Scenic Route Paper Company

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Reported by Julie Fei-Fan Balzer

Scenic Route Paper Co. is a relative newcomer to the scene. The company was started in 2004, but their beautiful paper was immediately snatched up by scrapbookers. I can totally understand why.

This is what I have come to expect from Scenic Route:

Double-Sided, Heavyweight Patterned Paper
- You can create folded objects where both sides look good.
- You can use the paper as pages in a mini album, no need to glue two single sheets back-to-back.
- Scenic Route does a very good job of using coordinating, but unexpected patterns on each side.
- You have two times the choices.

Fun and Colorful Designs
- As someone without children yet, I appreciate the bright and colorful, but non-specific designs. I can use them to document my adult life, and another scrapper can use the same paper for a child-centered album.
- The patterns are often whimsical choices, such as birds and flowers.
- Scenic Route paper has clean lines, often using geometric shapes.
- It doesn’t have a grungy, distressed look.
- Scenic Route coordinates each paper collection to include patterns of different scales and shapes (i.e. large flowers, small circles, stripes, and a plaid). This makes anyone look like a superstar at coordinating patterns and colors!
- The patterns are often layered (a background pattern with a motif on top), this allows you to cheat a bit. The paper looks like you might have stamped a design onto it!

Scenic Route has an excellent website. Beyond the usual product photos, you will also find a gallery (many projects have instructions on how to recreate them), you can sign up for their monthly email newsletter, and they run a monthly challenge in which the winners are sent goodie boxes!


In addition to their wonderful papers, Scenic Route offers an array of chipboard (alphas and printed shapes), die cut arrows, stickers, and cardstock.

I hope you'll give Scenic Route a try!

Here are some projects I made with Scenic Route: