From the yearly archives:
It is always an honour being asked to create a dear friend’s invite! The Brief – Simple The Style – Elegant! The Paper – Henna Pink 176 gsm board (on sale http://bit.ly/bEl0zQ) The Method: 1. cut the a4 paper in half so that each piece is 21 x 14.8 cm 2. to print: – [...]
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Adding your own personal touch is super easy with SoHo products. They are covered in paper so sticking labels, shapes, fabric, paper cut outs is easy and l will last! Last week I added a Social Media Women logo to A4 and A5 notebooks for my co-founder Catriona Pollard and had such a great reaction from our online [...]
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The challenge every year is to come up with a unique card – she’s a really special Mum so the pressure is on!! Colour – is easy, she loves purple in all its shades!! Inspiration- we have great shapes in our range and what says ‘I Love You’ more than a heart right?? Tools [...]
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SEND THE LOVE TIP! In the same way that we will send an SMS when we think of something someone would like to know or take a pic on our phone and post it immediately online, it is nice to send a little note or long letter to the people we love and cherish when they pop into our thoughts, at [...]
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Regular visitors to our blog know that I am the BIGGEST advocate of the handwritten note! With notes and hand-written letters increasing in popularity, we were very happy to showcase our ranges when John Mangila called looking for products for a stationery feature in Home Beautiful. Our Scallopped flat cards and BlueChoc border flat cards [...]
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Need to make a special something to decorate the front of our trestle @ the PYD Design Markets this weekend. Paper & Flowers being amongst my favourite things I thought I would combine them! Pretty non? Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin Share on Posterous share [...]
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@ #nscm, I was so happy to see that the tech savvy Kristin Rohan @kristinrohan and my WordPress master Tony Cosentino @justbecos actually use a notebook and pen as well as their funky little gadgets!! That’s Tony’s moleskin in the background! There’s nothing like bits of appers and intersting info re-discovered as you flick thru [...]
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French design brand, Le The Des Ecrivains are renowned for their flair and focus on the aesthetic aspect of a product. Le The is now moving into large installation pieces, however, we have the last of their gorgeous journal and accessory range. One of my favourite products is the ‘Attaches’ = clips! They can [...]
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Get Creative Magazine is a great magazine for craft-lovers who want to create elegant, stylish clothes, accessories, gifts, invites etc. The magazine is packed with fun and practical projects, information and features passionate creatives – like us!! Nancy and Paper Magnolia are featured in this month’s 5th Birthday issue ( October 2009). We nominated one [...]
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Thank You Country Home Ideas for featuring our own Be Social Stationery sets! The wonderful magazine’s support is very appreciated. Stationery is no longer a luxury! In this day and age, we are finding that most people (yes, men AND women) have stationery on hand. People are seeking personal contact and valuing the time [...]
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Our favourite wedding magazine, Real Weddings has featured the Kolo Vineyard and Matchbook albums. These paper albums are a great guest gift or part of a table setting so guests can leave personalised messages and polaroids! The Kolo Vineyard is now available in two sizes: the original 5″ x 7″ and the new 7″ x [...]
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We love it when magazines feature our products! This month Modern Home has featured our Coco Flamingo scalloped note cards and notebooks. We are always trying to promote stationery as a great gift that you can personalise to the style and tastes of the lucky receiver. We all need writing paper and notecards on [...]
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The team @ Country Home Ideas has showcased our shaped and scallopped cards: To view the range of cards, please visit http://www.papermagnolia.com/. As you know we are updating our website, so please bear with what is up now! here’s a teaser…. visit the magazine’s website @ http://www.countryhomeideas.com.au/p/magazine cheers! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend [...]
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We are lucky to be working with some of Australia’s best paper specialists and invitation artisans! Once of these specialists is Melita, owner of Invitations by Melita in Fyshwick ACT. The business flourished after 2 years as part of Fyshwick Newsagency. Melita wanted to create a paper sanctuary for brides, part-organisers and paper lovers [...]
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Papier D’Amour created these amazing cranes from Paperado 100 gsm paper. The gorgeous windo was created by Phoebe Gazal and her team using Rosso and Karbic from the extensive Paperado paper wall. The Paperado range is a collection of papers, cards and tissue-lined envelopes in 20 colours. From A4 paper & board to tiny 8.1 [...]
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Our Nappy Cards were in the Sunday Telegraph in the ‘babies’ section!! These cards are soooo cute and fold out like a real nappy and the paper pin keeps it done up. Check out the assorted designs http://www.papermagnolia.com/ then click NEW. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook [...]
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When we moved to our new studio, we were so excited about our gorgeous windows!! So much light, sun and heat….yes heat! So we thought we would create curtains with a difference rather than have ordinary boring curtains. Using fabulous 10cm thick printed grosgrain ribbon, we stitched them in the centre of each strip, [...]
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Yeah to ‘S’ in the Sun Herald (19 April 2009) for giving a thumbs down to emailed invitations! This is truly one of my pet peeves!! Invitations don’t need to be fancy or overdone but they should not be on email or sms either!! If you are like me, you get hundreds of emails [...]
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The Challenge – red + weddings The Element – 2-tone red flowers created using Paperado paper The Result – co-ordinating album and invitation The Method – using tones of red, little cutters, Kolo tape gun and a little imagination! I am not a believer that everything has to be EXACTLY matching [...]
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Social Media Women Social Media Women is a group that has been established to give women a voice in all areas of social media. Women want inspiration and collaboration, support and confidence. They don’t want self proclaimed social media guru’s pushing them to the sidelines. Social media comes naturally to women. We are networkers, nurturers, [...]
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