I’ve seen Three Potato Four’s modern milk bottle carafes featured on a number of design blogs lately (love them!), but I didn’t know that they also had so many pretty paper goods. In addition to carrying items from lines by Henry Road, Nantaka Joy, Serrote, and Night Owl Paper Goods, they also carry adorable imported Japanese sticker stamps (above), fun patterned gift tags (below), and cute birdhouse notecards (below).

images from Three Potato Four

Inkjet Designs creates wonderfully cute coasters (above), cards (below), gift tags, magnets, and mirrors. The fun and colorful designs and patterns will brighten up your home, your correspondence, your fridge, and anywhere else that you put Inkjet’s items. Sweet!

images from Inkjet Designs

Chinese New Year falls on February 7 this year, and Design Night is celebrating the Year of the Rat, this year’s zodiac animal, with these limited edition, intricately laser cut gift envelopes. You can tuck a gift card or money into the envelopes, which are gifts in and of themselves. Who knew that a rat could be so pretty?

image from Design Night

I love the concept of Poppytalk Handmade, a monthly online street market curated by Poppytalk. The online market features and sells handmade goods from so many fantastic independent artists and designers including, thank goodness for us, many greeting card and art print designers. Here’s a selection of the paper lovelies from the Valentine’s Day & Wedding Market, which runs from January 7 - February 8, 2008:

(from left to right)

Row 1: things are better with a parrott, fisk and fern, lolo + sprout
Row 2: apak, night owl paper goods, earmark invitations
Row 3: magnolia moonlit, elfrida, clementine press
Row 4: two guitars, paper relics, digital paperie
Row 5: uccello curioso, invita paper studio, anna cote

images from Poppytalk Handmade

Bella Dia has a fantastic round up of all sorts of free, printable gift tags from around the ‘net. If you’re in the midst of wrapping your holiday gifts and are looking for some nifty gift tags, then this list is your holy grail. Beware, though, because if you like craftiness at all you’ll end up spending hours on Bella Dia’s site, looking at all of the wonderful craft projects.

Thanks to Bella Dia for featuring Paper Crave’s gift tags on the list!

I’m loving Ouou’s super kawaii illustration style. Must…not…eeeee, I can’t help but squeal with delight at the cuteness! If you like adorable monsters, birdies, little girls, and robots, then Ouou’s Etsy shop is a must see.

A selection of note card designs ($7.50 per set):

Jingle Bells

Out of the Brambles

Smarty

Tea with Red Dragon

And, for all of your gift wrapping needs, Little Monkey Gocco printed Gift Tags ($7.00 per set of 4):

images from Ouou

What could be more eco friendly than a card that you can plant when you’re done with it? Botanical Paperworks has taken the idea of recycling to the next level with their ingenius collection of plantable paper goods. The stylishly designed holiday cards, gift tags, and even a 2008 calendar are made from 100% recycled pulp and bloom into wildflowers after you plant them.

Plantable holiday cards:

Plantable gift tags:

Plantable 2008 calendar:

images from Botanical Paperworks

I’m digging these fresh, modern holiday card designs from Redbean. A must see collection for those with an eye for design. My favorites include (clockwise, from top left) Snowflakes, Robins, Reindeer, and Woods. $18.00 per set of 12 of a single design.

The cards are also printed using environmentally responsible inks, which makes them a great choice for those looking to shop “green” for the holidays.

Redbean also has an eye candy-licious collection of holiday gift tags. Alas, they’ve already sold out. But you can still look!

images from Redbean