About Us
Our Story
PaperArtsy was created in 2003 by Leandra Franich. Her husband Mark joined a couple of years later. Mark was previousy a chiropractor, and Leandra was a Japanese & Social Sciences teacher. Since our move from England to SW France in 2020, we now employ 3 of our adult children (Ella, Millie & Hugo), together with Dounia, Sam and Yvonne we manufacture on site PaperArtsy stamps, stencils, and colour craft products such as Infusions and Fresco Finish Acrylic Paints.
We work with a fantastic group of talented designers who each offer their own spin on craft and creativity. We relish their unique and very distinctive creative style and how they offer our stockists and consumers worldwide wonderful inspiration and educational classes. We nurture them and their product range under the wider PaperArtsy umbrella. When you join PaperArtsy as a stockist, you are part of one big craft family! Bienvenue! Welcome!
Almost everything we produce - from making stamps, to bottling paint and infusions, or cutting stencils - is made on site. We sell these and other PaperArtsy branded items to independent craft and art stores around the world. We have a small physical store on site (by appointment only), and since 2025 we have offered ArtsyCrafts retreats - a week of creativity and touristic experiences locally.
Becoming a PaperArtsy Stockist
If you wish to be a PaperArtsy stockist, you must meet 3 criteria:
1. Be VAT/ GST (sales tax) registered within your territory.
2. Teach classes on a regular basis in store, online etc.
3. Have a physical and/ or online store (ideally both).
In addition to this we may take into account how close physically you might be to an existing store.
We prefer to work with stockists who have an eye for mixed media lines and are interested in product education. We do not compete directly with the shops we supply, most releases you will have a 6-12 month exclusive on those items before we list those items on our retail website.
All stockists are welcome to use ideas and inspo from the PaperArtsy blog, YouTube channel and other socials to assist with the sale of our products in your store or online. As a courtesy to the artist, please give credit to the originator of any creation you use or adapt in class or online.
Our product development, quality and integrity
The PaperArtsy brand represents innovation, top quality products, individual creativity, unique ideas and fabulous 'enabler' education. We are passionate about what we make, who we partner with and what we teach. We won't scrimp on quality, we source top quality raw materials to produce high quality items.
We value and appreciate PaperArtsy customers and stockists world wide! Thank you for your support, now and in the future. It's a pleasure to bring so many new concepts, products and ideas to you, the wider PaperArtsy family who love and promote our products as much as we do.
PaperArtsy SARL: 85 Chemin de Toutifaud, Couze et Saint-Front, 24150 FRANCE.
e: sales@paperartsy.com (English) or dounia@paperartsy.com (French speaker)
w: www.paperartsy.com p: +33 (0)7 61161378 TVA: FR72888706066
Socials:
Blog: http://blog.paperartsy.co.uk/
Facebook (PA Page): https://www.facebook.com/PaperArtsyHQ/
Facebook (PA People group): https://www.facebook.com/groups/103469360528380/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paperartsy/
YouTube (PA) : https://www.youtube.com/user/PaperArtsy/featured