| U p c o m i n g We have assembled a resource list of scrapbooking conventions and expos. Many of these events offer wonderful vendor booths in which you can purchase a wide variety of scrapbooking products. Many of them also offer great classes, crops and make and take booths. Links are provided so that you can check out the fun near you. Events for February 2005: 18-20 Scrapbook Expo - CA 18-20 Scrapbooking on QVC 18-19 The New Hampshire Scrapbook Convention - NH 19-20 Rubber Stamp & Scrapbook Expo - AZ Contests for February: 18 CK Layouts with Multiple Photos 20 MM Fabulously Fast & Easy 25 CK Your Most Recent Pages 28 MM Men Events for March 2005: 3-5 CKU-A - Dallas, TX4-5 Scrapbook Expo - San Jose, CA 11-12 Midwest Scrapbook Convention - Madison, WI 11-12 Tennessee Scrapbook Convention - Nashville, TN 12-13 Gulf Coast Scrapbooking Show - Palmetto, FL 18-19 Premiere Scrapbook Expo - Kansas City, MO 18-19 Oregon Scrapbook Convention - Portland, OR 31-2 CKU-Minneapolis - Minneapolis, MN Contests for March: 1 MM Back To School, Fall, Grandparents, County Fair 1 MM Workspace & Organizing Tips 4 PK Halloween, Make 'Em Laugh 11 CK October One Sketch, Many Looks 31 Mara-Mi My Favorite Album Contest ---------------- M O N D A Y Y E T? We're Shakin' up the CHALLENGES here at the Shaker Box! Whether you are inspired by art or words of wisdom, we have your muse. If you like color or cards, we have challenges waiting for you! However you derive your inspiration, you have CHALLENGES galore just waiting for you inside our Shakin' Challenge Forums! For more inspiration, be sure to check out the layouts, cards and paper art our members have uploaded into the challenge section of the gallery and add your creations there too! We can't wait to see your work! ----------------
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N e w P r o d u c t s
2004 was great, but 2005 is going to be inspiring with some of these new products. Products from Fiberscraps, Krylon and Heidi Grace have provided exactly what you need to make each of your pages look unique and exciting! Fiberscrap: Frustrated with the mess and hassle of using walnut inks ------------------------------------ Krylon: From suede on your layouts to little touches of color here and there, Krylon's wide line of craft paints are a must have for ------------------------------------ Heidi Grace Designs has outdone themselves with their kits and acrylics. The Elements line includes Water, Fire, Earth, Wood, and Metal. Use one these kits to give your page a new dimension.
They have acrylics in colors that are unimaginable as well as papers that match the acrylics perfectly. The new kits are truly creative and contain many supplies such as 60 sheets of paper, 4 packs of acrylics, 1 pack of brads and a 6.25x6.25 album. The Glass Effects Line has been expanded to include new words, tiles, and holidays. They are a must have for your pages this spring. These amazing new products are exactly what every scrapbooker needs to make outstanding pages!
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S p o t l i g h t ! Featuring Shaker Member : MICHELLE JACKNICKE !
The Shaker Box is pleased to feature Michelle Jacknicke, known as “twistedsoda” on the forums, as the February’s Spotlight Member of the Month. At an early age Michelle started keeping a diary. Whether on scraps of paper or in a notepad, Michelle was always journaling her life. Because she was interested in different forms of art, she proceeded from journaling to photography and then, of course, into scrapbooking. What started slow and steady about five years ago soon became a fast, frenzied hobby! Michelle has named her style of scrapping “Eclectic Eccentric!” She enjoys shabby chic, the nostalgic era, inking papers to age them, and using ribbons and color to form intriguing layouts. She never thinks that one must use what they purchase - as it looks – but rather one should make the papers, ribbons, etc look different with additional color. She lets the look she is trying to obtain lead her to a particular color scheme. At this moment her favorite colors are browns, pinks and blues. You will also find ribbons on most of her layouts – could ribbons be her signature? There are times when she wonders what she was thinking when she did a past layout. Why did she do it that way? Why those colors? Why that style? Would she change??? NO WAY! All of her albums compile her personal feelings and journeys -- to change the layouts would be to change her life and who would want to do that? She enjoys The Shaker Box challenges each month and takes pride in her finished product. Winter finds Michelle staying inside out of the cold - going to more crops and, at times, sitting up all night working on that one layout that she just couldn’t put down. During the summer she is often outside catching up on her picture taking, storing the photos and getting ready for the cold winter months of inside work with her layouts. Michelle feels her biggest accomplishments have come this year when, in less than two weeks, Memory Makers called her for two layouts in one month! Meeting new friends online and in person are highlights in her life and gives her the inspiration she needs to continue. She states that The Shaker Box has a great group of ladies and she feels comfortable working with them. When Michelle is “missing,” her wonderful, understanding husband will most likely find her in her scrap office area or heading out to meet with several “Scrap Chix” for coffee time and some gossip. Working as a manager of a restaurant/pub takes up some of her time but never so much that she can’t scrap. Her main inspiration in her life has been her grandparents and she tries to share their story with everyone. Anyone that inspires her will at some time become a “victim” of her layouts in some shape or form. ----------------
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