Helene’s Custom Framing and Scrapbooking

Helene’s is really two stores in one, a Superb Custom Framing shop and a scrapbooking place. It saddens me that other Unilocalers choose to go straight to a 1 star if they are not fully satisfied with a company, when 2 or 3 three stars would adequately convey their disappointment.
As a framing studio, I can state that with my many years of experience with other outstanding framing studios and gifted framers that Helene is as good as it gets! Helene is an artist at one of kind framing and is extraordinary with her talent to select matting, fillets and frames.
I brought my priceless original oil paintings by Nichola Moss to Helene and all five are immensely more beautiful after the exquisite framing presentations Helene and I co-​created together. Helene has also put together another dozen or so framing presentations for other art works of mine. For me, a major factor of what makes a framer great is their ability to collaborate with a client (me) in a pleasant way that results in a unique framing end product. I feel very comfortable with Helene and I feel that she understands what I want and what my tastes are.
Helene can certainly justify charging much more for her framing, but she is reasonable for the quality of frame products she uses and work she produces.
Helene’s framing presentations are works of art all on their own. If you have masterpieces as I do, superb framing simply elevates your pieces into the stratosphere.
I am sure that Helene’s Custom Framing is certainly among the best you will find in the Bay Area.
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Helene’s Is the best scrap booking store! I love all her classes and her creativeness! She creates beautiful card kits and scrapbooks. She also will order me products that she does not carry. I would rather shop at her store then the big box stores.

Helene has done two BIG framing jobs for me, and I couldn’t have been more pleased with the jobs she did. She takes a lot of pride in her work; she knows her materials; she gives you options and explains the pros and cons of each choice. If you want the job done right, and you want it to look good, have Helene take care of you. Just remember that quality doesn’t come cheap. Fortunately, I had coupons for each job, but I must say that her work is worth the full price. The scrap-​booking side of the shop (not my craft) appeared fully stocked with high-​end materials. Top shelf, all the way.

This is a great little scrapbook store in Santa Rosa! They had all the usual stuff I’m used to seeing plus more! I was very surprised to find stuff like Valentines Day themed papers I had not seen.
She also had a good amount of Peanut’s papers and stickers. This is the only scrapbook store I had ever seen Peanut’s themed papers. I know this has to do with the location-​Charles Schultz, creator of Peanut’s lived and worked in Santa Rosa, and you can find many life sized statues of the characters around the city. And that is precisely why I needed Peanut’s themed paper! Perfect!
Not everything in the store is priced so watch out. I ended up spending more than I expected because I wasn’t keeping an approx tally in my head without the prices.
Also of note, in addition to the scrapbooking part is the framing. Helene herself makes these beautiful framed pieces with objects and photos combined. Like a 3-​D scrapbook layout you can hang up. They look great but I wonder how pricey something like that is…
A lot is crammed into this small space and I’d really like to see this business thrive!