Scrap Your Trip Adds 147 Items

As an employer, one of the most rewarding things about having employees is watching them grow.  Sometimes, it’s literally, like Maddison (our custom die cut employee) who is due to give birth to baby girl Alexis tomorrow.  Or  "Eric the Scrappin’ Rapper", who started as a young man and is now married (his wife, Jessica, is our new smiling voice of customer service).  I’ve watched Tiffany and Jill, our die cut designers, grow their "creative muscle" over the last few years and their die cut designs just keep getting better and better. 

I’ve always know I had a bunch of creative employees, but a few more have really surprised me lately. 

One day in our morning staff meeting, we were discussing our exclusive SYT paper designs.  Cindy, our Office Manager (and soon-to-be grandmother of new baby Alexis mentioned above), said "Does our paper have to be photographs?"  Could I draw something?"  Apparently, Cindy has been hiding her artistic talent!  And so, we debut "Christmas Magic", a collection of four papers, hand drawn and colored by Cindy.  She is also our resident Disney fanatic.  She also drew Monorail Right and Monorail Left.  I know she is working on a bunch more Disney drawings (she needs no excuse to spend more time at Disney World!). 

Nicole, our Web Designer, and the one responsible for getting all the new goodies on the site for you every week, is incredibly talented as well.  We have a whole "owl theme" going on this week, with three of Nicole’s drawings turned into owl paper (Tiffany made an owl die cut too). 

Not to be outdone, when my daughter Lauren (who always refers to herself as my youngest employee) found out that people in the office were drawing scrapbook paper, she wanted to draw something too.  "Owl by Lauren S." is her artistic interpretation.   Do you have any of your child’s artwork that you’d like to turn into scrapbook paper?  Anything that you can scan, we can turn into custom paper for you.  Click here for details:  http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/syt-cp-1015.html.

It has been an absolute blast seeing everyone get so excited about creating new products for you.  We’ve had a lot of fun coming up with ideas, so if you’d like to see more, just let us know!

We have over 140 additional brand new products this week.  We have the Christmas Basics collection from Reminisce, the Alpine Frost collection from SEI and the Pet Christmas collection from Adornit.  We have cute new Christmas dimensional stickers from Jolee’s by You and lots of travel (Germany, Italy, China, Japan, Australia, Alaska and more), hockey and wrestling.  We have two custom die cuts this week – one is a custom kitchen die cut and one is a custom Christmas present.  Our custom paper is your very own star on the "Walk of Fame."  My favorite die cut this week is our snow globe.  We used the Transparent Plastic by Bazzill to cut the actual "globe" part, so the snowman looks like he’s really in a globe!  Jill did a great job with that one. .  Click here to see them all:  http://www.scrapyourtrip.com/120308.html

As always, thanks for your business!

Julie Swatek, President
Scrap Your Trip®
www.ScrapYourTrip.com
‘cuz life is a trip worth scrappin’®

9 comments December 3rd, 2008