Good Morning.  What a lovely day.  The Bee is buzzing getting ready for the Consignment Corner.  If you have any items to bring in, come on in!!!!!!  The Consignment Corner is almost ready.  We just need to fill it.  We have gotten in some great stamps, cutters, books and really great tools.  We also have a full clearance area right now while we are making room for new products.  There is a huge selection of 8 1/2 x 11 printed papers on sale 25 sheets for $3.00 or 50 sheets for $5.00.  Ideal for cardmaking!!!  Buzz on over to The Bee and see the changes we have made.  Don't forget to ask about our ever popular ATC clubs or our creative fundraising idea for your organization.

Happy Scrappin'

Kelly

Good Morning Happy Scrappers!!!!  It's been a long time that we have blogged and I apologize.  It seems the months have just flown by this summer.  Cindy and I both were preparing our first born for college.  I'm not sure if we were preparing them or ourselves.  But no matter what, it is definitely a new journey we have all embarked on.  

There has been some fun stuff going on at The Bee.  Hopefully everyone received the email about our new announcement.  If not, it read as follows:

NEWSFLASH!!!!

Announcing The Scrappin' Bee's

Consignment Corner

We all have Scrapbooking supplies, rubber stamps carrying bags and all kinds of "stuff" that we are not using any longer or just don't like.  Why not sell it at The Scrappin Bee's Consignment Corner.  It's a great way to find a new scrapbooking or stamping home for your supplies while making money at the same time.  This is how it works, you drop off your consignment items already priced with your initials somewhere on the price tag, we will try and sell your items for 30 days.  If we sell it within 30 days, we will give you 60% of the selling price.  It's that simple.  The better the price, the faster the sell.  This is not only a great opportunity for sellers but for buyers as well.  We are hoping to open The Consignment Corner by September 1st.  So please bring in your items for sale as soon as possible.  Also, make sure that all items are cleaned, priced and ready to sell.  Diecut machines, cutters, tools stamps, books ... the ideas are endless.  We do ask that if you have paper, stickers or small items that you put them into bags of multiples.  If you have any questions, please call us at The Beeat 847-599-1292.  We are anxiously awaiting your items and getting The Consignment Corner up and running.

Good luck to everyone during this back-to-school season.  After the little ones get the bus, buzz on over to The Scrappin' Bee and see some of the cool new products we have received including some new personalized school papers, brads and metallic papers.

If you haven't been in  for a while, come on it, we miss you!!

Happy Scrappin'

Kelly

CHA Summer Show UpDate

Wow! Did we have FUN - FUN- FUN at the CHA Summer Show in Chicago.  Especially Cindy R. alias, The Worker Bee.  If you love Tim Holtz, you'll love this picture . . . We are hoping and praying she stays with us and doesn't run off with Mr. Holtz.   We found lots and lots of new products which

 includes some basic "COOL" stuff from the Holtz collection.  We ordered soooooo  much new stuff we are having an Out With The Old - In With The New Sale this week.  Tuesday, July 22nd through Saturday, July 26th we are offering 20% Off your ENTIRE purchase so we can make lots of room for the fun new brads from Eyelet Outlet, new felt ribbon and bling from Queen & Co., more personalized product from Stamping Station, etc., etc., etc. 

 

Just a reminder:  The catalog of the month is available until August 15th.  Order from Bugawumps' catalog and receive 20% off your total.  You can look at these adorable stamps at www.bugawumps.com and bring in your order if you don't have time to order 

at the store.

Happy Scrappin'

Kelly

I'm BAAAAACK!!!

Good Morning Scrappin' Bees!!!!  Since no one wrote to ask where we have been, I'm presuming no one is really reading this.  But, I'll keep you posted anyway :0)  This is been an extremely busy and CRAZY couple of months.  Cindy D. and I both has high school graduates and I also had an elementary school graduate.  Between parties, dances, graduation and the buzzing busy bee, this is the first time I've had extra time to check in.  

The ATC jams and clubs are still going strong.  We just had a "Special" ATC jam that had a Month theme.  The cards were great, the food was wonderful and the company was extradinary!!!!  If you are a card maker and haven't gotten bitten by the ATC Bug, you are MISSING OUT!!!!  Come on in and ask about details.

Our bus tour to the store was lots of fun.  Laura from BugAWumps did a GREAT job.  Her stamps are sooooo unique and adorable.  We are running a catalog sale right now until the end of July.  We have a couple of her catalogs in the store if you'd like to place and order and receive 20% off, come in the store and with 50% down, you can order any stamps that you love.    

We are getting ready to attend the CHA show in Chicago this weekend.  We are in search of some new products to bring to our customers.  If you have heard of anything new you want us to look at, give us a quick email and we'll do our best.  We are trying very hard to keep the Bee buzzing.  As you know, so many small stores are closing.  The manufacturers are not prone to helping the mom and pop shops so we have to count on our customers for that.  Most of the manufacturers have extremely high opening orders and reorders that make it hard for us to do business with them.  For this reason, we are constantly looking for smaller companies that will work with us and help us stay in business.

Because of the CHA I don't have any NEW products to report on yet but we do have lots of great school, sports and travel products still available including the 3D travel stickers from Reminence that are awesome.

Have a great week.  We'll check in and give you some CHA updates as soon as possible.

Happy Scrappin'!!!!!!!!!

June14th Bus Trip

Good Morning Fellow Scrappers and especially Card Makers.  I wanted to pass on some information about the bus trip that will be coming to our store June 14th.  If you would like to take the entire bus trip, I am attaching contact information to register for this fun trip.  If you just want to stop by the store for the trunk show, times will follow shortly.  If you take the bus trip, we do have alittle extra fun things planned for you including a great goodie bag.  Here is the information:

SUMMER TIME FUN IN THE SUN

BUS TRIP

June 14th, 2008

This bus trip is to honor our local stores in Illinois.  We are planning on 4 shores on this bus trip.  The cost is $20.00 and I can take 42 people so sign up fast!!  The stores scheduled right now are Hannah's in Antioch, Lorrianne's in Woodstock, The Scrappin' Bee in Gurnee and Stamp, Scrap and More in Mundelien.  On this trip, we will be stopping for food.  Prizes are always and we will do a card contest as usual.  Stores are offering make & takes, demos, discounts and much more.

For information, contact:

Alyson DeCicco

11718 Vanderkarr Road

Hebron, Illinois  60034

815-648-4784

alysonstamp@stans.net

Good Morning Scrappers and Card-Makers.  My son Dan and his girl Lindsey attended prom this weekend and I wanted to share this picture with you.  We saw LOTS of "prom-goers" at Independence Grove on Saturday and they ALL looks so gorgeous.  I hope everyone had a safe and memorable prom this weekend.  Now, come on in THE BEE and SCRAP THOSE MEMORIES!!!!

We did wanted to  let everyone know that THE BEE will be on summer hours starting after Memorial Day.  We will be closed on Sundays during June, July and August.  Therefore, the ATC Jam dates have been changed to June 28th, July 19th and August 16th.  These will now be on Saturdays starting at 1pm.  Also, we do have a "FUN JAM" started again.  This time the theme is Months.  Please either call the store or look on the website for details.  This will be on Friday, July 11th from 6-9pm.  It should be lots and lots of fun.

On the scrappin' trail, everyone seems to be flying through their school spirit books.  We received our new order of page overlays and you won't believe how AWESOME they are.  The Buzz Lightyear is incredible!!!!  Also, lots of graduation and vacation overlays that will make your scrappin' a breeze.  Stop by and see all the designs we received. 

Congrats also to all the graduates from this weekend. Good luck on your next journey!!

Happy Scrappin'

Kelly

Good morning Scrappers and CardMakers.  WOW!!!  We have really been buzzing at the Bee.  Everyone is doing such a great job on their school spirit books and I can only imagine how excited your children are going to be when they see the works of art you have created.  A big Congratulations to all the Grayslake Central and Grayslake North graduates on your commencement this weekend.  Especially our special friend, Lindsey!!!!  Good luck to everyone on your next exciting journey.  

We have some beautiful 12x12 and 8 1/2 x 11 metallic and pearlized papers that just arrived.  These papers are absolutely gorgeous for your prom pages or graduation invitations.  We have also created some fun 6x6 accordian books which make a great gift for graduates, friends, team members or coaches.  We've made them for full teams as senior gifts and everyone loves them.

Just a quick note to SAVE THE DATE!!!  Saturday, June 14th we will be having a trunk show with Laura from Bug-A-Wumps stamps.  This is a unique opportunity to purchase these stamps since they are not sold in any retail store.  Laura will be doing demonstrations with the stamps and you are SURE to full in love with them.  More details to follow.

Dan & Lindsey and Justin & Ashley and all the Wildcat prom - goers: Be safe, be gorgeous and have a blast at prom!! 

Happy Scrappin'

Kelly