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 Collection
Sets are popular Sakura of America pen and marker brands
organized in a reuseable, durable package. These new Sakura
of America Collection Set Series will be featured in
national contests of Shojo Beat manga magazine, and blog
sites, 2 Sketches 4 You, and Creative Therapy.
Scrapbooking.com magazine. The fall premiere of TVWeekly.com
webinars will highlight the Collection Sets in projects for
crafters.
The new Sakura of America (Sakura) Collection Set Series is
highlighted this fall as contest prizes of blog sites,
magazines, and online publications. Collection Sets are the
most popular Sakura brands packaged in durable, reusable
containers that store easily to help stay organized. The
Collection Set brands are: Gelly Roll Metallic®, Gelly Roll®
Stardust®, Glaze®, Micron® 05, Soufflé™, Pigma® All Black,
and a Permapaque® Fine with both traditional and metallic
colors.
Sakura of America's new Collection Set Series. perfect as
gifts or contest prizes. Seven Collection Sets available,
two are featured as gifts with journal entry.
The October issue of Shojo Beat, a VIZ media manga magazine,
promotes a Halloween theme manga drawing contest which
includes the Pigma Micron Collection Set in its grand prize
award for the winning entry. Creative Therapy, a blog site
dedicated to using self-expression through art as
therapeutic work, will use Gelly Roll Stardust Collection
Set as a prize on October19th, and again on December 7th.
In November, 100,000 subscribers to Scrapbooking.com
magazine will be introduced to the entire Collection Set
series in a consumer email blast, and in a Pen Department
article that will feature projects made with the sets. The
blog site, 2 Sketches 4 You,will challenge card makers
November 10th and 24th, and award a Gelly Roll Stardust and
Metallic Collection Set to the handmade card contest
winners, respectively.
"Our readers are going to be thrilled at the opportunity to
win something exciting like Sakura's Collection Sets. In all
honesty, as a card maker and scrapbook enthusiast there is
no product that comes close to the superior quality of
Sakura of America," states Kazan Clark, co-founder and
co-owner with Laura Davis of 2 Sketches 4 You blog site.
TVWeekly.com kicks-off its fall webisode season with
projects using Collection Sets of Glaze, Gelly Roll Metallic
and Permapaque Fine. Craft pros personalize wooden ornaments
and make decorative garlands for holiday decorating of
table-top trees.
About Collections:
http://www.sakuraofamerica.com/collections
Pen lovers, crafters, artists, collectors, and professional
organizers can create a special writing instrument zone for
their desk, shelves, and studio or offices to position
Collection sets within easy reach. The popular brands of
Sakura pens and markers are packaged in durable, reusable
containers to easily categorize storage of useful items.
Perfect for gifts, awards, and incentives.
Each Collection Set contains 16 pieces, and the manufacturer
suggested retail price is:
Gelly Roll Metallic: $20.64 stock number: 57369
Gelly Roll Stardust: $27.04 stock number: 57913
Micron 05: $43.04 stock number: 50075
Pigma All Black: $43.04 stock number: 50076
Glaze: $31.68 stock number: 58377
Soufflé: $31.68 stock number: 58351
Permapaque: $31.68 stock number: 58314
About 2 Sketches 4 You:
Founders and owners of this blog, Kazan Clark and Laura
Davis, based in Colorado, challenge readers with contests to
make handcrafted cards and scrapbook pages based on their
unique sketches.
About Creative Therapy:
The Creative Therapy founder is Karen Grunberg. Creative
Therapy is a site dedicated to using art to create
therapeutic work. Each week a catalyst (topic) is selected
and bloggers use any form of art to express their feelings
and experiences which provides a means to experience the
therapeutic power of art.
About Scrapbooking.com:
Scrapbooking.com, a monthly scrapbooking publication, is a
division of the A-Z Media Group, and the largest single
source of scrapbooking information in the scrapbooking
industry, and located in California.
About TVWeekly.com:
TVWeekly.com, based in California, is a free online
television programming anytime you want to watch! New
episodes scheduled for the fall. Plum & Verdigris, a show
about the art of jewelry making which has been around for
eons, learn from the pros with a new webisode premiering
each Wednesday! Scrapbook Lounge, with over one hundred and
thirty webisodes in the archives, and a new one premiering
each Friday, you'll never be short on paper craft
inspiration!
About Sakura Color Products of America, Inc.:
Sakura Color Products of America, Inc. (Sakura) is committed
to the development of writing instruments and artistic
mediums that empower individual self-expression, creativity
and enhance communication. Headquartered in Hayward, CA, the
company services the U.S. and Canada, and is the U.S.
subsidiary of privately held, Sakura Color Products
Corporation of Osaka, Japan. Sakura manufactures the popular
Gelly Roll® gel pen, Pigma® Micron® fine-line pens,
Cray-Pas® oil pastels, as well as many other high-quality
writing instruments, art materials, and industrial markers.
Sponsor of Grand Sumo Tournaments 2008 and 2007, and Maker
Faire 2008. For company, product details, and a retailer
locator, visit
www.sakuraofamerica.com or call 800-776-6257 for more
information.
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