Website Reorganization

So, since CHA we've been busy reorganizing our website. Everything is now much easier to find! We've overhauled the Themes section so that every little thing is in the perfect place, from family & fun to feminine floral! If you've never explored our scrapbooking side by theme, this is the perfect time to do it. Here you'll find all of your favorite Paper House products categorized exactly and intuitively. 

Take a minute to check it out and see which Paper House Themes you haven't yet explored! Our extensive Travel section is neatly alphabetized and we've combined all of your favorite family activities into a Family & Fun section. Also new is the Celebrations category (which covers milestones like baby, birthday, and graduation) and the Outdoor Life category, that combines all of our products related to outdoor activities!

We truly hope this reorganization has made navigating our website easier and more intuitive! Please feel free to give us any feedback, and enjoy!

CHA Summer - New Papers!

Look at the new toy we just found: Slide lets us put all of our images in one nifty slideshow for you to view, right here on the Paper House Blog. So, check out all of our newest papers, just introduced at CHA Summer and available to order today!

Summer CHA

Hi All! We're home from Summer CHA and getting back into the swing of things! We had a great show and loved seeing all of our retailers and friends there. Yes, it was *HOT* (no air-conditioning during set-up!?) but of course, it was well worth it. We introduced some great new Papers, Cardstock Stickers, and Glitter Rub-Ons, so check out our web site to see them all! Or just stay posted for some detailed blog posts highlighting the great new collections we came out with this summer.

Following tradition, we constructed our tradeshow booth entirely from reusable and recyclable materials. If you've ever seen our "Green Booth" in person, it's hard to believe it's completely made out of earth-friendly cardboard and reusable fixtures! Check out the pictures below to see for yourself!

We were also super-excited to premier our Card & Gift Programs to our scrapbooking & paper crafting customers. Paper House started out over 25 years ago as a greeting card company, and today we make an such enormous selection of cards, gifts, and scrapbooking products!

Hope you are all enjoying a great summer, and getting everything ready for the upcoming back-to-school season. We've got some great specials going on this month to kick off the back-to-school season, so retailers: contact our great customer service team to find out how you can stock up and save!

Fishing Fun

Summer is the perfect time for Fishing Fun, and you'll have everything you need to scrapbook your family memories with Paper House's ever-popular Fishing Collection! Complete with 12 x 12" Papers, Cardstock Stickers, and Mini Cut-Outs, it'll be hard to let a single moment be the "one that got away!"

In the full page layout above, we mounted two of our favorite summer photos onto moss green cardstock before arranging them onto the Gone Fishin' Collage Paper (P-0403E). The title from the Gone Fishin' Cardstock Sticker, along with fish & sign stickers, gave us the perfect accents for this page, while the fishing pole border from the Cardstock fit great along the side of the page. We topped it all off with a few Mini Cut-Outs from the Collection for a quick and easy project that will help us remember this family fun forever!

Since it's introduction at CHA Winter 2009, Paper House's Fishing Collection has been one of our top selling scrapbooking collections, and is a perfect theme to keep in your store this summer! To see all of our complete collections, just check out our website today!

National Stationery Show • 2009

We just wrapped up National Stationery Show in New York City and wow, was it great!! Along with meeting a lot of fantastic customers and spending time with our reps, we were glad to be there to showcase our new products and display programs.

As you may have seen, this year our big focus was to increase our Green Initiative by creating a booth that was constructed entirely of reusable and recyclable materials... and that's just what we did! All of the fixtures and the features in our booth were created with cardboard boxes and panels, put together with precision and care. Although we've been creating environmentally friendly booths at the CHA (Craft & Hobby Association) Trade Shows over the past two years, this was our first entirely Green Exhibit at the National Stationery Show.

If you're wondering how we came up with the idea and plans to make a booth from cardboard, it all starts with a small scale model on Art Director Tim Murray's desk. The model is discussed, reviewed and finalized before plans get underway for the real thing.

It's amazing to see how much the model ends up looking like the real booth! Check out the photos below to see what we mean!

Peggable fixtures were created by drilling holes in the cardboard panels and inserting display pegs. We were able to hang a great selection of magnets and stickers this way!

We created slat-wall fixtures on the inner walls of the booth by making cardboard slats for the display trays to sit in. Our "great wall of cards" makes such a dramatic impact and shows how visually impactful it is to see all of our cards merchandised together!

To see the progression of the booth from cardboard boxes and panels to the finished Green Design, just watch the video below!

Freebie - Wizard Of Oz Giveaway

Stop by our friend Adrienne's blog and just leave a comment this week to win a great little set of our famous Wizard of Oz scrapbooking products!

Adrienne says:

"these papers and stickers are from Paper House Productions!

i have to admit that i didn't want to let them go! they are WAY cute!!"

Just click here for the chance to win!

We were really excited to be able to hang out with Adrienne from My Sentiments Exactly again at the Sue Gilman Wholesale Show in March. She gave us some awesome stamps for our own giveaway (coming up soon!) so make sure to check back regularly for that and other great giveaways and contests!

Summer Outdoor Living

Looking for a fun adventure this summer? Or wondering what items your customers will be begging you to keep in stock? Think outdoor living! This summer, people are looking for ways to have fun but still stick within their budgets. Campgrounds and parks offer low fees, cutting out hotel costs for family vacations. Visitors are treated to great scenery and can often find a camping site nearby favorite tourist attractions.

Paper House's Camping and Outdoor Adventure Collections fit just about any camping or recreation trip, and our extensive line of U.S. Travel Destinations are the perfect accompaniment to family vacation scrapbooks!

The easy scrapbook layout shown above was made by layering our Outdoor Adventure Collage Paper (P-0372) and our Take A Hike Paper (P-0297) with a moss green cardstock and Pine Porch Paper. Simple photo mattes were made by inking the edges of cream cardstock and square of the leftover collage paper. The pictures were then secured using metallic eyelets on each corner.

We created a border across the middle of the page by gluing a section of Fallen Leaves Hand-Dyed Ribbon to a strip of brown cardstock. The trail marker and compass stickers from our Outdoor Adventure Cardstock Sticker made easy embellishments, and lifting them from the background using pop-dots created depth on the layout. Finally, the tree trunk border of the Cardstock Sticker eased the transition between the contrasting papers at the bottom, and the Outdoor Adventure Sign sticker provided a quick and easy title at the top!

Be sure to check out our website to see all of our great outdoor-themed products, and enjoy outdoor living all summer long! Just be sure to take lots of pictures and you'll have plenty to scrap come fall! 

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