Happy New Year.

Christmas has come and gone.  The snow has finally arrived and the beginning of a new year is upon us.  2011 has been an incredible year for Frog's Whiskers Ink.  The purchase of The Stamp Barn was a big leap of faith for Tom and Rose-Marie.  There were as many reasons for not purchasing this company as there were for making the purchase.   I know there were many times that the bosses seconded guess the decision but by the end of the year it became apparent that it was indeed the right decision.  We want to thank you, most gratefully, for your continued support. 

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There is still a lot to do in 2012.  The physical aspects of combining the two companies is pretty much done.  There is still some tweaking but that part is done.  Tom and Liz will begin the process of making new labels for The Stamp Barn images.  All of the labels will be converted to the same pricing code that has been used by Frog's Whiskers Ink on the Rosewood images, which should simplify the price list substantially.

We have an updated website that we hope will go live very soon.  Not only will it combine all the images from both companies, it will be easier to navigate.  We know that 20 plus pages of Christmas images are too many for even the most dedicated web customer to have to sift through.  

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We thank you for sharing our passion for rubber stamping and we look forward to what the new year will bring.

Holiday Store Hours

Our hours of operation over the Christmas season are as follows:

Sat. Dec 24 9:30 until 4:00

Closed Dec 25 and Dec 26.

Merry Christmas

Regular store hours until New Year's Eve when we will close at 4:00

Closed Jan. 1 and 2

Happy New Year

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In case you have a hard to buy for stamping friend or if your significant other is having a hard time deciding what to get you, we do have gift certificates available. 



Winter store hours will begin on Jan 3.



Special Letraset Class

Letraset markers are alcohol-based markers with excellent blending abilities and very even colouring. They are marvelous to colour with, so let's use them to colour Rose-Marie's new winter stamp...Charlie Snowman.

This special class is being offered one last time before Christmas on Saturday, Dec 10 at 10:00 a.m.  Charlie's Letraset class is 2 hours in length at a cost $50 pre-paid.  The class cost includes the Charlie Snowman stamp (M809), the Winter Promarkers set of 5 pens, 130lb paper, colouring diagrams and other goodies.

See Classes for details or call the store.

New projects & products on the FWI website

Rose-Marie had me add 3 beautiful, new Christmas card projects on the Frog's Whiskers website.  No it's not too late to make these cards.  All 3 are very straight forward with very little to fuss over.  The Red Bird in the Birches is very easy and could be adapted to fit your heart's desire. 

The Country Christmas will use up some of bits of ribbon

and the Purple Poinsettia card offers an non traditional colour palette.

Have a look on the Frog's Whiskers Ink website under projects for a list of supplies and instructions for all of these cards.

New Embossing Folders

We received 2 creative shipments yesterday.  One brought us more Tack N Peel.  For those of you who don't know what this product is, let me tell you it is amazing stuff.  It is applied to your acrylic block to create a repositional surface for any stamp you may have in unmounted rubber.  Donna discovered it works great with the JustRite stamps too.  We like the images that are available from JustRite but really, who needs another mounting system?  The other shipment brought us the newest embossing folders from Crafts-Too.  These are stunning!!!!  Some winter scenes, dog bones & paws, baubles and one folder the could replace the popular Cuttlebug embossed tree folder that was discontinued a couple of years ago. 

I did a bit of playing last night, just to see exactly how these would emboss. I find it so hard to be sure what these will look like just from the packages.   Both of these could make quick, easy one layer cards, that would mail for a regular postage.  Or you could dress them up with ribbon, sparkles and layered elements.   I can't wait to get started on my Christmas cards.

Just to be clear these are 2 separate folders.   I was playing around a bit with the bottom one and tried to place it lower on the cardstock.  Didn't really work for me but wow it is pretty.

Jen's Wedding

I mentioned in an early post that Tom & Rose-Marie's daughter Jen got married on Oct 1.  The day, although a little chilly turned out to be a gorgeous day after the horrible day Sept 30 was.  I, for one was really hoping the weather would change for Jen & Mike.  Thankfully it did and they were able to have a very pretty outdoor ceremony.  I am sure everyone has heard of brides that radiated joy.  Jen was one of them,  in fact both Mike and Jen looked so happy.  It was a joy to be part of such special day.

Tom and the radiant bride Jennifer

Donna's Hal performing the ceremony on the dock at Elmhirst

Mr and Mrs. Bialek 

Scrapfest Oshawa

We are almost done the packing part of our trip to Durham College.  It is always challenging to find places to showcase the products we want to take with us but we do very much enjoy meeting all of you in one place.   If you want additional information about the show check out the Scrapfest website HERE.  One more thing, when you get to the cashier on the weekend,  claim your free gift by saying "I read the Frog's Whiskers Ink blog.  Liz sent me."  Or something to that effect, it is our way of thanking you. 

The store in Campbellford will be open while Tom and Rose-Marie are at ScrapFest.  The jolly workers will be preparing the store for the next phase of changes.  Wooo hooo.