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journal
Holiday Card Contest,
held this autumn.
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his season, it’s hip to
create and give handmade greetings and gifts.
It’s also a heartfelt way to
share your memories and
your creative passion with
others. At Archiver’s,
we’re making it easy for
you to have a hip and
heartfelt holiday with
exciting handmade gift
and card ideas, and new
ways to shop for the people you love. This edition
of Archiver’s Journal is
your guide to doing it all
with style and sentiment.
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Share your memories in professionally printed
PhotoBooks and PhotoCards!
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Card ideas abound at
Archiver’s! Several holiday-card workshops are
being offered now, with
something for every skill
level. And make sure to
visit www.archiversonline.com to check out the
winning cards from
Archiver’s Handmade
Take the stress out of giftgiving—this year, the ultimate gift is in your
hands! Whether
it’s an ornament for the
teacher, a calendar for
a friend, or a
scrapbook for
the grandparents, we’ve got
the ideas, workshops, and
products to create something
for everyone on
your list.
And when it is time to
shop, make it easy on
yourself. Visit our online
store at www.archiversonline.com to shop for the
creative people in your
life. Stop by our store to
stock up on your gift-
At Archiver’s,
we’re making it
easy for you to have
a hip and heartfelt
holiday.
The card and gift
possibilities are endless
when you use the Digital
Print Station or the color
copier at any Archiver’s
store. Put a special photo
on your cards and have
them printed while you
wait, or make copies of
scrapbook pages for a
cool gift album.
and card-making supplies, pick up some
always-appreciated gift
cards, and grab inspiring
stocking stuffers at the
Hot Spot located in every
Archiver’s, where everything is $1.99!
Check out these pages to
see how Archiver’s is your
hip handmade holiday
headquarters!
Spotlight on Holiday Cards
Our talented designers have come up with a multitude of holiday card ideas—something to suit any style—
to inspire you this season! We’ve also included some of the key items you need to get started.
Hero Arts stamps, EK Success
star punch
Card Packs
& Kits are a great
Making Memories Charmed Enamel,
EK Success 11⁄8” circle punch
Hero Arts stamps, Hero Arts watercolor
palette, Water mister, Stampendous
Crystal Glitter
Making Memories foam stamps, Making
Memories acrylic paint, Autumn Leaves
patterned paper
QuicKutz alphabet die
cuts, The Paper Company
patterned paper, Making
Memories ribbon, Provo
Craft Clip Ease
way to kick off your
holiday cardmaking!
Choose a pack of cards
in a variety of color
palettes and designs,
and decorate them in
your own personal
style. Or select a card
kit with everything
you need to make
perfectly coordinated
holiday cards, from
cards and envelopes
to embellishments!
CR Gibson patterned paper, Paper Bliss
tree, May Arts ribbon
Ki Memories patterned paper,
Bazzill chipboard circles
Lining an Envelope:
Add extra style to your cards when you line
your envelope with coordinating patterned
paper in three simple steps.
1. Trace the shape of your envelope, with the
flap extended, onto the patterned paper.
2. Cut out the liner, carefully trimming inside
the traced lines.
3. Cut a 1⁄4” strip off the bottom of the liner
and slide it inside your envelope.
Making Memories rubons, Making Memories
ribbon, Making
Memories charm, Anna
Griffin patterned paper
Creative Imaginations
patterned paper, Penny
Black stamp, Twinkling
H2O’s watercolors, May
Arts ribbon
Make your holiday cards
open with a “Wow!”
New Envelopes Available
from Bazzill!
It’s easy to be coordinated with new Bazzill
envelopes! Offered in two sizes, Bazzill
Envelopes are available in eight colors,
including Pomegranate Red, Romance Pink,
and Parakeet Green. Add a decorative liner,
tuck your handmade holiday card inside, and
your greetings are ready to give!
Bazzill library pocket, Hero Arts
stamp, Impression Obsession stamp,
May Arts ribbon
Ki Memories paper,
Heidi Swapp snowflake,
SEI ribbon
Archiver’s Digital Print Station photo card,
May Arts ribbon
Handmade Holiday Gifts
During the holidays, there’s nothing sweeter than heartfelt gifts, made by hand. From albums to frames, we’ve
got the latest ideas for your gift-giving projects—consider them our gift to you!
Gift Cards
Simply the Perfect Gift!
The ultimate in easy gift-giving, gift cards are always sure to please. Whether you pick up
some Archiver’s gift cards for your girlfriends, grocery-store gift cards for college-aged
children, or coffee-shop gift cards for your co-workers, you can use your creative touch to
make it even more personal. Slide the card into a decorated pocket and your gift will be
twice as special!
Scrapbooks with Style
Fun Frames
Cute Clipboards
Make a Melissa Francis
clipboard fun and funky
with embellishments from
Chatterbox, using patterned
paper, embellishments, ribbon, and a wood tag.
Enlarge a photo at the
Digital Print Station in any
Archiver’s store and attach
for a truly creative display.
Customize a Ready-to-Make
frame for a gift that will be
cherished all year long.
Apply patterned paper on
top, or paint it with your
own designs, embellish,
add favorite photos, and
give it to someone special.
Adorable Ornaments
Paint or embellish an
embossed metal frame from
Making Memories, for a truly
memorable gift. Add a magnet to hang framed photos
on the fridge, or put two
frames together and hang
them as an ornament from
a loop of ribbon.
Add distinction to your next scrapbook! Use a new leathercovered scrapbook from Archiver’s Photo Memory System for a
classic look on its own; add a personal touch with ribbon and
an album label. Or, for a coordinated holiday look, save and
share precious holiday memories with Daisy D’s Christmas
Book Kit. This vintage-themed mini book features a collage
style, and is perfectly accented with embellishments and
ribbons from Daisy D’s!
Personalize it!
Gift cards can be a unique gift too! Just give them in a custom holder. Create a theme
based on the kind of card you’re giving. Restaurants, movie rentals, clothing stores and
more offer all kinds of possibilities to be fun and creative!
Personalized Calendars
Decorated calendars, with special photos and embellishments for every month, are
perfect for display at home and in the office—and what a great gift idea! The Archiver’s
Create-a-Calendar has fourteen 8x8 blank pages and fill-in calendar grids (also offered in
9x12 and 13x13 sizes), ready for customizing with
photos, patterned papers, stickers, and important
dates. Attend the Create-a-Calendar workshop in
Archiver’s workroom, and you’ll receive everything
you need to customize the entire calendar.
See workshop schedule for details!
Card Organizers
Decorate a stylish storage box from Resource International
with patterned paper and rub-ons for a fabulous card organizer! Add tabbed dividers made of patterned paper, and label
the front of the box, and you’ve got a great gift for cardmakers, or give it with a set of your own handmade cards inside!
The Gift of Creativity This holiday season, give your friends—and yourself—the gift of creativity with all the latest products from Archiver’s!
Cute Card Kit
Get coordinated this holiday
season with the Nouveau Noelle
Holiday Card Crafting Kit by
Beth Cote. This kit includes
20 note cards and envelopes,
a punch-out die cut and
border sheet, tag sheets,
patterned and solid papers,
vellum, stickers, brads, ribbon,
and more! $19.99
Holiday Crafting
Make your holiday
memories jolly with the
Making Memories Holiday
Collection, which includes
card packs and embellishments such as charms,
ribbon, and rub-ons.
Easy Tag Maker
Complement your creations with customized tags! The new Making
Memories Tag Maker, set to arrive in stores mid-November, is easy
to use and includes templates and coordinating rims to transform
your paper, photos, and more into personalized little tags. $24.99
Wintery Paper & Stickers
Make it a whimsical winter with papers and stickers from The Paper
Company. In shades of red, pink, and green, the line includes epoxy
stickers, vellum stickers, and cardstock stickers, in playful winter
themes such as pine trees, ornaments, holly, and snowflakes.
Squeeze Die Cut Tool
Now you can easily create
stylish die cuts for scrapbooking and papercraft projects
with the Squeeze Hand Tool by
QuicKutz. Offered in Pink with
the Olivia Unicase Alphabet
set, or in Black with the Stiletto
Unicase Alphabet set. The
Squeeze hand tool is portable
and easy to use. $119.99
On-the-Go Organizer
Keep your supplies organized and
ready at hand with the new Studio
Line by Crop in Style. With the look
of high-end luggage, this premiere
mobile storage solution is offered in
a classic slate-blue color and in
four sizes for your every need.
Rolling Craft Tote $129.99
Stamp Tote
Keep your Perfectly Clear Stamp sets in one easy-tofind location with Stampendous’ new Perfectly Clear
Stamp Tote! This stylish compact tote conveniently
holds all four sizes of stamp sets in six expandable
see-through pockets, and each tote has storage
space to store up to 36 Perfectly Clear Stamp sets.
$13.99
New Leather Albums
Leather albums are now
available in the Archiver’s Photo
Memory System! Joining the sandstone and black cover options,
Archiver’s black leather albums
are available in three sizes (8”x8”,
81⁄2”x11”, and 12”x12”) with scrapbook and pocket-page styles.
$22.99-$34.99
Recipe Book
This holiday season, create a meaningful holiday gift, using the
Recipes to Remember Scrapbook Album Kit by Westrim! This easy-toassemble kit includes an 81⁄2”x11” album, ready to be filled with
favorite family recipes. Decorate your book with die-cuts, patterned
and solid-color cardstock, letter stickers, and coordinating recipe
cards—all included in the kit! Add special photos to commemorate
each recipe’s author, or include a photo of a finished dish. Share
some of your family heritage this holiday! $29.99
Holiday Scrapbook & Page Kit
Capture your holiday memories with the Tim Coffey
Scrapbooking Kit, with patterned papers and stickers in
classic colors and seasonal details such as holly, snowmen, Santa Claus, stripes, candy canes, and snowflakes.
Bind it all in a cute post-bound, 40-page scrapbook that
coordinates perfectly with your pages.
Scrapbook $19.99, Page Kit $9.99
New Album Colors
Pioneer albums with
washable-fabric covers
are now available in
three new colors: pink,
light green, and red.
12”x12”-$19.99
81⁄2”x11”-$15.99
8”x8”-$14.99
Elegant Tile & Coaster Kits
Discover a unique way to display your memories! Transfer any image
onto a glass memory tile using the Tilano Fresco Decorative Glass
Tile Kit—an artistic alternative to traditional framing. Also, check
out the Fresco Tile Kit or Marble Coaster Kit to accent every room with
personalized décor! $34.99
Pep Rally Collection
Celebrate school memories with the new Pep Rally Collection by EK
Success. Dimensional stickers and embroidered jackets from Jolee’s
Boutique feature basketball,
cheerleading, football,
marching band themes, and
more. Patterned papers
include coordinating prints
and words such as “team,”
“school spirit,” and
“champs.” Six-packs of EK
Success Textile Markers allow
you to customize the colors on
the embellishments to match
your school’s team colors!
Wrap Up the
Holidays Online!
More Gifts to Inspire!
At Archiver’s, we have everything you need to share your gifts with others!
Coming
Soon!
Album Gift Sets
Preserve special memories and
give a great gift! Each Photo
Album Gift Set by Kolo offers one
Mini Mini album, one Vineyard
album, and one Fira album. Each
set of three mini-albums is colorcoordinated, in colors such as silver, gold, pink, and a green and
red combination. $19.99
From shopping to paper crafting, at www.archiversonline.com, we’ve got more than
a few of your favorite things!
Shop Online
Stay warm this winter and do your holiday shopping online! Our Online
Store offers exciting new items and plenty of favorites, with a selection that is
always growing.
Card Contest Winners Online
New Notch & Die Cutting Tool!
Create custom card closures, photo corners, journaling holders, and more with BasicGrey’s Notch
& Die Cutting Tool, scheduled to arrive later this
month! Designed to fit comfortably in the palm
of your hand, this tool features three interchangeable tips that cut straight, half-moon and
V-notches with the flick of your wrist. $27.99
Stylish Storage Solutions
Get organized in style! Set to arrive in stores
mid-November, the new Making Memories
Luggage collection, in black, green, and pink,
allows you to accessorize with leather luggage
tags and fun charms, all while keeping your
supplies neat and tidy! Shoulder tote and rolling
trolley: $59.99–$119.99; charms, luggage
tags, and accessory clutch: $2.99–$8.99
Personal Cutting System
The Xyron Personal Cutting
System, to arrive in stores in
late November, will revolutionize
the way you choose, cut, and
create shapes for your projects!
Resize any shape three times to
fit the project you’re working on.
$199.99
Need a winning card idea? Find it online! We’ve posted the winning entries
from our Handmade Holiday Card contest on our website. See the latest card
styles and be inspired by the best.
Wish List
If you tend to spend the holiday season planning and preparing gifts and
goodies for others, make sure to take a moment for yourself and complete an
Archiver’s Wish List! Simply visit our homepage at www.archiversonline.com.
You can e-mail your list or print it and give it out as a helpful hint. Your
friends and loved ones will know they’re giving you the perfect gift!
Wintertime Paper &
Stickers
For your winter-themed
projects, check out the
Winter Collection from
Sandylion, with patterned
paper and coordinating
stickers, in wintery motifs
and frosty colors.
Embellishment &
Ribbon Packs
Chatterbox makes it easy to
coordinate your creative look,
with embellishment and ribbon
packs! The ribbon packs
feature six 1-yard rolls of
high-quality ribbon, each
with individual designs;
six color palettes are
available. At over 175
pieces, the embellishment
pack has sticker letters,
chipboard, decorative brads,
paper flowers, and more.
Inside Archiver’s:
New ways to be creative
with your photos.
Now get creative holiday photo
cards in minutes! Stop by the Digital
Print Station at any Archiver’s store
and choose a custom design for
your holiday photo cards—many
designs were created exclusively
for Archiver’s—and print them
while you wait! Or, make copies
of a special photo to tuck into
your handmade cards. The possibilities are endless: print photos with
decorative borders, enlarge and
crop photos, convert photos to
black and white, and more!
Or use the Archiver’s color copier
to make a vivid, archival copy of
your favorite scrapbook page and
place it in a personalized frame,
for a fantastic gift!
Archiver’s Holiday Happenings
This holiday season, we’re keeping busy so you won’t have to! We’re your one-stop shop to get inspired and create handmade cards and
gifts with ease—check your local store calendar for dates.
Create-a-Calendar
Workshop
Hip Holiday Card Workshop
$15
They’re stamped, they’re sparkly,
they’re spectacular! Fun holiday
cards are a warm way to send holiday greetings to friends and loved
ones. Create a set of four hip holiday
cards using products from
Stampendous, with whimsical stickers, seasonal stamps, glitter, and a
water-coloring technique to add a
punch of color.
$20
Holiday Card Showcase
FREE
'Tis the season for creative inspiration! Get an insider edge on the latest designs, colors, and techniques
for this year’s hottest holiday cards.
You’ll see over 30 stylish new card
ideas, and you’ll leave with a color
print-out of every design to guide
you as you pick up supplies and
start crafting your cards. Because
this class is free, seats will fill up
quickly—sign up today to save your
spot and get inspired!
Plan and prepare for a new year of
new memories, as you personalize
an entire Archiver’s Create-aCalendar. A great gift for grandparents and families, this calendar
has fourteen 8x8 blank pages and
fill-in calendar grids for customizing with all of your important
dates. Even if you aren't able to
complete the entire calendar in
class, you will leave with all of the
supplies and directions you need
for completing the
calendar at home!
Photo Ornament Trio
Workshop
$15
Turn cherished memories into seasonal décor! At this workshop,
you’ll use a cool distress-paint
technique and embellishments to
decorate three embossed-metal
frame ornaments from Making
Memories—great for displaying
photos of loved ones or pictures
with Santa. Hang them on the tree,
or give them as individual little
gifts or as a set. Plus, you’ll create
a cute gift bag, using patterned
paper and ribbon, for the prettiest
present under the tree!
Archiver’s Holiday Extravaganza!
November 18, 19 & 20
Put your holiday season into full swing! Stop by Archiver’s November 18th–20th to get great ideas for unique cards
and gifts, and pick up everything you need to make it a hip, handmade holiday! The weekend fun includes free
Make & Takes and a $5 Ultimate Make & Take where you can create a great gift. But the fun doesn’t stop there—for
the entire weekend, we’re devoting our workroom to nothing but Inspiration Stations, where you can see cool demos
and displays, and try out all the hottest new products in our store. This is the Archiver’s weekend you do not want to
miss! (To accommodate our Holiday Extravaganza, the Archiver’s workroom will be closed for cropping Nov. 18th–20th.
However, on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 18th & 19th, when the Extravaganza ends at 4pm, our workroom will reopen
for Scrap Mania!)
Ever wonder what the hottest industry celebrities have
on their holiday wish lists? Here’s your chance to find out! Stop
in at any Archiver’s store and enter the My Favorite Stuff
Sweepstakes, and you could win a package of favorite papercrafting products from Tim Holtz, Melody Ross, Heidi Swapp,
and Archiver’s very own Merchandise Manager, Jill Jahnke!
See store associate for details.
Melody Ross
Tim Holtz
Jill Jahnke
Heidi Swapp
Need gifts for your creative friends, or
a few more stocking stuffers? Stop by
the Hot Spot at any Archiver’s store,
where everything is just $1.99! Pick up
a little gift or create a basket of musthaves—at this price, there’s no limit to
your generosity!