Willow Traders Anniversary and CHA Products Update

Happy Third Anniversary, Willow Traders! Don't forget that if you're a WT Member, go on over to the Third Anniversary Celebration Forum today and check out all of Cafe Prima's festivities. We have many contests open for prizes and discounts! It all expires at 11:59 tonight (March 28th) so if you haven't yet joined us, pop on over there now!

Also, you may notice that in the store, some of the items in the new lines are sold out. We have reordered all of the Angelique, Whisper, Dude, Urban Cosmos and Tea and Silk papers, as well as the Essentials 4s that are sold out. There are also more items to come for ALL of the lines so we're anxious for their arrival. If you're favorites are sold out, check back soon!

More new stuff arrived today!

61 different new products arrived today (that's 61 different designs/styles--not 61 items) so we have pages and pages of new stuff for you to check out!

We've also added a new feature, which allows you to Shop by Collection where you can browse all the products in one particular coordinating line. We've added everything released in the past year that we still carry and will continue to add things this way from now on. We hope this offers you added convenience.

You can still shop for the same great products by type (flowers, patterned paper, etc) but now they will appear in multiple areas of organization for ease of use by customers with all sorts of shopping preferences.

The paintables, clear paintables, ribbons, rub ons, clear stamps, embellishments and more flowers are still on their way, but in the mean time, pop on over and check out all the things that have already arrived!

Welcoming our new Design Team!

We are pleased to announce the following new members to our Design Team! We congratulate everyone who applied and ask you to join us in welcoming these new ladies!

Chrissy Le of Pennsylvania, USA
Sasha Farina of Singapore
Carole Maurin of France
Sanderijn Mittendorff of the Netherlands
Candice Reszko of Nevada, USA
Emeline Seet of Singapore

You can see their fantastic submissions on display here. Congratulations, ladies. And welcome!

Design Team Call Announcement

Hello everyone! Thank you to everyone who submitted to our Design Team call. We are in the process of individually emailing every person who submitted to notify them of whether or not they were selected for the team. As soon as all of these notifications are sent, and the winning artists accept their positions, we will make a public announcement of the winners.

As we received quite a few submissions and as we are writing notes that are specific to each recipient, we have only finished half of them. If you have not received your email yet, please expect it soon. Also, please also check your "spam" folders because we've received word from some that their email providers delivered our emails as spam. The return email address is either designteamcall@cafeprima.net or designteamcall@gmail.com.

Thank you to everyone who submitted!

CHA Patterned Papers Have Arrived!

Cafe Prima ordered all of Prima's brand new paper lines and they arrived today. They are available now on the Cafe Prima website. We ordered 46 of the 48 new designs, so why shop anywhere else!

If you're looking for something bright and fun for the boys and men in your life, check out the Dude collection.

If you prefer a more muted look for scrapping your guy, try the Cavalier collection.

Looking for something bright to scrap the ladies and girls in your life? How about Morning Song?

Still catching up on scrapping last summer's pictures? You have to check out the Harmony Papers.

If you love all things Pink and Brown like I do, then the Urban Cosmos Collection is a must-have.

Perhaps you prefer the more recent trend of brown, pink and aqua. We love it too so we ordered the Whisper collection.

And if you're loving the hot new trend of All things Asian and the awesome color combination of blush and green tea, you have to check out the exceptional Japanese inspired Tea and Silk collection.

Update! How could we have forgotten to mention the feminine Angelique Collection?

Whatever your preference, Prima's new line is so diverse that it's very likely you'll find something you love! We've also ordered the embellishments and flowers to match all these lines, plus all the new Paintables and Clear Paintables, and we hope that they will arrive soon!

Design Team Call

The Cafe Prima Design Team call is now closed. Thank you to everyone who responded! We have our work cut out for us in choosing from the many many submissions we received.

Our Design Team coordinator Rachel Hall has sent verification emails to every person who applied, confirming that we received their email and attachments. If you did not receive a verification email, please email designteamcall@cafeprima.net immediately.

Thank you to all who have applied! Winners will be notified by next Sunday, and once they have accepted the positions we will announce their names.

Cafe Prima Design Team Call!

Cafe Prima is the internet’s premiere retailer of Prima Marketing Inc., products. We celebrated our first anniversary this past summer and are continuing to expand our vision and reach. To that end, we are seeking 2 to 4 talented designers to join our existing team of 6 outstanding women.

Cafe Prima Design Team Members are asked to create 21 projects per 6 month term (3 per month plus 3 additional in one 6 month term) and write 12 blog posts and 3 newsletter articles per 6 month term. With a few exceptions, concurrent membership on other design teams is permissible.

In return, Design Team members receive free products for all of the required projects, quarterly product bonuses, a substantial discount on store purchases, website promotion, a Cafe Prima email account, access to a Private Design Team Message Board, free admission to the CHA Vendor Faire at the Winter and Summer shows, and more!

To be considered, please submit images of 3 to 4 samples of your scrapbook work. Samples should include at least one scrapbook page and one altered item. Image sizes should be a minimum of 600x600 pixels at 72 dpi and a maximum of 1000x1000 pixels at 72 dpi. One project per image, please. Please submit at least two photos of projects that feature a prominent use of Prima products. Submit all attachments in one email if possible, and in a maximum of two emails.

In the email please also complete the following information:
1. First and Last Name:
2. City, State and Country of Residence:
3. Scrapbooking Experience (including current Design Team commitments):
4. Past experience with Prima products
5. Brief description of yourself and your hobbies
6. Your reason for wanting to join the Cafe Prima Design Team
7. Your contact email (if different than the address from which you are sending your submission)

The Cafe Prima Design Team Call is open to all US and International Residents age 18 and older except where prohibited by law. Non-native English speakers are welcome. However, Design Team members must be able to communicate in English with the Cafe Prima Owner and other Design Team members.

To apply, please send the required attachments and information to designteamcall@cafeprima.net.

All submissions received before 6:00pm Pacific Time on Sunday, March 9th will be considered for the open positions. Winners will be notified by email no later than Sunday, March 16th of their final acceptance, or if necessary, of their progression to the next round of selections, at which time additional submissions may be requested.

Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us using the email address listed above.