Free Video with Purchase

PaperShouts will be giving away a DVD copy of the movie Bride Wars. Offer's limited to the first 10 purchases over $100. Enter the code Video at checkout.

Our Winners

Congratulations to our winners:

Grand Prize: Heather B from Lewiston, Maine

1^st Place Prize: Pam R from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

2^nd Place Prize: Cindy B from Yukon, OK

Grand Prize Winner

We have a Grand Prize winner.

Check your entry here: http://bit.ly/136vDO

One lucky couple will be jetting off to Mexico via AirTran Airways and staying at the fabulous Marriott CasaMagna Resort in Cancun Mexico.

We also have two other winners:

Our 2nd place winner will receive a pair of sunglasses worn by Kate Hudson in the motion picture BRIDE WARS as well as a $100 gift certificate to PaperShouts.

Our 3rd place winner will receive a BRIDE WARS one-sheet signed bt Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway as well as a $50 PaperShouts gift certificate.

Our winners have 5 days to claim their prizes!

CONGRATULATIONS!

PaperShouts Blog winner

Congratulations to Tiffany819 - our blog winner. Tiffany was chosen at random from our entries and will now be entered in the drawing for a chance to win our exciting Grand Prize package.

Thanks everyone

Our Blog entries are now closed. Stay tuned for us to post our winner. This lucky winner will then be entered into our Grand Prize draw for a chance to win our wonderful Grand Prize of 6 Nights at the Marriott CasaMagna Resort and air fare for two on AirTran.

Paper Shouts BRIDE WARS Sweepstakes

Great movies influence great style! And every bride--past, present and future--cares about style. Brides, moms, birthday girls—almost every women has a style and likes to show off that style in the way they dress, the cars they drive and the stationery they use to share life's big moments with family and friends.

With that in mind, Paper Shouts has partnered with Twentieth Century Fox to give you a taste of some great style and great fun with the BRIDE WARS Movie, available on Blu-Ray and DVD on April 28th.

Paper Shouts and Twentieth Century Fox will be giving you a chance to not only win a copy of BRIDE WARS but also gift certificates to Paper Shouts, BRIDE WARS movie memorabilia and even a 6 night vacation in Mexico.

Enter for a chance to win the Paper Shouts BRIDE WARS Blog Sweepstakes by browsing the Paper Shouts Bridal Shouts section and choosing your favorite card. Then post here or at one of our participating blog partners and post a comment with your choice from the Paper Shouts site as well as a comment about which characters style from the film you relate more to—Emma's traditional, romantic style or Liv's couture, "only the best" approach.

One lucky winner will be selected from the Paper Shouts blog as well as from each of the other participating blogs.

Each blog winner will also be entered in the Paper Shouts BRIDE WARS Grand Prize drawing.

Grand Prize Drawing prizes include......

• Grand Prize: 6 nights at the CasaMagna Marriott Cancun Resort and airfare for 2 on AirTran Airways.
• 1st prize: Sunglasses Worn by Kate Hudson in BRIDE WARS movie and $100 Paper Shouts Gift Certificate.
• 2nd Prize: BRIDE WARS one-sheet signed by Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway and $50 Paper Shouts gift certificate.
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More BRIDE WARS Fun!

Download Poster

Visit bridewars.com for other fun activities, like taking the Liv or Emma Quiz.

Watch Trailer

Bloggers: If you are interested in running this sweepstakes on your blog please drop us an EMail at bridewars@papershouts.com

Thank you from the Johnstons.......

Cathleen and Kenny Johnson take time out of their busy lives to thank PaperShouts for their baby shower thank you cards.

"Your cards are elegant and the colors are subtly beautiful. They were perfect for our child's Thank You notes." says Kenny Johnston who plays Detective Ham Dewey on the TV show Saving Grace. He and his wife Cathleen are expecting their first child this summer.

Cathleen picked our Rose Honey Dew card for their thanks.....

Let's get it started

An appropriate title - Let's get it started - for Jimmy Gomez and Jaymie Dizon. Who's Jimmy Gomez you ask? Well, you may know him better as Taboo, a member of the band Black Eyed Peas.

Cake for 150!

Jaymie is expecting their first child this summer and to celebrate they commissioned PaperShouts to design their Baby Shower invitation.

In keeping with their color scheme which coincidentally is the same as PaperShouts' we used a version of our Spa Blue Baby Shout for their event held this month in San Diego.

Congratulations Taboo and Jaymie!

Happy Easter

Easter is fast approaching and what better way to communicate your Easter wishes than cards or invitations from Paper Shouts?

We're recently added an Easter section with seasonal specific designs. We also have many other invitations and cards on our site suited for this season. Below is a sampling of our recent additions. (Just click on the design you like to see it in greater detail)






Paper Shouts wishes everyone a very merry Easter.

True in Wonderland

True Fisher-Duddy Celebrates Her Third Birthday

At the end of January, Joely Fisher celebrated her daughter True Fisher-Duddy’s third birthday at an Alice in Wonderland-themed tea party sponsored by Sugar, Sprinkles and Banana Split. True’s guests (including mom’s friends Kevin Nealon and Brad Garrett and their kids) painted tea cups and made hats with The Rad Hatter. In addition to the gorgeous cake by Cake Divas, the kids were treated to a Baskin-Robbins sundae bar and goodie bags that featured Crayola crayons and markers.

Below, True poses with her sisters — Skylar Grace, 7 ½, and Olivia Luna, 4 ½ months — and mom Joely.

PaperShouts is excited that Joely picked us for her daughters invitation to set the stage for the Alice in Wonderland theme. Designed exclusively for PaperShouts by Marcie Stewart, this wonderful invitation will be available on our site shortly.

Kevin Nealon and his son Gable Ness, 2, check out the sundae bar.

Joely’s Til Death co-star Brad Garrett and his son Maxwell Bradley, 10, model their rad hats.

Golden Globes

Paper Shouts is excited at having been invited to participate in the Golden Globe Awards week. We partnered with Jayneoni Moore and her exclusive gifting suite called the Boom Boom Room Children’s Wonderland. The event was held the 2 days prior to the Golden Globes at the swanky Hyatt Century City and was attended by many wonderful celebrities and their families. Paper Shouts was able to spend some time with celebrity parents-to-be; parents with new additions as well as several of hollywoods up and coming young stars. The most common compliments Paper Shouts received from this star studded audience were how beautiful and unique our designs are and how great it is that they are all printed on 100% recycled paper.

       

                Ali Landry                                                           Evan Handler

Some of the celebs we were lucky enough to spend some time with included:

Ali Landry (Eve); Angus T. Jones (2 ½ men); Bryce Johnson (Popular); Jake Busey (Time Bomb); Christie Lynn Smith (Bones); Evan Handler (Sex and the City); Field Cate (Pushing Daisies); James Black (Starter Wife); Jennifer Blanc (Party of five); Joely Fisher (Til Death); Jonathan Drubner (ESPN Roadtrip); Judy Reyes (Scrubs); Kenny Johnson( saving Grace); Kevin Sorbo (Meet the Spartans); Madison Pettis (Seven Pounds); Ming Na (ER); Miranda Allgood (Wife of actor Louis Lombardi); salli Richardson (I am Legend); Tim Allen (Home Improvement/Santa Clause) and Kevin Weisman (Alias).

      

Tim Allen Madison Pettis

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone. We hope you all had a great holiday season and had a safe and sane New Year's. PaperShouts is ready to kick off the new year by offering our customers FREE SHIPPING. Click thru here for details. As we enter the wedding season, look to us to add many new cards from our collection of fantastic designers. We offer the bride to be Enagagement Party, Save the Date, and all the individual components for a wonderfull look to your wedding. Our Wedding invitations also come in complete sets with all matching components. For something extra special, be sure to check out our Couture line of invitations. Wonderfull designs printed on high quality Metallic paper. These are sure to put a shine on your special day.

Happy Holidays!

While there are still 7 shopping days left until Christmas and the mall traffic is still crazy, PaperShouts is relaxing. Our busiest time of the year is over save for those few procrastinators who still haven't got their holiday cards done yet! We can still help, but time's running out to get them in the hands of friends and family before the big day.

Of course, PaperShouts offers a line of "New Years" cards - perfect for those non denominational wishes and those that waited just a little too long. You can see our collection here.

We'd like to take this time to wish a very merry holiday season to all our customers, family and friends.

We look forward to seeing you in the New Year for all your special occasions.

New Holiday Collection

We wrote last week about adding 5 exciting new designers to our design team. Today we are pleased to announce that we have added several hundred new designs to our holiday card collection.

Our holiday cards come in traditional, vintage, and modern designs, photo and non-photo cards, flat and fold-over cards, as well as many unique sizes. A new accessory to this year's collection are matching address labels.

As you get ready to prepare your holiday cards this year we want you to know that Paper Shouts prides itself on providing excellent customer service. While our online system is geared towards busy families where in just a matter of minutes, you can easily personalize your own cards and invitations online and preview them before orders are finalized we want to let you know that our staff reviews every order that we receive to ensure that the final card will be as perfect as you expect. We also have a design staff available to aid in design. Drop us an EMail at customerservice@papershouts.com or call us toll free at 877-824-5210

As November and December are two of our busiest months we have extended our operating hours to assist our customers where needed.

Finally, we believe that finding ways to protect and preserve our environment are essential. Along with using 100 percent Post Consumer Waste (PCW) recycled paper this season a percentage of all proceeds from holiday orders will benefit Our City Forest (OFC), which protects and preserves the urban forests.

Paper Shouts adds new designers.

Today we are excited about expanding our card offerings and adding five new card designers to our site. Just in time for the holidays these designers are creating traditional, vintage, and modern cards and invitations exclusively available though Paper Shouts. These new designers will create cards and invitations printed on 100 percent Post Consumer Waste (PCW) recycled paper for all of Paper Shouts collections, including holiday cards, weddings, birth announcements, kids' birthday invitations, personalized note cards, as well as designs for any special occasion. We recruited these designers to provide our customers the unique designs they crave and expect from us.

Here's a quick bio of the 5:

Bonnie Bell.
Inventing Mathilda Owner and designer, Bonnie Bell prides herself on creating stylish and memorable paper products. Bonnie's love for design started years ago as a second grade teacher where she had a passion for creating class bulletin boards. Bonnie found herself ready to translate her love for design into a business. Bonnie cultivates all of her creative ideas and meticulously constructs vivacious birth announcements, photo birth cards, and personalized stationery. She has a definite aversion to drawings of little pastel rattles and rubber ducks and adamantly believes that there are other endless other possible artistic ways to celebrate babies and children. She loves using unusual patterns, shapes, and colors. Bonnie lives in Denver with her nerdy husband and two energetic daughters.

Julie Heinze.
Julie is a freelance designer and faculty member at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. After spending the first several years of her design career at Apple, she moved to Southern California and became involved with book jackets and logo designs, as well as all types of advertising. Her inspirations range from Moroccan patterns (she lived in Morocco) to the surf culture of the beach city where she now resides with her husband and three kids. She loves to travel, and uses the opportunity to explore foreign design and architecture, and often finds herself in bookstore or stationery shops.

Gabriela Martinez
Since 1990, Gabriela, founder of Texto, a service print and online graphic design firm, has been designing for a variety of clients, including the performing arts, museums, and high-technology companies. Gabriela and the Texto designers enjoy their most valued asset: imagination. With a background in music and fine arts, Gabriela draws inspiration from creative sources such contemporary architecture and Turkish textiles. Gabriela works hard to have a balance between work and family. She lives in Los Gatos with her two children Eloisa and Sasha and their two high strung dogs.

Melissa Stanchock
Melissa is the owner and designer of ModernMe, a children's clothing line with a unique concept featuring clean, modern design. After working six years as a freelance designer and following the birth of her son, Melissa began devoting herself fully to building her own company. The company focuses on educating children and toddlers in a playful and original way, introducing early object recognition and word association through their clothing. ModernMe is based on the theory 'form follows function'. The clothing line, and now her card designs, are creative and innovative outlets that allow Melissa to utilize her background in graphic design. She currently resides in Southern California with her husband, son, and Siberian husky, Nikita.

Marci Stewart
Marci is a freelance designer specializing in all types of print layout design for both profit and non-profit organizations. With over 18 years of design experience, Marci's passion is creating fun and unique event graphics, invitations, and announcements. She has a love for all types of design, from vintage styles to simplified modern designs, using fresh colors and hip fonts. She is a mother of three young boys and uses each baptism, birthday, and all family events as opportunities to challenge herself and thrill her guests with original works of art.

Check out their cool new designs at www.papershouts.com

Paper Shouts helps raise funds for Schools thru 2009

As the parents of 3 children, the founders of Paper Shouts are very aware of all the issues surrounding school funding and the shortage of money when it comes to providing everything that's needed for our children to get the quality education they deserve.

For the second year in a row, Paper Shouts is going to donate 10% of sales to any school that registers with us and their families purchase their custom cards from http://www.papershouts.com/

This fundraising program is open to all public and private educational institutions.

Paper Shouts’ holiday cards are made on 100 percent Post Consumer Waste (PCW) recycled paper and are the perfect way to wish family and friends happy holidays in a personalized, unique fashion.

If you are interested in enrolling a school to participate in the Paper Shouts school fundraiser, here are the basic steps to follow:

• Simply send an e-mail to fundraisers@papershouts.com with information about your school and the appropriate contact person there.

• Paper Shouts will then provide a specific school promotion code to be given to every family of the participating school. Families simply need to select their holiday card of choice and enter the appropriate promotion code when buying their cards.

• In addition, Paper Shouts will provide a school specific flyer for distribution to all parents that will include the promotion code as well as additional pertinent information and directions.

As parents we are aware of all the fundraising campaigns: Magazines, wrapping paper, box tops, cookie dough etc. Sometimes it feels as if we are fundraiserd out. But, this time of year everyone loves sending and receiving holiday cards because it’s the one time of year we get to see updated photos of friends and family that we don’t always get to see throughout the year.

Paper Shouts’ holiday cards are the perfect way to wish your family and friends a joyous holiday season as well as give back to your local school.

But wait...... This program is not just for holiday cards. PaperShouts will donate 10% through the end of the school year or June 15 2009 (which ever comes first!)

Samantha Harris - Dancing with The Stars

PaperShouts had the opportunity to work with Samantha Harris, TV personality and co-host of ABC TV's Dancing with the Stars, on her daughter's 1st birthday party invitations. She wanted a ballerina themed invitation in hot pink and chocolate. We were able to create a few new great designs for her with one of our exclusive designers Mellissa Stanchock and those designs will appear on the site within the next few weeks. The specific one Samantha picked for Josselyn is below.

Chocolate Hot Pink Ballerina

The party was held on October 5th-Happy Birthday Josseyln

Paper Shouts raises awareness for Green initiative

Paper Shouts is proud to announce that a percentage of our sales from our Holiday Cards will benefit Our City Forest, an organization created to cultivate a greener, healthier urban enviroment and a renewed sense of community through planting and care of the urban forest.

Paper Shouts’ holiday cards are made of 100 percent Post Consumer Waste (PCW) recycled paper. Working with OFC will help support Paper Shouts’ mission - being eco-friendly as well as socially aware.

To help spread the word, Paper Shouts is running a contest with our blogger community. Paper Shouts is offering our bloggers and their readers a chance to win a $50 gift certificate that can be used to purchase any paper goods – holiday cards, birth announcements, party invitations, personalized note cards, etc. from http://www.papershouts.com/

Readers should go to: http://www.papershouts.com/store/default.asp?id=5 to pick the holiday card that they like best, make a note of the name then post on the participating blog which holiday card they picked as well as note their favorite green initiative, product, or green tip.

The blog will then select the winner at random or based on their ‘green’ feedback.

Contest ends Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at midnight PST.

If you don't have a favorite blog, feel free to add your comments and favorite cards on this blog and we will also pick one lucky winner of a $50 Paper Shouts gift certificate.

We believe this is a terrific opportunity to support a great cause and look forward to your support.

Paper Shouts sponsors "Working Motherhood - New Formulas for Success"

This week, Paper Shouts, provider of posh notes for life’s big moments will sponsor “Working Motherhood – New Formulas for Success,” an event organized by Mommy Track’d and Flexperience. The event, geared towards working mothers, will kick-off with a cocktail party and shopping, followed by a keynote presentation by Lisa Belkin, “Life’s Work” columnist for the New York Times. After Lisa's key note, a power-packed panel of executive moms will discuss how they use creative leadership strategies to tackle the balance between work and home life.

Paper Shouts, a sponsor of the event, will provide custom note cards that will be included in the gift basket that every attendee receives. Additional gift basket items include Sephora Cosmetics, Peet’s Coffee, Plantronics Bluetooth headsets, as well as other fabulous items geared towards working mothers. In addition to personalized note cards, Paper Shouts’ offers a variety of invites for any kind of special event, such as kids' birthday parties, holidays, cocktail parties, and birth announcements with matching thank you cards.

"Working Motherhood - New Formulas for Success" is being held in San Francisco, Thursday, October 2nd from 5:30-8:30 p.m. at the Hotel Intercontinental at 888 Howard Street in San Francisco. For more information please visit http://www.mommytrackd.com/events.

Calling all Ghouls Ghosts and little Goblins

No trick, just a treat from Papershouts: Halloween Cards and Invitations.

Paper Shouts' Halloween Paper Products Set the Stage for Any Halloween Occasion

Today, we are pleased to announce and introduce our new line of Halloween greeting cards and invitations to make any Halloween occasion, whether spooky or scary, one to remember. All of the cards in Paper Shouts' Halloween collection are printed on high quality, heavy matte finish 100 percent recycled paper.

Like all Paper Shouts' paper products, Halloween cards and invitations can be ordered online and delivered in less than one week. You simply select the card of your choice, upload your childs' photograph in his/her Halloween costume, and now you have your very own "boo" card.

Halloween has always been of our founders childrens' favorite holidays. Like Valentine's, Easter and other holidays, kids today enjoy exchanging cards with each other at school and what better way to celebrate your child's love of ghosts, goblins, princesses or favorite TV characters than with a custom card showing off their costume of choice.

Paper Shouts' custom designed products are printed on 100 percent PCW recycled paper, using 110 pound card stock with matte finish. Customers can easily personalize their own cards and invitations online and preview them before orders are finalized. Customer service is available to aid in design and ensures all orders are personally viewed before shipping. Paper Shouts offers a wide variety of products including birth announcements, shower invitations, kids' birthday invitations, sweet sixteen party invites, graduation announcements, bar/bat mitzvah invitations, Quinceanera invitations, wedding invitations, holiday cards, pet announcements, thank you cards, personalized note cards and more.

Paper Shouts at the Alma Awards

Paper Shouts is pleased to be associated with the 2008 Alma Awards. The Alama Awards are on TV Friday September 12th 2008.

The 2008 ALMA Awards® looks to be a spectacular show with some of the most amazing performances seen yet!

This year, the ALMA Awards presents special tributes to Linda Ronstadt, Narciso Rodriguez, and Shakira, highlighting the outstanding contributions each of these individuals has made to American culture and society. You'll definitely want to tune in to see the special way in which each of these artists is recognized. This year's show is also an opportunity to share NCLR's work with the American public. As America prepares for the upcoming presidential election, NCLR has employed the power and influence of the talent participating in the ALMA Awards to remind everyone in our country to make sure their voices are heard—it’s time, go vote! This effort resonated well with the celebrities and special guests in attendance, who you will see later this fall in a special public service announcement produced at the ALMA Awards.

The ALMA Awards is a unique program, bringing together celebrities and leaders who influence American society. On this evening, all of these leaders, entertainers, fans, and many more come together to celebrate our Latino heritage and its positive impact on American entertainment and culture. Thank you for your interest in the ALMA Awards. Be sure to tune in to ABC on September 12 at 8/7c for the airing of the ALMA Awards. We hope you enjoy the show!

Paper Shouts was selected to develop a custom invitation for The Retreat,a backstage gathering for celebrities attending the 2008 NCLR ALMA Awards. In addition to the creation of the invitation for The Retreat, Paper Shouts 100 percent Post Consumer Waste (PCW) recycled paper note cards offered in vintage, modern, and traditional designs will be included in the gift baskets and handed out to all of the celebrity presenters at the Awards.

Personalized Note cards - The Perfect Gift

Now Labor day's passed and the kids are back in school, it's time to think ahead to the holidays. Paper Shouts gives you a great gift idea for family, friends, teachers or the holiday hostess - Note Cards - Starting today, all our Note Cards will be offered in sets of fifteen - all under $25. Our custom note cards are printed on 100% recycled paper - which also a great way to show that you put thought into a personalized and eco friendly gift. In addittion to the Note Cards, we are also introducing two cool presentation pouches for our cards. Firstly a hand-crafted recycled brown box and a custom brown leather pouch . Both are really neat ways for you to present your gift.

Above are some examples of the over 25 unique designs offered in vintage, modern and traditional designs. For more info check out our press release.

Kids, Kids, Kids.......

August and September are the two highest birth months of the year. We are certainly seeing that as we review the purchases off our store. Sure people are still planning on getting married and some believe it or not are preparing for Christmas already but the cards that are getting the most interest at Paper Shouts are those announcing new, little bundles of joy to the world. Our designers, who review all our cards are full of oohs and aahhs....

The end of August/Labor day for others marks an event perhaps not as important as the birth of our child but a day that is eagerly looked forward to: Back to School! We have had many requests for First day of school or back to school cards. While we do not have cards specific to those events, all of our cards are customizable so if you see one you like in the Kids Shouts or Teen Shouts sections, all you have to do is enter the appropriate text and upload the picture of your choice. Voila!





Next year we'll be sure to add a dedicated section.

As a parents of 3 children, we know how important all your life's moments can be. Now you can shout out to world through our 100% Recycled cards all the big events in your life.

Remember, Why Whisper when you can Shout!

Sites we love

Isn't the internet a wonderful thing? Who would have thought years ago that there'd be a time that you needn't ever leave your house to shop. The internet is full of great (and some not so great) places to browse and shop. As an ECommerce based company http://www.papershouts.com/ is very aware of what a good buying experience should be and what a bad one can be.

We've had the good fortune to get rave reviews from our customers on our products and our customer service. We've also had the good fortune to run into a lot of other ECommerce sites that cater to the same markets that we do and offer the same exempelery customer experience.

We've listed some of those sites on the right side of this blog. If you like the service and support from Paper Shouts then you'll love theirs.

Calling all Photographers.....

Many of our customers have asked us about the photos that we use on our cards on at http://www.papershouts.com/ I must say that while a good many of these are candid shots taken by people like you and me, some are in fact taken by professional studios. Personally, I feel some of the cards created with your own photographic talent are the best but as the holiday season fast approaches and you are getting ready for your family portraits, check out the photographers in your area on our site.

Are you a professional photographer? If you'd like to be listed in our Photographer section, drop us an email at: photo (at) papershouts (dot) com and we'll talk about the different programs that we offer.

Check out our Holiday card selections (it's never too soon) at http://www.papershouts.com/

Following are a few of our more popular designs:

Welcome

Can you believe it, Paper Shouts is close to celebrating our 1st birthday! It sure has been an exciting 12 months. While we've been working on the site for a lot longer, we officially launched right after Thanksgiving last year. Since then we've added tons of new cards and designs to www.papershouts.com, we've also been on the road doing events in New York, Los Angeles and Northern California. Our cards have been featured in several gift baskets, most notably the Country Music Awards and the MTV Movie Awards. This last week, we were honored to be asked to be involved with the Alma Awards as well.

The newest chapter of our story is our move to Recycled Paper. As a company, we are committed to being environmentally as well as socially aware. This move is just the beginning. All our designer shouts are printed on 100% PCW recycled, heavyweight (110#), uncoated paper and are shipped with 50% recycled envelopes (30% PCW/20% VF). We are excited to have sourced a premium grade recycled paper so we do not sacrifice any quality in our final product with this move. This isn't your parent recycled paper all grainy and gritty. In fact, if we didn't have a recycle logo on the back I doubt you could tell the difference! (We do have a Couture series of Wedding Sets that are Metallic but I'm afraid are not 100% recycled paper but do look really cool.)

Our customers can now feel good about sharing their news with family and friends in a very personal way while still being environmentally friendly.

Here are some examples of our cool cards: