http://www.archiversonline.com/
This is a chain similar to Recollections, however, they have GREAT prices!!! They had an awesome clearance section, with TONS of quality papers on clearance, a $1.99 section where I scored a bunch of chipboard letters - yeah me!!
I'm going to plan a day trip to Houston in the next couple months to tour these stores. The 3 hour drive would be worth it to go to all 6 stores in one day. Check out my previous posts if you missed the reviews of the other stores.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Project 365
Since I've been checking out all these scrapbook stores in Houston I went ahead and picked up a few things to use in my Project 365. If you don't know what that is you can visit the Creating Keepsakes blog (see link in toolbar at the right). In a nutshell:
You take 1 picture a day. The goal is to have a scrapbook of the entire year as a snapshot of your daily life. Project 365 was the KOTM (Kit Of The Month) for January, but they quickly sold out and CK is having issues and doesn't know if they will reprint. However, if you visit the blog you can download the journal cards and have them printed. Other supplies needed will be page protectors that have (6) 4x6 pockets on them, so when you do the weeks layout it's a 2-page layout with a total of 12 pockets. (7) will have the pictures for each day that week and the others will be reserved for journaling or embellishment.
I'm excited to get back home and get started. I'll post pictures as soon as I get each week completed.
3 More Houston Scrapbook Store Reviews
Today was a BUSY day. I visited 3 more stores in the Houston area. They were all great stores, here's the run down:
1. By Design Scrapbook Boutique - VERY cute decor at this stores. Great variety, friendly, and CREATIVE staff. They have great samples up and aren't shy about sharing. Liked their paper selection had a few lines I haven't seen, or it may be the new stuff I haven't had a chance to see at our DFW stores. They also allowed me to take photos of the projects so I could remember the ideas.
2. Scrapbook Junkie - With a name like that, I had better expectation of the atmosphere. That aside... large selection of papers, transparencies. Of ALL the stores this had the best selection of acrylic, acetate, and chip board albums and embellishments. They had a few things in acrylic I hadn't see before.
3. Novel Approach - AWESOME paper selection and HUGE selection of rubber stamps. Carried alot of the grundge board and ranger product lines. They had a good selection on the alterables, acrylic, and chipboard too.
All in all, Houston would be a great place to go for a long scrapbooking weekend. There have 5 good scrapbooking stores that are in reasonable distance of each other. The classes they have available are great.
1. By Design Scrapbook Boutique - VERY cute decor at this stores. Great variety, friendly, and CREATIVE staff. They have great samples up and aren't shy about sharing. Liked their paper selection had a few lines I haven't seen, or it may be the new stuff I haven't had a chance to see at our DFW stores. They also allowed me to take photos of the projects so I could remember the ideas.
2. Scrapbook Junkie - With a name like that, I had better expectation of the atmosphere. That aside... large selection of papers, transparencies. Of ALL the stores this had the best selection of acrylic, acetate, and chip board albums and embellishments. They had a few things in acrylic I hadn't see before.
3. Novel Approach - AWESOME paper selection and HUGE selection of rubber stamps. Carried alot of the grundge board and ranger product lines. They had a good selection on the alterables, acrylic, and chipboard too.
All in all, Houston would be a great place to go for a long scrapbooking weekend. There have 5 good scrapbooking stores that are in reasonable distance of each other. The classes they have available are great.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Houston Scrapbook Store Review
Okay ladies... yesterday I went to The Lone Star Scrapbook Company, it's in northern Houston off of I-45. LOVE THE STORE, great selection on pretty much everything. Very comparable to Crafty Scrapper, Gotta Scrap, and Scrapbook Barn. They have the BIGGEST selection of Quick Cut dies I've ever seen outside of GASC.
Today I went to The Scrapbook Village in Missouri City, it's southwest of Houston about a 45 minute drive in traffic, so no different from what we're used to in DFW. The store is in a cute old village style shopping center. They have a GREAT paper selection, alot of papers that I haven't seen in our stores. No alot in the alterables, however, they did have one cool idea. They had taken childrens board books and from what I can tell used a scroll saw and cut the books into shapes like hearts, arrow, pencil, etc... to create the base for altered books. I bought one of the arrow ones to do a "Growing UP" album for my son.
Tomorrow I'm venturing out to By Design Scrapbook Boutique in southeast Houston (I drove out there yesterday first, but they closed at 5:30) and The Scrapbook Junkie in Webster not far from By Design Scrapbook. I did look in the window of By Design and it's decorated REALLY cute, mostly pink and black very chic. I'm hoping to find some interesting things there. I'll post my review tomorrow.
Today I went to The Scrapbook Village in Missouri City, it's southwest of Houston about a 45 minute drive in traffic, so no different from what we're used to in DFW. The store is in a cute old village style shopping center. They have a GREAT paper selection, alot of papers that I haven't seen in our stores. No alot in the alterables, however, they did have one cool idea. They had taken childrens board books and from what I can tell used a scroll saw and cut the books into shapes like hearts, arrow, pencil, etc... to create the base for altered books. I bought one of the arrow ones to do a "Growing UP" album for my son.
Tomorrow I'm venturing out to By Design Scrapbook Boutique in southeast Houston (I drove out there yesterday first, but they closed at 5:30) and The Scrapbook Junkie in Webster not far from By Design Scrapbook. I did look in the window of By Design and it's decorated REALLY cute, mostly pink and black very chic. I'm hoping to find some interesting things there. I'll post my review tomorrow.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
StampScrapArtTour Review
This was a good show for stampers and altered art fanatics.
I picked up some really cool unmounted stamps and unique items you don't find in the local stores here in the Dallas metroplex. My favorite vendors were Glue Art & Paper Studio - LOVE their Card File items for doing altered projects. Artful Illusions had TONS of really cool trinkets and do-dads for anything you can imagine. Lost Coast Designs was my favorite for unmounted stamps. Mounted stamps would be Stampers Anonymous.
It was a small show, so it wasn't as overwhelming as GASC can be as far as deciding where to spend your money. We were there about 3 hours. I will definitely go again next year.
Now I'm just anxiously awaiting GASC 2009 and CKC in Tulsa, OK.
I picked up some really cool unmounted stamps and unique items you don't find in the local stores here in the Dallas metroplex. My favorite vendors were Glue Art & Paper Studio - LOVE their Card File items for doing altered projects. Artful Illusions had TONS of really cool trinkets and do-dads for anything you can imagine. Lost Coast Designs was my favorite for unmounted stamps. Mounted stamps would be Stampers Anonymous.
It was a small show, so it wasn't as overwhelming as GASC can be as far as deciding where to spend your money. We were there about 3 hours. I will definitely go again next year.
Now I'm just anxiously awaiting GASC 2009 and CKC in Tulsa, OK.
Saturday, January 10, 2009
StampScrapArtTour
Next weekend is the StampScrapArtTour in Mesquite for those who don't know.
http://www.stampscraparttour.com/
Judy and I are going to check it out and pay a visit to the Stampers Anonymous booth. He does GREAT demos and is more than willing to answer any questions.
You can get tickets for both days for $5 if you buy them at Gotta Scrap or it's $6 at the door.
This will be my first year going so I hope it's alot of fun.
http://www.stampscraparttour.com/
Judy and I are going to check it out and pay a visit to the Stampers Anonymous booth. He does GREAT demos and is more than willing to answer any questions.
You can get tickets for both days for $5 if you buy them at Gotta Scrap or it's $6 at the door.
This will be my first year going so I hope it's alot of fun.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Calling All Scrapbooking Addicts...
Okay... I finally decided to start a blog for my addiction. No laughing, because if you're a scrapbooker you know what I mean.
For those who scrapbook you know there is that one thing you can't say no to. Mine happens to be letters. I don't know why, but I LOVE letters. Chipboard, metal, wood, plastic... all shapes and sizes.
My dad's wife happens to be addicted to paper! I had to put it in here, because I joke with her ALL the time about how much paper she has. She could have a store. If she NEVER bought anymore paper, she would have enough to last til she dies. We would have to line her grave with it - LOL. I believe part of the rainforest resides on the color shelves of paper in her scrap room.
Speaking of scrap rooms, that was what sparked my desire to finally blog. I'm ALMOST done with my dream scrapbook room. I just have to paint the cabinets, get a ceiling fan with better lighting, and curtains! Check out the photos. I'm an organization freak, so that would be my other problem, another blog down the road I'm sure.
Happy scrappin' and I hope to meet some new scrappers and share ideas.
For those who scrapbook you know there is that one thing you can't say no to. Mine happens to be letters. I don't know why, but I LOVE letters. Chipboard, metal, wood, plastic... all shapes and sizes.
My dad's wife happens to be addicted to paper! I had to put it in here, because I joke with her ALL the time about how much paper she has. She could have a store. If she NEVER bought anymore paper, she would have enough to last til she dies. We would have to line her grave with it - LOL. I believe part of the rainforest resides on the color shelves of paper in her scrap room.
Speaking of scrap rooms, that was what sparked my desire to finally blog. I'm ALMOST done with my dream scrapbook room. I just have to paint the cabinets, get a ceiling fan with better lighting, and curtains! Check out the photos. I'm an organization freak, so that would be my other problem, another blog down the road I'm sure.
Happy scrappin' and I hope to meet some new scrappers and share ideas.
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