MIchelle's Scrapbooking Design Team

It is my pleasure to announce the first "official" design team for my store.

I thank everyone for applying, and enjoyed looking over everyones' blogs.

I would like welcome

Cheryl Walker Sweeet Designs by Cheryl

ScrappyJan from My Little Pieces of Art

Katie Tate from Both Sides of The Paper

Michelle Philippi of Michelle Phillippi.com

I look forward to seeing lots of pretties from these talented ladies!!

Thanks so much

Michelle

Pixie Cottage Stamp Sale Benefitting Autism

We here at The Pixie Cottage are thrilled to have a little artist who volunteered her time and her art to help a worthy cause. Please see THIS POST to learn more

Proceeds from the sale of these stamps will benefit Autism Speaks. The donation we ask is 3.00 and you will receive both of Sienna's stamps. Please type in the comment section of your payment if you prefer red rubber cling mount stamps or digital images.The rubber images are approximately 1.5 inches high and 1.25 inches high.

We are asking for a 3.00 donation. And we would love for you to share this with others on your blog.

A quick post....

I wanted to let you know the new Magnolia stamps are in stock and shipping!!  I also have swatch books in from Copic, and will give a free swatch book to anyone who orders more than 10 Copic Markers this week, and types "free swatch book" in the comments on checkout.

A New Card for some Challenges

I am entering this card in some challenges:

The Secret Crafter's Saturday Challenge-Anything Goes

A Spoonful of Sugar-Anything Goes

Tuesday Taggers-It takes all Sorts

Stempeltraume -would like a bow

Stamping Vacation No No-No sparkle

My memory is so bad, I admit it.  I started this card about three weeks ago for a challenge, so if the layout looks familiar, it was a sketch I saw on a challenge that runs on fridays, but I never got around to finishing it. That is all I remember!  Do you think that is bad?  Well I have had this adorable dog stamp since April!  Do I remember what company it is from? Well... of course not.... I am so bad.

What I do remember is I bought this stamp at a stamp show I went to with my friend last spring and it reminded me of Winston.  (Winston is my little buddy... he is an eccentric old dog... more about that in a sec) and I know this paper is Basic Grey's Max and Whiskers

That is Winston a few years ago.  Anyone that knows me very well knows that I love animals.  Cats, dogs, rabbits, birds... love them all... so my point?  What prompted me to finally get that stamp out and use it?  My husband was on a rampage about my little buddy Winston.  Winston has some bad habits, he makes odd noises, scratches all the time and other dog type behavior problems. (That is why I call him eccentric.)  However, that day he was a little naughtier than usual, so my husband was mad. Thus, he unknowingly inspired this card!  Anyone else that knows me will tell you I am a mother bear, whether it be to my human children or my "animal" children.  (It is sometimes hard to tell which are truely human and which are animals!)

On to humans now.  Just wanted to share a picture from my one tank trip a couple of weeks ago.  We took the kids to brandywine falls in the Cuyahoga Valley park area. Of course it rained for the whole hike, but we had fun anyway.  My children are the tall one on the left, the fourth one over and the little girl next to him.  They all brought a friend... thus the extra kids.We didn't have much rain this summer so the river was low.

I also wanted to mention that I do have the design team all chosen for my store, and will be back later this week when I have more time to announce the new design team.

I think that is it for now.

Take care

Michelle

Update and Coupon Code

Just a quick post to let you know I will be posting the results to the Design Team search soon.

Also there is a coupon code good for 20 percent off at the store right now. Please read all the details below.  Expires Sept 22, 2010.

Coupon Code: 20OFF

Not good on buyer's club category, Best Scrapbook Shelves, Special Orders, and Die cut Machines.(These items must be ordered on a separate order from orders using the coupon code) Your order must be placed through the website using the cart to qualify for this discount. You must type 20OFF in the PROMO CODE field to get the discount.

Free US Shipping on orders over 80.00!!

Shipping is usually within 5 business days, however during high volume sales times shipping can be 5-15 business days. Copic markers are sold out quickly during these sales, and I must manually remove the colors from the store as they are sold out, so there are times when I am unable to pull a color before another one is ordered. If will do everything in my power to get that color to you, but I may need to refund on out of stock backordered Copics.

Thanks, Michelle

New Goodies in Papercrafting!!!

Stopping by to show you some of the items we have in stock or coming soon over at the store.

First, have you seen the Basic Grey Christmas paper collection, Jovial?

I have 6x6 paper pads HERE

I am really liking these new metal embellishment packs from Making Memories

Here is just one of the packs.

And some new edge punches from EK Success

Paper from The Girls' Paperie

And Shimmer's Spritz to make your holiday projects sparkle

AND new Magnolia Rubber Stamps

And have you seen the latest Pixie Cottage Stamps

and some Pixie Digital Images

I can go on and on.... stop by and see for yourself!!!

Kaisercraft

Some of the other new stamps!
These stamps actually go with Spellbinders dies.

Have a wonderful weekend!
Michelle

Blog Candy for September

The weather is cooling down here in Ohio, I think it is only about 65 today, beautiful weather and sunny!! I am stopping by today to bring you some BLOG CANDY!!

For September I am going to offer one of the newly released Spellbinders.

Labels 15!!

What do you have to do to win?  Please leave a comment and post a picture on your blog with a link back to this post.

Ends Sept 30th and a winner will be announced within a few days of that. Please leave the blog candy on your blog to the winner is announced to qualify for the prize.  Good luck!

Thanks!!

Have a wonderful Sunday!

Michelle

Blog Candy Winner

Thank you to all the  people who joined in August's Blog Candy!!

The winner is Barb from Barb's Boys!

Barb please visit my store at http://www.michellesscrap.com/ and choose a paper pad in either 6x6 or 8x8 size, a Pixie Cottage Stamp, a new punch and three Copic Marker colors, put them in the cart and choose "Money Order" as method of payment, and type a note to me in the comments explaining you are the winner of Augusts Blog Candy.  You of course are not expected to pay, this just gives me an easier way to keep track of prizes.

Please let me know if you have any  questions.

Michelle

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