Artist Trading Card Creativity Class - Join the fun! These aren't just for trading anymore - they make great embellishments for your scrapbook pages and to place on a card. And, don't forget to make some for your 7Gypsies Trading Card Display!

Join us for this fun class on January 23rd! There are more cards & pages than what the picture reveals!

St. Mary's Art Center Retreat Weekend Scheduled!

Join us February 22 - 24, 2008, for a weekend of scapping, movies, laughing and fun in the historical setting of St. Mary's Art Center in Virginia City, Nevada. Cost is only $175 per person, which includes meals, lodging, make & take kits, & goodies bags. Space is limited, so sign up early. Come by the store or call us for more details! Visit their website at www.stmarysartcenter.org for a sampling of the great surroundings!

November & December Class Schedule

Thursday, November 15th
Artist Trading Card Basics $15.00
Monday, November 19th
The Embellished Page $20.00
Tuesday, November 27th
One Stamp Wonder
Wednesday, November 28th
It's a Wrap Christmas Packaging $20.00
Monday, December 3rd
Christmas Decorative Clipboard $20.00
Tuesday, December 4th
Quick Christmas Cards $10.00
Wednesday, December 5th
Purr Farm Paper Club $10.00
Monday, December 10th
Christmas Gift Tags & Holder $18.00
Tuesday, December 11th
One Stamp Wonder $20.00
Wednesday, December 12th
Fancy Folded Christmas Mini Book $10.00
Thursday, December 13th
Last Minute Christmas Gifts $20.00
Monday, December 17th
Power Scrapping - Fall & Winter Pages $25.00

Call or come by to sign up or for more details!

Scrap Pink!

What fun we have at our marathon crop weekends! Special thanks to Nanci Boehmer for making those delicious pink ribbon cookies for our event!

Purr Farm Paper Club Creations from August Kit

Double click on the collage to see a larger version of all these great creations from our first month of the Purr Farm Paper Club!

OCTOBER 2007 CLASS SCHEDULE

We have a lot of fun classes planned for October!
Monday, Oct 1st - Halloween Clipboard
Wed, Oct 3rd - Purr Farm Paper Club
Saturday, Oct 6th - World Cardmaking Day Event
Monday, Oct 8th - 12 Month Heidi Swapp Calendar Class
Tuesday, Oct 9th - Vintage Halloween Cards
Monday, Oct 22nd - More Power Scrapping
Tuesday, Oct 23rd - One Stamp Wonder
Wed, Oct 24th - 7Gypsies School Days Envelope Book
Monday, Oct 29th - Twelve Tags of Christmas

Come by for details on these classes! We can fax you
a copy of our complete schedule if you'd like!

One of our most copied layouts on display, featuring Daisy D's papers, rub-ons, and embellishments.

Ruff & Ready Dog Brag Book & Frame

A Treasure Chest of Inspiration

This chest from Jody is filled with samples of previous classes and other creations by Donna Jean and Michele. Come on by and take a look and spark your creativity.

Meow Meow Kitty Cat Mini Book

We love the new chipboard shapes from Rusty Pickle!

Farm Friends Mini Book Class - July 16th

What is your dressform's personality? Here are a few of ours!

My dear friend Karen Lien, owner of Paper Pals, here for a visit!

The famous "Baby in the Jar"

Did you miss this class? Come by and get ideas to create your own with family photos, memorabilia, or even vintage ephemera!

How cute is this? Using a Melissa Frances hanger, I added the Daisy D's Chasing Butterflies papers and embellishments to display Carrie's picture. Notice how the ribbons holding the picture mimic the ribbons on her little shirt!

Vintage Greeting Cards - One of our classes held in May!

Card Keeper Box - Another one of our previous classes!

Travel Journal Class from June had great pockets in this 7Gypsies book to place memorabilia during or after your trip, room to write notes and add pictures!

One Stamp Wonder class from May 15th. We made five cards and everyone got to keep the stamp!

This adorable Mother's Day mini book folds out into a 2-sided accordion. Class is Tuesday, May 8th.

Great new canvas totes available now!

How could I resist ordering the new cat collection from Cloud9 Designs? They're coming soon!

Heidi Swapp and Donna Jean at the CHA show in Ahaheim. We'll have some fun new products from her arriving soon!

Wow! Lisa Bearnson and Becky Higgins just begged to get their picture taken with me at the Craft & Hobby Association Show!

Beautiful clipboard in the Melissa Frances booth at the trade show. They had so many great samples!

Cute samples of those mini accordions that we have from Melissa Frances!

Our "Hats Off to You" Shall We Scrap night was so festive!

Halloween time is such fun at County Purr Farm.

(Who is that masked woman???)

Gold Hill Getaway Weekend

Our second Gold Hill retreat was a blast! Here are our Cowboy Poets and Cindy struggling to get in just the right place for cell phone reception...

Thanks to all who participated! We will have enough cards for each veteran at the Reno V.A. Hospital to receive one on their breakfast tray on Veterans Day!

We had a great turnout at our Veteran's Card-Making event on Saturday!

More friends at the Anniversary Marathon - Chris & Lisa getting some great pages done, and Jeanne & family in the background.

A visit to the Dayton Senior Center with Beth to teach a little Paper Bag Album Class.

Beth was our Grand Prize Winner!

Congratulations!

We had a great time celebrating with you and making so many friends throughout the past year!

Friends gather here! Artie & Donna D. at our Shall We Scrap Marathon on Anniversary Weekend.

A visit to Beth's ranch to see Freckles the calf getting his evening snack of bread. Benson is supervising and hoping for a piece to drop.

Dottie hard at work at our Gold Hill Getaway weekend, and Don Gee-who gave us a rendition of Cowboy Poetry! We had a great time - don't miss the next one!

The 7Gypsies Handbag Kit decorated with some vintage paper from Melissa Frances and fun flowers from Bazzill! These kits can be decorated in your own style!

A unique way to decorate the
7Gypsies Cigar Box Kit!

Another great sample from Michele using new Daisy D's Girlfriends paper and an EK Accordion book & tin!

We learned so many cool tricks from Tim Holtz at our classes in Sacramento. We're ready to pass them on to you!

Betsy did a great job on her Beach Book Kit!

Such a productive group on National Scrapbook Day!

A few of our friends at our National Scrapbook Day Shall We Scrap Marathon!