All But The Travel Trade Show!

Are you participating in this

"Trade Show In A Box"??

WE ARE!

We have just been given the number of stores and are happy to hear that nearly 200 stores across the US signed up!

So, we are creating our papers to ship to you! We want them to be generic enough that a scrap or stamp store could use them; that they could be used in scrapbooking or Pocket Page style work; and we are trying to keep our colors neutral for you... These are a few of the designs that we are contemplating.

Let us know what you think and if you signed up, what would YOU like to receive? Maybe it's something we hadn't considered!!

NOTE! Styles, colors, papers may vary from what is shown here - these are merely possibilities. We haven't finalized our order yet.

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.

And The Award Goes To...

I'm a "numbers gal" (along with being a crafter - YES! You can be both at the same time!!)

so I love looking at the numbers and analyzing things!!

So, in case you are as curious as I am, I thought I'd share our Top 5 most popular templates with you

(well, year-to-date anyway)...

 

In first place:

#908 - Custom Diagonal Spirit Names

This one is BY FAR your most favorite!!!

This template holds the top spot by nearly 2x the #2 position!

 

I love it too!! I like the diversity between the two fonts and font sizes.

Plus, I think that the fonts were really good choices!

And I like the ability to have two different lines of text.

 

If you could, is there anything you would change??

 

 

 

In second place is:

#906 - Custom Spirit Names

Also quite a leader ahead of our third place template, this template is extremely popular.

 

Probably because of the two different lines of text with the ability to customize each color.

Why do you like it?

 

 

 

Coming in at #3 is

#1820 - Make It Your Own

You guys LOVE to customize!!!

 

And, stay tuned because we are still fine tuning our full-page-image-upload template,

PLUS, I have some other fun ideas in store for this template that I hope to share with you soon!

 

 

 

Your #4 selection is

#901 - Custom Marbled

We like to do companion pages with this one leaving one of the sets of words as "No Color" so that you can make a set that go together, but are different. It encourages customers to buy two sheets instead of just one.

The "suggestive sell" helps both the customer and the store! The customer gets informed about how to use the product and the store gets a higher average ticket.

 

 

 

And still making a strong showing at #5 is:

#927 - Custom Varied Spirit Names

I *love* this template!! I will admit, however, that it can be frustrating with certain word combinations...

I have that on my UBER long list of "to do's": to see if there is something that can be done about it. Unfortunately, my gut feeling is "no".... we'll probably have to live with it like it is!

Our workaround is to switch around words or add words to make things work out a bit better.

I still love it, in spite of its periodic frustration!!!

 

And, in case you were curious... here are the rest of the top 10:

#6 - 922

#7 - 921

#8 -907

#9 - 904

#10 - 926

 

 

 

 

So... what do you think???

 

Do you agree?

Do you completely disagree??

Which is your favorite?

And, do I dare ask, which is your least favorite????

 

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.

Graduation is just around the corner!!!

It's time to stock up on Graduation papers

for your local schools!

#909

This paper allows you to customize the color of the mortar board, tassle, and ribbon. You can also add in two lines of text. Do you see in the middle where is says "Your School Here"? That's one and it shows in 5 places. And then there is a repeating (small) "2013"  towards the top right and then the middle left and then further down on the left.

#922

This is a great template for graduation, "Class of ...", a school name, or even the name and/or degree of a person. What about a whole elementary classroom? LOTS of choices! And you can make the borders the same color as the rest and remove the lines.

 #910

Choose the background color, the mortar board color, and then colors for the two rows of text.

You can do the Senior class for your local High School(s).
Or, maybe a specific classroom wants to do a paper for Mrs. Golden's First Grade Promotion.

Or use them for graduation announcements for a specific person, a specific degree, a specific date, etc.

LOTS of choices!!

 

#908

GREAT for invitations/graduation announcements!

 

Use them for a specific School, a Specific Class, or a specific person!

Maybe someone is graduating from Grad School....

Substitute their name and their degree!

 

 

Some other papers that would be great for invitations, party favors, or scrapbook pages:

 

#906

 

#921

 

 

#906 Custom Spirit Names

This is a GREAT template for lots of uses!!

It is whimsical AND it has repetition! So, it's great for anything fun and happy, or anything where you want to cut it apart for cards, etc.

 

So, is your kiddo having a birthday party and you want to make favors?

 

Or maybe it's Nanna's 100th Birthday... 

 

You can also use it for local schools, local events, your city name, etc.

 

Did you see our post about creating party favors? These would be GREAT for them!!!

Check out this other post for ideas:
http://customscrapbookstuff.blogspot.com/2013/01/922-custom-stripe-2.html