City Papery, 23 W. 18th St.; 212-463-7035; citypapery.com
The card stock and note cards at City Papery come in quite literally every color one could want — Bordeaux, Prussian blue, and Vulcan gray. This, combined with its convenient in-house printing, embossing, foil-stamping, and letterpress services, makes the shop an easy one-stop for custom invitations and personalized stationery. It’s always painter and calligrapher Nancy Moy’s first choice when starting a project. Once, she says, she was able to find Tiffany-blue card stock to create a friend’s baby-shower décor. “I was shocked they had it in stock,” she says, “as I could not find it anywhere else.” Gala Phipps, who runs an event-design studio and makes stationery for weddings, says City Papery just knows how to get the job done, quickly and efficiently. “Because a lot of my designs use color card-stock paper, I am huge on seeing things in my hands before purchasing,” she says. “I know that most of the time I can run in to City Papery, find what I need, review it in person, and order as much as I need.” Not only does it have lots of colors to choose from, but it has unique styles of paper as well — Phipps’s favorites being large-size specialty paper, including marble and glitter options, and handmade paper embedded with leaves and seeds, which she recently used for an envelope liner on a greenery-style invitation suite.
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