From the Shop Friday : Destination Wedding Invites

September 03, 2010 // kristen // 2 replies

The collaboration between Hello! Lucky and Lab Partners has produced some fantastic destination wedding invitations ( and some pretty cool greeting cards, too). Wedding locales lucky enough to be included in the collection are New York, San Francisco, London, Hawaii, and four recently added destinations: Chicago, Paris, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. The new designs have the same awesome retro modern flavor as the previous designs in the collection, and each suite features really cool illustrations representing the suite’s corresponding city … in Lab Partners’ trademark style, of course!

Above, clockwise from top left: Chicago Destination Wedding Invitations, Paris Destination Wedding Invitations, Las Vegas Destination Wedding Invitations, and Los Angeles Destination Wedding Invitations. Each suite is available digitally printed or letterpress printed.

From the Shop Friday : Halloween Paper Punches

August 27, 2010 // kristen // 1 replies

Paper craft punches have come a long way over the past few years, and the partnership between Martha Stewart Crafts and EK Success has produced some of the most innovative paper punches around. The depth and detail are amazing, and there are even punches now that combine die-cutting and embossing or die-cutting and stamping. It’s really an exciting time if you’re a paper punch addict like I am.

These are some of the cool Martha Stewart Crafts Halloween around the page punch sets that have recently been released. The corner and edge punch combo means that you can create seamless edges the entire way around handmade cards, invites, party menus, and other Halloween-y paper crafts. Pretty neat, huh?

Shown above, from top to bottom: Spiderweb Punch Around the Page Set, Halloween Ghosts Punch Around the Page Set, and Cracks Punch Around the Page Set.

From the Shop Friday : Minted Birth Announcements

August 20, 2010 // kristen // 0 replies

Between yesterday’s post on those fantastic baby congratulations cards by The Social Type and the addition of several pretty birth announcements from Minted to the Paper Crave shop, it’s turned out to be a quite fitting end of the week because I became an aunt again yesterday! Congratulations to my sister and her husband, who became the parents of Isabella Marie yesterday at 7:32am. She’s a little beauty!

As mentioned, I added several birth announcements from Minted to the shop this week, and Minted is currently having a pretty great sale on kids birthday invitations, baby shower invitations, and birth announcements. Save 15% on your order through the end of August with the code SUMMER15.

Above, clockwise, from top left: Tallulah Birth Announcements by Guess What?, Mod Quilt Birth Announcements by Potts Design, Naomi Birth Announcements by Alex Elko Design, and Spring Luxe Birth Announcements by Letters by Lauren.

P.S. I’ve added a couple of new doodads to the site this week. Every post now has a Facebook Like Button and a Tweet button (have a look below to see), so it’s easier to share the paper goodies that catch your eye.

images from Minted

From the Shop Friday : New Cosmo Cricket

August 13, 2010 // kristen // 0 replies

Cosmo Cricket is one of my favorite scrapbook companies, and I always look forward to their new collections because they do oh so cute, retro-inspired pattern and illustration so well. I’ve been on the hunt for cool Halloween scrapbook collections lately, too, so I was jazzed to see their new Matilda mini collection, which is probably my favorite of their new lines … well, there’s another favorite, but I’m saving that for a post next week. Stay tuned!

Above, clockwise, from top left: Cosmo Cricket Matilda Ready Set Chipboard, Cosmo Cricket Matilda Mini Deck, Cosmo Cricket Wanted Mini Deck, and Cosmo Cricket Pixie-licious Mini Deck.

From the Shop Friday : Halloween Prep

August 06, 2010 // kristen // 0 replies

From the Shop Fridays is a new feature that I’m introducing on Paper Crave, and I’m excited to bring you the first installment today! Every Friday, I’ll be featuring some of the new products that I’ve added to the Paper Crave shop during the week. Hope you enjoy!

This week, I’m all about the Halloween paper crafts. I know it’s still pretty early, but every year I have big plans for Halloween, and every year it seems that I just run out of time. So, this year I’m getting an early start and am adding lots of fun new Halloween goodies from Martha Stewart Crafts. If there’s one thing I know it’s that I’m getting the glow-in-the-dark glitter! I don’t know what I’m going to use it for yet, but I know that I must have it.