Paper Finds

• Navy Blue Stipes Calling Cards (get a load of the stitching!)
• Cupcake Card Flag
• Lumberjack Calling Cards (loooove these and I think the owner knows how I feel about them)

Pictured above are some of my favorites from the amazing Ready Go Paper Studio - I love saying the name, by the way. Makes me think of a catchy cool ’80s-esque song and it now makes me think I should quit going off weird tangents.

If I haven’t already featured Ready Go Paper Studio on my blog, then shame on me and damn me to paper purgatory (I wouldn’t dare damn myself to paper hell, because paper burns pretty easily in fire and all that would be left are ashes and whoa I’m going off an a hellish tangent).

Ready, set, go. Visit Ready Go Paper Studio. Do it. And do it now!

This week’s shop feature is The Paper Apartment, a lovely shop on etsy by the talented artist and craftsperson Angela Stasio from Boston, Massachusetts. If I could describe Angela’s shop in one word it would probably have to be delicate. I’d expect to find her products at a high-end boutique or sold at a store like Anthropologie.

Read more about Angela Stasio and her shop here.

Items featured in the photo above:

• lucky feather - made from 100% recycled chipboard
• buttons notebook
• floral burst note set

Stay Connected with The Paper Apartment

1. shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/ThePaperApartment
2. blog: http://thepaperapartment.blogspot.com
3. flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/thepaperapartment

Summer’s mere days away and that means trips to the beach, lake, pool, pretty much anything with water. And now for a roundup of dollars of sand, or sand dollars:

1. foil stamped notecard - by letter c design
2. flat note stationery - by pink bathtub designs
3. decorative paper sheets - by trycka accents
4. cardstock punch cutouts - by by katrin chen

As of late, I’ve been obsessed with thumbing through treasuries on etsy. I decided to create my first one called anchors aweigh. Feel free to have at it!

Roundup from the ground up. Check out these wonderfully dainty poppy cards:

1. poppies, mini cards - set of 6 by kristin sanchez on etsy
2. modern poppy flat notecards - set of 8 (includes 8 orange envelopes, too) by poppy papers on etsy
3. yellow poppy blank notecards - set of 6 by just another day designs on etsy
4. best wishes poppy flower card - 1 heavy weight card (envelope included) with 3D poppy flower by able mabel on etsy
5. ochre poppies letterpress stationery - set of 5 by satsuma press on etsy

I know swallows are native to San Juan Capistrano in Southern California, where each year they return and the city blocks of several streets only to have crowds and crowds of people smelling like horse poop. I’m not certain if swallows fly over Vancouver, but this one certainly does.

Swallow over Vancouver pendant by bethtastic on etsy.