VIP Newsletter March 30, 2009
VIP Welcomes Spring! It's Officially SPRING!
From kites to bunnies to flowers to sports, we have what you need for your spring time pages! Come in and see what's new! Boy, are we happy here at VIP for Spring! We have been re-decorating, spring cleaning, re-arranging racks, re-ordering and receiving lots of spring themed products! Come in and scrap on Free Scrap days too and enjoy our nice BIG windows in the Creative Zone that let in lots of that natural sunlight! It's a wonderful spot to scrap!
Join us April 25th for our VIP Garage Sale!Spring Garage Sale at VIP!
Join in our Spring Garage Sale here at VIP!! Want to get rid of some of your excess papercrafting supplies? Would you love some NEW supplies instead? Start clearing out your supplies and set them aside for April 25th. Details of how to participate will be available soon.
Spring QuicKutz New Releases are Here!
The walls are FULL! Spring is here and we are re-arranging! Buy anything off our extensive QuicKutz wall of dies and tools and get a select 4x4 QuicKutz die at HALF price! Check out all the wonderful QK dies VIP has in stock!! As a Platinum Dealer, we guarantee the largest QK offering in the region. Remember, you can apply any applicable weekly special to your prepaid catalog orders too!
Check the DARLING Spring dies just out from QuicKutz with adorable fresh looks! These dies are terrific for all kinds of child pages and projects! 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.
Spring has Sprung!
And boy has it been hopping around here! WOW! We got so much new stuff that we had to rearrange the store! Spring has sprung --and we are enjoying the new look at VIP!
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. When you tear it, it is a different shade on the inside! Terrific textures for cardmaking and scrapbooking.
Spring Cleaning Time: Creative Options Bins and Clip it Up!
Clip It Ups are back in stock! Creative Options tubs come in even MORE fun colors! The Clip it Up is a great way to organize your packaged embellishments and chipboard letters. And don't forget the new project and storage tubs in fun colors from Creative Options. Great for paper storage or for bundling up individual project supplies to take out to crops. Spring cleaning is fun when you use tools and tubs from VIP!
Stock up on We R Memory Keepers Albums
Check out the dozens of new leather albums in luscious colors from We R Memory Keepers in 8x8 and 12x12 sizes.
Glitz and Glimmer!
Glitter papers from Best Creations are here! The Best Creations Glitter papers are perfect for prom, winter formals, Homecoming, weddings, graduation, and more! Design pages, frames, titles or accents with these rich, glimmery papers!
Tassels, Graduation papers, School Albums and more!
Get your school albums ready with new graduation tassels, accents, and papers! Jolee's Boutique tassels and accents are perfect for those senior memories and check out the glitter laser cut cardstocks and graduation papers at the front of the store! WOW!
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. 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
National Scrapbook Weekend! VIP is the Place to Be!
Celebrate National Scrapbook Day with us here at VIP the whole weekend of May 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. We are now taking signups for our mini-retreat National Scrapbooking Weekend. Sign up for the entire weekend or sign up for one day at a time! We offer meals, prizes, great lighting and ample table space. We have lots of special prizes and specials just for this weekend event!
Friday with dinner $8
Saturday with lunch and dinner $25
Sunday with lunch $8
Let's celebrate our wonderful hobby together!
New Ideas are Blooming this Week at VIP!
Monday March 30rd All Day Free Scrap. 10am-9pm
Tuesday Mar. 31st Free Scrap 10am-9pm
Tuesday Mar. 31st Beyond the Basics 6:30pm $12.50
Wed. April 1st All Day Free Scrap 10am-9pm
Wed. April 1st Rocking Wednesday -Bring your Infants! 9:30am-12 noon Free!
Wed. April 1st Here Comes Trouble 6:30pm $15
Thur April 2nd All Day Free Scrap. 10 am-9pm
Thur April 2nd Beyond the Basics 1:00pm $12.50
Friday April 3rd Free Scrap 10am-5pm
Friday April 3rd Funtastic Friday Crop 5pm-12 midnight $5
Saturday April 4th Window Pane Class 11:00am $45.00
Sat. April 4th FREE Make N Take while supplies last
Sunday April 5th Kid's Class 12 noon-2:00pm $7
Sunday April 5th Genealogy - Great Grandparents "Family" 3:00pm $12.50
Sunday April 5th All Day Free Scrap 12 noon-5pm
Monday April 6th All Day Free Scrap 10am-9pm
Monday April 6th Just the Basics 1:00pm $5
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!
Funtastic Fridays in March and April
Come to the Funtastic Friday Crops!
April 3, 2009 from 5pm to 12 midnight $5
April 10, 2009 from 5pm to 12 midnight Dinner included $8
April 17, 2009 from 5pm to 12 midnight $5
April 24, 2009 Garage Sale Prep and Pre-Sale for Star Card Holders
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!
Sign up Now for April Genealogy Classes!
Make your personal heritage come to life. FAMILY is the April genealogy theme in our year-long series. Sign up for ONE of the following April dates for the class:
Choose either April 5 at 3:00pm or April 19th or 26th at 1:00pm. 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
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! There are NO MORE of the $149 models left in the factory so this deal will be ending SOON! Get it while you can. What a steal!
IN STOCK: The NEW SilhouetteSD machines are here! Includes an LCD screen, new design portability, software upgrades and 6 months worth of free downloads! 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 Silhouette with 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.
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
Matchmaker, Matchmaker!
Matchmaker, Matchmaker make me a match! Bazzill has done it again! Use the interactive online matchmaking color service at the Bazzill website to match your other brands of pattern paper to the coordinating shades of Bazzill. What a wonderful feeling to know that your colors look perfect together! Check it out here:
http://www.bazzillbasics.com/matchmaker/
Print out the matching list of colors you need and bring them to VIP where we have all the colors labeled for your convenience.
VIP is QuicKutz Platinum!
Come see the QuicKutz wall! Not only do we have the largest selection of in stock items in the region, you can order any of your QuicKutz Silhouette Design Portfolio or accessory needs through VIP as well.
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!