Kentucky Derby Party

Going to the Kentucky Derby is on our bucket list. Though none of us are avid horse racing fans, we are told that the atmosphere at Churchill Downs is incredible.  Whether you go for the horses, the hats, the fashion, or the juleps, the Kentucky Derby is a time honored tradition.  If you can't go this year, use it as an excuse to throw a great party with your friends! 

More Than Paper has some great ideas for your Derby party, starting with beautiful cardstock invitations. (An online invitation or email simply doesn't do for this classy occasion!)  

We love the idea of using coordinating entertaining pieces that are monogrammed or personalized for this affair.  Try personalized napkins, monogrammed cups, a lucite serving tray for those juleps, and a monogrammed ice bucket. All items can be used throughout the year for all of your entertaining needs. 

What will you wear?  We're adopting the statement: "When in Rome!"  Why not try a large hat? 

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We love this dress from J. Crew. It's the perfect combination of class and fashion forwardness that the Derby attire seems to demand. 

And don't forget about the mint juleps!  Here's a great recipe for one. 

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We think we've assembled a dynamite Kentucky Derby party.  What will you be doing on Saturday, May 3rd? Will you be watching the Derby at a party with friends?  We'd love to hear about any Derby parties our readers are having. Post a comment here or share on Facebook! 

Egg Salad

When Easter rolls around, there can be an abundance of eggs in your household.  What's a person to do with all those eggs?  Make egg salad!  Here's a delicious curried egg salad recipe. We just love the way the curry adds an extra kick.  That extra flavor really elevates this lunch time favorite. 

To make 2 sandwiches, you will need:

• 4 hard boiled eggs
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. curry powder
• 1/4 tsp. pepper 
• 1/4 tsp. paprika 
• 1/4 cup of good quality mayo 
• 100% whole wheat bread, toasted

To make this, peel the hard boiled eggs and mash with a knife and fork.  Stir in the mayo. Stir in the spices, salt and pepper.  Toast the bread and spoon the egg salad mixture onto it. Serve on a plate and enjoy! 

Will you try this recipe soon? We'd love to know! 

Happy Passover

Wishing a Happy Passover to all those who celebrate 

from everyone here at More Than Paper! 

More Graduation Party Invitations and Announcements

We've been sharing a lot of graduation ideas on our blog this month, from gifts, invitations, announcements, thank you cards, and address labels, More Than Paper has a huge selection from which to choose for graduation. Here are 5 more styles we love! These can be personalized for a party invitation or used as an announcement.  You choose! 

Find these styles here, all by Take Note Designs!  1) Pink Hourglass  2)  Charcoal Two  3) Brown and Aqua  4) Camo 5) Tiffany Fancy Grid.  

Let us know what your favorite is.  We love our reader and customer feedback so share it with us here on the blog or on our Facebook page! 

Graduation Party Invitations and Announcements

It's hard to believe in a few weeks, colleges, universities and high schools across the country will be graduating seniors. Whether it's high school or college, it's wonderful to celebrate your graduates accomplishment.  The end of an era, honoring the hard work of the student's last four years, can be done with a party with family and friends.   More Than Paper has a wide selection of graduation party invitations and stationery from which to choose (all at great prices!)

For an occasion as special as this one, we like choosing an invitation, a matching address label, and sticker to use for favors. We like this invite, matching label and sticker -- this invitation suite by Boatman Geller is perfect!

More Than Paper has plenty more styles of invitations!  We love these photo invitation/announcements by Tumbalina, they are so modern and fresh!  Chevron is still dominating in the stationery industry.

We also love this one with multiple photos! 

This invitation/announcement is special with a printed back! 

This chalkboard style remains popular, and is very apropos for graduation!   

We also are still loving the gold foil trend, and so this one is great for anyone who also loves this effect. 

While you are ordering invitations, we suggest you stock up on stationery for writing thank you notes. Graduates receive so many wonderful gifts from family and friends.  It's important that your graduate write thank you notes soon after receiving them.  Make it fun with themed notecards like these by Masterpiece Studios! At $8.50 per set, there are 10 cards and envelopes.  

Or go with a classic style that can be used now for graduation presents and beyond for any occasion. Check out these Classic Foldnotes by Rytex:

We'll soon share our ideas for graduation gifts!  Tell us which invitations are your favorite here on our blog or on our Facebook page! 

Letters Home

We've said it before and we will say it again:  there's nothing like summer sleep away camp.  For so many reasons, we wish we could do it all over again.  To be back at camp and have our days filled with activities like soccer, ropes course, arts and crafts, swimming and dodge ball or to have our nights filled with evening activities, a camp fire and the anticipation of summer Olympics (color war!), we would love to relive it all over again.  The joy and independence of camp as a pre-teen or teen is unparalleled.

Are your kids headed to camp this summer?  Encourage them to write letters home with some personalized stationery.  From address labels to stamps, notecards to stationery sheets, More Than Paper has every camper covered.  Perhaps as a parent, you can live vicariously through their letter writing!  (You can dream, right?)

We particularly adore the camp calling cards, which are perfect to send to your camper towards the end of the summer.  Your camper can pass them out to their bunk mates and other friends to encourage letter writing, emailing, texting, Instagraming (whatever these kids do these days to correspond!) after the summer is over.  Or hand them out just before they leave to ensure they receive lots of letters at camp this summer!

Find all these great products here:  1) Three Designing Women Personalized Address Stamp 2) Address Label (round) by Namedoodles) 3) Address Label (rectangle) by iDesign + Co  4) Bunk notes gift set by Devora Designs 5) Personalized note cards and matching envelopes in Tie Dye by Bonnie Marcus Colleciton 6) Personalized Stationery Sheets by Just Mishpucha 7) Calling Cards (Cupcake) by iDesign + Co. 8) Calling Cards (Baseball) by iDesign + Co. 9. Calling Cards by Pen at Hand.

Easter Cookies and Treat Bags

In preparation for Easter,  we've been hunting the web for great Easter treats and have been thinking of wonderful ways to package them for our annual Easter Egg Hunt.   We found these cookies on Pinterest (photo credits below) and thought they'd be perfect along with some extra special DIY packaging with products we carry at More Than Paper.

Photo Credit: Easter cookies bunny and carrots

Photo credit: Easter cookies eggs

As if the cookies aren't special enough, we created some packaging for them.  Our glassine bags are perfect bags for cookies and other treats.  We adored our food safe glassine bags with "Easter" stickers by SRM Quick Card Stickers. 

The bags turned out very cute, don't you think? 

Just peel off the sticker and stick it onto the bag!  Super cute and very easy. 

We hope you have enjoyed some Easter treat inspiration!