Our Talented New First-Ever Design Team!

I have to be completely unoriginal, and tell you that there were way more applicants we'd have liked to have on our team than we were able to choose this time around. We had applications from around the globe...from Jewish ladies ranging in observance from secular to completely frum...from non-Jewish ladies with a huge variety of family connections to Judaism...from published artists to ladies who made ours their very first design team application ever. We were so honored and blown away by everyone who took the time and effort to complete our application process and share their work with us. THANK YOU!

The papercrafters we did choose for our inaugural team are all talented (I guess that would be a given ), and we also feel are a good 'mix' of everything from different relationships to Judaism to different styles and crafting strengths and preferences (cards, scrapbooking, altered items, digital/paper...). We hope they enjoy working with us in our seminal year, and that they bring great inspiration to the Jewish papercrafting community through their involvement here.

Please join me in welcoming...


Debby Avraham (Debby66), Israel
Lisa Spiegel (scrapmama), California
Rachel Myerson (boysmom), Pennsylvania
Jessica Barnett (jesslcooper), Arizona
Julie Gelfand (scrappinjuls), California

More information about our designers will be posted on our homepage in the next few weeks, and it won't be long until their first Design Team projects hit the gallery. Stay tuned!

Grand Opening, Week 2!

Join us from now through the end of the month for our Grand Opening Celebration! Our fantastic Grand Opening Sponsors have spoiled us with prize packages and other goodies, so sign up in the forums and join in the fun. Eight contests are running during week two, with amazing prize packages from these fantastic companies: Shalom Scrapper Be Blessed Scrapbooking Go West Studios Club Scrap 1800 dreidelcrafts.com Tinkering Ink Stamping Bella Ethnic Scrapbooking by Lisa Sanford Our new DESIGN TEAM will be announced in the forums after Shabbat...stay tuned!

Grand Opening Underway!

Join us from now through the end of the month for our Grand Opening Celebration! Our fantastic Grand Opening Sponsors have spoiled us with prize packages and other goodies, so sign up in the forums and join in the fun.

Seven new contests are were posted on Sunday, February 10, and due on Monday, February 18. Prizes for our first set of contests are sponsored by these companies:

Kosher Creative
Zum Gali Gali Rubber Stamps
Club Scrap
1800 dreidelcrafts.com
Tinkering Ink
Stamping Bella
Ethnic Scrapbooking by Lisa Sanford
Shalom Scrapper
Thanks to the sponsors for our pre-grand-opening challenges as well! Sunday we awarded a prize package from
SHALOM SCRAPPER
and four of our members won prizes from
GO WEST STUDIOS
Monday night!

RELEASE: 20 new designs available from Ruth's Jewish Stamps

Ruth's Jewish Stamps releases
twenty new stamp designs
at the Craft and Hobby Association
trade show next month, but you'll
be able to pick them up this week.

Ruth's Jewish stamps has a new artist officially debuting twenty new designs for the Craft and Hobby Association trade show in February, but you'll be able to find them at Ruth's website for purchase later this week.
New stamps include three for Passover (perfect timing!) including two ornate seder plates and a text stamp: Next Year in Jerusalem! This Year at: Place: Time: Date:

Other new designs include several fun text stamps in Hebrew and English; three amazing new hamsa designs, an alef-bet frame, a circular wedding stamp, a tree (Tu B'Shevat or Tree of Life?), alef-bet baby blocks and more. All are available wood-mounted or unmounted.

View all of the new designs by following this link:

http://www.ruthsjewishstamps.com/New2008.htm





Last Updated ( Tuesday, 29 January 2008 )

Grand Opening Date Set

Please join us beginning Sunday, February 10 for our official Grand Opening, complete with challenges, contests, prizes and lots of getting-to-know-you community fun :). In fact, there'll be a couple of pre-opening prize challenges posted this week you may want to check out, too - who can wait till February when all of this beautiful sponsor product keeps showing up at the door??

Our Design Team call has been posted in our community forums and elsewhere. If you'd like to learn more, come on over and see what we're all about. Follow the link to the forum from our home page: http://www.jewish-scrapbooking.com .

Every time I think our sponsor list is complete, we seem to get one more! But as of today, take a look at all of the generous companies supporting Jewish-Scrapbooking.com for our Grand Opening Celebration:

Shalom Scrapper
Tinkering Ink
Zum Gali Gali Rubber Stamps
1800dreidelcrafts.com
Ruth's Jewish Stamps
Go West Studios
Kosher Creative
Be Blessed Scrapbooking
Stamping Bella
Ethnic Scrapbooking by Lisa Sanford
Zsiage
Club Scrap

..with special thanks to Fridaylight.org for their contribution!

On our homepage this week, look for information on Shalom Scrapper's new 2008 paper designs (click on through to see the new die cuts AND custom cuts for bris, baby naming and bar/bat mitzvah), and link to a release about Lisa Sanford's new book about adding color and character to your scrapbooks by incorporating different cultures on your pages.

Have a wonderful week!

News: Shalom Scrapper 2008 Release

New 2008 Paper Line - Order Now!Thank you for being a customer in 2007! We are pleased to announce 6 new paper designs. We know that you want and need new designs to document this year's holidays, so we have added new papers for Hannukah, Simchat Torah, Passover and Bar and Bat MItzvahs. Our Hebrew School Block paper has sold so well that we have launched a companion paper called Hebrew School Days. To round out the collection, we have a design of Jewish stars in 2 monochromatic shades (gold and ruby).

We are also excited to offer you our new complete set of Hebrew Alphabet Die Cuts. You get 3 sets of each letter (81 pieces total). The characters are cut from white cardstock and are perfect for inking, stamping or coloring. We are also offering new customized Simcha Panel Die Cuts where you can choose the name, date and final color of the finished piece. We have designs for Bat and Bat Mitzvah and B'rit Milah.

Order before January 31st, 2008 to receive 2 free sheets of Mazel Tov paper! At checkout, when asked "How did you find out about us?" type in the promo code "challah" to get 2 free sheets of our Mazel Tov design. Minimum order is $10 (pre-shipping) to qualify for the promotion.

We have also launched a new fundraising program for Jewish Schools and Organizations where they receive 20% back from all orders placed using their custom promotion code. It is so easy and there is no commitment/risk on the part of the organization. If you think your School or Organization would like to participate please email us at info@shalomscrapper.com for more information.

(ed.; Visit shalomscrapper.com to view the new designs and sign up for the newsletter. )Thank you for your continued support of Shalom Scrapper and don't be afraid to share this email with a fellow Jewish scrapper!

Rachel and Jason Simon, Owners


Shalom ScrapperPO Box 285Coppell, Texas 75019

Wow! Look at our sponsors (so far!)

We have had a tremendous response to the news of our upcoming Grand Opening in February - just look who we have sponsoring prizes during our first month - so far!

• Shalom Scrapper
• Ruth's Jewish Stamps
• Go West Studios
• www.1-800-dreidelcrafts.com
• Kosher Creative
• Tinkering Ink

We've got the homepage up and functioning well enough to get to the forums and gallery...if you'd like to come on in and give the site test run for us you're welcome to do so! Email admin at jewish-scrapbooking.com with your desired username and I'll get you registered.

We'll be opening the site to the public and sending out releases and Grand Opening info in a couple of weeks - stay tuned!