On the Cutting Board

Ok, so it has been a loooooooooooooong time. I know, I know! But, we arrived home on May 26 from the National Stationery Show and never looked back. 

There wasn't time for much goofing around or blogging! We were up to our noses in custom album creation and filling orders. 

Never, ever did we imagine our first show would be so successful, but we hit the ground cutting and gluing as fast as we could. 

We managed to get all the orders to retailers nation-wide in SIX short weeks. There was no rest for the wicked though because within the first week, retailers were already calling us with orders! And we had a full production schedule to balance from orders placed from our individual customer base.  One item that kept getting pushed on our massive 'to-do' list was blogging.

But late one night, after using what must have been 100 miles of double-sided tape, it came to me...a new blog name!  The Pink Label :: A Little Bit of Fab. So here we are, a little late to the party, but updated with plenty of fabulous fabric creations to share.  We plan to feature our new retailers, share what we do when we aren't cutting and gluing and keep you up-to-date on goes down in the fab, fab world of HBDesigns. We have a few surprises up our sleeves too!

the National Stationery Show!

What a day! We survived the first day at the National Stationery Show and are still smiling! All our research and listening paid off! This morning we were greeted by Lloyd from Manny Stone Decorators who told us we nailed our booth design. He was very impressed with what we created on a tight budget. Hopefully, we will have a video from him in the next day or so to share with you! 

For now, here are some of the comments we heard today from customers:

"We have to stop, this is amazing!"

"You girls have the most creative thing here!"

"I'm SOLD! Who do I give my credit card to?"

"You had me when I saw the skirt!"

"My customers are going to DIE!"

This is our first time at the show, so we were so excited! Nothing like having people love your designs. We hope you come by booth #1756 to see (and touch) our lines!

14 Days and Counting!

After what seems like a life's worth of planning, we are on the home stretch and packing things up to be shipped to the National Stationery Show.  

Phew! I could write a book about being a first time vendor. There is so much that goes into getting to this huge show and it is impossible to do alone.

We just put the final touches one of my favorite parts of our booth display. We used various designs from our fabritations (fabric + invitations) line to a fabulous skirt. Hours and hours went into planning, designing and executing this project. We even created our crate so that it could ship fully assembled!

We asked our facebook fans to help us name her. There were some very creative ideas out there! Fabrina, Cardoline, Cardarella, Fabriella...It was very hard to decide! We decided to name her Miss Fab. 

We love FABric and we think our designs are FABulous, so it was a perfect fit! Congratulations to Brittany Poe for coming up with the winning name! We hope you enjoy your fabrinery (fabric + stationery) prize!

Stay tuned for more updates on our road to New York!