CRAFTIQUE’S MATCRAFTER GIVEN SEAL OF APPROVAL BY CREATIVE HOME ARTS CLUB After submitting MatCrafter product to Creative Home Arts Club Members for consumer analysis, Craftique has received an exciting overall rating of 8.1 out of 10. With this high rating, comes the member tested, Creative Home Arts Club seal of approval.

Some of the test criteria for the analysis included Price Point, Design, Performance, Appearance, Ease of use, Clarity of instructions, Quality, Innovative features, Uniqueness, Versatility, and Value.

MatCrafter is an
acid-free bevel cut matboard made from high quality materials. It is ready to embellish and display with your own creativity. It provides a creative and economical alternative to traditional framing.

MatCrafter’s unique U-Channel in the easel back automatically centers and secures artwork or photos. It can also be used in a horizontal and vertical wall or tabletop display. MatCrafter comes in 8x10 size to fit standard 4x6 print and white/white, black/black and white/black colors. For more information visit www.savagepaper.com

WHAT’S NEW! TWO HOT NEW SAVAGE PRODUCTS JUST IN TIME FOR SUMMER Savage rolls out MiniMattes, a great new creative product in the Craftique Craft Paper Product Line at the Craft and Hobby Association Trade Show and Convention in Las Vegas January 2006.

The creative possibilities of these tiny treasures are unlimited for scrapbookers, paper crafters, or anyone looking for a new embellishment to art.

Craftique’s self-adhesive backed MiniMattes are a smaller version of Savage’s popular ProMatte pre-cut mat line. MiniMattes come in 3 convenient sizes of 3”, 4” and 5” the perfect size for craft projects. MiniMattes are also colorful coming in 16 different colors.

The Craftique line unites Savage’s quality paper crafting products into one consistent new look targeted to its main consumers with bright and attractive packaging featuring user-friendly instructions with project ideas geared towards today’s home decor trends.

Visit www.savagepaper.com to see more of Craftique’s products and packaging.

Savage introduces TruWhite Presentation Board to its fine art paper product line. TruWhite Presentation Board is an ideal mounting surface for prints and finished artwork as well as matting. Tape and adhesives work well with this sturdy board.

TruWhite can easily be adapted for graphic layout purposes. The crisp bright white surface provides maximum contrast with suitable media. TruWhite is available in 8x10, 11x14, 15x20 and 16x20 sizes.

TruWhite is extremely suitable for use by designers and architects for professional displays, students, artists and even for office use. The creative options are endless with this product.

NEW 26” WIDETONE® BANNER AND ART PAPER UNVEILED AT THE EBAY LIVE SHOW
June 13-15 2006 in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center Ebay Live Show, Savage’s NEW 26” roll of Widetone Banner and Art Paper will be unveiled. The size is perfect for the home studio setting frequently used by Ebay sellers to showcase their products.

Savage recently launched 26” Widetone® Banner and Art Paper Rolls at the National Art Materials Trade Association convention in Boston. The paper is a heavy weight 95 lb basis that is suitable for drawing, markers, banners, and lot’s of other artistic uses. 18 feet of high quality paper in a large variety of colors. At $9.99 MSRP per roll, this represents the best paper value anywhere!

HAVE YOU SEEN US LATELY?
Recent magazine articles, projects and ads by Savage include: Recollections May 25th Newsletter (Father’s Day Frame Project), Art Materials Retailer Spring 06, Craftrends June 06 issue, Creating Keepsakes & Paper Crafts June 06 Issue, Rangefinder, Shutterbug, Professional Photographer, and Picture Framing Magazine.

Look for us soon in Today’s Creative Home Arts for a consumer product review of MatCrafter, a ready-to-embellish mat for instant display, in the Craftique product line.

FATHER’S DAY CRAFT PROJECT:
MiniMatte Sun Catcher project by Angela Kendall
Recently moving back to my hometown, I noticed my Dad had made sun catchers from panes of glass and paint. My Mom is currently in a nursing home with Alzheimer’s and I was trying to think of a way for my Dad to remember her as the vibrant person she once was. I thought combining the sun catcher idea with Craftique’s MiniMattes would be the perfect opportunity to give him a gift from the heart.

Materials needed:

• Craftique Products-MiniMattes; (2) 5” same shape cut-out, (2) 4” same shape cut-out & (2) 3” same shape cut- out. Mix or match colors.
• Craft Knife or Cutting tool
• Clear Transparency Paper or Frosted Vellum for Color Printers
• Any Computer with photo editing software, (ie. Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, MS Word, MS Publisher)
• Digital Photos from photo CD or Scanned Photo Images, (ie. JPEG Photos)
• Metallic Thread

1. Choose photos you want to use as the “sun catcher” portion of the project, filling the shapes cut out of MiniMattes.
2. Trace inside of MiniMattes on plain paper to make template for cutting photos to correct size.
3. Resize the photos you’ve chosen to fit the 5”, 4’ and 3” MiniMatte with the cut-out of your choice and print out on the transparency in color or black and white on your printer.
4. Using your traced templates, cut out your photo approx. 1/4” larger than the template to fit the MiniMattes.
5. Peel the release paper from the back of one set of MiniMattes lay face down on flat surface.
6. Place cut-out transparency photos centered on respective sized MiniMatte. Press to adhere.
7. Cut three pieces of metallic thread to hang and tie MiniMattes together from one to another.
8. Place one piece of thread centered on adhesive side MiniMatte that will be the top, place thread centered from the bottom of the first MiniMatte to the top of the 2nd MiniMatte, and place a piece of thread from the bottom of the 2nd MiniMatte to the top of the 3rd MiniMatte.

Once you have your photos and threads centered and adhered to the adhesive side of one set of MiniMattes, peel backing paper from the 2nd set of MiniMattes and center and press to adhere them adhesive to adhesive on the corresponding size and shape of MiniMatte on the flat surface. This sandwiches your photos and your hanging thread between the MiniMattes to make the sun catcher.

9. Tie a loop for hanging at the top of the sun catcher. and display.

A FAMILIAR FACE: Savage Employees Barb Engel & Joanne Brown
Barbara Engel, a Savage Customer Service staple of 20 years, moved to Arizona in August of 1986 from Pittsburgh, PA. Barb has enjoyed working with the Savage customers for years, as well as going to photo shows and meeting customers one on one. “Putting faces with the voices” she spoke with often on the phone. Barb has also enjoyed working with great co-workers.

As a Savage Customer Service Representative, Barb inputs orders received by phone, mail and fax. Taking care of customers, filing and helping others also fill her day at Savage.

Set to retire in just a few months, Barb will be returning to Pittsburgh to spend more time with her husband Bill of 44 years, her four children and 10 grandchildren.

Joanne Brown, originally from Ohio, has worked at Savage for 23 years. Joanne says her favorite aspect of the job is “the long time relationship with a lot of our regular customers”.

Joanne’s customer service responsibilities include processing purchase orders, communicating with customers in tracking their orders and billing shipped orders.

When Joanne is not working at Savage she is spending time with her husband of 21 years Mike Brown and their three animals, Sophie, Boris & Oreo who are just like children in their family.