Ribbons & Pom Poms

Farewell Ribbons and Pom Poms

2010-05-03T18:10:00.000-07:00

I love you, I still love love love packaging but I have little time in my life and managing 2 blogs is just not working out.

I will feature packaging on my main blog Songbird Designs so if you are interested, please pop on over and follow me there!

Over and Out
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Beautiful Shop Packaging: K is for Calligraphy

2010-01-26T21:58:00.000-08:00

Simple. Elegant. Functional

This is shop packaging at its best. It helps that the product is amazing (always)

Check out Katy's cool store here.

Enjoy

Packaging Eye Candy

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humunuku

Start with this:

Do this

or this

the above three images sourced from Decor8

and more

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How about Orange for a tutorial. Thanks to Sarah for bringing this to my attention.

Other uses for Divine Twine

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Following the great interview with Whitney from Whisker Graphics and Divine Twine, my attention was drawn to this posting by Cathie from Just Something I Made (check out this blog full of all sorts of goodness).

So lovely!

There are many more examples on the post. Check it out.

Ribbons and Pom Poms Interview: Whitney Beard from DIVINE TWINE

2010-01-17T11:12:00.000-08:00

Introducing Whitney Beard from Divine Twine and Whisker Graphics.

I came across Whitney Beard and Whisker graphics last year, somewhere in the blogosphere and once I found her, I was hooked on her work.

Whitney launched a new product late last year which is just DIVINE - In fact its DIVINE TWINE!!

You will see from some of the posts here at Ribbons and Pom Poms that we are quite partial to bakers twine and we are so grateful that Whitney agreed to share a little about what makes her tick.

Check out the interview below:

Can you tell us a little about yourself?.

I live in Northern California, USA with my husband, two tween and teenage children and our schnoodle, Lola. I went to school for Graphic Design in San Francisco (many years ago!) and use some of what I learned at art school to run Whisker Graphics. (It’s shocking how many hats you have to wear running a small business!)

I’ve always loved paper goods. About a year and half ago I started selling personalized stationery on etsy.. Several months later, I added DIY pdf printables that can be self semi-customized. A couple of months ago, I went out on a limb and started producing Divine Twine, bakers twine in yummy colors.

Bakers twine – you love it! Tell us why?

I love how bakers twine is simple and sweet, yet beautiful. It brightens up anything it adorns. And it can be used in so many ways! Wrapping Gifts, Scrapbookking, Greeting Cards, Crafts, Product Packaging, Floral Arrangements, Wrapping Baked Goods, Hang/Gift Tags, Garlands… I’ve even used it in the garden to keep a rose tree from falling over! Plus, it just makes me smile.

What is your main source inspiration from?

I don’t have a main source of inspiration, but looking through magazines, blogs and websites are always fun. I’m always impressed with the wildly creative store displays at Anthropologie and the amazing paper crafts that Paper Source comes up with.

What are your packaging supply staples?

A HUGE roll of both tan kraft paper and white butcher paper,
Divine Twine (of courseJ), various labels from Paper Source, and plain white labels in a variety of sizes that I print designs on.

What makes the perfect package?

I don’t know about perfect, but I love when you can tell that thought and care have been put into the package/wrapping. The little details. I also really enjoy when the packaging involves supplies you don’t see often or a supply is used in unexpected or unconventional way.

Top tip for creating the perfect package

I’m partial to layers or 3-D items on a package. A paper butterfly, labels creating a polka dot pattern, buttons, bakers twine, itty bitty pinecones, or a drawing…

Favourite Blogs / Inspiration sites?

Janice at http://papiervalise.typepad.com/

Miss B at www.leblahg.com

Paul at www.sweetpaul.typepad.com

Carissa at http://jldesigns.blogspot.com/

Cathe at http://justsomethingimade.blogspot.com/

Currently you can buy Divine Twine direct from Whitney at Divine Twine or at her Etsy store (where you will find a load of her wonderful printables as well!)

We here at Ribbons and Pom Poms are crossing our fingers that soon we will be able to bring you Divine Twine in NZ (you heard it here first!)

Thanks Whitney for sharing with us!

Happy New Year!

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image courtesy of Thompson Family Life

This blog is seriously worth a look - she is one talented lady!

Happy New Year!

We are currently on holiday but will be back soon with a fab interview, Kozo Tape feature and even a giveaway!

So this is Christmas......

2009-12-21T11:32:00.000-08:00

Last post prior to Christmas and some last minute packaging inspiration for you.

I have postponed the Kozo Tape feature and giveaway until the new year so make sure you come back to see how much fun you can have with masking tape!!

I wish you all a safe and Happy Christmas and New Year and look forward to sharing more packaging inspiration / giveaways etc in 2010 - can you believe it?

Packaging eye candy below:

Fun with Buttons from Craftzine

This even sounds beautiful from The Scent of Water

(thanks Ruby in the Dust)

Upcycled Packaging Via Craftzine

The Dieline has a great packaging round up but a few of my favs are:

Tutorial as well - from Caroline Armelle via The DieLine

This and a lot more from Eat Drink and Chic via The Dieline

So cool....warm? from Grey Likes Weddings via The DieLine

Chrismas Wrapping Tip 2

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Simple...... Effective

via Madison Belle

Eva Lindh via LanaLou

Great packaging and great for the soul!

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Heleen from Ruby in the Dust won our first giveaway which I thought was very exciting!

She said she loved to use old patterns for wrapping, so when I came across this (below) I had to post it!

The tags - I love them!

This tutorial comes from one of my favourite blogs Creature Comforts.
Check out the detail here!
Come back next week for more Christmas Wrapping tips and a cool feature (and giveaway) on Japanese Decorative masking tape - Happy tape, pretty tape or in NZ Kozo tape! You won't want to miss out!

Christmas gift wrapping tip one

2009-12-06T12:29:00.000-08:00

In the lead up to Christmas I thought I would post some holiday gift wrapping ideas.

Tip One: You can gift wrap without paper!

I picked up these lovely pouches from Jennie from A Little Vintage yesterday and thought these would make a great gift wrap - reusable as a wrap or as an extra gift for your friends or family members.

Just think how lovely these would look all lined up under the tree. Like Candy!

Enjoy

And the winner is - drum roll please

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Heleen from Ruby in the Dust!
Congratulations! Package will be packaged (beautifully of course) and sent in the mail promptly!
Thanks to everyone for entering and sharing their thoughts on packaging.
Remember to come back as there will be more giveaways and packaging tips to come!

New items added to the giveaway

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The Kozo tape for the giveaway arrived today so I went to take a photo.. I got a bit carried away and have now added x10 red and white candy striped twist ties AND a 4m sample of Divine Twine in Licorice.

To enter the giveaway:

This giveaway is open to all Ribbons and Pom Poms Followers. So step one is to follow the blog! Then post a comment telling us what you think makes a beautiful package. The winner will be picked atrandom on Sunday 6th December at 6.00pm.

Click here add your comment!

Butterflies and Twine - the perfect combination

2009-11-30T11:27:00.000-08:00

One of my inspiration sites and future interviewee Whitney from Whisker Graphics has posted a Tutorial using maps, some of her Divine Twine (which will be featured here over the next few weeks) and a butterly template. I don't know about you but I think it is darn cute!

Click here to to go the tutorial (there is a card tutorial and templates for download included):

Simple but effective

Don't forget the Ribbons and Pom Poms Giveaway which closes Sunday 6th 6.30pm - Click here to see how you can be in to win

Why Packaging?

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image sourced from port2port press via design sponge

I have always loved a good ‘gift-wrap’ and always spent just as much money buying beautiful wrapping paper and ribbon, however my eyes were widened a few years ago when I started buying items off Etsy. The creativity, details and love that went into packaging the items I had bought was really inspiring.

So… the idea of this blog has been sitting with me for a long time. This blog is dedicated to all things gift wrapping and packaging. You will all have your own ideas on what makes a beautiful package and I hope that you will be happy to share some of them as time goes on.

To get things going, I thought I would introduce you to some images from the Lovely Package Exchange that is hosted by Danni from ‘Oh Hello Friend’ a couple of times a year.

As you will see, packaging can be:

Pretty

image sourced from Amanda Rae

Functional

image sourced from: Country Living

Thematic

Christmas Wrapping - image source from Country Living

Colourful

image sourced from Givers Log

Precise

image sourced from Dandee Designs

International

image sourced from

Oh Hello Friend

This first post is going to be celebrated with a give away of some of my favourite packaging items which include:

x 1 roll of Kozo tape (not pictured)

x20 glassine envelopes

x5 Songbird stamped cloth bags

4x2m Vandoros Striped Ribbon

x1 pkt delicate paper lace doilies from Nice Package.

Instructions:

This giveaway is open to all Ribbons and Pom Poms Followers. So step one is to follow the blog! Then post a comment telling us what you think makes a beautiful package. The winner will be picked at random on Sunday 6th December at 6.00pm.

Happy Packaging and Welcome

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Welcome to the first post from
Ribbons and Pom Poms.
This blog has been developed to bring you ideas on packaging, both from the creative world (thats out there in blog land) and some fresh new ideas.

image courtesy of whiskergraphics

We hope to bring you interviews, tutorials, giveaways and in the future, access to supplies for packaging.
We are currently working on our first post and will bring this to you soon.
In the meantime if you have any suggestions or things you would like to see - drop us a line at ribbonsandpompoms{at}gmail{dot}com