Decoupaging Frenzy!

I am in the process of moving, and as I plan my décor for my new apartment, Ive decided that in the center of my dining room table, I simply must have vintage gold and antiqued rust colored eggs in a wired bowl. So me being me, rather than try to find a place to purchase these, Ive decided to make my own! Decopauging is already loads of fun…. Decoupaging eggs is a whole new level of artistic satisfaction!

I invite you to join me in creating a one-of-a-kind piece of art for an empty bowl on your dining room table, coffee table, or perhaps even your bedside table. These turn out so lovely, that you’ll be searching for a place to display them!

This class will consist of making 3 decoupaged eggs. You will choose your own pattern and design based on your style! You will need : your fingers! All other supplies, including the actual hollowed eggs will be provided! Take home everything that you make!

Class size is limited and pre-registration is necessary.Click here to register!

Scrapbook Flea Market

The Crop Shop is pleased to announce that we are hosting our first Scrap Flea Market!! Its like your regular flea market, but everything craft and scrapbook related!

Are you a seller?
Sell off your unwanted or extra supplies, papers, scissors or embellishments! This is a great opportunity to spring clean and clear out space before the summer hits! Your trash can be someone else's treasure! Re-coupe some of that hard earned cash and offer a great savings to others .. and for only $15 a table for 6 hours, how can you pass this up!

Are you a buyer?
Stop by and pick up some outrageous savings! Cardstock as low as $.10 a page! Stickers, paper flowers , stamps, ink pads, markers, embelllishments, you'll find a wide variety of savings here!

The Scrap Flea Market will be held within The Crop Shop on Saturday, July 9th at 10am-6pm. Please purchase a table on "the goodies" tab or by clicking here or email Erica at erica@crop-shop.com for any questions!!

Need a Space for a Party or Workshop?

We love our space at the Crop-Shop and are excited to let you know that in addition to our own wonderful classes we have on the schedule, we are also offering up our GORGEOUS bright and airy studio space to you! YES! You can host your own craft afternoon, party, "kiddies get messy with paint" afternoon, girls brunch or drinks social and all kinds of fun events!

We recently rented out our space for a 5th birthday party and also for a local artist to host a Vision Boarding afternoon.

Vision Board Session held at the Crop-Shop

So if you are looking for a fabulous space in the Hoboken area with FREE PARKING (bargain in this town), then please get in touch to discuss details and dates! Email erica@crop-shop.com or through our "Get in Touch" page on the website.

WIN $30 of scrapbook supplies

Become an official follower on our blog for your chance to win $30 worth of wonderful scrapbook papers and other goodies!

A selection of beautiful Scrapbooking Papers worth $10

$10 worth of Ribbons and binding.

$10 worth of embellishments, stamps or other gorgeous items

AND

FREE ENTRY into one of our Monthly Saturday Open-Crops.
(this is a bonus prize if you live in the local area)

It's really easy, all you have to do is click on the "follow" button on the right hand side using your google account or open id and leave a comment on this blog post telling us....

what techniques you'd like to learn more about and what scrapbooks/journals (subjects & special occasions) you will be creating in the next few months.

Then on Friday, February 11th we will randomly select a lucky winner. You can either pick up your goodies from the Crop-Shop or we will ship them to you.

* If you are already a follower, of course you can take part, just leave a comment

ALSO follow us on Facebook, Twitter and through networked blogs (click on the right!) so you dont miss out on future competitions. yay!

Have you Seen Our New Supplies?

Have you been to visit us recently?

We have lots of new items in the store, new classes scheduled ! If you have an idea for a class, please list it below! We get our best ideas from you!

Come on in and check out our Cricut cartridge rental center, our Idea Library, or just sit at one of our many craft tables and scrap for a while!

Coffee, Cookies and Quick Pages Oh MY!

Join us TOMORROW Friday January 21st for a coffee morning social at The Crop-Shop. Paula will be showing you how to make some more memories and new techniques. Home-baked cookies too....yummmm.

Friday January 21st@11am - The Crop-Shop Boutique, Hoboken Centre for the Arts, 720 Monroe Street, Studio #E504 (5th floor) More details here.

With every season, turn, turn turn...

Is it just me, or is autumn simply the most beautiful season of the year. Every year, I say that I am going to drive up to Maine to see the leaves changing... hasnt happened yet, but I swear Im going to do it this year!

It seems to me that it just makes sense to change, just like the leaves! That being said, you will notice that over the next few weeks, there will be some major changes happening within The Crop Shop! We are bringing on a new full time staff, and when I tell you these ladies are great, I mean they are SUPER AWESOME!!

We are also drastically cleaning out the store and running a HUGE sale on cardstock to clear out the shelves and get in some new inventory. So now more than ever is the time to come in and stock up on cardstock. The Crop Shop will now feature a line of Cancer Awareness paper, Judaica themed cardstock, and military themed paper. I dont know about you, but I am brimming over with excitement!!

I'll be sure to keep you all updated on what's happening!!
Happy Scrapping,
Erica

Tip of the Week 3

This is an awesome way to display and store your ribbon collections. It's best if your ribbon is still on it's spool. If not, you can always roll up what you have and stick it in a baby jar. The ways to use this kind of storage are endless! Please leave your suggestions below or click here to find one for your self!
ribbon organizer

Tip of the week!

You went shopping and found the cutest flowers ever to use on your page! Ooooh, and they were on sale too? Good for you! You used them on your page and it looks great... but now what to do with all the extra flowers left over?

Go to your nearest discount store and pick up business card holder pages for 3-ring binders. Top loading pockets work best and are perfect for storing extra brads, eyelets, paper flowers or even small paper scraps that you just cant bear to throw away! Now you have an easy, space-saving, and inexpensive way to have all your embellishments in one place!

How to Make Your OWN SVG files!

This video makes it super easy to learn how to make your own SVG files for your Cricut! Enjoy and leave your comments below. :)

Hi Ladies,

The Crop Shop is ready for Girls Night Out!! This year, The Crop Shop will be a feature vendor at Shecky's Girls Night Out! If you're not already familiar, Shecky's is an event destination for what’s cool and undiscovered in FASHION, BEAUTY and FUN with the girls. There are free drinks, free goodie bags, and most importantly, some of the coolest shopping you can get in New York all in one place! The Crop Shop will be there on Friday, March 12th from 5-10pm selling handmade greeting cards. Please be sure to stop by and check out our table. There will be a free raffle including scrapbook supplies and gift certificates! Be sure to sign up for the newsletter for more info, or for complimentary tickets, email me at erica@crop-shop.com. See you guys there!!

Cheers,
Erica

More uses for your Cricut!!

Everyone, I am so excited to have found this new product, I can even stand it!!

I know that I am not the only one to have invested in a Cricut, and was then put off by the never ending costs of keeping it up to date with the newest designs and the cartridges! Well empty you wallets no more!!

Yours truly (you can thank me later) has found a product out there that allows us to create and cut our own designs! It's called "Sure Cuts A Lot" SCAL for short... and it might be the best thing since sliced bread, or at least can cut an image of sliced bread!! Basically it allows you to take designs that youve either created yourself or downloaded from online (many of them being free), connect to your Cricut machine and cut your items directly from your computer. Its pretty much the same as Design Studio, except its about $30 cheaper and lets you download SVG files from online.

Most people dont know that their Cricut has a USB slot in the back, usually right next to the power cord. (You'll need the same kind of usb cord that you use for your printer, not the kind that is the same on both ends)


So first, you click on this link: Sure Cuts A Lot

Pay for and download the file.

Now you should be all ready to start creating!!

At this point, you have a few different options.

1. Now you can go to a website that offers free SVG file dowloads, such as:
Paper Yoga
Free SVG Files

or, just do a google search for "free svg files" and see what you can find!

2. Design your own by downloading Inkscape and using your own SVG files.

I am on the lazy side and would just rather download others files, but if you are super creative, go for it and be sure to keep us updated with your creations!!

A Day of Fix Its!

Today is turning out to be a day of fix-its. I awoke an hour earlier than I usually do to take my car to the auto body repair shop. I am pleased though, because they literally had my car in and out in under an hour! That was a first for sure! I was psyched that I would be able to get on with my day without any delay... until now! My flat-screen TV conked out on me a few days ago, so the TV repair men were scheduled to come out. I was told between 10am-1pm... and of course at 12pm, I finally call and am told that I they wont be here until 1:30 because he's coming from Long Island. I wish that service people would give you a tracking number, like UPS or FedEx and you can randomly check in every few minutes to locate where your service guy is at any time. Then you can go about the rest of your day uninterrupted! As a matter of fact, that's GENUIS!! Remember guys, you heard it here first!!

In the meantime, I am home making granola for my new breakfast diet. So I grab my laptop, look up the recipe I used last time, and set up my laptop on my kitchen counter. It dawns on me, of course, that this would be much easier to do if I had a recipe card that I could simply pull out of my recipe box. AHA... I have a new class to add to the class schedule... Scrapbooking Recipe Cards and Recipe Box! Coming in March! Be sure to sign up for the newsletter to stay updated!

E-Craft...squashes competition? (No pun intended)

Happy Monday,

So has anyone else heard of the new electronic cutter coming out by Craftwell? I, for one, am pretty gosh darn excited. It's called the e-Craft and is similiar to the Cricut...except better! The major difference between this and the Cricut is , #1 no more expensive cutting mats. You simply load the machine with paper, and voila! No need for a mat, or spatula or tweezers and all those other tools that come along with the Cricut.

Now dont get me wrong, I love my Cricut. But in my humble lil ole' opinion, the e-craft just may be the competition we were all hoping for. Craftwell claims to offer a couple of thousand images, comparable to the Cricut catalog. However, Craftwell also offers an interactive community to its customers that allow for sharing of new designs and techniques!

The only downside that I can see is that its price starts at $259 and ranges all the way up to $599. However, if the online community is as shareable as they claim it is, it could be well worth it as a full catalog of Cricut products could end up costing you 4 times as much! It is scheduled for a sale date of March 1st, so we shall see if the quality and ease of use live up to the hype!

Welcome to The Crop Shop

Hi all,

This blog is intended to keep you all up to date on the happeneings of the Crop Shop!

We recently completed our first cropping class since we opened and it was a great success. We were lucky enough to have Jeanne Nevins come and guest host the class and her cards were MAGNIFICENT! We had 2 ladies that came in that'd never scrapbooked before and they were both so impressed with the cards they completed! So again, thanks so much Jeanne for your time and creativity and we all are looking forward to having you come back again soon! Pictures to be posted soon!

FYI, Everyone! The Crop Shop website is getting a massive influx of supplies and embellishments over the next few days so please check in again soon for updates! Thanks for your support and happy scrappin!