What are the hottest colors this season?

Orange, royal purple and green is the newest- consider how the non-seasonal prints may work for Mardi Gras as well. Also the traditional orange and black refreshed with gray and white.

Paper and embellishment collections that feature traditional Halloween themes of jack-o-lanterns, witches,bats and ghosts. Many retailers have gone with a more autumn/harvest season approach to their product. Many of these collections feature autumn leaves, pumpkins and stylized wildflowers. These collections transition quite well into Thanksgiving. Consider projects that do dual duty as Halloween and Thanksgiving décor with a few additions to make it season appropriate.

Cards-Folks will be looking for ideas for cards and especially party invitations. This is a great opportunity to show your customers great ways to make simple and elaborate cards. This is also a great time to show your customers the value in starting their own card clubs in the new year, and giving special discounts to card groups.

Products
Check out the Websites of your favorite retailers or my favorites for products that you can have delivered immediately.
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Paper Adventures-The Jeepers Creepers incorporates many hot trends including the 1970’s style owl, orange and orange and purple palette. Check out the woodblock tree paper and the allover spiderweb print. This collection is lots of fun! www.anwcrestwood.com

Sizzix-Halloween by Brenda Pinnick includes Sizzlits 3-Die Sets and Strip Dies, Sizzix Originals Dies, Sizzix Bigz Dies and Sizzix Texturz and Sizzix Clear Stamps. These are such great pieces to add to any Halloween layout. www.sizzix.com.

Moxxie-Eye of Newt Collection includes double sided papers, witch body parts (think of the witches legs under the house in Wizard of Oz, stickers and rub-ons. www.gotmoxxie.com.

Little Yellow Bicycle-Frightful has plenty of options in the traditional orange and black combine the papers and punch out s with a black haunted house chipboard album. www.mylyb.com.

Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L-Their black adhesives are the perfect sticky note for the dark toned papers. Be sure to include some in your Halloween as well as core displays. www.scrapbook-adhesives.com.

Crafty Secrets-Halloween stamp sets- if your customers love vintage images these are some of my favorite. www.craftysecrets.com.

Me and My Big Ideas-Cornucopia is a lovely fall leaves-themed collection in autumnal tones tat would work well as table décor. The coordinating Soft Spoken line embellishments work for invitations as well as cards. www.meandmybigideas.com.

Hero Arts-The Turkeys and Pumpkins collection is a great example of how the autumn season can be drawn out and maximized with cute and classic images of traditional themes as well as inspirational message. www.heroarts.com.

October 2008

Did you know that this month is:

Family History Month

Work with a local genealogist to present a workshop on family history. Create a class around a family tree themed project. Create a display that incorporates vintage, ancestry, and nationality themed papers and accessories.

Make a difference Day

Invite employees to find a local senior citizen center, community center, or school to do a scrapbooking project.

Premiere of Mickey Mouse Club in 1955

This is a perfect time to promote your Disney products and do some fun giveaways! Do something fun like have all employees wear Mickey Mouse ears and have their names written on their shirt. Highlight, teach or demo projects that feature Disney and especially Mickey Mouse.

Stamp Collecting Month

This is a great time of year to show off all the great stamps that are available and all the different ways that customers can use their stamps. Create series of demos, sales, and events all month long with something happening each day. Be sure to include elements that all skills levels can participate in.

Regular readers have noticed Scrap-n-Craft was down for a little over a week. We changed hosting companies, and in the process found out that Scrap-n-Craft’s database was wiped out. Some of the posts will be available to repost, but, you may still find a few error pages until we can get some of these posts back. You may also notice some of these posts may not ever be reposted, simply because they are nowhere to be found.

This is a really great time to start fresh and make the necessary changes that comes with growing and evolving. One part of this process will be to add more information on my coaching program and the information and programs that I rely on to help make my sites and clients sites traffic generators and places that readers want to bookmark to come back to. You will see over the next year, links to some of the best places on the web, and those that will enable you to have not only a web presence, but one that will bring traffic and sales.

If you have any suggestions or if you would like to ask a question, please feel free to comment or email info at Scrap-n-Craft.com.

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What are you interested in seeing on our web site?

Do you have a craft question you would like someone to help you with?

Do you have a scrapbooking question (s) that you would like someone to help you with?

What Scrapbooking or Craft Celebrity do you want to know more about or hear more from?

If you have any suggestions or questions, please let us know!

A charity crop in support of The Bubel/Aiken Foundation

What better way to spend National Scrapbook Day than with your friends at our fun event.

Date: Saturday May 5th
Time: 10:00 am until 8:00 pm
Place: West Valley Family Fitness Center
5415 W. 3100 S.
We will be in community rooms A and B
(It’s on the second level and yes there is an elevator)
Cost: $35.00
$5.00 registration fee due now to hold your place. And the crop fee will be due on or before April 16th.
$5.00 reg. fee payable to Susan Catmull.
The $30.00 crop fee to “The Bubel/Aiken Foundation”
(100% of the crop fee goes to charity)
“A great tax deduction”
Scrap for Free
If you would like to scrap for free here’s what you do. Collect $50.00 from outside donors for “The Bubel/Aiken Foundation” and your day of cropping will be FREE!
For more information about Scrapping 4 Inclusion or The Bubel/Aiken Foundation check out their websites at:

http://www.bubelaiken.org.
www.scrapping4inclusion.com

We will provide food and prizes. We will have games and a page contests too.
We have vendors so you can take a break and browse
or buy products to get those pages done.
We only have room for 100 croppers so get your money in quickly to secure your spot. You can also reserve tables if you have a group that would like to be together. Please specify when signing up.

Feel free to send this on to anyone that may be interested.
We hope to see you there!
Contact me at:
mscatmull56@msn.com or scrapbookchic22@msn.com
Susan Catmull
TLC Emerald Director
801-446-5174 Cell 801-815-5174
See what TLC has to offer youwww.scrapbookchic.biz