Reader's Select Awards

This year we are absolutely thrilled, honoured and humbled to be nominated for a Reader's Select Award in TWO categories!!

We must say a great big THANK YOU to our fabulous and amazing customers for sharing the love!!

Voting is happening now and will continue until September 7th.  Just follow the link below and have your say!

You will find Scrapping Turtle nominated under Craft Store and Wedding Invitation Shop - Do It Yourself. 

We really appreciate you casting your votes for us!

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THANK YOU TURTLES!!! 

We have the best customers and we appreciate each and every one of you!

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Kit of the Week!

Just popping in to share this week's amazing "Quic-Kit".  The ladies have outdone themselves again!!



Inspiration from the Blogosphere.....

I was travelling through blogland again and came across this tutorial that i wanted to share with all of you.  Now remember, these are meant as inspiration.  If you are unable to find the exact products used to create these, grab your favourite line of paper and do your own take on it!  Take the idea and make it yours!!

Today's goodness was found on the American Crafts blog.

Travel Journal Tutorial

by Cindy Tobey

Supplies: 12x12 Cardstock Vanilla (71041) - AC Cardstock, 12x12 Cardstock Apricot (71031) - AC Cardstock, 12x12 Cardstock Rocky Road (71466) - AC Cardstock, 12x12 Cardstock Dandelion (71037) - AC Cardstock, Powder Point Camp Paper (35368) - Campy Trails, Appleton Cove Paper (35348) - Campy Trails, Campy Trails Journaling Cards (64009) - JustWrite, Squirrel (77250) - Patchems, Campy Trails Decorative Tags (85534) - Bits, Hot Dog (89397) - Ribbon, Campy Trails Assorted Brads (85535) - Elements, Campy Trails Buttons (85536) - Elements

"It always takes me quite a while to scrapbook my photos after a vacation and sometimes when I finally do scrapbook them I've forgotten many of the details. The solution is of course to write down those details while on vacation. Rather than just bring a notebook along I thought it would be fun to create a little album of journaling cards. I can write my thoughts on them during my trip and when it comes time to scrapbook my vacation the journaling is not only done, but already on journaling cards that I can put right on my layouts! Another plus is that this little book is reusable. Once I remove the journaling cards for my layouts I can refill the book so it’s ready for my next trip! Here's how you can make your own journaling book:"

1) Trim four sheets of earth-toned cardstock to 6 x 12", stack them together and fold them in half, open the papers then stitch or staple them together down the center. Trim the pages to 6 x 4 1/4".

2) Trim a piece of wool felt, leather, or upholstery fabric (something that will be sturdy) to 6 1/4 x 11 1/4". Trace a shaped journaling card along the edge of the felt and trim.

3) Machine or hand-stitch – to add detail to your cover – 1/4 inch from the edge, all the way around the felt. Cut a button hole and add a button to the felt. Secure the pages to the cover by tying with twine as shown.

4) Add journaling cards with removable adhesive (so they are easy to remove later) to the pages. Add some small tags with twine and staples for smaller amounts of journaling.

5) Add some mini paper bags and pockets for ephemera collected on your vacation. I created some library style pockets with cardstock. You can easily make these in any size you want. For mini paper bags, if you don't have any premade ones, you could make your own from larger paper bags.

6) Decorate the cover as desired, I chose ribbons and a cute Patchem.

That's it! Your little journaling book is ready to take on your next getaway!

Design Team Monday!

Today is the first Monday of the month.  September is here!  I cannot believe it!!

The Design Team has been hard at work/play creating with this month's Product of the Month - Crafter's Workshop Templates

These fabulous templates will create gorgeous projects! They can be used for creating your own backgrounds for layouts or cards. You can use chalk, ink, mist - whatever your preference or the look you are going for! Best thing about them is that they are plastic and clean up perfectly to be used over and over again! Another idea is to use your template as bling guidelines ... go where your imagination leads!

They come in a wide varitety of designs and in both 12x12 and 6x6 formats.

For the month of September these templates are 15% off!

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Michele

 

This week we are featuring the Crafter's Workshop Templates.

 

Templates are fantastic and so versatile!! You can do so much with them and the Crafter's Workshop templates come in a wide variety of models for all tastes.

 

You can Spritz, you can stencil, you can ink with Chalk inks, you can ink with Pigment ink and emboss!! You can trace the shapes and doodle inside or outside them, you can cut them up, You can use modelling pastes or mudpodge or acrylic sealants to create «Ink-Resist» techniques!! You can use templates on everything, on T-Shirts, on the Walls, in the windows... This is another product that is so polyvalent, it makes its purchase more of an investment than an expense in my mind. Its possibilities are only limited by our imagination!!

 

In my example here, I created my own background with this simple ink resist technique: I used a white Bazzill cardstock to start. I traced areas of my Crafter's Workshop template, the Capricious model, with a permanent pigment ink pen; I then covered inside all the shapes with Glossy Crackled Accent. I let dry overnight. The next day I sprayed 3 different colours of Glimmer (Alcohol ink) Mists and sponged the excess ink with a paper towel. This removed the ink from the crackled areas, leaving them white. That's it! Very easy.

 

NOTE: The Crackled Glossy Accent is thicker than the regular Glossy Accent and therefore, apply the liquid only where you can with the bottle's nozzle, spread the rest (delicately drag the liquid) with the help of a needle for the very tiny detail. If you have air bubbles, you can burst them with the needle.

Template: Crafter's Workshop - Capricious

Papers: Bo Bunny - Welcome Home Collection and Bazzill cardstock

Chalk Inks: Sahara Sand and brown

Alcohol Inks: Water-Slide, Forest Green and Chocolate covered Cherries Glimmer Mists.

Ornaments: Crackle Accents,  Bo Bunny-Welcome Home collection Chipboard, Prima flowers & leaves, brads, eyelets, green and blue ribbon, dew drops, punched butterflies

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Cherie

Cardstock: Core'dinations

Patterned Paper: Bo Bunny Blitzen

Die Cuts: Bo Bunny Blitzen

Template: Crafter's Workshop

Spray Ink: Smooch

Date Sticker: My Mind's Eye

Letter Stickers: Scenic Route & Doodlebug

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Julie

Products used:

Bo Bunny Father Christmas paper

Crafter's Workshop template - Harlequin

Ranger inks

Tattered floral die cut flower using DCWV paper

Distress Stickles and Perfect Pearls

Misc. chipboard embellishments and ribbon

Misc. cardstock and coffee holder

Inspiration from the Blogosphere.......

Here is another fabulous tutorial I found in the blogging world.  I don't know about you but I love my twine from The Twinery and I use it a lot but my bows are kind of inconsistent.  Well, no more, check out this fabulous idea I found.....

By the way, The Twinery's yummy baker's twine is available at Scrapping Turtle. 

It comes in several delicious colours!

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Tying a Perfect Twine Bow

by Tifany DeGough

Today I am going to show you a quick tip for tying a perfect bow using a special tool...from your kitchen.

Go grab a fork and some twine and let's get started!

{I am using Pink Sorbet twine}

Step 1:  Lay your fork down on a stable surface with a strand of twine behind it.

Step 2:  Wrap the twine on the right side of the fork over the top of the fork.

Step 3:  Wrap the twine from the left side of the fork (the twine that is still underneath the fork) over the other portion of twine. Thread it through the opening between the middle tines of the fork.

Step 4:  Pull both ends of the twine so it is snug against the fork.

Step 5:  Take the end of the twine from behind the fork and bring it through the top of the opening between the middle tines of the fork.

Step 6:  Tie the two ends of twine together and pull tight to secure the bow.

Step 7:  Remove your bow from the fork and add that cute little bow to your project!

{You can also use this method of tying a bow with ribbon, just be sure to keep the ribbon flat and untwisted as you work to get a beautiful finished product.}

I used this technique for tying a twine bow with The Twinery's Lilac twine on this card:

September Promotions

A new month means a new round of fabulous deals!!!

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Promotions valid only during time period specified, no exceptions.

Promotions not to be combined with other offers, discounts or coupons.

Printed flyers are available for pick-up at the store.

DT Special Assignment Day!

It's Thursday again and that means some inspiration from our fantastic Design Team!  Up this week is Cherie who is going to share some fabulous ideas on making your titlework really pop!

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Fun with Titles

By Cherie Nymeyer

We’re all looking to make our scrapbook layouts unique. Although there are many ways to do this, one of the easiest is to have fun with titles. From stamping, to stickers, to chipboard, to die cuts, the possibilities are endless and each provides its own unique outcome.

Chipboard letters have come a long way. You can literally get them in hundreds of fonts and sizes. Depending on the chipboard letters you choose, you can really make your layout stand out by simply adding a shape to your title like I did with the star below. You can even try replacing a letter like the “O” in soccer with a shape for an even more unique look.

One of my favourite types of mediums for titles on my pages is die cut letters. I use my Silhouette so much I would be lost without it. You can create title from any font you can download to your computer and cut it any size you want. If you’re not feeling overly creative, Silhouette offers thousands of pre-designed shapes and titles.

Another favourite of mine is stamping. I’m a self admitted stamp-a-holic and I love stamping my titles. It’s so easy to match up your title to your page this way simply by finding a font that matches the mood of your layout and an ink colour that goes with your paper. Both the “aka” and the “monkey” are alphabet stamps in the layout below.

Lastly, I created this layout using stickers for my title. This is getting back to basics and why not? It works! I am a hoarder of alpha stickers because in my mind, you can never have too many. For a fun look, you could even mix and match alphabet fonts and colours.