Candles

Candles are often part of celebrating important events either for superstition, cultural, or religious significance or simply just because they are pretty.
At weddings a unity candle ceremony is a lovely tradition which symbolises the joining of the couple and the two families. These are often a magical moments as part of your celebration.

Decorated candle classes have always been great fun here at the shop in seeing how different people create their own unique designs from our huge range of accessories and embellishments.

I have a number of contacts in the local market who can help you with special made to order candles matched with your theme and if you wanted the sweetest selection of scents your first stop would be Candlewick House in Doig St.

Choosing colour schemes

Choosing colour schemes for a celebration can be good fun. Many of us have favourite colour combinations that we want to include in the celebration as a stamp of ‘this is my event’. On other occasions traditions and society give you recommendations, gold for anniversaries and white for babies are common but there are lots of other colours in the rainbow (and our huge range of printed papers) too chose from.

If you want a pretty blue for a little girl, or a hot red for wedding or tropical greens to celebrate living in the sunny state of Queensland, I am sure we will have something here on display to suit the occasion and many ideas on little things to make your event extra special

Choosing the right invitation

Have you seen our new advertisements in Style and the wedding magazines?
A fun and sassy attitude but really shouldn’t picking invitations for your special celebrations be fun?

At All About Paper, we have the largest range of the well known names like Christina Re as well as hundreds of speciality papers to choose from.

Best of all that is backed up with a design team of professional artists who like nothing more than taking your ideas and creating unique and elegant invitations promoting your theme. As you can see from some of the recent posts below, we do have a talented team who do beautiful work.

By utilising our DIY workshop area with all of the latest tools and equipment it is possible to create quality elegant invitations at an affordable cost. Family and friends love to participate in the planning and preparations for special celebrations, this is a perfect project for them to help you create lots of fun memories leading up to your special event.

Affordable Elegance

Christina Re appeared on the Channel 9 Morning show this earlier today.

If you missed it click this link for a video pod cast.

Christina explained how affordable elegant stationary can be easily created with the right tools and guidance.

Celebrations that are special enough to warrant invitations deserve quality invitations reflecting your personal style that off the rack just can not do.

Christina also said it was a good project for the family or bridesmaids to participate in. How true that is, everyone wants to do their bit to help make an event special. Our DIY workshop area makes that possible for you with all the latest tools and equipment ready for your projects.

Visit All About Paper to have a look at our range of quality papers and talk to our design team about how to turn your idea into a signature statement about your celebration.

Special Photos of Special Occasions

“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.” Visualising minutes with running shoes may sound like a funny quote from Eudora Welty but how true it is.

We all take photos at special events to capture all the little memories and details to save that moment forever.

Many of us hire professional photographers and appreciate their valuable talents and skills. No doubt there will be lots of photo buffs in the crowd as well helping out with candid snaps as well.

It is a good idea to have a list of the particular moments and people that you want to make sure are photographed during your special event. And don’t forget to include the little details, table settings, flowers, gifts and things that made your day special.

One thing you should add to your list, is a lesson in photography and photoshop to help you learn some quick tips from experts. Some times it is the little things that mean a lot, like hands on tutorials in a small class environment.

All About Paper is proud to host Point Shoot Play for lessons in both photography, photoshop, both in small class settings and one on one. Please phone to secure your place in the next class and be amazed with the amount of tips that can quickly improve the quality of your photos.

Things that make us smile

Working with people planning special celebrations makes me smile. There are so many special occasions in life that are worth celebrating, baby showers, christenings, 21st, graduations, engagements, weddings, anniversaries and special birthdays.

The other day I introduced you to the concept of mood boards. Home decorators and fashion designers use the same tool when pulling together ideas and themes. By clipping together scraps of things that make you smile very quickly you can see your style or story board developing.

That is where our design team is ready to help take your dreams and ideas to uniquely you invitations and paper accessories for your special event but at reasonable cost.

Inspired by mood boards

When developing a theme, many artists and designers use mood boards, snips and snaps of bits and pieces that catch your eye all hanging out together till then blend together into inspiration!

This is an example of a mood board we have seen recently

And the invitations that matched their view

What do you think? Do you have a mood board? An idea or theme brewing that wants to become unique invitations for your special event? All About Paper has a talented cast of artists standing by and ready to help.