Hello everyone!!! With Thanksgiving celebrations going on last week in the US, everything pretty much shut down in the land of the free and home of the brave, so this week, we’ll be seeing just Luxe Designs … … Everything else that’s released in other stores round the world this week, we’ve been blessed to get in already in the past few weeks …. …. So here’s a little appetiser for this week … ….

Their oh-so-cute doodling patterned paper and other gorgeous patterned paper together with all manner of rub-ons are now up on the shelves waiting for you already!!!

But that’s not all … … we’ve got a biiiiig surprise for you … … given that this has been a most fantastical month ever, we thought we’d give a fairy-tale ending to our month-long birthday celebrations!!!

So come visit our place as soon as you can and have a look at our 4 TREAT BOXES which will be on display for 4 DAYS ONLY starting from today simply because we’ve just turned 4 and would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to you for helping to make this happen!!!

Enjoy whopping discounts of up to 60% as this is our way of saying a biiiiiig thank you to one and all for extending to us your friendship.

Do come as soon as you can as when the clock strikes 9 in the evening this coming Sunday, all items placed in the 4 TREAT BOXES will be returned to the shelves and revert to their usual prices!!!

Come take a peek at the contents of each box, we’ve got everything from embellishments, to clear stamps, storage solutions, paper pads, albums and lots more!!!

You may also like to know that Scrapaholics Anonymous card members and Scrapaholic For Life card members may combine the BTC with these specials!!

We reeeally hope to see you soon!!!

In the meantime, keep on lovin’ and keep up the scrappin’!!!

Judging from the response on our online Made With Love forum, it sure looks like we all had heaps and heaps of fun learning from Caroline at her workshops!!!

Here’s a recap of a crazy day of “scropping” - a word coined by Jas for shopping and cropping that goes on simultaneously!!

Scrappers moved from station to station to complete scrapping tasks where various techniques from stamping, using crackle paint to adding glitter to embellishments were practised!!!

Clear step-by-step instructions on Powerpoint specially put together by Caroline were flashed on our projector screens on top of printed handouts which were distributed for scrappers’ easy reference.

Judging from the easy banter that flowed freely across the room, it was a fun and relaxing workshop for one and all … …

And there were times that we sat scrapping …. ….

And times when we stood ….

But no one was tired out especially when we announced our shopping special for the day at around 5pm … …

As a gesture of appreciation to all who’ve been immensely supportive of Made With Love and to celebrate mwl’s 4th birthday, workshop attendees were told that they would be given 4 minutes to speed shop and everything in their shopping bags would go to them at an unprecedented 40% discount!!! Scrapaholics Anonymous members could select up to a maximum of $200 worth of scrap supplies whilst Scrapaholic For Life members could have a $400 loot of scrap supplies!!!

Just before flag-off, scrappers waving their bright orange shopping bags in anticipation …. ….

Not after many false-starts as i fell of a step ladder i was standing on and said ‘Oh’ which was interpreted as ‘Go’ by some scrappers further away from me!!!  That was hilarious!!! But rather embarrassing for me!!!

Shopping strategies employed by scrappers were aplenty .. … said one scrapper A, ” Just stand in 1 spot and grab everything within arm’s reach!!!” LOL!!!!

Some strategies were immensely successful, with 1 scrapper being able to grab a record-breaking $800 PLUS worth of scrapbook supplies in 4 minutes!!! Wowoweeeee!!!

Some serious shopping going on here …. ….

Sandra pulling out supplies from storage, trying desperately to meet the needs of the very savvy and “hungry” scrappers who seemed to know exactly what they wanted!!!

A happy kind of mayhem … … fortunately, we managed to clear the store of all other shoppers and walk-in visitors of the store … who peered in from the entrance with incredulous looks … …

And finally, when 4 minutes were up … everyone dutifully handed their shopping bags over for the “damage” to be ascertained … …

And oh how 4 minutes proved too short a time for many who didn’t manage to get all that their hearts desired … ..  workshop attendees cajoled Sandra and i for more specials … …. we finally buckled under the “pressure” and gave everyone 1 last chance to pick 1 additional item to be thrown into the shopping bag!!!  Cheeky! Cheeky!!!

But seriously, it’s the mad mad mad bunch of scrapping friends who visit mwl regularly that have made this place of ours a truly fun hang-out for all passionate die-hard scrapbook enthusiasts who could all literally live on love, fresh air and scrap supplies!!! Why are we so nutty??? Simply because we love … love forging strong relationships through our love for creating and preserving memories with oh-so -preeeeetty things!!!

And oh how after this day, should we officially be known as ‘Mad With Love’ … … as Caroline shared … she has never met a crazier fun bunch of scrappers!!! LOL!!!  

Thank you Caroline for sharing this day with us … … we reeeeeeally appreciate you doing the additional class on top of the 2 you initially already agreed to do, despite your hectic schedule. Doing an evening of Make & Takes followed by a full-day of workshops from 10am - 10pm was no joke but you did it all with a smile and great warmth!!! And thanks to Noah and David for sharing your mommy and wife respectively with us!!!  She’s brought us untold joy with the products that Maya Road has designed and developed over the years!! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!

Hope you’ve all recovered from your whirlwind trip to Singapore and we sooooo look forward to seeing you in a couple of months’ time in Anaheim at the CHA Winter show!!!

And as usual, our message to all our scrapping friends who we love soooo dearly … … keep on lovin’ and keep up the scrappin’!!!

Lotsa luff

{e}

P.S.

Hugs and kisses to sweetie pie Noah who’s really quite a trooper for an 18-month old …. staying up till past 11pm for chilli crab that took FOREVER to arrive …. oh what a night!!!

Here are some precious shots we got of Noah for you both - Caroline and David …. …

One of the highlights of this year just has to be Caroline’s visit to our store. As co-owner of Maya Road, a well-known and much sought-after brand of scrapbook supplies in the US, many other parts of the world and right here in sunny Singapore, we are indeed honoured that Caroline has taken time off her busy schedule to pay us a visit at Made With Love!!!

Her 2-day visit began with a casual meet and greet Caroline session last Friday evening and it was great seeing so many of you turn up for an evening of scrapping fun, light munchies and light-hearted conversation!!!

Everyone was encouraged to ask Caroline all sorts of questions to get to know her better and to find out more about how Maya Road got started … now we know how Caroline and her sister Deborah came up with their unique and pleasant-sounding brand name Maya Road … …

It was then time for a little scrapping fun as Caroline made her way to the front of the store to our Demo Bar where she did real fun and cute make & takes with everyone using Maya Road chipboard accents … …

And for a cute souvenir to commemorate this special evening, these 6″x6″ make & take layouts were for scrappers to get Caroline to autograph on and to stick photos taken with Caroline on … ….

 

After about an hour of Make & Takes, i announced the start of an Artist Trading Card (ATC) challenge and Caroline took part in it too!!! All participants of the challenge were given 15 minutes to each complete an ATC of their own. Caroline was real game and made 1 too… The prize at the end of the challenge was a $40 gift basket of Maya Road scrapbook supplies and Caroline’s ATC … … The winner was the scrapper who made an ATC which Caroline chose to keep as a memento.

On top of embellishments such as Foof-a-laa buttons, Making Memories brads and eyelets, American Crafts chipboard accents and felt accents, an array of ribbons, and lots more, participants of this challenge were also handed out scraps of patterned papers and a stamped piece of cardstock for them to fill in the relevant details commonly found on ATCs.

And from the word ‘go’, scrappers were intensely focused as they created ATCs that reflected their own creativity - ATCs being the equivalent of name cards for scrappers … … every effort was made by all participants of this challenge to do the best they could with all that was provided within the short time-frame given.

When the 15 minutes were up, Caroline had the tough task of selecting just 1 ATC which she would bring home with her!

After some deliberation, Caroline chose fellow scrapper Marix’s ATC and Marix not only received the $40 gift basket of Maya Road scrap supplies but also Caroline’s ATC for keeps!!! Wowoweeee!!!

Congratulations Marix!!! Your ATC’s now half way round the world with Caroline and we hope you’ll have plenty of fun with your gift basket of Maya Road goodies!!!

And to all who made this evening special with your presence, we reeeeeally hope you had a fabulous time!!! Thanks sooooo much for taking time off your busy schedules to show up and give Caroline a biiiiig warm welcome Made With Love style!!! 

Lotsa luff

{e}

 

 

We absolutely adore the ALL NEW Ki Memories lace cardstock and we know many of you are head over heels in love with them too judging by how fast they seem to be flying off the shelves.  

Pretty they may certainly be but some of you mentioned that you are at a loss as to how to make use of them so here are some inspirational ideas from our Resident Designers who’ve done wonders with both Ki Memories lace cardstock as well as their latest release of embellishments from the Pop Culture collection!!!

from the scrap desk of

{AIDA HARON}

Aida’s Lovenotes: Isn’t the lace cardstock gorgeous ? Using KI’s Pop Culture line, Domino Chip Alphas, Hambly transparency, other pps are 7 Gypsies, Creative Imagination ledger, Love Elsie and Bazill cardstock. Products available from Made Wtih love, thanks for looking !

 

from the scrap desk of

{EMELINE SEET-NG}

Emeline’s Lovenotes: Supplies : KI Memories Pop Culture

such yummy colours screaming to be scrapped ! :)

journaling : inspiration comes from these stuff. Mundane necessities can be so inspiring and colourful even in the kitchen…

TfL !

 

from the scrap desk of

{ERLIA ABDULLAH}

Erlia’s Lovenotes: Used super-fun and super-colorful papers and embellies from KI Memories’ Pop Culture collection - NEW at Made With Love!

Supplies used from Pop Culture: Coloring Book, Bedazzle, Leapfrog, Dot Candy and Lava Lamp patterned papers, Hopscotch Red Hot lace cardstock, Multi Chip Shapes, Pop Frames, Boardwalk Sashes, Tiny Corners Softies and Monogram E clear stamp (which I heat-embossed using Tsukineko Watermark ink and gold embossing powder). All available at Made With Love!

Detailed pics on my blog at http://lialuvsblythes.blogspot.com/2007/11/7-yrs-old-living-in-color.html.

TFL!

 

from the scrap desk of

{LEENA LOH}

Leena’s Lovenotes: This is a B&W LO of my wedding picture using the all new KI Memories collection of Pop Culture PP, Lace cardstock, alphas & shapes chipboards & ribbons, all available at MWL!!!

Other materials used are Autumn Leaves Stamp, AC Thickers & letter stickers. Used sewing machine for the stitches around the border of CS. 

Thanks for looking!!

 

How about that everyone? Enough ideas to get you started on working wonders with the lace cardstock from Ki Memories and embellishments and patterned paper from the ALL NEW Pop Culture collection you’ve purchased or are planning to purchase from us? So keep the requests coming so our DT can get cracking on more fabulous projects to inspire all of us!

 And by the way, all layouts featured in this blog entry are already on display at our place for your viewing pleasure too!

 

 

 

But who’s complaining??? Wooooohoooo!!!! This week, we’re incredibly excited AGAIN to bring you a whole load of new arrivals that we hope will entice many of you to rush down to our place today!! We’ve got never-before-seen releases as well as restocks of old favourites. Read on to find out more… and we ask for your patience as these yummy pictures load.

A perenial favourite with scrappers, we think no one ever gets tired of {LOVE, ELSIE}. This week, we’ve brought in the LOLA & RILEY lines… full of colour and spunk, these are sure to get your creative adrenaline pumping!! We were the first to bring it in back in July ‘07 with us after the CHA Summer ‘07 show in Chicago for Scrapaholic For Life members … quantities were limited as they were exclusive to Hobby Lobby stores … but we were able to wrangle some from Hobby Lobby!!! ;) But now, they’re back in all their glory for one and all … and do watch out for our new workshop {A Beautiful Mess 3} which will be launched in Dec ‘07 for all freestyle fans and past attendees of our {A Beautiful Mess} series of workshops. The latest instalment in this series of workshops will see you completing layouts with scrap supplies from the Lola & Riley collections!!! How cool is that???

:: LOLA ::

:: RILEY ::

I guess the pictures speak for themselves. We’ve brought in the ENTIRE range and boy, is it a load of fun stuff! We’ve also got the Lola & Riley albums and restocks of some older Love, Elsie albums as well.

{FANCY PANTS DESIGNS} will also be making its way onto our shelves this week with 2 ALL NEW collections ~ HOLLY JOLLY and CRUSH Each collections comes in scrumptious, coordinated papers, die-cuts, ribbons and rub-ons.

:: HOLLY JOLLY ::

:: Crush ::

We’ve all fallen in love with Fancy Pants’ Clear Stamps and some of you will be delighted to know that they’ve come up with 2 brand new 12×12 clear stamps: FRESH MOD and BLISSFUL SEASON.

We’ve also brought in restocks of the popular POLLEN DUST and BELLA BRUSH clear stamps.

These are brand new releases from Fancy Pants - transparencies. These will definitely add that special touch to your scrapping project.

{AMERICAN CRAFTS}

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas and the season has got off to a kick-start beginning with the Christmas lightup last Saturday night and the array of Christmas supplies coming into the store. This week, we bring you American Crafts’ newest range of gift wrappers, boxes and bows (these are really preeeettttyyy!!!!). Your pretty gifts will definitely bring a smile to those who receive them!!! And we’ve taken the pictures from the American Crafts website to give you some gift-wrapping ideas.

To complement the gorgeous wrappers and gift bags, we’ve also brought in cards, gift-tags and pretty bows.

In addition, we’ve also got wrappers, gift-bags, tags and bows for other gift-giving occasions such as weddings, baby showers, etc…

There’s also the all new STICKER BOOKS with up to 1000 alpha stickers, these are really value-for-money packs!!!

But wait, there’s more!!!! THICKERSSS!!! The brand new BLACK TIE felt Thickers are simply YUMMY!!

And your old favourites…

Just think!!! The entire glass panel of Scrap Lab 1 is once again plaaastered with THICKERS!!!! Just looking at them sets our hearts thumping in excitement!!!

It’s {Maya Road} fever this week at MWL and everyone is sooooo looking forward to meeting Caroline from Maya Road and attending her workshops. Take a look at what we have from Maya Road this week…

New chipboards and chipboard album (isn’t the cat album just adorable???? )

More of our old favourites… that we just have to keep bringing in cos sooooo many of you can’t get enough of them … …

From {HAMBLY STUDIOS} this week, we have the ALL NEW Clearly Heavy Overlays. We have been anxiously waiting for Hambly to release these overlays ever since we first laid eyes on them. Thicker than their usual overlays, you can use these to create beautiful mini albums and other projects.

A mini-album idea from Hambly’s website…

New overlay designs…

A massive shipment from {EK SUCCESS} is in this week. If you’ve been waiting for the tools… Cutterpedes, Honey Bees, Cutterbees, Queen Bees.. they’re all here and there’s lots more too!!!

The very-versatile Cutterfly tool is also in stock together with the Cutter Bee Bugs tools.

Also from EK Success…

Colour wheel…

And alpha stickers and patterned papers as well…

From {MAKING MEMORIES}, we’ve brought in their cutesy, pretty PEBBLE and SHIMMER BRADS.

Last, but definitely not least … we have beautiful embossed papers from {TRUE FAITH} and vellum papers from {OVER THE MOON PRESS}… which we’ve brought in time and again but they always fly off the shelves in the blink o an eye …

WOW!!! We don’t know about you, but our hearts are racing even as we write this entry. WE CAN’T WAIT to get our hands on this weeks’ NEW ARRIVALS!! And we hope they have excited you as well!!

So till our next update…. keep on lovin’ and keep up the scrappin’ !!

Luv,
{am} & {e}