Tune in Tuesday when Channel 5 News, the local Washington Fox affiliate returns to Historic Leesburg, Virginia to pay Haute Papier a visit. The show is on from 6:00 am until 10:00 am, but the lovely ladies of Haute Papier will be on throughout the broadcast to showcase some new products, demonstrate our wonderful letterpress Gertrude and teach some great summer crafts! Make sure you set your DVR or tune in!
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A Good Use for Paint Swatches
We love Sherwin Williams’ brilliant new Color Chips campaign created by McKinney (which is located in Erin's hometown)! The new ads feature color-chip sculptures created by paper artist Matthew Sporzynski, owner of New York’s Couturier de Cardboard Inc. Sporzynski first stunned viewers with his beautiful paper constructions that filled the pages of Real Simple magazine, but his paint chip replications of ice cream cones playful girafees have blown us away! As if these paper creations aren’t amazing enough, the campaing also includes an iPhone app and interactive Color Snap technology . Now you can use your iPhone or Blackberry to capture a color that inspires you and match it to one of 1,500 Sherwin-Williams paint colors. This campaign is defiantly geared toward the color-obsessed designer, which is why we love it so much!
Real Weddings: Dana & Mark
Here are some super swoon worthy photos of Dana & Mark's Wedding take by the ladies of Snap! a Rhode Island-based photo studio. We love that they got some great shots of paperie from our Le Catalogue line. A special thanks to Raina of Raina Dawn Events (who is now booking weddings in the DC area!) for bringing us in on this beautiful event!
HP is Earth Friendly!
Haute Papier is proud to use Crane's Lettra for all letterpressing from our lines. What's earth friendly, you ask? Crane papers are unique in the fact that all of their paper products are 100% tree-free. It actually wasn't till the 1860s that companies started cutting down trees to use as the raw materials for their paper goods.
What Crane does is use a material called “linters” as the base of their paper, which is basically the tiny fibers that cling to the cotton seed after the ginning process. These little fibers must be removed in order to efficiently extract cottonseed oil. Normally these linters would be thrown into the landfills or used as cattle feed, but Crane puts them to good use by creating their high end papers from them. On top of all this, they also take many other steps to ensure they have an environmentally friendly product, like using bleaches that are similar to Clorox which are gentler.
Also, they have their own waste water treatment facility where they process any organic waste produced in the paper making process into topsoil. So, now you know... At HP we're doing our part in all sorts of ways to help the environment!