Hello to all the members of our extended Pizazz It! family!  It’s been awhile and we sure miss you all! We hope that everyone is well and still scrappin’ along. We thought we’d send out a little update to not only let you know what we’re up to but also what plans are in store for Pizazz It! It will be a long one but we hope you won’t mind since it’s been awhile.

Let’s start with the business end.

Some of you may remember that we talked about opening up an online store at our same web address. We’ve been doing some planning and right now the goal is to open the online store for 2012. It won’t be a full store because we still want you to visit your local scrapbook stores to pick up supplies and check out the newest paper collections but we will be featuring one of our own best known product lines – Our diecuts. For the most part, we’ll only be selling our own products in various forms such as diecuts, kits, and a few other products that we’re in the process of working out right now. And yes, we will be taking custom orders since that was so often requested. We hope that you’ll come and shop with us again but this time it will be online! We’ll keep you updated on the progress.

Now for the personal updates: (click links for expanded details)

Sue, of course, is enjoying her retirement. She’s been traveling, spending time with family and has now even found time for scrapping! She attends classes/crops at the local scrapbook stores so that not only can she get some scrapping done but she can visit with former customers as well.

Ashley and Tiffany have been busy bloggers. Ashley was recently featured as a guest designer on the Making Memories blog and is now designing the Kit of the Month Club for Scrap Happy in Tiffin, OH. Tiffany is continuing in school towards a degree in Graphic Design and has also been blogging. Find them and their scrapbooking projects at (Ashley)rockpaperscrapbook.blogspot.com and (Tiffany) iammydesign.com. Be sure to bookmark these so you can find them later!

Rebecca and Karla are teaching classes at Scrapbook Art. Rebecca is continuing her yearly album class for 2011 and will soon be taking signups for 2012. Fans of her old class, Pizazz It! Pages, can now find her similar class, Rebecca’s Pages, at Scrapbook Art. Karla is teaching her popular Christmas card series there and will finish the last class later this month. Teaching plans after November are unknown as Karla will be deciding soon if she will continue teaching. Call Scrapbook Art to sign up for either of their classes or go to their website to see the full calendar!

Bonnie and Karrie are hosting the annual Toll Gate crop this Saturday, November 5th. Fans of our old scrapbook garage sales will be happy to find they are also having a garage sale from 10am-12pm on the same day. There is a $2 entrance fee is you’re not a cropper. There is still room in the crop if you would like to sign up but if not then check out the garage sale. You’ll see plenty of familiar faces including Sue, Ashley, Bonnie, Karrie and a number of our customers who were faithful croppers. Email Karen at karen_guse@plsd.us if you would like to get info/sign up for the crop or to sell in the garage sale this weekend.

Doris has become a full blown Buckeye! Not only has she now begun working full time for Ohio State but her daughter began attending college there this quarter. Go Bucks!

That about wraps this update up. Sorry for the jam packed info but we just miss you all so much and wanted to let you know what we’re all up to. Please feel free to respond back with personal updates as well. We miss seeing so many familiar faces walking through our doors and keeping up to date with all the news and happenings of you all. We hope to hear from you soon and be on the lookout for updates on the status of the online store!

Additional notes: A new scrapbook store, Legacy Paper Arts, has opened in recently in Powell. You’ll definitely want to check out the store and say hello to Joyce, the owner, who is just as sweet as can be. Check out Ashley’s blog review of their store here.

What more can we say to you all but THANK YOU?! On June 26th we closed the store for the very last time but thanks to you all it was a surprisingly happy day for us! So many of our customers (who we consider to be our friends!) came out to say goodbye and we were just so happy to have the opportunity to see you all one more time before we closed. We may have shed a few tears but they were not tears of sad goodbyes. They were tears of joy for having been blessed with the fortune of knowing you and forming relationships with such special people. We will never forget you, your families or the many memories that you have shared with us or even made with us in our store. AND we look forward to future encounters, both planned and chance.

So what is next for us? We will not be opening another store but we are thinking about what we want to do when we grow up. For the time being, we will be making some changes to our website which include the addition of an online store. The online store will carry many of the diecuts that we designed and carried before as well as new designs added regularly. For fans of our custom orders, we are considering the best way (if possible) to do such orders. Plus, be on the lookout for a few completely new things to be thrown in the mix. We have been wanting to try some new options for a while but did not have the time to get the ball rolling. As you all know, this is not the case now so we’re looking forward to seeing what we come up with! Please stay tuned to our website for the upcoming changes and to our email blasts and social media sites for up to date news.

Note: It is important to note that we still firmly stand by our comittment to promoting local businesses rather than internet only businesses. Such sites do not have the same amount of overhead that brick and mortors have to pay and thus nothing returns to your community. Please do not forget the effects of your support on these businesses and the community as a whole. That is the reason why we will not be doing any large scale sales online. This new venture online is mainly just to keep our name out there until we decide what we want to do next, if anything. More details will be coming soon.

Follow some of us online! Part of our Pizazz It! crew will be publishing out own websites starting very soon! If you’re looking for design inspiration, project ideas, page layouts, or just want to know what we’re up to then bookmark these links below!
Ashley – www.rockpaperscrapbook.blogspot.com (already live!)
Tiffany – www.iammydesign.com (coming soon!)
Rebecca – www.mywhitecanvas.com (coming soon!)

If you’ll miss the Pizazz It! crew then look for us at Scrapbook Art at Polaris. Some of our teachers will be teaching classes there and some of our employees will be on the Design Team. Plus, you might even see some of us there cropping if you attend their crops! There will still be plenty of opportunities to see us and we look forward to seeing you all there, too!

Scrapbook Art is closed right now and will reopen under new ownership at the very end of July. We are very excited to see what new, fun and exciting things the new owner, Terri, will be doing at the store! To sign up for email newsletters from Scrapbook Art, visit their website. That way you will not miss a beat in all the fun!

Starting tomorrow, Thursday June 23rd, we will begin offering 50% off of the entire store.

The only exceptions are Copic Markers, Copic refills, and Pizazz It! classes/kits. The clearance section still contains items that are between 50 – 90% off and no discounts will be added on top of them. There are still plenty of good deals here to be had so shop shop shop away for just a few more days!

Just a reminder – Our last day will be this Sunday, June 26th so make sure that you have grabbed up everything that you want soon since this weekend we will be closing up shop for good.

This WILL be our final discount. Make sure you get everything that you want in the next few days before it is too late.

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Very important! Don’t forget:

*We no longer accept checks as a form of payment. We will only accept cash or credit cards for purchases made from June 1st through our closing date. All credit card purchases must be a minimum of $20 due to the large discount that we are giving and the percentage taken out for service fees.