Art papers for crafting

I've been working on these prints for gift wrap/art papers in between my design work this past week. I will be putting up a set for sale in my etsy store shortly keep an eye out. You'll get 6 pieces 2 of each design, Ditzy Dots, Pastel Trifecta, and Auntie Em's pink gingham. Plus a sheet of labels to cut and paste on to your gifts, notebooks, sketchbooks or turn them into tags like I did here in the pics. I'm considering adding a mini zine with how-to's on making the flower pom, trifecta poms and accordion bow. Stay tuned in the next couple of days and I will let you know when its up in my etsy store.

Goodies from Kino!

I went to Kinokuniya this week I hadn't been in about over a month or so and I bought a few things I needed like the tape and labels, plus got some new MT tapes, cute photo corners, and tiny kokeshi post its! I also got two books and a mag. Here's one of the books it's a wonderful collage book.

Book:
Hannari Handmade collage
Hannari Hall, Inc.
ISBN 978-4-416-31207-0 Mon 04 issue (s) 2012

Gift Wrapping Goodness

I received my sister's wedding book that I designed, plus a copy for my mom and dad so I thought time for some kawaii wrapping! Oh then I thought my friends' kid just had a birthday too, need a cute gift and wrap! Out came the supplies. Stamps, ink, washi tape, lace, pom poms, glue, needle & thread, everything that I could think of. A little thinking and a lot of letting go my imagination took over and brought me these.










I almost forgot, I have a secret project I'm working on, I'll have a little store opening up soon for this blog called usagi por moi and some of the first items will be gift wrapping items like the little paper flowers in the pics above. Check in next week when I make the announcement I'll have another give away.

New Stationery, Coharu printer, MT Tape, and more...

This week I've been experimenting with more stationery and I went to Kinokuniya & Muji to arm myself with some more supplies. First, I started printing cute envelopes as part of my stationery collection. I'm toying with the idea of calling it "Usagi pour moi", after one of my favorite stores in Tokyo, "Usagi pour Toi", and because the rabbit is my favorite small animal since I was a little girl and who doesn't love a bunny. On this first print run I printed "la fille de oiseaux"(birdgirl)which I could also call the stationery collection, but it may be a little long. Anywho, I bought some more MT Tape, origami paper, craft glue, dot liner, and these cute rabbit keyboard notes. Then today I got a surprise delivery, well not exactly a surprise I bought it but it came so fast, I also got a Coharu label and tape printer which is super cute and will be awesome in making my little books. The only issue which I wasn't sure about is that MT Tape doesn't fit the machine so I have to see if the same company I ordered the printer would be willing to ship that tapes from Coharu on their own since they offer to send them as a package with the printer but I opted out thinking the MT Tape would work, silly me. If anyone knows where I can get Coharu tape from or is willing to ship it from Japan(I would pay you in advance to ship it) I'd be ever so grateful.







Checkout the Coharu video it's pretty cute