Scrappy Blog

It has been a long time since I wrote in our blog. Alot has been going on in my personal life and keeping up with everything has been difficult. I’m trying to get things back on track. I will be reviewing all of our wholesale applications we have received, as well as applications for Sales Representatives.

We are working on redesigning all of our Scrapbook Kits. Each kit contained die cuts and just about everything you needed to create beautiful scrapbook pages. Now we are going to be offering our kits with more papers, more embellishments, and we will be omitting the die cuts. Our reason for omitting the die cut titles is because so many have requested our kits to be generalized. In addition we have been having difficulties with our die cut machine behaving properly.  Once our kits are complete we will upload the new photos showing the full contents of the kits with complete description of each kit. We are sure that you will enjoy the revised products.

Shortly after sending out our last newsletter our host had technical issues with the server we were on and caused our site to go down for several days. We have moved to a new server and are up and running. We have updated our sales and have new ones too that we are sure you will enjoy! Check out all the sales on the left and enjoy great savings! Contest has been extended and sales extended due to the server issues. We would love for you to take our short survey. We need your feedback! All surveys will be kept completely confidential and all information will NOT be shared with anyone.

New Sales & Specials
12×12 Scrapbook Paper now only $0.25 & $0.35 each! Stock up and save! Good through 3/31/08

Visit out current specials for super deals! Glue Dots, Glue Sticks, Foam Squares, Glitter Sticky Paper & More!

We currently experienced techinical issues with our recent hosting company and due to their errors with the server it caused our website to be down for a couple days. This was the 5th time this has happened since being with this host so we decided to move to a new host. We are hoping that we have found one that is reliable and stand by their word of uptime and guarantee.

I am working as quickly as I can to restore our shopping cart back the way it was. Please bear with me as we have over 1000 products and it may take some time. We are very sorry for any inconvenience. Please be sure to check back in a couple days and we should have most of the products re-installed into the new cart.

I finished our taxes for this year and are ready to get some new graphics and products up on the site! I will be working on new graphics, and products for the clubs in the next couple weeks.

We have some exciting things happening at our web site and we hope you will enjoy all the terrific and fun things we have available for you! We have contests, give aways, freebies, tips, techniques, and lots more! Sign up for our newsletter to receive extra specials and freebies!

We have a forum that we need to fill up… please visit and start posting! Email your friends and ask them to help get our forum started! We would like to see our forum grow into a large community for Scrapbookers, Digital Scrapbookers, Graphics and Crafters. http://cutecreationsdesign.com/forum/

New Products
Take a look at all the fantastic NEW items we have in our shop!
3 New styles of 12×12 Scrapbook albums by Die Cuts With A View have been added! Check out these beautiful albums! Each only $14.95!
Check out the new Mounts & Tags Sets! Each only $2.49!

Fibers & Ribbon Sets are now $2.00 each! Was $3.95! Don’t miss this fantastic offer… get yours while supplies last!!

Clearance Sale Updated - Check out our clearance items! We have reduced them again! ALL Handmade Greeting Cards are now only 70¢ each! Christmas Card Boxed Sets are now only $4.00 a box! ALL ColorMeCards are now only 40¢

Fibers By The Yard
Buy One Yard Get A Yard FREE!
Fibers are perfect for adding texture and color to scrapbook pages and crafts!

Reduced Prices: We have items which include shaped brads, and now you can purchase as many or as little as you need! No where else can you purchase brads in low quantities like you can with us! Charms-Tags-Metals
have been updated and all prices reduced! Bazzill Basics flowers sold individually! Only 10 Cents EACH!
Glitter sheets have been reduced from $1.79 and are now only 99 cents!

Enter to win a FREE Scrapbook Page Kit of your choice!
Entrants must be subscribers to our newsletter and must email us to enter to win. Refer a friend and you will increase your chances to win with each and every entry referred! Make sure you tell your friends to mention your name when signing up or their entry doesn’t count toward yours. Direct them to this link to sign up!

Contest is valid from February 10, 2008 and winners will be chosen and announced on February 29, 2008. All you need to do to enter to win is to sign up here.

February Challenge: Are you looking for a challenge? Take a look in our forum for this month’s Easter Challenge! Winner wins a great prize! Check out the details here

I am an organized nut! I keep everything organized and even my junk drawer is organized right down to the last rubber band! My desk is organized right down to the last pen. I’m going to be posting articles about getting organized for the next several posts. I am hoping that my articles will inspire you to get more organized so you have more time to yourself for the fun things you enjoy!

First I’ll give you a little ‘run down’ on how my files system and backup system is over here.
I have several hard drives, even external hard drives and a backup server! Why do I need all this space? You will find out why very soon I have three physical hard drives in my computer. The first one contains the C drive, D which is my windows 98, E which I have for software only. Your computer will run smoother if you have your software on a separate partition. Keeping the C drive for important system software such as your anti virus. I have a separate partition for each category in your business. I even have one for ‘Downloads’. I have a ‘Projects’ partition for current projects and documents that have not yet been saved. I have two backup drives, a master file drive where I keep all my files for when orders are placed I don’t have to go searching in folders for the zips for customers. Most of our files are readily downloadable from the website once customers make their purchase, but I still keep them in a separate partition on my computer. I have a partition for each and every category of products we have. Why? Because I like to keep my files organized and easily accessible. I don’t like to spend hours trying to find something.

Let’s start getting you organized by starting with your computer. It’s important to keep your computer organized so you can find your documents quickly and efficiently. Everyone has important documents that can not be lost. I never store anything on my C drive, nor do I put anything on the same partition as C. First you need a completely different hard drive than your C drive to keep your documents, project files, and business documents. I can’t stress enough on how important this is to keep your work OFF the C drive and OFF that partition. Let’s face it, windows crashes when you least expect it to and if you are unable to reboot, you have just lost everything sitting on that C drive! If you have any work on it now, move that first. I know what you’re thinking right now and your documents and files are not safe on CDs. CDs eventually go bad and can no longer be read. Yeah, you better start grabbing that stack of CDs and start putting those files back onto your computer!

First let’s start with drives. You should have a 4-6 gig drive named “Projects”. The projects drive is where you will keep all files that you are currently working on and have not yet backed up. Your next drive you should have is a very large drive named “Backups”. The backup drive is where you will ‘COPY’ all of your project files. When making a backup you should create a folder and name it the exact date you are making the copied files, something like this ‘2008-0208′. Then you can make a CD or DVD backup for extra storage. But NEVER remove the files from your computer. After you have created both backups, verify the data is all there. Once the data is verified it is safe to MOVE the data to it’s appropriate location. Such as if it is a logo you created for someone move it to the partition named ‘Custom Design’ or ‘Custom Logos’. I backup my files in 2 locations, one on my ‘Backup’ drive, and one on my ‘Server’. My server holds every single file I have ever created and it is the largest backup system I have.

Now, to get your categories organized. Let’s use my scrapbook projects as an example. Within the Scrapbook drive I have folders named exactly with my product names. We have embellishments we make by hand and that folder is named ‘Scrappy Doodles’ because that is the name of our product. Within that folder is numbered, ‘001-Panda-Balloons’ and so on. Each time I create a new embellishment, I put all files associated with that item into that particular folder. When I create a label for the package, that goes into that folder as well. Anything that doesn’t belong, is NOT in that folder.

If you use this method of organization for your computer you will find that you will be able to locate your documents quickly and efficiently. And you will be able to complete your orders in minimal time! I hope this article helps you get better organized.