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Scrap Fever October 2010

Willow Tree Crafts — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:16:52 +0000

October 22nd-24th 2010

Our next Scrap Fever Weekend Retreat will be October 22nd-24th 2010.

We’re really excited to have the fantastic Anna Bowkiss from PencilLines and Kelly Goree from Basic Grey joining us to teach some inspiring classes.

As always, it’s going to be a fabulous weekend full of ideas, techniques, inspiration, and shopping!

We’re back at our fabulous venue, Latimer Place, just minutes from the M25 but a luxurious venue set in 30 acres of fantastic grounds, just perfect for a relaxing break from it all.

Basic Grey Page of the Month

Willow Tree Crafts — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:23:15 +0000

We are excited to announce the launch of our Basic Grey Page of the Month Club!

Join us as we complete 12 layouts designed by Basic Grey. Each month your kit will provide the latest Basic Grey supplies, instructions on how to complete the sample layout, a new technique, and access to the online club chat.

March Layout Preview…

Free Designer Album

Once you have completed all your layouts, display them in a FREE Basic Grey Designer D-Ring Album. These albums are exclusively available to Page of the Month subscribers and will be shipped out with your last kit.

April Layout Preview

Join the Club Today

Spaces in the club are strictly limited, so join today… Join the club

Scrap Fever 5 – Invite your friends!

Willow Tree Crafts — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:03:22 +0000

Invite your friends and get a £10.00 gift voucher for you both when they book a spot at Scrap Fever!

When your friend books, ask them to enter your name in the Invited By field, and we’ll send you both a £10.00 gift voucher for use on our online store.

Offer valid on new bookings placed before February 27th 2010. Inviter must be registered to attend Scrap Fever as well.

Click here to invite your friends

Scrap Fever 5 – Meet Kelly Purkey

Willow Tree Crafts — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:44:54 +0000

Kelly Purkey is a fantastic graphic designer and scrapbooker living in New York. Kelly has been an American Crafts product designer, a 2Peas in a Bucket Garden Girl, and a member of the American Crafts and Fiskars design teams, along with being on the Creating Keepsakes 2008-09 Dream Team and a CKConvention instructor. Kelly will be teaching some fantastic classes at our Scrap Fever weekend in April.

I remember the day I discovered my Grandmother’s scrapbooks and was so delighted to have this glimpse into her life. It all became clear exactly why I take so many photos, save each piece of paper, and try to record every aspect of my life as a young single girl. I am lucky to currently live in New York City, where there is inspiration around every corner. Besides scrapbooking I love traveling, curling up with a good book, laughing with friends, and cupcakes with lots of icing.

Here’s a sample of Kelly’s Work:

More About Kelly:

	Twitter	http://twitter.com/kellypurkey
	Blog	http://kellypurkey.typepad.com/
	2Peas Garden Girl	http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/cg_vend_seeds.asp?x=1&vendor_id=303&pg=1

Christmas Gift Ideas

Willow Tree Crafts — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:40:35 +0000

What’s on your Christmas List this year?

Scrap Fever

A Place at Scrap Fever is the perfect gift. It doesn’t need dusting (always a bonus for me!) and gives you a weekend away from it all scrapping away and being inspired and taught by some of the best. Our April weekend is going to be another fantastic Scrapbook Retreat, add it to your list today!

Book a spot online…

Scrapbook Planners

Our Scrapbook Planners have been designed for the British Scrapbooker. Using A5 pages, they are easy to customise to make your perfect planner. The Filofax compatible rings hold an assortment of pages, and you can easily replace them with any pages y ou like. We include a full pack with each one, plenty to keep you going throughout the year. There’s a fantastic range of colours to choose from, but order your favourite now before it sells out!

Join a Club

For a gift that inspires for the whole year, a subscription to one of our clubs is perfect. Receive a fantastic kit direct to your door each month. Choose from any of our clubs, our most popular are the Stash Sundae and Quartet Club, with options to customise them to your favourite supplies.

Wishlist

You can add any of our products to your wishlist at any time, just click the Add to Wishlist button on the products you like. Print it off and it makes the perfect shopping list for your other half! No excuses for getting it wrong!

Changes…

Willow Tree Crafts — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:35:56 +0000

As most of you will have seen, I am expecting our second baby in the New Year. With the upcoming change, we have had to look at Willow Tree Crafts, and make some decisions. With regret, we will be closing the Watford shop, and focusing on our Online Shop, and our Clubs and Events. For the time being, the Watford shop will only be open on the first Saturday of the month, except January when we will not be able to open at all.

It sounds cliche to say it’s about spending time with family, but for me that’s what scrapbooking is all about, celebrating your family, and the people you enjoy having in your life. I’m hoping to be able to get back to having a family life, and being able to enjoy scrapbooking again.

Keep an eye on the website as we’ll be sorting everything out, and be clearing out a lot of fab stash. There will be some great offers coming up so bookmark us and keep checking the site!

With more free time, I can also concentrate on our monthly subscription clubs, and our Scrap Fever events, making them better than ever. We hope to see you there soon.

Scrap Fever 5

Willow Tree Crafts — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:56:37 +0000

Our Instructors are:

Dyan Reavely

Hi I’m Dyan,

I am the owner of Art from the Heart, a large teaching and design studio in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, where I can be found teaching a large variety of eclectic classes. I am the Senior Educator in Europe for Ranger Industries and I am well known for my innovative and down to earth style, and I am a regular contributor to the British crafting magazines. I have always been obsessed with paint and techniques and I am currently on a mission to get the world Art Journaling and strongly believe it should be available on the NHS..!! lol.

Along with my daughter Jay, we founded Blonde Moments, which is a British company with fabby hand painted papers large and small, funky rubber stamps, stunning pearl pigments and gorgeous ultra thick embossing powders.

I am also mum to four grown up kids, Ben, Tom, Jay and Emmi and proud grandma to the gorgeous Maisie Lilly. My favourite things of all time are: Toffees, Paint, Art journaling, Firemen, the colour Black and Northern Soul – Keep the Faith!

Dyans Blog

You can follow my extremeley hyperactive activities and inane witterings on my blog
www.dyan-reaveley.blogspot.com and it will give you some idea of whats in store.

Kelly Purkey

I remember the day I discovered my Grandmother’s scrapbooks and was so delighted to have this glimpse into her life. It all became clear exactly why I take so many photos, save each piece of paper, and try to record every aspect of my life as a young single girl. I am lucky to currently live in New York City, where there is inspiration around every corner. Besides scrapbooking I love traveling, curling up with a good book, laughing with friends, and cupcakes with lots of icing. I’m honored to be designing for American Crafts and Fiskars, as well as being part of the 2008-2009 Creating Keepsakes Dream Team and a Garden Girl at 2ps.

Kellys Blog

Visit her blog at http://kellypurkey.typepad.com/

Book your spot online

Phew!

Willow Tree Crafts — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:51:10 +0000

What a weekend! It’s always a bit crazy for us at Scrap Fever, but I think this weekend was one of our busiest! There were great classes by Layle and Mary Anne, and I think everyone loved their final projects, We’ve never seen scrapbookers work so hard on completing their classes at the retreat!

If you want to join us in April for another fantastic weekend scrapbook retreat, grab your place now! Register Online for Scrap Fever 5!

1 Week to Go!

Willow Tree Crafts — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:03:08 +0000

In less than a week we’ll all be at Scrap Fever, probably unpacking the shop and geting it all ready to open, the crop room will be getting ready too, although attendees can check in from 2pm so you could well have already settled in, and even been to the pool and jacuzzi for a while!

I’m sure we’ll all be ready for a fantastic meal and a drink in the bar later…then great classes from Layle and Mary Anne all weekend.

Join us at Scrap Fever…

Goodies…

Willow Tree Crafts — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:14:55 +0000

Scrap Fever Kits

I love it when we get boxes of fab stash! Today we have had the class kits for Scrap Fever from Basic Greys wonderful Layle Koncar… loads of fantastic inspiration!

If you want to join us in these great classes, book your spot at Scrap Fever now! There’s still a few places available at the moment.

Book your spot online