July

New Paperblanks

Yet more of the stunning Paperblanks range. From left to right: Safavid Midi & Ultra journals, Blossom Ultra journal, Leonardo's sketches in Slim, Mini and Grande journals, Lindau Gospels Guestbook. A fantastic gift option, beautifully designed and well constructed. You can view the journals here.

New Papers and Card

From left: Speckletone Wine Card, Seed Black, Speckletone Chocolate Card, Chiyo Large Pink Ume, Speckletone Brown Card, Seed Orange,
Speckletone Olive Card and Spiral Seagrass.

New Envelopes

June

Fun Stuff

A new Posh Word Search with a lovely floral cover in bright colours, and more from the amazing artist Junzo Terada, gorgeous sticky notes and Magical Menagerie, 20 fabulous punch out animals, to keep the kids amused, string together and use as a mobile, or brighten up a childs room.

Recycled Envelopes

100% recycled DL envelopes in 4 gorgeous earthy tones. Wine, brown, chocolate and olive.

May

Greeting Cards

April

New A4 Papers

Three lovely kids' papers.  Birdies: colourful birds printed on metallic white paper ; Pets: cats, dogs, bids and flowers on metallic white paper, and Cat - cats, fish, mushrooms, flowers and what looks suspiciously like moles on a mustard background.  All too, too cute for words - see them here.  Plus two damask pattern papers: Ballroom Silver/Black and Ballroom Gold Leaf, which you can find here.   (All the images above have been enlarged to show detail.)

Greeting Cards

Gorgeous vintage images printed on plain kraft card: Birds Nest, Up UP and Away, New Baby and Beep Beep - find them here.  Plus, three seriously cute quilted animal cards: find them here.

More Posh Puzzle Books

A great idea - puzzle books in fantastic covers: Crosswords, Logic Puzzles, Suduko, Sukendo, Hangman, Brain Games, Hidato, Word Search, and more, in flocked, foiled, textured and otherwise beautiful covers.  $12.95 for the small and $14.95 for the large size - a great present for anyone!  See them all here.

Pre cut placecard packs

Precut placecards in a range of popular colours, in matt, metallic and pearlised finishes. Simply fold and decorate as you wish.

March

Luscious Suede Paper

New suede papers extremely tactile in beautiful rich colours. Great for embossing using a Cuttlebug or similar. Also great for use in the new Cristina Re Decorative Border punches. Size of sheet is 215 x 278mm.

Correspondance Greeting Cards

Yet more of the beautiful illustrated French greeting cards.

Lindau Gospel PaperBlanks Journals

These journals are just amazing.  The close-ups above right show the incredible detail on these covers - front, back and sides.  They have a magnetic overlap closure; the ultra size is lined, and the grande is unlined.

Quill Pen and Decorative Border Punches

A new colour in the mini quill pens - they call it purple but it is much more of a hot pink/magenta colour.  Plus two decorative border punches from Cristina Re.  Very easy to align so that you can punch continuously on paper of any length.  Great for invitations, card-making etc.

Guest Books and Brag Book

Two new guest books - Charlotte, which has detailed stitching on the cover and allows you to insert your own photograph in the front cover, and Sequinned Topaz from PaperBlanks, which has a magnetic closure.  Both have lined pages. Full details here.   Also a cute little brag book - "Lil Wonders" - with ribbon detail and space for 20 4" x 6" photographs.  Great gift for Mothers Day.  Full details on the brag book here.

Studs (brads/paper fasteners)

A new diamante stud in black, and lovely cross studs in silver, gold, blue and pink.  Perfect for christening and baptisms.  Full details here.

Handmarbled Endpapers

These papers are from the UK - there are 8 different designs.  Perfect as endpapers, but also gorgeous for covering books.  They come in large sheets - 500x 750mm. Full details here.

New Embossed Papers

Two lovely metallic embossed papers - Embossed Bouquet Champagne and Violet - and a beautiful matt chocolate brown one - Embossed Gardenia Chocolate, all in A4 size. Full details here.

New Paper

Two new lovely watercolour style linen papers from Cristina Re, Butterfly Garden and Peacock Palace, and two Japanese Chiyogami papers, Ladybird Green/Yellow and the beautiful Moroccan Red. All are enlarged to show the detail.

Bookbinding Short Courses

Two new bookbinding short courses for April -  a decorative case bound journal, which introduces you to design binding, and a stylish leather wrap journal.  Full details here.

February

Artists' Book Exhibition

Australian Bookbinders Incorporated will be holding an artists' books exhibition in Sydney in May this year.  If you are interested in exhibiting, you can download an entry form and information here. Below are some examples of Artists' Books made by students at COFA over the last few years.

Bookbinding Courses

Sydney Community College is offering three bookbinding courses in Term 2 this year: Introduction to Bookbinding is an 8 week course and will be held on Tuesday evenings and also on Saturday afternoons, starting 4th May and 8th May respectively.  For those you have previously completed the Introduction to Bookbinding course, a Continuing Bookbinding course will also be held on Wednesday evenings, for 8 weeks commencing 5th May.  Both the courses are staged courses providing a progressive teaching of bookbinding skills.  For the first time, a Certificate of Achievement will be given to attendees of both courses.  Although Rosemarie Jeffers-Palmer will be teaching these courses and they will be held at the bindery above Amazing Paper, they are organised by Sydney Community College and all bookings must be made through them.  If you are interested in the courses, please contact them at www.sydneycommunitycollege.com.au.  The courses are not yet available for booking, but you can join a waiting list to be notified when they are available.

New A4 papers

An assortment of new papers, enlarged to show the detail. Lovely butterflies in 3 colours, 2 gingham prints, Candy Stripe & the lovely black damask (Ballroom Black).

Square Greeting Cards

Gorgeous square greeting cards, Happy Birthday, Love, Baby Arrival, there is a card for every occasion.

Foil Seals

Metallic foil seals in a variety of styles, fantastic value, 20 seals for only $1.50, at that price you could use them anywhere and everywhere.

Chiyogami Papers and Elephant Paper Stationery Sets

Two new chiyos are now available in store and online, the serene Mountain Maple Blue and Floral Red Gold, both have metallic gold detail and are available as A4 or as half sheets. The elephant paper is now available in a stationery pack in 2 different colour ways, each pack has an assortment of 5 envelopes and 10 sheets or paper, both stamped with a very cute elephant insignia.

Crown Mill Paper and Card Sets 

Versatile card and envelope sets from the prestigious Crown Mill in Belgium. Each set contains 10 cards and envelopes, great for handwritten notes or thank you's.  Available in a variety of colours, view them all here.