Welcome our New Vendors for Fall 2011

I have got to say, this Fall show has been a really fun show to put together!! We get to work with the best companies and the most amazing people behind those companies!! It is a fantastic opportunity to be working with the talented and creative people that make the BEST crafting and scrapping products on the merket! Not to mention we get to shop all these great companies all under one roof!

To make things even more exciting, along with our favorite vendors that we look forward to seeing each show, we have the BEST LINE-UP EVER of new vendors coming to our show for the first time!! Please leave a comment and help me welcome these amazing companies to our show!! (Plus I need to do a giveaway)

Crop Chocolate

Online one-deal-at-a-time Scrapbook Site. Their booth will have products from

Echo Park, Making Memories (Slice), Tim Holtz, Ranger, Bo Bunny and More!

Deals From Wisconsin, LLC

Known as "The Craft Deal" online, you will find the lowest price on Fiskars items at their booth.

Framed Legacy

Have your priceless heirloom photographs scanned and with today's technology and professional graphic design, Framed Legacy will turn it into a beautiful art piece, framed in burnished, hand rubbed, solid hardwood.

Lemon Grove Goods

Specializing in "How To" instruction classes and "Home Paper Parties". They provide instruction and create products that foster new ideas and techniques.

Moxxie

Manufacturer of high quality scrapbooking papers, stickers and rub-ons. Moxxie focuses on innovative designs to meet all your scrapbooking needs.

RicRacRollers

Home of the "Big Daddy Ribbon Caddy"! There is nothing like this. This caddy holds over 275 spools of ribbon on 10 spring loaded rods. Products from RicRacRollers will change your life!

Perfect Paper Crafting

Perfect layer rulers take no measuring. The rulers are designed with a patented "catch lip" that simply bumps up along the pciture and the ruler hooks onto the edge of the image giving precise measurements that you want. A must when creating borders, frames or layering.

Purple Cow Inc

Purple Cows brings innovative tools to adventurous crafters. Trimmers, laminators and CraftGeek creative tools.

Red Letter Days

Scrapbook style DIY party invitations in a variety of themes for birthdays and holidays. All invitations have an interactive concept for kids to play with, a photo thank you card, and lessons on good manners.

Scrap Orchard

High quality digital scrapbookng products, friendly community, fun challenges and events. There's something for everyone!

Shiny Nickels

Beautifully printed memories at a price you'll love.

Scrapbook printing. Done right. Done fast. Done "Wow"

Stampin' Up! Independent Demonstrators Sheryl & Kristy

Visit Sheryl & Kristy in the Digi Lounge and see why their love of digital crafting is becoming so contagious! My Digital Studio from Stampin' Up! was designed to accommodate users with all levels of ability and experience!

Scrapbook Steals

At ScrapbookSteals.com you'll find 2 hot scrapbooking products every day at up to 80% off. Scrapbook Steals is the place where crafters of all levels get hooked up with the latest scrapbook steal at an unbelievable price.

Stinkin Cute Paper Piecing

Paper piecing patterns in many cut files for electronic cutters and "pring and cuts. For the expo, their fun and cute designs will be ready to go as page kits.

Tale Spring

Online multimedia scrapbooking. Create online, share online, or download to enjoy on your home computer or on your iPad or iPhone.

The Rubber Cafe

Serving quality, stylish rubber stamps and other fabulous embellishments to serve all your scrapbooking and crafting needs.

The Square Shoppe

Fancy Pants Frames ~ Vintage shaped Frames

Thirty One Gifts

Stylish personalized products to keep you organized at home and on the go!

Unity Stamp Company

Beautiful line of unique and trendy stamps. Over 200,000 fun images!

In addition we are happy to welcome back My Scrapbook Zone, Pazzles, Eyelet Outlet, Paper Wizard, Making Memories and Total Class Creative who all missed our last show!

You can view the complete list of vendors that are scheduled to be at the Fall show by visiting our website's vendor page.

We've Got A Winner!

Thanks so much for sharing the word about Our Young Scrapbooker's Club!! Make sure to bring your 8-18 year olds on Friday September 9th for a Super Fun Night of partying, crafting and cropping!!

Congratulations to Nina! You are the lucky winner of 2 early bird tickets for Friday's show!! Email me at info@scrapbookusaexpo.com with your full name and I will let you know how to get your entrance passes!!

The show is coming fast!! See you soon!

Young Scrapper's Club - Share & Win!!

If you have a Young Scrappper bring her along with you and she will fall in love with crafting at our Young Scrapper Club Friday night party!!

All youngsters age 8-18 are invited to join in the fun. They will enjoy Karaoke, hair spray color, make-n-takes, product to use and dancing!!

Fun Make-N-Takes provided by Scrap Orchard, Red Letter Days and Total Class Creative!!

Tickets are only $12.00 (no coupons can be used) and include regular entrance to Friday's show at 10:00 am. The fun begins at 6:30 pm and lasts until midnight!! Tickets can be purchased online or at the show!!

Leave a comment that you have shared this blog post (by re-posting, sharing on facebook or twitter, etc) with everyone you know with a young scrapper and one lucky follower will win 2 early bird passes to September's show!

Fall In Love with Kiwi Lane Designs!

Last year at Scrapbook USA Expo Fall 2010 we were introduced to Kiwi Lane Designs for the first time. Since then many of you have fallen love with their awesome products. So, for those of you that haven't been using the Kiwi Lane framing techniques in your crafting, read on and see why we are so in love with these helpful and fun techniques.

Welcome Kiwi Lane....

"The process of framing was created to help you develop beautiful, professional layouts that will act like a gorgeous frame for your photos. To help you do this we have developed several lines of Designer Templates. Mix and match these templates, move them around on the page, and watch as new designs come to live. The inspiration is endless! This technique also saves you time and money during the designing process by helping you visualize with the design will look like before you start cutting into your paper. Once you are satisfied with your design, simply trace the templates onto your coordinating paper, cut them out and adhere them to your page. You will be amazed at how quickly and easily you will create a stunning scrapbook layout by using this new technique. For more specific information on this technique please watch our framing video and other tutorial videos found on the resource page and see the possibilities."

We are SO thrilled to have the ladies from Kiwi Lane Designs joining us on September 9-10th in Sandy Utah! Plus, if you are a VIP at this show your goodie bag WILL have something special from the ladies at Kiwi Lane Designs. Our Young Scrapper's Club girls will also have Kiwi Lane products in their open crop area to play around with.

Christmas in August??

We are so excited to have the ladies from Heritage Makers at Scrapbook USA Expo. This year you will find Karie and Heidi in their regular booth location as well as in the all NEW Digi Lounge. They have such great ideas from home decor projects to fun gift ideas




If you haven't already done so, check out their class, "Inspirational Holiday Digi Gifts & Ideas Class". It is being taught Friday Sept 9th at 12:30 for only $20.00.



Karie and Heidi will teach you how to make amazing holiday gifts with your personalized photos. Don't forget to bring your laptop with your photos on them! This class will teach you how to create a variety of projects & gift ideas from start to finish (using digital and crafty techniques) PLUS you will actually go home with a 6X6 home decor tile, a 5X7 greeting card credit, and over 80 digital scrapbooking kits on your studio account.

Get a jump start on Christmas gifts or some of those decorating projects you have been thinking about!

Sign up for classes online today!

Frequently Asked Questions + The Answers

We are only a few weeks away from Scrapbook USA Expo Fall 2011! This is the time when I start getting a lot of e-mails and phone calls with questions on the "ins and outs" of the show. I love getting the calls but since there are some questions that I know alot of you have, here they are, with the answers! If you have any other questions on Scrapbook USA, post them here and I will answer them! Looking forward to a BIG show in September!

Question: What is the difference between regular admission and early bird entrance?

Regular admission is $12.00 and gives you entrance to the show at 10:00 a.m. on either day. We do have coupons available to save $2.00 on this entrance. Early Bird gives you early entrance to the show at 9:00 am plus a goodie bag from our sponsors that includes a small snack, coupons and product. Coupons cannot be used with the early bird. Early bird is awesome because you can start shopping your favorite vendors FIRST and have first pick of the many cropping tables for you and your friends to use. You cannot use a coupon on early bird entrance.

Do I have to buy my tickets online?

NO. We have 5 ticket windows available for ticket purchasing at the show. We offer online tickets for those who would like to use the service but we are happy to sell the tickets at the door.

Why is there a service fee for some online tickets and not others?

We use an outside company to facilitate our online tickets so this company charges a per ticket fee to make their money. Scrapbook USA is paying the service fee on regular tickets, so you are not seeing that fee. We are not covering the fee on early bird tickets so it is being passed on to you.

Do vendors take credit cards?

Yes, most of them do. Occasionally we have a vendor who does not process credit cards so make sure to bring at least a little cash as you will also need cash or check to pay for entrance to the show. There are ATM machines located in the Expo Center.

Does a Young Scrapper's Ticket include entrance to the show?

Yes it sure does. This is an absolutely incredible deal for your 8-16 year old. A $12.00 (no coupons can be used) Young Scrapper's ticket will include regular entrance to the show on FRIDAY and access to the Young Scrapper's midnight party. The party will be in the classrooms in the foyer from 7:00-midnight and includes karaoke, dancing, nail painting, hair glitter, open cropping using our cuttlebug machines and fun make-n-takes. Incredibly fun event for the up and coming crafter!

Why is electrical not widely available at the show?

First, we wish it was :). Electricity has to be paid for when doing an event at the expo center. It runs about $75.00 for an outlet. To make it more widely available we rent it and make it available in our VIP area and in Saturday's reserved seating area. Also, new at this show we will have electrical available in the Digi Lounge. There is NO cost to shop in the Digi Lounge. There will be work stations set up around the digi vendors where you will be able to use electrical for a small fee. Once you check out of your work station you will receive a gift pack of coupons from our digital vendors to use online after the show. If your laptop has a great battery you are welcome to work in the digital lounge at no charge.

What is the Digi Lounge?

The Digi Lounge is a new area of booths at the show that will contain only Digital companies. They will be ready to help, inspire and share tips on making layouts, cards and other projects digitally. You will also be able to crop in the Digi Lounge on your laptops and know you have these wonderful people only a few feet away if you need any pointers or help along the way. The world of digital has so much to offer in additional resources for scrapper's so visit these great vendors and see how easy it is to simplify some of your paper projects by doing them online!

How early should I come to get a table for cropping?

Hard to say but if you are coming with a group of friends and want a whole table for yourselves please plan on coming early (before lunch). Tables will fill up. We do have an overflow area of tables behind the booths in the northwest corner but because of how sound travels that area is a bit louder than if you were on the show floor.

How does the Expo decide what music to play?

We have asked our MC to play a variety of music from 70's to today. We also ask for different genres to be represented. He is open and willing to take your requests and play them so, if you want to hear something, just let him know.

Why did the show go away from paper coupons that could be picket up at local stores?

Convenience for our attendees was the reason. Many attendees do not have local scrap stores near them and others would travel to a store and find out that the coupons were either gone and the store had not let us know they needed more or the employees did not know where the coupons were. We wanted a solution that would be easy and convenient and would also be supportive to our vendors.

Do I have to buy my tickets online to use the coupon code?

No, all vendors also have pdf coupons that you can print and bring to the show. If you are having a hard time finding a coupon check our blog list here and if they don't have the code posted, send them a message and I think you will get a quick reply. Feel free to share on our Facebook page and blog a link to where you found your code. We have AWESOME companies that exhibit at our show and we really want to support their online blogs and websites too!

Are YOU Queen For A Day at Scrapbook USA Expo?

Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

If you are looking to be treated like a QUEEN during your visit to Scrapbook USA Expo in September then the VIP area is the place for YOU!Purchase your tickets beginning THIS Wednesday at 10:00 am then all you have to do before show time is get your cropping supplies and photos ready for a day of fun, shopping and cropping.

No lines to wait in, just check in and we will set you up at your reserved space in our exclusive VIP area. If you need electrical for your laptop or Cricut, no worries, you will have it. Your Queen for A Day experience will also include:

*Show Entrance at 8:45 am

*Gift Bag courtesy of Tale Spring, Scrapbooks Wholesale and Kiwi Lane Designs

*Snacks and goodies

*A fun make-n-take in the VIP area courtesy of Lance Anderson of Shiny Nickels (formerly from Rusty Pickle)

*Lot's of Special surprises fit for a Queen

Bring your friends and enjoy our FIRST themed VIP experience! Make sure to get registered on Wednesday and take advantage of a special discount! See You There!

Introducing TaleSpring to Our Digi Lounge!

This is sure fun being a guest blogger! I'm excited to introduce everyone to TaleSpring, online multimedia scrapbooking!

TaleSpring started out as a self-publishing service for interactive, animated ebook apps for the iPad and iPhone (you can see the books people have published here - www.talespring.com/books). Then we started getting a lot of interest in using TaleSpring for digital scrapbooking. So we added in some more features, included some free artwork from Digital Scrapbook Memories, plus a library of over 300 sound effects, and we're now open for business for interactive, multimedia scrapbooking!

So what is interactive, multimedia scrapbooking? With TaleSpring, you can add cool effects to your photos, such as moving them around, spinning, fading-in or out, growing/shrinking. You can add touch spots so tapping or clicking on a photo will make something happen. You can add audio clips that narrate the photos, explaining who everybody is and what led up to the photo. And even include video clips! We're living in a digital world. Isn't there so much more to capture about your memories beyond photos?

Here's how it works. Sign-up is free, creating scrapbooks is free, and everyone gets 25MB of free storage space. And it's only $10/mo to upgrade to 2GB. At any time you can download your scrapbook and view it on your Mac (PC reader coming soon) or even on your iPad or iPhone! You can also share it on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or any other social media site or your own website. You get a shared URL or link that you can simply copy/paste anywhere, and it will take users to a public copy of your interactive, multimedia scrapbook hosted at TaleSpring.com.

Sign-up for free today - www.TaleSpring.com/scrapbooking

And come see us in the new Digi Lounge in September!