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New Class: Who’s The BOSS?

Want to learn how to emboss like a boss? Join Elisabeth for this three card class featuring Altenew 3D Embossing Folders. We’ll learn some wonderful tips and tricks… and just for fun, we’ll throw in a bit of heat embossing as well!  

Dates Available: Thursday, January 11th: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm; Friday, January 26th: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm; Saturday, February 3rd: 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm. Cost is $24 payable by cash or check only. Email elisabeth@paperanthology.com to reserve your spot, today!

Students are requested to bring your basic class kit with all the usual adhesives, as well as a pair of detail scissors for a bit of fussy cutting.

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First Crop & Shop of 2024: January 2nd

Take your TO-DO list one step closer to DONE! Tuesday, January 2, 2024 from 10am to 4pm, is the first New Year installment of Betty’s Crop and Shop at Paper Anthology.

Make your Tuesday more productive! Come on in to the store on Tuesday (1-2-24) from 10am to 4pm for freestyle papercrafting, without interruptions! Come alone, or meet up with friends. Bring the project you’ve been meaning to complete; or just grab your basic kit and treat yourself to a few new goodies. Spread out on one of the big tables, help yourself to tea or coffee, check out all of our beautiful samples for inspiration. Stay for a few hours or hang out until 4pm.

Reservations are required, and the cost is $10 per person. Please email elisabeth@paperanthology to reserve your place. Crop and Shop generally takes place every other Tuesday; but check the Events Calendar, or stay tuned for announcements of additional Tuesday Crop and Shop dates in 2024.

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Year-End Sale + Make and Take Saturday

It’s an Almost New Year SALE-a-bration! Shop this Thursday through Saturday, December 28-30th for these special end-of-2023 savings:

All Christmas Items: 40% off

All Fall, Thanksgiving and Halloween Items: 50% off

All Wood Mounted Stamps: 50% off

All Ink Pads: Buy 2, Get 1 FREE

All Stencils: 25% off

Polychromos Pencils and Tombow Markers: Buy 3, Get 1 FREE

There will be a FREE GIFT for all Bag Ladies who bring their bags, all three days of the sale! This sale is in-store on; punch cards do not apply to sale merchandise.

For extra festive fun, stop by on Saturday, December 30th for a frosty, inky, amazing Make and Take that’s SNOW much fun! As always, Paper Anthology Make and Takes are absolutely free and everyone is invited to stop by and partake, no purchase necessary.

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, Wesołych Swiąt, Feliz Navidad, Buon Natale, Joyeux Noel, God Jul, Fröhliche Weihnacht, or in whatever language you say it… the entire Paper Anthology family wishes you the happiest and healthiest of holidays!

The store will re-open on Thursday and Friday evening with regular hours (6-9pm) and if you can possibly plan to stop by on Saturday, December 30th between 10am and 5pm, we highly recommend the trip! (Spoiler Alert: we have something FUN planned for that day!)

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Last Crop & Shop of 2023!

Is there a secret holiday project you’re having trouble finishing at home? Work on it a Paper Anthology with no spoiler alerts necessary! Bring unwrapped gifts and rolls of paper to get those babies wrapped; or grab your finished cards and address book and be one step closer to Postal-ready. Spread out on one of the big tables, help yourself to tea or coffee, and get on with making those lists and checking them twice. Stay for a few hours or hang out until 4pm. Come alone, or meet up with friends. The next installment of Betty’s Crop and Shop (last of the year!) will take place on Tuesday, December 19th, from 10am to 4pm .

Reservations are required, and the cost is $10 per person. Please email elisabeth@paperanthology to reserve your place. Crop and Shop generally takes place every other Tuesday; but check the Events Calendar, or stay tuned for announcements of additional Tuesday Crop and Shop dates in 2024!

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Holiday Card Swap Cards are Ready!

Paper Anthology’s 2023 crew of Holiday Card Swap participants have truly outdone themselves and produced the most gorgeous batch of swap cards ever!* If you’re amongst this elite group of papercrafters, your Swap Cards are ready to collect and you can pick them up at the store anytime! Why not come tonight (Friday 12/8 from 5-9pm) or tomorrow (Saturday 12/9 from 10am to 5pm) and shop the All Fall Sale, during which (as the name implies) ALL Fall, Halloween and Thanksgiving items are 40% off and there are lots more things included. Scroll down to the SALE POST for all the details.

In addition, lots of amazing new Altenew 3D Embossing Folders have just arrived (…could there be a class with them coming soon…?); and we’ve restocked Spellbinders’ super-popular SEALED Collection as well as adding new wax colors seals and dies. While you’re in the store be sure to ask Elisabeth to demo her new FAVORITE tool from We R Memory Keepers… trust us… you NEED one! ;)

*Ok, yes, we DO say that every year and yet every year it’s TRUE!!! You guys just get better and better! ♥

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Last Holiday Jumpstart Kit of 2023!

December’s Holiday Jumpstart Card Kit is our pre-packaged kit that includes everything you need (except adhesives) to complete FIVE copies of this new original holiday card design. It’s called “Wooded Wonderland” since it features this lovely forest scene built using Memory Box, Spellbinders, Sunny Studio and Taylored Expressions dies. This kit is available in-store and online for $24. Locals, be sure to choose the “PICK UP IN STORE” option at checkout to save on shipping and we’ll keep it behind the counter until you’ve got time to pick it up.

This kit is slightly less of a “Jumpstart” as we move into December, but if you’re still working on holiday cards, you may appreciate having five more that just need simple assembly. This will be the last Holiday Jumpstart Kit of 2023, but don’t worry, we’ll be back with brand new variations starting in January of 2024!

This pre-packaged kit features everything you need (except adhesives) to complete five beautiful, shimmery Wooded Wonderland cards, including complete written instructions and a nice big photo for reference.

This kit contains:

  • Five pre-cut and corner-embellished creamy Lawn Fawn Knit Picky patterned paper panels
  • Five pre-diecut green Lawn Fawn Spiffier Speckles arched pieces (with gold metallic detail!)
  • Five pre-diecut Memory Box Winter Wood diecuts
  • Five pre-diecut Memory Box Deer Trios
  • Five glittery sage green “Noel” sentiments
  • Fifteen ivory shimmer snowflakes
  • Complete step-by-step instruction sheet
  • Five top-fold kraft A2 cards
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New Class: Winter Wishes

Join Lauren for a three-card class that’s SNOW much fun! Inspired by the soft dreamy palette of Echo Park’s Winter Land collection, these cards feature a little embossing, a little stenciling, some torn layers, a bit of fussy-cutting and LOTS of seasonal diecuts from Taylored Expressions, Memory Box and Sunny Studio; with sentiments from Stampendous

Dates available: Monday, December 4th from 11am – 2 pm; Tuesday, December 12th from 6 pm – 9 pm; or Saturday, December 16th from 12 pm – 3 pm. The cost is $24 and payable by cash or check only. Email elisabeth@paperanthology.com to reserve your spot today!

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Raffle Winners & Important Email Check

First off, a big shout out to everyone who helped make our Gala 12th Anniversary weekend the best yet! It was wonderful to see so many old friends and meet some new ones, as well! If you’re reading this via the email that automatically sends when we publish a blog post, then HOORAY, you needn’t do anything else, g’head and skip to the Winners list from the Anniversary Party Raffle, directly below!

If you’re a blog subscriber BUT you’re reading this because you saw the link on FaceBook or Instagram, please check your junk mail folder for today’s email with the subject line, “Raffle Winners & Important Email Check“. If it’s there, again, HOORAY; you can skip down to the winners.

If you’re a blog subscriber BUT DID NOT GET today’s email with the subject line, “Raffle Winners & Important Email Check” there’s a chance that your email accidentally got dropped due to a glitch with the subscriber list, apologies! All you have to do to correct that omission is email elisabeth@paperanthology.com from the email address where you’d like to receive our news, and put “Blog Subscriber” in the subject line, you’ll be added back in immediately and you’ll be all set to get an email each time we add new classes, hold sales or special events, announce weather-related cancellations, and post Raffle Winners, as we’re about to do right now!

ANNIVERSARY PARTY RAFLLE WINNERS:

1. Jessica Lamb

2. Julianna Weiss

3. Barbara Dondero

4. Margaret Tresca

5.  Belinda Moore

Congratulations ladies, your prizes await you at Paper Anthology, stop by anytime to pick them up!

*Please note that we NEVER sell or share anyone’s email address and we only send emails when there is something cool, interesting or important for you to know; so if you haven’t subscribed to our blog in the past, this might be an excellent time to do so! Just send an email to elisabeth@paperanthology.com with “Blog Subscriber” in the subject line!

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Art Impressions Watercolor Wonders: New Class!

Join Elisabeth for this three-card class featuring the beautiful Watercolor series of stamps from Art Impressions.  A unique way of stamping that results in a gorgeous hand-drawn watercolor look, and fun scene building possibilities.  Tombow Dual Brush Pens provide the color, YOU provide the creativity!

Please bring your basic class kit with all the usual adhesives, as well as a watercolor brush. (Not the kind you fill with water, but a plain brush – #4 round is ideal!) 

Email elisabeth@paperanthology.com to reserve your spot! Cost is $24 payable by cash or check only. Dates Available: Saturday, December 2nd: 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm; Thursday, December 7th: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm; Friday, December 15th: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm.

There are still spots available in all three sessions of Elisabeth’s beautiful Hero Holidays class, for which the dates include Friday, December 1st: 6pm – 9 pm; Saturday, December 9th: 12pm- 3 pm or Thursday, December 14th: 6pm – 9pm. The cost is $28 payable by cash or check only. Email elisabeth@paperanthology.com to reserve a place today!

We also have a limited number of Class in a Kits from Lauren’s three-card Paper Pieced Posies class, which you can purchase online or in-store for $24. All Class in a Kit selections come with everything you need to make the featured cards as well as complete step-by-step instructions and a nice big full-color photo for reference.