Gorgeous Invites – Easy!

by Nancy Georges on June 26, 2010

 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: – set you paper size 14.8 cm wide x 21 cm high
                       - set the bottom margin to 2 cm and all others to 1cm
                       – set your text & add a feature line on the bottom of the page 
                       – test print on a plain piece of paper
                       - print on the blank side

3. when you have printed the sheet – cut 1cm off the bottom
                          (so it fits into the envelope)

4. short fold so you can see the feature text on the bottom
  You’re done!!

 

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Personalising is EASY!!

by Nancy Georges on June 17, 2010

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 community I thought I would share some more things I have done: 

The Address Books needed a little something something – so i cut out some retro flowers and layered them and stuck them down.  This is a really gorgeous idea for a gift, you can choose themes and colours that the receiver loves! 

There are Corporate applications too! Once upon a time not so long ago, you had to order a lot of one item to have your logo or name on it – not any more!! You can customise one item. 

Adding a project title or business name to a folder and notebook is as easy as grabbing some good double sided tape.  

 

For Social Media Women, I created a folder, a photobox (for business cards and tickets for our lucky door prize) and the notebooks: 

 

  

   

 

Chocolate is such a luscious colour, and I wanted to give it some olde worlde charm so created these torn-edge labels for the notebook and rounded spine folder. 

 

 

  

You can find more information on our SOHO range here.

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SAVE TIME WITHOUT SACRIFICING THE INTENTION!!

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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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AS SEEN IN: Be Social notecards in Home Beautiful Nov ’09

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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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Paper Flower Garland for the PYD Design Markets

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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? Share on Facebook

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techies still use paper & pens!

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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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Paper Clip Embellishments

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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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AS SEEN IN: Get Creative Magazine

March 7, 2010

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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AS SEEN IN: Country Home Ideas Magazine

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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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AS SEEN IN: Real Weddings Magazine

March 7, 2010

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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