School's starting... Is your custom paper section ready???

If schools in your area haven't started already, THEY ARE JUST ABOUT TO!!!!

 

Don't forget to stock up on the local schools.

 

Is high school football popular in your area? Maybe make pages specifically for them.

Remember, since you can make as few as 12 of a style, you aren't forced into a big financial commitment....

 

 

 

Maybe ask your customers for a suggestion for which schools to do.

Ask on your blog or on Facebook and get suggestions.

You might be surprised what they want.

 

 

Take preorders. If someone wants you to do a more "obscure" school, tell them that you will so long as you can presell at least half of them. It's only 6 sheets. Have the customers help "recruit" people to prepay...

 

 

 

And don't forget all of the kids who are JUST starting school for the first time!!

Do you have stuff for the "First Day Of School"??

Look at: #1808 Corkboard

It's meant to be a corkboard! Great for elementary school pages!

You can choose the words for both locations and colors for each set of words.

Plus, you can change the border and the background.

So, how about this? A lighter wood border and a "write on/wipe off" board background?

Or switch to #1807 Apple For Teacher

 

Grey as the border is like a computer monitor.

 

This is with "First Day" in the Text A field

 

 This is the same with Text A blank and all of the words in Text B

 

See how the words are lower on the apple?

 

 

Want to add the year? In Text B, you can hit "enter" and force the year to the next line:

 

 

What ideas do you have???

 

 

 

Calendar Papers!!

It's that time!! Customers are making calendars for 2014 and you can provide them with the background papers!! We made these and customers love them!!

 

  

  

  

 

 

Sell them open stock for calendars or card making (they make great birthday cards!), or kit them all together at a small discount. You'll get a bigger sale if they buy all of them and the customer will feel they are getting a deal.

 

Kit 12 sheets along with an SRM calendar and calendar date stickers and months at a larger discount and get an even larger sale.  Your customer will get a deal and feel like half of the work has been done for them, and your average ticket will go up!

  

 

NEW COLOR SWATCH!!!

There is a new color swatch available which includes our four new colors:

• Off White
• Light Sage
• Dark Sage
• Seafrost (incredibly similar to Tiffany Blue)

We are working on adding the colors to each template (sorry, they need to be added to each template specifically and individually, so it will take a little while).

All orders placed for the next few months will automatically include a new color swatch whether you order one or not.


So far, the new colors are only in a few templates, but keep your eyes open for them!

Shop Hops!!

Well, we are wrapping up our local shop hop and thought we would share some of the papers that we made. They were EXTEREMLY well received and we had completely sold out after only THREE DAYS and had to reorder more with rushed shipping!! (I honestly don't suggest doing it that way... it was REALLY expensive!)

So, if your area is doing a Shop Hop or Bus Tour, I would suggest that you seriously consider making a couple of styles specifically to your event.

 

Another suggestion is to do several styles. We started with 6 styles and had women buying all 6 styles!

 

These are the styles that we had made.

We did #908 diagonal paper in two different color schemes.

 

And #906 - which is fairly similar - we did in a third color scheme.

Again, several customers bought all of these styles!

 

This is #903 Fancy -  remember that this is an old template that we just brought back.

This print was the most popular out of our first batch of papers:

 

This #927 Varied Spirit was our next most popular out of our initial batch of papers:

You might notice that we have done a lot of green's... that had to do with the theme at our store.

 

 

In our 2nd batch, we added some additional styles in different colors. We did these in teal.

The left one is another one of our recently resurrected templates.

  

 

This was also added in our second batch and was LOVED!
This is 999/904 with the border omitted (use "No Color" in the border choice)

 

 

 

 

We hope that our experience was helpful to you in deciding what to create for your store.

Be sure to check with your local organizer to be certain you can use their name before creating the papers.