Like making handmade goodies, but want to dress up your gifts in nice packaging instead of putting them in old butter tubs? I thought so. I can't help with the container, but you can put a snazzy custom label on your culinary creations so people will want to, you know, eat it. Nobody likes mystery food. Well, some people do, but they scare me.
Sycamore Street Press, hand-printed letterpress
Oooo. Pretty. I like the funky style over at Sycamore Street Press. Especially the La Vie en Rose art print. Everything is printed on a Vandercook #3 letterpress. Buy online or click here for a list of retailers.
New vintage camera business card design
Here's the latest business card design I've been working on. Lately I've been exploring silos as design elements. Holla if you like it or even if you don't.
Free paper toy downloads from the Toymaker.com
There is a treasure trove of delightful paper toys to download and print by Marilyn Scott-Waters. She's a children's book illustrator and paper engineer. Over six million downloads of her toys so far, so check them out for yourself.
Vintage-look labels and stickers from Cavallini & Co.
Cavallini & Co. makes these woderful little tins filled with stickers and labels made from their extensive archive of ephemera. They're a great addition to jazzing up personal correspondence, scrapbooking or collages. Eventually I'll get around to using them to embellish my travel journal entry on our trip to Paris.
Love the package design for Pacifica
Sometimes I'm a sucker for pretty packing and I admit the first product I ever purchased from Pacifica was a bar of soap simply because the design was so beautiful. I can truly say their products match the promise of the design. Lush, lovely and bursting with delicious scents that instantly lift your mood. They now have fragrances in a compact rollerball vial that is airplane carryon-friendly. Hooray! I travel a lot and not being able to bring fragrance has been a challenge. The scents I selected were Tuscan Blood Orange, California Star Jasmine and Brazilian Mango Grapefruit. I truly can't decide which I prefer.
Change of Address Cards
Our change of address postcards finally came. I'm happy with the way the design turned out. If you'd like to get your own they're posted in my zazzle shop. Anyone else out there like vintage graphics?