August Monthly Challenge Reminder

You only have four days left to enter our challenge. See previous post for details. So hurry and get your submission in. There will be a yummy glimmery prize for the winner! Also, our September crop is filling up fast, be sure to sign up to reserve your spot. Check out the calendar for all of our upcoming events.

Go to Scrap Pink in Style!

Local artist Samantha Welch has created earrings, stretchy bracelets, and scissor/cell phone charms featuring breast cancer awareness ribbons for you to wear at Scrap Pink. Purchase these and Samantha will deliver them to you at the event and donate 25% of all proceeds to Scrap Pink!

Scissor Charms - $8 each

Stretch Bracelet - $10 each

Earrings - $10 a pair

Contact Diva April at divinedesertdivas@gmail.com to place your order. See you at Scrap Pink!!

----Jennifer

Hesperia Farmer's Market and High Desert Etsy Street Team

There's a whole crafts movement up here in the High Desert that I want to share with you!!

First, I've been having a booth at the Hesperia Farmer's Market on Wednesday nights from 3-8pm. I was there these past two weeks and I'll be back again on September 16th and 30th. Here are some pics of what I was selling:

Some of these handmade cards I am selling for $1!!

Yes, I sell more than just scrappy stuff. I recently got into making barrettes and headbands for Katie and to sell. My husband also makes headbands, from neckties, like those above. He takes custom orders too! Just email me to find out more: hydrangeahippo[at]yahoo[dot]com.

Here is some of the scenery, courtesy of my son:



It was pretty toasty but nice to see new faces, say hello to friends, and just be outside, socializing. Diva April and Itty came to visit me too--thanks for the support!

Last week a fellow member of the High Desert Etsy Street Team shared my booth. Another member also sells Tupperware and her handmade purses at the Market. Each week I have a booth, please be sure to stop by and see which Etsians (that's what people who sell on Etsy are called) have teamed up to offer you unique handmade goods. Christmas comes up fast so get out there and shop!

If you've never heard of Etsy, it's like an online store for only handmade items and crafting supplies. It's a little bit like eBay in that anyone can sign up to sell or buy. Unlike eBay, the prices of the items are fixed so they don't go up from auction bidding. Also, the items stay listed for several months. Sellers who have common interests can start up Street Teams where they get a page and can set up a blog to promote their etsy shops together. So that is what the High Desert Etsy Street Team is -- all the Etsy sellers who live in the High Desert!

Today I was interviewed and it was posted up on our blog:

http://etsyhighdesert.blogspot.com/

If you have a moment, please check it out and follow our blog. There's alot of crafters up here and craft supplies for sale and this is how you can find out about them.

Happy Crafting
---Jennifer

August Birthdays

We always try to celebrate the birthdays of the months. It is never an oversite if we miss you, most likely we did not have your information.

Diva Pat and Diva Joy loved their little giftees.

"What a group of Divas"

August Diva Crop

Wow, what a roomful we had. Laughter and great fellowship all nite long.

Diva Joy was crowned Diva of the Nite.

Getting Ready for the Diva Crop

August Monthly Challenge

This months challenge to you is to create a layout using memorabilia as a design element of your page. All too often we get caught up in buying all kinds of fancy embellishments when we already have a ready made embellishment in our ticket stubs, brochures, matchbooks, and postcards that we collect from those memorable events in our lives. So for this month I challenge you to use those items you have collected as an embellishment on your page. The person who comes up with the most creative use for memorabilia on their layout will win a prize from me, and remember, I am the glimmer mist girl, so I am not going to give away the surprise, but it could involve something yummy from Tattered Angels! So get those creative wheels turning, and lets see some layouts! Just email us your pictures and your name and email address at divinedesertdivas@gmail.com and your phone number too please.

Scrap Pink update!

Scrap Pink is about 6 weeks away--are you registered? We still have space available so sign up now!! All the details can be found on the Scrapbook Royalty page: http://scrapbookroyalty.com/scrappink.html

Cupcakes for A Cure
ScrapPink Crop 2009

Sept 26, 2009

9am-9pm

Hesperia, CA

In addition, we just got confirmation that the fabulous and fun Nan Paturzo of Zutter Bind It All will be our Mistress of Ceremonies!!


She'll also be raffling off some fabulous Zutter products while she is there.

Speaking of raffles, these items were just added:

• A Year's Worth of Coffee from Farmer Brothers
• A Haircut and Style from Lil D' Hair & Nails 760-948-0500
• A Tattered Angels basket donated by our own Glimmer Mist Diva, Cheryl McAdam
• A HUGE Prima goodie basket from PrimaDonna Jennifer Priest
• And more to come!!!
  

We know this economy is tough but we all want to raise as much as we can to fight breast cancer. 100% of the proceeds from the raffle tickets we sell will be donated to the Susan G Komen Foundation through Scrap Pink!!

To help reach our goal, we're going to start selling raffle tickets RIGHT NOW!! And we're offering special incentives for anyone who does this:

• Buy 10 tickets, get 1 FREE
• Buy 20 Tickets, get 10 FREE
• Buy 100 tickets, get 100 FREE (yeah, that is double!!)
• More goodies to be announced!!
  

You can buy the tickets all at once or spread it out over the month--we're closing ticket pre-sales on September 20. You'll receive the tickets with your goodie bag when you check in at the crop so you don't need to worry about losing any tickets during the month.

At the crop we'll set up the raffle baskets and you'll slip your ticket into a dish in front of each basket. Just "bid" on the baskets you want by slipping tickets into the corresponding dish. Then we'll draw one winner for each basket.

How can you buy tickets?
You can buy them in person from any of the Divas (like at the crop this Friday night). If you aren't local to the High Desert, just email us at divinedesertdivas@gmail.com to arrange payment. You can buy 10 a week if you want--however you'd like to set it up ;)

Tickets are $2 each or 20 tickets for $20 (that's the best deal).

So if you haven't registered for Scrap Pink yet,
What are you waiting for?!

Here's the link to the registration page:
http://siteapplication.com/scrapbookroyalty/register.asp

We'll see you there!!

Market Night - TONIGHT

Tonight I'll be at the Hesperia Farmer's Market from 3-8pm!! I've got deals on past class kits, lots of supplies like blank canvases, paper bag & canvas mini books, items from my etsy shop, and loads of shaped sequins. I will also have some handmade items like pincushions and hair clips that you can only get at the market. Come on down!

Hesperia, CA
Off 9th and Juniper, behind City Hall and the Library
3-8pm. Wednesday August 12, 2009

From Victorville/Barstow/Phelan: Take Main Street East. Turn LEFT on 9th Street (light with Carl's Jr on the right hand side). Turn RIGHT on Juniper. You'll see the market in the park on the left.

From Apple Valley take Hesperia Road South. Turn RIGHT on Yucca. LEFT on 3rd Street. RIGTH onto Main Street. Turn RIGHT on 7th Street. LEFT on Juniper and you'll see the park on your right.



You can come sign up for ScrapPink at my booth in case you have not registered yet. I just got confirmation today that Tricia from Canon will be at Scrap Pink to demo their new photo printers and cameras for FREE!!! So bring your memory cards! You won't want to miss out on this crop and all the fun fun fun we'll have!

Diva Aprile will be visiting my booth at the Market during the night as well! You can get info about our crops, sign up for our email list, and of course check out Scrap Pink inof.

See you there!!

WE HAVE A WINNER FOR THE JULY DDD CONTEST

THIS IS THE WINNING ENTRY FROM OUR JULY BLOG CONTEST.!!!!!!!!!!!! WHOO HOO
OUR BLOG CANDY FOR THE MONTH OF JULY GOES TO, NONE OTHER THAN
1psychostamper. So please drop an email to the divinedesertdivas@gmail.com so that we can arrange to get your blog candy to you.

We Cropped Like Divas!

We had a blast cropping and breaking in my new crop space last Friday July 31!! There was tons of yummy food too, plus carne asada. I got a yummy cheeseball mix from Collective Journey that morning when I dropped off my yard sale stuff. The cheese ball probably lasted all of 10 mins at the crop!

Here are the culprits who ate it! LOL

Talk about an embellie bar! I had a little place set up to buy embellies plus a glitter bar!! Yummy!






We used my Countdown Calendar that I made using the Display It All from Zutter to keep track of completed projects throughout the night, cards, mini album pages, layouts...each person who completed one of these got a ticket. They also got a raffle ticket for bringing a potluck dish and bringing a friend.

Every five layouts/projects completed I drew a name from the raffle tickets and they got to choose a prize from my mega prize stash--there were even QK dies in there! It was super fun.

Nikki did the first layout of the night:


Once we reached 50 projects done I let everyone choose 3 items each from the prize box. Too bad most everyone else had left by this time--it was close to midnight when we reached 50!

Here are some snapshots of the projects Nikki and Ashley made to help us reach 50:




The reason the Divas turned in early is because they were exhausted after making all of these goodie bags for ScrapPink:

Check out Aprile! LOL Those goodie bags messed her hair up good! LOL

The night was not free from jokes either:




You kind of had to be there ;) So next time I hope you will join us for a fun crop!! We had a great time and there was room for a few more people. So I hope you'll join us next month at my house in Hesperia on August 28th from 5pm to ???

See you there!