Salute to Dad

Hope everyone had a safe and great Memorial Day weekend. You all made Joy's birthday, too, with all the orders that we received over the weekend. Thank you! Thank you!!

Now it's time to get going on those Father's Day projects that need to be made for those special dads in our lives. Here are some fun things that we just received yesterday from Paper Salon. Check out the new Haberdashery line and stamp set called father's day. Way cute and versatile for all those masculine cards and projects that we always seem to not have enough of. The Paper Salon Tailored Tins are very popular since they are die-cut, unmounted rubber stamp sets. They each come in the dvd tin, too. If you are looking for acyrlic blocks for your unmounted stamps, also check out the wide assortment we have . I personally love the Stampendous Acrylic blocks since that have the grooves/handles like traditional wood mounts.

If you are looking for any other masculine-type papers, check out the new SEI paperline called Such a Boy and Crate paperlines such as Zoom, Cowboy, and Taylor. The Boy Scouts line form K& Co has lots of designs that can lend themselves to these projects, too. My favorite to give a masculine and also vintage look are Wanted and Halfway Cafe from Cosmo Cricket. The newest line we have from Love, Elsie, called Toby is really hip and cool.

Don't forget that we also have a lot of alterables for that perfect gift-giving containers and projects. There are metal tins that mimic the lunch box look and also the clear acrylic paint cans. The DVD tins and CD tins are great items to hold any digital scrapbooking projects you may want to give that special dad. Create a CD of his favorite tunes or a DVD of some great photos with the kids and famiy and put it in some cool metal tin container that you altered.

Whatever your projects are for dad or whatever you have planned for the summer, don't forget the great papers and stamps that Eclectic Paperie offers to enhance your creative process and paper crafts.

BTW...we have lots of new things in this week. Check out all the new SEI paper lines and matching embellishments as well as the Love, Elsie line from KI Memories.

Feed Your Creativity!
Daisy & Joy

Restocked and Replenished

Happy Wednesday!

Hope everyone had a great weekend. The past several days have been like Christmas at eP with lots of deliveries from a variety of companies. Just wanted to let you all know that the we lots of things back in stock:

• Tsukineko Essential Glue Pad and we have refills;
• Basic Grey Precision Files - great to use with sanding those little chipboard pieces
• ALL the Cuttlebug embossing folders including Textile Texture and Mesh Texture. We are still waiting for Sledding and we will let you know when it arrives.
• Heidi Grace papers are all back in stock including the Cute Cakes line.
• We did receive more Stampendous Bees but they literally flew out the door as soon as got them. We will have more before the week is over. We also will have more Fun Flock hopefully by next week. But check out all the new Stampendous stamps we got in. If you love monkeys, you'll have to meet Changito
• We are hoping that Rubber Romance will be back by this weekend.
  
• We are also waiting for a call to pick up more Bind-it-All machines and we will also carry their wires that have been repacked in 6 quantity; plus there is a new size. We will also carry more of the Zutter chipboard pieces so keep coming back to check.
  

Keep checking the Brand Spankin' New category because Joy just uploaded some new things. If you are thinking about Father's Day, check out the lacing cards from Cosmo Cricket...easy, fast to complete with the addition of your photos. We also carry the Lacing Cards plain so you can alter them yourself. Here's a sample/photo of the kit when it's completed.



"Feed your Creativity"
Daisy & Joy

Happy Mother's Day!

We wanted to take a moment to stop and wish all a joyous Mother's Day.

Speaking of which, there are some very special eclectic Mothers out there receiving a beautiful Mother's Day Card from Taylored Expressions today that looks like this:

Some of the eclectic Moms of 2007 are:

• Jackie Marra
• Vivian Peters
• Sheila Freeman
• Crystal Minkler
• Dina Anderson
• Kristina Price
• Susan Jensen
  

Some of our favorite quotes about mothers are posted below. They all make us feel and warm and fuzzy inside.

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan


Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in my field, since the payment is pure love. ~Mildred B. Vermont


A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries


The phrase "working mother" is redundant. ~Jane Sellman


The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. ~Rajneesh


The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

Let's celebrate all women in our lives who are our mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts and our dear friends, too. The "mothers" in our lives bring that TLC and light up our days in so many ways.

Cheers!
Daisy & Joy

Update on National Scrapbook Day Orders

Happy Wednesday!

WOW! What an incredible response we had to our National Scrapbooking Day promotion. Due to the heavy traffic and the amount of orders placed on Saturday, May 5th and Sunday, May 6th, you may experience a slight delay in receiving your orders. We will try to get all the orders out within the next several days.

You gals went wild and several items and collections sold out. Please know that we are receiving a Stampendous shipment within the next 2 days and we will be replenishing those popular Bees and Flowers by the end of the week. You never know what will show up in Brand Spankin' New this week(wink, wink)...and we have another fun promotion in the works.

We say "THANK YOU!" again for coming to visiting Eclectic Paperie.

With gratitude,
Daisy & Joy

National Scrapbooking Day Offering

Hello Friends!

National Scrapbooking Day is here! If you are like us, this means you have another excuse to have some crafting fun. We are so thankful to our friends and customers that we wanted to celebrate our first National Scrapbooking Day by offering you 15% off your entire purchase.

So when you decide to rest those scissor fingers and wash the ink off your hands stop on by eclectic Paperie and treat yourself. The coupon runs today (May 5) through Sunday (May 6) at 11:59 PST so don't miss out. We have more "Brand Spankin' New" product in the store like K& CO. paper line by Amy Butler, Me& My Big Idea Scrapbooks, My Favorite Things stamps and Cosmo Cricket lacing cards.

You must use Coupon Code NSD07 at checkout in order to receive the promotional offer. This code does not apply to Gift Certificates or the "Spoil Your Mom" Mother's day exclusive.

Please email us if you have questions. (us@eclecticpaperie.com).

"Feed your Creativity" Daisy & Joy

It's in the Bag

Happy May!

Hopefully May will bring lots of flowers and sunshine into your part of the world. May comes along and we also start thinking of all the "moms" in our lives. Whether it's your own mom, your sister, friend or another special woman in your life who is a "mom" for you....let's celebrate them!
I am going to give one of these gorgeous "creativity bags" to my mom for mother's day. She is not a scrapper or stamper but she is always on the go whether it's off to her bible study or showing homes as a realtor. She can put all kinds of literature, her bible, and all kinds of things in this very roomy and pretty bag. It also serves as a great carry-on as we have heard from Jenn Balcer(jbalcer) and Beverly Gerard(texasgrammy). They each got one while they were here in California for StampMania and then used it to put all their things and laptop for a travel carry-on. There are pockets for phone, PDA, computer and magazines. It's meant to be able to carry 12x12 paper and scrapbooks. We only have the Sola pattern available right now as the Amy Butler Belle pattern is on back-order. If I know my mom, she will also sew some Prima flowers and other "bling" to make it her own.

Check out the Alter This section where you also find lots of fun containers, acrylic paint cans and more that can house fun presents. Mother's Day, graduation, end of school teacher gifts....so many cute containers to alter and put things in. I was thinking that even this dress form would be oh-so-cute if you were to modge podge a bunch of photos of your kids and then give it to grandma for Mother's day. You can use either Ranger Adirondack Paint Dabbers or the Dew Drops to put some color on all these alterables. Did you know that the Ranger Adirondack Alcohol Inks are great on metal tins? Check out this metal tin that was made by Michelle Fischer(SDiegoGal) using the alcohol inks.


We have lots of new tings that came in so give us a couple days to upload them. We have all the new Girl Scout papers, scrapbooks and embellishments. We also received the Boy Scout individual papers and other scrapbook items by K& Co. We will start to carry SEI and also My Mind's Eye. Some of you have the discovered the new Heidi Grace paper lines and we received the embellishments that match. There is even so much more....you'll just have to stay tuned. There are way, too, many new products to talk about.

"Feed you Creativity!"
-Daisy & Joy