Scrapbook Royalty at Prom

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Yes, there was Royalty at the Friends of Scott Prom last Friday night. 150 kids and tons of volunteers gathered at the Hall of Champions in Balboa Park, California for "A Night of a Thousand Stars" This prom is for children ages 11-19 who have battled or are battling cancer. On this night, they are not sick, they are just kids going to a milestone event in a young person's life. Some of these kids are too sick to go to their own prom, or embarrassed and some sadly do not live to go to their prom. That is what makes this so special and such a worthy cause. SBR volunteers Dawn T, Jennifer T, Jessica P, Julie M and Elena decorated 200 goodie bags for these courageous kids and their dates. It is a major event with food, entertainment and lots of laughs!

There was even an 80's style dance-off with some really talented dancers!

Jennifer T, Julie M, and Elena attended the prom to pass out the goodie bags. One thank you from one of these brave kids makes all the work worth it

How do you thank Sponsors? Tell every one about them!!

FloraCraft donated 200 awesome styrofoam stars for us to alter for the goody bags! We can't do this without generous companies like FloraCraft.

The Diva in action...

Diva Danielle, actress and singer extraordinaire is once again using her talents for good. Check it out! www.cadfy.org click on the flyer to see it full size.

Eliot Raffit Ribbons

Hello Charitable Crafters! Elena here, I got a call the other day from another wonderful company that wants to become a sponsor. Eliot, the owner was very curious about all things Scrapbook Royalty and after I explained what we do, he offered to send us some ribbon and to promote us at the New York Stationary Show where he will be speaking. He really loved that what we do is not just for one charity but for all causes that want our help. After I got off the phone with him, I got an email saying that he sent us a box of 1000 yards of raffia. Well, the box arrived and it is amazing. I will photograph and post tomorrow.

The online website is a must to explore. http://www.raffit.com/default.asp Just beautiful! Scrapbook Royalty's proven track record is really gaining recognition and I am so proud to be a part of it!

Look we did yesterday!

For the Friends of Scott Prom for Kids with Cancer

Last year we made 150 frames for the goody bags at the Friends of Scott Prom. This year we are making ornaments. This is for teenagers with cancer who may not be able to go to their own prom.

I know it is sad to hear but some of them are going through chemo and bloated or bald, some of them are hospitalized and some of them don't live to see a prom.

I love being a part of this very moving very special event. So Floracraft donated 216 Styrofoam stars and a case of diamond dust and we are making ornaments that the kids can keep as souvenirs.

Here is an unfinished sample...

Jennifer T, Dawn T, Julie and I are pounding out rosettes, glittering, tying ribbons and as you can see Julie and I painted till we were literally high yesterday. I did have a headache afterwards. Thank you to Mira Mesa Self Storage for letting us use one of the empty storage units for painting out of the wind :)

and look what else arrived...

can't wait to try it!

Scrapbook Royalty has teamed up with the Fiskateers to "feed our community":

A food drive to feed the hungry.

So from now until June 13th, Scrapbook Royalty is going to be collecting and posing a challenge to you to ‘feed our community.’ Here are the specifics . . .

• As a scrapbooking community we will gather food and other non-perishable items and donate them to our local community food banks.
• The members of the charity fiskamittee and Scrapbook Royalty will be setting up dates and locations where food can be donated. We are hoping this will provide a great opportunity to meet with other fiskateers and papercrafters giving to the same cause and to connect. If there isn’t a location near you . . . by all means, set up your own plan to do the collecting in your area and make the drop off to the food bank of your preference.
• We know the economical crisis is hitting home for so many of us. The Dollar Store is a great place to get canned foods and other items to donate.
• For example, Cheryl, Lead Fiskateer, will be sending out more details but will be leading efforts to donate to the Orange County Rescue Mission which does a great deal of wonderful work here in Orange County. She is hoping that on Saturday, June 13th she might be able to meet many of you fiskateers at the OC Rescue Mission (have to figure out details) and greet you as you drop off your donation. http://www.rescuemission.org/
• We will collect and attempt to have a meeting date/drop off date on Saturday, June 13th or otherwise specified. There will be other dates and times you can also participate and donate . . . Maxine Hodges will be collecting during National Scrapbook Day, Sudie and Debby will collect during their SC crop in May. There will be other opportunities as well. Stay tuned here on the front side of the blog, the message board and the fiskateer calendar.
• After speaking with a gal at the OC Rescue Mission she informed Cheryl that the biggest needs they are seeing at this time are the needs for non-perishable food items such as boxes of Mac n’ Cheese, canned food, cereal, spaghetti and tomato sauce, peanut butter, and pasta to name a few. As well, there is a great need for formula, diapers and wipes (new) as these can be expensive items.
• Feel free to collect a brown paper grocery bag and craft it to your heart’s delight with a personal message from you . . . as a fiskateer or crafter. Then fill your bag full of groceries. Check out the dates and times (as they are announced) and decide at which time you want to go and drop off your donation.

We would love your support on this! It would be great if you would collect cans in your store, in your neighborhood, or from your family and friends.

On National Scrapbook Day, Pink Pineapple Scrapbooks will be offering anyone who brings a can of food to the store 10% off of any item. Every can of food counts towards more items!

We will also be promoting a drop off party on June 13th at the San Diego Food Bank

9850 Distribution Avenue | San Diego, California 92121

Elena will be there from 10 am till 12 noon with volunteers to collect food and give out fairy fly bys to the first 25 people who bring food to donate.

May 1st - May 3rd
Hyatt Regency Newport Beach
1107 Jamboree Road
Newport Beach, California 92660

Scrapbook Royalty will be celebrating National Scrapbook Day at the Reflections Retreat.

We are so thrilled they invited us to be a part of this event. We will be hosting the Friday and Saturday night crops with Fairy Fly Bys and fun and sponsoring a Silent Auction to benefit the American Heart Association. Heart Disease is the #1 killer of women! This issue is something that affects us all.


Want to help this worthy cause? We would love your handmade creation to add to the silent auction! email us for more info or mail your item to:

Scrapbook Royalty
PO Box 910665
San Diego, CA 92191

Reflections is going to donate a portion of the proceeds of the whole event in addition to what Scrapbook Royalty raises! For more information on this amazing retreat, visit the website

There are just a few spots left for this amazing event. Here are some of the great teachers that you will get to create with:

Stephanie Ackerman
Mara May
Maggie Holmes
Christine Middlecamp
Jamie Waters
Shannon Tidwell
Melissa Phillips

and a whole 'nother group of amazing women will be hosting make and takes!

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

Raffle to Benefit LIFE4PAWS

It's another Royalty On the Road event!!!

The lovely owners of Scrappin' In The Hills chose to have their Royalty On the Road event benefit the worthy cause, Life 4 Paws, an animal rescue charity based out of the San Fernando Valley.

Stop on by Scrappin' In The Hills in Anaheim Hills, CA on April 18th to get a free Fairy Fly-By and to enter raffles to benefit Life 4 Paws. Better yet, sign up for the class offered during the event and receive a Goodie Bag AND a Fairy Fly By!

"Princess" Crown Book

Join Jennifer Priest for a wonderful * Prima Certified * class! We'll be creating a Princess-themed, crown-shaped, mini book with acetate covers using the Zutter Bind It All and Prima's yummy Morning Song paper line. The book is filled with glittery details such as Prima's Say It In Crystals, Center Kisses, of course, flowers! Jennifer will have a Prima Festive Flower and Glimmer Mist bar set up to customize your blooms in the class. You'll also receive an entire set of Prima chipboard alphabets in the class!

April 18, 2009
2-5pm
Scrappin' In The Hills
Anaheim Hills, CA
Ph: 714-998-8855
$40

Raffles to benefitLife4Paws

PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE HERE

Here's what the raffle basket looks like:


It is filled with TONS of spring themed Jolee's, stickers, stamps, a mini book kit in a box, a Spring wall hanging, and more! Definitely over $100 value!!

The class fee will benefit Scrapbook Royalty:


To sign up for the event, contact the store at the number listed above.

A Place To Bark

Last year when we attended ConvenZioNE in Pleasanton, California we helped to raise funds for A Place To Bark, an animal rescue mission. Reknowned artist Claudine Hellmuth recently posted on her blog a call to action to help A Place To Bark.

Check it all out HERE. And thank you for your support of this worthy cause!

OMG! CLEARBAGS DONATES! AND...

we are at 590 cards and 34 of them came from some very talented 8 & 9 year olds!

I took tons of pics so I am uploading them to our winkflash account.

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they are in the folder

0903 Cards for Troops

And if you are looking to buy envlopes, clear bags, or clear envelopes. We are now a enrolled in the Partnership program for Clearbags.com They have been extremely generous to our events and now they are giving us a 5% donation from your purchases! Just enter our group code CP1010 when you check out. You only have to do this once and every time you order you know you are doing something good for Scrapbook Royalty as well! Thank you Clearbags for your generosity and support!

Cards for Troops Update!!!

I am happy to announce have received 22 packages from all over the country and have a total of 351 cards so far! I know a lot of people wait till the last minute so I am hoping we will get more. Every day I get at least one package in the mail so the count will go up...I have been getting packages in the mail every day!

Here is a photo of what I have so far. I tried to take a picture of at least one card out of each group but might have missed some. i will upload those this afternoon...

Some guidelines:

• It is very helpful if you send envelopes with your cards please. Those of you that did not, its ok, I will be buying some to add and I am still so grateful for your beautiful creations!
• buy the envelopes first so you know what size to make your card
• Stick the back of the card into the envelope when you send it to me so they can see the card front without having to take the card out and the card and envelope will not get separated.

or use clear envelopes,

or put the envelope and card in a clear bag.

• use a standard size envelope, letter or card, 6x6 and odd sizes are more expensive to send.
• keep the bulk down. buttons and charms dont always ship that well.

That's it for now... Send cards to:

Scrapbook Royalty

PO Box 910665

San Diego, CA 92191

Thanks so much for your suppor!

Sometimes you just get lucky!

I saw this cool silk screening machine at CHA winter called the YuDu and I really wanted to try to get one donated for SBR. I didnt have any luck at the show and even tried submitting a donation request after but no luck. It would be so great to have one so that at events we could use that instead of paying to have tshirts silk screened. It just would be more cost effective and we could raise more money! So then I was blog bouncing and found Erin. http://erinbassett.typepad.com/. Besides being totally amazingly crafty, she is also totally a YuDu expert and it turns out I know her! small

scrapbooking world. I actually was at CKU with a few years ago!!

Anyway... Erin called her contact at Provocraft and she was able to hook me up! So I will hopefully be getting one soon for SBR and I will be able to make some awesome designs for event tshirts! I can't wait!

Thank you Erin! You rock!

Deborah Norville rocks!

While we were at CHA in January earlier this year we had the opportunity to meet the fabulous Deborah Norville, who was there as the keynote speaker for the event. That's our own Elena Etcheverry plus Teri Rogers from Pink Pineapple Scrapbooks with Deborah at the event.

Want Some Freebies!?

Then head on over to the Desert Scrappers Retreats blog for a blogoversary celebration!! There are new giveaways everyday so be sure to check back often.

Also, if you are going to the Royal Slumber Crop please be sure to stop by the Desert Scrappers Retreats table and say hello to Fairy Godmothers Laura and Crystal. See you there!

Elena Loves Disney

Elena Loves Disney. we all know that... So this is a really cool promotion that we can share with you.

I am sure you have heard of Disney on Ice the cool interactive show if not...
Interactive Disney On Ice shows feature exciting action, romance, comedy, athletic world-class skating, beloved Disney characters, and favorite Disney songs to which kids can sing and dance along. Their rich colors, costumes, bigger than life atmosphere, music, lighting, choreography and humor all contribute to making the experience one that builds childhood and family memories for years to come So very fun!
I have a few friends who have gone and really enjoyed it. And for select cities, here is a discount code. Not in one of these cities but know someone? share the love and pass the info along!

Offer #1: Get 4 tickets for just $44 by entering the code "MOM" at select ticketing channels*. Offer good on all performances, minimum purchase of 4 tickets required; additional tickets above 4 can be purchased at $11 each. Offer not valid on Gold Circle Seating, Front Row and VIP seating or combinable with other offers. Other restrictions may apply. ·
Offer #2: A select amount of Front Row and VIP seats have been reserved for you to buy before they go on sale to the public - just enter the code "MOM" when purchasing those seats.
Dates and cities where families can use the national MOM code are as follows:

• Houston Disney On Ice presents Mickey and Minnie's Magical Journey April 15-April 19
• Dallas/Ft Worth Disney On Ice presents Mickey & Minnie's Magical JourneyMarch 18-March 29
• Sunrise/Miami Disney On Ice presents Worlds of Fantasy March 26-April 5
• Toronto Disney On Ice presents Worlds of Fantasy March 18-March 22
• Kansas City Disney On Ice presents Mickey & Minnie's Magical JourneyApril 1-April
• Denver Disney On Ice presents a Disneyland® Adventure March 12-March 15
• Phoenix Disney On Ice presents a Disneyland® AdventureApril 9-April 12 (ROADTRIP!!)
• Chicago/Rosemont Disney On Ice celebrates 100 Years of MagicSept 8-Sept 13

And are you an influential mom?
If you or someone you know qualifies as an Influential Mom in your community, you could be selected to win a free family four pack of tickets to all of the 2009 Disney On Ice and Ringling Bros. shows that come to your local city. Those selected will also be invited to a special VIP event to meet other area Mom Influencers.

If interested, or if you would like to nominate another Mom Influencer, please fill out the sign-up sheet here.

Mother's Day and Father's Day Cards for Troops... plus and early Christmas!

Mother's & Father's Day Cards for the Troops

Scrapbook Royalty along with The Fiskateer Charity Fiskamittee has taken up noble causes for which we help raise money and collect donations. There are so many worthy causes to support in different ways our current effort is to collect handmade Mother's & Father's Day cards to send to the military men and women overseas. We want them to receive them in time for them to send home to their loved ones. Nominate a Unit to Receive Cards Mother's & Father's Day Greeting Cards for Troops ***Nominate a Unit to Receive Cards*** You can contact us at info@scrapbookroyalty.org to nominate a unit overseas. We need an address to ship and US contact information, how many people are in their unit and we will fill as many requests as possible. Please note this will be first come first served. ***Greeting Cards for Troops*** This year we have decided to collect Mother's Day and Father's Day cards for our Cards for Troops Campaign!! We have been very successful for the past two years in collecting handmade Holiday greeting cards from around the country and donating them to units that make sure these cards reach actual military serving overseas. They were so appreciative to have these cards to write in and send messages home to family and friends during the holidays. So we would like to do the same thing with Mother's Day and Father's Day cards. Below are some photos of the 3000 cards we recieved this past holiday season. Last year's cards. Christmas cards. So once again and we need your help! We will get these cards distributed to the hard working men and women overseas defending our country. We are sending the cards directly to the troops ourselves so that gives us a bit more time to get them made and sent over. A simple handmade card, blank inside, will do just perfectly. We need to recieve the cards with envelopes by March 31st, so we have time to mail them to the units over seas and they will have time to mail them home. Here are some tips for getting a few cards made for the soldiers: Create a few extra cards as you make your own--for example, for every 3 cards you make for yourself, make one card to donate. Use your scraps from old layouts and cards (cuz I know you're still saving them) to create a few cards. This way you can also take part in some guilt free shopping afterwards when you buy this year's hottest papers. Go buy that new paper and just have fun creating some cards for the soldiers with it. Ask your friends to help. If you're having a crop or go to one at a store, ask everyone to take 5 minutes to create one card. Have the kids help. Scout troops love doing these kinds of activities. Set up the supplies assembly line style and get everyone to pitch in. Buy a kit--some stores and consultants sell card kits--just buy one and assemble all the cards and send them to us for the troops. Take a class. Ask the instructor if you can buy extra cards or kits to make the assembly easy. If you are a consultant hold a card-making party! Have your guests make one card for themselves and one for the troops as part of your demonstration. Once you've created your cards, you can send your handmade cards directly to: Scrapbook Royalty Cards for Troops PO Box 910665 San Diego, CA 92191

Also, stay tuned for more info about Christmas in August, a card-making extravaganza to be held in Victorville, Ca, sponsored by Maria Getz, Stampin' Up! Demonstrator. We'll be creating Holiday Cards for the Troops and cropping for 12 full hours. Save the date: August 22, 2009.