My mother came to visit, armed with inkjet printing cotton and silk sheets to show me how easy it is to create your own custom-designed fabric for creative projects.
Here, I printed my "I Love You Calligraphic" design on an 8 1/2" x 11" cotton sheet through my printer in a matter of seconds, peeled off the backing and then wrapped a small gift box.
What a great way to wrap bridal, birthday and anniversary gifts with your own personal design.
Spoonflower is one of those creative online resources that makes designsgirl dizzy with the design possibilities.
I ordered this swatch in a cotton voile with my "Freesia" flower illustration to show how custom Spoonflower fabrics can be used for table runners, placemats, table linens, baby shower decorations and more to match a wedding or special event theme. You can even make fabric invitations, too.
Cool, indeed.
Look for designsgirl's "hello love" fabric designs available for sale at Spoonflower this fall.
A box carrying a gift inside is a blank canvas for those with creative inclinations. Wrapping a gift can be a form of artistic expression full of possibilities with a few pieces of decorative tape, twine, buttons and paper.
Gift wrapping is au courant in today's design world. So much so, that there are wildly popular blogs devoted solely to paper and wrapping including ohsobeautifulpaper.com and hellosandwich.com. Lifestyle doyenne Carolyne Roehm has even written a book on gift wrapping called "Presentations: A Passion for Gift Wrapping."
There are no rules to wrapping a gift and there is no need to spend alot of money. Use your imagination with bows, charms, fabric, trim, doillies, fresh flowers or handmade gift tags- and make it a creatively enjoyable experience.
wrapped gift by designsgirl
I love to wrap beautiful packages. It comes from my mother.
So when I opened the "hello love" shop, I knew I wanted to have a high-quality wrapping paper in my "Everyday Greetings" collection.
My first design is called "Circles" which I designed based on the circles on my studio window curtains. Each 18" x 24" sheet is made of fine vellum and offset-printed locally in Denver.
"Circles" correspondence gift sets which include the wrapping paper sheets are available, too, at "hello love".
My mother always wraps the most beautiful packages and elegantly-wrapped packages remain one of the most exquisite and sentimental sights for me.
photo by Max Kim-Bee in Traditional Home Holiday magazine
There is something so special about a piece of fabric embellished with a few sweet stitches of thread.
I like to make gift tags, guest book/album cover panels and greeting cards with these ubiquitous notions. It is child's play for the grown-up crafter in all of us.
Visit Rebecca Sower's beautiful blog for embroidery inspiration.
photo by designsgirl
Japanese hand-dyed Shibori silk is luxuriant and comes in the most vivid colors.
My mother gave me a gift of Shibori silk ribbon in which to create hand made flowers and to decorate my designsgirl packaging. The tactile stimulation of touching this material is addictive.
Shiborigirl, who makes each dyed and pleated ribbon, has an Etsy store to order her materials and also offers fabulous online class videos for making flowers from this exquisite ribbon.
Jenny Hart, the talented Sublime Stitching maven, has made embroidery cool. I mean, really cool. Her iconic stitched portraits of celebrities are works of art and her embroidery kits, like this greeting card set, are a fun way to dive into a sublime stitching session.
photo and card by designsgirl
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