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New Colorbök Signature Collections

Have you been to the scrapbooking section at Walmart lately?

Our new section has set over the last few weeks and now it's ready for a BIG debut! We've packed the section full of beautiful new Designer Papers, trendy new Cardstock colors, exciting formats and great basics.

We can't wait for you to check it out!

In addition, we're introducing SIX new premium Signature Collections to the mix. These will compliment Anthology, Sunset Glow and Confetti, our popular pads returning from last year.

Our Signature Collection paper pads feature premium heavyweight paper with multiple treatments like glitter, foil and spot varnish or premium double-sided papers. These are perfect for pages, cards and many other paper crafts.

The best part?

 At only $10 for 50 sheets, these Signature pads are a total steal!

Check out the variety of great new Signature designs below!

Which one is YOUR favorite?

Answer in the comments below for a chance to win! 

 

Papermoon

Beach House

 

Homespun

Frolic

Hopscotch

Bejeweled

To enter to win your favorite pad, please comment below by May 24th.

Good luck!

Guest Blogger: Erin Bassett

Today we have a special post by Guest Designer, Erin Bassett. We're excited to share her adorable projects featuring our Fiesta collection. How cute is that shadowbox?! It would be the perfect way to say "I love you" this Valentine's day!

 

Hi everyone, I'm guest blogging today and sharing a couple of projects I created with the Cloud 9 "Fiesta" collection.

First up is this 5" x 7" shadow box. 

 

I made the frame out of some coordinating cardstock that I had cut out using my Silhouette. Once I put the frame together I then punched out the die-cut alphabet, sanded the edges, and then added some faux stitches with a pen. I popped up the letters with some foam adhesive to give them some dimension.

Oh, and you see that "v"...it used to be an "x"!  Trimmed down it's the perfect size to float above the tail of the "L".

 

And of course I had to use one of the fabric flowers and the adorable heart button as an embellishment!

Next I created a scrapbook layout about our puppy, Willow. I really like the offset look of the glittered patterned paper I used for the background.

 

I added the one of the die-cut papers, trimming it to fit, and sewed it to the page.

 

I also added some messy stitches to the fabric stickers as well.  

So that's my projects!  I'd love to see what YOU have done with this collection.  Leave a comment below with a link to your projects so we can all check them out!

 

 

Erin is a craft addict who loves to do something creative every day. She shares her love of all things artsy on her blog and in the classes and events she teaches at. Erin is a freelance artist, designing for top manufactures and has had many of her projects published in various magazines and books. She considers it a blessing to be able to call her passion "work". 

NEW Heidi Grace Scrapbooking Sneak Peek!

Here is your first quick look at our two newest Heidi Grace Boutiques for Joann's. Cheery and fresh, Cartwheel evokes the carefree joy of summer with bright, warm colors and playful patterns. Sunshowers is a sweet collection that is reminiscent of childhood memories and the simple pleasures of nature. Look for more peeks of these collections in the coming weeks.

We are partnering with Fiskars for an in-store demo project featuring these collections in April. Check out the instructions for this adorable penant project and be sure to look for our new Heidi Grace Products in Feburary. 

 

 

Post Holiday TPC Studio Scrapbooking Giveaway

If you're anything like us, you probably took dozens hundreds of photos over the holiday season. So, the big question is... what to do now?

The answer, of course, is SCRAP!

To help you perserve all those great photos and amazing Christmas memories, we are giving away three prize packs from our TPC Studio Collections. Just leave a comment below and you're entered to win!

Which of these three beautiful holidays collections is your favorite?

 

 

No international entries, please.

Three winners will be chosen at noon Monday, January 21. Good luck!

Flea Market Giveaway

Calling all FLEA MARKET FANS! Back by popular demand is this sweet and charming vintage design! If you loved our Flea Market Boutique, be sure to pick up our NEW Flea Market Scrap Pack now available at most Wal-Mart Stores. We've taken the best of the boutique and created this great pack with patterned paper and coordinating stickers and punch-outs. The best part is that you can bring this baby home for just FIVE BUCKS! What a steal.

Be sure to check with your local Wal-Mart as this product might not be available in all stores. Wal-Mart Store Finder

 

 

To celebrate, we are sharing some of our coveted Flea Market stash. Just leave a comment below telling us how you'll use the products for your chance to win. This lovely collection includes die-cut paper, glitter paper, fabric stickers, glitter stickers, journal die-cuts, die-cut doilies, vellum quotes, epoxy stickers and more!

 

 

Contest ends July 23rd Midnight EST

No international entries please.

Good luck!

 

CHA Summer Sneak Peek 2

We are so busy here at Colorbök HQ! Preparing for CHA Summer, designing new collections and crafting like crazy leaves little time for the blog! There are so many beautiful new collections and creative projects that we have to share with you and too little time to do it! Up next is a peek at the second collection we are presenting from our Cloud 9 Designs brand. What do you think?

Nightshade is just made for special events! From black tie affairs to childhood tea parties, this charming black and white collection is totally versatle. Dress it up or dress it down, add a pop of color or keep it classy! Basic black goes with everything!

 

CHA Sneak Peek #4 - Daydream and Tweet Memories

Here are two close-ups of some more of the papers from the brand new Heidi Grace collections debuting at CHA this Sunday, January 29. 

Daydream:

Tweet Memories:

Missed our introduction to these new collections?  Click here to see last week's post.

All the albums shown are true 12x12 scrapbooks that we hope you'll want to trust with your memories and display in your home.  The easel back albums are particularly suited for display, contructed to be freestanding and showcase a montage of photographs and keepsakes. 

What do you look for in an album?  Longevity, simplicity, bold themes, windows, price?

All albums shown are available at Jo-Ann Craft and Larger Superstores nationwide.

Welcome to Post #1 of our CHA Sneak Peeks!  We're so excited to share our four new boutiques with you today (and multitudes of additional new products in the coming days!!).  We are sure 2012 is going to be a wonderful year and our hope is to leave you as inspired as we are.  Without further ado here are the beautiful new Colorbök collections Antique Paperie and Victorian Parlour:

Need some inspiration for projects using these new collections?  Check back over the next 10 days as we gear up for CHA as we'll be featuring loads of new project ideas! 

And to energize your crafting resolutions we'd like to present the Heidi Grace Designs collections Daydream and Tweet Memories:

Here's the best news, you don't have long to wait before these hit stores!  Start checking at your local Jo-Ann Craft and Larger Superstore the first week in February to get your hands on the hundreds of items available from these collections. 

Which one are you going to be most eager to see?

Make it a Precious Christmas

Celebrate the Season with some holiday crafting! It can be difficult to find the time to craft this time of year, but we hope that these quick projects will help inspire you.  

How cute are these little trees?! Mix and match various papers to create a unique forest of your own!

Who doesn't love a personalized gift box or bag? Simply cover an existing box, or create a box out of left over corrugate or card stock and cover it with the papers of your choice. 

Visit the open stock paper section at your local Jo-Ann Craft and Larger Superstores to find these and other Precious Moments papers.

2011 Colorbök Holiday Gift Guide: Box Kits

Our Scrapbook Box Kits make great holiday gifts for crafters of all skill levels, from seasoned scrappers to complete novices! Since our box kits contain everything necessary to complete the included 12x12 album, they are even perfect for those who have NEVER scrapbooked before. Give the gift of a box kit to help your friends and family celebrate and cherish memories of the last year. In addition to our regular box kit selection, we are featuring the six limited edition box kits below to relive your summer vacation, preserve treasured wedding photos or capture the everyday moments that made 2011 a year to remember!

These great designs are available for a limited time at your local

Wal-Mart!

Each complete 12x12 box kit is only $16!

 

Which design will you ask Santa for?

 

Isn't that Precious...

Celebrate the joy of life with these classic Precious Moments designs. Created specifically for baby, these patterns will be perfect to accent birth announcements, shower invitations, scrap book or journaling pages, and much more!

These and additional Precious Moments papers are available in the open stock paper section at JoAnn Stores. See our pages below and get inspired!

Focus On: Wedding Page Kit

Wedding season is wrapping up here in the northern states and the proofs are coming in from the photographers.  The Wedding Page Kit in our current Walmart set is an elegant, modern wedding collection featuring grayscale motifs with scattered butterfly shadows, refined botanicals and accents to compliment the settings from that special day.  Particularly suited to black and white photographs, the designs seemed perfect for a mini book I've been hoping to create for a close friend Elaina who got married in August:

Beautiful right?  I wanted Elaina to be able to put her own favorite photographs into the layouts so I made each spread customizable, leaving space for photos and extra journaling.

Heidi Grace Template Packs!

 

 

 

Intrigued?

The Template Project Pack is yet another new Heidi Grace product that just set in JoAnn Fabric and Craft Larger Superstores.  There are FIVE different packs that include boxes, garlands, albums, celebration and seasonal.   They might seem daunting on screen but each template includes detailed, step-by-step instructions for assembly.

Pair these templates with the Specialty Project Pads from the same section and you can make some of these amazing projects shown on our website.  (Click here to check them out.)  And that's only the beginning - there are 61 templates total, all meticulously (and painstakingly) developed, constructed and refined by Heidi and the team here!  

 

cute picnic project

it is picnic weather!

check out this simple but darling invite that i made with the daisy dear line.

then here is a coordinating lunch sack for the activity...(i used the flowers and leaves pad that has a ton of flowers, petals, and leaves that are perfect for layering)

then here is the cool thing...you can do a scrapbook page that recycles the invite.  check out the top part and you will notice that it the top of the card.  i just cut it off and used it as an embellishment.

Prepare to be Blown Away!

We have an AMAZING opportunity for all of our California customers! Join us the first weekend in June for a special inventory blowout sale. This is your chance to get spectacular deals on all of our great craft products. Scrapbooks, paper, kid's crafts and SO MUCH more will be available for up 80% off. This is a sale you will not want to miss. See you there!

 HUGE selection of Scrapbook Supplies!

Albums, Paper Pads, Box Kits and more!

HUNDREDS of Kid's Crafts!

Activity & Coloring Books, Painting & Sewing Crafts, Suncatchers and more!

Up to 80% off all items!

Absolutely nothing over $5.00

CASH - CHECKS - VISA - MC accepted | Dock Loading available! 

WHEN:           Saturday, June 4th  6:00AM to 3:00PM

                                Sunday, June 5th  7:00AM to 3:00PM

WHERE:      Colorbök, Inc.

                                10750 7th Street #102

                                Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730

                                (800) 366-4660

                                (909) 476-6886 x101

Magazine Mentions: Creating Keepsakes May/June 2011

 
We are so excited that this page by Colorbök designer Maria Filar is featured in the May/June issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine!  Maria created this layout using strips of Colorbök fabric available at JoAnn Fabric and Craft Larger Superstores. These fabrics are from the Sweet Blooms collection (designed by Renee) and our Heidi Grace Taking Flight collection.

To use this technique on your own pages, accordion-fold a strip of fabric, using a sewing machine or hot glue to secure the folds. Don't worry about making it perfect - a little unevenness adds to the charm!  To get a more distressed look, try slightly unraveling the edges of your fabric strip before folding.  Use colored staples to attach the strips to your page. Maria used a double layer of fabric as her main embellishment, and a smaller single strip of fabric as an accent.

Spring is in the Air!

Spring is here! It may not feel like it outside, (at least not here in Michigan anyways), but it is that time of year. We are very excited about a new Promotional Program setting this week in Wal-Mart stores across the country. A whole spring program dedicated to paper crafting!

We have SUPER SIZED box kits, and adorable acrylic paint cans filled to the brim with chipboard books, stamps, cards, glitter chipboard and more!

We used the Bright Box Kit to make these scrapbook pages. But, with over 3,000 pieces in each kit (YUP, not a typo....3,000 pieces!)...you can make a variety of projects and probably still have pieces left!

 The acrylic paint cans come in 4 styles : Chipboard Mini Books Kit (includes 3 spring shaped chipboard books and all the paper & embellies), Stamp Kit (includes mini cards & envelopes, 2 full sheets of clear stamps and glitter!), Glitter Chipboard (6 colors of full glitter alphas & shapes) , Card Kit (cards, envelopes, and all the embellies)

Dare to think outside the box (or pail)...you can create a wide variety of springtime projects with these pails. We made a Welcome to Spring Garland and some Festive Magnets using the Mini Book Kit Pail. We even wrapped a gift using the empty pail and decorated it with stamps and goods from the Stamp Kit Pail!

 


 We can't wait to see what creative projects you come up with, so if you make 'em, share 'em! Go to our facebook page and post your shots to our Fan Gallery. We would love to see what you create!

more projects!!!

i have been busy creating more projects for the show with all the new product...take a look!

Christmas is coming..and everything's a dollar!

Okay, I know many of you are groaning as you read this post and thinking "Christmas already?!" but a brand-new batch of holiday value items is hitting the shelves next week and we didn't want you to miss out on the festivities. I happen to be one of those maniacal people who usually start getting in the holiday spirit before Halloween is even here, so when our samples arrived, I immediately queued up the Elf soundtrack and transformed the patterned paper packs into this festive window display. 

  

You can find the tutorial I used here. These pinwheels are great for so many things - look how cute they are as gift toppers! I think they would also be adorable as handmade ornaments and decorations on wreaths and gift bags. 

These are the patterned paper packs I used for my window display, along with coordinating red and green glitter paper packs, all of which will be available at JoAnn's Craft and Larger Superstores and A.C. Moore.

In addition to the papers above, A.C. Moore will have a whole line of coordinating accents and embellishments, all for just $1.

These last 4 items (JOY and Holly layered embellishments, gem snowflake, and foil chipboard alphas) will be available at Target as well as A.C. Moore.

Confused? Here we go, one more time just in case:

A.C. Moore has ALL of the holiday items pictured in this post.

JoAnn's Craft and Larger Superstores has the glitter and patterned paper packs.

Target has the JOY and Holly layered embellishments, gem snowflake, and foil chipboard alphas.

I know its early, but I can't think of a better way to get in the holiday spirit than sitting down with a new craft project and a mug of hot cocoa before all the hustle and bustle begins. What is your favorite way to kick off the holiday season? Leave us a comment below, we love to hear from you!