Pleeeenty of intoxicating supplies have arrived this week! A perfect time for you to use up all your CROPTOBER FEST Card Perks!!! Only 3 more days left to go before the end of our Croptober Fest celebrations everyone!!!

What a blast it has been this month!!! Do keep a look-out for all our updates on this month’s activities and if you’ve signed up for tonight’s workshops with Shane Hershey from Wilton-EK Success, who’s flown in all the way from New Jersey, U.S.A. to teach us an exclusive line-up of classes. We reeeally look forward to having some cropping fun with you tonight!

And for even more cropping fun, we can’t wait for this Saturday’s Cropathon to happen!!! My oh my, what a crazy month it has been!!! Plenty of cropping fun huh! After all, what’s Croptober Fest at Made With Love without pleeeenty of cropping!

In the meantime, feast your eyes on this week’s new arrivals cos shopping fun is just as important too when you celebrate Croptober Fest with us!!!

{ MY MIND’S EYE } 

NEW!!! - LOVE ME DO PATTERNED PAPERS

LOVE ME DO 12 ‘x 12′ PAPER KIT

BE LOVED - PATTERNED PAPERS

BE LOVED 12′ x 12′ PAPER KIT

ALL NEW!!! - LIFE STORIES PATTERNED PAPERS

ALL NEW!!! LIFE STORIES JOURNAL CARDS

ALL NEW!!! - LIFE STORIES PAPER KITS

{ BO BUNNY }

ALL NEW!!! - LOVE BANDIT PATTERNED PAPERS

ALL NEW - LOVE BANDIT CO-ORDINATING EMBELLISHMENTS

ALL NEW - LOVE BANDIT SCRAPBOOK KIT

ALL NEW!!! PERSUASION PATTERNED PAPERS

ALL NEW!!! PERSUASION CO-ORDINATING EMBELLISHMENTS

ALL NEW!!! PERSUASION SCRAPBOOK KIT

ALL NEW!!! SNOWY SERENADE PATTERNED PAPERS

ALL NEW!!! SNOWY SERENADE CO-ORDINATING EMBELLISHMENTS

ALL NEW!!! SNOWY SERENADE SCRAPBOOK KIT

{ GCD STUDIOS }

ALL NEW!!! MELODY ROSS CO-ORDINATING EMBELLISHMENTS

ALL NEW!!!MELODY ROSS 12′ X 12′ PAPER PACK

ALL NEW!!! 12 ‘ x 12′ QUICK PAGE KIT

ALL NEW!!! MELODY ROSS MINI CHIPBOARD ALBUM KIT

ALL NEW!!! 8′ X 8′ PAPER PACK & 4.75′ x 6.75′ MAT PAD

 { PRIMA }

ALL NEW!!! BLOOMING RETRO PATTERNED PAPERS

ALL NEW!!! MINI ROSE FLOWER EMBELLISHMENTS

ALL NEW!!! SULTAN GEMS

ALL NEW!!! RAJA SEQUINS

ALL NEW!!! JEWEL BOX BUTTERFLIES & RAJA SEQUINS

{ QUEEN & CO }

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - METALS EMBELLISHMENTS

PEARLS EMBELLISHMENTS

RIBBONS ASSORTMENTS

FELT EMBELLISHMENTS

CHIPBOARDS EMBELLISHMENTS

ALL NEW!!! FOAM ALPHAS

{ THE PAPER COMPANY }

ALL NEW!!! DECK THE HALLS PATTERNED PAPERS & CO-ORDINATING EMBELLISHMENTS

ALL NEW!!! WINTER BLUES PATTERNED PAPERS & CO-ORDINATING EMBELLISHMENTS

{ FISKARS }

ALL NEW!!! RETRACTABLE KNIFE WITH FINGERTIP CONTROL

ALL NEW!!! LARGE SQUEEZE PUNCHES - JINGLE BULB, CARDINAL SONG & BISTRO BREW

ALL NEW!!! 12′X12′ SHAPE TEMPLATE - FLOURISH & WOODLAND TREE

ALL NEW!!! SHAPE TEMPLATE - BRACKET & JOURNAL & CUPCAKE

{ TSUKINEKO }

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - STAZONS

BRILLIANCE SMALL & LARGE INK PADS

VERSAFINE SMALL & LARGE INK PADS

VERSAMAGIC CHALK INKS

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - VERSACOLOR

VERSACRAFT

ENCORE - ULTIMATE METALLIC

MEMENTO DYE  INKS

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND -FABRICO PENS

ALL NEW!!! INK BLENDING SOLUTION

ALL TIME FAVOURITE - CLEANERS

{ AMERICAN CRAFTS }

TRAVEL 12′ x 12′ PAGE KIT

BACKYARD 12′ X 12′ PAGE KIT

BABY 12′ x 12′ PAGE KIT

EVERYDAY 12′ x 12′ PAGE KIT

{ SOMERSET STUDIOS }

ALL NEW !!!

Thanks for waiting so patiently! Here are the sneaks of samples so you’ll know what you can look forward to creating this Saturday at our long-awaited event of the month -  CROPTOBER FEST CROPATHON!!!

We regret that we couldn’t display them at the store in the end cos they’re all mini albums hand-made from scratch and we were afraid that they’d be mangled even before the first week of the month is over! Good for you if you got to see them when they were first at the store. Anyhow, we we took them home with us but one thing led to another and we apologise for not posting the pictures up sooner.

Whatever it is, here are the sneaks!! And we are sooooo excited to be able to do this for all of us! We are reeeeally looking forward to having a scrapping good time with everyone this coming Saturday!

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{Crop with Sandra: 1pm-2pm}

 FLIP FLAP ACCORDION MINI ALBUM

 Things to bring:

• 4 pcs of co-ordinating patterned papers (cardstock quality)
• 4 pcs of co-ordinating cardstock
• 1 yard ribbon
• 2 mini brads
• 9 x 2R photos (optional)

What’s provided at the cropathon:
1 pack of American Crafts Thickers worth $8.50

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{Crop with Swee Ching: 215pm - 315pm}

STAR SHAPED MINI ALBUM

Things to bring:

• 5 pcs of co-ordinating patterned papers (cardstock quality)
• 3 pcs of matching cardstocks (colour I)
• 3 pcs of matching cardstocks (colour II)
• 1 pc of Kraft / Beige cardstock
• 1 pc of matching ribbon (min. 6inches)
• 2 pcs of brads (matching w ribbon)
• Distress Ink pad (matching w colour scheme)
• Photos (5-10 pcs; optional to crop to silhouette)
• any other matching embellishments (e.g. stickers / rub-ons)

What’s provided at the cropathon:
1 pack of American Crafts Thickers worth $8.50

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{Crop with Elvira: 330pm-430pm}

POP-UP MINI ALBUM

Create a simple-to-do but extremely fun-to-make eye-popping pop-up mini album! This novel project gives you plenty of opportunity to use up a variety of patterned papers and embellishments and let’s you try your hand at crafting your own embellishments too! It is also a perfect platform for you to use a mixture of photographs you don’t consider “well-taken’ enough to use on a large layout. How’s that for getting plenty accomplished in a single mini-album project?!?

Things to bring:-

• 3 patterned papers (cardstock quality) for base of mini album*
• 3 patterned papers (cardstock quality) for “walls” of mini album*
• 1 patterned paper (not of cardstock quality) for covers of mini album
• 4 pcs of 5” border strips (in paper or hambly overlay form) for top of “walls’ of mini album**
• as many coordinating embellishments you wish to bring
• plenty of 3D foam dots or pop-up dots
• plenty of tape glue
• precision tip scissors
• 6-10 photos (all able to be cropped into silhouette form)

Tips for when prepping supplies to bring to workshop:-

How to select patterned paper to bring:
* When selecting your patterned papers, make sure that they are color- coordinated and that the prints on the patterned papers are a mixture of heavy weight and light-weight prints. Small repeat patterned prints work well for this mini album concept too. For print design on patterned paper, remember that the less fussy the better so that your embellishments can really stand out.

Prepping border strips:
** If you do not have ready made border strips you can always make your own with the help of cardstock./patterned paper and border paper punches as well. You could also hand-cut your own border strips too.

What’s provided at the cropathon:-
- 1 pack of American Crafts Thickers worth up to $8.50
- border punches to be on loan

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{Crop with Jasmine: 445pm-545pm}

HAPPY THINGS MINI ALBUM

- To create and build a mini album from scratch using co-coordinating supplies.
- To learn how to work with co-coordinating supplies for that uniform look.
- To learn how to build a mini album cover from your own stash of supplies

Things to bring:-

• 12x 9” by 4” patterned papers (can be repeated if not enough papers from same collection… or can use front and back of patterned paper [assuming double sided patterned paper] as 2 designs)
• 1x diecut shaped patterned paper in the same collection. (Something that can be used to cover 9” by 4” inner pages OR 1x cardstock that will match with collection)
• Coordinating embellishments – stickers, journaling spots, extra patterned papers (the scraps after you cut the 12 pieces above), 1x cardstock in coordinating colour (extra 1 more piece if you are replacing die-cut shaped patterned paper), chipboard embellishments etc.
• Photos of things or people that make you happy. (a mix of 2” x 3” and 2” x 1.5”)
• Black , white pens
• Foam dots and tape glue
• Sanding Block
• 1x office jump ring to bind the album
• 1x Ball Chain (optional – you can take them from existing Maya Road chipboard albums/keychains)

What’s provided at the cropathon:-

• 1x American Craft Remark Alpha stickers in a coordinating colour worth $4.95
• Crate Paper Die Cut paper
• Prima Bloom
• Chipboard pieces (6x 9” by 4”)

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{Crop with Kelly: 6pm-7pm}

 POCKET MINI ALBUM

Things to bring:-

• Patterned Paper cut to 3.5″ x 5.5″ (x4 pieces)
• Cardstock cut to 3″x5″ (x4 pieces)
• Scallop Die-Cut Patterned Paper or Cardstock (x1/4 sheet)
• Ribbons (x2 yards)
• Any other embellishments to add on (*preferable flat, eg, stickers, rub-ons)

What’s provided at the cropathon:-

• 7Gs Naked Pocket (x2)
• A packet of Bazzill Blings worth $5.95
• Making Memories Acetate Pocket (x1)

Note:-
Photo size: 2.5″ x 3″ (x4 - either landscape or portrait)

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We’re reeeeeally looking forward to seeing you this Saturday so that we can all crop till we drop cos what’s a CROPTOBER FEST celebration at Made With Love without lotsa lotsa cropping thrown in!

Gentle reminder though, as each session is fully-booked, please inform us immediately if you are unable to attend any of the sessions you have registered for, so that others on the waiting list may be notified of any last minute openings. Your cooperation in this matter will be most appreciated!

Once in a while, along comes a brand that almost every scrapper loves ……. so …… how about a group hug for Cosmo Cricket fans ?

………..{{{*BIG HUG !!!*}}}…………..

The Nutmeg Collection hit the shelves last Thursday and it really is as cute as you see it on the brand’s site. The Design Team have put together layouts and you are sure to love how they worked magic in three different styles.

Irene-Gwen  ………

Pooi Pooi ………..

 Piradee ,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Aren’t the layouts amazing ?

Remember - you can upload your Cosmo Cricket layouts in the Gallery to share with Made With Love’s scrapping community. New ideas and inspiration are always welcome, you know we love to see and hear from you, even if you are a newbie. Sharing your work makes scrapping so much more fun.

I’ll see you soon and here’s wishing you a happy scrappy, safe week ahead !

*Aida*

Hello again scrappers !

We all LOVE, LOVE, LOVE mini books as they are projects that inspire and when decorated with the interesting details, the surprising pages would often make us go *WOW !!* . Pooi Pooi chose Feli (Felicia)  to be featured on today’s blog and added this comment :

Felicia is a regular scrapper who experiments with a lot of different styles. She likes to create different and unique projects. This calendar set was made from scratch out of corrugated cardboard and her scraps. What a genius way to use up our scraps and bind it together with Zutter as a desktop calendar. Thanks Felicia for sharing with us !

What a striking project Felicia, congratulations !!

Irene-Gwen’s Fabric Mixed challenge has a few more days to run, so come play with the Design Team and add your page in the Gallery. Try it, have fun scrapping with fabric and use your creativity to create a unique layout.

I’ll be back tomorrow, see you then !!

*Aida*

We hope this week’s dizzying shipment gives you more reason to be tipsy on our supplies.

{COSMO CRICKET}

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - NUTMEG COLLECTIONS PATTERNED PAPERS

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - NUTMEG COLLECTIONS 12″X12″ CRAFTING KIT

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - NUTMEG COLLECTIONS COORDINATING EMBELLISHMENT& 6″X6″ PAPER PAD

{LAURA ASHLEY}

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - 6″X6″ & 8″X8″ DESIGNER ‘VELVET’ PAPER PACK

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - 12″x12″ & 2″x12″  DESIGNER ‘VELVET’ PAPER PACK

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - COORDINATING EMBELLISHMETS

{TPC STUDIOS}

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - WINTER BLUES COLLECTIONS PATTERNED PAPERS

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - DECK THE HALLS COLLECTIONS PATTERNED PAPERS

{KOKUYO}

ALL NEW!!! - DOTLINER STAMP & DOTLINER TAPEGLUE REFILLS

{SMIRK STUDIO G}

ALL NEW!!! - WOODEN STAMPS

{K&COMPANY}

ALL NEW!!! SUMMER RELEASE - CAROLYN GAVIN COLLECTIONS

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - SIMPLY K 12″X12″ ALBUM & PRE-DESIGNED PAGES

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE -  12″X12″ ALBUM

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND -  8″X8″ PHOTO SCRAP ALBUM

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - FRAME A NAME 12″X12″ ALBUM

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - FRAME A NAME 12″X12″ SCRAPBOOK KIT

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - CALENDAR KIT, COASTER KIT & ADDRESS BOOK KIT

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE -  DESIGNER PAPER PAD, SCRAP PAD, SCRAP KIT & MAT PAD

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE -  DIE-CUT PAPER PAD, PAPER FLOWERS & DIE-CUT MAT PAD

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE -  12″X12″ POSTBOUND SCRAPBOOK

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - DOOR HANGER KIT, DIMENSIONAL FRAMES & EMBELLISHMENTS

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - DIE-CUT CARDSTOCK & MINI ACCENTS

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - CHIPBOARD STICKERS

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - EMBOSSED STICKERS & GLITTER STICKERS

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - GRAND ADHESIONS (3D STICKERS)

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - LAYERED ACCENTS

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND -  ADHESIVES GEMS

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - WEDDING COLLECTIONS

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE -  TIM COFFEY COLLECTIONS PATTERNED PAPER

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - ACTOPUS - ZELEPHANT COLLECTIONS

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - ANCESTRY COLLECTIONS

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - QUE SERA SERA COLLECTIONS

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - LIFE’S A JOURNEY

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - K-OLOGY COLLECTIONS, ECO-MODERN COLLECTIONS & LIGHT IDEAS COLLECTIONS

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - URBAN RHAPSODY COLLECTIONS

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE -  BRENDA WALTON COLLECTION PEPPERMINT TWIST PATTERNED PAPERS

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE -  BRENDA WALTON COLLECTIONS SWEET TALK PATTERNED PAPERS

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - BRENDA WALTON COLLECTIONS

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE -  BW MADELINE COLLECTIONS PATTERNED PAPERS

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - AMY BUTLER COLLECTIONS

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - CHRISTMAS CHEER COLLECTIONS

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - WILD RASPBERRY COLLECTIONS

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - GIRL SCOUT COLLECTIONS

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - BERRY SWEET COLLECTIONS

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - CITRONELLA COLLECTIONS

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - SMITTEN & SPARKLY SWEET COLLECTIONS

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - WILD SAFFRON COLLECTIONS

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - CLASSIC K COLLECTIONS

ALL NEW!!! CHA SUMMER RELEASE - HAPPY TRAILS COLLECTIONS

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND - DONNA INGEMANSION COLLECTIONS

{CREATING KEEPSAKES}

ALL NEW!!! - NOVEMBER 2009 ISSUE