hehehe...

While the cat is away, the mice will play!

Since Carol has abandoned me, again, to go on a oh-so-wonderful cruise...my form of payback is to have a large amount of orders for when she gets back that she has to ship out. Those sun-soaking, dolphin playing, margarita drinking days will be LONG gone when she gets her tanned butt back to all the snow!

SO! Here's the deal. 10% off of any orders that come in between today and Saturday night at 9pm! Let's make her wish she never left me here at home, unmanned at the computer with all of the admin stuff to do...hehehe *evil grin*

The promo code is "cruise"

I want her to WORK when she gets home!!! muahahaha

Remember to get those cards for the contest in!!

Announcing Our Design Team!

After all of the anticipation we are going to release the names of those who were chosen to be part of the Class Act and Chapel Road Design Team! Thank you to all of those who applied; the decisions were not easy by any means!

So, after much deliberation...

Chapel Road Design Team
Barbara Washington
Gini Williams
Holly Brown
Suzanne Czosek
and Chelsea Barnes, who is also our DT coordinator!

Class Act Design Team
Claudine Poch
Dawn Bennett
Donna Duquette
Sheila Bartlett
and Chelsea Barnes

Sue Allen has also been promoted to being my own personal Blog Assistant! Yay!! She'll help me keep this blog hoppin' with fun ideas and crafty creations!

One of the tasks of the Design Team is to send in a biography along with a picture so that we get a glimpse into the life of each and every individual, along with their artistic flare!

Congratulations, Ladies! And special thanks to Chelsea who helped Carol put all of this together in a short period of time!

Thanks so much everyone!
Your Class Act Insider

P.S. DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE CONTEST THAT CLOSES NEXT WEEKEND! Get your projects in! :-)

Call Out for a Design Team!

Hi everyone!

Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!
I'm at it again, since work has calmed down and I'm not working 14 days straight! Woohoo, life, I missed you!

I have some very exciting news for all of you! And since you're my fabulous bloggers, like always, you get the scoop before anyone else! Class Act and Chapel Road is now accepting applications for a design team! There will be a seperate design team for each company. If you are interested, please contact Carol directly at sales@classact.ca with a Subject Heading of "Design Team" for more information and she'll tell you everything you need to know about expectations and the application process! We are looking for 4 designers per company! The deadline for the completed application is January 17th, 2011. Members who are chosen to be on the team will be notified no later than January 20th, 2011.

On another note, it's a new year, so let's get a fresh start on this contest-thang!
The current theme is going to be "Winter," so pull out all of your blues, whites, snowflakes, and whatever else you have and let's see what you got! Remember, you must use either a Class Act or Chapel Road stamp. Contest deadline is January 30th, 2011. There are many stamps available on our website at http://classact.ca that you could get crafty with. Winner will receive a free stamp!

Speaking of which, we have put up some new stamps and accessories on the site! Personally, and I am a little biased here since I picked it out, but we have some kick-butt cardstock now! The website pictures don't really do it justice...but the glitter paper is fabulous! Each 8 1/2" x 11" piece is only $0.49! Find it here.

We're also working on putting a bunch of cute embellishments on the site for awesome prices :-) None of this Michael's need-a-40%-off-coupon business.

Anyways, I think that is all to update on now! Hope all is well with everyone and to hear from you soon!

Raychel

Hi everyone,
Sorry I haven't posted contest results. I have 3 jobs on the go now, and things have been really busy. Aside from that, we only received one entry for our Remembrance Day contest, and two for Christmas so it's been a little discouraging.

Sue Allen was our only contestant for Remembrance Day (even though 9 of you voted for it! tisk tisk!!)
Here, Sue used the Class Act tree (not on the website yet) and Chapel Road Brick Artishapes. Very sweet card!!












And for Christmas Sue Allen and Therese Malak entered!

Here is Sue Allen's card. She used a Class Act Christmas Tree (again not on the site...jeez!! I thought we had most of these guys on there already!!) and Class Act's Christmas Blessings.
Great job, Sue!











This is Therese Malak's card! She used Class Act's Large Snowflake (ohhh it's on the site! Woohoo!!). I love the colour scheme :)















Now...since these two ladies are my #1 participants in all contests, I didn't want anyone to pick a card, per sey, since I said we weren't sending out prizes to each contestant everytime...SO...I happened to get new pets on Saturday (Chinchillas) so I had my girl, Kiki, choose the winner! Here is a video of that process!



Sorry about the last 11 seconds of the video...I had to catch her and forgot to turn the camera off!! LOL! Congratulations, Therese! Rubbahhhhh coming your way!!

Well everyone, I think I'm going to put the contests on a hiatus until I can find a way to get more entries. If you have any ideas, please let me know. We currently advertise on this blog, as well as a CST and Yahoo! groups. Hopefully we can get some more contests going in the New Year - I can imagine everyone is really busy with Christmas and the holidays coming up!

Thanks everyone!

Your Class Act Insider

Halloween Contest Results

Hi all,
So our Halloween contest closed on Sunday. I only received cards from three participants - I hope there wasn't any electronic errors. They fooled around with my email and changed some things so it wasn't working for a day or so - please let me know if this was the case and you didn't hear back from me that I did receive your card.
Here are the entries:




Sue Allen got really creative and turned Chapel Road spooky!! She used Chapel Road's Thistle Etc. to make this card!! Well done on stretching the imagination!!
















Sue Allen used Class Act's Witch stamp! So Halloween night-like!

















Cindy Baker used Class Act's Cat with Pumpkins. Happy Halloween Bones, AND Spider Web! I'm loving the colours!













Therese Malak used a Class Act Mermaid that has yet to be released. She won this from a previous contest! Very creative, Therese!














Okay SO...this is going to be the last contest we are doing this for, but all three participants are going to receive a prize! Ladies, please send me your addresses so I can send you your stamp.
Try to entice your friends to get going on our next contests! There were 7 votes for Remembrance Day, so I am reallllllllllly expecting to see some pretty cards!!!

Next Contest:
Remembrance Day: Contest Closes November 14th at 5:00pm.
Christmas: Contest Closes November 21th at 5:00pm.

Thanks everyone!!

New contests!

Helllooooo!!
So, I thought I would start off this post with a picture of Andrew and I helping to set up at Scrapfest on Thursday night. We have a table with wheels to bring stuff in from the truck...and that is how Andrew transported me for most of the evening. Life is good!

Anyways! The poll for determining our next contest is now closed, and Remembrance is our winner with 7 votes! Christmas had 3 votes. SO...this is my thinking...since Remembrance seems to be a hot category (and that I just had Mom in panic mode for a week trying to make a Remembrance line...) I'm going to run that contest until November 14 (my birthdayyyy!!! huzzah!!).

Howeverrrrr...I do realize that Christmas is coming up - and quick (66 days, 1 hour, and 44 minutes to be exact....but who's counting?). I was thinking that all of you are probably Christmas card makers instead of store bought - because personally, if I ever got caught buying one from the store I would probably be shot on the spot by all of my friends. SO!! The month of November is going to have a little more action than the last few months! The Remembrance contest will close on November 14, and the Christmas contest will close on November 21. There's a week break, but you can send in entries to either contest at any time. P.S. for you Chapel Road fans, we do have a new release of Chapel Road Christmas stamps out if you haven't checked them out already!

The Halloween contest is ending on Sunday, October 24 - which is coming up really soon! We already have some entries, and from what I hear you bloggers are getting CrEaTiVe...I like it!!!

Okay team - I made Mom do some damage by creating a Remembrance Day line...don't give her reason to kill me!! Eeeeek!!!! I know you couldn't live a day without seeing what trouble I get up to...and for you who have been asking...she hasn't kicked me out yet!! *phew*

Have a great night everyone!!

Raychel

Remembrance Day Release!

Hi everyone!
I just got home from work and saw that Carol has been up to no good this afternoon!! Well, let me rephrase...no good in the sense that husbands/boyfriends would see it. She was card making with our brand new line (which has been released TODAY!!) that is all about Remembrance Day! Or, in the US, Veteran's Day.

I don't want to give you a history lesson, but incase you want a condensed version of why Remembrance Day is what it is...here it is!
Remembrance Day is such a special day that commemorates the end of World War I in 1918. November 11 is the day when Germany signed the Armistice which stopped hostilities. This was signed on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month...November 11, at 11:00am. Every year we not only remember the lives that were lost through military and civilian battles during the First World War, but also those who have given up their lives for the world to be the way it is today since then.

The poppy is a popular symbol of Remembrance Day. After battles had taken place, the landscape was barren. Soldiers were buried, and the once barren land were soon populated by poppies.

Due to the votes on the poll so far, we created this line specifically for you! And if it wins the poll, these will be your options to play with!

I understand that links in the blog have not worked in the past - but rest assured we have had them fixed so that they will take you to the site now!

Let me know what you guys think!!

Raychel