Paper Talk

Today we are chatting with three talented Paper Florists, Kelly Grace Gibbons, Susan Bonn, and Jessa Parker, about their businesses and honing their craft! All three lovely ladies were at the Masterclass in the spring so it was incredibly nice to come together again and hear their stories. Get to know Susan Bonn’s paper flower journey: Tell us a bit about your paper flower businessI started making paper flowers about 4 years ago. It was a hobby for me while still working my corporate

In this week’s episode of Paper Talk, we discuss the proper etiquette for sharing photos on social media and what to do when you are not properly credited. This can be a bit of a hot topic for some people who aren’t familiar with the ins and outs of social media and don’t understand why it’s not ok to share a photo that isn’t theirs without permission. Many of us have been in a situation where someone takes one of our photos, something we worked very hard to create and uses it for their own

In this Episode, we are chatting with the beautiful and lovely Margie Keates ofThe Lovely Ave! We met Margie at the Masterclass and we immediately became smitten with her down-to-earth character and bubbly personality (yes - she really is as friendly and fun as she appears online!) Listen to Margie as she talks with Quynh, Jessie, and Priscilla, about her business, her “house”, and her new studio space. Margie is such a well-spring of information for paper florists and had some great

In this podcast, we are in conversation with Jodi Duncan ofDesign Master. Design Master is a company that provides colour solutions to the fresh floral industry. Internationally, they are associated with Oasis-Smithers. Jodi herself has years of experience as a fresh floral designer and she is very well known in the fresh floral industry. Her knowledge about the colour products is astounding. At the2019 Masterclass, she demonstrated how to use Design Master products on both fresh and paper

In this week’s podcast, we have a frank chat over coffee about how we each started our paper flower journeys. Although we all have a similar passion for making paper flowers, we each took it up at different points in our lives and for all together different reasons. I think how we got started also shaped our business model and approach to paper flower making. We each faced a turning point where we could decide to do nothing and continue our lives as they were, or decide to do something and

In our second podcast, we are chatting it up with the king of crepe paper (at least on this side of the ocean), Mike Benson ofCarte Fini. Carte Fini is based in San Diego, California and it is an online distributor ofCartotecnica RossiItalian crepe paper and ships worldwide. We first met Mike at the2019 Masterclass in Monroe, Washington, where he generously sponsored part of our swag bag for the attendees. He even enthusiastically participated in paper flower making for the first time (and

In our very first podcast, we are featuring the wonderful Wendy Middaugh ofWJM Paper Floral Designs. We met Wendy at our Masterclass in Seattle this past spring and was so impressed by her art and personality. Wendyresides just southwest of the Twin Cities in Minnesota, U.S.A. She’s been making paper flowers for about 1.5 years, picking up the craft via YouTube tutorials. She currently works full time as a lab technician, however, you can find her making paper flowers all the time and