Time to Feed the Birds

One of the most fun things to do while visiting Granville Island is feeding the birds.  Bird food can be purchased on site and all the ducks will gladly come and be your best friend for the day if you give them food.

All the birds love to come up right to you and they don't shy away from the camera either.  They love getting their pictures taken!

Designs in a Flash

In a rush?  These design transfer sheets will allow you to create a design on your card in a flash!  The adhesive on each design is good for use with embossing powders, flock or glitter.  The best thing about this product is it creates a design that looks like you took a while to make it....but in actuality it takes just a few seconds.

For this card we used the design adhesive sheet to transfer a floral design on Chocolate cardstock using peacock blue glitter.  There are endless colour combinations and possibilities when working with glitter and cardstock and these transfers.

stamp club

We want to remind you that the Stamp Club will be meeting again this month. For this month, it will be on Saturday, July 30 from 9:30 - 11 AM at the False Creek Community  Centre. You are welcome to drop by to trade stamping ideas and to have a great time!  The drop in fee is $5.  There is a card swap every meeting if you'd like to partake bring 10 cards with you.

Elizabeth will demoing Spellbinder techniques at Stamp Club this week. 
 
Please bring the following supplies:

-cardstock, any colour bring lots make sure some of it is white
-any of your favourite Spellbinders or like dies that are interesting
-an all over damask or floral Embossing folder, any small evenly spaced out pattern
-an ink pad, any colour, any type of ink
-a dauber or sponge
-2 sided tape
-fast drying glue 

Your Big Shots/Cuttlebug and tan embossing mats, if you have them, otherwise we'll share.

See you Saturday at 9:30.

Card of the Week

This week's card of the week is elegant and simple.  Sometimes less is more and nothing translates into elegance more than gold.  This card features a focal point of gold embossing, done using our design adhesive transfers.  All you need to do after applying the transfer is sprinkle on your gold embossing powder, heat with your heat tool and presto!  Instant elegance.

The kit for this card will include all the cardstock you need to create 4 cards as well as a design transfer sheet and half back pearls.

Water Playtime

The weather here hasn't exactly been perfect summer weather, but it's nice enough for a romp in the waterpark.  It's not too hot and not too cold.....and let's face it, we'd gladly have this weather than the heat wave in the east coast any day!  The waterpark in the island is open for business and the kids are sure glad it is!

Huge Christmas in July Sale

Flower Power

It's raining flowers in the store!  We have just received a huge amount of paper flowers.  These flowers are a perfect addition to a handmade card or to a scrapbook page.  Come on in and have a look for yourself....you'll agree that they are so pretty, you'll want to get all the colours!

Card of the Week

Hello all!  It's the middle of July already -- can you believe it??  This week's Card of the Week is all about flowers.  Isn't it just bee-yoo-ti-ful??  It's so cheerful!  The background butterflies and flowers are done using adhesive transfer from Clearsnap.  As always, this will be available in a kit.  The kit for this card will include all the supplies to make 4 cards, as well as a package of the flowers and package of the design adhesive transfers -- packed full of goodies! The kits with all the product cost $19.99

Glitter! And Blog Candy!

Have you seen all the cool looks you can achieve using glitter and double sided tape?  We have some very cool cards on display in the store as well as a good selection of different colours of glitter.  If you haven't seen how glitter and double sided tape can be used together to create cool effects, come on in and we'll be happy to demo it for you! Buy any three colours of glitter  and receive instructions and a free sheet of these adorable bird Peel Offs (while supplies last)

Such cool colours!

Fingers the Racoon

Want to see a really funny puppet show?  Come on down to Granville Island on Augusgt 24 and 31 and see Fingers the Racoon and his puppet show!  The show runs twice on both these days at 12:30 and a second time at 2:00 PM.  Bring the kids down and they will be in for a delightful time!  And before you leave the island, come on by and say hello to us too!

Hey Smarty Pants!

This week's card of the week features this smart little moose all dressed up in chaps and cowboy hat!  The greeting on the card says, "Hey Smarty Pants!"  The patterned paper is K & Company's checkerboard paper in colours of green, rust and gold.  As always the kit for this card is available in the store and online.  Each kit is $14.99 and includes all the supplies to create the card 4 times.

Railspur Alley

Have you wandered around Granville Island?   There are so many things to do and see.  Next time you come and visit, make sure you walk down to Railspur Alley and visit all the cool little shops.  On a sunny day you can spend an entire afternoon here!  There are many little shops that feature wonderful silk scarves, one of a kind hats, not to mention the Granville Island Gallery and the Gallery of B.C. Ceramics.  An interesting little shop is the Artisan Sake Maker where sake is made onsite.  If you've never tried sake, this is the place to visit!  So next time you come and stop in to say hello to us, make sure you have enough time to explore!

Card of the Week

Hello stamping friends!  It's a beautiful sunny day here in Granville Island so what better way to finally welcome summer than with a flower card!  The card of the week uses the Stampendous set called Happy Flowers.  It is an unmounted set made of over 15 stamps that can be mixed and matched to make many different flower designs.  This is what we made:

The summery mix of lavender, green and golden yellow makes this the perfect card to celebrate summer!
The kit to create this card is also available for purchase -- it will include instructions and full colour pictures so you can make your own set of 4 cards.  Kits are available in the store as well as online.