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???

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

#1808 Cork Board.... or is it????

We've talked about "No Color" and we're going to bring that into this conversation again, but we are ALSO going to show you some great variations on this one template that will show its extreme versatility! This template is WAY more than a cork board!!!

#1808 Cork Board - this is as the "thumbnail" shows this template currently...

So, you see it as a Grade School Cork Board page....

(Crimson, Crimson, Brown, Craft)

And that is great! But let's look at what else this template can do!!!!

 

 

What happens when you remove the border?

Same colors and theme but it's a bit more general. Maybe it's a higher grade.

Or an after school activity? Maybe it's ESS? Or....?

(Crimson, Crimson, No Color, Craft)

  

 

Change the topic and maybe the background is actually sand...

(Black, Black, No Color, Craft)

  

 

Change the color of the words and

maybe this template is about a beach?

(Blue, Blue, No Color, Craft)

 

 

Or maybe it's something else...

Maybe a High School? Or a Birthday? Or a Quinceanera?

(Blue, Blue, No Color, White)

 

 

What if it's a soccer team?
That could be a grassy background....

(White, White, No Color, Green)

 

 Or is it for a Billiards Competition?

This could be a felt background...

(White, White, No Color, Green)

 

 

Or something completely different...

There is SO LITTLE out there for

25th Anniversary, so here is a great option for you!

 

 

Nothing for Text A

Text B is "25th Annivesary"

Text A is "No Color", Text B is "Silver"

Border is "Black", Background is "White"

 

 

This is basically the same but with "yellow gold"

What do YOU think???

We'd love to hear YOUR ideas about this template.

What have you created with this template???