Christmas

Its that time of year again! And if you are like me you have gone AHHHHH! I would like to assist you in your panic and offer you some great ideas to make your Christmas a crafty one! I have been looking at the Kaiser Q2 book and they have some awesome ideas.

There are some cool Christmas products out. I love the Kaiser products and will rant about them! The Christmas countdown is great, it is a nice addition to your Christmas display and it also helps with your panic! LOL!

I have had reports back from a few scrappers telling me they are not to happy with the size of the Advent calender as it appears a bit bigger on the page so if you were wanting this product be aware of that. Its still a really cute and fun project! What I am about to start doing (once the order arrives!) is my own Christmas placemats! I am very excited about this! I am also going to be doing a twist to the wine glasses this year with some Christmas rubons and bling!

Some fun things to do with the kids:

Christmas Baubles; with all the gorgeous Christmas paper you can get these can turn out
gorgeous!

Christmas cards; for the classmates is a fun one they love and they can let the creativity go!

Christmas Bon Bons; This is a good one for adults too! You can fill with some really cool gifts! I did this one year and placed perfume in for the girls and mini drinks for the boys (adults only of course!)

There are heaps of things you can do just let your imagination go! I find it brings a more festive feeling into the home when you've created a few special things.

Site Issues

We would like to apologies for any inconvenience caused due to our site being down. We had server issues from Friday the 30th of October till Tuesday the 4th of November. We have had all the problems sorted and are back up and running! Thank-you for your understanding.

ScrappingMad

Up and coming

Circut Promotion
We are going to be stocking Circut Products in our online shop so to kick start the range in our store we are going to be doing a promotion on Circut Products!

The Beginning of next week you will see circut and cuttlebug products appearing on the site. You will be able to place your order then. We are going to be ordering products so ONLY for the PRE ORDERING time will this promotion run. It will take a little longer than usual to receive your product but at these prices it's worth the wait!!

If you are interested in a great bargain then make sure you order your circut and cuttlebug products!

Kaiser Craft
We are also stocking up on Kaiser Craft Products. We now have in stock the Lorie Valley Range, the Kaiser storage, Rubons, a variety of Rhinestone & Pearls. You will also find in the next week or so some Kaiser Paints and papers. So keep your eye out for these.

Gallery & Forum
We are also in the process of having a gallery and forum attached to our site! So hopefully this will be up and running very soon!

Bazzill Cardstock

Hi everyone,

One of the most common questions I get asked about bazzill is, " Whats the difference?" As there are so many colours and quite a few ranges I thought who better to explain it than the manufacturer!
So Lisa from the Marketing & Product Development department from Bazzill has kindly taken time out to fill us all in with the designs and ideas behind the Bazzill range.

Bazzill Basics Paper introduced its first cardstock line as Monochromatic. Each color has a canvas texture and has 5 colors that coordinate ranging from a light to dark hue of the main color. We call our collections a "family". The colors in the family are meant to work together as complementary, triadic, and monochromatic blends. We offer a color wheel for the Monochromatic cardstock colors that makes it very easy to combine colors with fabulous results.

Not long after, we created Monochromatic Trios to complement missing colors from the original Monochromatic line. The Mono Trios are also a canvas textured, monochromatic palette as its name implies, but there are only a range of three hues in this line: light, medium, and dark. This is a family all its own and the colors can blend in monochromatic, complementary, and triadic combinations using a color wheel designed for this line.

Often color trends shift from bright to muted, neon to pastel or some other unexpected combination. Bazzill works with color forecasting companies to stay abreast of the up-and-coming color trends years before colors make their way to your local scrapbook store. For example, the canvas textured, Destinations line of cardstock is a result of a shift in the color trends from bright to bohemian. Bazzill needed to be sure we had color selections in that palette and the result was the release of an entire collection of new colors with names from far away destinations we dream of traveling.

Customer demand is also a way we develop product lines. Card makers and rubber stampers were screaming for a smooth, heavy weight paper that is easy to write on, takes the ink of a stamp beautifully, and folds with a crisp sharp edge. More research involving the ink most popular ink colors, stamp designs, and pen colors in the market revealed the need for yummy colors that now make up our Smoothies cardstock line.

As the earning for colorful and textured cardstock grew, so did our collections. Now we offer other textures including: Orange Peel, Burlap, Dotted Swiss, Grass Cloth, Corduroy, and more. Each has a unique offering of colors in the line that does not repeat any other color offered by Bazzill. It is fun to grab a piece of patterned paper from any of the popular scrapbook manufacturers and scan Bazzill's cardstock to find paper that matches every single color. It is pretty amazing.

On our display racks we place paper in rainbow order (pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, white and black) and then in monochromatic sequence from light to dark. Bazzill designers love mixing textures to create an interested page layout. It is all about pulling together the colors you love!

Thanks,
Lisa Brennan
Bazzill Basics Paper
Marketing and Product Development