Haute Holiday

We’re sure most people moan and groan at the sight of holiday merchandise in stores before Halloween. Is anyone really thinking about Christmas gifts in September and October? Okay, maybe you aren’t, but at Haute Papier we certainly are, and we couldn’t be more excited.  We are thrilled to announce that we have designed (with a little help from our interns Allison and Christine) nine fun and festive gift tags for the 2009 holiday season! These letterpress holiday gift tags will add the perfect finishing touch to any gift this winter.

Individual designs are available in boxes of ten for ten dollars. Each box also contains matching ribbon for tying your gifts.  If you’d like to get your hands on some visit our local retailer or contact us.

Happy (almost) Holidays!

Woodblock Napkins

Aren't these great?  They're cloth napkins from Anthropologie that have letterpress type printed on them.  Anthro is calling them "A letter-perfect addition to well-set tables."

A Few of Our Favorite Things

Clients often ask, "what inspires you?"  or "How do you come up with all of these designs?" Erin and I, like most designers, find inspiration in the things all around us.  I carry a camera with me just about everywhere I go so I can quickly take a snapshot of whatever I might encounter.  For example, Sunday I found a vendor at Easter Market selling a bunch of California cases and old type.  Imagine my surprise!  It's hard to track it down when you're looking for it - let alone run into it while searching for furniture!

Which speaking of furniture, that's from where the inspiration from this post comes.  My husband and i just refinished the hardwood floors in our apartment and now I'm working on buying some new furniture and reupholstering some oldies, but goodies and I've always loved Amy Butler's fabrics.  I'm thinking about going with the bottom right pattern in the Nigella layout below.  Aren't these beautiful?!

And their off ...

I know we've "hinted" about what a great National Stationery Show we had back in May.  Well, with overwhelming success came a lot of hard work (and work and work and work!)  Now I'm not complaining, there's still way too much still to finish up to start complaining now!  That being said, I've always been one who believes in counting small successes in life.  That's what I'm doing today, because late last week our Personal Stationery line hit retailers shelves around the country!  Check out the Haute Papier website to see the current vendors who are carrying our line.  If you don't see your local stationer, please feel free to suggest a retailer.  We've designed something for everyone in our line that includes twenty designs which can be letterpressed or flat printed and can be paired with different envelope liner options.  Here's a sneak peak at what you'll see when you track down our binder!

Fabulous Find: TapeSwell

One of my favorite companies at the moment is TapeSwell.  They create this beautiful packaging tape that inspired Erin and me to create a special tape for all of our Haute Papier mailings.  The new HP tape isn't here yet, but we'll be sure to share pictures when it arrives.

Check out these beautiful products in the mean time!  My favorite is the purple lacy one.  Erin likes the blue tinsely one.  The tapes are available online for $7 for 27.5 yards.  Not bad in comparison to what Kinko's charges for packing tape!