A New Home for LDD!

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Li'l Davis is proud to announce that we are joining the Fiskars family. We are busy designing new product and reproducing some previously released product to be released at CHAW 2008. We are so excited about this opportunity and look forward to a bright future for Li'l Davis Designs with Fiskars Brands. Thank you to everybody for their patience through this transitional period. We are looking forward to an exciting 2008. Here is the complete press release:

Li’l Davis Designs joins Fiskars Craft Division
Madison, Wis.—Fiskars Brands, Inc. announces that they have added Lil’ Davis Designs to their crafting division. A family owned and operated scrapbooking company since 2002, Li’l Davis Designs (named after young daughter Davis) began operations when husband and wife team Tricia Barrett and Brian Fogg purchased laser equipment to create custom die cuts.

According to Tricia, “Family inspires much of what we do at Li'l Davis, so we understand the value of preserving important moments, family or other, in a unique way. We want to ensure that your scrapbook pages are just as special as the moments themselves.”

Li’l Davis has continued to grow and now offers hundreds of innovative embellishments, tools and papers. Over the last five years, the company has evolved into an internationally recognized brand in the scrapbook community.

“We are excited about having Tricia and Brian join our family,” says Chad Vincent, Fiskars Craft President. “The brand look and feel that they have created and nurtured holds great potential for growth.”

Tricia and Brian will remain the creative leads of Li’l Davis, and the operations and marketing will be handled at Fiskars’ US headquarters in Madison, WI. Their newest lines will be revealed at the February 2008 Craft and Hobby Association Show in Anaheim, CA.

“The new product lines for 2008 are fantastic, and we can't wait to share them with our customers,” says Michelle Ponti, Director of Consumables at Fiskars Craft.

Fiskars® Brands, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fiskars® Corporation, a Finnish corporation traded on the Helsinki Stock Exchange (HEX:FIS). Fiskars®, is the world’s leading manufacturer of scissors, gardening tools and cutlery, as well as other consumer products sold under the brand names including FISKARS®, Cloud 9 Design, Gerber Legendary Blades®, Gingher, Heidi Grace Designs, Montana®, Raadvad, Sankey and Ebert, Brunton, Kaimano, Kitchen Devils, Oficut, Silva, Werga, Wilkinson Sword, Winchester, Zinck Lysbro.

To view Fiskars® items, visit www.fiskars.com.

To view Fiskars items, visit www.fiskars.com. If you have further questions about Li’l Davis Designs, please visit www.lildavisdesigns.com.

All Etsy Kits Have Shipped.

For those of you that ordered class kits off Etsy in the last couple of weeks, all kits have shipped. My apologies for the delay, I have been on the road for the last three weeks- Chicago, Grand Rapids, and Phoenix. I should have another new kit posted soon and I will let you all know when that is up. Thanks!

Calling All Atlanta Residents!

We will be attending the Scrapbook Expo in Duluth, GA, July 12-14th and are looking for help in our booth, especially on Saturday the 14th. As always we pay in cash or product. If you can help, please email michelle@lildavisdesigns.com Thanks so much!

New Kits at Etsy!

I have posted a bunch of new kits at Etsy. You can check them out here:

New Etsy Kits

Calling All Texas Residents!

We could use some help in our booth at the GASC show in Arlington. The dates are June 6th-9th. We had some awesome help last year in San Antonio- but of course, I have lost all your emails, so if you are reading this, we would love to have you back! As usual, we pay in cash or product. Please email michelle@lildavisdesigns.com if you are interested. Thanks!

Page Kits at Etsy!

As you all know we teach at stores and conventions all over the country. We get lots of emails regarding left over class kits and if we have any available for sale. I have finally got around to starting a store at www.etsy.com I listed the first kit today- it is Michelle Hill's "Memories" class. The kit includes a whole pack of our hard to find Glitter Garden Ice Dot Alphabet (40 letters) and Glitter Garden Floral Ice Shapes. I will be adding more kits shortly, but wanted to see if I could figure the whole store thing out first. Here is the link to the store
Li'l Davis Designs Etsy Store.
The store is listed under Li'l Davis Designs if you need to search for it.
Thanks so much!

CK Convention, Nashville, TN

We need your help! If there is anybody interested in working at our booth at the CK Convention in Nashville, May 3rd (set-up), May 4th-5th, please contact Michelle at michelle@lildavisdesigns.com We can use help all three days, any time. As usual, we pay in cash or product. Thanks for your help!

CK Convention, Mesa, AZ

Hey, all you local ladies! If anybody can help Michelle and Michelle out at the convention this weekend drop me an email ASAP to tricia@lildavisdesigns.com and I can get you Michelle's cell phone number. We have had a pallet shipping disaster so they could really use the help. As always, it pays $10 an hour cash or product- whatever you prefer. Just let me know if anyone would like to help. Thanks!

Just a Quick Post

Well, since my last post I've been to Phoenix three times and Salt Lake City once. I leave for Phoenix tomorrow and go to China on Saturday- which I am really looking forward to. We are going to the Canton Fair in Guangzhou. It is a huge manufacturing show where we can meet new factories and sources. This is the first time I have ever been and it seems weird to be on the buyer side of a trade show. It will be interesting to see all of the stuff out there. I am not looking forward to the flight- LAX to Taipei to Hong Kong to Guangzhou, it will take two days just to get there. In any case, we have our work cut out for us in Phoenix this week. We are shipping two kits to QVC, we already had one ready but they just postponed the ship date until June because they won't have time for it on the NSD show. So, we still have two others to get out by Tuesday. I will try to take some pictures to post because it is quite the project. We should have over thirty-five pallets shipping out. After that is finished I am home until I go to China while Michelle and Michelle hit the CK Convention in Mesa next weekend. If you are going to be around we will be having our close-out booth and Michelle Hill will be teaching an awesome class. I hope everybody has a great week- I have the 6am flight tomorrow so I am off to bed early, after Davis and I finish our 50th viewing of Harry Potter- one movie she never gets tired of.

Endless Summer Now Shipping!

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Endless Summer was my favorite release from the CHA Winter Show. It arrived in our warehouse last week and it is so adorable. The catalog or website just can't do it justice. The collection includes paper, chipboard alphabets, shapes, and borders. Here are the catalog images so you can see all of the items in the collection. Look for it at a store near you!

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