QuicKutz Warehouse Sale

The QuicKutz Warehouse Sale is extending its reach from Utah-only, to the whole world over!

If you are in Utah, join us on Thursday and Friday, April 1st and 2nd, for great deals on QuicKutz products. We’ll have new and old dies available at deep discounts, some up to 80% off the original retail price. It’s an event you won’t want to miss!

If you are living outside of Utah, shop online at www.quickutz.com and click the warehouse sale link on the home page. You’ll be directed to a list of these same products for the same discounts.

As a thank you to our customers, we’re offering $5 off your purchase of $20 or more. Simply print out the coupon to use at the sale, or use the online coupon code QKSALE10 at checkout!



Happy shopping!

The QuicKutz Team

Spring into Crafting Reminder

You readers are a creative bunch!

We’ve had a lot of fun viewing your submissions to the Spring into Crafting contest. If you haven’t submitted your project yet, there is still time! The deadline is tomorrow, April 1^st, for an entry to win $100 in QuicKutz cash. For more details, click here.

Best of luck, crafters!

QuicKutz

QuicKutz Warehouse Sale

Calling all QuicKutz fans!

The warehouse sale that brings scrapbookers from near and far will be underway April 1^st and 2^nd at our Utah QuicKutz headquarters. Your favorite QK products, including new and old dies, will be on sale up to 80% off the original retail price. We’re even selling some of our original Squeeze tools, just for kicks!

Bring this coupon for $5 off your purchase of $20 or more for additional savings.

Doors will open at 11 a.m. on both Thursday and Friday.

See you soon!

The QuicKutz Team

QK Warehouse Sale
7 S. 1550 W.
Lindon, UT 84042

Thursday, April 1st
11 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Friday, April 2nd
11 a.m. – 8 p.m.

Directions to QuicKutz:

I-15 Southbound:
Take exit #273 toward Lindon
Turn right at 1600 N.
Take the 1st right onto Geneva Rd.
Take the 2nd left onto 200 S.
Take the 3rd right onto 1550 W.
Follow to the end of the road- the back of the QK building will be on your right.

I-15 Northbound:
Take exit 273 toward Pleasant Grove/Lindon
Turn left at 1600 N.
Take the 1st right onto Geneva Rd.
Take the 2nd left onto 200 S.
Take the 3rd right onto 1550 W.
Follow to the end of the road- the back of the QK building will be on your right.

Coloring Eggs

Hi everyone! This is Julie from the QuicKutz design team. I’m back with my version of a decorative tabletop tree for Easter. And, of course, what would an Easter tree be like without coloring eggs?

I must say, I love Amber Packer’s Spring Tree featured on the QuicKutz blog earlier this month! I love the twigs—how cool is that with her embellished eggs?! Her post inspired me to get out my own tree and decorate it. The tree I’m using is called The Tree of Life. I bought it from my local scrapbook store with the intentions of decorating it for each holiday. Well, that was back in November and now I’m finally getting around to it!

First, I gathered my supplies. I knew I wanted to use fabric on my tree and I also had some thin wood veneer I thought would look cool.

My supply list:

QuicKutz Nesting Eggs
Flowers Rev-0016
Birds Rev-0143
Butterfly Rev-0166
Beads Border 014
Scallops Border 009
Cardstock
Patterned paper
Flocked paper
Wood veneer
Fabric
Ribbon and twine
Buttons
Stick pins
Maya Mist
Ink pads and stamps

Now for the fun part—coloring eggs! I cut my eggs from various materials. The fabric cut like a charm through my Epic tool, as did the wood veneer. I also cut cardstock eggs to back the fabric eggs, giving them more stability and a nice finished look.

For my first egg, I used adhesive-backed fabric and pulled out my sewing machine. Yikes! I am not a seamstress by any means! My husband does the mending in our house. I can’t sew a straight line for the life of me! But, I said to myself, “That’s okay, Julie. Just have fun!” Sew (haha), I pinned ruffles out of my ribbon and sewed it onto the fabric egg.

I embellished with a button and punched a hole at the top of the egg for the ribbon.

When I cut the wood veneer egg, I knew I wanted to use twine and stamps with it. First, I stamped a pennant banner across the egg and then stamped a birdie sitting on the banner. (Banners are all the rage right now! I’m seeing them in all kinds of craft projects and they are so cute!)

I then finished it off with the twine wrapped around the egg. And again, punched a whole for ribbon at the top to hang my egg on the tree.

I decorated more fabric eggs with flowers using the Rev0016 flower die. I cut the flowers from cardstock and patterned paper, crumpled them for more dimension and then layered them.

Once again, I used my sewing machine to sew a circle pattern in the middle of the flower. (Remember how I said I wasn’t good with the sewing machine? Well, it’s not a great circle pattern—it’s just kind of a random circle.)

I then adhered my flower to the fabric egg and embellished it with a button.

The next egg is a birdie egg, which I feel like is so cute, and so easy!

I cut the birdie from white-flocked paper and then cut the wing from fabric. I sewed the wing on with a zigzag stitch—now I was getting fancy with that sewing machine!

I adhered the bird to my fabric egg and used a bead for the eye. On all the fabric eggs, I frayed the edges just a little to give them more texture.

The last egg I made has more traditional coloring. I spritzed the eggs with three different colors of Maya Mist. (I’ve also seen use of the Maya Mist a lot lately—I felt it was perfect for egg-decorating.) I used Cornflower, Cotton Candy and Cream mists and they gave a blue, pink and yellow color to my ivory cardstock egg. I always mist in a shallow box to keep the mist from getting all over the place. As you can tell, I’ve used that box for a lot of misting projects!

To decorate the misted eggs, I layered a bead border over a scalloped border (using QuicKutz Cookie Cutter Border Dies) and then embellished with beads.

I felt the eggs I created were great for my tree, but it needed something else, so I cut some butterflies from cardstock and layered them with patterned paper. I then sewed a zigzag stitch down the center of each butterfly.

I then embellished the butterflies with stickpins. The pins stick right in between the stitches on the butterfly and add a little bling to them.

Decorating the tree was fun and I had a little help from my 3-year old neighbor. She hung the eggs, and I rearranged them! I placed the butterflies on the tree and I still felt it needed a little something, so I tore strips of fabric and randomly tied them on the tree.

The tree now sits on my foyer table and adds a nice festive feel to the room. Now just to decorate it for the next holiday!

A special thanks to Design Team member Julie for this darling project!

Spring into Crafting

Have you created a Spring project that you’ve displayed in your home or craft space? Do you have the perfect favor idea for your Easter dinner? Have you made an innovative Spring card? If so, we want to see them!

Simply send us a photo of your work, and our panel of judges will choose the project with the most creativity and best use of QuicKutz dies. The winner will receive $100 in QuicKutz cash, along with a blog entry showcasing their winning project. Who knows, we may like so many, we’ll feature several of your projects!

Email your photo with the subject line “Spring Contest” to asmith@quickutz.com, along with your name and mailing address by March 31, 2010. We will announce the winner on April 5th.

Good luck, crafters! And happy Spring!

Three Little Birdies

If you’ve stepped into a craft or home décor shop recently, you’ve probably noticed that birds and bird cages have become very popular. Our designers took this trend to the next level by showcasing our bird shape in a great new way inside of the bird cage! This bird die looks great on layouts and cards, but it can also be used as a fun décor piece.

The best part is that it’s so easy to create this look for your own home.

1. Find a bird cage you love.

2. For each bird, die cut the same shape four times. (We used shape REV-0144-S.)
Hint: In order for the shapes to line up, you will need to face the paper down toward the die on two die cuts, and facing up on the other two die cuts.

3. Glue two of your die cuts together, with the patterned side facing out. Do this again for the other set of die cuts. You will then have two birds.

4. Chalk the edges of each bird for definition.

5. Glue both birds together, with a ribbon or string affixed in the middle. Make sure not to glue the entire sides of the birds together. To make the bird three dimensional, you will only need to glue the bodies and head, leaving the wings separate.

6. Tie the other end of the ribbon to the top of the bird cage, which will allow the bird to hang inside the cage.

7. Duplicate this process for each additional bird.

Use the completed bird cage as an inexpensive house-warming gift, or just keep it for your own home to display during the spring!

Spring Tree

Designer Amber Packer is full of good scrapbooking, stamping, and die-cutting ideas. So many ideas, in fact, she regularly shares them with viewers on Good Things Utah, a local tv show targeted towards women. She has taken QuicKutz products onto the show many times, always receiving a warm and welcome response from both the hosts and the viewers.

Below are a few of the projects she made for Good Things Utah this past week. Behold! The Spring Tree.

This is a great way to change out pieces on the tree for the different holidays this spring!

Check out Amber's blog for more great crafting ideas! http://www.bloominmemories.typepad.com/