Card Party for February, and a new teacher!

After great classes last fall, SG's Card Party class restarts in February with the same concept...three teachers, three cards, three tags, three stations, and three totally different approaches to cardmaking.

Today, we're showing you the card and tag that will be taught by Lindsey Amschler. This is one-third of the projects you'll be making in the class. Lindsey's projects will showcase everything vintage, including distressing techniques and sweet printed vintage images like the young girl on the tag above.

Many of you will already know Lindsey through her employment at a store here in Springfield that closed some time ago. She makes a wonderful addition to our teaching staff and will bring enthusiasm and a love for papercrafting to the Card Party classes.

This Card Party class takes place Thursday, February 23 at 6 pm. The fee is $15. To sign up, call 417-886-0440. (We're going to try to keep this class on the fourth Thursday of the month so that everyone will know when it will be held, instead of jumping around each month to different weeks.)

As soon as possible, we'll show you Amy Roller's (also a new addition to the staff) and Katrina Hunt's cards and tags.

Lindsey and Amy are replacing Allison Davis and Stacey Atchley. Our business here at SG continues to evolve, and we continually find ourselves in a time crunch. Eliminating this extra responsibility for them will help us concentrate on areas that need attention, and we think Lindsey and Amy will win your hearts. Katrina already feels like a member of the family!

February calendar added...

Check out the right sidebar for our February class and activity calendar!

February Super-Saver layouts...

The February Super-Saver layouts are all about love! These three layouts will be the perfect backdrop for photos of special relationships in your life.

We'll be making these three layouts Saturday, February 4 in the Super-Saver Scrapbooking sessions at Scrapbook Generation. As always, your cost to make these three layouts at SG is an amazing $9. (The retail value of the materials you'll be using is about $10 -- this month is a great deal!)

Give us a call at 417-886-0440 to register and pre-pay. Sessions are held at 10, 12:30 and 2:30. And don't forget that you'll get one punch on your Studio G Reward Card. Don't have a card yet? No problem...we'll make sure you get one!

Note to Super Sketch Club members: Yes, materials for these three layouts will be included in your February kit!

KITS:
• All kits must be requested before the class activities take place on Saturday.
• The fee for a kit is $10, and is due at the time the request is made.
• If you need the kit shipped to you, the shipping charge is an additional $5.99.
• The best deal for our long-distance customers? Join the monthly Super Sketch Club and get this kit, the Debbie Sanders sketch layout kit, and the Allison Davis sketch layout kit (materials and sketches for five double-page layouts) for $20 plus $6.99 shipping.

Nikki Sivils receives huge honor!

Springfield-based Nikki Sivils of Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker received a special honor at the winter Craft and Hobby Association winter convention. She was honored for initiating and organizing scrapbooking vendors and also individuals to contribute products to help at least 50 Joplin scrapbookers gain their hobby back after losing everything in the tragic tornado that nearly demolished the southwest Missouri city a little over six months ago.

We served as one of the drop-off locations for individuals who wanted to donate to the cause, so we saw first-hand how enormous the task was. After we had collected the items, and our lobby could hold no more, Nikki came by herself to load the hundreds and hundreds of pounds of scrapbooking items to take to her home to be sorted and combined with the products manufacturers had sent. It was a huge undertaking, and she did it with style. She is extremely deserving of the award, and we're proud to know her. Like we've done in the past, we hope to have a special day for her company this spring.

Here's what Nikki had to say about her award...
"I have no words for what I felt today! So honored that CHA choose me for their 'Service to Humanity' award. It was much bigger than I ever thought, 500 people in this banquet room that I had to walk in front of to get my award and to speak to! I was a bit of a mess, I thought it was going to be a small little breakfast of about 20 some people! Boy was I shocked when I walked in this huge room! I think I went straight to panic mode! After my wonderful husband talked me off the roof I was able to get through the entire event. Thank goodness I had no idea that the presidents, CEO's and vice presidents of Michaels, Hobby Lobby, Archivers, and Ben Franklin were there for this event! Not sure I would've made it through had I known everyone that was there!"

Sketches for Scrapbooking!

Thanks to all of you who have pre-ordered one or both of our two latest Sketches for Scrapbooking books. The books will be available here at SG on Tuesday for local and area shoppers.

The orders we need to ship will start going out on Tuesday. Because of the huge amount of orders, the shipping will have to be spread out over several days. We think we should have all of the pre-orders sent on their way by Friday!

More new products...

Fun Day by My Mind's Eye

Fun Day by My Mind's Eye

Enchanted by BoBunny

Chaps by American Crafts

Space Age by Best Creation

Puppy Love by Best Creation

Paper Boy by Ruby Rock-It

Panorama by Making Memories

Times and Seasons by Echo Park

Touchdown by Best Creation

A Boy's Life by Echo Park

Let's Eat by TPC Studio 

Nesting chipboard and coordinating Nestabling by Want2Scrap

Mister Huey's mists by Studio Calico

Lots and lots of new Glimmer Mist colors by Tattered Angels

New store hours...

Beginning Wednesday, February 1, we are changing our store hours after almost eight years. Monday through Friday, we'll now be closing at 6 pm instead of 7 pm. This change shouldn't affect many people. Sales during this last hour are typically an extremely small percentage of our day's totals.

This earlier closing time will allow all four of us to be able to attend activities our children and grandchildren are involved in without someone always having to miss out and stay here at SG. Thanks for understanding!

New products...

Yesterday, we brought 300 new papers trays out of our storage room and were able to get 23 of the new paper collections from Scrap-a-Palooza out on the shelves here at SG, including all winter and all Valentine groups. We're hoping to make that much progress again today...I'll post photos as soon as we get more groups ready for you.

Smoochable by BoBunny; With Love by Pebbles; Sweet Cakes by Doodlebug

Love Story by Fancy Pants; Head Over Heels by LilyBee; Love Struck by We R Memory Keepers; Yours Truly by Echo Park; Hearty Barley by Jillibean Soup; Love Me by My Mind's Eye

Winter Whites by TPC Studio; Winter Twig by Little Yellow Bicycle; Snowfall by BoBunny; Winter Park by Echo Park; Winter Wonder by Bella Blvd; Winterland by Fancy Pants

Madam Boutique by KaiserCraft

Year-O-Graphy by Simple Stories

Season's Greetings by Echo Park

Cock-A-Doodle-Doo by KaiserCraft

Hummingbird, Lil' Primrose, and On the Move, all by KaiserCraft

Elementary by Simple Stories

Super Sketch Club shipping...

About half of the Super Sketch Club boxes left here this morning, and the other half will go out on Thursday. Scrap-a-Palooza slowed us down a little, and we appreciate your understanding. Enjoy your kits!

Sneak peek at our two new books!

We can't wait to see the real thing, and wanted to share the covers of Scrapbook Generation Publishing's two newest books with you. Both books contain 30 brand new sketches!

The travel sketches book marks the first time we've done a themed book, and if it's as well received as we anticipate, expect more to come.

We're expecting our first shipment of books to arrive from the printer near the end of the month, and just as soon as they arrive, we'll be sending them on the way to those of you who have pre-ordered. If you haven't done that yet, there's still time. Just click here (or call 417-886-0440) to place your order.