5 Months....

Wow....I just sat here and it dawned upon me that The Scrapbook Carton has been around for 5 months. Although the store didn't grow physically like many other but in the short 5 months, The Scrapbook Carton has changed the lives of the people who makes it running day to day.

It has been a tremendous trip....the changes we have to make day to day...the wedding we went through in the midst of running this outfit and I guess the sacrifices we make..

It never has been possible for The Scrapbook Carton to change the life of our supporters as much as it has changed ours....but I hope the supplies that we have been pushing out have..From the memories it helps you all create.

That's why I am so persistent on pushing out the plans for The Scrapbook Carton....We will keep doing our best to keep what needs to be low and increase the selection as we go by.

Thank you all for giving me and my team this 5 months to serve you all and we wish to keep this going on for all your memories....

P/S: Sorry if i've been quite sentimental in this entry...I was listening to "Flightless Bird, American Mouth by Iron & Wine"(all you Twilight fans will know what I'm talking about...listen to it..it's nice)

"Go Floral with your moments" Challenge by Yin Wen

With any celebrated moments in our lives, flowers never fail to be part of them. With so much choices of floral patterned paper & embellishments as we scrap, it’s never difficult creating a flowery LO for your that very special moment. So come join me in my challenge as I celebrate the love of 2 people in this challenge with flowers.

Guidelines:

• 1. Work on a 12”x12” cardstock as your layout background
• 2. Record a moment through your LO (it can be anything about your family, a special day, or that of your dear friends)
• 3. It’s a must to have flowers on your LO (your choice of using anything floral from patterned paper, to handmade blooms, to die cut flowers just as long as we see FLOWERS!!!)

Challenge by Tan Yin Wen

Yinwen's take on the challenge

Entries are to be submitted via our facebook pages and closing date is on the 31st May 2010. Winner will be announced on 1st June 2010.

Winner stands to win a Martha Stewart's Lace Heart Edge Punch(worth $21)

Martha Stewart's Lace Heart Edge Punch

(Worth $21)

Time Flies.....

Time flies.......guess alot of you hear this pretty often and agree with it....it's been very very long since I have blogged on the Carton blog and many of you must be wondering why this big disappearance.

Well....let's just say someone just had a very big rite of passage and we were clamoring to get back on track after this big break...it wasn't easy but we really thank everyone for understanding and showing the continued support.

With the rate everything has been going on,it makes me think that I've been bashing through life......4 months of The Scrapbook Carton...Weddings... It's really great that I've done much all these months but thinking back I feel alittle regret that I didn't take time to enjoy all that 4 months of my life. I really enjoying taking this little breather now writing this post and reflecting.

I think many of us are just bashing through life and it's totally unavoidable in a fast paced society and I guess scrapbooking is an avenue for all scrappers to slow down and capture all that special moment.

Sad to say....I'm no scrapbooker(I admire you guys but I'm really terrible with the scissors)...but I guess for me, I resort to photography....To me my camera is my time machine to the past and brings me joy when I look at the photos that I have taken. It's transports me back to that special place in time....

Where we remember the sobs the little ones have....

Or the moment of unity.....

Or even that moment which seems meaningless to everyone.....

Do take some time and enjoy life.....we may be busy now..but we do have still enjoy whatever we do.

April Guest Designer

Since we started the Guest Designer of the Month, we have always gotten our guest designers to work on 12x12 layouts.....but since Yvonne is always fantastic with cards.....we've gotten her to create at what she's really good with.
Keep a look out for it and be inspired by her other works too!

Check out her blog: http://simplyprincessy.wordpress.com/

Also....do check out her esty shop too :http://www.etsy.com/shop/simplyprincessy

Anyway she's done with her work for us and I've gotta say.....it's really nice! http://simplyprincessy.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/as-promised/

New Promo: Store Wide Discounts!

Surprise!!

It's a Store Wide Discount!

Don't miss out all the great and fantastic prizes!

Anyway, we're really sorry that we haven't blogged in depth in a long long while.....hope you all are still doing fine....scrapping away.....

If you are wondering why are we doing a store wide sale in the middle of no where....well...it's our little way of saying sorry for the coming month, April.

In April.....something big is going to happen to one of our member personally and we will be all pitching in helping out. We have decided to some temporary processing closure dates and there will also be lesser self collection dates next month as due to the temporary closures. Really sorry that this will disrupt some orders delivers during the processing closure dates, but we will do our upmost in getting everything out before the closure dates and also process the order as soon as possible when we get back.

Just to clarify, the online store will be still online and you can still place your orders just that there will be no order processing/delivery and self collection during the temporary closure dates. Everything will be as normal except on all those specific dates.

Details of Temporary processing closure dates

Self Collection Date in April: 28th April

No Self Collection in April on: 7th, 14th, 21st April

Temporary Processing Closure Dates: 7th Apr - 9th Apr

13th Apr - 24th Apr

Orders will still be processed and delivered on all other dates.

Thank you for all for understanding and continued support. We love you all!

New Promo: Feeling Braddy

Brads going at Better Prices

Don't miss out!

Look for it under the featured section.

March Guest Designer

Hi Everyone...

Sorry this comes alittle late....I've been very bogged down with life.....and we will be more bogged down this April due to personal reasons(we will let you all know more in the coming weeks)

Anyway.....would love to introduce you all to Meng Ying from all the way in Taiwan, Our guest designer for March.....

She will be providing us her layout sometime soon and in the meanwhile you can go to her blog to see her creation and her scrapbook journey....

Visit her blog today

New Arrival + New Promo: New BUT IT'S ON OFFER??!!!

We've been always grateful to our supporters for continuing to support us and we've been thinking of a way to show our gratefulness..........so We placed up an order for the latest range of Sassafras and decided to put these items on offer when it arrived.

Just our little way of saying "Thank You"

Don't miss out. Only from 24th - 28th Feb.

Check it out here

New Promo: Say it with... LETTERING

Check out Here

New Arrivals: Cosmo Cricket

Check out the New Arrivals from Cosmo Cricket: Material Girl+Joy Ride

Click Here

Growing the Carton

I guess you all would know by now that we have Prima onboard The Scrapbook Carton. I am very thrilled by this new addition and I hope you all would be too. The Scrapbook Carton has been going on for slightly more than a month and this process of growing The Carton has been really a fulfilling one.

There has been many happy moments and tough times that we went through while building The Carton. Having a new brand onboard really shows that growth The Carton has made but with all this growing that we will be doing, I always remind myself of one thing important:

"Less on Us, More for You"

We can add more brands and have more interesting events(The School of Carton Classes, Social Scrapbooking etc etc...) but it is important that we keep on a tight rope and not over burden ourselves with extra cost which would only end up trickling down to the end consumer. It is never fair to your true blue supporters over unnecessary business cost when your supporters are only people who create keepsakes for loved ones. We would love to pass on the savings to our supporters at the end of the day.

We will keep expanding the brands we have onboard and we will continuing sending those Cartons outs to our supporters with the vision of "Less on Us, More for You"

Thank you all for making The Scrapbook Carton

New Promo: The One Buck Wonder

Selected Patterned Paper going at $1.00 each.

Don't miss out!

Coming Soon: New Brand

Everyone's favorite flower is coming to The Scrapbook Carton - Next Week

Watch out!

Feb Guest Designer

Introducing.....

Aniza will be soon showcasing her layout on her blog for all to be inspired. Please do visit her blog

Can't wait to see her work :)

New Promo: Going over 60, Feels like 15

Wow! 2 special promos in a week....Guess we got alittle crazy from Embellish me crazy.

Anyway.....Hope you all enjoy both of it!

Don't miss out!

New Promo: Embellish me CRAZY

Embellishments at CRAZY PRICES, which leaves you crazy buying it or crazy missing out on it.

Visit us today at www.thescrapbookcarton.com

Beyond Memories.....

I've always mentioned that the basic of scrapbooking is creating a memory keepsake which is very important to each one of us......and I've learn alot of life from this amazing hobby. The wonderful things that a scrapper does.....

Not too long ago.....I was amazed by 2 scrapper, Yin Wen & Geraldine(who are also our teachers in The School of Carton). I was amazed by their friendship and bond. They have known each other for slightly more than 6 months but the sheer friendship that they share between each other cannot be described. It was scrapbooking through scrapbooking that they got to know each other as friends.

Sometimes it amazes me that something as simple as snipping and gluing of paper can build such bonds.......guess till now as I keep walking down this road, scrapbooking keeps showing me the other side of people to people relationships.

Somehow all this inspired me to create Social Scrapbooking. I wish to give other scrapper a chance to meet other scrapper's out there and maybe a chance to build new relationships and bonds with other like minded.

For more details,click here

Carton Membership

Hi Everyone,

We decided to reward our loyalist....with our Carton Membership.....More details below....

The School of Carton: New Class

Check out the new class from The School of Carton - A Basket of Blissful Joy

More details here

Latest Promo: I Heart Special

For all you love birds out there, it's a great chance for you to grab some American's Craft "I Heart You" at fantastic prices.

Don't miss out on this great deal......

Guest Designer of the Month: Jan 2010

Hi Everyone!

Our Guest Designer of the Month, Joanna is done with her layout out.....

Do read her blog to know the story behind her layout

The School is Moving...

Hi everyone!

Just alittle announcement.......The School of Carton is moving......No...not moving and breaking away from The Scrapbook Carton, just that at the rate the Carton is moving, The School of Carton needs alittle more of the space on its own and what we have coming up, we definitely need more web space for The School of Carton...

Please visit The official blog for The School of Carton here

http://theschoolofcarton.blogspot.com if you would like to manually key it in.

Please visit it for the latest information on classes and please look out as we would be starting a new form of class......oh wait....I don't even think I'll call it a class....well...I'll let you all know when things become more concrete....

Moving forward....

Tonight marks the end of the 2 promos.....Scrapper's Teabreak & Scrapper's Supper. Hope everyone got their fills on these 2 great offers......

I think we got through in moving scrap supplies at great prices to scrappers that it helps to lower the cost of scrapping....we'll still move in the same direction of "Less on Us, More for You"

But.....I'll like to move towards a new direction for scrappers....promote another wonderful thing of this hobby......keep a watch out as we move closer to each other......

Inspire.....

First I would like to introduce our very first Guest Designer of the Month, Joanna Lee!

She will be coming out with a layout next week to give everyone inspiration and introduce us to her style of work. Do visit her blog to see some of her work.

I really wish to bring scrapbooking back to the basics of scrapbooking. I was chatting with someone today and she told me that scrapbooking has become highly competitive within the community, everyone is comparing the style of work, effects they put onto their layouts etc etc.....

But isn't scrapbooking about retaining the memory of that precious moments..... That's why I started The Scrapbook Carton....I want to bring back the basic...one carton at a time..I remember creating a competition at the start asking everyone to tell their story from their scrapwork and the judging criteria gave a higher scoring to whoever content was better. The layout/design was secondary. That is because I wanted to bring back the culture and real ideas of scrapbooking.

I find memories are precious. Just as everyone, I have problems and tussles with my Dad. I go home from work feeling angry from our strained relationship.....but it's the memories of my happy times that bring me to the real truth to our relationship. It is beyond what happens at that heated moment but the memories when you think back.

I don't scrapbook but I know scrapbooking is really about treasuring those memories and I want to bring forth this cause I know how important those memories are to us.

Hope there are people out there who feel the same....and bring forth this message to every scrapper and bring back the basics......Inspire others with the basic and remind them of the memories and go beyond the desire to compete......and always to share your work with the intention to inspire others with your memory and not the design.

Take a first step and share us your story. Inspire.

The Carton Talks.....

We've gotten some feedback that a MSN Messenger would come in handy for some of our shoppers....so now..the Carton Talks.....

Do add us on MSN Messenger, thescrapbookcarton@hotmail.com!

We'll try out best to be online as much as possible..........Do apologize if we didn't meet up to expectation on the chatting time frame as we planned this out in an ad hoc manner....but we'll surely improve along the way....

Carton Chat with Us :)

If we're not online...do leave us a msg, we'll get back to you really really soon...

Upcoming Promo: Scrapper's Teabreak & Scrapper's Supper

Ever had one of those cravings that cannot be satisfied no matter what you have been downing? Cupcakes, chocolate, milk shake etc....But you still craving for more? Well....you're a scrapper and you've been consuming the wrong thing, you need more scrap supplies!!

Here we are to save the day with Scrapper's Teabreak(5th Jan 2010 - 3pm to 5pm) & Scrapper's Supper(7th Jan 2010 - 9pm to 11pm). During these special timings, 15 different items will drop to special prices to satisfy your ever growing love for scrapping. All you need to do is go to our online store and check out these items under the featured section.

Don't miss out!

Carton Collection.....

This is alittle late......but we had our Self Collection Wednesday a few days ago but I was too busy the last 2 days feeding hungry guest at my New Years Eve party that I didn't get to update the blog. Sorry, Sorry!

Anyway we had our own Carton Girl to conduct our Self Collection! Ta-Da!

The bad thing about it is that she will be only able to help us out for one more Self Collection Wednesday cause she'll be back to school so we'll be finding someone else to fill the shoes.

Self Collection is a great alternative to getting your scrap supplies, you totally SAVE on the shipping charges. Do consider it for your purchases if you are able to pick it up on Wednesday at Bishan MRT from 6.30pm-7.00pm. Just make sure that you get your orders in before 5pm every Tuesday to make it for Self Collection Wednesday. (Self Collection Wednesday is only for Singapore Orders)

The $1.00 Sassafras Paper offer would be ending soon so do take the chance to grab these paper at special prices. Do keep a look out as we would be launching our next promotion soon, keep a look out on our facebook and blog for the latest promotions.