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  • Feeling gifty with 300 nifty new items!

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    …with an incredible scoop when the batch of new products arrived at my desk last week. More than 300 goodies not yet seen by our customers, ooo la la! The gift giver in me instantly started indexing items... The post Feeling gifty with 300 nifty new items! appeared first on Paper Source Blog.

  • Paper Source Workshop: Wedding Favors

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    With so many Paper Source favor boxes to choose from it’s easy to see why we love sharing our countless wedding favor ideas. Though our favor box assortment means endless possibilities to us, we know that our customers can feel overwhelmed by all of the choices. That’s why we’re always…

  • Guest blogger: Mary Vasquez

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    If you ever feel nostalgic for those sticker collections of early childhood, then let me introduce you to my new crafty best friend, the Xyron Create A Sticker. It brings back memories of carefree days and transforms all sorts of beautiful paper into stickers I can use for grown-up things like…

  • Thanksgiving place card ideas

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    Thanksgiving is fun for SO many reasons. In my family, everybody works together to prepare the meal, each person with a specific task (the same task each year so we’re experts). I am in charge of the green bean casserole and place cards. I take each of these tasks VERY seriously, and I have a... The…

  • French Message Board workshop – join us TONIGHT!

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    So many kids have enjoyed our ‘Tween Message Board craft during private workshops that we wanted to create a crafting project for our adults – the perfect elegant French Message Board! (Sorry this is not a kid’s class – this is for adults only – please see the policy page.) If you are the crafter...…

  • Eat. Drink. And just BE married.

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    A few weeks ago Cindy asked readers to talk about their wedding inspiration and the discussion showcased so many thoughtful themes. It also gave me pause: What the heck was my inspiration? The Mister and I knew we wanted our guests to have fun, but we needed it to be a little more meaningful than...…

  • Girls Night Out: Paper Flowers!

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    …Chicago winter seems to linger until mid-May, so we can’t tell you how much pleasure we get from having the warmth of sunshine finally hitting the Midwest. Everywhere we look we see greenery – the hopeful anticipation of those colorful summer flowers, many of which have yet to bloom.... The post…

  • Congrats to our $100 gift card winner!

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    …enthusiastic comments and wonderful suggestions for things we can bring to the blog. We are touched to know that Paper Source has been a part of so many memories from weddings and births to birthdays and holidays. We... The post Congrats to our $100 gift card winner! appeared first on Paper Source…

  • Buyer’s favorite: Holiday cards & crafts

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    It is so warm here in Chicago. It hardly feels like it is almost Thanksgiving! In fact, it feels a little weird to talk about my favorite holiday products when I didn’t even wear a coat to work, but here goes… For crafting, a couple super-easy, but super-impactful items are the Snowflake Trim…

  • Paper Source Workshop: Adults & Kids Valentines Classes

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    …romantic Girls Night Out gals, we have a workshop in which we’ll share our love of Victorian folded Valentine creations embellished with Paper Source accents. And since so many... The post Paper Source Workshop: Adults & Kids Valentines Classes appeared first on Paper Source Blog.

  • You asked for it – Crafting Studio!

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    We want to provide you more playtime in our stores! Honestly, isn’t that what creating is all about? Getting so lost in the “play” of a project that you feel, when you resurface, both invigorated and proud. We love that our customers have asked us for more play time, it gave US a…

  • Love note to Persimmon & Paper Bag

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    We recently noticed that many PS bloggers list their favorite PS colors as Persimmon & Paper Bag. It’s true! These new colors have quickly found their way into many of our craft projects & product designs. Persimmon, bold, happy and bright, tempered by the earthiness of Paper Bag. It’s a…

  • Congrats to our Mother’s Day Card Contest winners!

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    …ever Facebook contest. Collectively the twenty-six Mother’s Day card entries perfectly celebrated motherhood, both the many different kinds of mothers and the many different styles of mom. From retro to whimsy the design inspiration will be permanently available as a Mother’s... The post…

  • How-to: E-Z gift wrap

    Meg Kowieski

    …Favor Boxes with pieces of your favorite decorative paper and simply finish with a tag stamped with our “Handmade by” rubber stamp. Handmade through and through will make your friends feel loved by you! –Annie... The post How-to: E-Z gift wrap appeared first on Paper Source Blog.

  • Get into the spirit at our Free Holiday Open House – Join us tomorrow!

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    Come the holidays we feel a little like Mrs. Claus. We get to pull back the curtain on the toy room at Paper Source, showing off what our proverbial “elves’” have been busy creating! This year is particularly exciting. Along with all the great gifts and kits in our stores this season, we also…

  • Introducing… our 2011 calendar collection!

    Meg Kowieski

    …privilege. Having all of us work on the 2011 calendars results in a creative variety of design and illustration styles, tied together in look and feel by the PS color palette. Like clever little squirrels, we spend the year... The post Introducing… our 2011 calendar collection! appeared first…

  • Recipe for love

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    …I have not been so lucky in love. None the less, I am still a hopeless romantic, so I decided to create my own “recipe for love” Valentine cards using our Mini File Folders. Now this isn’t Hogwarts and these concoctions may not work, but it’s still so... The post Recipe for…

  • How-to: Santa goody boxes

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    Like many of you, the holiday season has always been my favorite time of year. Nothing fills me with the spirit of the season more than seeing the smiles of friends and family each year, and what better way to entice them than with some of my famous toffee bark? Each year I look for... The post…

  • Scrapbooking the Paper Source way!

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    Many of you are much like me – you love being creative any chance you get, but finding that time can often be challenging between work, home, errands and well…life! We kept this predicament in mind when planning our highly requested scrapbooking class. At our Girl’s Night Out:…

  • Our first guest blogger! Introducing Andrea Boudewijn…

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    We reached out to you recently for guest blogger submissions and received many great stories about how you use your favorite crafting essentials. We’re thrilled to introduce our first guest blogger, Andrea Boudewijn, whose creative inspiration is simply delicious! Here’s her story: Hi PS…

  • Paper Source Family Fun Day – May 15

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    We never tire of hearing the line “We love your store!” Now you might expect this from our many brides and our wonderful following of designers and bookbinders, but the crowd we are both surprised and delighted to hear this from are kids! Our store associates can’t help but smile…

  • Coordinating cards make a perfect package

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    I pride myself on sending the perfect card for every occasion. I’ve collected cards over the years so I have plenty at hand. But sometimes I just can’t find the right one, so I make my own. What I thought would be perfect for this little package is a coordinating birthday card using the…

  • Kool handmade booklets!

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    …great for keeping track of projects, to give as gifts, even use as event programs. We love making them so much ourselves that we decided this would make a fantastic workshop. They’re so simple and can be made using a few different stitches in a vertical or... The post Kool handmade booklets!…

  • How-to: colorful birthday banner

    Meg Kowieski

    …Paper Source headquarters, here in Chicago, the winters are long and a bit bleak. So, a little color is always welcome. For one of the first birthdays of the year we created a colorful banner – Estela was so surprised to get her very own rainbow birthday banner! This was created by simply…

  • Holiday Cards & Tags – inspiring creative workshop TODAY!

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    Our customers have been raving about our most recent Holiday Card Making event, so we added another to the schedule to keep the inspiration coming! Trust me when I say that this October 21st class should bring your holiday greetings to life. You will get to play with some of our new products…

  • A lovely companion to a wedding guestbook

    Meg Kowieski

    It’s so much fun for us to find good ideas using Paper Source wedding products (things we had not thought of)! This bride, featured on marthastewartweddings.com had a very clever use for our Academic Grid Calendar. Enjoying sending birthday cards to friends and family, she asked that her wedding…

  • Creative gift card wrapping

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    …of finding something that fits the recipient’s interests, something they would not expect you to know. I revel in the surprise of giving something so perfectly them. With this also comes an aversion to gift cards. But two of the most creative people I know are tying the... The post Creative gift…

  • Guest blogger: Maria Kanakis

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    …on a search to find boxes to package my handmade stationery. I searched high and low, but boxes just didn’t seem to come in the size I wanted. I was so desperate that I came close to paying a ridiculous price to have some boxes shipped from Asia, but... The post Guest blogger: Maria Kanakis appeared…

  • Mallaree finds the perfect wedding place cards

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    …might have made the Brookline staff a little deaf.) My fiancé has had a slight obsession with squirrels since he was little (or maybe I have the obsession with his obsession?), so I thought how adorable... The post Mallaree finds the perfect wedding place cards appeared first on Paper Source Blog.

  • How-to: customized cubbie

    Meg Kowieski

    We love how our wall bulletin organizer dressed up our work space so much that we created a coordinating cubbie to hold pens, notes and of course, our PS Swatchbook. Follow our steps to create a desk organizer of any size, and cover it in your favorite wrapping paper. A great back to school craft...…

  • Inspired design: marigolds wrapping paper

    Meg Kowieski

    …for Paper Source designs. For me, having a strong idea and concept make the designs more thoughtful, and more compelling; it should be meaningful. So for our new Marigolds Wrapping Paper, I had quite the stack of collected photos! Created and... The post Inspired design: marigolds wrapping paper…

  • Welcome to the family Peacock, Persimmon & Sunshine!

    Meg Kowieski

    We are just so thrilled to show off our three new colors (well, four when you include beloved Paper Bag from earlier this year!). Selecting new colors for Paper Source is a lot of fun, but a big responsibility. In order to make one new color, we have to commit to 10,000 pounds of paper.... The post…

  • Rubber stamping with powdered sugar

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    One of the most stylish gals I have ever met is getting married in June, so it was not surprising to receive a gorgeous peacock-inspired wedding invitation, which set the tone for what is sure to be a beautiful night in the Virgin Islands. There was also no surprise in discovering that the blues…

  • Paper wall art

    Meg Kowieski

    My dad is a pretty handy guy, and so growing up, I was always encouraged to build, tinker and create. I remember as a little kid I was always outside in the tool shed with dad (yep, I was a daddy’s girl!) while he was working. Sometimes he’d give me a piece of wood, a... The post Paper wall art…

  • New Silhouette SD Digital Cutting Tool

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    I love, love, love playing with new crafting tools and am so excited that we now carry one of my absolute favorites – the Silhouette SD Digital Cutting Tool. It’s similar to a printer in shape & size and connects to your computer, but instead of printing images, it uses a tiny blade to…

  • Smiling faces from our Wedding Suites workshop

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    It was so interesting to see what all of the couples – the brides, along with their entourage – created at last week’s Wedding Suites workshop. At our River North store in Chicago we had some really fun folks join us for an evening built around learning DIY basics for creating…

  • How to bake a paper wedding cake

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    Here at the Charlotte store we were so inspired by this year’s Paper Wedding and the pictures of cakes featured on our sample invitation wall, we decided to put our culinary talents to the test and create a paper wedding cake! The best part — going shopping and finding all the…

  • PS Real Weddings: Laurel

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    We were so excited when our Atlanta store manager, Carol, shared this wonderful wedding invitation with us. Her customer, Laurel, a Graphic Designer from that area, put this clever, colorful invitation suite together for her wedding in Vegas! Here’s her real wedding story: When Brayden (a Las Vegas…

  • Hand-stitched with love

    Meg Kowieski

    …look at how we created the cover of our most recent Paper Source catalog. Valentine’s Day is all about taking the time to show love, so we really wanted something handmade on our Valentine’s Day catalog cover. What we came up with was simple and lovely – a paper heart…

  • How to make envelope liners

    Meg Kowieski

    For those of you who have tried it, you know, lining envelopes are oh, so satisfying! It’s an easy, instant upgrade to wedding invitations, stationery, and greeting cards, and even if you claim you’re not crafty, you will be able to do this. You can use almost any paper imaginable to make envelopes…

  • Letterpress Machine…tell me more!

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    …is undeniably special and luscious. This print method originated in the 15th century and is known for its timeless beauty and rich, tactile feel. Type and image are impressed into the paper through the pressure of a clam-shell-like printing press, resulting in a luxuriously textured imprinted…

  • How-to: paper doll pool party invitations

    Meg Kowieski

    Dress up our oh-so-sweet paper dolls and turn them into adorable party invitations for a child’s birthday or even your BFF’s bachelorette shower. Ours is going to a pool party sporting the latest in pool safety with her very own inner tube. To create this accessory, slice a curved line…

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