VIP Newsletter March 16, 2009
Join us March 20-22 for a fantastic 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.
You 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. Cost $145 Gotta work that weekend? We have had numerous requests for a one-day retreat option. Give us a call and you can attend our fantastic retreat on the one-day option too! 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
There's even more!
Our pricing gun is getting a real workout! Products just keep rolling in...hurray!! Boxes and boxes of products mean lots and lots of NEW goodies for you! Come and see all the new products in every department! Read on and see why we are SO excited for this week's new product lines!
New QuicKutz Dimensional dies are Here!
We waited and waited and now they are HERE at VIP! 3-D dies are here from QuicKutz. Make your own layered accents, flowers, borders and more! Create your own layered embellies for all your paper-crafting and home decor needs with these amazing dies and borders in all sizes.
Dozens of Great Products just Came
Check out all the newest goodies from Melissa Frances, Fiskars punches, Jesse James buttons, Stampers Anonymous, Disney from Creative Imaginations, and University of Minnesota ribbons and papers! We also have the NEW Tim Holtz rubber stamps in this week in 8 styles.
Check out the NEW Core'dination solid cardstocks in a WHOPPING 160 colors! Check out the many papers in the Black Magic, Chocolate Box, and Vintage Collections.
New Ideas are Blooming this Week at VIP!
Monday March 16th All Day Free Scrap. 10am-9pm
Monday March 16th Military Friends 5pm-9pm
Tuesday Mar. 17th Free Scrap 10am-9pm
Tuesday Mar. 17th Beyond the Basics 6:30pm $12.50
Wed. Mar 18th All Day Free Scrap 10am-9pm
Wed. Mar. 18th March Madness- Basketball 6:30pm $12.50
Thur. Mar. 19th Just the Basics 1pm $5.00
Thur Mar. 19th All Day Free Scrap. 10 am-9pm
Friday Mar. 20th VIP RETREAT- Join us! (see above)
Friday Mar. 20th Free Scrap 10am-5pm
Friday Mar. 20th Funtastic Friday Crop 5pm-12 midnight $5
Saturday March 21st VIP RETREAT- Join Us! (see above)
Saturday Mar. 21st All Day Free Scrap 10am-5pm
Sat. Mar 21st free Make N Take while supplies last
Sunday Mar. 22nd VIP RETREAT- Join us! (see above)
Sunday Mar. 22nd All Day Free Scrap 12 noon-5pm
Sunday Mar. 22rd Genealogy: Grandmother and Grandfather (mother's side) 1pm $12.50
Monday March 23th All Day Free Scrap 10am-9pm
Get Your Scrap On! Donate a Dr Seuss book!Get Your Scrap On Crop Dr. Seuss Style March 28
Get Your Scrap On with Dr. Seuss style! Join us for our Get Your Scrap On Crop March 28th. Attend the crop and donate one new or used Dr. Seuss book --and receive 30% off any one item!
Join your friends at VIP for the Get Your Scrap On Crop. In honor of Dr. Seuss's birthday this month, bring any Dr. Seuss book and it will be donated to a children's reading program. Schedule time to scrapbook with us. You need some dedicated time to work. You deserve some FUN! You know the atmosphere will be creative! Join us Saturday March 28th from 9am-12pm for $25. Fabulous lunch, supper and snacks included. You know it will all be delish! Sign up now!
Note: Offer excludes 30% off die cutting machines and value priced items.
Funtastic Fridays in March
Come to the Funtastic Friday Crops!
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 only SIX prepaid signups!
Silhouette Machines for $149.99!
The Quickutz Silhouette Digital Craft Cutter is an excellent tool to have in your work space. The Silhouette connects through a USB port to your computer. It uses any downloaded True Type fonts, TTF dingbats, or QuicKutz software designs along with your computer to digitally transfer information to the machine and cut them out. You open a program, select the QK design, ttf dingbat, or ANY ttf font that you have in your computer. You edit it on screen and the Silhouette cuts it for you. The possibilities are endless. The Silhouette comes with software, cables, blades, and a cutting mat. 50 image design downloads are also already included.
Normally these cutting machines are $369.99 but we bring you the deals here at VIP! You can have your Silhouette machine for less than half price at $149.99! Hurry though, these $149.99 machines are going FAST!
IN STOCK: The NEW Silhouette machines are here! Includes an LCD screen, new design portability, software upgrades and more. Only $299.99 at VIP!
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
Do you have an older Silhouette? Silhouette offers a free 2009 download of updates at the same link for your standard Cricut of new drivers, software and store helps.
http://www.quickutz.com/qk2/silhouette/support.aspx
For the first time, VIP is 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!
We 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
March Basic Grey Club packets are in!
Here they are! Come and get the newest page kit packets in the About Me series. March features the "It's Just a Day in My Life" theme. This one sports a gorgeous mandarin, cardamon, and mint color scheme that is just scrumptious!.
Sign up Now for April 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 April dates for the class:
Choose either April 5, 19th, or 26th. 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
Tim Holtz products are IN!
Not only are Tim Holtz products and techniques super "in" and trendy, they are IN STOCK at VIP! Stop and see the latest embellishments like metals, metal mixatives, pins, clips, knobs, clock pieces, grungeboard, and salvage stickers. We also have acrylic stamps coming soon!
We also have all the tools you need to learn how to make Tim's distressed style work for YOU! Non-stick work mats, alchohol inks, paint daubers in 24 colors (WOW!) distressed inks in 12 colors, masks, blender tools, misters, and blending solution! These also work wonderfully with our 7 Gypsies supplies like hinges, knobs, clips, and acrylics.
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!
Custom School albums are a great bargain!Plan your High School Albums early!
NOW IN!! Scrapbook those high school memories.
Look at this album set! It includes 3 embellishment sheets, school colors album, custom glossy chipboard frame, and 24 sheets of custom 12x12 paper! Get them while supplies last. Custom school album sets in stock include John Marshall, Century, Stewartville and Mayo. Any other school albums can be easily ordered by request. Get your high schol albums NOW before the big 'graduation open house' scrapbook frenzy begins in a few weeks! Look at all the custom papers and embellishments you get in ONE album! These coordinated sets make your high school scrapbooking FAST and EASY!
Don't forget we also have high school papers and embellishments for other local schools now in stock too! 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.
VIP also offers a great monthly series of high school layout classes so that you can get your teen's school album done in record time! See our Calendar for all our class offerings on the website:
http://www.vipscrapbook.com/event
Tuck a Gift Certificate in your Treat Basket!
Ask the Easter bunny to stop at VIP and get you a treat! Gift Certificates always fit!
Gift Certificates are sure to please anyone and they tuck nicely into an Easter basket!
VIP Gift Certificates are the perfect present. One size fits all. Everyone loves them! Give your scrapbooking friends the memory-keeping gift that keeps on giving. Buy VIP gift certificates!