ScrapHD Partners

A young architect who wanted to be a painter met an Australian school teacher with a penchant for collecting things. They married and traveled the world together, having 7 kids on 3 different continents. As age mellowed them, they settled in the southwestern US and began designing for the scrapbooking industry, drawing upon a lifetime of traveling and experiences. They named the little company in honor of their 7 beautiful children.

How we got our name...

To break with the past, we took the family on a summer road trip through France, Spain and Italy for a couple of months. As the trip progressed, it became clear that what we would really love to do was to take our style of journaling and memory keeping to the growing world of scrapbooking. We had a pretty good idea of what the brand would look like since we had been collecting and producing things for our family for years.

But what to call our new, little company?

We had rented a large, one of a kind, white van (a Peugeot Boxer) for our trip. It was a perfect size. One beautiful day in the south of France, we were forced to an abrupt stop when a procession of large, white vans (just like ours) spilled out of a field onto the road in front of us, bringing the holiday traffic in both directions to a grinding halt. Being at the front of the halted traffic in our big white van, we suddenly realized that we looked like a part of the traffic-stumping, white van group and that we seemed to have the job of stopping the oncoming traffic and allowing the cavalcade to turn lazily onto the highway.

"They're gypsies!... and everybody thinks we're with them."

"We're gypsies... we're seven gypsies!"

(We have seven children but two of the kids had not been able to make the trip so there were only seven of us in the car at the time.)

So 7gypsies it is. Sometimes life is just that simple.

- Donna & Steve Smylie

Steve and Alma Mitchell founded American Crafts in 1995. Soon thereafter their sons Jeff and Wayne joined them. In 2001, after a successful tour of providing high quality products to the general craft market, American Crafts decided to focus on their passion for Scrapbooking and create innovative, high quality, well designed products specifically for the Scrapbooking industry.

Since then, we have steadily expanded our product offering and elevated our position within the market. We attribute our success primarily to what we consider our greatest strengths: high quality products and superior customer service. We look forward to many more years of creating awesome tools to make preserving memories fun and easy.

The Artists behind the scenes at Art Gone Wild, Dan and Darcie Heater, reside in Grants Pass, Oregon. Grants Pass is located in the beautiful forested area of southern Oregon. It's beauty, climate and "small town" atmosphere make it the perfect place for Dan and Darcie to raise a family and be inspired to design ... and the perfect place for rafting, hiking, and fishing.

Darcie started the rubber stamp line in 1992. She had published tole painting books for 13 years prior to that. After being contacted by numerous rubber stampers about making some of her tole painting designs into rubber stamps, Darcie had 25 of those designs adapted to stamps. The line has grown to over 4,000 stamps today and continues to grow steadily. Dan and Darcie's designs are also licensed to other manufacturers for use on fabrics and other craft products.

Dan joined Darcie in the business in 1994 when they were married. They have blended their artistic talents to create their ever popular whimsical line of designs.

In 2000 the line was expanded to add scrapbooking products. That line now includes stickers, papers, die cuts and Darcie's exclusive "U-Cuts®".

Imagi-what? We like to pronounce it this way: Im-aj'-e-nis. But we're flexible. (You can make it more fun by saying it with your best cheesy grin.)

IMAGINE + REMINISCE = IMAGINISCE

Just imagine a color blind visionary starting a wholesale design and manufacturing company inspiring individuals to celebrate and remember what they value most in their lives. Add some fresh color, innovative papers and gazillions of coordinating products and you have IMAGINISCE!

What People Are Saying About Us

"Ohhhhhh, mercy! Look out ladies!"

"I neeeeeed that. And that. And that. And that."

"They have oodles of addictive products."

"They have totally cute, fresh stuff, it makes me downright giddy!"

"Soooooo, stinkin' cute!"

"You know when you're at the grocery store checkout and they've got a few odds and ends that you really can't resist even though your cart's sorta full? Yeah, that's what the Just for Frill section is feeling to me."

We Love What We Do

Yup, we're folks who absolutely love coming to work each day to play with paper, ribbon, brads, and rub-ons, just as much as you! And that's why we're committed to helping all of our stores succeed.

I'm Jenni - the creative force behind the company.

He's Jared - the motivator and "mechanic" who keeps everything running smoothly.

Together with a talented and enthusiastic staff, we make up Jenni Bowlin Studio - a boutique company with BIG ideas!

I have been a lover and collector of all things old, worn and tattered for as long as I can remember. There's something about the story each item has to tell that draws me to it - the who, where and when. It is no surprise then that I found my way to scrapbooking more than 10 years ago, and eventually to launching Jenni Bowlin Studio in 2007.

"Vintage" can be found in everything we do. From paper to embellishments, you are sure to find hints of old feedsack fabric or antique typography, but with a modern twist! We call it "Fresh Vintage" - a style uniquely ours.

Jenni Bowlin Studio - Building Blocks For Creative Storytelling.

Some 20 years ago while operating a joinery business, Stephen Kaiser was asked by his wife to manufacture some small wood products to sell in her craft store. Seeing a niche opportunity, Stephen soon expanded to manufacturing plastic stencils and added other products such as acrylic paint to its core range. Before long, word spread, and the quality Kaisercraft brand was soon in demand among craft stores Australia wide.In 2005 a deliberate paradigm shift saw the business begin to develop its Scrapbooking range and also concentrate on developing loyal business with independent retailers. The shift was extremely successful and Kaisercraft quickly became a quality brand loved across the world.

Karen Foster Design, one of the scrapbooking industry's most innovative manufacturers, is a highly successful company grown from Karen Foster's imagination at her kitchen table in Farmington, Utah in 1998 to its present state - a multi-million dollar, award-winning scrapbook manufacturer headquartered in Centerville, Utah. The company's growth and expansion is attributed to its commitment to the importance of preserving memories through personal creativity.

In the spring of 1998, Karen Foster created her first set of eight themed papers and her children helped pack and ship the orders from her garage, which served as a warehouse. She added stickers to the line as a complement to the papers and with a burgeoning business to manage; Karen enlisted the help of creative designers. The company has expanded to employ over 25 dedicated employees endeavoring to offer additional product lines such as rub-ons, embellishments, tools, idea books, totes and storage.

The company is a leader in the scrapbooking industry because of its original designs, production of innovative products, attention to new and emerging scrapbook trends and focus on the feedback of scrapbook retailers. Karen Foster Design produces predominantly themed scrapbook products ranging from holidays to sports to everyday life events. Karen Foster Design products are available in approximately 2,000 independent retail outlets across the United States as well as in big box stores and craft chains such as Michaels, Hobby Lobby and Archivers. Karen Foster Design products are distributed and represented internationally in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, France, Brazil, Mexico, Sweden, Japan and South Africa among others.

Karen Foster Design is consistently recognized as a leader in the scrapbooking industry by both retailers and consumers. The Craft & Hobby Association (CHA) and members of the press awarded Karen Foster Design with the prestigious Scrapbooking & Paper Crafts Innovation Award for its ScraparatusTM tool during the 66th Winter CHA Convention and Trade Show in Anaheim, CA in January 2007. The company received the 2007 Best of State Statue award for Manufacturing and Production and has also received recognition with multiple awards and nominations in Craftrends Magazine's Awards of Creative Excellence and Creating Keepsakes Magazine's Readers' Choice Awards.

Scrapbooking provides a way to record, preserve and protect memories of the most important moments in life. By providing unique and imaginative scrapbook products Karen Foster Design is actively playing a part in the bigger picture. Not only is the end result --the finished scrapbook-- a treasure, but the process of creating it draws people together in new relationships and new stories.

From the very first sticker to the more than 700 designs and products in our current collection, Mrs. Grossman's goal is to promote creativity, communication and confidence.

Mrs. Grossman's was launched by Andrea Grossman with a line of stationery featuring illustrations from historic seed catalogues. In 1979, a request from a local retailer - and a happy accident at the printer - resulted in the first roll of red heart stickers. Andrea quickly added nine more designs to the line, and Stickers by the Yard was born. For the first time, shoppers could buy one sticker at a time from a roll displayed at their local store.

Stickers became a nation-wide phenomenon. Children were collecting them, there were nationwide sticker conventions and a glossy magazine called Stickers, and Andrea Grossman was credited by People Magazine for sparking "stickermania."

In the 1980's, Scrapbooking as a hobby and an industry emerged, and Mrs. Grossman's high-quality and beautifully-designed stickers were the products of choice in this burgeoning market. By the mid-90's, Scrapbooking became the fastest-growing craft in the country and Mrs. Grossman's doubled in size, introducing innovative products such as 12-inch-long Design Line stickers.

In 1995, Mrs. Grossman's built a 110,000-square-foot corporate headquarters and printing plant in Petaluma, California. The facility annually produces enough stickers to reach halfway around the globe, and offers the world's only Sticker Factory Tour to more than 50,000 visitors per year. Our manufacturing process and policies are designed for minimum impact on the environment. In 2006 and 2007, Pacific Gas & Electric awarded Mrs. Grossman's its Innovative Leadership Award for energy conservation.

In 1999, Mrs. Grossman's acquired a LaserWeb, and became the only facility in the world capable of producing intricate laser-cuts on adhesive material. The Paper Whispers? line of stickers makes use of this new technology on a wide variety of beautifully-detailed designs.

Outreach to make the world a better place is a company priority. Through a partnership with North Bay Industries, Mrs. Grossman's celebrates the skills of developmentally disabled adults by providing jobs in our assembly department. We've donated more than 10,000,000 stickers to children in hospitals all over the world, and foster the unique relationships between humans and animals by adopting zoo animals, supporting a variety of animal welfare groups, and encouraging our employees to bring their four-legged companions to work.

In the 21st century, Mrs. Grossman's continues to lead the market with new designs and products. The Hobby Industry of America awarded Andrea the Presidents Award "in recognition of revolutionary design and innovative marketing and merchandising" in 2004. Our products and projects are constantly featured in craft and family magazines

My Mind's Eye began in 1999, when owner-designer Marcia Cornell had a stroke of inspiration at her local scrapbook store. She sat down and drew the first edition of the phenomenally popular Frame-Ups line of products, with its ready-to-use, illustrated paper frames and coordinating, mix & match embellishments. The designs were so strong that the success was instant. Five more Frame-Ups releases over as many years likewise proved to be beloved by scrapbookers. But her design sensibilities went far beyond the Frame-Ups products' cute, hand-illustrated look. She also produced sophisticated, textured, mature designs for the award-winning and successful Wild Asparagus, Bohemia, and Tres Jolie lines, among many others.

My Mind's Eye continues to channel her creative energies, along with those of several other artists, in their leading role among the makers of scrapbooking products.

Piggy Tales is a family owned and operated scrapbook supply manufacturer located in Las Vegas, Nevada. We specialize in creating unique and interactive scrapbook supplies named after your favorite fairy tales.

Ryann and Debbie Juden founded Piggy Tales, LLC in December 2005. Piggy Tales launched their first two paper collections in January 2006. Now, with 27 collections and over 350 designs, Piggy Tales has made its way into homes across the world. Using trendycolors and incorporating innovative designs, Piggy Tales' products have proven to be appealing to all types of scrapbookers.

SEI is a family owned business, located in the beautiful Cache Valley of Logan, Utah. They have developed a reputation for trend forward paper, embellishments and preservation albums used for scrapbooking and crafts.

Over the past twenty-five years, SEI's brand has captivated an international clientele that recognizes the company as a unique source for innovation, quality and reliability in paper and craft products. SEI is dedicated to delivering contemporary product collections that appeal to both the beginner artisan and expert designer who believe in preserving memories for generations to come.

Preseve it today. Share it tomorrow. Remember it forever.

In 2002, I began my creative journey in the scrapbook world. What started out as a passionate hobby, lead me into the world of designing product and teaching around the world. I still pinch myself at my good fortune... I never thought I would eventually start my own company, but here I am... and I'm having the TIME of my life!!!!

I am Passionate...I love what I do. I strive to create and design product lines with both meaning- & lots of eye candy. I incorporate my interior design background and experience in many of my designs. I strive to be different and to do things with a unique twist. I am always thinking about "what's next" - true to my nature- I strive to add eclectic flair and uniqueness to whatever I'm creating. I also strive to create products that make it easier for scrapbookers to DOCUMENT their story.

I am passionate about sharing my love of journaling, trying new techniques and taking photos...always capturing "LIFE." I encourage others to CREATE and document special moments in your own unique way-embrace your style.

I am such a girly GIRL!!! I love gems, PINK and black, and funky jewelry! Did I mention PINK? I love to spend time with my family, usually watching movies and hanging out- they are my LIFE. I live in Murray, UTAH now- yes, right down the street from American Idol cutie- David Archuleta. I am originally from Hickory, North Carolina- a Southern girl. My husband and best friend, Tyler and I have seven children- three girls: Taylor, Gentry and McKay and four boys: Matt, Seth, Zach and Ty.

YES, I am LUCKY and crazy BUSY!.

Kristine and Rick Turner founded Three Bugs in a Rug 5 years ago. After starting an online scrapbook store, Kristine decided to create her own designs. After the overwhelming response to her designs, we closed the online store to concentrate on creating fun pattern paper and coordinating embellishments. We hope you enjoy working with her designs as much as she enjoys creating them.

Over 90 years ago William R. Hiller and his two sons began building a heritage of quality and design - working to build a competitive, yet reliable business of preserving histories of information for generations to come. With a considerable amount of hard work and perseverance, the old Provo Book Bindery emerged as one of the premier bookbinding and preservation resources in the United States.

Always looking for ways to help people stay in touch with their histories and memories of the past, Hiller Bookbinding began manufacturing one of the first albums intended specifically for keeping memories stored safely and securely in more than just a photo album.

And how the times have changed. With the emergence of the wonderful art of scrapbooking and paper crafting, came the ever-increasing need for high quality, functional, and creative scrapbook products that were specifically designed to preserve and enhance memories that would last for generations.

We R Memory Keepers brings you the most beautiful, functional, quality-made products that fit the needs of all who wish to preserve their memories and memorabilia.

Our products are different from the rest of the pack. Manufactured in the United States, our albums are hand-made of the highest quality materials available. We have gathered several of the best paper crafting artists and graphic designers in the industry to produce our paper and sticker products that are unique and add flair and fun to your scrapbook!

And so, as the fast-paced world of scrapbooking continues to grow and expand, We R Memory Keepers is committed to leading the market with creative, functional, archival scrapbooking and preservation supplies that will help you share your past, present, and future with those you love.

It truly is about time. Time spent so many years ago building a business based on preserving memories. Time spent now bringing you quality products that will be loved and cherished for years to come. And time to look forward, move upward and onward in this great quest for preserving the best times of your life.