subject: Scrapbooking - Graphic 45 Bring Fasion Clothing Designs Onto Scrapbooking Paper [print this page] Scrapbooking - Graphic 45 Bring Fasion Clothing Designs Onto Scrapbooking Paper
A small company entered the scrapbooking industry in 2008 not knowing what the future would hold. In an economy that was heading downward fast, housing market coming to a crash, unemployment at an ultimate high, and families tightening up the budget, Graphic 45 Unique Scrapbooking was surprisingly growing fast. But how did they accomplish this when all strikes were against them? With a scrapbook market that was following all nation wide trends and also spiraling downward. The answer lies within a unique vintage approach that appears on their scrapbooking paper. Patterned designs that brings back nostalgic feelings to women that seems to make one forget about what is going on in the world around them and focus in on the good times of the past.
From Fashion to Paper
For years fashion designer, Diane Schultz had been designing clothes for many big name department stores. After many years of success in the fashion industry and an entrepreneurial spirit, Diane took her textile designs to the craft industry and magically brought them to paper. With the transfer of patterns on clothing to scrapbooking paper, Diane would not even know the she had created the MOST unique scrapbook paper that women were soon to fall in love with. Graphic 45, LLC was then born and shortly became the limelight across paper crafting blogs, websites, and hobby craft stores. All their paper is 65# weight and double sided with a signature page for each line and coordinating die cuts. This provides lots of flexibility to any crafter for unrestrained imagination.
Growth Continues for Whole Family
With Diane as the lead designer and owner, she quickly added other design team members to create projects of all kinds, and started shipping product right out of the basement. She then completed her dream by adding her daughters to the company making it a family affair and a positive one at that. Currently Graphic 45 is contracted with a fulfillment center as the product quickly took over her home and a total of fifteen paper lines have since been released. With many themes such as: Christmas, Baby, Romantic, Halloween, Boardwalk, Wedding, and much more.
As stated in the beginning of this article, Graphic 45 has pushed through the economic depression. They have done it with family faith, a persistent designer, and unique patterns that help women to connect with great past memories. This paper crafting company has truly revolutionized the scrapbooking world with their beautiful paper lines. Their paper lines capture themes of the 1920's and 1930's with a vintage charm of vibrant color and amazing texture. When women are looking for some inspiration for a page, card, or craft this company seems to be their first choice. In a day and age when communicating digitally is the front runner, Graphic seems to take a different approach with the pleasure of design on paper reminding us of past times. That the best nostalgic memories stay with us yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Perhaps that's what is so special about Graphic 45.
