Kaiser Stockists please note:The cut off date for ALL ORDERS is Tuesday 16th December at 5pm. We will be closing for the holidays on Friday 19th December, and will be reopening for orders on Monday 5th January 2009...
Last week Kaisercraft teamed up with Paper Creations in Wisconsin to show the gang at the Central Wisconsin Scrapbook & Stamp Expo
how it’s done. As Paper Creations owner Renell Bartlett tells, it
started with a bang. “They let the first 200 people in the doors at
9:00 a.m. and they were like a stampede going through, LOL (laugh out
loud). They came, they saw, and they conquered! They were in and out
like a tornado.”
Kaisercraft sponsored Paper Creations make
‘n’ take with a beautiful Victorian tag (SB153) designed by Renell
using the Café Culture paper range (P264-267). Renell and her visitors
were thrilled with what they produced, though a little education was
needed for some BTP (Beyond The Page) first timers. “The Make 'N Takes
were a hit, mostly I think because they weren't a card! I had many ask
what they were for exactly, and I said that they were beautiful tags
that they could hang on anything to decorate or put on a gift as a tag
using the journaling blocks as their writing space.”
For such a
creative industry many, like me, are surprised at how talented
scrappers and stampers need so much convincing to trust their own
instincts when it comes to design. In the Mellissa K tradition of
“There are no mistakes, only unique creations” Renell was able to
convince her scrappers to think outside the box, only to have some
girls turning creatively primeval. “It was funny, because so many of
them were worried that I'd get upset if they changed the idea of the
tag at all, and once I convinced them that I was honored if they took
my design and changed it, they went wild with some of them!”
Renell
went on to say, “I had young kids and Grandma's making them and having
a fun time using the different products and just plain enjoying sitting
down and creating something unique with their own hands,” surmising the
reasons so many enjoy this craft.
Kaisercraft would like to
thank Renell for the effort she put into presenting Kaisercraft at the
Expo and creating a special day for everyone who came along. Special
thanks also to John at Notion’s Marketing who personally handled this
order after hours to make sure it happened in time, “my sister went to
Green Bay and got the box of product as it came off the plane, and got
back to the Expo not to long after it started.” Sound familiar, store
owners?
Check out Kaisercraft’s 100-to-1 Scrap-off entries.
WINNER: A big congratulations to Christy Clarke, we were in awe of her amazing handwriting, quotes and journaling, which adorned all her projects.
RUNNER UP: Skye Johnson’s work is amazing! Her attention to detail, her thoughtful and heartfelt journaling and gorgeous photo’s blew us away!
Many thanks to our finalists, Cherie Donsellar, Jodi Mann and Carol Senior for their top efforts also!
Lastly thanks to all who were involved in the day; from Kaisercraft staff, sponsors Wendy Steward and Lorraine Bate, participants and lastly to Stephen and Carolyn Kaiser for holding the competition. The day raised $1,500 for the overseas causes Kaisercraft support, which include a boy’s home in Sri Lanka, three kindergartens in Fiji and a children’s home in the Philippines. Again, many thanks to all involved.
Kaisercraft Christmas Beyond the Page competition winners
We were absolutely blow away by the high standard and high number of entries we received for our Christmas Beyond the Pagescrapbooking comp. We had such a difficult time judging the entries we decided to announce two runners up and three honourable mentions.
The winner of the competition was Sandrine Dawes!! Her amazing Noel frame and magnetic gift album looks fantastic, her attention to detail was amazing – from using a bauble as the “O” in Noel, to scrapping the gift album complete with journaling and photo’s to the creative idea of attaching it to the frame with hidden magnets – congratulations Sandrine!!
Tania Cordie was runner up along with Julie Hill. Tania’s creative Christmas bauble made using a Styrofoam ball, Kaisercraft papers and bling looks fantastic!! And Julie’s beautiful table centrepiece made from our handbag tidy, papers, wood flourishes, paper, rhinestones and flowers puts brought ones to shame!!
Honorable mentions go out to MerryAnne Elan, Davina Quinn, Lara Dawson and Kylie Powell and the Pannawonica Craft Club for their amazing efforts!!
Just a quick note to remind you that we’re moving!
Kaisercraft has been slowly getting bigger over the past 12 months and now we’ve outgrown our home in North Geelong (Victoria, Australia) and are moving to a new office/warehouse just down the road in Breakwater, on Monday 24th November. We are expecting minimal disruption to our services around this time.
The new offices will give us room to move and flex our creative wings, creating a more positive workspace for our employees but also better products and services for you!
Our phone and fax numbers and postal address will remain the same: PO Box 339 Belmont Victoria 3216 Ph: +61 3 5240 2000 | Fax: +61 3 5240 2000
However if you are visiting our offices, our new address is: 2 Bayldon Court, Breakwater VIC 3219
Kaisercraft’s 100 to 1 Scrap Off - competition winners
Judging by the 50 enthusiastic scrappers participating in Kaisercraft’s 100 to 1 Scrap Off last Saturday, the masses of giveaway’s handed out, the fantastic door prizes and fun had, it’s easy to say Kaiser’s first ever scrapbooking competition was a success! Thanks to all who took part, we were blown away by the high standard of entries and work completed in the time frame made available – you all should be proud of yourself!
A big ‘Congratulations’ to Christy Clarke for her awesome effort! Christy won a $300 Kaisercraft voucher for her stunning layouts and beyond the page projects completed in the Scrap Off. The judges loved her heartfelt journaling, simplistic layouts, and her handwriting was deemed “font worthy”. Skye Johnson came runner up with her amazing entries, which also included heartfelt journaling and cute embellishments.
The day raised $1,500 for the overseas causes Kaisercraft support, which include a boy’s home in Sri Lanka, three kindergartens in Fiji and a children’s home in the Philippines.
Round sponsors include Scrapbook Creations and Fiskars. A special thank you to Lorraine Bate, Consulting Editor of Scrapbook Creations and Wendy Steward from Fiskars who helped judge the rounds for the day.
The time has come and finally the registration form our next Crop for a cause workshop.
After the huge success of the first ever 100 - 1 Scrap off- we are going to hold the next workshop in the Kaisercraft Factory Outlet workshop area (pctured above)
If you haven't checked out the new outlet and said hi to Chez in there then you are seriously missing out but at least this will give you a good excuse to have a look.
As it could be difficult for parking in the morning for such a large number of you - we have decided to change the times for this one....(and see how is goes) as after 12.30 there will be extra places to park next door. Before I woffle on too much here are the details and if you would like to register please get all forms to me as soon as possible.
WHEN: Saturday 6th December TIME: 1pm - 11pm Dinner is included (bring your own snack/lollies etc or rest of day)
WHERE: Kaisercraft Factory Outlet 506-508 Latrobe Blvd, Geelong, Victoria Australia (next to Pegasus Antiques and McCanns) Open location Map
PLEASE BRING ALONG A NON PERISHABLE FOOD ITEM or something to add to the Christmas hampers.
Money raised throughout the day (sales and raffles etc) will be given to Debbie Grinter for the Leukemia foundation and the Christmas hampers will be given out to some of the families we have helped out during the year.
$25 - Come along, bring some friends and just scrap and chat for the day - dinner included $35 - For this you also get all the new December paper releases for FREE (This is 12 new double sided papers - 3 new paper collections) Please make sure you mark down what you want on your registration form. Numbers are strictly limited and places will only be reserved for those who have paid and registration forms have been returned. Close off date is STRICTLY 30th November.
For those of you who haven't yet attended a Crop for A Cause, bring along what you are working on at present and enjoy some well earned time out, meet lots of new friends, lots of laughs and hopefully actually get some scrapping done - all whilst helping out someone at the same time. As I say by outselves we may feel that we can't do much but together we can make a difference.
In 2007 Kaisercraft opened a discount retail outlet stocking our deleted and seconds
scrapbooking stock to provide a steady income stream for the sole
purpose of supporting our overseas causes (we currently support a boy’s
home in Sri Lanka, 3 Kindergartens in Fiji and a children’s home in the
Philippines.)
Due to popular demand we have recently moved to a biggger and better premises. More info about our retail outlet
In the months before Christmas There’s no noise from the mouse The only ones stirring Are scrap addicts in the house We know for sure And it’s not all that strange As they want from us The whole BTP Range…
Yes you can win the whole new Christmas Beyond The Page range!
BUT wait, there is more, you will also receive all the new Christmas papers ranges and epoxy brads to match, new Christmas clears stamps, rubons and bling…
Send us in a jpg of a Christmas Beyond the Page creation (using Kaisercraft christmas or standard papers & products) and WIN the whole exciting range (pictured).
Mel and Al have just returned from the recent Stitches and Craft show in Sydney Australia were they were part
Living Creatively – a place or in this case, a whole floor, dedicated to encouraging people to explore their creativity.
In 2007 Kaisercraft opened a discount retail outlet stocking our deleted and seconds scrapbooking stock to provide a steady income stream for the sole purpose of supporting our overseas causes.
We are very proud to announce our NEW wholesale & retail outlet will open in Geelong Victoria (Australia) this Saturday 11 October at 9am!
On August 16, I (Mick from Kaisercraft's USA sales team) was at Strictly Scrapbooking in LA California teaching the Flutterby Designer album. 
In 2007 Kaisercraft opened a discount retail outlet stocking our deleted and seconds scrapbooking stock to provide a steady income stream for the sole purpose of supporting our overseas causes.
