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| - I come here almost once every two weeks, as I am an avid penpaller and buy my envelopes and stationery from here. It's located in Town Square so I can get some other shopping and lunch in, too.
Amazing selection of envelopes, in any size and color you like. When picking it out, make sure you get a good batch of envelopes (sold in packs of 10), some may be dog eared or stained or folded. Along with envelopes, they have matching note cards, place cards, table cards and paper in the same color.
Great selection of fine art paper as well, and not too expensive. Sometimes they have paper sales. Look in the back of the store for the clearance section.
A decent selection of rubber stamps and too expensive in my opinion. But they have a good selection of embossing powders and inkpads. The best part of this store is the friendly staff is always happy to demonstrate anything to you. So if you see something and you're not sure how it works, or how the embossing color will look like, they have a little table up at the front with all the tools ready to show you. If you have time to kill, ask them to show you something new and they will teach you all kinds of cool techniques. I once spent over 2 hours in the store just chatting with one of their salesgirls (I forgot her name, ugh!) and she helped me with a project I was working on and showed me all kinds of cool new products and rubber stamping techniques. I only mentioned I liked hand bordered cards and she demonstrated how I can do that effect using washi tape and an ink pad. Amazing how much these ladies know if you'll ask them for help! Yes, they can be pretty overbearing as another reviewer said, but that never bothered me, they get the hint and leave me alone once they know I know what I'm doing.
They also have lots of schlocky gift stuff. Check their website for sales and coupons as well.
Their greeting cards are overpriced, for me. But you will find cool designs there that you won't find in a Hallmark store.
A good place to find Kate Spade stationery, trendy calendars and things. I find that it's easier for me to look for what I want on their website papersource.com, as the shop kind of hides most of the smaller stuff.
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