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stationery eye-candy!!

By Cathy Kruger on May 16, 2013 in Colour, Design, Paper Goods

Hello everyone – I hope that you’re all well and happy today!!

One of my favourite blogs to follow is oh so beautiful paper, which is a lovely American blog that showcases all the latest trends in stationery. It is a wonderful go-to site if you are looking for inspiration for wedding stationery, baby shower invitations or baby announcements. Every year they showcase the National Stationery Show, which is a HUGE trade expo in New York – showcasing just stationery!! Can you image the beautiful array of colours and designs on display!! For the past few weeks we have been seeing some sneak-peeks of a few of the new products that will be on show. I am going to tempt you now with some lovely eye-candy…..

images sourced from oh so beautiful paper . Links: fine day press, belle and union, moglea, smock paper, pei design, wild ink press

Once again I find myself drawn to Letterpress stationery!! Don’t you love it too?

One day (“when I grow up”) I would love to visit this show!!

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a spring gift from me to you – gift-tags to download!

By Cathy Kruger on September 3, 2012 in Bakers Twine, Design, Free Downlaods, Paper Goods, striped drinking straws

Hello everyone!! Welcome to a new week, and for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere – SPRING!! A time for fresh new beginnings and sunshine!! And of course all my favourite flowers.

I’ve been meaning to give you all a little gift for a while now, and decided that this was the opportune time! So – a free download for you all to make your own set of happy, floral gift-tags! My sister Caroline and I have been working on a new range of stationery, and a calendar for the New Year, and these tags are inspired by the creations that we are currently working on. Once you’ve downloaded the pdf, print it on an A4 card – choose a nice thick textured card to make it extra nice. Then simply cut out the tags, punch a little hole and attach some matching Twine or ribbon. Voila!! Download the pdf here or click on this first image (this will take you to an Acrobat page – you don’t have to be a member or sign-in – just click download and save to print!!).

all images: my own

Have fun, and Happy Spring to you all!!

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a paper tea-party of note

By Cathy Kruger on August 23, 2012 in Design, Paper Goods, Profiles

Today I found myself in absolute awe…….. you know that feeling when you see something and just think “WOW” !!!! It’s one of those “via” stories (via facebook – via VISI magazine – OH WOW!!)

Elonah O’Neil-Reid, a very talented young lady from Pretoria, takes simple paper and magically (I’m sure it’s actually a lot of precise, carefull and patient work…) transforms it into the most amazing installations. Her latest project has been a High Tea installation for the Tashas Le Parc restaurant in Hyde Park, Johannesburg. It took her 8 weeks to create 220 hand assembled teacups, saucers and teapots from custom-embossed paper. Everything was then flat-packed, transported and hung. And what an amazing result!!!!

images: visi and love.detail

I’ll say it again – isn’t paper such an amazing medium!!! And I can’t wait to see what Elonah comes up with next…….

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Tools of the Trade

By Cathy Kruger on July 12, 2012 in Colour, Design, eye-candy, Paper Goods

Hello friends. I’ve been having a day of finding inspiration and working on some lovely pictures to share with you all.

We all use certain “tools” in our daily work – depending on what we do, some tools are more visually appealing than others. I’m lucky in that I work with lovely paper, pencils, twine, tape, ribbons etc etc……Others of you might work with needles, thread and fabric, or flowers, or food….. I’ve been having a look around at how these tools can be styled to create an appealing visual story, and have found some beautiful images.