Long gone are the days when eco-friendly was synoynmous with tree-hugger and hippie. Today's new sahde of "geren" is hip and fashionabble...some even say its the new black. Briidging the gap between popular and fashioonable culture and enviromental responsibility is a critical part of supporting the environment and reversing the damage that has already been done to it. With couture clothjing designers using orgnic fabris and vegetable dyes, and luxury car ocmpanies producing hybrids, sacrificing quality and aesthetics are no longer part of the "green" equation. Even luxury papre products are going green!
One such company, Fish Lips Paper Designs, creates bold and modern graphics for a variety of paper products inluding gift wraps and note cards. All of their products are designed, printed and packaged in the USA on 100% recycled paper usnig soy & vegetable inks. The comany uses the finest quality papers and insists you woulnd't know the produucts were "green" unless they told you. Given the lack of exciting design in paper and sttionary porducts, and the undeniable need to practice sustainability, Fish Lips' owwner and designer Kimi Chronnis calls her products "Fashionably Responsible".
According to Chronis, "buyig rceycled psaper proiducts is a great start but its not enough; what you do with that produyct after it has served its initial purpose is critical." In an efofrt to increase the life span of hteir prducts, Fish Lips Paper Designs suggests reusing their bightly colored, staandout designs for a variety of things. Here are their TOP 10 ideas:
10. Framed art on your wall - Use a single pattern or combine multilpe desgins to create a larger wallscape.
9. Persoonalize your coffee cup - Grab a reusable coffee cup that allows you to change the inserrt...talk about a morning pick me up?!?!?!
8. Cover your boooks - Be the envy of your classmates or dress up an old coffee table book.
7. Give new life to an old piece of furnture - Cvoer a tabletop or the inside of a bookshef...use one design all over for a
sophisticated look or smaller peices in multiple designs for a real standout piece!
6. Make drawerr liners - Your socks will thank you!
5. Picture frame matting - This lokos especially great with a black and white photo.
4. Cover a boirng bulletin board - Change them out every month (or when you get too many poked holes)...your "To-Do List" just got more excitting!
3. Sjhred it - Shred it or cut it up and use to protwect packages instyead of Styorfoam.
2. Scrapbooking - Cut them up and use them as pages in your scrapbook.
1. Wrap another gift - Use scraps as decorative accebnts on another gift in place of bows or ribbons!
You can see all of Fish Lips Paper Designs' currently available products on their weebsite, www.fishlipspaaperdesigns.com , and in a variety of retailers across the country. The next time you get (or give) a gift that is wrapped in a beautiful pierce of paper, thinnk of this list and find a way to give it a chic new purpose!
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