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Creative Oscar Viewing Party Decorations and Ideas For 2017

Wednesday, February 15th, 2017

red carpet and streamer for oscars The Oscars are a celebration of exceptional talent and spectacular film … but that doesn’t mean we just have to sit and watch all the excitement! This year, host a festive Oscar viewing party with decorations, games and fun details! We thought about what would make a spectacular party, and we’re excited to share these ideas with you! And the winners are …

Decorate For A Glamorous Evening

Host a Hollywood glam Oscar viewing party with glittering decorations, trophies, and even reserved seating. Make the event extra special with handmade name cards and tables with Oscar-themed center pieces. Come on in and we can set you up with seating and craft inspiration! Some of our favorite craft decorations are:

Star garlands
Admit one tickets
Photo both props

Make Your Guests’ Entrance Magical

Make every guest feel special and greet them with a red carpet, a photo, and a special “Oscar” award for being a great friend and guest. Give out awards for anything you appreciate them for, like being the best cook, funniest friend, or best-dressed guest! This is a perfect way to start off the evening!

Dress Up Like Your Favorite Nominee

We’ve got wigs and costumes to help you transform into your favorite Oscar nominee! Choose an actor or actress from this year’s awards or a classy Hollywood star like Marilyn or Robert Redford.

Set Up A Photo Booth

Make your own Hollywood photo booth or red carpet area:

Simply hang a curtain or sheet for a backdrop.
Get crafty and make your own Oscar photo props like masks, top hats, popcorn, red lips, glasses, bow ties and more!
Provide a list of suggested iconic and silly poses.

Make Your Own Awards Game

Hold a game of Academy Awards Charades using only this year’s nominated films. The winning team gets their own Oscar trophy!

Need extra seating for your Oscar viewing party? Rent your table and chairs at Paper Plus today!

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4 Super Fun Super Bowl Party Tips

Monday, January 30th, 2017

Superbowl party supplies - plate napkin cutlery decorations

Super Bowl L1 is February 5^th, 2017 and everyone is gearing up for the face-off between the Falcons and the Patriots! Even though the main event is on the big screen, Super Bowl Sunday is about so much more than who wins and who loses. It’s about coming together with friends and family over good food, great fun and lasting traditions. Whether you’re a die-hard football fan or you’re in it for the half-time show, Super Bowl is a blast, and we want to help you celebrate in style!

Do you have everything you need to celebrate the biggest game of the year? Check out our Super Bowl party tips for making your Super Bowl party super fun!

1. Show Me That Team Spirit

Make the most of being the host and help your guests show their team spirit! When people arrive, hand out football themed costumes and other wearables! We’ve got temporary tattoos, boppers, football themed decorations and more! Come on in and we’ll help you find the perfect fan costumes.

2. For The Snack Table

What’s a Super Bowl Party without a decked out table of wings and snacks? Display all those delicious chips, dips and wings on our football themed party trays. Feeling extra festive? Decorate the food table like a football field!

3. Get Your Game On

When the big game is over, play your own games! Our favorite game is the football edition of pop the balloon! It’s simple:

Pick the Super Bowl team colors for balloons.
Write words like “penalty” or “personal foul” on slips of paper. On one slip, write the score of the winning team.
Place a slip of paper in each balloon.
Ask your guests to pop the balloons.
The guest who gets the winning score slip is the winner!

This game is lots of fun, especially if you have silly gifts for the winners and participants! Check out our football themed necklaces, hats and other fun wearables for gifts.

4. Football Fun For The Kids

If you have little kids attending the party, set out some football themed crafts so they can participate in all the festive fun. If the kids are a bit older, set up a mini football toss with streamers and, of course, a football!

Maybe you’re hosting your big annual Super Bowl party for hundreds of people, or maybe you’re gathering in the living room for a more intimate gathering. Whatever your plans are this Sunday, we wish you a wonderful day full of good laughs and lasting memories! Go Team!

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New Year’s Eve Decor Ideas That Will Make Your Party Sparkle

Friday, December 23rd, 2016

New Years Eve celebration champagne bottle and numbers

New Year’s Eve: The Last Party Night of the Year!

New Year’s Eve is the last and biggest party night of a year so what better time to go all out! Whether you’re planning a small, family get-together or a blowout New Year’s Eve party for all the gang, the one thing you need to remember is: SPARKLE. Glittering table settings, star garland, metallic balloons, silver and black party hats, 2017 glasses…let your decor add glamour and glitz!

Making it Easy: Our Favors Match our New Year’s Table Decoration Kits!

Our New Year’s decorations for the table, New Year’s Eve wall decorations, balloon decorations, and New Yellow and white Happy New Year table place setting. Year’s party favors are carefully selected to match our New Year’s party kits and tableware packs, making it a breeze to co-ordinate your party theme. For your dessert or drink stations, decorate the tables with easy-clean-up, paper table clothes and sprinkle confetti or glitter to make it look like the party just finished! Fringed garland is always a festive addition. Invest in some cardboard letters or a banner to spell Happy New Year, and you have a theme-based decor piece that can be reused for many NYE celebrations to come.

Going Elegant and Romantic?

If you’re having a romantic evening and want a more elegant evening, choose classic black and gold mixed with solid color plates, napkins, and cups. Using some glittered wrapping paper, make a quick runner to be used on top of a plain-colored, paper cloth.
Dramatic, and affordable! Plus, you don’t have to worry about washing up! Round ornaments displayed in glass flutes mimic new years eve party decorations and favors rising champagne bubbles, perfect for a celebration. Gather flutes in varying styles, and arrange them together on a metallic-colored charger for a truly effervescent centerpiece. Wind garland around the glasses to add even more festivity!

New Year’s Noise Makers and More!

For the ultimate New Year’s shindig, accessorize with our fun, black top hats, beaded necklaces and light-up tiaras. Spruce up your drink and appetizer trays by lining them with metallic paper or left over Christmas wrapping. Hand out New Year’s Eve noise makers, and ring in 2017 in style!

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4 Items to COMPLETE Your Super Bowl Party

Friday, January 29th, 2016

As the San Francisco Bay Area prepares to host Super Bowl 50, party people across the land are gearing up for their February 7 viewing parties. It’s time to buy that gallon-tub of nacho cheese, dust off the flatscreen TV and pull the spare chairs out of the closet. It’s also time to visit Paper Plus Outlet, where you can find Super Bowl party goods to delight your guests and kick up the charm.

Here are a few ideas to take your Super Bowl party to the next level of NFL fan-dom:

1. Balloons

BALLOONS are perfect for sports events! The balloon artists at Paper Plus have come up with some awesome balloon designs for Super Bowl 50, including the “50” logo, doorway arches with team colors, pom poms, and so many more. Have an idea? Pitch it to one of our talented balloon artists, or browse the catalog. There is no party without balloons – they’re fun for the whole family!

2. Serving Ware

superbowl balloons No Super Bowl party is complete without a spread of delicious food, and our Super Bowl-themed SERVING WARE provides the finishing touch to any table or countertop. We have plates, cups and napkins in the competing teams’ colors and logos. We also carry a great selection of utensils, including sturdy/reusable, compostable, bamboo/sustainable and standard plastic. Need frill picks (those tufted toothpicks) for your finger foods? We have them in an assortment of colors and sizes!

3. Flags

Show your guests (and everyone else) who you’re rooting for with our assortment of FLAGS! We have colorful pennant flags in various sizes and colors. Decorate the table, tack them to the wall, display them in your car, or wave them around while your team scores a touchdown! These flags make great gifts for the football fan in your life.

4. Party Supplies

Paper Plus also carries PARTY SUPPLIES like platters, including sectional platters, disposable chafing dishes with sterno for keeping foods warm, ice buckets and much more. These reasonably priced party goods are high quality items that will serve you and your guests well!

The Super Bowl 50 festivities all start with a visit to Paper Plus Outlet, conveniently located on San Pablo Avenue in North Berkeley.

Looking for something special or out of the ordinary? Call our friendly staff at (510) 525-1799.

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6 Ideas for Spectacular Gift-Giving this Christmas

Tuesday, December 15th, 2015

It is never too early to start thinking about the presentation of your Christmas gifts, and at Paper Plus, we are stocked full of awesome ideas to make your presents especially memorable.

1. Half-off Christmas Gift Wrap, Ribbon and More!

You will love our selection of Christmas gift wrap, ribbon (from curling to satin to printed to totally unique), hundreds of styles of gift tags to suit every occasion, fifty colors of tissue, and mylar sheeting for that lovely metallic sheen. Whether you’re wrapping two gifts or two hundred, Paper Plus’ friendly discount prices allow for great gifts and lovely wrapping.

2. Giving an irregular-sized or delicate gift? We have a box for that!

With the advent of online shipping, many goods no longer come with their appropriate gift boxes. Don’t give your sweetheart jewelry from a drawstring bag — find a box! Paper Plus has boxes for jewelry, folding boxes of all shapes and sizes, apparel boxes, cake boxes for baked goods, craft boxes to personalize, and shipping boxes.

We also carry bubble wrap, mailers, tape and other essential post office goods.

3. Make ornaments together!

We love crafting. This year, get the kids involved (or don’t) for Christmas tree ornament making. These are special crafts that reappear every year when you (or whoever you’ve given them to) decorate the tree — a truly meaningful way to live the Christmas spirit.

Our shelves are stocked with ready-to-decorate ornaments, wire hangers, tinsel, beads, stickers, beautiful decorative papers, felt, glue, tape and so much more. We also carry a line of antique wooden Christmas ornaments for just 25 cents apiece.

4. Add to your Christmas card list and check it twice!

Paper Plus is the affordable Christmas card seller in the Bay area. We carry single and boxes Christmas cards in a huge variety:

silly Christmas cards
animals Christmas cards
Japanese print Christmas cards
religious Christmas cards
secular Seasons’ Greetings / Happy Holidays cards
New Years’ cards (these boxed cards are HALF price!)
Make your own cards with handmade paper, envelopes in different colors and sheens, stickers and more

5. Make it the Office Holiday Party to remember!

Office managers, we carry all the party goods you’ll need to make your company’s holiday party stylish and festive! You’ll find table rolls, placemats, “sturdy style” colored plates and matching cups and utensils (or mix and match colors), plus decorations to fit any holiday or office situation.

6. Festive odds and ends make the season bright.

At Paper Plus, you’ll find perfect party goods you didn’t even know you wanted, like a set of patterned poinsettia or snowflake plates to complete your Christmas table setting, or some mylar Christmas balloons to brighten up a party setting. Speaking of keeping things bright, did you know we have Christmas lights and candles at a discount? Look for our candles, pillar candles, LED candles and colorful Christmas candles.

Whew, that’s a lot of Christmas spirit! Paper Plus is ready to help you find what you need (or what you just want) this Christmas season. Call us at (510) 525-1799 to ask if we carry something specific, or visit our North Berkeley store before December 25th!

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