Aren't the new April Great Impressions stamps and board lovely? 

Beautiful, classic images including classic frames, a silhouette,butterfly, high heeled shoe, vintage Post Card title and great message stamps to bring them all together.     

As always, one of the monthly stamps, this time the classic Roses, is featured at 40% off for the entire month. Also available, photos of the monthly board to help inspire you once you get home with your goodies and start creating! For even more inspiration, give us a call to join Angi in her Great Impressions Beyond the Board class this month, Thursday, April 26, at 10:30am.

Our ala carte button buffet has a RAINBOW of fun button colors, shapes and sizes to choose from.
So we decided to make a button rainbow card, just to show you!!

We attached lots of fun buttons of various shapes, sizes and color to the Memory Box background paper with Diamond Glaze, and the little clouds were cut out of a sheet of Reminisce "Magical Day" paper and popped up from the card with foam tape. The message stamp, one of the new Memory Box stamps that we have in stock, was inked with a Tombow Marker. 

        
Did you notice the faux stitching around the edges of the card panel? Easy, Peasy - we just pierced our way around the sides of the card using those wonderful holes provided on the Tim Holtz ruler. Then just take a white Sakura Glaze Pen and make a line between every other pireced hole, and there you have it!!

We've added some novel wooden buttons, too, to make this a real smorgasbord - there are primitive hearts, stars, and even some cute wooden gingerbread buttons. Can't wait to add some distress stain or ink to these wooden cuties.

Stop by the Button Buffet, it's located right by the register area. These will be perfect little items to get you to those magical $5 increments for that next punch on your Simple Pleasures key ring!

Two new collections have arrived from Harmonie and we're excited about them!
Both collections have acrylic stamp sets, lace trims, elegant class a peel stickers
(like the Elizabeth Craft stickers we love to use with the fine glitters and our Copic markers),
intricate chipboard accents and borders ..... and wonderful papers, too.

OK, enough rambling, here are some samples to show you what we mean.

The Harmonie La Banquise Winter Collection:

Cards shown here are using a combination of the papers (including the Kraft Damask), chipboard elements and those classic stickers and trims!

This layout uses several of the papers - check out the CUTE polar bears! Did I say "Polar Bears"?! Oh, yes, there are cute Polar Bears on papers and an acrylic stamp set that's way cute. How about the diecut "doily" paper and chipboard branch? The Harmonie chipboard accents are definitely distress ink and distress stain magnets!

Here's a look at the Shabby Love Collection and more layout ideas.

Oops, almost forgot to mention that we got in another shipment of the Harmonie Calendar Kits. Hurry in for these, as they are super popular and won't last long!
Here's Lynn's sample of the calendar January sheet, using the La Banquise line, Harmonie acrylic month and date stamps and some Walnut Distress Stain to spiff up the chipboard frame.

Did the time just fly by this past week with the Thanksgiving holiday? What a great time of the year - friends, family and great foods - and so many special memories, too!

No need for alarm if you did not make it into the store - we still have some super values for you on stamps, dies, cutting equipment, and lots of embellishments.

Like Terrifically Tacky Tape

                just $1.50 per roll!
We've got some great closeouts, too,

 like Tattered Angels Glimmer Glam and Glaze 

   and more!! We hope you can stop in - we'd love to see you.

And wait till you see the new arrivals --- more details to come!

There are only a few weeks and before you know it...Christmas! Can you believe it?! During this holiday season you may need to come up with a last minute gift or a little something for the hostess; you may want a little something extra for the place settings at dinner or something delightful to place in someone’s stocking - You know the Staff at Simple Pleasures is always ready to help you with your paper crafting needs…this is no exception!

KITS!

Kits are a great solution to that familiar holiday dilemma – not enough time. We have several different types of kits available, including kits that are available *exclusively at Simple Pleasures to help you with your gift giving needs.

* Coffee Cup Album (perfect for your favorite hot chocolate or tea connoisseur, too!)

You’ve probably seen this fabulous kit at SP. It contains almost everything you need to make a fun ‘coffee’ table book, including patterns and instructions; you supply the pictures and any personal ephemera you might need. There is a sample on display that you can check out the next time you stop by! 

* Tubes - aka "Instant Treat Kits"!

Ask to see the samples and prepare to be inspired! You can fill the tubes with a myriad of goodies:

mints

snack mix

chocolate – kisses lay ‘just right’ inside the wide tubes!

nuts

gummies 

You could even fill the tubes with coins! These kits are specially priced and include tubes, clear stickers and fibers to get you started.

* Twilight Inspired Mini Album (the Red, Black and White color scheme makes this a LOVEly project...)   

Treat your favorite Twilighter with our awesome Twilight inspired mini album - makes documenting 'wickedly' fun! DCWV Immortal Love papers, ribbon, book pages and more included in this kit. See the sample in the store!

* December Daily Art Journal/Mini Album

It’s the perfect time to put together this mini album to record your December memories, activities and musings! This kit includes an October Afternoon 8x8 pad "Good Cheer", 31 dated tags, plenty of matching cardstock, transparencies, and pockets to help you journal this holiday season.

We also have card kits designed by Bo Bunny, Little Yellow Bicycle envelope mini album kits, chipboard kits and more - you’ll need to stop by the store to see all that we have!

If you need a special themed kit we don’t already have, we have an extensive selection of papers, embellishments and components to help you design your own.

Don’t forget – many of our classes are available as kits, too!