Fall retreats...anyone ready?

I'm definitely ready for fall, my favorite season. Both of our fall retreats have been sold out for quite some time, but I had forgotten to post that information here. Right now, we're in that phase where some minor shuffling around is going on, and we also have a waiting list for both weekends. We're trying to get everything firmed up in the next week or so, and then we'll be able to see if we can handle an extra or two!

Going hand in hand with the previous post here about my lack of proofreading skills, I neglected to mention in the September printed newsletter that the remaining fees for the retreats are due a month prior to the retreat.

• If you are attending the October 21-23 retreat, your final payment is due by September 21.
• If you are attending the October 28-30 retreat, your final payment is due by September 28.

Soon, I'll be sending out emails with more information to those of you who are signed up. It will contain paid class info and other things you'll need to know! And if you need any information prior to that time, feel free to give us a call.

Sometimes I amaze even myself...

Yes, I sent out an email to thousands of people inviting them to the Super-Saver sessions on Saturday, September 6. Of course, I should have said September 3. Enrolling in Proofreading 101 tomorrow!

September 10 Scrap-a-Palooza schedule...

8:30 am
• Doors officially open! 
10:30 am
• Free Mini-Class: “School is Cool” pencil holder by the Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker team of Nikki Sivils, Katrina Hunt, and Heather Schroeder
11 am
• Scrapbook Generation treasure chest drawing #1
• Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker door prize
11:30 am
• Free Big-Screen Demo: “Super Strips” with Allison Davis

Noon -- Lunch

1 pm
• Free Big-Screen Greeting Card Class for Everyone: “Fanciful Flowers”
with Allison Davis
• Scrapbook Generation treasure chest drawing #2
 1:30 pm
• Paid Class: “Christmas Trio” set of three double-page layouts with Allison Davis
3:30 pm
• Free Big-Screen Demo: “Twine It” with Allison Davis
• Scrapbook Generation treasure chest drawing #3
4 pm
• Free Mini-Class: “Gingerbread Lane” Christmas "stairstep" card by Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker team
4:30 pm
Paid Class: “Family is Everything” layout with Allison Davis

6 pm -- Dinner

7 pm
• Free Big-Screen Demo: “Super Sketches” with Allison Davis
• Scrapbook Generation treasure chest drawing #4
7:30 pm
• Paid Class: “Such a Lovely Day” layout with Allison Davis
8 pm
• Free Mini-Class by the Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker team  
8:30 pm
• Deadline to turn in entries for Scrapbook Generation sketch layout contest and page layout contest
9 pm
• Layout contest winners announced, prizes awarded

Please join us for all the fun! To register, click here.

September Super-Saver Scrapbook sessions layouts are glitzy!

It's time for a little sparkle, a little glitz, and a lot of love -- with SG's popular Super-Savers. Our September layouts are just waiting for your photos! (And the great thing about all this glitter? It stays put on the papers!)

Here's a look at the three layouts we'll be making Saturday, September 3 in the Super-Saver Scrapbooking sessions at Scrapbook Generation. As always, your cost to make these three layouts at SG is an amazing $9. Give us a call 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!

Please call early (417-886-0440) to reserve your spot! If you can't attend and would like us to make you a kit, the fee is $10 and is due at the time you request the kit.

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

Hurry, hurry, hurry!

Just checked with Chris at the radio station, and our September 10 Scrap-a-Palooza numbers are jumping up quickly! Only about 50 spots are still available, with two weeks to go. Looks like another sell-out crowd! If you haven't registered yet for our all-inclusive 13-hour mega-crop, just click here!

How about a couple of contests?

We have a Facebook page for Scrap-a-Palooza, but not many of you have RSVP'ed. The number of spots left for the September 10 event is down in the double-digits, so we would like for all of you who are on Facebook and will be at the September 10 Palooza to go ahead and click on the "attending" button at the top of this page. To make it more interesting, leave a comment on the Palooza Facebook page (not the regular SG Facebook page) and answer the following question. We'll pick a random winner (and maybe a "great answer" winner!) for a $25 SG gift card you can spend at Palooza!

Contest #1: Facebook contest question: What makes Scrap-a-Palooza a great mega-crop? (Contest continues until midnight on Friday, September 9.)

Let's also have a blog contest! Leave a comment with this post, and answer the following question. We'll pick a random winner (and maybe a "great answer" winner) for a $25 SG gift card you can spend at Palooza.

Contest #2: Blog contest question: How would you describe Scrap-a-Palooza to someone who has never attended before? (Contest continues until midnight on Friday, September 9.)

Shopping is exhausting...

I hope you're thinking about Scrap-a-Palooza, because that's all we're doing around here. I finished the last of the orders for new paper collections this morning, and when I did the final count just a few minutes ago, I came up with an astonishing 93 new groups (from 31 companies) that will be debuting at Palooza in just a couple of weeks! If there is a fall, Halloween, or Christmas collection that you want, there's a great chance that it will be at Palooza on September 10.

As usual, Karin is buried under mounds and mounds of boxes, Allison is scurrying around working on classes and demos, and Stacey gets stuck with everything else. I don't know how you all feel, but the length of time between the June and the September Paloozas has seemed very short to us! The event is so huge that it takes a lot of energy, both physical and mental. It's been a little harder than usual to get moving, but I think we've turned the corner and have everything under control!

We'll be ready to announce an agenda, including Ali's demos and paid classes on Monday.

Another class in August...

Timeless Treasures class with Debbie Sanders -- offered Thursday, August 25 at 2 pm and Monday, August 29 at 6 pm. Fee: $15.

Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker guest designer...

Thought you might want to hop on over to the Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker blog and see what Allison has come up with as Nikki's guest designer for August. The layout below is just one of the projects she created. Click here to see more!

August Super Sketch Club...

The bulk of the August Super Sketch Club boxes shipped earlier this morning. You should be seeing brown boxes in a few days. We're always glad when they leave us and head out to good homes!

There's a Studio G crop this Saturday!

Hope you can join us for a "no frills" crop this Saturday in Studio G. For only $5, you can spend the day working on whatever project makes you happy! This crop starts at 10 am and ends at 5 pm. You provide your own snacks and drinks, and you can bring a lunch, go out for lunch, or have something delivered to SG. About half of the spots are already spoken for, so if you want to attend, give us a call at 417-886-0440 to register.

New products...

Lots of new stuff is out on the shelves, including school, Halloween, and Christmas goodies. We're also starting to get in all the new groups that we'll be debuting at Scrap-a-Palooza on September 10!

Mischievous by My Mind's Eye

Class of '87 by KaiserCraft; Geek is Chic by Imaginisce; School by Karen Foster

Disney, Princess, Cars, and Toy Story items

Blossom Soup by Jillibean Soup

Love Games by Glitz; Emma's Shoppe by Crate Paper

12 Days of Christmas & Lost and Found Christmas by My Mind's Eye

Happy Go Lucky by Pebbles and Pink Gelato by KaiserCraft

Baby Mine by Fancy Pants

I'm back at work!
Some of you may have noticed that the blog was rather quiet last week. Thanks to Karin, Stacey, and Allison, my husband and I were able to go on an Alaskan cruise, and not worry for a minute about SG. I'm happy to report that this cruise did not include any trips to the medical facility! (Some of you know the story of the first time I tried to see Alaska, with my mother, and that we spent pretty much the entire cruise under quarantine.) I actually got to see Alaska this time!

We have lots of SG classes and other activities coming up in the next few weeks, and later today I'll start letting you know what we have in store for you!

We started off in Seattle...

saw glaciers in Alaska...

and gardens in Victoria, British Columbia.

September CK loves Springfield scrapbookers!
If you haven't seen the September issue of Creating Keepsakes yet, you really need to check it out, because the Springfield area talent is well represented. Lexi Bridges, Christina Hoffman, and Allison Davis all have layouts in this issue! We're glad that outstanding scrapbookers in this area are being showcased -- and it's so fun to see them all in the same issue.

And there's another reason we're excited about this issue. From now on, CK will be giving credit in the supply list to Scrapbook Generation sketches. For example, Christina's supply list includes "Sketch: Allison Davis." We're hoping that this will bring our sketches to the attention of a whole new set of scrapbookers!

Page 73 -- Layout by Lexi Bridges

Page 36: Layout by Christina Hoffman

Page 26: Layout by Allison Davis

Allison Davis free sketch sessions layout...

All you need is love! This layout is perfect to showcase photos of a special relationship. We'll be making the layout above in the Allison Davis free sketch sessions this Saturday. Your cost to make this layout? About $4. Can't beat that deal!

Just call us at 417-886-0440 to register for a session at 10 am or 2:30 pm on Saturday, August 20. Bring basic tools, and we'll provide you with a free computer sketch that you can use over and over!

And don't forget, we'll punch your Studio G Reward Card. Don't have one yet? No problem, we'll be happy to get you started on the way to earning some great rewards like free page kits, $20 gift cards, and other goodies!

If you want a kit, the fee is $5, and is due at the time the request is made. 

Super Sketch Club members:
Yes, this layout and sketch will be included in your August kit!

All the new My Mind's Eye is here!

The photos below show just a small portion of the gorgeous new collections by My Mind's Eye. We have Lost and Found 2 (shown below); Lost and Found Christmas; 12 Days of Christmas; Mischievous; and Six by Six!

Number 9 is going to be the biggest Scrap-a-Palooza ever!

I've been working on finalizing the list of new paper collections that will debut at the September 10 Scrap-a-Palooza, and it is our largest offering ever, with at least 83 new collections! And there may be more!

Right now, here are the new groups that can be seen for the first time at Scrap-a-Palooza. (The Bo-Bunny and My Mind's Eye collections are not counted in the 83 new groups, because we'll also have them at SG before Palooza.)

This time, I've divided the collections so you can see which Halloween, fall, and Christmas groups will be available. (And if you don't see your favorite, it's probably because they won't be available to ship just yet. Palooza is a couple of weeks earlier than last year, so that affects the groups that are available, especially Christmas ones. There's a good chance that we'll have the collection at a later date.)

HALLOWEEN
Trick or Treat - My Little Shoebox
Spookville - We R Memory Keepers
Mischievous - My Mind’s Eye
Spooky and Kooky - Bazzill
Apothecary - Echo Park
Halloween - Karen Foster
Glowing - Authentique

FALL
Harvest - Reminisce
Forever Fall - BoBunny
Hello Fall - Little Yellow Bicycle
Happy Harvest - Imaginisce
Fall -- Karen Foster
Thanksgiving - Karen Foster
Apple Cheddar - Jillibean Soup
Nightfall - American Crafts
Harvest Market - Lily Bee

CHRISTMAS
Deck the Halls - Three Bugs in a Rug
Lost and Found Christmas - My Mind’s Eye
12 Days of Christmas - My Mind’s Eye
Dear Mr. Claus - Cosmo Cricket
Christmas Emporium - Graphic 45
Holiday Cheer - SEI
Saint Nick - Fancy Pants
Nordic Holiday - BasicGrey
Father Christmas - BoBunny
Blitzen - BoBunny
Holiday Style - Bazzill
Santa’s Helper - Imaginisce
Christmas Cooking - Karen Foster
Peppermint - Crate Paper
Christmas Eve Chowder - Jillibean Soup
25 Days of Christmas - Simple Stories
Gingerbread Lane - Nikki Sivils
Hollyday -- American Crafts
Welcome Christmas - Pebbles
Jingle - Lily Bee

BABY
Baby Steps - Simple Stories

BIRTHDAY
Let’s Celebrate - Webster’s Pages
Happy Days - Simple Stories

WINTER
Silver Valley - SEI

SPORTS
Team Spirit - Best Creations
Get Your Game On - Little Yellow Bicycle

TRAVEL
Bon Voyage - Imaginisce
World Travel - Karen Foster
Boarding Pass - October Afternoon

MISCELLANEOUS

Under the Sea - Three Bugs in a Rug
Bake Me a Cake - Three Bugs Three Bugs in a Rug
Ashlyn - Three Bugs in a Rug

Playtime - My Little Shoebox
Pretty Little Thing - My Little Shoebox
Audrey - My Little Shoebox
Enchanted Garden - My Little Shoebox
Destination - My Little Shoebox

Lost and Found 2 - My Mind’s Eye

Mom’s Kitchen - Best Creations
Rock Star - Best Creations
Loops and Scoops - Best Creations

Clementine - Cosmo Cricket

Summer’s End - Fancy Pants

Et Cetera - BoBunny
Sweet Tooth - BoBunny
Garden Girl - BoBunny
Welcome Home - BoBunny

Divinely Sweet - Bazzill

Happy Days - Echo Park
Victoria’s Garden - Echo Park

Beautiful Dreamer - Glitz
Dance in Sunshine - Glitz
Vintage Blue - Glitz

Miss Nelly - KaiserCraft
Hunt and Gather - KaiserCraft

Stir It Up - Karen Foster
Do It Yourself - Karen Foster

Just Chillin’ - TaDa Studios

Romantique - Prima
Printery - Prima
Pixie Glen - Prima
Alla-Prima - Prima

Journey - Authentique
Blissful - Authentique
Uncommon - Authentique

Farmhouse - Crate Paper

Homemade 6 Bean Soup - Jillibean Soup

Generations - Simple Stories

My Little Monster - Nikki Sivils
You’re a Hoot - Nikki Sivils

Nantucket - Pink Paislee
Vintage Vogue - Pink Paislee

Amy Tangerine - American Crafts
Daydreams - American Crafts
Garden Cafe - American Crafts

Fresh Goods - Pebbles
Floral Lane - Pebbles

Memorandum -- Lily Bee

To register for this mega-fun mega-crop at Remington's Event Center, click here! We're expecting a crowd of 250-300 people. Don't wait too late to register! The day is a great all-inclusive bargain at $49. To see photos of past Paloozas, and to read more details, click here.

You bring me so much joy!

Actually, the title of this page has double meanings. My grandson Jackson brings me immense joy, and I was "joyful" while working on this layout! Watching so many of you have fun at Scrap-a-Palooza was making me long for a similar experience, so I attended a crop in St. Louis this past weekend with some friends. This layout was one of the 15 that I made, and the one I'm proudest of. It was so much fun to relax and create some pages for my personal scrapbooks, and I wanted to share this one with you.

Debbie Sanders free sketch sessions layout for Saturday...

Ever feel the need to travel? We have a layout just perfect for planes, trains, and automobile trips! We'll be making the layout above in the Debbie Sanders free sketch sessions this Saturday. Your cost to make this layout? About $4. Can't beat that deal!

Just call us at 417-886-0440 to register for a session at 10 am or 2:30 pm on Saturday, August 13. Bring basic tools, and we'll provide you with a free computer sketch that you can use over and over!

And don't forget, we'll punch your Studio G Reward Card. Don't have one yet? No problem, we'll be happy to get you started on the way to earning some great rewards like free page kits, $20 gift cards, and other goodies!

If you want a kit, the fee is $5, and is due at the time the request is made. 

Super Sketch Club members:
Yes, this layout and sketch will be included in your August kit!

More August classes...

BasicGrey "Marjolaine" Cards "Playdate" class. Use kit to make eight cards (envelopes are included with kit); pick start time, work at own pace; models on display; no teacher, but assistance available; start at 10 am or later, class time is over at regular store closing time; $15 (to-go kits available). Class dates: Tuesday, August 9; Monday, August 15; Thursday, August 18

BasicGrey "Marjolaine" Layouts "Playdate" class. Use kit to make 1 two-page layout and 2 one-page layouts; pick start time, work at own pace; models on display; no teacher, but assistance available; start at 10 am or later, class time is over at regular store closing time; $20 (to-go kits available). Class dates: Friday, August 12; Friday, August 24

Yes! You can purchase these "to-go" kits to be shipped to you!

What a thrill!

I'm in St. Louis for the weekend, and had stopping by For Keeps Sake, a 5,000 square foot shopping paradise, on my list of things to do. You can imagine how thrilled I was when I opened the door and the first thing I saw was all of the SG Sketches for Scrapbooking books lined up on the front counter! I had the chance to talk to the owners, and they said that the books sell out quickly each time they order them.

The next time you're headed their way, be sure to stop in. The store is easy to find on Lemay Ferry Road, and has a wonderful selection of products. I truly enjoyed my time shopping there!

August classes...

"Catch a Wave" layout class with Allison Davis. Offered Monday, August 8 at 2 pm and Tuesday, August 16 at 6 pm. Fee is $15. (To-go kits are available.)

"Patchwork Pandemonium" altered 7Gypsies photo tray with Candy Colwell. Class features tons of techniques and products. Offered Monday, August 22 from noon until 5. Fee is $45.

Love it when this happens!

I wanted to share a blog post with you! Some of you may already be familiar with ScrapGuy, and if not, let me introduce you to him today. I think you'll enjoy his blog and his creations. He stopped by SG a couple of months ago, and his purchases included some of our sketch books. He did a blog post about SG recently that I want to share with our regular readers. Click here to check it out.

New products this week...

Confetti by American Crafts

Neighborhood by Crate Paper

Jubilee and Vintage Whimsy by The Girls' Paperie

Cake and Ice Cream, Surprise Party, and Nifty Notions by Doodlebug

Life Documented by Simple Stories

Fall retreats update...

We're almost full! The first weekend retreat has been sold-out for quite some time, and now we only have 2-4 spots left in the second weekend, October 28-30. If you want those last spots, give us a call at 417-886-0440. We would love to have you join us!

Saturday's Super-Saver layouts...

Our August Super Saver layouts are just waiting for your summer photos!

Here's a look at the three layouts we'll be making Saturday, August 6 in the Super-Saver Scrapbooking sessions. As always, your cost to make these three layouts at SG is an amazing $9. Give us a call 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!

Please call 417-886-0440 to reserve your spot! If you can't attend and would like us to make you a kit, the fee is $10 and is due at the time you request the kit.

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

Missing in action...

The August/September print newsletters were taken to the Post Office last Tuesday. Usually, they are delivered the next day. This time, no one has received them, and so far, the Post Office has been unable to tell us where they are. We are hoping to hear they have found them soon! In the meantime, you can see the August calendar of classes and activities by checking the left sidebar here on the blog.

Saturday's Super Saver sessions...

Don't forget that we have three summery double-page layouts for the Super Saver sessions this Saturday. You can see the layouts in the July 25th post on this page. Sessions are at 10, 12:30, and 2:30, and we hope you can join us! Call 417-886-0440 to register and pre-pay the $9 fee. (Kits are $10 and the payment is due when the kits are requested.)