VIP Newsletter February 23, 2009

Bring Mr. Minnesota some Bling!30% off It's a Minnesota Mardi Gras on Tuesday!
TUESDAY ONLY!
Celebrate Mardi Gras in Minnesota style! Help us deck out our Mr. Minnesota Snowman in Mardi Gras style with party bead necklaces. He needs a little Mardi Gras bling! Bring in a necklace for Mr. Minnesota and we will give you 30% off ANY one item in the store.
Exclusions: Cricut machine, Silhouette machine, QuicKutz handles, Slice machine, and other value priced items.
Also, celebrate through Sunday at 5pm and take 30% off all New Orleans and Mardi Gras themed items including paper and embellishments. New Orleans, French Quarter, and Mardi Gras papers and accents from Creative Imagination lend a festive flair to your albums.

Come Cut a Rug at our Spring Retreat!
VIP Spring Retreat: Come Cut a Rug!
VIP welcomes all of you to "Come and Cut a Rug" with us on March 20, 21st, and 22 for our Spring Retreat. Cut a Rug Retreat March 20-22You need some "me" time with your friends to pamper yourselves and to work on your creative projects. Enjoy an upscale experience with hotel amenities, ample workspace and lighting, delicious food from our favorite Executive Chef, darling make and takes, and oodles of fab goodies and prizes! The generous prizes even include a Grand Prize of a Silhouette Die Cutting machine!
Pamper yourself and scrapbook in comfort. Join us at noon on Friday, March 20th and crop through our special weekend until 5 pm on Sunday, March 22nd. Accommodations on site at the Rochester Ramada Inn, parking is free and shopping is conveniently right across the street. The first ten to reserve a spot get an additional $10 off their Ramada overnight stay. Join us! Call VIP at 507-281-2031 for retreat spots and the Ramada at 507-289-8866 for lodging. More Information at our website under Retreats
http://www.vipscrapbook.com/node/2401

New Product this Week at VIP!
New products are arriving daily! Straight from CHA! Creative Imaginations Soldier Boy papers and embellishments. Check out these exciting wonderful new 2009 products:
Sassy and fun! Check out the new Creative Imaginations "Heiress" line. If you have a princess in the house, this paper is for her! It's divine! Just like your girl!
Pregnancy papers and embellishments from Creative Imaginations to document your entire pregnancy through each trimester.
FFA and John Deere papers and embellishments are available now in new styles for 2009.
Dew Drops add just a little sparkle on your flowers, snowflakes, swirls, and lettering. We have nine colors of these little jewels in stock.

Custom School albums can be ordered for your school!Plan your High School Albums early! NOW IN!! Scrapbook those high school memories.
High school papers and embellishments and albums are now in stock! Get them while supplies last. Custom school albums in stock include John Marshall, Century, and Mayo. Stewartville is coming next week. Any other school albums can be easily ordered by request.
High school custom papers in stock include 15 local high schools:
Albert Lea, Austin, Byron, Century, Chatfield, Dover Eyota, John Marshall, Kasson Mantorville, Lourdes, Mayo, Owatonna, Pine Island, Plainview Elgin Millville, Stewartville, and Winona.

Mom and Infant Wednesdays: Announcing our Mom and Infant Wednesdays!
Join us on Wednesday mornings from 9:30 am to noon for FREE scrapping time with other moms. You know how nice it is to get out of the house. Join us as we get a little scrapping done too! Crop with friends --and make new friends too! Baby should be in an infant seat or stroller for safety, please. Invite your girlfriends to join us too! Coffee and tea and hot chocolate available! It's a rockin' good time!

Silhouette Updates
New Online Store for QuicKutz Digital Designs
VIP and QuicKutz is happy to announce the opening of a brand new online QuicKutz store for digital designs. With faster browsing, enhanced searching, sleeker design and more compatibility, this store is better than ever. It offers thousands of digital designs to choose from, with new shapes added all the time, that you can download directly onto your computer at any time! In order to access the new store you will need to download a small update found here:
http://www.quickutz.com/qk2/silhouette/support.aspx
For the first time, we're also offering subscriptions to download digital designs for your Silhouette.
Subscriptions
Free Account: Download digital designs anytime and pay as you go; each design is around $1.99 each (new lower price!).
Limited Subscription: $19.99/ month. Download up to $30 worth of digital designs a month; 1 year subscription. Unlimited Subscription: $29.99/ month. Download as many digital designs as you want with no monthly limit; 1 year subscription.
USE your VIP Scrapbook retailer code and get 50% Off Subscriptions!
SilhouetteWe have partnered with Quickutz to offer our customers a 50% off discount to either subscription program above. Just follow these directions!
1. Go to the online store and sign into your account.
2. Choose a subscription plan by clicking on the button.
3. Fill out the required information.
4. When prompted, type in the promotion code: VIP

Marvelous Mondays! Use that 40% off Coupon at VIP
Marvelous Mondays are here!
That means you can use your current Michael's 40% off craft supply coupon HERE at VIP!!! Now that's exciting news! Get 40% off the price of one craft item when you turn in your original newspaper Michael's coupon at our store. 1 coupon per family per day. Note: excludes Cricut machine, Silhouette machine, QuicKutz handles, Slice machine, and other value priced items. Marvelous Mondays were made just for YOU! Use your current Michael's coupon at VIP every Monday!

New Ideas are Blooming this Week at VIP!
Monday Feb 23 All Day Free Scrap. 10am-9pm Just the Basics 10 am $5
Tuesday Feb 24 Free Scrap 10am-9pm
Wednesday Feb 25th Mom and Infant Crop 9:30am-12 noon FREE!
Wed. Feb. 25th Free Scrap until 6pm
Wed. Feb 25th Card Class 6:30pm $15.00
Thur Feb 26th All Day Free Scrap. 10 am-9pm
Thur Feb 26th Basic Grey Club 6:30pm $20
Friday Feb 27th Funtastic Friday Dinner Crop 5pm-12 midnight $8
Saturday Feb 28th All Day Free Scrap 10am-5pm
Sat. Feb 28th free Make N Take while supplies last
Sunday March 1st All Day Free Scrap 12 noon-5pm
Monday March 2nd All Day Free Scrap 10am-9pm

Sign up Now for March Genealogy Classes!
Make your personal heritage come to life. “Grandmother and Grandfather” is the March genealogy theme in our year-long series.
Sign up for ONE of the following March dates for the class:
Choose either March 8th, 15th, or 22nd. Class begins at 1pm. FREE WIRELESS allows you to research on the laptop FREE! Come in and see the page sample up in the store and sign up for the year long series with us here at VIP.
We do have a few past month's class kits available as TO GO kits again now. Learn genealogy research skills and how to research your own family tree with us each month. Cost $12.50

Funtastic Fridays in February and March
Come to the Funtastic Friday Crops!
February 27, 2009 from 5pm to 12 midnight Snacks included $5
March 6, 2009 from 5pm to 12 midnight. Snacks included $5
March 13, 2009 from 5pm to 12 midnight Dinner included. $8
March 20, 2009 from 5pm to 12 midnight Snacks included $5
March 27, 2009 from 5pm to 12 midnight Dinner included $8

Earn a Funtastic Friday Bonus Crop! Prepay for your Funtastic Friday crop when you call to sign up and we will keep track for you. Earn a bonus crop FREE after 10 prepaid signups!
February is Low Vision Awareness Month

Bring us those old eyeglasses!
Join VIP in supporting low-vision awareness. Drop off your OLD eyeglasses and cases at VIP in February. We will donate them at the end of February to the Lions Club where they will be recycled for those who need them.
http://www.lionsclubs.org/EN/content/vision_eyeglass_recycling.shtml
Thank you for your generous help!