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March 10th, 2010

remembering our first employee

In the early days of Rock Scissor Paper, it was just me and Susie. We tackled all the tasks ourselves, even when we had no idea what we were doing.  Sales? Marketing? Production? Order fulfillment? Designing?  We did it all without any help.  We often would sit and dream out loud about how nice it [...]

March 9th, 2010

graphics the old school way

Our anniversary celebration continues this week with a few more posts looking back into our past. What you are looking at in the picture above is a layout of artwork for our printer. If any of you out there took a Graphic Arts or Printing Shop class in high school prior to the digital revolution, [...]

March 5th, 2010

pint-sized portrait no. 24

It’s been a long, busy week! Thanks so much to all the customers who took advantage of our Anniversary Sale at Rock Scissor Paper!  We so appreciate it! It’s been fun wandering down memory lane this week and we still have a few more posts of old pictures and story to share with you.

We’re definitely [...]

March 4th, 2010

blast from the past designs

As I mentioned before, in the beginning of our company, Heidi & I used a variety of clip art for our designs. Dover Publications had (and still does) a huge selection of pictorial archive books with beautiful and elaborately engraved illustrations from the 19th century.  We probably have over 50 of these books. All are [...]

March 3rd, 2010

setting up shop - our first street fair!

In celebration of our anniversary, we are continuing down memory lane. Above is a picture of our very first street fair (Heidi is in the picture hiding behind a journal.) Up to to just a couple of weeks before this picture was taken, we were exclusively doing custom invitation designs for clients (or at least [...]

March 2nd, 2010

happy anniversary to us!

This week Heidi & I are celebrating a big anniversary…Rock Scissor Paper is 17 years old! Wow, where did the time go? Over the next week or so, We’ll be sharing some fun pictures from the beginnings of our business and some of our first products. Eeek! It’s kind of hard to look at some [...]