The Moxie Fab World blog posted about the big trend right now of doilies and lace… exactly what was featured in our February kit! Can you believe it?

http://www.moxiefabworld.com/2010/03/moxie-fab-world-challenge-diggin-on.html

We think it’s pretty cool! We’re always on the lookout for interesting products to add to the kits and we love to bring you the latest and greatest. This isn’t the first time that our monthly kits have featured trends just before the trend really exploded. Take a peek at the February kit here:
http://scraptivity.com/shop/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=24&products_id=3461

http://www.scraptivity.com/tell/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=31888

It’s GORGEOUS!!!! Beautiful papers from Shabby Green Door and GCD Studios, with Shimmerz and Blingz paints. Ooohhhh and aaaaahhhhh!

Check out the March kit’s webpage for more details:
http://www.scraptivity.com/about/kits/march2010.html

Also, be sure to check the March Add-ons category in the online store where you’ll find lots of beautiful items to go with the March kit, plus tons of extra colours of Shimmerz products: Shimmerz Paint, Blingz, Vibez, and Pearlz! So pretty! Here’s a link:
http://scraptivity.com/shop/catalog/index.php?cPath=99&osCsid=6b1126feb9e4f402b17d0aa02f8a2a70

Please see our February 2010 Notions for the envelope template. It can be downloaded from our website on this page www.scraptivity.com/newsletter

Essentially these are glorified envelopes to give photos to someone (Kelli gave them to her sister-in-laws).

- If you have 4×6” photos, make the main part 4.25×6.25”.

- Attach an envelope template that you create or purchase. The diagonals are where you cut, the straight lines inside are where you score.

- For envelope 1, use Webster’s Pages: Postcards From Paris collection Romantique Chic.

- Stamp the lacy medallion with Versamark and cover it with Old Paper Distress Embossing Powder mixed with Sparkle N Sprinkle: Champagne glitter and heat embossed.

- Cut the letter P from the Venetian Lace and use strips of paper from Romantique Chic, Venetian Lace and Wishes Come true.

- Distress strips with Walnut Stain ink.

- Write “hotos” by hand to complete the word “photos”.

- After adhering the envelope together, add K & Company Rub-on (add-on).

- For the second one, use Graphic 45: Renaissance Faire collection Masterpiece.

- Adhere envelope together.

- Cut a 1″ strip of The Paper Company: Sheer Diamond Lace and adhered to the base.

- Use a piece of white cardstock, cover it with Tombow Mono Adhesive or other glue and make sure to have some gaps for the glitter and embossing powder to not adhere to make it distressed. – Kelli used Pebbles Inc. ABC’s stencil for the P and started with the Bronze Splendor mixed with black embossing powder. She removed the stencil and heat embossed then added the Champagne glitter mixed with Old Paper Embossing Powder and heat embossed. Then, she cut it to the size I wanted and backed it on black cardstock and distressed the edges of the cardstock.

- Adhere to the base.

- Cut one of the back of the Lace Treasures buttons and adhere.

Are you ready for another card sketch?

I love how universal this sketch is.  If you have trouble mixing and matching patterned papers, this is the card sketch for you. You can use stamped images, tags, flowers, it is truly the chameleon of card sketches. Here it is:

And here’s what I did with it:

The papers are all from February’s kit. It’s an awesome kit, that I just can’t seem to stop playing with. The ribbon and silk flower are February Kit add-ons. The middle flower was stamped on the packaging for the K & Co. lace frames (included in the kit), and then cut out. The stamp is also included in the kit. The very top flower is a Doodle Bug brad that can be found in the Scraptiv!ty store here.

As always, make sure to add your creations to the S! gallery or link them up here in the comments. I love to see your take on the sketch!

What inspires you? I LOVE to look at what other crafters are creating and can literally lose hours on the computer hopping around checking out so many wonderful different styles and techniques. Later, I cannot believe how much time has passed. But, when it comes to creating my own projects, I try to rely on other inspirations so that my work does not end up as a carbon copy of someone else’s. Some of the things that inspire me are decorating arrangements, beautiful landscapes and for a quick and simple idea, I go to graphic design. This can include magazine and online ads, catalog pages and any other pages of publication. That is what I did for this month’s sketch. I used a magazine advertisement.

JanineS! here and delighted to show you my first computer generated sketch. It is rather unpolished and in need of some refinement, I’m afraid. Here is the inspiration, the sketch, my interpretation, and those of two other Scraptiv!ty designers:

Inspiration ad.

Sketch by Janine.

Layout by Janine.

Layout by DanielaScraptivity.

Layout by SamanthaScraptivity.

Please show us your creative interpretations in our gallery here and/or link us up to your blog post featuring your interpretations. Please be sure to include a link to our blog! Link us up and we’ll be sure to stop in for a visit!

Have a fabulous day!

Lots of orders have gone in but still some to go! We are excited to see products start arriving very soon – some even on our return!

We encountered lots of opportunities for guest instructors to come and visit the hive this year. So stay tuned to see who will be buzzing by.

I leave you with a few photos of some of the booths we stopped by today!

First stop was Prima with lots of great papers, flowers and Donna Downey canvas items such as aprons, camera bags, canvas book pages made into bags and purses!

Next up was full of Glam, Glimmer & Glaze – oh and chalk! Beautiful colours for all these new Tattered Angels products! Also coming soon are new chips, stamps, glass and Heidi Swap Irrestibles and new mist colours! Can’t wait!

The Graphic 45 booth surely didn’t disappoint as it looked amazing! Their new lines should be shipping very soon. Great men’s line too!

This was an awesome piece!

And now… back to my catalogue pile I go! Here are a few that have already been ordered!

There were some amazing works of art all made with wax in some form – some very nice eye candy.

Look for all the new colours of distress ink, all the new Tim Holtz “Alterations”, all Tim’s Anthology products coming soon. They are awesome!

After that we headed next door to the Art Gone Wild booth to order all the new Tim Holtz & Wendy Vecchi stamps along with a bunch of other stamps for Bizzy B’s – it’s going to be fun when they all come in!  We can still add to our order so if there is something you were looking for make sure you let us know soon!

Some of Tim’s new stamp samples.

We then headed over to Sparkle & Sprinkle to order some of their awesome embossing powders and they also have some glittery flock that we think might interest you! 

We visited many booths such as Tattered Angels who have some great new products and some lovely new stamps along with the new Heidi Swapp products.  Sorry no photos right now as the booth was too packed to get in a shot!

Graphic 45 is ordered and on its way very soon to Bizzy B’s! (Let us know if you have any special requests for product through Scraptivity.) Again, when we got to their booth, there were tons of people so couldn’t get any photos there either (maybe it will be a bit quieter tomorrow).

After many more booths we finally made it to Viva Decor – they had a lovely booth and some wonderful products!  It’s hard to just pick a few!  Here’s a couple of photos:

Once the show closed we headed out for our now annual “Crazy Canuck Dinner”  – there were 34 of us and some amazing Italian food.

Here are Brenda from Westcott and Heather from Canadian Scrapbooker!

Great to see Connie, Heather & Trisha again!

Well, that is it for today.  Back tomorrow with the wrap up of the show – can’t believe it’s almost done already! Lots of orders to place tomorrow – we will be running around that’s for sure!