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During these hectic holiday times where we must balance our work, family, shopping, and everyday duties into an already full day it is sometimes difficult to stop and reflect on our many blessings and good fortune. Thanks to your wonderful support and loyalty over the years we have a great deal to be thankful for at The Scrapping Bug. Your continued support is simply wonderful but even more valuable is the rewarding friendships we have developed over the last five years. These special relationships give us all great joy and pleasure and we thank you for these blessings. One of the key reasons for our success at The Scrapping Bug is our knowledgeable and friendly Bug Team. It is a pleasure to have Cherie Nymeyer join our family at The Scrapping Bug. Cherie is a great scrapbooker with plenty of new ideas and a great style. I am sure you will find Cherie’s bubbly enthusiasm a positive addition to our Bug Team. As well as assisting you with your shopping wishes and designer pages, Cherie will make our online Gallery an exciting and fun place to visit. I would like to take the opportunity to thank all our friends who attended and helped make our Second Annual Big Bug Crop on December 3, 2005 another big success. From our draw and crop proceeds, we will once again make a generous donation to the Canadian Cancer Society. Thank you to everyone involved. To you and your family and friends, from The Bug Team, Holly, Melanie, Sheri, Cherie, Sandy and Kim have a wonderful festive season, good health and happiness in the New Year.
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Premium Bug Club
Our Premium Bug Club became effective October 1st and we are pleased with the number of customers who have taken advantage of this wonderful membership! Read on to find out all the juicy details:
· $25.00 per year for ALL Members (no more Gold or Platinum)
· 15% off all regular priced items (excluding Take & Make Kits and Bug Cuts)
· Free cropping to ALL during store hours. Please call ahead to make sure crop room is open
· Birthday Bonus!!! One-time discount of 25% off your entire order. Valid on one day only during the week of your birthday (Sun-Sat). Valid ID required.
· BUG DAY: 25% off one regular priced item, 15% off all other regular priced items (excluding Take & Make Kits and Bug Cuts)
· One day advance shopping for Sale events
· Discounts on Class and GNO Crop Fees
For those of you that are currently Gold or Platinum Bug Members, you do have the option of upgrading your membership to the new PREMIUM Bug Club or you can let your current membership stay as is and sign up for the PREMIUM Bug Club upon your renewal date. Ask staff for details. Thanks!
Online Bug Club
We have had many requests for an ONLINE BUG CLUB and we are pleased to bring you this wonderful chance to SAVE $$ on your online purchase at: www.thescrappingbug.com.
· $15.00 per year for all Online Bug Club Members
· An additional 5% off online prices. Regular Items Only (excluding Take & Make Kits and Bug Cuts)
· Birthday Bonus!!! One-time discount of 15% off your entire order. Valid on one day only during the week of your birthday (Sun-Sat). Valid ID required—fax copies please: 519-895-9097
· BUG DAY: 15% off one regular priced item** (online prices), 5% off all other online priced regular items (excluding Take & Make Kits and Bug Cuts)
One day advance shopping for Sale events ** idea books/mags 25% off
www.thescrappingbug.com
We are extremely happy with all of the positive feedback about our new website. As you now know, the address is still the same, but the look is so different! We are pleased with your comments regarding the shopping cart program, but we are also happy to report that some of our customers are starting to add images to our Bug Gallery! The BUG GALLERY is a great place to showcase all of your talent—from cards, to layouts, to spectacular photos. We see so many of you purchase product and share your layout ideas, but what we don't see are the final creations! Website Galleries are great places to share your work, pick-up ideas and compliment each other on how talented everyone truly is. If you have any questions about how to upload photos to the Gallery, just send us an email (sales@thescrappingbug.com) or give us a call (519) 895-0554.
Cropping at The Bug
Crops are a great place to meet other people who share a love of scrapbooking. Share ideas, inspiration and as always, conversation (and snacks, tee-hee). Sign up today for one of our GIRLS NIGHT OUT Crops. They happen every other Friday night from 6-midnight and are so much fun! You have 6 hours of freedom to catch up on your cropping and each crop only costs $12.00 ($10.00 for Bug Members). Call ahead to register as spaces are limited. First come first serve!
What’s New??
There are so many great new products gracing the shelves and racks at The Scrapping Bug! Some of these fabulous items have already sold out and are awaiting re-shipment! The following list is only a small portion of what’s “in-store”: Ultimate Guide to…. Journalling Books, Sarabinders, Junkitz Holiday Paperz, KI memories Christmas & Holiday Collections, Scrapworks Ribbon, SEI Holiday Hoopla, Twitterpated & Hippie Chick, Bo Bunny Papers, Stickers & Mini Album Kits, Technique Tuesday Acrylic Stamps, Paperwhite paper, American Crafts Ribbon & Paper, Chatterbox Ribbon Kits, Holiday Lodge Papers, Chalet Papers, and Matchbook Albums. Prima Flowers—LOTS of new colours, We R Memory Keepers Comstock Collection, TONS of new magazines and idea books…. The list is endless! Kim will be heading to CHA in Vegas in January, so be prepared for even MORE new stuff to arrive at the Bug late February! There’s always something exciting to enjoy!
Making a List and Checking it Twice by John Simpson
Sound familiar? Well, aside from the usual ones, there may be a couple of other lists to think about this time of year. Sure, we all have a special scrapbooking item or two we would like Santa to know about. Maybe it is one of those cool Fastenater Staplers, or a large wheeled MIMI tote, or the Creating Keepsakes Artistic Effects box set. At least by now you should know if you are on the naughty or nice list and if you will be enjoying one of those treasured “wants” of the scrapbooking world. Right?
Then there are the lists you are being bombarded with by children, spouses, and maybe a “listless” father who will come to you a couple of days before Christmas and ask if you have any ideas of what he can get your mother. So, you grit your teeth, ask a few questions and then remember all the times he pitched in on short notice to drive one of the kids somewhere when you were busy juggling 4 other things at once, or when he babysat your dog while you had to take one of the children to play in a soccer tournament. Instantly, you will remember that mental list you have prepared for this precise emergency, and you will again manage to save the day.
You might want to consider a couple of other lists. You should probably do this now, before Dad calls. One of these lists should contain all the fun, new things you learned while scrapbooking this year. Maybe you took some of Sheri’s classes, or picked something out of a magazine to try, or were lucky enough to have a scrapping buddy show you some neat new trick. Check this list out twice. Have you been using these new techniques? While you’re at it, check out the list of new gadgets you bought this year. Don’t worry – I’m a scrapper, too, and I know a few things about this particular list myself.
Don’t forget about the lovely lists for 2006—aka your “New Year’s Resolutions”. Have you thought about how to get that man in your life involved in this fabulous experience of scrapbooking? Now, before you consider it a lost cause, let me explain that I am one of the few male scrapbookers you’ll find around these parts. I got into scrapbooking not long after my wife started, almost 2 years ago. You see, it occurred to me that we had both shared in the making of the memories that she was so happily turning into albums. It also occurred to me that this was the realization of a very important item on both our lists – how to spend more quality time together. So, we share all the fun of this wonderful craft and hobby, including the shopping.
Maybe scrapbooking is not high on every couple’s list of things to do together, but it will be on some. Maybe you can start a list of what you want to accomplish as even an occasional scrapbooking couple. Perhaps you can start listing the things you know the man in your life might be surprised to learn about scrapbooking, such as the fact that we sometimes work with wood, metal, leather, and tools (oh, by the way, have you checked out that new Fiskars craft drill yet? Talk about a way to get that guy involved!). Keep a list of things that might persuade him to try working on a page, or maybe come out to a couple’s class. You never know, there might be such a thing on the list of new things to do at The Scrapping Bug early in the New year.
Happy Holidays to you all. We hope to see you and your lists very soon.
John