New Holiday Cards! yes... FINALLY!!

New Holiday Cards are up! 19 new cards and a few more being added today! Check them out!

10% off Holiday Card orders placed in October!!

As always, colors, fonts, wording and layouts can all be changed!

Have you Moved? or having a baby? You can combine your Moved or Baby Announcements with your Holiday Card....email me for a custom order!

See the latest Princess of Paper mail out!

Happy Monday!

GEAUX SAINTS!

Black and Gold Baby!

Show us your life - Show us what you make!

Hello and Welcome to all of you from Kelly's Korner!

Today, I participating in Show us your life Friday's and today's theme is show us what you make! Well Ladies, I make Stationery! I design all my own designs from my own drawings. I started in 2003 with a few designs and just calling cards and now I do Holiday Cards, Plate and Bowl sets, address stampers, notepads and much more!

You can read all about how I started here!

Please let me know if there is anything I can design for you! If you order this week (October 16 till October 23rd) received 10% when you mention you came from Kelly's Korner!

Also, order your Holiday Photo Cards in October and receive 10% of your cards!

(card discount and Kelly's Korner discount cannot be used on the same order)

Check out my Stella and Dot Jewelry Site & Blog too!!

Happy Shopping!

New Address Stampers

I just added a few new address stampers to Princess of Paper. I am also working on some more holiday stampers, both round and square sizes.

These address stampers make great Holiday presents for any relative and for that extra special teacher!

Round Stampers - $26

Square Stampers - $32

Stampers take 2 weeks of production time, so order early!!

Ink color choices are: Black, Blue, Brown , Red, Orange, Yellow, Pink & Purple

Platters and Trays

Just a few new Platters and Trays I have done recently.... I can add any graphic and any BACKGROUND! I can also customize the platters and trays for ANY team or match any occasion or event! They also can be personalized!

Check them out!

Platters and Trays are $30 each. Email me if you have any questions!

LSU Platters & Tray Designs


Saints Platters & Tray Designs


Tennis Platter and Tray Designs


Christmas Platter and Tray Designs

from drawing to final...

I just finished this little guy today.... isn't he fun!! As I was closing the file and looking at all the steps I took to design him, I thought it would be fun to share!

I think I drew this little speed Racer back in April.... I draw a lot of things on paper first and then scan them into my drawing programs. My original drawing is Step 1. Pencil on paper.... back to basics!

I then do a quick sketch of it on my computer and fill it in with color to test if I will like how it will come out. That is Step 2. My drawing software makes that step easy....it traces my pencil lines and re-draws it for me. The result is a very quick, almost messy, thick line drawing.

But that look just isn't my style. So when I am confident with the design and I know what changes I want to make to my original, I get my handy dandy stylus and pad out. I then cleanly redraw the design, this time straight in my drawing software. This is always the final drawing. From here I can adjust curves and proportions. As you can see in Step 3 that the black bounding lines are clean and uniform. Voila! Ready to be put on anything! In this case, I used him on invites for a 2 year old little boy! His Momma is getting him a matching plate and bowl set too.... shh... don't tell him!!

You can find him and the rest of the boy designs here!

New Backgrounds

New background designs for plates and bowls.

Backgrounds can also be incorporated into stationery, photo cards, luggage tags, stickers etc... All colors can be changed!

View all background choices.

Dear Princess of Paper

Dear Princess of Paper,

I created you over 6 years ago, you are my 4th child! I have seen you grow leaps and bounds and have been proud of all of our success. I have designed over 100 plus designs for you, introduced new products, we have shipped or delivered almost 4,000 orders! Wow what an accomplishment!

I feel that I just need get this off my chest...that my family comes first! I do often forget that and I do pay the price. As much as I love to sit in front of this beautiful Mac (that we earned together!!), I can't do it all, all the time! I just need to get this straight! But with all 3 kids in school this year, I promise we will be back on track soon!

Just when I think things are going in the right direction, bam....someone has fever! We are into our 2nd week of school and already have 1 kid with strep! I swear, its been one-thing-after-another!!

So today is the day. I'll start playing catch-up today! Wish me luck!

Love,

Liz :)