What is this Carolina Shop Hop?

You may have heard the buzz about a new event happening next month right here in the Upstate!

What is it?  You ask.  The first EVER Carolina Shop Hop for rubberstamping, scrapbooking & paper arts!

It will run from October 16 - 27 and has 11 stores in the Upstate and Western NC participating.

ALL shops will have free make & takes AND 20% off their crafting supplies!  WOW!

The organizers have compiled some gifts to give for those who visit 8 or more shops as well as those who visit all 11 in the 2 weeks!  YES!  FREE goodies!  Who doesn't like that???

The cost for a ticket is a mere $15.00.  With the ticket (which will be stamped at each store visited) there will also be a tote bag with the Carolina Shop Hop logo (to carry around all of those fabulous deals you will get at each store).

In an earlier post, I listed some of the extra things we will be doing for our 'Home Hoppers' (those who purchase their ticket from The Mercantile.)  These includes an entry into a special drawing JUST FOR 'HOME HOPPERS' for a $30 Mercantile Gift Certificate!

We are also having a tag contest, rules are available in an earlier post, or at the Mercantile.  (I just finished running off some more copies...)

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.