SEI - Glimmer Mist - Dew Drops Etc.

Some of the new things coming in are new to Lorraine's.

SEI, known for quality and coordinating, has joined us with the line "Monrovia". These flocked or foiled double sided papers are a solid value, and have coordinating die cuts and epoxy stickers.

Glimmer Mist, the new fall colors are in as are new bingo boards, and "frosty memories" glimmer glass and mist kits (3 bottles- frosty, slate, old lace, and a screen). We also received the new 15"x30" glimmer mats, for easy glimmer use.

Dew Drops, we received lots of different colors- blu & grn, org & blk, red & grn, blk & wht, grn & pk, metlc pk rd & gld, vanl brw. All the colors for fall, and winter card making!

McGill Punches- snowman, angel, cupcake, holly with berries, and fancy square in 2 sizes. The cool thing about these punches are the paper piecing ability of the pieces they punch out.

Judi Kins- This is a new product for us, ROXS. Come in and check it out. We will be making some very cool jewelry pieces with these ROXS. Wear them or decorate your mini albums or pages with them.

Sizzix- Embossing Folders in polka dots, flowers, snowflakes, flourishes, and a Halloween haunted scene. Also new original dies and sizzlets. Come check out the new embossing folders for dimensional backgrounds without bulk.

Scrapbook 101- New for us are these laser cuts in shapes and borders and in all categories (sports, faith, travel, kids, seasonal).

Custom Die Cuts- We have Woodstock Willie to go with our groundhog day papers, and the Opera House, and Mozart Festival die cuts too!

Memory Mixer- Ever wondered about digital scrapbooking? How about a hybrid layout. Come in and ask us how, and we will show you this easy to use program.

We have restocked in:

Glimmer Mist, Fiskars, Tim Holtz Tools, Adhesives, Sports Papers, paper flowers, glitter papers, and karen foster license plates.



**kim's tip- 3 is the magic number when doing you pages. Add buttons, flowers, ribbons, and color accents in threes for balance on your pages.



Mark your calendars for Saturday Sept. 26 . Join us for SCRAP PINK 10am to 5pm for $20. We will provide lunch with guest speaker Lynn Griesmaier from Centegra Health. All croppers will receive a "the cure" punch ($16 value). There will be lots of fun contests and giveaways. This event is close to our hearts here at Lorraine's. We also will ask croppers to make a card and donate $1 to Cancer Care Ministry of Harvest Bible Chapel of Rolling Meadows, to benefit cancer patients. Donations without the crop will receive a Lorraine's Memories Pink Tote as a Thank you. More details will be posted as soon as I get them, or stop in for more details.

Come in for tips, inspiration and ideas
Kim

More & More......

New things keep rolling in here at Lorraine's Memories. More is arriving daily! Here is a list of what is new:

SMOOCHY- metallic ink
KAREN FOSTER- wine papers, & cowboy papers with embellies to match. Calender kits & dimensional page toppers.
REMINSCE- Jett setters (new destinations), pearl Santa papers & cute fall papers all with matching embellies.
MY MINDS EYE Abbey Road
LITTLE YELLOW BICYCLE- beautiful fall papers with matching chipboard stickers, and a gorgeous transparency.
COOKBOOKIN'- Halloween papers, stickers, & stamps... also recipe cards, kitchen papers, and recipe scrapbook kits.

We have ordered from some companies you haven't seen at Lorraine's before. Here is what you can expect to see in the coming weeks:
Websters Pages
Color Core
Nunn Designs
Cosmo Cricket
Lasting Impressions
Unibind

there are more, but I am keeping that for another post.

Upcoming at Lorraine's Memories- Crop with us Friday & Saturday 8/28 & 8/29 for just $10 per night. Bring a snack and catch up on those summer memories. We have all the great tools & ideas to help you think out of the box!

Did You Know?.... Lorraine's Memories accepts other craft store coupons on Wednesdays! Expiration dates do apply. Also...... Bring in your PINK Lorraine's bag on THURSDAYS and receive 15% off your entire purchase. Don't have the pink bag? You can purchase one at the register for only $2.

*Kim's Tip*- Add basic office supplies to your layouts, like a paper clip to hold a knot of ribbon, staples to adhere transparencies & ribbon, or use an embossing label maker for titles or journaling strips! These are perfect to use in your back to school layouts.

There will be so much to tell you in the next weeks, so keep checking back for more updates.
Till then,
Kim

Thanks for a Good Time

Many Thanks go out to Lance Anderson from Rusty Pickle for coming out to Lorraine's and teaching a fun project. Our books are precious and we welcome you to come in and see them. We even have some extra kits to teach the class in the future. The shaker box was inventive, and each of our albums have our own personal touch to them. This album uses chipboard and double-sided patterned paper, so it was very simple to assemble. Lance walked us right through it. Then we embellished them with rub-ons, stickers, foiled paper, ribbons, and tags. It was a good time.

Today is Methodology Monday and today's class is about Grunge products, but there are many more techniques we will learn along the way. Check out the background on this tag. All done with ink and stamps. We also will make a grungepaper flower to put onto our tins for next month.



That's right, next month is the final Methodology class this year, and we will be decorating our tins with alcohol inks. Come in and check out the examples of the tin at the workshop table by the register. If you haven't taken these classes yet I hope you'll join us for either of these info packed classes.

This month's offerings of classes are great. There is a 2 page layout, a mini book, kid's classes, a card class, even a jewelry class. Come in and check it out!

Kim

This Just In

The heat is on and Summer has arrived at Lorraine's!
Check out the NEW sizzlin' summer dies from Sizzix. Arrows to beach shapes, and my favorite bracket shape. You asked for it and it is here! We also have the Sizzix Cut Above program. For a $36 punch card, you get a die with class project each month for three months.
Be sure to check out all the new shapes just in.

I saw Lance Anderson from Rusty Pickle last night, and I got to see the album we will be making Saturday night. WOW! It is much bigger than I thought. At least 9"x8". It was super cute, and had some metallic papers and chipboard shapes. All the pages were chipboard. With a few small flips in between. I can't wait! We still have a few spaces open. Get in on a really great time, and a very special project. Be one of the very first to take this class!

Methodology Monday is July 6 at 1pm & 5:30 pm. This month we will be doing GRUNGE. We will also do a beautiful grungepaper flower to use on our tins next month. We will also do a very cool tag in a grunge quilt, with embossed and stamped grungeboard. Check out the examples on the class sample table by the register.

We are now open till 8pm on Wednesdays for the summer concerts on the square. Stop in and see us while you enjoy a concert in the park.
Keep cool this week and come in and scrap with us. This Thursday is Teen Scrap night 5 to 8 pm.
Kim

New Layout

Here is the layout I promised. It is the new Tim Holtz Layout class. You can come into the store and see it up close and personal (without photos). This layout was designed by me and uses masks, distress inks, the blending tool, stamping, crackle paint, Tim's metals, and of course grungepaper. I hope you like it. This class is June 26 , 2-4pm and is $25.
Send me your "What I Love about Summer" layouts. You can photograph them and e-mail them to us or drop them off and I'll photograph them (we won't keep them). Then I can post them here. I want to hear your comments too. Just click on the comments word and leave your comment for me. Nothing to join. Thanks Margie H. I hope your time with friends this summer make beautiful memories for you!

I hope everyone has a great Father's Day Weekend! Come on in and make your Dad's day cards. The pop-up one is my favorite. Check it out.

















The lambs are fuzzy! The card is made with the new Sizzix die for making pop-ups, and is the only one of three cards in the class that pops. This class is Thursday at 6pm. It's only an hour, and I'll be in this Friday and Saturday nights for the crops if you want to do the class while at the crops. Watch for more classes on pop-up cards, and come in and check out the other Sizzix dies we have that are made to make things interactive. They are so fun!

I hope to see you this weekend at the Friday or Saturday crop!
Kim

A Special Guest Instructor

This just in........

I am very excited that Lance Anderson co-founder of RUSTY PICKLE is coming to Lorraine's to teach a class June 27 at 7pm. Even better, he will be teaching us a new project not taught anywhere before. We are the FIRST!!! He will be teaching a mini album using the new "Rockin America" paper we just got in at the store.



You do not want to miss this opportunity! I have taken classes from Lance before and I can say I not only have had a GREAT time, I learn so much, and am inspired every time. He is one of my favorite instructors! Rusty Pickle projects are usually full of interactive pull-outs, pockets, and flips. So be ready to create something very cute. You'll want to bring a basic tool kit (dry adhesive, trimmer, scissors, ruler, liquid glue, craft knife, bone folder, black pen, distress tools).
Hint- Lance loves chocolate!!!


Stop in the store to see my other Rusty Pickle projects to get an idea of the type of things you will learn. Spaces will be filling up fast, so call to reserve yours NOW!

Tomorrow I will post my Summer layout.
Kim

June Arrivals and Offerings

I am always running behind these days. I am hoping to have one of those "Lazy Dazy Summers",
where I can sit back and enjoy the things I love most in life. I would like all of you to respond here on the blog and tell me what are the things you enjoy most in life. Then go and scrap it! Bring in your layout or scan it and e-mail it to us and, with your permission I'll post them on our blog throughout the summer months. Please respond first. This will help inspire others to reflect on what they want out of this summer too. I will post my own layout next week and tell you about what I hope to enjoy this summer.

Now on to the NEW arrivals at Lorraine's..........
...Little Yellow Bicycle- TRAVELER: thermography 2-sided papers and stickers, a very cool 12x12 transparency, an acrylic coverd chipboard 11.75x5.75 mini album, and a 11.75x5.75 paper pad for the mini album.
...Karen Foster- picnic, mother, father,freedom, & liberty patterned papers, stickers, and stacked statement titles.
...Tattered Angels- Glimmer Mist in 24 beautiful colors, also a large mist mat for working with your mist. Back in stock is the traveler ledger glass album.
...Rusty Pickle- Rockin' America: patterned papers & stickers
...May Arts Ribbon- lots of NEW ribbon in different widths, colors, and styles, and the popular leaf ribbon is back in stock too.
...McGill punches- birds, flourishes, crowns, fancy square, the cure ribbon, & mini file tab
...Basic Grey- Wisteria and Lime Ricky: patterned papers, chipboard, buttons, flowers, and rub-ons, also BLING and Pearls in shapes too!
...Sizzix- Karen Burniston Pop-Up Dies, for cards, and album pages: pop-up spinning 3D Ball, Spinnig pop-up, heart pop-up, tree pop-up, birthday cake pop-up. Come see these innovative dies!

If you haven't had a chance to take the class doing Tim Holtz layout from the magazine ad, now is the time. Come learn how to create beautiful GRUNGEpaper flowers that make a page come alive. Suitable for framing and gift giving, kits are limited for this very popular class. A new grunge layout class is in the works.

A new class on Tuesdays this summer is the Kids Summer Craft Time. Jen will take children ages 5 thru 12 and make some cute projects to light that creative spark. Please call within 48 hours prior to sign your kids up for this fun class.

Ever wonder what to do with chipboard? Another new class "Chipboard Elements" will show you
everything you can do! A lovely small wall hanging with layers of chipboard covered in paper, paint, & ink with stamped and embossed patterns. Learn all the chipboard techniques in one class!

Make your Father's Day cards now! This class takes you from beginner to advanced when you make a pop-up card using one of Sizzix NEW pop-up dies. It's simple, easy, and fun to do! From stamping to paper piecing these cards are sure to show the Fathers in your life how special they are.

Fall in Love with Technique Tuesday! In this class you will learn all about acrylic stamping. Kit includes a set of stamps, mini ink pads,acrylic block, and a set of titles to use on other pages. Come find out why acrylic stamps are so popular and easy to use.

We also have a beginner scrapbooking class, Methodology, and Teen Scrap night!
Our CROPS have changed a bit. We will be having Friday and Saturday crops 2 times a month. The hours are 6 to midnight, and we will supply snacks and drinks for only $10.
That's all for now. I can't wait to hear form all of you, and to see what you plan to enjoy this summer!
Till next week- go scrap!
Kim