It's time to recognize!
Empower your teams with professional recognition
Our diverse selection of high quality paper products, including professional certificates, certificate holders, and frames, are guaranteed to make a lasting impact on your employees and volunteers.
What we offer
We offer a broad range of high quality printable Certificate border designs along with elegant Certificate Holders and Frames.
Besides that, we offer a variety of recognition templates in Word to help you create your unique message and merge print it to your list of recipients.
ready to Print Certificates
Certificates including complementary holders and frames are available at www.first-base.com
Customized & ready to Present Certificates
Foil stamped or embossed logos can be added to certificates and holders to customize your presentation.
The COVID-19 pandemic has touched millions of lives worldwide. Applaud the heroic efforts of frontline essential workers and volunteers within your community with a professional certificate that recognizes their compassion, bravery, and resilience.
Memorialize sacramental celebrations with an official certificate that gives a sense of antiquity while remaining hardy and resilient. Honor a baptism, confirmation, first communion, or marriage with guaranteed quality.
Draw eyes toward your success with a timeless, elegant, and well-crafted certificate frame. Choose from a diverse range of colours, finishes, and dimensions. Make a statement with oversized or dual certificate frames.
Store your certificate the right way with a sleek and graceful certificate holder. Maintain the integrity of official certificates while adding a touch of sophistication. Choose from a variety of styles, colours, and accents.
Who Benefits From Recognition?
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Most Popular Certificates
Our certificates - You have two options
ready to print
Our ready-to-print certificates are perfect if you wish to merge print your message and the names of the recipients on the certificates. Our 24lb designs print well in your typical desktop laser or inkjet printer. To print on 65lb card stock, we recommend a printer with a straight thru paper path to minimize the curl of the sheet.
ready to present
Our ready-to-present certificates are merge printed with your message and the names of the recipients then inserted in your choice of a holder or frame. This is the preferred choice to ensure consistent high quality printing. They are presentation ready when you receive them.
Our certificates - you have two options
ready to print
Our ready-to-print certificates are perfect if you wish to merge print your message and the names of the recipients on the certificates. Our 24lb designs print well in your typical desktop laser or inkjet printer. To print on 65lb card stock, we recommend a printer with a straight thru paper path to minimize the curl of the sheet.
ready to present
Our ready-to-present certificates are merge printed with your message and the names of the recipients then inserted in your choice of a holder or frame. This is the preferred choice to ensure consistent high quality printing. They are presentation ready when you receive them.
About St. James Paper
By the late 80’s desktop printers created a demand for fine writing papers at the end user level.
First Base Inc. through St. James Paper, innovated in 1990 with consumer-focused packaging and a variety of Ready-to-Print fine paper solutions. The purpose of these fine paper solutions was focused on the recognition of individuals and teams, meetings and events, résumé and report writing, announcements and promotional flyers, etc. The Company made large investments in state-of-the-art paper handling, packaging and processing equipment. To this day, St. James Paper remains committed to in-house manufacturing capabilities in order to have full control of its production quality, raw materials and its supply chain. This, despite the temptation to source in Asia as most of its competitors have done.
We continue with our product and service innovations. We are proud to introduce a new turnkey service to create Ready-to-Present sets of Certificates and Holder or Frames.
We know how powerful a certificate-based Recognition Program can be to improve the engagement of individuals and teams in any organizational setting; corporate, government, institutional, not for profit, education and faith. We also know that assigning this task internally is not for everyone due to skills, equipment and time requirements.
Our turnkey service is a reliable, cost-effective option to ensure you get high quality products with state-of-the-art printing and finishing. It ensures that you receive beautiful and elegant presentation sets that are Ready to Impress.
All products are green Seal certified and are FSC® Certified with an annual compliance audit
Serving Businesses since
Best Practices
Organize your recognition event, virtual or in person, as a celebration of achievements. The tone must be genuinely appreciative to reinforce what the senior leadership values. Done well, more team members will aspire to be recognized in the future and those recognized become more committed ambassadors of the organization.
Individually personalized recognition in the form of an elegant certificate presented in an impressive holder or frame is an excellent choice.
Framed certificates are almost always posted prominently in offices and homes and convey a great sense of pride of accomplishment visible to family, friends and colleagues.
Tangible recognition is important and certificates make it very memorable, personal and cost effective.
They often become treasured keepsakes.