Delivery By Bike!

We’ve teamed up with Pronto Pedal Power to offer our Edinburgh customers a fun and environmentally friendly local delivery service. Neil and his team a Pronto Pedal patrol the streets of Edinburgh, pedalling their fleet of cargo bikes around the Capital, fetching and carrying for local businesses and their customers.

We are offering the following introductory rates for orders shipped from Paper Tiger:

Same-day delivery from £5 powered by pedals

Free yourself of shopping bags by taking advantage of our delivery service.   We will deliver your shopping home or anywhere else in Edinburgh the same day.

The service costs £5 for deliveries within 2 miles of our stores or £6.50 within the bypass.  If you are willing to wait a little longer, next day delivery is £3.50.

We can arrange for anything in the Paper Tiger shops (or from Studio One) to be delivered to any address within the five miles of the city centre. Send us an email or give us a call on 0131 226 2390, and we can help you select from our amazing array of cards and gifts. We can send presents out beautifully wrapped using our Gift Wrapping Service – offering a really personal service for you and the recipient! Valentines Day is just around the corner, make someone smile with a hand delivered card & gift!

All You Need Is Love

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Settling In To Our New Surroundings

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We have enjoyed our first week in the refitted Lothian Road shop, and we’re pleased and proud of our new look Paper Tiger. We have constructed entirely new ways for us to display our cards, stationery and wrap, and we have an amazingly flexible system to allow us to change the shop around in the space of a couple of hours. Come and take a look – it might be completely different the next time that you visit!

It took a great deal of time and effort from our own creative team to get the shop looking and working the way that we wanted. Great thanks goes to Adam Storey and the team at Four By Two for their help and assistance in understanding the brief, taking on our comments and ideas, and then presenting us with an exciting and unique shopping experience. Phil Green and Callum Reid at b:spoke delivered our collective vision in the form of our beautifully constructed shop furniture. Cate James supplied our stripes. A tiger is nothing without it’s stripes, and we love our new ones.

The first details and the final details came from our Paper Tiger team – from their knowledge of our stores, our stock and our customers. Their retail experience and presentation skills took the bare shelves and turned a blank space into a beautiful store.

We would also like to thank all of our customers. We’d like to thank you for shopping with us on Lothian Road for almost twenty years, and we’d like to thank you for all of your positive comments over the last week. We’re looking forward to welcoming you into the store for many weeks and years in the future.

A New Look for the New Year

Our Lothian Road shop is closed for a few days whilst we have an extensive refit. We will be reopening next week with a completely new look. The store will be transformed from it’s former self, with brand new fixtures and fittings and new ways of displaying our amazing array of cards, stationery, wrap and gifts.

We’re very excited and hope you will enjoy your new shopping experience. Keep an eye on our website, Twitter and the shop windows for updates on progress.

in the meantime, our Stafford Street shop is open as usual

Mon- Wed 9.30am – 6.00pm

Thu 9.30am – 7.00pm

Fri-Sat 9.30am – 6.00pm

Sun 11.00am – 5.00pm

You can call us on 0131 226 2390 at that shop if you have any questions.

Posting Dates

It’s that time of year again! The Royal Mail have all the dates for Christmas neatly laid out in the table below:

Last recommended posting services	Service
UK
Wed 14th December	Standard Parcels
Sat 17th December	Second Class and Recorded Signed For™
Tue 20th December	First Class and Recorded Signed For™
Wed 21st December	Parcelforce express48
Thu 22nd December	Parcelforce express24
Special Delivery™
Thu 22nd December	Special Delivery™
Fri 23rd December	Special Delivery™ with Saturday Guarantee
International Surface Mail
Fri 30th September	Non-European destinations except Middle East, South Africa, Far East, USA and Canada
Tue 4th October	Middle and Far East (except Hong Kong and Singapore)
Tue 18th October	South Africa, Hong Kong, Singapore, the USA and Canada
Tue 8th November	Eastern Europe, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Malta and Iceland
Tue 22nd November	Western Europe
International Airmail
Mon 5th December	South & Central America, Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Far East (including Japan), Australia and New Zealand
Fri 9th December	Eastern Europe, USA and Canada
Mon 12th December	Western Europe
British Forces Post Office (BFPO)
Fri 2nd December	Airmail to Operational BFPOs
Thu 15th December	Airmail to Static BFPOs
Royal Mail Tracked®
Mon 19th December	RM Tracked
Tue 20th December	RM Tracked High Volume
Wed 21st December	RM Tracked Next Day
PacketPost™/Packetsort
Sat 17th December	Second Class
Tue 20th December	First Class

We have Christmas Stamps on sale in Paper Tiger, don’t forget to buy them when you’re choosing your cards! If you’re sending parcels why not take advantage of our Gift Wrap Service?

Stylish Gift Wrapping Service

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Are you ready? Do you have your tape unfurled, your scissors sharpened, your creases crisp for wrapping? If so you’re one of those people who see the present wrapping at Christmas as all part of the festive fun. For others it can be a difficult or time consuming activity at a busy time of year.

To take a line from The Waitress’ Christmas Wrapping

It is my favourite holiday
But all this year’s been a busy blur
Don’t think I have the energy

Here at Paper Tiger we’ve got the energy and we’re happy to help with the busy blur. Our gift wrapping departments are bursting with a selection of fabulous gift wraps to use on your presents this year. We have simple plain colours, festive fun illustrations or lush glittery sheets as well as roll after roll of beautifully designed and printed papers from around the world. We also have an array of silky ribbons, raffia cobs, shiny silvery string and bows, and tags and finishing touches that will personalise your wrapping and ensure that the gifts that you give have pride of place beneath the Christmas trees of your family and friends.

Our Gift Wrapping Service is ideal if you’re pressed for time, need something spectacular, or you just can’t face the prospect of a night in with the scissors, tape and tags. For £1.50 per parcel we can wrap standard sized gifts with a simple sheet of plain coloured paper, just like the fetching red examples illustrated above (don’t tell my brother that I’ve used his Christmas present for modelling purposes). if you have specific requirements we can tailor our service to suit your needs – the combinations of papers, ribbons and tags seems infinite, and we have talented trained gift wrappers in both of our stores who can help you choose the finish that suits you. Ask in store for further details!

Lomography Cameras At Paper Tiger

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The current pinnacle of analogue photography is the Lomography Camera. The Lomography story began in the early 90′s with the discovery of the Russian Lomo  Kompakt Automat -  a low tech camera that provided the user with an incredible array of effects – vignetting, light streaks, and rich saturated colours that combined to provide an unusual and unique photographic experience. The range of cameras has expanded over the last twenty years as the ‘toy camera’ phenomenon has gone global and become a creative community.

We have a selection of the most popular styles available in our Stafford Street shop right now, ranging from the Diana to the Fisheye. The Diana camera offers dreamy, radiant lo-fi images and looks extremely cool – especially the pocket sized mini versions that we have in a couple of different styles. We also have limited edition versions of the Sardina Camera – literally shaped like a sardine tin, and producing widescreen shots from a pocket sized camera.

The ‘official’ Ten Rules of Lomography are;

1. Take your camera everywhere you go
2. Use it any time – day and night
3. Lomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it
4. Try the shot from the hip
5. Approach the objects of your Lomographic desire as close as possible
6. Don’t think (William Firebrace)
7. Be fast
8. You don’t have to know beforehand what you captured on film
9. Afterwards either
10. Don’t worry about any rules

I would suggest that you read the Rules, take them into consideration, but mainly follow Rule 10, and go with your own instincts. The trick to successful Lomography is trial and error. It’s a very different experience from shooting with a digital camera, and the wait for the results is part of the learning process. Indoor lighting without flash will invariably disappoint, but cameras such as the Diana are available with flash, and they can produce some fabulous effects. The Lomographers on our team have had their best results outdoors on sunny days, creating bright and vibrant images. If you’re looking for inspiration, the internet is awash with shimmery, luminous examples of Lomography from around the world. Flickr is a good place to start, with some local Edinburgh images to see here.

Our current range is on display in the Paper Tiger on Stafford Street, and changes regularly, with limited edition updates and new designs. Come and click with us, and make something of yourself!