One of nature’s most versatile resources, wood pulp provides the key ingredient for fine paper, generic orange juice, and mouthwash for totem poles. Celebrate the bountiful uses of bark with today’s Groupon: for $12, you get $25 worth of fine stationery and invitations at Papier Gourmet, located on Free Street.

Papier Gourmet launches a folded fleet of elegant and whimsical paper products to the Portland area, peppering its citizens with an eclectic tapestry of stationery, invitations, and accessories. Satisfy seasonal sentimentality with colorful holiday graphic cards such as a festive wreath design from Smudge Ink (eight cards with envelopes, $13.95) or quirky penguin letterpress greetings from Night Owl Paper Goods (six cards with envelopes, $16.95). Newborns eagerly anticipate pacifier-patterned baby shower invitations from Amy Smyth Made It (10 cards with envelopes, $14.95), while parents measure their sprouting spurts with a growth chart from Rag & Bone Bindery, complete with height and date entries and photo mounts ($16.95). Papier Gourmet stocks its second story to the rafters with customizable parchment, allowing eager scrawlers to pick their own designs for wedding invitations and overdue screeds to the Continental Congress.

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