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Nature’s Noel: NEW Holiday Jumpstart Kit

Holiday Jumpstart: Nature’s Noel is Paper Anthology’s newest holiday card kit, which features Stampendous’ beautiful flowers, vases and chickadees pre-stamped for you to color.

Paper Anthology’s Holiday Jumpstart Card Kit is our pre-packaged kit that includes everything you need (except coloring media and adhesive) to complete FIVE copies of this new original holiday card design. This edition is called “Nature’s Noel” based on the card’s beautiful florals and the coordinating sentiment.

Don’t we all adore the IDEA of making holiday cards throughout the year, instead being overloaded in November and December? But sometimes it’s hard to be inspired during the “off-season”. This pre-packaged kit features everything you need (except coloring media and adhesive) to complete five beautiful, detailed and colorful cards, including complete written instructions (not pictured, but included!) and a nice big photo for reference.

(Please note that the images in the kit were stamped with Ranger’s Jet Black Archival ink, which is an alcohol-based ink formula. Thus, it’s recommended to color with water-based markers or colored pencils, or BOTH! Using alcohol-ink markers like Copics or Spectrum Noir may result in the black stamped images smearing.)

This kit contains:

Five pre-stamped vases for you to color
Five pre-stamped flower clusters for you to color
Five pre-stamped chickadees for you to color
Five pre-diecut scalloped lacy patterned paper mats
Five pre-diecut green “Noel” sentiments
Complete step-by-step instruction sheet with large color photo
Coloring key listing Tombow Dual Bush Pen shades used in samples
Five grocer’s kraft A2 cards

CLICK HERE to find Holiday Jumpstart: Nature’s Noel in the Paper Anthology Design Etsy Shop

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SALE: Thursday thru Saturday!

We’re transitioning from Autumn to Winter and the deals are un-be-LEAF-able!*

All Fall, Thanksgiving and Halloween items: 40% off

Ribbon: Buy 1 yard, Get 1 free

Gelatos and Sprays 30% off

Karin Markers and Tombow Dual Brush Pens: 25% off

This sale runs from Thursday, December 7th through Saturday, December 9th and is in-store only. We’re open Thursday and Friday evening from 5-9pm and Saturday from 10am to 5pm. Stop by and say hi… then RAKE IN* your Autumnal Savings!

(Yes, Lauren writes these things without supervision, so there WILL be Diabolical Puns!) :)

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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.

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3-11-23: Make and Take Saturday

This gorgeous card will be our FREE Make and Take at Paper Anthology, this coming Saturday, March 11, 2023. Stop by any time during opening hours (10am to 5pm) and learn how to blend Tombow Dual Brush Pens directly on Penny Black’s beautiful “The Unfolding” stamp, add a Hero Arts sentiment, and set the whole thing off with Honey Bee’s brand new Wood Frame Builder… a super-cool die set we can’t wait to show off.

Bag ladies, be sure to bring your bags for double punches. Not a Bag Lady? Purchase one of our stylish and practical Paper Anthology Bag Lady Jute Totes and you’re automatically qualified!

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NEW Class in a Kit!

Lots of Love is Paper Anthology’s newest Class in a Kit. With it, you’ll make a lovely, botanically themed, three card set featuring images from LDRS Designs, Taylored Expressions and Gerda Steiner Designs, stamped on Northwoods watercolor paper and colored with Tombow Dual Brush Pens, or your favorite coloring medium. Full step by step instructions with color photos are included. The price is $22, just click the link to go to the Lots of Love product page.

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Take and Make Saturday

Stop by Paper Anthology this Saturday, June 5, 2021, for your free card kit. We’ll also have double punches for bag ladies, as well as 20% off all Stampendous stamps and Tombow markers; plus… we’d love to see your face in the place!

Take and Make card features Stampendous Blue Poppies Stamp Set, watercolored with Tombow Dual Brush Pens; medallion is cut with Pink Fresh Studio Essentials Braided Circles Dies, a set that is extremely versatile, take a look at the samples on the product page!

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Happy Easter

This beautiful card features an image, sentiment and die from Taylored Expressions Cottontail Wishes Stamp and Die Combo, which cleverly includes five other, non-seasonal greetings (Miss You, Happy Everything, Hello There, Celebrating You and Welcome Little One) so that you can use it all through the year, for everything from birthdays to babies to “just because” cards! The sweet bunny was stamped on Northwoods Watercolor Paper (not available online, but there’s plenty in stock!) and watercolored with Tombow Dual Brush Pens (we’ve got 101 colors!). The sentiment was stamped separately and diecut with Penny Black Ribbon Stackers.

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Flowers in February

We won’t be seeing flowers in our gardens for a bit yet, alas, but we can see them in our craft rooms right now! Thanks to Taylored Expressions Sketchbook Florals Stamps and Dies.

These cards were made by stamping the Sketchbook Florals on Northwoods Watercolor Paper, then colored using Tombow Dual Brush Pens and a waterbrush to get the soft, ethereal look of a watercolor painting.

The Sketchbook Florals set has useful sentiments in typewriter + script fonts, which work beautifully on their own; but also pair well with Taylored Expressions Field Notes Stamp Set, which contains the dotted grid and interlocking diamonds. Other items featured here include Taylored Expressions’ Gingham Check Background and Rough Draft graph, as well as Penny Black’s super-useful Antique Frame nested die set.

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Driving Home for the Holidays

Leave it to Lawn Fawn: not only did they make an adorable set called Car Critters, which features bears who drive; they also configured it to work with the Reveal Wheel system courtesy of a windshield-shaped Reveal Wheel Add-On Die. And then… they made a Christmas Add-On Stamp Set with super-cute reindeer at the wheel!

Lauren used the MISTI to position and stamp all of the images on one layer of card stock. First the car, then the deer, then the antlers. Each element was given a “basecoat” of its lightest color with Tombow Dual Brush Pens, and shading added with colored pencils. There are, of course, coordinating Christmas Car Critter Dies, but in this case the image was fussycut right at the outlines.

Lauren used older dies, punches and patterned paper to make a landscape, but there are lots of options for making a scene, like Dare 2B Artzy’s Curve Slimline Border Dies which has several styles of hills, plus clouds and more; Sunny Studios’ Comic Strip Everyday Die Set, Taylored Expressions’ Grassy Hills or Hero Arts’ Winter Pines. Or pair up with other Lawn Fawn sets, such as All the Clouds, Snow Globe Scenes, Meadow Backdrop. Alternatively, you could choose the low-maintenance option of landscape-inspired pattered paper like Dare 2B Artzy’s Snow Much Fun or Ciao Bella’s Northern Lights.

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Yeti or Not

Taylored Expressions’ Mythical Grumplings are not yet the official mascot of 2020, but maybe they should be? Somewhat improbable, distinctly irritable, and it’s hard not to be just a tiny bit worried about what they might be planning next. On the other hand LOOK. HOW. CUTE! This card by Lauren Bergold is stamped in Ranger Archival Ink, colored with Tombow Dual Brush Pens and shaded with Polychromos Pencils from Faber-Castell.