Post by craftymom101 on Dec 21, 2018 20:26:13 GMT
I received this email last night:
Thank you for making the time to read this message in its entirety to learn about important changes in 2019. Beginning on January 1, 2019 we’ll be starting something new at Citrus Twist, launching Citrus Twist Life Crafted Kits and Albums!
The Life Crafted kit grew from my dream to have a kit that could be used in many ways and that is easy to craft with. It is the perfect go-to kit to document your life stories for multiple forms of paper crafting including, but not limited to, scrapbooking, Project Life, traveler’s notebook, journaling, messy journaling, faith journaling and mini albums. The kit is both fun and versatile.
Our new focus will be on creating a stronger brand for Citrus Twist with an emphasis on the Life Crafted kit (and album!), telling the stories behind their design and creation through monthly Kit Overview videos, the occasional creative retreat, and helping creatives like you, everywhere, fit crafting more easily into your life and building a robust crafting community. After the past two years during in which an immediate family member of mine had a serious illness, I learned just how precious time - and crafting time - is. I also realized that almost everyone has their own personal journeys, challenges and stories they go through and I'm probably not the only one that wishes I had more time to escape into my creative space to refresh and play. Life Crafted came about through my personal journey. It is one kit to tell your stories in your own way.
We’ll be simultaneously launching the brand new Life Crafted album along with the Life Crafted kit. These albums will be manufactured and released in a variety of gorgeous, neutral colors, quarterly throughout the year. The first album has black fabric, a gold plate on the spine and the quality is fabulous. This is a petite album with 15 page protectors designed to fit standard traveler’s notebook pages or up to 5" x 8.25”-sized loose pages and it comes with a digital printable label sheet with labels to fit the metal plate on the album spine (think volume numbers, months and blanks to fill in). Imagine a library of colored spines peeking at you from your shelves. Of course, you can do much more with this album than TN, from making mini albums, vacation albums and monthly or quarterly TN albums, to creating mini scrapbook pages and more. Our Creative Team will be there to share the many different ways they use the album in addition to sharing their usual 12 x 12 and 8.5 x 11 scrapbooking layouts, PL pages, TN pages and faith pages.
What does this mean to our subscribers?
In order to make this new focus possible we’ll be going down to one subscription kit (Life Crafted), plus our current 3 stamp subscriptions (This Is Life, Traveler’s Notebook Stamp, Add-On Stamp). We will continue to offer a monthly add-on kit for those who love their 12” x 12” papers and want to purchase the latest new products that hit the market. We have some robust add-on kits planned for you. We will also include new products in the Citrus Twist shop.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU
You do not need to do anything and your subscription will continue billing on the first of each month (next billing on January 1, 2019). You will love the new kit and will experience it as more of a rebranding of our old PL kit that is only getting better. While we are increasing the cost of the kit (tariffs are now being charged on craft products and the cost of materials is increasing) we will grandfather you in at the current price you are paying for as long as you maintain your current subscription.
Note: We will have U.S. and Canadian shipping price increases but we will keep you at your current 2018 shipping price for all of 2019. For our international (non-Canadian) subscribers, your shipping cost will be going down. The USPS is raising their shipping rates again in January. (We will still offer Economy U.S. shipping as an option in 2019 and this cost will be increasing from what we currently charge for economy.) If you are a current Pocket Life kit subscriber your subscription will continue to automatically bill and for our current International PL kit subscribers you’ll see that your shipping cost has decreased.
WEBSITE CHANGES
We are also working on ways to increase and ease navigation on our website. Please watch for navigation changes in a newsletter that will release late this month. It will include information like a new bundled shipping code for subscribers, how to access subscriber-only free files and more. Our website will shut down for maintenance briefly at the end of December and be up again in time for pre-sale.
Thank you for choosing Citrus Twist for your kit subscription. The fact that you chose us means the world to this small family-run business.
With warmest regards,
Trina
I am a new PL subscriber and I'm disappointed that the PL kit is going away. I don't think I have a need for an album of this size.
Thank you for making the time to read this message in its entirety to learn about important changes in 2019. Beginning on January 1, 2019 we’ll be starting something new at Citrus Twist, launching Citrus Twist Life Crafted Kits and Albums!
The Life Crafted kit grew from my dream to have a kit that could be used in many ways and that is easy to craft with. It is the perfect go-to kit to document your life stories for multiple forms of paper crafting including, but not limited to, scrapbooking, Project Life, traveler’s notebook, journaling, messy journaling, faith journaling and mini albums. The kit is both fun and versatile.
Our new focus will be on creating a stronger brand for Citrus Twist with an emphasis on the Life Crafted kit (and album!), telling the stories behind their design and creation through monthly Kit Overview videos, the occasional creative retreat, and helping creatives like you, everywhere, fit crafting more easily into your life and building a robust crafting community. After the past two years during in which an immediate family member of mine had a serious illness, I learned just how precious time - and crafting time - is. I also realized that almost everyone has their own personal journeys, challenges and stories they go through and I'm probably not the only one that wishes I had more time to escape into my creative space to refresh and play. Life Crafted came about through my personal journey. It is one kit to tell your stories in your own way.
We’ll be simultaneously launching the brand new Life Crafted album along with the Life Crafted kit. These albums will be manufactured and released in a variety of gorgeous, neutral colors, quarterly throughout the year. The first album has black fabric, a gold plate on the spine and the quality is fabulous. This is a petite album with 15 page protectors designed to fit standard traveler’s notebook pages or up to 5" x 8.25”-sized loose pages and it comes with a digital printable label sheet with labels to fit the metal plate on the album spine (think volume numbers, months and blanks to fill in). Imagine a library of colored spines peeking at you from your shelves. Of course, you can do much more with this album than TN, from making mini albums, vacation albums and monthly or quarterly TN albums, to creating mini scrapbook pages and more. Our Creative Team will be there to share the many different ways they use the album in addition to sharing their usual 12 x 12 and 8.5 x 11 scrapbooking layouts, PL pages, TN pages and faith pages.
What does this mean to our subscribers?
In order to make this new focus possible we’ll be going down to one subscription kit (Life Crafted), plus our current 3 stamp subscriptions (This Is Life, Traveler’s Notebook Stamp, Add-On Stamp). We will continue to offer a monthly add-on kit for those who love their 12” x 12” papers and want to purchase the latest new products that hit the market. We have some robust add-on kits planned for you. We will also include new products in the Citrus Twist shop.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU
You do not need to do anything and your subscription will continue billing on the first of each month (next billing on January 1, 2019). You will love the new kit and will experience it as more of a rebranding of our old PL kit that is only getting better. While we are increasing the cost of the kit (tariffs are now being charged on craft products and the cost of materials is increasing) we will grandfather you in at the current price you are paying for as long as you maintain your current subscription.
Note: We will have U.S. and Canadian shipping price increases but we will keep you at your current 2018 shipping price for all of 2019. For our international (non-Canadian) subscribers, your shipping cost will be going down. The USPS is raising their shipping rates again in January. (We will still offer Economy U.S. shipping as an option in 2019 and this cost will be increasing from what we currently charge for economy.) If you are a current Pocket Life kit subscriber your subscription will continue to automatically bill and for our current International PL kit subscribers you’ll see that your shipping cost has decreased.
WEBSITE CHANGES
We are also working on ways to increase and ease navigation on our website. Please watch for navigation changes in a newsletter that will release late this month. It will include information like a new bundled shipping code for subscribers, how to access subscriber-only free files and more. Our website will shut down for maintenance briefly at the end of December and be up again in time for pre-sale.
Thank you for choosing Citrus Twist for your kit subscription. The fact that you chose us means the world to this small family-run business.
With warmest regards,
Trina
I am a new PL subscriber and I'm disappointed that the PL kit is going away. I don't think I have a need for an album of this size.