Dinner & A Card Class 2012

The Mercantile is excited to host the

3^rd Annual

Dinner & A Card Class

Featuring

Sarah from The Paper Cut

And

Images and Dies from Impression Obsession

Spend the evening with Sarah, enjoy dinner and create 7 fabulous cards.

Use Impression Obsession background stamps in layers to create beautifully complex patterns quickly and easily on paper from The Paper Cut.   Add to that some of their new dies and you have a quick and easy card.

Papers and cards from The Paper Cut will include their holographic paper, window cards and overlays, scallop cards and more.

You will be amazed at how versatile the stamps are when used in combination with each other.  Your background paper will compliment your stamped/cut images perfectly!  No more trying to find patterned paper to ‘go’ with your projects, you can make it yourself.

Terri & Cindy from The Mercantile have again reserved the party room for this fun class and arranged for dinner at New York Pizza.

Sarah will be bringing a trunk show of the items used as well.

Class price includes all materials, one background stamp, dinner (pizza bar, salad bar & drink) and an evening filled with fun & creativity.

When: Friday, September 14^th, 2012 from 6 – 9 PM

Where: New York Pizza, 194 Civic Center Blvd., Anderson, SC

Class Price: $45 – payable by September 7, 2012

How to Register: Call The Mercantile 864-646-9431

When Life Gives You Limes - Make Pie

The title of the post is a quote from my nephew Ben.  I like it!

As some of you already know, Terri is having surgery tomorrow morning at 11.

The store will remain open.

Please check her note on our web site www.The MercantileStore.com  She explains why she is having surgery & what you can do to help out.

I will be posting updates here as I can.  But, if there isn't anything up here yet, call the store for details. 

Her surgery is scheduled to last nearly 3 hours.  And that being said, I do not know yet what time we will know anything.  Her husband Rodney will be at the hospital & will let us know as soon as he can, but his first priority is Terri.

Thank you all for being such wonderful people, friends & family.  Your support has been wonderful.

Cindy

Magenta Class Supply List

The supply list for the April 22 class is as follows:

• Various colors of Adirondack Alcohol Ink (I will have some but if they have their own, it will be faster) - the ones used here are Mountain Rose, Latte, Stonewashed
• Applicator and Felt. Blending Solution and craft sheet are convenient too
• Colored Pencils (ideally the Prismacolor Artist ones - not the Scholar ones which are too dry), Here 2-3 blue tones, ochre, brown and white for the birds -any color for the flowers, I have other samples -
• Pencil sharpener
• Frost White ColorBox
• Various colors of Cat’s Eyes (pigment ink only) - here are Roussillon, Old Rose, Dusty Plum...
• Scissors
• Adhesive
• Heat tool (I will have one with me only, we might need a couple more to make it faster – there is just a quick something to emboss)
  

If you do not have all of the supplies listed, there will be some available the day of class.

Payment is now being accepted... 

Magenta Rubber Stamps - April 22 Class

These are the 3 cards Nathalie Metivier from Magenta will teach

Finally!  After a few unsuccessful attempts, I have been able to post Nathalie's photo here.


We have just a few seats left!


We are taking payment now as well.  And I will post the materials list for you in a couple of hours... (I need to get dinner ready first.)

Help for a friend in need...

I am having difficulties posting the scanned poster...

Our friend Evin Evans of Split Creek Farms here in Pendleton is currently fighting for her life due to a fatal lung disease.  A double lung transplant is her only option.  She has bee accepted into the lung transplant programs at both Emory (Atlanta) and MUSC (Charleston).  She is struggling with massive medical expenses beyond what her insurance pays.  After surgery, her anti-rejection drugs will have to be taken for the rest of her life.

Evin's church has started the Evin's Lung Fund (ELF) account.  Anyone can make a tax-deductible contribution to help by writing a check to:

North Anderson Community Church Presbyterian (NACCP)

Attn: Lane Pitts, Treasurer

4200 Liberty Hwy

Anderson, SC 29621

memo line - ELF project

You may also send donations to

SunTrust Bank

Attn: Renee York

Evin Evan's Medical Fund

907 North Main Street

Anderson, SC 29621

There will also be a SPAGHETTI SUPPER on Friday, February 25, 2011 from 4 - 7:30 PM at the church.

Eat in or take out available...

Suggested minimum donation $10/ticket

Tickets are available at Split Creek Farm, NACCP plus both Mountain Made & The Mercantile in downtown Pendleton.

Please help us help a friend in need.  If you know Evin, you know she would do whatever she could to help another, now it is her turn.

Follow Evin's progress at www.caringbridge.org/visit/evinevans

THANK YOU for your help!

Sample Pics...

Here are some photos of the Flower Soft (tm) and some samples made by the company, Terri, one of our customers who is a friend-who-is-like-family and myself... this 'stuff' is SO much fun!

Update...

For those of you who do not follow us on Facebook, here is a photo of Mom (Connie) taken yesterday afternoon at the Girlfriend's Tea to benefit the Cancer Association of Anderson.
Believe it or not, she had chemo just the day before!
The oncologist lowered the dosage of the chemo to hopefully keep her white blood count from dropping so much. She has completed two of the three treatments in this cycle. The last will be on Friday. Two weeks after that the oncologist will determine whether he feels she should take another cycle or if it is enough.
We can visibly see that the nodules have receded!
We are ever so appreciative of the outpouring of support, prayers, well wishes and positive thoughts from all of you and from so many friends we have never met, all over the world.
THANK YOU ALL!

Have we got tickets for you!!!

Just around the corner there are two (YES - TWO) rubber stamp 'conventions'.
We have tickets for BOTH!

The first is the Heirloom Lawrenceville Rubber Stamp & Paper Arts Festival at the Gwinnett County Fair in Lawrenceville, GA. That one is the weekend of February 6 & 7, 2010. The cost for that one is $6 in advance (good for both days) with admission at the door being $8 on Saturday and $6 on Sunday. For more information you can go to www.heirloompro.com

The second show is the Stamp Scrap Art Tour at the Jamil Temple Hall in Columbia, SC the weekend of February 13 & 14, 2010. That one costs $5 in advance, $6 at the door. You can go to www.stampscraparttour.com for more information.

Enjoying vacation...

We are enjoying our vacation, but miss our customers/friends...
We will be back on Monday morning though (July 6)... ready to go!
Cindy is checking the email daily (mercantinc@aol.com) so, if you need anything desperately, let her know...
Looking forward to next week, see you then!