different designer papers 6x6, you get 2 of each (12 sheets total)

Chrissy's Creations said...

I have your candy on my sideboard and am a follower! Thanks for the chance to win!!!

April 1, 2009 5:50 PM

#3
Prize: A Bo-Bunny6x6 Chipboard album, a pack of refills for the album, and a set of 6x6 designer papers to get you started on your project (6 designs, 2 of each)

Frndly1 said...

I love the background of your welbsite. I have been set up to follow your site and I will blog about it.

March 29, 2009 1:11 PM

#7
4 Studio G mini stamps, 1 big set of all-occasions clear stamps , a bag of clear skittles, a pack of adhesive pearls, 2 bottles of stickles, and a mini-alphabet stamp set.

Crazie Jones said...

NIce candy! I'm definitely 'following' your blog!
Linked!

April 2, 2009 9:39 PM

Please contact us at stamp-a-lot@hotmail.com with your mailing addresses so that we can ship your candy as soon as possible. THANK YOU to everyone who entered and became followers we have much more fun things coming very soon including of course more blog candy and some exciting challenges!

We have blog candy!!!

A Bo-Bunny Apron Kit (complete with Bo-Bunny craft scissors, bone folder, apron, etc.) and 6 different designer papers 6x6, you get 2 of each (12 sheets total)



A Bo-Bunny6x6 Chipboard album, a pack of refills for the album, and a set of 6x6 designer papers to get you started on your project (6 designs, 2 of each)

4 Studio G mini stamps, 1 big set of all-occasions clear stamps , a bag of clear skittles, a pack of adhesive pearls, 2 bottles of stickles, and a mini-alphabet stamp set.


We are very excited to have our little corner in the blog world and to celebrate we are offering our very blog candy! We have put together 3 (yes you read right) really nice bundles and we will pick 3 winners so you have more than one chance to win the candy :-)
All you have to do to win this candy is:
1) Follow our blog
2) Put a link on your blog about this blog candy
3) Leave a comment on this post by Noon on 4/05/09


Don't worry if you don't have a blog just leave your comment and we will add you to the drawing too :-) :-)

We will select the winners on April 5, 2009 using a random number generator. Good luck to all!
*******We will ship worldwide so everyone can enter to win this blog candy!!

Stamp Zia

Are you ready for a weekend of fun and surprises? Your creative juices ready to jump out? Is the anticipation getting the best of you? Well it's almost here. Zia is scheduled to teach 6 creative art classes. You will be totally amazed with your completed work of art as Zia brings out the artist in you.

Each class will have a "Door Prize" courtesy of Zia. No Basic Kit is needed for the classes, all supplies will be provided by Stamp Zia and Stamp-a-lot.

Sign up for all 6 classes and save $25. or Save 10% when you sign up for more than any 2 classes any day. Another money savings for you. You can go to www.stampzia.com and go thru her catalog. If you see anything you like, send me an email and Zia will bring whatever you picked out with her when she visits. No waiting, no shipping and handling, go home after the class and start playing with your new toys. Orders have to be placed by April 17th. Class size is limited so hurry up and sign up today! All classes must be pre-paid at least 48 hours in advance.

Welcome!

Stamp-a-Lot now has its very own corner in the blogging world and we are excited to share our passion for stamping and paper crafts in general. Expect to find challenges, information about our wonderful classes, latest merchandise arrival to our store, tips, reviews, and much more on this blog. Thank you for stopping by and visit often for updates!