Paper Coterie Review {& BIG Giveaway!!!}

Have you heard of Paper Coterie yet? I had the plea­sure of check­ing out some of the prod­ucts & meet­ing some of the Paper Coterie gals at BlogHer and I was instantly impressed. Their pas­sion for their prod­uct was imme­di­ately appar­ent! So, what is Paper Coterie? Here’s an expla­na­tion in their own words: “We’re a pas­sion­ate cir­cle of friends who share a com­mon pur­pose – doc­u­ment­ing the beauty of life well lived. We believe in the rel­e­vance and value of per­ma­nence. We announce new births, cel­e­brate mile­stones we never thought would come, and go on record with what we hope for our chil­dren long after we are gone.” Sounds great, right? I think so!

But, the ques­tion is, how is the prod­uct qual­ity? From what I’ve seen, it’s awe­some! At BlogHer, we received two fab­u­lous prod­ucts, intro­duc­ing us to Paper Coterie: a “doc­u­ment­ing the beauty of life well lived” jour­nal and an adorable lit­tle desk­top cal­en­dar (only ours had inspi­ra­tional quotes instead of pic­tures). Once home, I was able to go shop­ping and choose an item. It was SO hard to choose! I really, really wanted to do a book, but just didn’t have the time to do it right then. So, then, I almost got a Mem­ory Keeper (and now, will totally be going back to get one…or two)! LOVE this idea!!! But, then I found it.…an adorable growth chart!

I’ve been look­ing at var­i­ous ones for awhile, but as soon as I saw this one, I knew I had to have it!  The boys’ bath­room has a fun ocean theme and I thought it would go perfectly!

Order­ing my prod­uct was really easy! No fancy (aka long) down­loads, no super tricky direc­tions. It was all really straight­for­ward. I love that every­thing was customizable–you can change the pic­tures and words (even the font!)!  I decided to make one for the boys. Thanks to our Sea World trip, I had an appro­pri­ate themed pic­ture and changed the text to read, “watch us grow”. I’m always espe­cially ner­vous about qual­ity of photo prod­ucts (and tend to be rather crit­i­cal). But, I was SO pleased with this!

First off, I thought the turn-around was really great! And, I was SOoooo pleased with the qual­ity! You can tell that they care about their products!

Here’s what ours looks like: Big Brother was REALLY excited about it!

 So, would YOU like to try Paper Coterie?! If so, you’ve got a cou­ple of GREAT options! Start­ing with…

Give­away!!

Paper Coterie is giv­ing TEN (yes, 10!!!) lucky Mom Endeav­ors’ read­ers a $40 credit + FREE ship­ping!!! Sweet!!

CONGRATULATIONS to the 10 lucky winners!!

1. #40 (given the prize, I could NOT believe this num­ber was the 1st ran­dom draw, how appro­pri­ate!! )!!!  Con­grats, Gina!
   
2. #46 Con­grats, Trish!
   
3. #12 Con­grats, Ann!
4. #52 Con­grats, Naomie!
5. #8  Con­grats, Erica!
6. #15 Con­grats, Kelly
7. #31 Con­grats, Heather
8. #20 Con­grats, Jessica!
9. #4 Con­grats, Kim!
10. #37 Con­grats, Lyndsey

Win­ners: I hope to have all the unique codes to give you tomor­row! In the mean­time, you’re wel­come to get started on your projects and/or email me momendeavors(at)gmail(dot)com to me if you’d like, oth­er­wise you’ll be hear­ing from me soon! Thanks to all who entered!!

To Enter:

1. Visit papercoterie.com and leave a com­ment telling me what product(s) you’d like to buy!

Get extra entries (leave a sep­a­rate com­ment for each):

Give­away will end on Sep­tem­ber 4th at 10pm PST. 10 Win­ners with a valid entry will be selected at ran­dom using random.org and be noti­fied via email (win­ners will also be posted on this post). They will have 48 hours to claim their prize (make sure you leave your email address or that it is attached to your profile).

And, WAIT.…there’s more!!…

Paper Coterie has deemed August, “Begin Any­where Month”, encour­ag­ing peo­ple to doc­u­ment their mem­o­ries. Check out their site for details! Any­one can cre­ate some­thing for FREE (just pay ship­ping) with their gen­er­ous $40 credit! Just use the code BEGINANYWHERE (but be sure use the code before mid­night on 8/31 MST)!

So, there you go! You can enter the give­away and then head over to Paper Coterie right now to get started on your $40 FREE “Begin Any­where” project. Then, if you’re one of the lucky 10 win­ners, you’ll be able to go get another $40 worth of awe­some prod­uct and not even have to pay ship­ping! Maybe you could even get a jump start on the Christ­mas shopping?!

Dis­clo­sure: I received the growth chart for free as part of a pro­mo­tional pro­gram with Paper Coterie and Mom­S­e­lect. How­ever, as always, all opin­ions and expe­ri­ences are my own.