Nicole Heady leaves Papertrey Ink

That makes me sad. I haven't kept up with PTI much lately but I remember when it was all the rage years ago. I followed Dawn McVey from the first time I ever saw her cards and continued for years until I moved out of the industry when my own life went through changes in 2010. Since being back I have kind of forgotten about PTI sadly. Nichole has been around for very long time! I wish her the best.

I was shocked to see this today. I haven't followed papertrey as closely as I used too. And I agree, something has felt "off" when I did visit her site. She is such an inspiration.

I watched the team farewell video. I guess Nichole lives in Maine. I thought she lived in TN.

She will be missed in the industry.

I'm going to miss her videos. Her voice was always so relaxing to me.

I was sad to hear this too. Haven’t bought much recently but I still have a lot of PTI products. I’ll miss Nichole’s designs because something has definitely changed in the last year or so in terms of style. I just don’t see the company continuing long term without Nichole there.

I just found out about this, and now her blog automatically redirects to the new PTI blog so I couldn't even read it.

turangaleela and marg I believe all the content was copied over to the new blog so you should be able to find it there.

ETA if you look in the archives section of the new blog, it goes back to May 2006 when Nicole started her blog.

Thanks for sharing that she has gone back to the magazine world anniefb.

I love PTI cardstock, too, warrior1991. I still have plenty of PTI stamps & dies but haven't been overwhelmed with their releases for the last couple of years. There is a ton of competition out there now for the stampers to choose from and I think it hurts PTI that they don't have product available through other stores or ever offer decent sales. It will be interesting to see how they survive.

Slight hijack, but nicolep have you been following Dawn's health issues the last couple years? She is recovering from a small intestine transplant and IGs regularly (haven't been to her blog in years, so not sure if she is documenting there too.)

This is an old thread but for those who like me used to buy from PTI they are now having sales all over the place and have a big Last Call section on their site. Looks like they are retiring sets as recent as 2016. I’m not sure if they are liquidating or just recreating themselves. Anyway lots of sales if anyone missed some sets they always liked. They also are having small YouTube flash sales with new sets that are stamp and die bundled. I had some points to use up from buying so much card stock on a recent 15% off sale so I bit on one of those bundles.

I have only made one purchase in the past three years from PTI. I ordered close to 30 packs of pattern paper in January 2017 when they were discontinuing their old packs of PP. At a dollar a pack, they were a fantastic deal. Even with shipping, I paid less than $40 for everything. The down side was shipping was soooooo s-l-o-w. I waited almost four weeks for my package to ship, plus another week for it to arrive.

I don't want to see PTI fail and I hope they continue as a business, but their shipping issues need to be resolved.

I feel the same. Haven't bought stamps in over a year - maybe two? I think the style has changed and doesn't appeal so much anymore. And let's face it there are so many more companies out there than there were 10 years ago. Companies like Concord & 9th appeal to me a lot more at the moment.

I like the cardstock too warrior1991 although last year I made a change from stamper's select white to Neenah because it's easier to find. But I love the coloured cardstock.

Funny, those are the exact colors I ordered big packs of from Papertrey and the ones I use the most.  I may be looking for a new source down the line. 

Is Papertrey Ink closing? I hadn't heard that.

Nicole started PTI.