Stationery Scoop: the blog by paper company CEO Heidi Reimer-Epp

Stationery in spicy Tangerine Tango

Tangerine Tango is the Pantone Color of the Year and from seed paper to office accessories, I'm surrounding myself with this inspiring color. Before Pantone made the declaration, I was already crazy about Tangerine, so I'm super excited to announce that my company Botanical PaperWorks now has a Tangerine seed paper. This paper is available in all of our custom stationery products.

Check out these plantable promotional products in Tangerine:

And bulk sheets of seed paper in Tangerine: 

Wedding favors in Tangerine, for anyone using this fabulous color in their wedding palette:

Plantable Love Birds wedding favor in Tangerine

There are lots of other cool things that I'm loving in Tangerine, such as: 

Tangerine iPhone case

Tangerine Pantone mug; the photo looks quite red, but it's from Pantone so I think the final product would be true to the color.

This Tangerine dog collar from Glamor Mutt (Morgan, you'd look awesome in this collar!).

With this much Tangerine Tango, I can get my fix in many ways. Now to paint that wall in my house...

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Check out more Tangerine Tango and a Pinterest board here.

Free Christmas images for last minute projects

Are you wanting to pull off a Christmas miracle and create some last-minute cards or tags? These free candy cane images are from Pugly Pixel and City of Blackbirds are yours to download and use on anything - printed or digital.

Also free for download is the Photoshop Blog Photo Template that I used for this post. Works in either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements (that's what I use) and Katrina has a great video tutorial to get newbies started.

For more quick ideas, I've put all of my favorite free Christmas Printables in a Pinterest board. The holiday wall art is my favorite.

Surrounded by these sights of Christmas

In these days of anticipation as Christmas approaches, are you enjoying the scenes of Christmas and the holidays around you? In the evening after the kids are in bed, I sit on the couch with a book or my laptop and soak up these sights:

On the buffet in our dining room, gilded pinecones are displayed in a handmade pottery bowl. The bowl was made by a potter who lives full-time at Brereton Lake and we visited her last summer during our week at the cottage.

The Playmobil Nativity scene with the add-on Wisemen kit is a hit every year.

This cookie tree smells heavenly and will taste delicious when we smash it to bits on Christmas Day.

What sights are you enjoying this Christmas?

Baker's twine + reused box + seed paper tag = fresh and eco holiday gift packaging

I'm a huge fan of baker's twine and this year, I'm pairing it with these plantable seed paper gift tags and neutral-colored gift boxes. Throughout the year, I've been putting aside white and kraft boxes to use at Christmas, and together with the seed paper gift tags, the result is gift packaging that is fresh and eco all at the same time.

Now to practice my handwriting!

UPDATE #1: I bought the baker's twine online from The Twinery. Check out their amazing selection of colors!

UPDATE #2: You can also get baker's twine from Paper Source. The big spool of red is sold out online but the little red one is available. And lucky you if you get to shop in person at one of their fabulous stores.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Wow, it's December 1 and I'm welcoming the month with open arms. Last Sunday, we celebrated the first week of Advent by getting our Christmas tree and decking out the house. Tonight, we'll gather with fellow entrepreneurs at a Christmas party at the Manitoba Club. I'm looking forward to toasting the season with them.

How are you doing with your Christmas shopping? I'm happy to say that I have just one gift left to buy, then I'm all done. It helps that I head up a great stationery company so I can do a bunch of my shopping at work. I pulled inspiration from this year's Green Gifts Guide.

I'm continuing to add gift ideas to my Pinterest board, including a super cool 2012 Envelope Journal. I'm all for anything that makes journalling and memory-keeping easier.

So with December here, be sure to take some time to pour a glass of egg nog or light some Advent candles to enjoy the season. Cheers!