Wednesday, February 6, 2008

We Are On Our Way to CHA!!


Hey everyone!! We made it to St. Louis and are anxiously awaiting our flight!!! We have 15 suitcases PACKED, not to mention the MANY boxes we previously shipped on out to California to meet us. We are getting fired up! I will try my best to blog as often as I can while we are out there. I am so happy you guys are tracking us along the way. Thank you for being such a GREAT support system! We appreciate all your thoughts and prayers for us on this wonderful (busy) journey! Clear Scraps is definetly making a name for itself AROUND THE WORLD!! We shipped to Australia MANY times this week, not to mention Finland, Italy & Canada!! Thanks to all of you for your nice warm comments. I will leave you with a pic of a small sampling of our inventory we left at home to be shipped when we return! Talk to you guys soon.... I will post pics of our booth as soon as I can! We will get in on Friday to start setting up. For now, Jackie.

PS. I want to mention the nice people at SRM Press who has personally invited us to her booth at CHA to do a demo on our product, and to Notion's Distribution where I will be working for 1 1/2 hours a day demoing at their booth also. Krylon will be showing off a sample they did on our product, and Glitz Design will also be scrapbooking one of our albums in their booth during the show!
Thanks to all of you for all your support in our adventure! We are looking forward to working with each and everyone of you very closely! We will add to this list! Good night!!


Thursday, January 24, 2008

4 New Album Releases!!




We just released our newest members of our family!! ACRYLIC WORD BOOKS & more!! Our designers have been so busy playin, and doing a WONDERFUL job at that, we could not wait any longer to see the finished product! So far in the last week, the word books have proven to us these will the be rage at CHA! We are so looking forward to going and showcasing all our hard work. Only 13 days till we leave. Please, if you get a change, go visit our designers website and tell them what a great job they have been doing for us! We can't thank them enough. A few of them have even been picked to get published!! Way to go girls.... it's ok it was an album you did for our booth. We will forgive you.....Do it AGAIN!! Thanks everyone! Enjoy the Acrylic Albums! Make sure you get your local scrapbook store on our site to see what they could be missing!! Be sure to check our Idea Gallery now and again soon as we will be adding the newest designs to our site shortly. We will try to post again while we are at CHA to let everyone know the reaction we are receiving! Hopefully we can find a minute to blog. It is refreshing to know, hundreds of you read this everyday and enjoy knowing what we are up to. Thanks again for all you support, hope you like the albums!!

Sunday, December 30, 2007

Happy Holidays!

I hope everyone reading this had a GREAT holiday this year! Janet & I have been busy the last couple weeks talking to our new design team members, designing our new albums coming out soon, and enjoying the holiday with our kids and family! I just posted a movie slide on a few of my favorite albums for 2007. I had a lot more picked out but had to narrow it somehow! :) Thanks for taking the time to read our blog! Watch us next year as we showcase our product around the nation! Thanks to each and everyone of you for your continued support in our company. Have a GREAT NEW YEAR! Jackie

A Quick Showcase of some of our Albums! Enjoy!

Monday, December 10, 2007

DT Winners!

Thanks to all the people for the the submissions for the Clear Scraps Design Team. I would like to apologize to all of you for the delay in picking the winners. The amount of people who sent emails for the design team was overwhelming, so there were many emails blogs and ideas to look at, and I had to do this while moving over the last week in the middle of ice storms. The work that everyone has sent has all wowed me. I said that I was going two pick to people for the design team in the call that I sent out, but was unable to narrow it down to only two, so I decided to make it three instead. So the winners for the Clear Scraps Design Team are:

Cathy Schellenburg from Canada
Lisa Falduto from Wisconsin
Nicole Patrizio from Ohio

I can't wait to see what you all come up with.

Thanks
Janet Blair
Clear Scraps

Monday, November 19, 2007

Clear Scraps design team!

Clear Scraps, is a brand new company with a complete line of Acrylic Albums and Shapes.
We are looking for two fantastic designers, for the design team.

Deadline to submit is Dec. 4th!!

The designers we seek must love the idea of working with acrylic Albums and shapes.
We want new and creative ideas for the Clear Scraps Line.


What do we ask of you?

1. A six-month commitment of showcasing Clear Scraps products.

2. Multiple projects prior to trade shows and projects for the Idea Gallery (often with quick turnaround times).

3. Enthusiasm for the Clear "Acrylic" Album idea and a willingness to help promote the Clear Scraps brand.

5. Post your Clear Scraps creations to online galleries, blogs, and promote the product on message boards.

6. Submit your work for publication to trade/consumer magazines on a regular basis.

What will you get in return?

1. Free Clear Scrap product! Compensation for your work (specific details to be discussed if an offer is made).

2. A great opportunity to grow with us!

3. Your bio and creations on our blog!

4. The opportunity to work with great new products and be the first to see and use them!!


Please send an email with “Clear Scraps Team Submission” in the subject to info@clearscraps.com with the following information:

Your Name, Address, Phone # you can be reached at during the day, and a list of previous and current design team obligations.

Please submit 3- Projects that showcase you! Your project does not need to be created for this call, alter albums, clear album work, would be helpful, layouts or card project would be fine. Just show us what you are made of. Please limit your files to 150kb each...thank you!

Please Include these details with your submission:
1. Scrapbook resume.
2. Have you been published and if so, what magazines?
3. Do you have a blog and what online galleries you post at?
The idea is to get Clear Scraps name out there and your name too. This is a very hot Product.

You may be on other Design teams, but please keep in mind that before trade shows, you will have very tight deadlines and turn around times. Make sure that you can commit to your "Clear Scraps" responsibilities.

Deadline for application is December 4, 2007

The new design team will be announced December 10, 2007 on our blog!

Clear Scraps reserves the right to terminate the relationship with a designer if responsibilities are not being met.

Any questions can be directed to Janet
info@clearscraps.com

We look forward to seeing all of your great submissions Clear Scraps design team!

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Clear Scraps "2 New Albums"

I thought I would take this opportunity and share with you the progress we have made over the last couple months with Clear Scraps. Clear Scraps has made it to a midwest distribution center, and also we were picked up in Canada. You will soon be seeing our product on store shelves nationwide. We are very excited and could not be more proud of our accomplishments over the last 60 days! As you may have already seen, we just released 2 more innovative albums, the Christmas tree & The house album. The house album has already made its way around the internet and has been spotted on a few blogs. Both albums can be found on our website, and soon on others.

Clear Scraps Design Team Call 2008!

We are releasing a broadcast that we are on the lookout for a couple good designers who can work well with the "acrylic" concept. We are looking for someone to complete samples for us, as we travel the nation to shows abroad, showcasing our line. The samples you make, we will want you to photograph and post to galleries, blogs and of course submit for publication. If indeed your sample is requested back for this purpose, we will send it immediately back to you for such. Compensation will be worked out in case by case basis. Please send us your resume and a profile of your recent work. If you have been published, please list what magazines. We are a fun and creative company and can't wait to find "the one" or rather "the few" to help us launch our line in a high profile way.

Please take a moment to visit our idea gallery for our current samples and the concept we are after. If you think you are up for it, contact us! I can't wait to hear from each and every one of you! Clear Scraps will be a household name and I would love for your name to be published along with it. Thank you so much for your time. Till next time, Jackie & Janet. info@clearscraps.com