Papyrus

This location is the best in SF.
For why?
They do personalized cards.
Pick a card. Any card you want; it doesn’t have to be blank. Decide what you want to say. Then, choose a font. Let them do their magic, & voila. You have a customized & personalized momento that is the only one of its kind.
Major props for their gift wrap options & services, too. It’s pricey, for sure. But you can rest assured that the finished product will be beautiful & classy.
I can’t comment on a lot of the merchandise, since I only come in for cards & to have things gift wrapped. But they do have a small assortment of books available.
Books are ALWAYS good.
My only negative is that the personalized service for cards is not available everyday of the week. Call first.
4 stars.

I have loved this store ever since I stepped foot in it about 10 years ago. I love the pocketbooks and wallets and many other items I have gotten here, As well as the cards. My particular favorites are the 3D cards, especially at Christmastime. I especially love the Manager, Sean, and Alyssa and the lady who always has on the beautiful jewelry from trunk shows. Wonderful people to work with, and they let me peruse with my huge dog River until I can get the next batch of cards and things I need!!! :-) :-) :-) GREAT store!!! :-) :-) :-)

Happened to be walking past when I remembered something I wanted to buy. Never again. Such attitude. Wouldn’t help to smile once in awhile people. It’s just cards, not surgery, FFS.

Product comes from China… and is cheap, especially a lot of the items other than cards. Pens break and don’t work, cheap plastic toys marked way the heck up, just like the cards, which should be a lot cheaper having been made in China. IF you want to support another country’s goods… that is.
Then there is the staff. Great staff from the previous manager and one new young lady… who is there intermittently. The previous manager was very affable, had the store a rolling, and everyone loved to come in and see her while they bought. Life and shopping was a real celebration.
Now it’s cold and getting colder, with new staff that acts like dead wood… and seems to have insecurity issues. The last manager would have never hired them.
The friendly atmosphere is gone.
You won’t enjoy the experience. Unless you get one of the two still there… and heaven only knows how long that will be.
Better to go to Standard 5&10 Ace Hardware, pay half the price, and get a similar product, with better staff to help.

Love this place! Beautiful things, great place for gifts. Check out the Niquead jewelry stand, absolutely everything is gorgeous. I don’t know any girl who wouldn’t love every piece — includes local designers! Luis is the best, so friendly, helpful, and just a genuinely great person.

Wow. Ran in here to get a card for my mother in law who was going home. I ran through the shop thinking it was just cards. But thankfully i saw a bunch of things on my way to the cards for her.
I ended up with a beautifully scarf and a grandmother’s photo album that accompanied the card.
This was the beginning… it was not the items that i got that were outstanding but the service was fantastic.
Very polite. Because i just got done working construction and you know we look and smell our best at these moments.
The sales people took the items and wrapped it so perfectly for me and as if i put a lot of time and effort into the process here. But Papirous fid all the work for me. Thanks guys for helping me gain a few points with motherinlaw. You know all the help counts.
The out come was excellent.
Great card. Great scarf… great photo album for grandmom.
I’ll most definitely come back and is my go to shop in laurel hights for cards and gifts.

I know this is not really the kind of place that some kinds of «dudes» should be Unilocaling about… but wtf I can hang with the best of metrosexuals.
I love their cards: They are very unique and beautiful. Yes they are very expensive… I think I paid 6 to 7 dollars each… although if you buy 3 you get one free.
I could blab on about how the art of analog communication is dying a slow death… sorta like paul reubens career. Or that we have lost the human touch… but most of you would fall asleep.
Need less to say if you want to send a really nice card/​and or message to a fellow soul… this place has some very good and pretty ways of doing it.

Alyssa was so great! She helped me select wedding invitations. I was a little confused at first, because I wanted something modern but I had only seen very cheesy modern invitations. When I told her this she immediately pulled out a book and I fell in love! It was exactly what I needed.
Then, weeks later, I realized I need some thank-​you notes, but my budget was pretty much shot. She suggested their ‘house’ note-​cards, which they printed for free. So, $.60/​card (including envelope) and I got over 100 cards, printed with our names, for less than $ 100.
Everything was done on time as well s I could have hoped for. She was sweet, and had a sense of humor. If I ever need printing again, I will go back!

I should have posted this sooner. This particular store really is as good as it gets! Alyssa saved the day twice in less than 24 hrs! So creative and patient with me — I was stressing because I was responsible for creating a bridal keepsake. It had to be the highest of high quality and Alyssa made it happen. I was at a total loss, but I explained the concept of the wedding and she created a masterpiece. It’s funny — I just met her and felt like I had known her for years. I wanted to hang out in the store with all of them after the transaction. Alyssa’s an adorable woman who specializes in making magic happen. Everyone in the store is so professional, helpful and FUN! I went in for a specific purpose and walked out with several items I needed — including jewelry! I’m so grateful to all of them. Now, I can present a wonderful piece that I’m very proud of. I live far from this store, but I’m so glad someone referred me to them. Word of mouth worked very well in my favor. This will be the first place I go whenever I need anything crafty for a special occasion. If you go there, ask for Alyssa — you will NOT be disappointed. I’m very big on good customer service and they more than exceeded my expectations!

Spent a bloody fortune here, only to get a call after seeing the final proofs that they wanted to charge me $ 140 more because they didn’t charge me properly the first time.
Wrong.
After everything is signed and paid for, it’s too late.
Then I was told the printers were holding my order.
Wrong.
I paid to get them by a certain date.
Having to call and tell you that what you’re doing is unethical and I expect what I pay for puts a real damper on my mood.
I got my cards in the end, but no real effort was made to make the situation better.
Rude and unintelligent service doesn’t get your return clients.

Beautiful cards. Just wish they had more of them. The selection is minimal. I have to spend at least 20 mins to find a decent birthday card. You are paying for what you get… bunch of frilly things for the eye that makes your card look expensive. Because it is.

The staff her ei s always very very helpful. I always get what i need here from invitation to thank you note cards. The price is a little more upscale thatn buying at Target or Wal-​mart. but belive me you get what you pay for and lot of wonderful comments on your personal taste level.

AWESOME STORE EMPLOYEE… but incredibly overwhelmed. Saturday with a trainee… you had multiple groups coming in looking for wedding invitations, and at least 3 times I heard grumpy old crotchedy biddies bitching at the front that they didn’t see a store clerk.
People annoy me.
The store was understaffed… but cute, and you can find anything you need in the way of paper, ideas, and the such for whatever you need!
Yay.

I went here to get my save the dates. Virgina was great. She doesn’t try to sell you a bunch of extra stuff and got me in and out of there. I’m sure there are fancier places that coo all over you but this was perfect for what I needed.

Mom always said «if you don’t have something nice to say then don’t say anything». Mom was also crazy, but I’ll follow her rules as well as I can with this review.
If you need wedding invitations DO NOT GO HERE. I am an easy customer. I am not, and refuse to be bridezilla. But I’m beginning to question if that was the best philosophy in this situation. It took the manager over a week to sumit my order after I gave it to her. No, nothing was missing, she was just too crazy or hungover to do it. Every interaction after that was pretty much crap. Including the fact my card was charged even when no one contacted me about my order. I could go on with the story’s, but I won’t.
I also made the mistake of bringing my good friend there. The manager again found a number of reasons not to summit her order. But in the case of my friend it was «oh don’t you want a direction card, how about a program, etc. I could summit it now, but it will cost you extra…» Well her order is now late and is going to cost around 2k.
F*#%^@ awesome.

After Mother’s Day, I decided that it was time for me to step up my greeting card game.
I’m not much of a sentimentalist, and writing cards is usually a challenge for me. Example: last year was my parents 25^th wedding anniversary, and my sister and I both sent cards. My card contained a list of events (straight from Wikipedia) that also took place on their nuptial day, including the birthday of former Olympic speedskater Apollo Anton Ono. Lame. My sister’s card contained some warm, fuzzy note about how beautiful my parents’ love is, or some crap like that. Guess whose card still hangs on the refrigerator.
Because of incidents like this, it makes sense that I should stop buying my cards at Rite Aid, and instead fork over top dollar for flashy cards that divert attention from the lack of emotional content.
I thought that if I spent 20 minutes at Papyrus looking through all their glittery, bedazzled, embossed and otherwise tackied-​up cards, the ability to write appropriate notes within them would somehow just come to me. I found everything I needed here, and was even willing to pay $ 6 for a card featuring a fishbowl with glitterwater and miniature floating fish. Also, a card showing a nun holding a gigantic DDD-​cup bra with a caption reading ‘Thank you — My cup runneth over,’ for $ 3.
Turns out — it was worth it. If theres a nun holding her brassiere on the card, it really doesn’t matter what you write inside. Score!

Great selection of stationery items and when they do a sale some of that over-​priced schlock is irresistible.

I always feel guilty when I shop in an overpriced chainy store.
I feel super guilty when I shop in an overpriced chainy store and have an efficient, enjoyable experience.
I feel UBER guilty when I shop in an overpriced chainy store and broadcast my efficient, enjoyable experience to the world via a four-​star Unilocal review.
I’m sorry, local, independently-​own businesses! I’M SORRY! Papyrus has really pretty things! Glittery tissue paper and shiny ribbons and fluffy bows and sugar and spice and everything nice and I’m a GIRL, damnit!
And they stroked my ego. They said I picked out such lovely gift-​wrap combinations, I should work there.
I SHOULD WORK THERE! Did you hear that? Amidst the wrapping paper rainbows…
Four stars. For shame.

An upscale chain store that offers creative custom printing, plus an excellent selection of attractive greeting cards, gift wrap, accessories, and gifts. For those who haven’t forsaken the nearly forgotten art of letter writing, there’s a wide variety of fine stationery as well.

Okay. they don’t have as many ribbons as they should. I was once looking for a little purple ribbon but I couldn’t find one. I did buy a 35 cent tiny baby chick. Papyrus has cool overpriced stuff for people from the Marina.