Congratulations!!

One of our long-time employees has just graduated from San Diego State University with her BA in History. She has been with us since High School! 

 

She worked so hard, did great, worked for us all through her years there, and we are all so proud of her!!

So, we closed the store early last night and all of the staff went out to a local Mexican restaurant for a dinner in her honor.

 

She is going on a cruise with her boyfriend in about a week, and she LOVES the Eiffel Tower so I found this cute, eclectic necklace and couldn't resist:

 

I wrapped it in tissue and then, of course, put it in an SRM pillow box, used a strip of our paper, some ribbon, and an SRM sticker for the packaging:

 

 

 

 

and Voila!!

 

 

a VERY quick and easy package for her gift!

 

 

Congratulations again Mandy!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Please note - you need to observe caution when creating paper for colleges and universities. Only use non-licensed words and phrases.

 

 

 

 

 

The disaster area that *IS* my desk!!!!

Oh my goodness! You cannot imagine the mess on my desk right now, but it's all for a REALLY good reason!!!

 

The new color swatches arrived!!! YAY!!!

 

.... and boo....

 

Eggshell was an epic failure. :( 

It is this weird, pink-ish, lavender-ish, grey-ish... blech!

 

To create a new one will add at least a week to this process and if you haven't been completely following along, we can't add new templates or make very many changes until we choose new colors....

 

So....... No Eggshell !!!! (for now, anyway)

 

 

Seafrost however is *BRILLIANT* if I do say so myself!! Does it look familiar at all??

 

It is "Tiffany" Blue!!! So, as we head towards more templates that will work for party favors (more specifically: Wedding Favors) this color will be KEY!! And the sages turned out ok. I love Light Sage. Dark Sage is more yellow than I wanted, but I'm going to stick with it.

 

 

The next step is a "pow-wow" with the web peeps and my "wish list".

 

 

I'm starting with a little more reorganization...

Does it bug anyone else that when you log in, you get the FAQ's instead of the catalog?

I'm asking to change that.

 

And, while we are on that topic, I'm asking that when you log out,

you get redirected HERE!! To our blog!!!

It's the best place for information about CSS and what we are doing and ideas and suggestions!

 

Also, I'm trying to take out some of the dead space in the FAQs... I just don't "get" all of the extra lines...

(I'm a little "OCD")

 

 

NEXT! Add the new colors, but also reorganize some of the old ones and make new swatch samples (and fix that annoying type-o in the color "Chacoal" on our swatch sample.... really?)

 

 

 

And then there were templates...

 

We can only change a few templates per month, per our agreement.

 

I'm starting with #922

because I *LOVE* it and think it is underutilized and maybe a little "misunderstood" (lol). Plus, it has 2 errors in it (we already fixed one mistake, but there are 2 more...)

So, we'll add the new colors, fix the mistakes, and ADD FONT OPTIONS!!!

 

YAY!

 

 

But next, I really need your feedback!!!

 

PLEASE???

 

What do you think should be next????????????

 

 

#913 Custom Flourish 2

it's in the running to be next.

I'd like to add font options AND text size (so it doesn't need to be so tiny).

I also would like the option to not have the flourishes (if possible)

And I would like to have the option to have a solid background

(right now, you can only get a white or black solid background)

Thoughts???

 

 

#1808 Corkboard

it is also in the running.

It actually has a LOT of flexibility (did you see our blog post about it?)

but the fonts could be improved.

I'm looking to add new font choices and sizes,

plus allow for left/right/center justification.

 

 

Or maybe #921 Custom Stripe 1?

It's pretty popular, but could we make it better?

Add font options?

Allow you to center justify the "Text A"?

 

 

Or #905 Custom Cotton?

It's a good, solid paper, but I'd like to see:

• font options

• left/right/center justification

• font size options

Anything else on YOUR wishlist?

 

 

And #999/#904 Custom Leather Grains

I love them both (with "no color" for the bar color)

We order them a lot for our store...

They are both good, solid templates. Ordering is strong.

But if we added font options, would you like it better?

 

 

 

So, seriously, LET US KNOW!!!!

 

If you don't want to post on the blog, then email us!!

info@customscrapbookstuff.com

 

 

 

 

 

New colors!!!

We have just printed them and they are being reviewed, but we plan to add 4 colors this month:

 

Seafrost

(similar to Tiffany Blue)

 

Light Sage

 

Dark Sage

 

Eggshell

 

 

Once we review the colors, you can request a supplemental swatch. And then we will start re-doing all of the current templates to add the new colors, plus add some features (such as multiple font choices, and left/center/right justification, etc).

And, the next step is BRAND NEW TEMPLATES!!!

I know we've been saying it for a while, but it's FINALLY happening!!

YAY!!

Our Coupons....

So, it appears that our Coupons were accidentally set up by IT to expire today, but at 12:01am instead of at the close of business.... {sigh}

SOOOoooooo..... If you were trying to take advantage of one of our coupons, we will extend our offer until Tuesday, May 7th at midnight. So, if the coupon doesn't work, just email us afterwards that you want to apply the coupon. It won't show on your order at the time, but we'll get it applied before you card is charged.

SORRY!!!!

info@customscrapbookstuff.com

Free Stuff!!!

So, good news, bad news...

Based on the AMAZING response to our post about using our papers for custom invitations, starting 4/15/13, we offered to you that if you placed a $50* order for product and requested our "deal" via email, we said we would ship you 6 half-sheets of custom paper,
plus 6 medium pillow boxes from SRM Press at no charge.

Well, we picked up the pillow boxes a couple of weeks ago and the paper came in the other day.

BUT, I'm a dork and I only ordered 5 papers.... our offer was for 6 papers (DUH!)

So, you have two choices:

1) you can wait for us to get the 6th paper into stock (another 3-4 weeks), or

2) you can accept the 5 half-sheets plus 5 pillow boxes now... still at no charge for orders of more than $50*

These are our current 5 papers that we created and will be sending out (a half sheet of each).

We want you to use flowers, ribbon, twine, etc, that you have in your store to create samples to show your customers how they can use custom paper for party favors, invitations, etc.

Since we have a minimum of 12 sheets per style, you can easily place an order for the paper designed specifically for one customer.

Place your $50* order now and email us to say that you want "the deal" and we'll mail it out to you!

(If you want to wait for a 6th style to be available, please let us know in your email).

*$50 is before shipping.

Happy National Scrapbook Day Everyone!!!

Please support your local, independent scrapbook, stamp, and craft stores!!!!

 

The 350 Project

 

 

National Scrapbook Day is the first Saturday in the month of May. How are you celebrating??

 

 

National Scrapbook Day is Coming!!!

National Scrapbook Day is Saturday, May 4th, but most stores celebrate all weekend.

Do you have Custom Paper as part of your promotion??

Offer to make custom paper for your customers and take pre-paid special orders!! We have some special offers valid through Monday, May 6th.


Go to our website and self-register with a 2nd ID. That ID will automatically be "consumer" so it will not show prices
+
Design custom papers with your customer in front of them letting them choose exactly what they want
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Have the custom pre-pay
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Place your order by the end of day on May 6th using whichever coupon fits your situation
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Happy Customers & Great sales at a great margin!




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Send me an email and I'll forward it: info@CustomScrapbookStuff.com


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