Joann's Online Shopping

I went a bit crazy on paper shopping before going on my Vancouver-Seattle-Portland vacation. I bought them from Joann.com and the package was delivered to my house the day before we left for Canada. I was so busy packing that I wasn't able to open my package to look through my paper stacks!

Now that I am back, I finally got a chance to open my package and look through my paper stacks. I bought four DCWV stacks and two Core'dinations stacks. I liked the quality DCWV. I have alot of cardstock stacks from them. As for the Core'dinations stacks, this is my first time purchasing this brand. I had seen them at my local scrapbook stores, but never gotten a chance to buy them. Since they were on sale online, I decided to buy them to try them out. The cool thing about the Core'dinations stacks is that we can do so much to the paper. I can sand it, tear it, emboss it to bring out the inner color (Chocolate box stack). I am looking forward to use these papers soon.

I bought the Cafe Mediterranean Premium Stack and Cardstock Stack. I love the color of the papers! The cardstock stack has some different shades of green, yellow and blue. There are some metallic and glitter cardstocks in that stack as well! The premium stack has gloss finishing on some of the pattern cardstocks. The 2 stacks totally complimented each other well! I already started using them for my scrapbook project!

The Royal Garden stack has some very bold color, colors that I don't normally use for my scrapbook pages. Some of the papers came with foil as decoration. It is a pretty stack. This stack has a glossy finish, unlike the other stacks I normally buy. I am sure I will make use of this stack some day.

As for the Tradewinds Stack, it also has gold foil as decoration for some of the cardstocks. I feel this stack is perfect for the travel pages that I am working on. It has some printed maps on the cardstocks too!

Bargain Shopping

Over the weekend, Tommy and I had one of those "nothing to do" weekend. I decided to do some shopping. We stopped by to Big Lots. My eyes twinkled when I saw the scrapbook section. I decided pick up the photo mat stack (Mango Frost) from DCWV. It has many pretty, happy colors.

I picked up some rain dots from Cloud 9. I haven't figure out what to do with them yet. They are small and compact enough to put it in my drawer.

At Big Lots, I also picked up some brads. They were in gems and pearls. I love to add blings and pearls as accents to my layouts or to my flowers.

After Big Lots, Tommy finally took me to the scrapbook store to do some shopping there. I had been wanting to go, but he always found ways to skip it. I picked up a bottle of Glimmer Mist. It has a pretty bold pink color. I also bought the Glimmer Glaze. I never used the glaze before, but I saw the cardboard samples that they had out, I wanted a bottle to give it a try. I will dedicate a weekend to learn how to use the glaze. I will also learn the different techniques on how to use the mists.

Lastly, I signed up for the So Cal Shop Hop. This is my first shop hop event, I am looking forward to see what new stuff I get to buy from different scrapbook stores. With that said, I will start saving money from now to the start of the event so I don't have to feel guilty paying my credit bills later.

Shopping Day!

I received a $50 East West Bank Visa gift card from my company during Thanksgiving last year. I thought long and hard, trying to decide how I wanted to spend the gift card. I finally decided to spend it on scrapbook materials at Joann.

I picked up 2 stacks of DCWV paperstack - the Black Currant Stack and the Rustic Stack. I saw the Black Currant Stack while doing online shopping awhile ago and wanted to buy it. I love the pink and the black color! I decided to hold it off because I had too many papers sitting around at home (actually, I still have a lot of papers, and seem to have a lifetime supply of it, but it doesn't hurt to buy more)!

I also purchased 2 packs of page protectors. I am currently working on my cruise vacation travel album. I plan to split my vacation album into two albums - one for the 11-nights cruise, and one for the post cruise. With the initial page protectors provided with the albums, I know I will need more. I decided to pick them up today, so I don't have to worry about running to the store to buy more refills when I start putting my layouts in the album. Right now, all the pages that I put together are sitting in a pocket protector.

I decided to buy a Fiskars border punch. I have a set of 7 gypsies border punches kit at home. I love the border punches! It is easy to use and it gives a instant lift to the layout. The border punch kit is wonderful, but sometimes, I like to punch pattern more than just a line of squares or circles and want other designs.

On this shopping trip, I also picked up some new ribbons (I never have enough of them!), a pen for journaling, and a stack of white cards and envelopes. Besides scrapbooking, I have also been making cards. I usually make birthday cards for my co-workers. The cards are not the best, but I hope to do better as I create more in the future.

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend! :)