Whisker Graphics

Here is what I sent to one of my Lovely Package Exchange partners. Kristin designs stationery also and has an etsy shop.

Handmade fabric envelope. How-To directions from here.

1- Tissue paper flower directions here and envelope, turned bag, turned vase directions here.
2- Bakers twine to wrap and play with.
3- Gift tag stickers with her initial.
4- Custom designed grid paper notebook. There are a couple of envelopes attached to inside front cover so Kristen can store snippets of inspiration. The cover reads — Kristen’s  Stupendously Cool, Outrageously Excellent, Extraordinarily Remarkable Thoughts and Ideas.
5- Fabric envelope (see photo #1).
6- Vintage alphabet card from my stash. I sewed a zig-zag border at the top and bottom, then attached some silver thread to hang it by.

Some different labels from my stash. The orange/gold is paper and the red rectangles are petite envelopes. Both from Chinatown in San Francisco.

I tucked some folded “blooming” instructions into the vase. The “vase” is decorated with a little bit of japanese masking tape on the front and back. At the top right is what she should end up with after her flowers open.

I haven’t received my goodies, yet. But when I do, I’ll do a show-and-tell.

I’ve stated it before and I’ll say it again. I love graph paper. There is no logical reason. I just do.  So, when I received a graph paper composition book from Little Cat B for Mother’s Day and bought myself some Japanese Masking Tape for my birthday, I knew the two should meet.

That's graph paper hiding in there!

First I took two 8.5×11″ full label sheets and stuck one to each side of the notebook.

Then I trimmed the label sheets down to the notebook size.

For the front, I printed out some random sized boxes onto another full label sheet and stuck to the front and trimmed again.  For the back, I stuck another plain white full label sheet on and trimmed. I used two label sheets for the front and two for the back to make sure the green pattern of the notebook didn’t show through.

Next I applied bits and pieces of the Japanese Masking Tape. Tada, the final product. The notebook on the left is Little Cat A’s and the one on the right is mine. Little Cat A decided some stamps would jazz hers up a bit. I just stamped mine with “Creative Notes”.

Really looking forward to using it. :