Monday, July 6, 2009

KaiserCraft Contest Winners

KaiserCraft New Releases


Congratulations to our 3 KaiserCraft contest winners! Here they are:
  • Lori D from Carmel, IN (Offshore Collection)
  • Elana K from Wilmington, NC (Pennyroyale Collection)
  • Jennifer R from Fairport, NY (Pina Colada Collection)
We'll need the three of you to email us at Sales@StopAndScrap.com with your full name and shipping details. We'll then set up a pre-order for you with your free Paper Bundle from the collection that you chose. If you want to pre-order some of the other new KaiserCraft items, please let us know in the email and we'll just add the free bundle to your order when you place it.

Thanks again to everybody who participated! Check back later this week for our My Mind's Eye giveaway!

Here I come to save the day....

Hi everyone,

Most of you don't know me, although you've probably heard my name around here. My name is Larry, and I'm Maria's husband and business partner. As you may know if you receive our newsletter, with Maria's pregnancy proceeding speedily along, I'm taking on a larger role with StopAndScrap than I have before. Because I've been so heavily involved in shipping and order processing, I'm familiar with many of you even though you probably have no idea who I am :) I'm a web designer and e-commerce marketer by trade, which I've been doing for the past 6 years or so. Almost two year's ago, while Maria was working a full-time job and had just started Nursing School, we decided to start StopAndScrap so she could work from home while in school. We never imagined it would actually grow large enough for me to also give up a lot of the work I was doing and focus on it as well, but thanks to all of you it has! So as we approach Maria's due date, I just wanted to say Hi and let everybody know that you will be hearing a lot more from me on this blog, and eventually in email as well. We're also thinking of putting a little bit more of a personal spin on here, rather than just the marketing and announcements we've been doing so far, so if you're into that sort of thing then you may want to start checking back more often. And if not... sorry, but you may want to run for the hills - you might be in for a bumpy ride ;)

So anyway.. thanks for listening and go get some 25% off goodness!

KaiserCraft Contest

First we wanted to thank all of you for participating in our KaiserCraft contest! We had way more entries than we expected, so we decided to surprise you all with THREE winners instead of the announced one winner. We will be picking the winners today, and we hope to send out an announcement with the winners as well as an announcement that all the new KaiserCraft will be up for pre-order by tomorrow. So be sure to watch your email tomorrow or check the blog for the news! Thanks again!!

25% Off Summer Sale!

Sunday, July 5, 2009

New Basic Grey Products - BLING, STAMPS, DOILIES and more!

Check out our newest Basic Grey releases, all in stock and shipping now! Check them out by clicking the links below:

Thursday, July 2, 2009

My Mind's Eye Sneak Peeks

Here's a sneak peek at this summer's My Mind's Eye new releases! There's a lot more to see coming soon, but for now you can get an idea of what's in store for you:





Oh and one more thing - we'll be doing a giveaway contest for this one just like we're doing for KaiserCraft as well! Be sure to check back here later in the week, or get yourself on our mailing list so you can be sure to be notified!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

New KaiserCraft Collections!

KaiserCraft New Releases

Here's a sneak peek at 6 new KaiserCraft collections, and for the first time ever KaiserCraft is offering FULL collections rather than just mini-collections of 4 papers!! In their own words:
You can clearly see that we’ve changed. We’ve grown and evolved. And we’re so proud of what we have to offer you. We now have fully co-ordinated collections that make perfect matches between your paper, embellies and stamps. This quarter there are six sizzling new collections for you to choose from.
Leave a comment by Sunday July 5th to let us know which collection is your favorite, and one lucky person will win their choice! Be sure to include your first name, last initial and town so that we can identify you.

We'll have all 6 collections up soon for pre-order, but for now here are the sneak peeks:

Thursday, June 25, 2009

October Afternoon New Releases



Most of the new October Afternoon releases are finally in stock, and the rest are hopefully on the way! We now have everything except for Collection Kits and Rubber Charms in stock for Cherry Hill, Ducks in a Row and Road Map. Click the following links for more:

Important Announcement About This Week's Shipping

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

Saturday, June 20, 2009

My Mind's Eye Breaking Free - Back In Stock!

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:

Thursday, June 18, 2009

**NEW** Sassafras Lass ME LIKEY

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!

Pre-CHA Clearance Sale!

We're excited to start this season's Huge Pre-CHA Clearance Sale - 40% Off almost everything in our clearance category! We're trying to clear warehouse space for all the awesome new products we'll be ordering at next month's Craft & Hobby Association Show, so help us make room by taking advantage of this insane sale - but remember that everything is on clearance so once it's gone, it's gone for good! Click below to see it all (remember there are multiple pages so be sure to use the arrows on the page to look through everything):

Featured Products

Hey everyone - I just wanted to make sure everybody is aware of our new Featured Scrapbook Products section that we've recently added to the site. With thousands of products, it's easy for some of our interesting items to get lost in the shuffle. So we've decided to add this little area to feature some different things each week that we think you might like but might not otherwise come across on our site. Currently we are featuring the two My Mind's Eye bundles you see above, but there are also a few other items you may like besides those. Be sure to check it out each time you visit to see if anything catches your eye!

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

NEW Unity Stamps in stock!

We now have in stock the newest Unity Stamp releases, including the two shown above and SIX more on our site! These new stamps are just as great as the rest of their stamps - check them out here:

Monday, June 15, 2009

10% Off Sale!

We have a special offer for you this week - take an additional 10% off of any item in our SCRAPBOOKING SALES AND GREAT DEALS section, starting today and ending 6/21/09! Simply use coupon code SALE0615 at checkout. CLICK HERE to see the entire SCRAPBOOKING SALES AND GREAT DEALS section!

New Imaginisce Collections for Pre-Order

Admittedly it seems a little early for this, but based on how last year's Imaginisce Halloween and Christmas collections sold, you're going to want to reserve both Imaginisce Spooky Town and Imaginisce Polar Expressions while you can! Imaginisce loves to get a head start on the holidays, and both of these collections are shipping to us in early July. Pre-Order by 6/28/09 to save 5%!

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Little Yellow Bicycle SAY WHAT?! Journaling - Now In Stock!

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.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Prima Video Class Kits

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:

Monday, June 1, 2009

Teresa Collins Stamps - Clearance

Help! We bought WAAAAYYYYY too many of these Teresa Collins stamps at Winter CHA and we are stuck with them taking up too much space. So give us a hand clearing some space out! :) They are all 25% off, with an additional 10% off if you use this week's coupon code SALE1818. Just click the link below to see them all:

10% Off Sale!

Good morning! As we get closer to yet another CHA show featuring tons of new releases, we'll be needing to clear out some inventory. For this reason, we are having another big sale this week! Please visit StopAndScrap.com for a coupon to receive an additional 10% off any items in our SALES and CLEARANCE sections!

Also, a big thank you to everybody for your patience regarding last week's orders while we were away. We never expected to get so many orders, so we are a little backed up. We hope to still get everything out by today, but it's possible some of the later ones will not get out until tomorrow. We are working as hard as possible to get them out though :) And finally, the Little Yellow Bicycle Traveler collection is now in stock, and we'll be shipping those pre-orders this week as well! Thanks!!