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Paperie for Inspired Living: Stationery and Decorations for Weddings, Parties, and Other Special Occasions

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No matter what your fiber of choice, you will stockpile inspiration from Karen Bartolomei's "Paperie for Inspired Living". First off this book is a beautiful hard covered addition for your library and brilliantly illustrated. Each page holds divine designs from stunning invitations, awesome decorations, gift tags, place holders and so many ideas even for the budget conscious crafter. If you have never created a card this book will force you to make one or several and you will never want to buy a card or invitation again. Karen shows us how to customize and coordinate fabulous paper products for any occasion from the most elegant event to your most casual outdoor picnic. Each chapter contains several projects, from the all important invitation to smaller touches like labels, tags, and keepsakes. How unforgettable your personal stationary be when Karen demonstrates step-by-step how to make a monogrammed, Thank-You cards, Mailing Labels, Business Cards, Letterhead, and Note Cards. The chapter on New Year's Eve projects includes Invitations, Menus, Resolution Sign-in/Postcards and Drink Signs.
Karen also offers us vital advice for invitation wording and etiquette, and provides tips for throwing unforgettable parties, like choosing a color scheme and ideas for breaking the ice. She has also thoughtfully included several useful templates and source ideas as to where we can purchase your materials for these paper fiber creations. I am sure you all have some of the materials needed for many of her projects in your craft areas. Have this book on hand as the summer fades and fall explodes into radiant colors signifying holiday parties are close at hand and the gifts and cards desired that will bring you back to this book over and over for ideas. Maybe you saw something in the book and stored it in your mind for a special occasion and you know just where to find it and put your own spin on Karen's idea.
Are you getting married in the near future and need invitation and planning ideas? Well, you do not have to spend a fortune using ideas from Karen's book. Karen Bartolomei's
Here is a lovely video by Karen Bartolomei of Grapevine [...], she designs elegant and expensive wedding invitations. This video will offer a little about Karen and above is also the link to her site.

Love this book! So many wonderful ideas. I would highly recommend it to others

This books is great for people who enjoy adding elegance to even the smallest areas of life and provides many ideas for the paper enthusiast. Instructions are clear and easy to follow. Pictures are helpful and even delight the eye. The book will be pulled down each time I need ideas for invitations, etc.

After seeing her website I thought this book was going to be much better. I love her ideas and the way she explains how to make you own stuff, but I wish it had more ideas about invitations.
It was focus mainly on table settings and other helpful ideas for different types of events. But what I was looking for in this book was more wedding ideas ann specially for invitations.
However, I still think her job is great and its a good book, just that if you are looking for a book with just wedding ideas probably is not the best to buy.