Hi everyone,
As many of you may know, StopAndScrap is a small family-owned business run by myself and my husband Larry. Although we occassionally receive generous help from family members, for the most part it's been the two of us working together to build what we believe can be one of the best scrapbooking e-commerce sites out there. With that said, we have two important announcements to make:
First, we'd like to announce to everybody that the StopAndScrap team will soon have a new "member" - I am now 7 months pregnant with our first child, a boy, and he is due in late August! :) We are extremely excited to finally share this news with all of our wonderful customers and friends!
Related to this, though, was some slightly bad news. I had a bit of an accident this week, falling down in our home. I was forced to spend 24 hours in the hospital for observation, but everything has turned out to be perfectly fine with the baby (although I am a little banged up myself).
Working together on this site without a team of employees is how we are able to offer such great money-saving programs such as StopAndScrap Rewards, free and discounted shipping and our sales and clearance sections. Unlike with most jobs, though, when one of us is unable to perform our duties the business is forced to slow down a bit since everything runs through us. Especially since my fall came right on the heels of our busiest weekend ever (with our 40% off clearance sale), we are now very backed up with shipping. Larry has done an amazing job of shipping dozens of orders a day, but unfortunately he still hasn't been able to keep up with the normal pace that we usually handle together. So we are requesting your patience and understanding this week as we try to get all of the orders out in a timely fashion :) We hope to get caught up by the end of weekend, but just in case we don't please have patience and we will have your order out as soon as possible.
Regarding the future, this will not normally be a huge issue except perhaps during extremely busy weeks such as this one. My husband has been able to keep up with shipping during the times that I've had to step back in the past, so we don't anticipate a problem. We just wanted to let everybody know that this is one of those extremely busy weeks. We also wanted to let you know far in advance that there will be a time in the near future that the baby will decide he's ready to arrive and we'll have to take a short hiatus from the site :) But we'll definitely let everybody know when that time arrives as soon as we can!
Thank you again in advance for your patience and understanding this week! We definitely appreciate it. Please feel free to email us at sales@stopandscrap.com if you have any questions or requests regarding your order.
-Maria (and Larry)
StopAndScrap.com
Just a quick announcement that we just received our re-order of My Mind's Eye Breaking Free collection! This includes all of the mini-bundles, but we also received in the larger Paper & Accessories kits as well. Click below for more:
We have a small new release for you today, Sassafras Lass ME LIKEY! It is now up for pre-order, and will be shipping in mid-July. Since we are so close to CHA, we may not be re-ordering these unless they go insanely fast, so if you like it then be sure to reserve it now!
It's all about JOURNALING! Little Yellow Bicycle has assembled a fun variety of journaling pieces sure to inspire. A clean and simple style sets the tone for these versatile tablets, each with 26 journal cards that coordinate perfectly with their hand-lettered Clear Cuts Sticker Words. This new Little Yellow Bicycle Say What?! collection also includes Clear Cuts Journaling Pieces in six fun and distinctive styles.
We're excited to introduce to you our new selection of Prima Video Class Kits! These kits feature all of the supplies you need to make the projects shown, as well as a video featuring step-by-step instructions on how to do it! These kits combine everything that makes our Basic Grey Page-of-the-Month kits so popular, except they add in the power of video so that you can really pick up on all of the detailed instructions! Below you will find samples of the kits that we have available - click on any image to go to that product's page:
Finally, Making Memories Great Escape is available for pre-order! It's due to begin shipping to you by next week, so the wait will not be long. For a quick and easy way to save 5% off your pre-order, check our Twitter page: http://twitter.com/stopandscrap
Hi everyone! We've got a great new release for you - just arrived in and ready to ship immediately: Cosmo Cricket EARLY BIRD! Check it out via the link below:
With the new Making Memories Slice Tagmaker, you can create personalized tags for scrapbooking pages, paper crafts, home decor and more! It's on sale right now for $21.99 (13% off) - as is the Slice Tagmaker Design Card. Check 'em both out, along with all the Tag Rims you could ever want!
3 new lines of embellishments by Basic Grey have just been released, 2 of them featuring "bling" and one a line of 2.5x2.5 inch stamps. All 3 are limited editions and so we will NOT be able to re-order them, so if you like them this is the only time you'll be able to get them. Click on the images above or the links below to see more:
The newest SEI release is now in stock, discounted and shipping! SEI En Route, featuring travel-themed papers and embellishments is priced at 10-15% off of list price! Check it out!
To celebrate National Scrapbooking Day, we’re offering a FREE Making Memories Slice machine to one lucky customer! To enter simply email sales@stopandscrap.com (by 12am 5/3/09 Eastern Time) and tell us your favorite scrapbook product of 2009 that we carry, as well as your favorite that we do not! If you can’t think of both, just let us know your overall favorite. We will raffle off all of the entries on Sunday 5/3 to determine the winner! We will also choose 5 entrants to receive a consolation prize of assorted items. 
