Hi! My name is Lauri and I'm a Paper Addict....
🙋♀️Welcome to Custom Designs By Lauri! I'm so glad you found my little corner of the 🌎! Grab a cup of ☕or a glass of🍷 and let me introduce myself. I strive to be a Proverbs 31 woman, I'm a full time Etsy seller, happily married to my wonderful husband Buster, and fur baby Momma to our sweet little 🐶Shih Tzu Cooper.. We spent 20 years in the Army, and were stationed in OK, NY, OR, WA, GA, and TX. As soon as my husband retired from the Army, we waved goodbye🙋♀️ to the 🚚moving van one last time and headed back HOME to Spokane WA where we both grew up.
Okay, Okay, so how did I become a paper addict? Remember as a girl, all those stickers we collected? The sticker albums filled to the brim with stickers that were our prized possessions? Well, I had those, but what I really 💕loved💕 was my box of pretty patterned stationery papers. I would spend hours just looking at them and choosing just the right one to write a note to a friend. Remember those notes we passed in class that were all folded just so? Ahhh, nostalgia!
But how did it start, you may be wondering...In 4th grade, my friend Lisa and I had the brilliant
idea to make cards with folded construction paper and draw pictures with crayons to make Christmas cards to sell to our classmates. In 2007, my MIL bought me some stamps and ink pads for Christmas and BAM! I was off like a herd of 🐢turtles making cards. I wanted to sell my cards, but at that time hadn't even heard of Etsy yet, so it kind of fizzled out. After we got stationed in GA, I picked it back up again making cards and then found Etsy. I've done cards, invitations, event items, favor tags, banners, and stickers.
More paper, please! A year ago, I discovered StampinUp! and for the love of Pete, now I'm a full blown paper (and stamp) addict. So now I'm bringing cards into the shop, all kinds of cards - printed notecards, assembled cards made out of different papers, stamps and embellishments and I have plans for so much more. I ❤️❤️ doing favor tags, but my passion has always been cards and stationery, so get ready to see a ton of new cards and stationery in my shop. Will I quit or phase out the tags? Most likely NOT, cause well, those are an addiction to me as well.
So, if you'd like to follow me on my journey of paper addiction, be sure to heart and follow my shop to be the first to see what's new!
So there you have it, in a nutshell - I'm a happily married fur baby momma paper addict who unapologetically loves Jesus, her family, coffee and yes, paper. If you need anything made with paper, I'm your gal!
I promise to create your order as if I was creating it for my best friend or family member and take great care in packaging it up and📬mailing it out to you. If for any reason you're not satisfied with your order, please let me know right away so I can make it right. Your experience is so very important to me and I want you to be 😁happy with your purchase.
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