School’s in session, the lazy days of summer are past and we’re
settling in comfortably to our fall schedules. Carpe diem, girls…now’s
the time to get crafty! I’m always surprised at how many people
refer to themselves as “not crafty.” Don’t worry,
it’s not the things you haven’t done…it’s the
things you have done! Like the new recipe you tried last week, or adding
a bit of bling to your cell phone, or making handmade invitations for
your friend’s party. Live your life creatively and you will find
joys in even the simplest things. Paper crafting and scrapbooking are
CAN DO hobbies. That’s why we’re here…to offer you
ways to explore the limitless boundaries of your imagination. When the
world around us is chaotic and hectic, Ever After is your place to create.
We promise a unique experience where you’ll meet new friends and
learn new projects. You’ll be amazed at how crafting will relieve
your stress and help you relax. Take a look at all the fantastic fall
and holiday events and classes we have planned for you. We’re
making it easy to get crafty!
Gear Up for the Holidays at Ever After
We say it every year. Start your holiday projects now, while you still
have time. Start now and come December, you’ll be a little bit
more relaxed and ready to enjoy the holiday month. My husband and I
started handmaking Christmas gifts a few years back and it has become
the most memorable part of our holiday season. Our family and friends
love the gifts and rave about the holiday cards. It’s a joyful
and rewarding experience and it sure beats fighting the crowds at the
malls. Rest assured, we’ll have plenty of holiday gift and card
making ideas. And speaking of cards, we’ll celebrate World Card
Making Day on October 6th with some extra events. See the back page
for details.
Big Name Scrapbook Celebrities Coming
This Fall!
Save the Dates!
Call to get on the waiting lists for these hot tickets to Ever After
Exclusive Events this Holiday Season.
-- Fiskateer Cheryl Waters in November.
Check out more about Cheryl at www.fiskateers.com
--A Rusty Pickle Holiday Extravaganza
with Rusty Pickle Chefs from All Over the U.S.!! Nov.
30 through December 2. Five classes, Crop with the Chefs, Contests,
Make-n-Takes and More!
-- Junkitz Designer and Scrapbook Superstar
Teresa Collins Back for Another Homespun Holiday at
Ever After: December 9-10
Saturday, September 22nd
8 a.m. till 1 p.m.
This is THE BIG ONE! No joking here! We have the most amount of sellers
we’ve ever allowed and many are design team members, instructors
and some designers!!! That means you’ll get some top quality stuff…New
and gently used merchandise at a fraction of its original cost.
Buyers Mark Your Calendars: We’re starting earlier than ever. Early
bird gets the best selection! We’ll open our doors at 8 a.m. and
promptly shut down the garage sale at 1 p.m The sellers go to great lengths
to get everything organized and priced to sell. Grab a girlfriend or two
and don’t miss
THE MOTHER OF GARAGE SALES.
Savings and Fun!
Just 5 bucks
gets you a passport to save 15% and receive an amazing goodie bag at each
store. The passport is an awesome 16-page directory of all the participating
stores, their hours, directions and contact information. Something to
keep in the glovebox for future roadtrips! Call the store today, we can
sign you up over the phone!
It gets better. Purchase a t-shirt or tote bag and wear it during the
hop and get 20% off at each store.
-9 Days
-29 Stores (don’t worry you don’t have to go to all 29 stores!)
-29 First Place $50 gift certificates
-1 Grand Prize for a 3-Day Cruise for two
-Make-n-takes at participating stores (small fee)
It doesn’t get much better than this…Except, if you are in
the first 50 to purchase your tote or t-shirt and passport at the same
time at Ever After, you’ll receive a gift valued at $5! Don’t
delay…we’re nearly at the halfway mark!
Note: You only need to visit 12 stores to be eligible for the $50 gift
certificates.
The Survivor Crop
Countdown
We’re on the 45 day countdown to the Most Exciting, Most Rewarding, Most Thrilling and Most Memorable Event of the Year…Our 6th Annual Survivor Crop. If you aren’t already signed up, now is the time. Grab a cropping buddy and sign up for the event that has become a phenomenon! Just think how much you can get done in 24 hours! Sleep is optional. You’ll have loads of cropping space (the facility we use is 10,000 square feet!) We give away a ton of prizes and the games are a blast. Don’t miss out! Cost is just $105 until September 20th. After September 20th, the price goes to $125. This fee includes catered lunch, dinner, and two breakfasts, a survivor logo t-shirt & more. Go to scrapbooks.info for signup info
The 2nd Annual
Think Pink Silent Auction
Can’t make Survivor Crop but want to help support the cause? Make
a date to stop by and bid on some of the wonderful items we’ll have
at our 2nd Annual Think Pink Silent Auction. We’ll start the bidding
on Monday, October 22nd. The auction bidding will close at Survivor Crop.
We raised nearly $2,000 last year between the auction and the pink ribbon
raffle.
Ever After’s Pink Ribbon
Raffle
Stop by and purchase a pink ribbon card for just $5 (all proceeds go to
the Susan G. Komen Foundation and towards our grand total fundraising
amount for Survivor Crop 2007). The card can have someone’s name
on it that you are supporting or remembering. We create a huge FIND A
CURE Wall in the store with the cards…some of which brought us to
tears last year. Come help make a difference.
Registered Croppers Don’t
Miss Out on
Ever After’s Page Planning Days
Saturday, September 22 and 29 and October 6 and 14*
2 p.m.-7 p.m.
A surefire way to maximize your cropping time at Survivor Crop is to have
your pages preplanned. Use these Survivor Crop exclusive days to come
in for FREE and use StudioC to sort through photos, color match papers
and cardstock and find the right embellies for your pages. You’ll
enjoy a 15% off your purchase plus sodas and candy. It’s like a
five hour moonlight crop (valued at $12) for FREE! You can also use this
time to work on your altered paint can or artist trading cards, another
great part of the big event. You must sign up in advance to participate
in the Page Planning Days.
You
Go Ghouls!
Limited Number of Seats Available for the 2nd Annual Tour de Crop, A Tour
to Shop
Saturday, October 13
9 a.m.-6 p.m.
-One Amazing Ride!
-Three Fantastic Stores
-A Road Trip You Won’t Soon Forget!
Gina and Kari are back as the hostesses with the mostestess! They’ll
keep you entertained, refueled and energized. Meet at Ever After and board
the Party Bus to Scrappin’ in the Hills in Anaheim Hills. Then you’re
off to Collective Journey in Redlands for more fun. Both stores are amazing
and well stocked with great scrappin toys and tools. We’ll be hosting
a progressive make-n-take at each store in a trick or treat theme. You
get loads of treats and lunch is included. We’ll host a Bootiful
Costume Contest where you could win big! Cost is just $50 for the whole
day. We’re over half full as of August 27, so sign up today! Remember,
our last bus tour sold out!
October
27-28. Earn a Free Portrait Sitting!
Save Your Ever After Receipts for a FREE PORTRAIT SITTING from Dezign
Photography! This is a great opportunity for family holiday cards or a
nice gift to give the grandparents or other loved ones as Christmas gifts.
We’ve teamed up with a local professional photographer to bring
this exclusive event to you. Here’s how it works. Save your receipts
from September 1-October 15. If your receipts total $50, you’ll
receive a complimentary sitting and 5x7. Additional portraits may be purchased.
It’s that easy! Limit one free sitting per family, per household.
Once you’ve reached your receipt total, you can call the store to
sign up for a timeslot on either Saturday the 27th or Sunday the 28th.
Ever After Scrapbooks is proudly supporting the Marines and Wives of 3rd
AABN (Amphibian Assault Battalion) with their annual Marine Corps Ball
Gown Exchange. We are helping the wives of 3rd AABN by asking for evening
attire to help defray the cost for the young Marines and their wives.
The ball is celebrated every year on or around the birthday of the Marine
Corps – November 10th. Every year, our Marines and wives gather
to celebrate the heritage and the birthday of the Corps. The expense for
the junior Marines can be costly. To help reduce the cost and to ensure
that every Marine and his wife can attend, the wives of 3rd AABN are hosting
a Ball Gown Exchange. The idea, every wife can exchange a dress for another
gently used dress or bring $5 to purchase a dress. The funds received
benefit the Marine Corps Ball Fund of 3rd AABN 100%. Again, these funds
help defray the cost of the event for the junior Marines.
We are looking for gently used evening attire – dresses, shoes,
handbags, jewelry and wraps. The support of our community is greatly appreciated.
Please drop your donations off at Ever After Scrapbooks by Sat, Sept 15th.
Thank you on behalf the Marines and Wives of 3rd AABN.
World Card Making Day is a holiday especially for card makers around the world to celebrate the creativity of handmade cards and the personal connection that they create between friends and family and to kick off (and get a head start on) the holiday card-making season.
An Ever After First Holiday Card
Swap
Saturday, October 6th 12-2 pm
To celebrate this fun new holiday and get your creative juices flowing,
Ever After will host a Holiday card swap. Just $5 to sign up*, you’ll
come with enough cards for everyone in attendance to trade. (*Limited
to the first 25 who sign up. $5 will be given back in store credit at
the event.) Please make your card design your very best work, as you will
have a chance to win an Ever After Gift Certificate! That’s right,
we’ll be awarding a gift certificate to the first, second and third
place winners of the card contest. All registered guests of the swap will
vote on each other’s cards. We’ll have apple cider and cookies
to get you in the holiday season mood! This is a wonderful way to get
inspired by the creativity of fellow crafters and gives you a great jumpstart
on holiday card giving. For terrific card making ideas, log on to www.worldcardmakingday.com.
New to Card Making?
Check out new instructor Louise’s
Intro to Card Making class on Monday, September 10th.
It’s fun, it’s easy, and it’s a great way to use all
those paper scraps and extra scrap stash we’ve all accumulated.
Sheri Weems, Card Making Instructor Extraordinaire
Is Back!
We are thrilled to welcome back Sheri this fall, just in time for some
amazing card classes. Sheri is always a crowd pleaser and you’ll
leave her classes with six cards for a very affordable price. Don’t
miss out on her Bootiful Holiday Cards on World Card Making Day, October
6 from 10-12.
-Candice Mclean’s
Chistmas JOY album, designed for Ever
After last Christmas, is published in Scrapbook Trends Holiday Issue.
-Tracey Locher, Ever After design team member, wins first place at San Diego Scrapbook Expo page layout contest.
-Marah Johnson tapes webisode on finding inspiration while at Ever After for Better Homes and Gardens scrapbook lifestyle online tv show. Check it out at www.scrapbooklifestyle.com
-Ditto that. Candice Mclean features Endless Summer album, designed for Ever After, on recent Scrapbook Lifetyle webisode.
-Monica Martin, Ever After
instructor, made the finalists list for the Rusty Pickle Party with Lance
after submitting a uniquely designed Rusty Pickle album!
-Casey Rivas and Tracey Locher
winners of the amazing race contest and are now Rusty Pickle Chefs
The Next Big Bus Tour is Coming Soon! Don’t
Miss the Bus!
Saturday, October 13, 2007
It’ll be a spooktacular event as Ever After along with two other
scrapbook megastores host the 2nd Annual Bus Tour.
ONE BIG BUS…ONE AMAZING RIDE
THREE AWESOME STORES
* Terrific make-n-takes
* Great Discounts
* Awesome Goodie Bag
Call to get your name on the pre-registration waiting list. Once registration
goes live in August, you’ll be the first to be called! $50, includes
a box lunch.
Ever After Only Early Sign Up Incentive: Sign up by August 15th with a
friend and you each pay just $45!
-We Have
a Frequent Cropper Card
(The Ever After Drop In and Crop Card). We
pay YOU to crop!
-We Have an Extra Large Demo Center
that allows you the opportunity to try before you buy.
We have the most innovating and original classes. Treat your self or get a jump-start on holiday gifts. Check out some of the classes offered this month.
"Make It Your Own" Monogram with
Monica. New Class !
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm Sept 8 th
Everyone keeps asking for a class using the new EK Success Art Blanche
letters. It's finally here! Join Monica as you create a terrific home
décor piece for any room of the house. Choose the letter at the
time you sign up. Her samples is wonderful and the class is priced right.
$22.
A Class Act - Twelve Mini-Albums with Casey
Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm Sept 9th
Wowza! This class is a keeper- and so are those school memories! Don't
let those treasured school projects or years of class photos weigh down
those photo boxes- get them into an album! In this class we will be using
the Danelle Box album from Creative Imaginations' BE line. If you've never
seen this little treasure- prepare to be amazed! Twelve mini-books fit
neatly in one little box. What a great way to get a full school year or
a whole K-12 of memories in one place! Great gift for a grad or even for
those of you feeling completely inundated with precious artwork and school
photos from your little ones. $45.
First Day of School Album with Candice
Mclean
Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm Sept 15
Pickleicious-style using the Rusty Pickle Mayflower line It’s the
beginning of a new school year and with that comes a need to organize
and document your child’s memories. This album is perfect to highlight
your child’s first day of school, science fair, school play and
more. You’ll alter a 6x6 chipboard album with Candice using the
Rusty Pickle Mayflower collection. All kinds of embellies to be expected!
$50.
FANtastic Voyage with Christine S.
Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm Sept 16
Need a cool way to display all those summer vacation photos? Using chipboard
and paper, you will learn a simple book binding technique while creating
your own mini fan book. This accordion book, when opened, fans out displaying
photos and hides 6 oversized tags creating enough space for up to 22 pictures.
Everyone will be impressed and you will be surprised by how easy this
fun book comes together. $25.
Made from Scratch Recipe Album with Monica
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Sept 20
This is not your ordinary recipe box, it's an album full of fun...red,
black and roosters! Be ready to sand, ink and stamp your way to an adorable
gift for your favorite Chef! (maybe even yourself!) $35
Home Sweet Home Mini-Album w/Casey
Time: 11:00am - 2:00pm Sept 23
Who knew cardboard could be so hip? A bit fun, a bit funky-
this album has it all! Showcasing the latest Jack + Abby line from Love,
Elsie in a trendy cardboard Rusty Pickle album, it is filled with buttons,
pockets and loads of other goodies! What a fun way to display your favorite
memories of home. A great gift for a new or long-time home-owner, someone
who's just recently moved, or those memorable Fall photos. Rich browns,
reds and light blues adorn this pages of this album. We are also going
to play with embossing powder and perhaps learn a cool new trick or two!
If you've been hesitant about trying it before, here is your chance! Between
the heat-embossing, warm fall colors and memorable moments of home, you
are sure to leave class feeling all warm and fuzzy! $45
Please bring to class 6-10 photos (Most of these will be cropped down to 3-1/2x5 or 4x4). If you also have a heat gun, it is HIGHLY recommended that you bring it to class!
No Tricks, Just a TREAT! Halloween Star
Album with Monica
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Sept 27
No Tricks, Just a TREAT! Halloween Star Album with Monica
Perfect for photos of your little ghosts and goblins! This is not only
an album, but can double as a Halloween centerpiece or table decor! It's
just BOOtiful!
"Clearly My Life" Transparent Mini Album w/ Christine
Time: 10:00am - 2:00pm Sept 29
This 10-page 6x6 transparent mini-album celebrates the everyday moments
as well as the big events of our lives. The moments that sometimes get
overlooked, but are so very cherished when they're captured. These are
the moments that make up the snapshots of our lives. Your photos will
be highlighted in an album that is different from any other, and you have
to see it to appreciate how unique it is! Be prepared to paint, stamp,
doodle, and embellish this one-of-a-kind album! $45.00
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