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MARCH 27-31 UPDATES.  

• Webinar recap: Thanks to all who joined us last night for the sneak peek webinar! If you missed it, you can watch the recording here. You won't want to miss out on these reveals!

• Products launching Monday at noon CT: Set Up Camp Buy-It-All Bundle with 10% OFF; Set Up Camp collection; Q2 Totally Tonal products; new 8x8 Paper Albums; 8x8 Custom Paper Albums; Congrats, Grad! collection; Q2 Advisor Exclusive Paper Pack and Embellishments; Q2 Sketch Booklet; Sample New Advisor Welcome Bundle.

• Totally Tonal Buffet launching Monday: Earn Q2 Totally Tonal Cardstock Sampler Packs FREE when you purchase any assortment of 6+ Totally Tonal products. Get details below in this email or view them here. 

• New “Sale” section on the website starting Monday at noon CT: On Monday, you will find a new “Sale“ dropdown in the Last Chance category on the website. There, you will find current products that will be discounted for a period of 30 days at a time or until they sell through. (Note: Price reductions will be visible on the website starting at 12:01am, however, the “Sale” category will not be visible until noon CT.) Learn more below.

• New “Low Inventory” section on the website is available NOW: A new “Low Inventory” section has been added as a dropdown in Last Chance to make it easy for you and your customers to see which items have lower counts; 500-ish will be the trigger for the team to include products there. See it now.

• New My Course: The newest training, “Learn How To Do Beginner Classes” My Course launched last night. To take the training, you'll want to sign in to your account and visit My Courses in the Advisor HQ. 

• New update to Marketing Tools in the Advisor HQ: When you visit Marketing Tools in the Advisor HQ today to download the newest materials, you'll notice that the page has been cleaned up and reorganized with easy-to-search sections grouped based on YOUR needs for Beginner Classes, growing your team and more! Get details below.

• Last chance for Custom Foiled Front Album Covers: Last chance to order will be Friday, April 7, at noon CT. (Custom Foiled Spines are not affected and will continue to be for sale.) Learn more below.

• Queue-it tool for launch: The queue tool will be turned on for Monday’s launch at noon CT with the pre-queue starting at 11:30am CT. It will be turned off when site traffic slows. When you enter the site, you’ll want to sign in to your account. Then when you’re done, close your browser tab. View FAQs.

SET UP CAMP COLLECTION

Starting Monday, you can hike happy memory trails with the Set Up Camp collection! This collection was inspired by the great outdoors and all types of camping trips — you'll love it for memories of RV trips with family, setting up a camper in a forest, enjoying the warmth of an open fire while telling stories, fishing on a lake and Boy or Girl Scout camping!

Adventures await in the 30-second video below!

Take a closer look at Set Up Camp with Noreen in this video!

COORDINATING CARDSTOCK

COORDINATING COLLECTIONS

ALBUM COVER

The Set Up Camp Album Cover is made of mocha bookcloth material and features a pine tree forest design in dark green matte, brown matte and antique gold metallic foils.

The Set Up Camp designer paper pack and stickers are a campsite delight — take a closer look!

PAPER PACK

The Set Up Camp Paper Pack (12/pk) will have you pitching perfect layouts with patterns of retro campers, pine trees, a campground map, a night sky, tree stripes, pine needles, vintage wayfinding signs and flower checkers! Flip through the papers here.

STICKERS

Answer the call of the wild with the Set Up Camp Stickers, which feature icons like pine needles, leaves, feathers, a retro camper and tent, a water canteen, compass, kayak, various arrows and cute forest animals like a fawn, raccoon and owl, plus phrases like “Take a hike,” “Listening to the crickets” and “S’more addict.”

Let your creative compass guide you to this collection's mats and embellishments below!

VARIETY MAT PACK

The Set Up Camp Variety Mat Pack features designs like a mountain landscape, a camper outline, a cabin surrounded by a starry night sky and patterns of plaid, stripes, vintage flower checkers, wayfinding signs, pine needles and wood planks, plus space to journal. Flip through the mats here.

 EMBELLISHMENTS

The Set Up Camp Embellishments will ignite the adventurous fire inside of you with icons of badges, spiral field note pages, binoculars, a vintage Polaroid camera, a camper, RV, tent and A-frame cabin, plus phrases like “Adventure buddies,” “Trailblazers” and “Wilderness society."

TRAIL SIGNS PUNCH

Navigate your way through your wilderness layouts with the Trail Signs Punch, which creates a trail sign cutout consisting of one arrow pointing to the left and another pointing to the right.

Here are some additional ideas from the designer on how the punch can be used to make taller signs and stacked borders!

COMFORTABLE CAMPER BORDER PUNCH

Enjoy the journey ahead with the Comfortable Camper Border Punch, which creates cutouts of a camper with two pine trees — perfect for layouts of road trips, setting up camp at a new campground, stopping at roadside attractions and visiting national parks and forests!

Check Your Stash!

Do you own the previously launched Majestic Mountains Border Punch? This border punch will layer perfectly behind the camper border!

GET 10% OFF THE BUY-IT-ALL BUNDLE
Available April 3-14 (starts and ends at noon CT or while supplies last)

Now that you've trailblazed through the collection, you're definitely going to want it all and with the Set Up Camp Buy-It-All Bundle, you can! It includes all the decorative products in the collection and the Comfortable Camper Border Punch and Trail Sign Punch, and you'll get 10% OFF! 

But you won't want to wait because the Buy-It-All Bundle with discounted pricing will only be available until Friday, April 14, at noon CT or while supplies last. At that time, the buy-it-all option will go away and the decorative bundle for Set Up Camp will be available for purchase at full price.

TOTALLY TONAL BUFFET
April 3-11 (starts and ends at noon CT or while supplies last)

Each quarter in 2023, we're releasing a fresh assortment of Totally Tonal paper packs (12/pk) and stickers (3/pk) that feature trending hues and match our custom mill run cardstock colors.

The Q2 Totally Tonal products below were designed to coordinate with the Tangerine, Soft Pink and Red Cardstock (which you can earn FREE as a Cardstock Sampler Pack — 4 sheets of each color — with qualifying orders!) and they qualify toward the Totally Tonal Buffet! 2023 Q1 Totally Tonal products and 2022 Totally Tonal products that are still available for sale also qualify toward the buffet.

Fun fact: The Q2 Totally Tonal Stickers are designed to work with the Circle and Square Punches — you'll want to make sure your customers have those punches!

See this quarter's Totally Tonal products in the video below!

Take a closer look at the Totally Tonal products with Noreen in the video below!

Which of these will YOU earn?

NEW MY COURSE: “LEARN HOW TO DO BEGINNER CLASSES”

Whether you're new to the Advisor community or a seasoned Advisor with experience under your belt, you'll want to take the NEW My Course, “Learn How To Do Beginner Classes,” to set you up for success in hosting Beginner Classes this year! It includes detailed instructions for holding:

• Card Classes
• 12x12 Page Fold-over Classes
• 8x8 Paper Album Classes (you'll see NEW options below!)
• 8x8 Fast2Fab™ Album Kit Classes
• And more!

The products you'll be previewing below will be excellent options for reaching new customers and holding Beginner Classes, so you'll definitely want to take the course!

NEW 8x8 PAPER ALBUMS

Just in time to accommodate your upcoming Beginner Classes — NEW 8x8 Paper Albums will be available starting Monday! Available in a variety of pre-printed themes (see below), these eight-page album booklets make a great intro-to-scrapbooking album for newbies and/or the ultimate card to gift to loved ones, teachers, new parents, graduates and more!

Note: 8x8 Paper Albums are $10/each and include 2 sheets of bonus Tape Chips.

Take a closer look with Noreen in the video below!

INTRODUCING 8x8 CUSTOM PAPER ALBUMS

Starting Monday, you'll also be able to create 8x8 Custom Paper Albums! This eight-page customizable 8x8 album booklet that you create directly on the website makes a thoughtful gift or card and can be added to an 8x8 or 12x12 album using Pocket Pages (sold separately).

There are two (2) ways to use 8x8 Custom Paper Albums:

1. Design the entire album digitally and it will arrive with your photos and designs printed on the pages. You can select your backgrounds, digitally add photos, elements and journaling, and your completed album will arrive exactly as you designed it! This is a great option if you want to create a mini yearbook for a family reunion or a sports team and print and sell multiple copies of the same album!

2. Design the pre-printed pages ONLY. This is perfect if you plan to get a Beginner Class together to create paper albums for a specific theme like a Girl Scout troop or a sports team! Doing it this way, you can select your backgrounds and/or add logos, and when your paper album with pre-printed pages arrives, simply adhere photos and stickers/embellishments and journal by hand! This style is most similar to purchasing the ready-to-use paper albums, however you are not limited to the predesigned themes

Note: 8x8 Custom Paper Albums are $10/each and do not include bonus Tape Chips.

CONGRATS, GRAD! COLLECTION

Graduation season is here, which means ceremonies and celebrations are on the horizon — whether that's for a kindergartener, high schooler or college student in you or your customers' lives.

Showcasing those moments will be easier than ever with the Congrats, Grad! collection. It features a classic black and gold palette with sleek and modern designs that you'll love for memories of graduation day, from getting dressed in the academic regalia to walking across the stage with a diploma in hand and all types of graduation celebrations and parties!

Take a look at this first-of-its-class collection in the video below!

Now take a look at the collection with Noreen in the video below!

COORDINATING CARDSTOCK

COORDINATING COLLECTIONS

NEW GRADUATION THEME ON THE WEBSITE

Starting Monday, you'll find a Graduation theme on the website marked with a “Shop Graduation Here” flag for your convenience in finding all products that will work great for you and your customers during graduation season! There you'll see:

• Congrats, Grad! products

• Silver & Gold products

• 8x8 School Days Album Kit

• Graduation Day Theme Pack — refer to the SALE section below in this email — this theme pack is going to be discounted starting Monday!

• Graduation products such as the Gift Pocket Card Kit

You'll also want to visit Marketing Tools in the Advisor HQ to download a NEW Graduation Flyer! One side of this flyer can be used to promote your Beginner Classes (and includes space to write your event info and/or contact info!). The other side includes a What's New-style list of graduation products your customers may want. Take a look below!

ALBUM COVER

The Graduation Album Cover is made of ebony bookcloth material and features a sleek graduation cap design in antique gold metallic and silver matte foils.

Note: You may remember that last year, we offered the opportunity to foil your name or school name on the front of the 12x12 Grad Album Cover for a limited time. As the popularity of this offering grew, it became apparent that our Custom Foiled Spine equipment could not properly be re-purposed to foil front covers at a high volume. Therefore, we cannot offer personalization on the Grad Album this year and are giving a “final call” on front-cover foiled albums. We’re going to let our custom spine foiling equipment do what it does best — Custom Foiled Spines.

PAPER PACK

The Congrats, Grad! Paper Pack is a class act with patterns like linework illustrations of tassels and graduation caps, dotted stripes, cascading confetti and the phrase “Graduation day” in large, frilly cursive. Flip through the papers here.

STICKERS

The Congrats, Grad! Stickers (1/pk) will have you reaching for the stars with icons like twinkling stars, a globe, a scholastic owl, graduation caps and a diploma, a book and phrases like “Huzzah,” “Congrats, grad!” and “Onward & upward.”

FOILED EMBELLISHMENTS

Give your layouts a diploma of creativity with the Congrats, Grad! Foiled Embellishments that feature icons of celebratory banners with phrases like “Great job,” “So proud of you!” and “Big dreams,” plus gold number tiles to commemorate the graduation year — all of which are accented with gold foil.

DOT TIP PENS

Give your layouts silver linings and golden touches with the Silver Metallic and Gold Metallic Dot Tip Pens! They feature a fine tip for journaling, writing headlines and drawing, and a thicker dot tip that allows you to create dots and doodles.

Hint: Press and hold the dot tip to your page and watch as the dot gets bigger!

Q2 ADVISOR EXCLUSIVES

The Q2 Advisor Exclusive Baked With Love Paper Pack (6/pk) and Mini Embellishments (16/pk) are the perfect ingredients to use at your Beginner Classes — especially when you pair them with the NEW Beginner Project Recipe™ from Noreen (shown below), which you can download in the Advisor HQ!

SAMPLE NEW ADVISOR WELCOME BUNDLE

Display, show and start conversations about the FREE gift new Advisors who join your team can redeem when they join with the Sample New Advisor Welcome Bundle! A variation of the New Advisor Welcome Bundle — which is ONLY available to new Advisors — will be available for you to purchase as an Advisor Exclusive as a tool to help you build your team.

This bundle includes samples of the products that come in the New Advisor Welcome Bundle (with a few small differences indicated below) and is perfect for helping those who are on the fence and may spark interest and curiosity at your events to join the Advisor community.

Note the difference between the Sample Bundle you can purchase and the New Advisor Welcome Bundle that can be earned: The Sample Bundle comes with a Clear 5x7 Photo Case (new Advisors get the limited-edition Blue 5x7 Photo Case), Repositionable Tape Runner in its regular case (new Advisors get the limited-edition Feeling Bright Repositionable Tape Runner) and the Sample Bundle includes a Navy Dual-Tip Pen (the type and color of pen is different in each bundle for new Advisors).

NEW “SALE” SECTION ON THE WEBSITE

Beginning Monday at noon CT, you’ll notice a NEW “Sale” dropdown on the website in the Last Chance category. It will include current products that will be discounted for a period of 30 days at a time — or until they sell through. They’ll be selected based on various factors, like pairing well with new collections (e.g., you likely noticed the Horse Punch was discounted when On the Farm launched) or being appropriate for the season/holiday.

We hope that this section will be a win-win: helping maintain smart inventory levels to keep the business healthy and being useful to you to easily find coordinating products to new collections, seasons and/or holidays that may not have been front of mind.

With the discounted prices, they can also be great suggestions for your customers who are shopping on a budget and/or can be used as upsells, gifts with purchase or prizes at your events!

Starting Monday, the following products will be discounted to the retail prices shown below:

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