Rapt in Paper Christmas Gift Ideas

Rapt in Paper has been spotlighted in scrapbooking magazines over the last few months. It is a fun product full of possibilities. The special formula glue sheet is flexible enough to wrap fabric and strong enough to wrap cardstock around the heavy duty chipboard frames allowing you to create all kinds of fun things.

We are always adding to the gallery and excited to see the different gift giving ideas that have been submitted. This time of year we are all looking for new ideas on quick and easy gifts with that touch of extra special and Rapt In Paper sure does fit that request. Retailers – contact me at info@raptinpaper.com.au for new class tutorials and place orders for pre-Christmas deliveries.

Australian Simply Cards and Papercraft Essentials

Congratulations to the lucky winners of the recent Rapt In Paper competitions in Australian Simply Cards and Australian Papercrafts Essentials. Hope you are having fun with the kits and send us photos when you are done.

Scrapbooking Memories

Another fabulous publication in Scrapbooking Memories - beyond the page gallery with Mandy Collins little green sewing box.

She does like to show how the Rapt In Paper range can be used in many different ways and creative styles.

Scrappers check with your local shop for classes in your area. Store owners, contact me at info@raptinpaper.com.au for orders and class notes on how to get the best from a Rapt In Paper kits.

Party Planners Required

Rapt In Paper is a perfect pre-Christmas product to add to your party plan range.

Experienced party plan hostesses across the country are being recruited to represent Rapt In Paper. Contact me at info@raptinpaper.com.au

Our kits come with a special flexible glue sheet that will take fabric, cardstock and pretty papers to a new level when wrapping our chipboard forms. They are a perfect craft party project that can be whipped up in less than an hour and everyone is guaranteed to have so much fun they will purchase extras to take home.

Rapt In Paper offers a competitive pricing structure, combined with an award winning product a perfect recipe for successful sales.

Rapt in Paper House

The house mini book is designed to reflect our unique Australia architecture of cute cottages and wide verandas.

People have used their own creative styles in their homes, in mini books and frames for other projects. Submit your designs to info@raptinpaper.com.au to be included in future gallery shows.

Rapt In Paper

Love getting inquires info@raptinpaper.com.au about our Rapt In Paper range. It really is great fun to play with.

Our design team has enjoyed coming up with different ways to use their Rap In Paper, wrapped in fabric, heavy weight cards stock, vintage wall paper, and all kinds of fun.

Retailers, our recommended prices are very budget conscious and provide you with a competitive edge for customers looking for something new and different with value for money.

Handbag $23.95
Frame $19.90
Sq Box $19.90
8 Sided Box $19.90
Teddy $15.95
House $23.95

Retail and wholesale inquires: info@raptinpaper.com.au

Scrapshop

As seen in this month’s Scrapbook Memories Scrap Shop section.

Retailers or wholesalers contact via info@raptinpaper.com.au

Did you see our interview on at CHA on You Tube with Scrapbook Dimensions ? The crowd qued up waiting for a turn to try the kits out for themselves.

Rapt In Paper kits are a perfect gift for Christmas. These are not like the flimsy cardstock kits you have seen before but heavy duty chipboard designed to be used. The kits include pre cut chipboard and glue sheets that act as a template, you simply choose your own papers, stick, cut and wrap the chipboard. Easy as that!

Party planners this is your chance to get in at the ground level with a new product range.

As seen in Scrapbook Memories

We were excited to see Rapt In Paper making an appearance in the latest Scrapbooking Memories. Our kits have the hard work done for you and allow you to have more fun creating stunning and unique gifts and decor items.

Click some of the links on the side banner to see the rest of our range of products.

Rapt In Paper at the EKKA

Rapt In Paper was on exhibit at the recent QLD Ekka in Brisbane.

Congratulations goes to K McGrath for her winning submission of a little cook book. We are very proud of how pretty Rapt In Paper looked there too, complete with little velvet strawberries.

As we like to say at Rapt in Paper, because all the chipboard pieces are cut to size and glue sheets are your templates they can be a quick project to create allowing you to have more fun with decorating. In this case a vintage what-not box lined with fabric and lace. Can you see the little tiny album wrapped on a spool, it is just darling.

Retailers, if you would like high resolution images for the purposes of shop display or instructions on how to complete this project, drop me a line.

Formals and Weddings

Rapt in Paper handbags and little treasure boxes have been getting very dressed up in attending formals and weddings.

Can't wait to show you more after they have been unveiled. This is a little peek we can share with you. The special strong formulation of our patent pending glue paper allows you to wrap the chipboard kits in fabric. Normally that would be a bit tricky when it came to mitering the corners but our glue sheet really holds and folds.

Australian Papercraft Essentials and Australian Simply Cards

Rapt In Paper was featured in this month’s Australian Papercraft Essentials and Australian Simply Cards magazines. We are excited about these two magazines in particular because they are locally home grown in sunny Queensland.
The magazines are at the newsagents now and I think you will find the range of different papercraft ideas are inspiring. Keep an eye out for news on their web site about give aways and competitions featuring the Rapt In Paper products.

It is exciting to see so many of the papercraft publications picking up Rapt In Paper. It really is great fun to see all the different ways in which people are using the product. Wanted to share a sneak peek of one of the Rapt In Paper albums that is going to become a Paris themed altered book. But you know what happens - out for publication and be back soon.

Where to find Rapt In Paper

We are busy updating our links to stockists to help you find Rapt In Paper in your local area. Shoppers, if you do not have Rapt In Paper in your local store yet, show your store owner how good Rapt In Paper looks in the magazines so they can place an order for you.

These are some of our newest stores added in the last few weeks.

NSW
Hippie Chicks Nowra PH4474 2011
Jam Creations Bilambil Heights
Ritzy Bits St Georges Basin PH 4443 5515
Stamp Crazy Lismore PH 6622 6456

ACT
Wrapped in Paper PH 6255 5009

WA
Scrappy Capers Wanneroo

QLD
All About Cleveland PH 3286 6031
Embellished Scrapbooks Rockhampton PH 4921 1661
Photo Images Gayndah
Scrap n Patch Toowoomba PH 4687 6888

Retailers, please ensure we have your latest contact details for your web site or phone number to help me help new customers find your store.

Shop Smart Scrapbook Memories

Did you see Rapt In Paper in the recent Scrapbook Memories magazine Shop Smart section.

As Kristy said Rapt In Paper can be a practical and meaningful gift that is easy to assemble.

With everything you need included in the kit, all you have to do is choose your own pretty paper, assemble and move on to the fun part – decorating and embellishing.

Rapt In Paper and Wrapped in Paper

Donna Macpherson editor of Scrapbooking Creations magazine, thought it was funny or serendipity to meet both Rapt In Paper and Wrapped in Paper at the recent SIA event in Sydney.
We can not think of anyone nicer than the girls from Canberra’s Wrapped in Paper store to share a similar name with and it made logical sense for Wrapped in Paper to be our premier store for Rapt in Paper in the ACT region.

Wrapped in Paper has been retailing a large range of scrapbooking and off the page products in Canberra for many years. They have been hosting classes with the new Rapt In Paper range and we can’t wait now to see their submissions to our gallery.

Find Rapt In Paper in Canberra at Wrapped in Paper
Shop 6-7, Gold Creek Cultural Centre, O'Hanlon Pl Nicholls ACT

We like to spotlight stores that are carrying the Rapt In Paper products. Send us your links, gallery submissions or class schedules to be included.

Rapt in Paper House Kit

Rapt In Paper kits are designed to take the hard work out of measuring and cutting so you can get on to the fun part of creating – the decorating. As you can see with the different variations of the house kit.
This house is from Wendy with a decided a outback Australian flavour and don't you just love what she did with the wisteria!
Keep sending your photos for gallery submissions, we love to see what you have been up to.

Formals and Special Events

Is there ever a time of year when you don’t have a special occasion on the horizon? Rapt in Paper has been getting decked out in its finest to attend formals and weddings. With the special formulation glue sheet it gives you the right combination of strength but flexibility to warp in fabric to match your outfits.

Sorry for everyone who sees our gallery going up and off again. Seems like we post a fun new design and they get picked up for publication so – that is a hint to keep your eyes open the magazines it looks like they will be showing up on a printed page soon.

Rapt In Paper at the Ekka

Keep an eye out at the Brisbane EKKA for this little darling creation that was submitted for the crafts section.

What could be more perfect for our show celebrating spring and seasonal goodness than this beautiful 8 sided box decorated with velvet strawberries.

Please forward your gallery submissions to info@raptinpaper.com.au so we can post yours as well.

Angella Peardon’s creations

Our Angella’s been at it again, just look at these lovely creations using the Rapt In Paper House Kit and her version of the Handbag.

Just goes to show how much fun you can have with the Rapt In Paper kits, all the hard stuff like measuring and creating templates is done so you can get on to the fun part – decorating to your own style and taste.

Design Team Member – Angella Peardon

Angella has been part of Rapt In Paper from the early days of development and we are always amazed at the different ways she finds to use the Rapt In Paper products.
Box with Ten Second Studio details.

More traditional scrapbooking styled box.

With an Honourable Mention in last year’s Scrapbooking Masters and Designer of the Year award at the SIA this year, we are sure that there is much more to be seen from Angella.

Well done Angella on all your accomplishments.

Rapt In Paper - In Store

Rapt In Paper takes the hard part out of creating unique altered or décor projects. All the measuring and templates are taken care of so you can get on to the fun part which is decorating.

I enjoy hosting classes at local papercraft stores to show people how to get the best value from the Rapt in Paper kits. Scheduled classes this month include All About Paper in Cleveland QLD.

Formals, showers, weddings and christenings are just some of the uses for Rapt In Paper. New gallery photos being loaded and really excited to see all the different ways people decorate their finished projects.

Special Occasions

Rapt In Paper has something that fits all your Special Occasions because Rapt In Paper takes the hard part out of creating unique altered projects, you do not have to worry about measuring and templates, you can get on to the fun part which is decorating!

The bags have gone to a few formals, showers and weddings, in all kinds of colour combinations.

And teddy of course is the perfect accessory for a christening or baby shower.

Keep those gallery submissions coming !

We love seeing all the different ways people use Rapt In Paper.

Freshly Rapt In Paper

Seeing how everyone uses Rapt In Paper in their own style is really exciting.

We all have our own style and the best part of Rap In Paper is that because all the hard parts of measuring and scoring and templates for paper cutting has been dealt with you can concentrate on the fun stuff and decorate to your heart's content.

This is an example of the Octagon Box used as a little memory box, complete with velvet strawberries on top.

Exploding Box

We have had lots of requests for a tutorial on the exploding boxes that have been on show. Rapt In Paper's box makes the process pretty quick and simple.

Assemble the box to point 6, when you stop at covering the inside floor of your box, because that is where the exploding part fits in.

Cut (2) two pieces of cardstock
10 ½ inches long
measure at 3 ½ inches wide but cut one piece inside the line and one piece outside the line so one is a smigden bigger

The smaller strip fits inside the larger

Score at 3 ½ inch intervals = a strip with 3 x 3 ½ squares

Glue the centre square of the smaller strip ontop of the centre of the slightly larger strip

To add even more layers of fold outs, cut more 3 ½ strips and gluing to the outer squares to expand your box to all kinds of extremes.

Looking forward to your gallery submissions, the best part of Rapt In Paper products is with the chipboard base and easy assembly you can concentrate on the fun part, the decorating !

Reports from Brisbane Scrapbook Expo

The long weekend was a busy one for many happy scrappers.

Rapt In Paper put in a great showing at the expo, before the doors were opened to the public a publisher pulled another project off the shelf for future publication but the public sure did like what they saw.

As we said over and over again when demonstrating the kits, it is as easy as all that, peel and stick, no need to measure.

For the retailers who visited, please place your orders soon to ensure quick delivery of stock. Our current stockists who would like to be linked off of our blog space, should forward a link to your internet page, we like to let everyone know where to find Rapt In Paper in their own local area.

We are building up a gallery of everyone’s creations with the Rapt In Paper range, be sure to forward photos of what you have been up to with Rapt In Paper to be included in the prize draw competition.

Brisbane Scrapbook Expo

June 6 through 8 at the Brisbane Convention Centre Southbank

Rapt In Paper will be at the Scrapbook Expo, our stand will be adjacent to the entrance to the classroom area, perfect considering I will be giving demonstrations all day long.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Rapt in Paper Gallery

It seems like our gallery is some sort of a good luck charm. Every time we get a few photos posted, they are requested for publication and the photos come down as quick as they went up.

Want to join in the fun? Win a prize package? Be our guest designer? Send photos of your version of Rapt In paper products to info@raptinpaper.com.au

I am really excited about the different ways in which people have used the Rapt In Paper off the page products and that so many have been picked up by publishers already.

Scrapbook Expo

Yes Rapt In Paper will be at the Scrapbook Expo in June and we are looking forward to seeing you there.

We are running 2 competitions, one for retailers and one for the public. All you have to do is send us photos of what you have created with anything from the Rapt In Paper range to us at: info@raptinpaper.com.au

Sorry the Green Sewing Box is 'out for publication', retailers please contact me on email or phone for details.

Rapt In Paper coming to a store near you

Angella Peardon created this Rapt In Paper Box and wrapped it with Ten Second Studio. We are delighted to have her as part of the Rapt In Paper Design Team.

Orders are being shipped to stores and we will be excited to see what everyone does to personalise their own Rapt In Paper creations. We have competitions for both retailers and craft enthusiasts.

Retailers can win a full range of the product and individuals can win the opportunity to be a guest design team member. Simply email photos to info@raptinpaper.com.au

The baker’s dozen deal has been extended to allow everyone an opportunity to get product in to participate.

Rapt In Paper on YouTube

Have you seen .....
Rapt In Paper on YouTube?

We have started a gallery (see the side bar) and looking forward to seeing how you have personalised your own Rapt In Paper creations.

Rapt In Paper Handbags

Quick status updates to confirm orders are being shipped and every bit of praise for our products has been appreciated from the design team and manufacturers.

Watching a the television news the other night there was an announcement that the government was concerned about the Logan – Beenleigh area and was considering special support for the number of small businesses that are shutting down.

We are proud to say that Rapt In Paper is all Australian manufacture and products, and better yet it is all small traders located here in south east Queensland. So when you are spending a dollar with Rapt In Paper it is like sending your mini version of an economic stimulus to small manufacturers. Thank you for your support of our product and our team.

SIA Sydney 2009

Rapt in Paper had a fabulous time at SIA in Sydney. It was great to network with other Australian manufacturers and exposure for our product range with everyone including editors of top quality magazines and scrapbook store owners.

















Our very own Angella Peardon won Australian Designer of the Year. Always knew Angella was a star and all the awards she has received are well deserved.

Donna the editor of Scrapbooking Creations magazine, thought it was funny or Serendipity for Rapt In Paper to meet Wrapped in Paper under one banner. The girls from Canberra’s Wrapped in Paper store were lovely and our hero’s when they offered the Rapt In Paper team a lift to avoid the Sydney downpours.

Look for editorials and advertising in the next few weeks in Scrapbook Creations and Scrapbook Memories. Their journalists were drooling over our design team samples of the handbag, boxes and the little Australian Cottage album. Just as you will be when you see how easy it is to create something unique and personalised with our kits.

Please click the links above for wholesale orders.

Scrapbooking Industry Australia

Getting ready for the greatest Scrapbooking trade show in Australia our very own Aussie Convention & Trade Fair with 47 exhibitors and over 200 retailers. Now including Rapt In Paper.

Some of the Rapt In Paper Design Team will accompany me to the event at Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre, from Tuesday 31 March through Wednesday 1 April 2009.

Hope to see you all there!
And be sure to book your Rapt In Paper classes early.