So we’ve received some gorgeous valetine days scrapbooking supplies. My favorite is the card making kits and lolly pop kit since that is what I’ll be using. Chanelle, my 3 year old, loves making her own designs, so this will be perfect for her to give out cards to herfriends at school.
If you need a simple idea, you can help your child make special cards for her friends, attach one of the lollypops with some ribbon & glue.
Voila! a perfect valentines gift.
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Harmonie and I had a lot of fun at the family camp fair on Sunday. For those of you unable to make it, you missed out: lots of great SWAG and fun conversation with other camp people.
Anyway,
Our camps for the summer are offically posted on our website: just click here
We are closing out each session at 10 kids so be sure to sign up early!
Today we will be at the New York Family Camp Fair with a table promoting our awesome 2010 lineup of NYC summer camp programs! We are really excited to be offering camps that incorporate art appreciation, photography and crafts. We will be set up at the fair at the Upper West Side Congregation Rodeph Shalom at 7 West 83rd St. Come by and see us!!
Here is an overview of the camps we are offering this summer:
Bearden Collage & Museum Mini Camp
“A Walk Around the Block with Romare Bearden”
Day 1: Introduction to Romare Bearden
Through literacy and media, students will be introduced to Romare Bearden’s unique style of collage and start to think about our own collage creations
Day 2: Sketches & The Block
Discussions of The Block will lead us onto the street to draft our own blocks. Students will make connections to his block and our blocks and will attempt to reproduce a similar style when drafting.
Day 3: Museum Trip to the MET
By visiting The Block at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, students will be able to look closely at details. Students will work to translate the details from The Block to the details to be added in their block. Students will be excited to get back to the classroom and work on their collages.
Day 4: Collage Creation
Students will successfully use their drafts, photographs and noted details to create their collages. They will look Bearden inspired and students will be able to discuss his influence.
Day 5: Narratives & Presentation
Students will record their written narratives and virtually comment on their classmates work using Voice Thread. Students will successfully describe how their block acts as a reflection of both Bearden’s The Block and the neighboring community.
Photography & Art Journaling Mini Camp
Day 1: Its all about film! Go back in time using plastic toy Holga cameras to experience the basics of photography. Then get introduced to the art of collage and journaling to start your week in the life journal.
Day 2: Go out and shoot! While taking portraits of yourself and others, learn how to see things through the lens of a camera. Or better yet, don’t look, just snap.
Day 3: Journaling is about seeing as well as writing. Combine the two and work on the weekly life art journal.
Day 4: Control the light in the studio. Take different style portraits of each other when you can freeze the environment. This day will involve use of a digital SLR camera.
Day 5: Finally, have fun with pictures taken during in-class contests in the morning. In the afternoon finishing touches will be made to the weekly journal.
Camp Memory Book Mini Camp
Day 1: Its all about learning the basics of making a memory book and choosing the mementos to go into the book.
Day 2: We will learn about journaling and telling more about your camp experience.
Day 3: Learn some cool new techniques to help make the book unique. From stamping to embossing.
Day 4: Add something special to the book from flowers to cool trinkets to awesome embellishments!
Day 5: Finally we will put the finishing touches on the book and make sure you leave with a complete book to show all your friends.
Also Featuring: Afternoon Camp Memories
Afternoon Camp Memories will be held every Wednesday afternoon through July. It will be less structured than the mini camps. Children will be encouraged to create projects to preserve some of their favorite camp moments. Instructors will be on hand to help make layouts, mini books, full albums, or keepsake boxes. Instructors will also be on hand to teach many new techniques from painting to embossing to stamping. Guaranteed fun in a no fuss environment!
Valetine’s Day is right around the corner. Here in NYC, it’s time to send those ultra-adorable portraits to friends and family around the country. So here are some of our latest shoots. We loved taking pictures of these cuties in our photo studio.
Aren’t these little ones adorable!
so just incase anyone was not aware, we are having a huge massive sale. and NO, we are NOT going out of business. Infact, very far from it.
The reason for the sale is, and this is going to be a long drawn out analogy I am warning you now: is that just as designers and clothing stores have winter styles and spring styles, so do scrapbooking supplies.
I know, I know, flowers are flowers, buttons are buttons but that is SO not the case.
Try this: go walk around Michaels and then come to PortraitBug and walk around and you will note a huge difference – a similar difference between Old Navy and Bloomingdales. Old Navy is cheap, mass produced items in hundreds of different colors all looking, in the end, generally similar (i’m wearing Old Navy today for the record). Bloomies is specialized, top notch items made with very high quality materials.
We are the Bloomingdales of scrapbooking supplies. What we carry is handpicked for the store and designed with teams of people behind each flower.
We carry designer lines like Sassafrass lass, Basic Grey, Jillibean Soup, Prima, Cosmo Cricket etc.
Next week is the Crafts and Hobby Association convention when all the new spring styles for the aformentioned designer lines will be previewed and sold to retail shops, like us.
SO, long story short, we need to clean out the winter styles so we have room for the spring styles.
we have TWO MORE DAYS of sale and 35% off is a LOT, much more than our staff discount of 25%. And I have spent almost all of my paycheck this month. So please, come buy things, stock up while its cheap, so that we can make room on our walls for the new spring styles.
Meet Kelly Senyei! This food journalist came in to PortraitBug for headshots and brought some fabulous cooking props with her! Check out her food blog:
http://justataste.com/about-just-a-taste/
In addition to our classic black and white backdrops, we now have pink and blue backdrops available!
I just booked a birthday party here at PortraitBug for a sweet little girl named Kaia! We had a great time doing her invitation photo shoot and designing her beautiful invitations together with her mom. We just found out we’d gotten some good reviews on the web and thought we’d share them with you! We love having birthday parties here!
http://gocitykids.parentsconnect.com/attraction/PortraitBug-Scrapbooking-Boutique-and-Photography-Studio-2466-Broadway-New-York-NY-10025
http://www.parentguidenews.com/Directories/PortraitBug/
Have you been in to see our big sale yet? No table outside for the time being because of a little rain, but you’re not going to let a little rain stop you from coming inside the store to see the great deals, are you? One great thing marked down are all our alphabet sticker sets. I never seem to have enough letters in my scrapbooking stuff. Nothing sets off a layout better than a title that really pops in a font and color that bring the whole page together. I rely half the time on my own handwriting in bold tipped markers but I’m not even that crazy about my writing! This would be a great time for you and me to stock up on a ton of our Thickers brand alphabet stickers, all of which are MARKED DOWN!! I’m really loving the fairy tale themed puffy glitter sets. There’s also several glitter sets, some varsity letter jacket style alphabets and two absolutely fabulous polka dot alphabets. We also have some alphabet stamp sets and some great ink sets. And everything in the store is on sale. Come by this week!
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