Green Me: A Shout Out to Paper Shouts (Plus a Giveaway!)
October 22, 2008 by Caryn
*Update*
This giveaway is now closed. Thank you so much for stopping by. The winner is Casey H. Congratulations!
Nothing replaces the timeless tradition of a handwritten note on elegant stationery. One of my hobbies BC (before children) was collecting beautifully designed stationery from all over the world. While content is important, design is an expression of style and personality. Paper Shouts is a chic stationery company with a flair for the unique. From vintage to modern and everything in between, Paper Shouts offers fabulous invitations and announcements for any occasion.
The company is committed to protecting the environment and prints all of their stationery on 100% recycled, high-quality uncoated paper (although you’d never know it!). They are also donating a percentage of their proceeds from holiday cards to Our City Forest (OFC), an organization created to cultivate a greener, healthier urban environment and a renewed sense of community through planting and care of the urban forest.
Many of the designs allow you to personalize the invite or announcement with a photo. Take a look at some of favorite designs:
Special Offer! Save 10% on all holiday orders now through December 1, 2008 with the code “rockin”
Win It! One lucky reader will receive a $50 gift certificate to Paper Shouts! Head on over to the site and take a look around. Come back here and leave me a comment stating the holiday card you like the most and a green tip or favorite green product (please note that you must do both for your entry to count). Comments will close on November 5, 2008 at 11:59 pm PST and I will announce the winner here the following day. One comment per person, please. US residents only. Duplicates and comments not including the above information will be disqualified. Comments are moderated. If you don’t see your comment in a reasonable amount of time, send me an email. Bloggers and non-bloggers may enter. If you don’t want to leave your email address, please be sure to check back for my announcement on the winner. Please note that winners must respond within 48 hours of being announced/contacted or another winner will be drawn.
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I like the vintage cranberry wrap design, my green tip is to always remember to bring your reusable tote bags to the grocery store, it saves so much by not using those awful plastic bags!
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I really like the Holiday Doves design. I love the colors. My green tip, is if you have to fill up your gas tank do it at night.
like the vintage cranberry wrap design, my green tip is to always remember to bring your reusable tote bags to the grocery store, it saves so much by not using those awful plastic bags!
Oh, very nice. I like this card: http://www.papershouts.com/store/default.asp?id=2016
My green tip is to use Clorox Green Works cleaners. We just recently got the dish soap, replacing our other stuff, and we’re REALLY liking the smell and the cleaning work of it!
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use clothe bags for shopping
I really love the dark cranberry 3 photo card, I love the colors, it’s simple and it would look great with black and white pictures of my 3 kids!
A green tip: well we’ve just replaced more outside lights with “green” light bulbs! We always go grocery shopping with reusable bags!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
holiday doves is my favorite
reusue boxes and packing you get and ship out
I love everything, but my favorite is the Cranberry and Green Floral. I love the eco friendly shopping bags. They are convenient for many purposes but also help to avoid using paper and plastic bags at various stores.
I’d be thrilled to win! Thanks for the chance!
the holiday doves are so nice.
We like to use cloth to wrap presents, then it can be easily reused in crafts
I love the 2 Photo Christmas Tree. I blog about going green and doing is cheaply! But a favorite tip of mine: One cup a day. We give our cups a quick rinse after drinking and use them again! It saves so much room in the dishwasher that we run it less!
I like the holiday swirls!
And I use a lot of vinegar to clean! LOL..i’ve learned 101 ways to use vinegar!
Love the Snowflake Celebration card! My ‘green’ tip is to use LARGE recycling containers and to have a set day to take them to the recycling center (if your city dosn’t pick them up) It is hard to recycle when your recycle bins are overflowing!
The Spruce Christmas Lights would be my favorite – it is so pretty.
I really like the Spruce Christmas Tree. My favorite green product had been around for a while. It’s Burt’s Bee’s Baby Bee Shampoo and Wash. I love to use it on my daughter.
love Spruce Christmas Lights — modern and classy!
Thank you so much for this giveaway. I love the Chocolate Candy Stripe card the best. My green tip is to install energy saving light bulbs throughout your home. Thanks so much.
i love the vintage design! use cloth diapers instead of disposable.
The Paper Swirls is my fave. We compost.
Holiday Swirls is my favorite design. It is really lovely. The best green products I have ever used come from Simple Green. They make a cleanser that is as effective as Softscrub, without the bleach or horrible fumes.
We don’t use a car. And I like Rose Springtime Floral
I like Snowflake Celebration. I am also on a quest to never (and I mean never!) get another plastic bag from a store. It’s a challenge though.
I like the Vintage one. Something about polka dots always catches my eye…
My tip might be something that is already well-known, but it was a godsend to me when I learned it. Here goes:
Everyone knows that equal parts warm water and vinegar make a fantastic glass cleaner, but if you’ve used commercial cleaners, you’ll end up with streaks on your glass. UNLESS you put one tiny squirt of dish soap in with the water for the first couple of cleanings. After that, the soap is no longer required. I’ve had the best results with using a clean rag soaked in the vinegar solution to wash the window, then buff it clean with newspaper and elbow grease!
I love the cranberry and blue snowflakes!!
I love using my canvas tote bags for EVERY store I shop!!
I really like the Spruce Christmas Tree! This will be my son’s first Christmas so I am super excited about doing it up this year!! THANKS!!
My favorite green tip: Recycle, recycle, recycle. I even introduced recycling to my large corporation. They were very hesitant at first but they were quick to catch on. It makes me feel as though I am doing my part. THANKS!
i love the hockey holidays card. my favorite green product is the simple green cleaner.
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I like the Clover Christmas Branches card design and would absolutely love to win this giveaway!
Green tip: don’t buy kitchen paper towels or paper napkins, use washable towels & cloth napkins instead. Not just ecological – also economical!
My Favourite is the Holiday Doves. I suggest riding your bike as many places as you can. Especially dates! Bicycle dates can be a ton of fun, particularly if you live in near some wilderness and pack a picnic!
The Spruce Christmas Lights Are Just Wonderful
Switch to green cleaners such as Method. It’s for the environment and for your own health.
Favorite card: snowy, starry nights…
Favorite tip: worm composting- it doesn’t smell, uses all your kitchen scraps, makes amazing compost, and kids love helping out!
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I love the Holiday Doves design!
Green tip – reuse whatever is around the house when possible. For example, my daughter made her entire halloween costume with an old teddy bear (cut the legs off for “paws” and t-shirts, teddy bear ears for her ears, etc) and actually won 50.00 in a costume contest!
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I like the Holiday Snowmen.
We use canvas bags to shop, recycle, and I make every attempt to use paper and other products that have been recycled when possible.
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I blogged you – it’s in my list of contests here:
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I like the cranberry holiday wrap-favorite tip walk to get your gorcieries and use a green bag. My husban and I jsut started doing this-fresh air, no gas and no paper or plastic and good exercise
My sister loves the SuperStar Holiday card. Please accept my entry. Thank you.
I like the Snowflake Celebration!
We use our own homemade napkins that I made out of an old dress! We hang our clothes out on the line to dry!
I love the vintage holiday card! My favorite green tip is to take my own reusable shopping bags.
I like the holiday swirls design.
My favorite green thing that I’m doing this year is taking the paper packaging from our weekly CSA produce box and I’m potato stamping it and making holiday wrapping paper out of it. Reuse and then recycle!
I love the cranberry holiday wrap. I bought bags for shopping.
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I like the vintage ones.
Favorite green tip- reuse shopping bags and use clorox green cleaning products!
I like the holiday snowman….i use bar mops instead of paper towels to clean kitchen counters!
I love the Cranberry Olive…so cute!
Our green tip is to recycle….we recycle as much as we can (amongst other green things we do) and I really feel like my family is helping.
Fantastic giveaway!
I like the sparkling red holiday cards, and I am switching to vinegar and water to clean my windows instead of buying glass cleaner.
I like the spruce christmas lights card… and I like that more stores are carrying green products. I think they are called Clean Green… I am too lazy to get up and look at the bottle, but they work well!
Thanks for the giveaway!
I like Spruce Christmas Lights cards.
Green Tip: use cloth napkins instead of paper towels.
The Spruce Christmas Lights would be my favorite
I love the Christmas Snowflake. It’s too pretty. And my green tip is to use cloth diapers. It’s really not nearly as difficult as people think it is! I love my cloth.
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I like the Vintage cards. We switched all our light bulbs to CFLs.
I adore the Cranberry Holiday Wrap! OMG!
My green tip is to make your own cleaners. I use vinegar and water on my hard wood floors and it works wonders. No build up either! I also mix vinegar, and baking soda for a scouring paste in the shower. Much easier on our septic system!
Cranberry Christmas Snowflakei s one of my favorites!
We are using reusable shopping bags and switching to green cleaners (method)
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Thanks for such a fun giveaway!
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I love the Spa Blue Christmas Snowdrift . I am loving using the cloth grocery bags.
I like the Holiday Swirls one. And we compost.
i liked the traditional. I always reuse bags.
I like the holiday swirl! And I love Seventh Generations cleaning products!
I love the Chocolate Snowflake card. My green tip: I switched to biodegradeable doggy poop bags. Gross but still helping the environment.
I love the traditional card!
My husband, 2 yr old, 4 yr old and I walk or bike absolutely everywhere… to get groceries, to appointments, to school — rain or shine.
i like the vintage cards
my best green tip is recycle heavily and use reusable bags. also make your own cleaners
Cranberry Holiday Wrap in my favorite and I like to reuse ziploc bags!
I really like the vintage design. It caught my eye
REPLACE light bulbs! It can save so much energy
I like the Christmas Square….my son will turn one a week before Christmas. My green tip is to use cloth diapers. Don’t stink up our landfills.
I like snow day.
My tip is to fill your gas tank when it’s only half–or even a quarter–empty. I don’t know why, but it really increases your mileage.
fav card- snowy starry nite, ty
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I like the holiday swirls!
I have started making cleaners and such with vinegar instead of buying them!
THANKS for the chance!
I like the Cranberry Holiday Wrap card. My green tip is to turn off lights that are not in use and recycle everything!
I really love the Green and Plum Diamonds cards. Gorgeous!
My fave green tip is to not use any kind of paper you can live without. We don’t use paper napkins, paper towels, paper bags, or paper diapers. All cloth, all reusable.
I love the Spruce Christmas tree design. Now for my tip…I have recently discovered that plain white vinegar and baking soda can clean almost anything (carpet, stinky trashcans, soap scum, laundry…it’s crazy!!!0 Anyway..it cheap and green!
Angie
Sparkling Red Holiday or Sparkling Snowman. I love Simple Green cleaner! It smells really,really good,you can use it anywhere and it’s concentrated so a little goes a LONG way.
I love the Snowflakes and Reindeer card- so cute.
My favorite green tip is to line dry clothes as much as possible instead of using the dryer.
Thanks!
I love the holiday doves. My green cleaning tip is spend the extra dollar or two and buy the organic non-toxic cleaners, especially if you’re cleaning surfaces that pets or small children will be touching. Thanks!
I like the vintage cranberry wrap design!
Also I recycle all bottles and cans even if it is not convienient!
I like the Spruce Christmas Lights card- so cute!
As for a green tip: I use cloth napkins to cute down on paper waste. Thanks for the giveaway!
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The Holiday Doves are so pretty! Green tip: If you use zip-top baggies for dry items, they can be lightly rinsed out and reused. Some think its crazy, but I think it’s crazy to throw out so much plastic! Thanks for the giveaway!
I’m also following your blog!
I like the vintage Spruce Christmas lights card.
Green tip: Run the dishwasher or washing maching at night when the least amount of energy is being used by the rest of the nation (that’s what they tell you to do if they think there’s going to be a blackout!)
Th Holiday Snowman card is cute!
We use reuseable bags when shopping and we recycle
I like the Snowflake Celebration design- and my tip is to do what you can however small- buy less packaging, bring reusable bags, combine errands. The little things will add up and make a huge difference.
I like the Cranberry Christmas Snowflake. My tip is to use reusable shopping bags.
Holiday Swirls is a great card!
My green tip: Wash clothes in cold water if you can and use fluorescant light bulbs.
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I like the Midnight Christmas card design.
As for a green tip, try to patronize companies such as Paper Shouts that use recycled paper. And, of course, recycle everything you possibly can!
My favorite card is the Spruce Christmas Lights.
Green tip: get rid of those paper goods! We use cloth napkins, cleaning rags, and reusable dinnerware and lunch box containers. As long as you only run full dishwasher or washing machine loads, reusables will always beat disposables.
Holiday Swirls
I love the pink flower thank you notes….or sorry You said Christmas Cranberry Christmas snowflake…I do small things…I use My canvas bags I have at home..not a store bag but what I already own………it works great
I like the Spruce Christmas Lights. We use as many LED lights whereever possible
SuperStar Holiday is my favorite.
Green tip: Use Baking Soda for cleaning instead of cleanser.
Thank you!
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The Vintage Christmas— My tip is to avoid use cloth bags to tote your groceries back homes cards–
Like the snowman cards – always have reusable cloth bags in car ready for when you stop at store.
I like Hanukkah Snowflake. Tip – use cloth bags instead of paper/plastic.
Holiday snowman .. I like snowmen. Recycle paper and plastics and cans
I love the Spruce Christmas Tree card.
I use my own cloth bags when shopping. I also recycle as much as possible.
Christmas Cherry Snow Fall is myfavorite. My green tip, we use reuseable container for lunch. Always take our Sigg and bring our own canvas totes to the store.
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I love the Spruce Christmas Tree card. I try to reduce my waste as much as possible by recyling, using reusable products and eliminating excess packaging. Thanks for the giveaway!
Spruce; recycle
I love the Spruce Christmas tree and Midnight Christmas designs.
My green tip is use a “green” re-useable water bottle and eliminate buying bottled water.
i love the Pine Cranberry Ribbon xmas card
reusue boxes and packing you get and ship out
I love the Christmas Snowflake card! I love using my own bags when shopping! Thanks for the contest!
I like the Valentine’s Pink Heart Photo.
My favorite is the green ornament swirls. My favorite green products are microfiber cloths – I clean everything with them
I love the Winter Wonderland Christmas Card. Start a compost pile.
My favorite is the Cranberry Square Wrap.
Natural cleansers like vinegar and baking soda do a great job without harming the planet. I use reusable grocery bags, recycle and compost and try to conserve gas by driving much less.
Thanks for the opportunity to participate in this giveaway!