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.

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