Saturday Shopping

This morning I paid a visit to my local scrapbook store, The Papercraft Clubhouse, in Westbrook, CT.  Love that place!  I can blame them for my serious scrapping addiction...great classes, great crops, great products!

Today was their monthly Diecuts Club meeting...for a small annual fee you get to attend a monthly meeting with a card make & take, and you get a discount on any dies you purchase.  I love my QuickKutz Revolution and my Sizzix Big Shot, so this is a great deal for me.

Here is the card we made today, designed by the store's owner, Tracie:

And here is what was in my shopping bag when I left the store:

A cute new 6x6 paper pad from Jillbean Soup.Love the bright, summery colors!  Can't wait to make some cards with it.

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Some new patterned paper and sticker sheets from Crate Paper:

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Liked it so much, I had to get the 6x6 pad too!  I love that so many manufacturers are now making these reduced pattern 6x6 pads.

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I had ordered this die at our last meeting...glad to see it had arrived!

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Not too much damage to my wallet, but enough new goodies to keep me busy in my scrap room this weekend!

I found this

Taped to the bathroom door of the New Haven train station this morning. Made me smile!

Blogging for scrapbookers, Prompt 1

Hello out there!  I'm back home after a great trip to Austin.  I'll post about our trip later, but for now let's just say I ate a lot of this:

and drank a lot of these:

I'm still recovering!

I'm currently taking Shimelle's Blogging for Scrapbookers class.  If you found my blog through that class, hello and welcome!  If you have the time, please leave me a comment and introduce yourself! Since I was away last week, I didn't have a chance to blog about any of the prompts, but I will try and catch up with some of them over the next few days.

One of the things Shimelle encouraged us to think about was our intentions for our blog and the class.  I think mine are pretty simple:

1. Blog more frequently.
2. Expand the topics of my posts. Right now I mainly use my blog as a place to post pictures of my scrapbook layouts and cards.  The problem with that is when there is a lull in my scrapbooking, there's also a lull in my blogging!
3. Connect with like minded scrapbookers and bloggers!

Looking forward to getting to know those of you who are also taking the class!