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! 

Also if you haven't signed up for our new eNewsletter, you're missing out on a fabulous promo! Sign up today and get 20% off your next order placed before May 31st! You'll also receive product updates, sneak peeks and great specials, all right to your inbox. 

The 3/50 Project

Supporting our independent retailers is really important to us. That's why we'd like to encourage everyone to practice the 3/50 rule. Just spend $50 a month at your favorite local independent retailers; they rely on your business to stay in business!

To all our independent stores: feel free to contact us for help in promoting your Paper House products! From new display signage to updated programs & products, we're happy to help you draw customers in! Just e-mail our fantastic customer service team at info@paperhouseproductions.com or call Sondra, Paige, or Guy at (800) 255-7316.

Soccer Scores!

Creating Keepsakes Magazine has chosen Paper House's Soccer-themed Scrapbooking products to highlight in its "Sports All Around" feature in the June 2009 issue Soccer is one of the shining stars in our Sports line, and we designed a new Soccer Cardstock Sticker (STCX-0112E) this year to compliment the existing collection of Papers, Chipboard, Rub Ons, Mini Cut Outs and other embellishments.

If you haven't already, check out our Soccer Collection, and our entire line of Scrapbooking Collections for Sports, Travel, Wizard of Oz, Pets and more, on our website, www.PaperHouseProductions.com

Happy Earth Day

In honor of Earth Day, we're proud to unveil the plans for our booth at the upcoming National Stationery Show in New York City, May 17-20. We'll be debuting the Paper Booth - a green exhibit constructed entirely from recyclable and reusable materials. 

Building a whole booth out of earth-friendly materials isn't easy. We'll be using recyclable corrugated cardboard to create our features and fixtures - making the entire construction of the booth "green."

At Paper House, we're very aware of the environmental impact tradeshows generate, from the booth structures to promotional materials. The launch of our new eNewsletter has further helped us reduce our reliance on printed materials. If you haven't already, please do your part to help save the world and sign up at www.PaperHouseSignUp.com today. You'll get all the latest product news and updates, plus exclusive specials & discounts, all in an earth-friendly way!

If you're planning on attending the National Stationery Show, stop by and see all our great new products and take advantage of our show specials! We'll be keeping it green at booth 2762.

Let the Good Times Roll!

We promise you'll have a ball with our new Bowling Collage Paper! The perfect addition to our fun Bowling collection, this brand-new 12 x 12" scrapbook paper is sure be right up your alley! 

Besides making silly bowling pins... or um, puns, we've been busy here at Paper House. Last weekend, several of us struck up a team and participated in the "Bowl for Kids Sake" event at our local alley. The event raises funds for Big Brothers, Big Sisters agencies, and this is our 3rd annual year participating! Overall, our team raised a substantial amount for the organization and had a ton of fun!

new eNewsletter

Sign up for our fancy new email list (we like to call it HTMaiL) to get all of the latest product news, updates, sneak peeks, and exclusive specials & discounts.

And as if that weren't enough, we'll give you 20% off on your next wholesale order placed before May 31, 2009.

That's what we'd call a win/win situation!

Just click the button below to get the details and sign up.

And don't worry: even if you're not a retailer, you can still sign up for our super cool consumer eNewsletter. It's packed with information about our products and easy project to make at home!

It's 5 o'clock Somewhere!

Raise your glass for this great 12" layout, celebrating the "Perfect Brew." Made from our new Beer line, which debuted at CHA Winter and has been a big hit, this project is perfectly toast-worthy! The Beer Collage Paper (P-0374) makes a perfect, warm background and adds visual interest with all the different elements and blocks. 

The beer bottles and glasses from the Cardstock Sticker (STCX-0109) were lined up along the bottom of the page, while the 12" bottle cap border creates a great separation between the photos and title. And the detail of the diecutting is amazing!

All the photos and the title were matted on deep brown, stout-colored cardstock, which were then distressed with sand paper. We also inked the edges to give the different elements an aged looked. So here's to a great, simple layout using just a few great Paper House products!

To see the full Beer Collection, check out our website.

Make sure to browse through if you haven't seen all of the other new introductions!

Happy, Hippity, Hoppity Easter!

It's almost that time again... Egg hunts, baby chicks, fuzzy rabbits: All the great things about Easter! And to help you celebrate the holiday, Paper House has a brand new Easter Theme! Complete with Papers, Cardstock Stickers, and Mini Cut-Outs, this spring colored collection will coordinate perfectly with your photos! And it's perfect for scrapbook pages, cards, or themed projects!

This week, we're sharing a darling Easter card we made using our Easter papers and embellished with the Cardstock Stickers. The Happy Easter greeting and the adorable chicks were stamped from the My Sentiment's Exactly! Happy Easter set (Y202). We also applied Ranger's Star Dust Stickles glitter over a few stickers and added some rhinestones to give it pizzazz. 

We're also super lucky to be sharing this awesome project made by Sue Higgins of Indiana. Sue's been sending us some of her great crafts she made using Paper House products, and they're fantastic! For this adorable Easter decoration, Sue covered a Cardboard Egg in our paper and added grass and mini cut-outs to make the cutest-ever Easter Basket! You can follow along with the instructions below to make this great project just in time for the holiday!

Supplies:

P-0398E Easter Bunny Paper

DCM-0422 Duckling Mini Cut-Out

DCM-0421 Bunny Mini Cut-Out

Cardboard Egg

Popsicle Sticks

Modge Podge

Instructions:

1. Trace cardboard shape (front, sides, and top) onto the Easter Bunny Paper. Trim out and adhere to cardboard shape.
2. Generously apply one coat of Modge Podge to seal. Allow to dry.
3. Glue the Bunny & Duckling Mini Cut-Outs to popsicle sticks. 
4. Fill as desired (you could include Easter grass, eggs, candy, etc), nesting the Mini Cut-Out sticks among the Easter Basket fill.

This is a great decorative project, perfect for the spring season. Thanks so much for sharing it, Sue! Be sure to check out our projects tag on the side for more great make-ables!

Butterfly Make & Take Card

If you're looking for a quick and easy, any occasion card that's perfect for spring, this Butterfly Card we did at the Sue Gilman Show Make & Take Frenzy is it! Made from our new, dreamy butterfly line, you could use this card as a thank you note, birthday greeting, or just an inspired hello! Just follow along with the instructions below!

Supplies:

P-0376E Butterfly Dream Paper

STCX-0110E Butterflies Cardstock Sticker

1 piece of white cardstock

1 piece of pastel ribbon (green, pink, blue, yellow or cream work well)

6 rhinestones

pop dots

Instructions:

1. Trim white cardstock to 6.5 x 10" and fold in half to yeild a 5 x 6.5" card.
2. Trace the folded card onto the Butterfly Dream paper along the right hand side, so the word Hope will appear in the upper left hand corner when trimmed. Cut out and adhere to front of card.
3. Peel the 12" border from the Butterflies cardstock sticker and place along the left side of card. Trim off excess.
4. Attach the butterflies from the cardstock sticker by folding the wings upward along either side of the body. Stick the butterfly's body to the card and make sure it sticks well. Adjust the curl of the wings to your liking. Make sure to put a bit of baby powder on the back of each wing after the butterfly is stuck to the card to prevent the wings from sticking back down. Arrange five butterflies fluttering upward toward the top of the card.
   
   
   
   
5. Coat the back of the "Dream" title sticker from the cardstock with Baby Powder. Adhere to the bottom right corner of the card using pop-dots for a dimensional effect.
6. Add the tiny yellow cardstock butterfly to the end of the word "Dream."
7. Embellish the center of each butterfly with a clear rhinestone.
   
   
   
   
8. To finish, accent the card with a pastel ribbon tied around the hinge, knotted at the top.

Isn't it just perfect for spring!!

While we were at the show, our friend Adrienne from My Sentiments Exactly hooked us up with some of her awesome stamps! We especially love the True Friends set (YT575) that features beautiful monarch butterflies that we can't wait to use with our new Butterfly Theme! Adrienne also gave us an awesome set for a blog give-away coming up in the near future... Be sure to check back often for the chance to win!