Quick Picks Thursday : 9.22.11

Seasonal Cards

Seasonal Card Set | Becca Stadtlander -via Illustrationmundo

This Week’s Picks

♥ Awesome new geo note cards from Hello Tenfold.

♥ (House)Beautiful Ball Terminals.

♥ Yummy s’mores invitations by Delphine.

♥ Incredible pop-up paper sculptures by Peter Dahmen.

♥ Nidhi Chanani’s illustrations are so adorable. – via Flights of Fancy

♥ Gift wrapping with quilling paper. Great idea!

♥ Beautiful yellow and gray calligraphy map invitations by Atheneum Creative (letterpressed by Sideshow Press).

♥ Brent Couchman’s illustration work is amazing.

Yeah! Burger branding by Tad Carpenter. So fun!

image from Becca Stadtlander

Fun Halloween Cards, Part 1

Halloween may not be a “greeting card holiday” like Christmas, but I love sending spooky greetings to my friends and family, and this year there are plenty of fun designs to choose from. Here are some of the hauntingly good Halloween greeting cards that have caught my eye:

Halloween Cards

Above, clockwise from top left: Owl Tree letterpress card from Egg Press, Happy Owl-o-ween by Bethany Bowers for Minted, Black Cat from Rifle Paper Co., Witch Hat from Freckle Paper

Halloween Cards

Halloween Bats letterpress card from Flora & Fauna, Pumpkin Trick or Treat from Two Poodle Press, Wink Owl letterpress card from Saturn Press, Skull Greeting from Inkadinkadoodle, Trick or Treat Cat Moon letterpress card from Dandy Lion Press

images from their respective owners

Moxie House Letterpress Cards

It was lust at first sight when I spotted these super cute letterpress cards from Moxie House over at Lovely Pieces recently. Their animal-themed letterpress cards and invites make me want to squee out loud – so cute!

Moxie House Animal Letterpress

And their graphic “love” card collection is seriously swoon-worthy. Such fantastic color and pattern:

Letterpress Cards Moxie House

images from Moxie House

Introducing K.becca …

Paper Crafts Tutorials

I’m really excited (and a little bit nervous) to let you all know about my new site, k.becca, which is actually not as new as it might seem. Kbecca.com was the very first domain that I purchased (over a decade ago!), and for a long time it sat dormant as I tried to decide what I wanted to do with it. It’s been a long road, and an emotional roller coaster at times, but I’m so happy to finally be able to share it with you.

K.becca is my design portfolio, it’s a place for me to share my paper crafting projects, and it’s home to my new shop, where you can purchase digital goods like die-cutting files and printable patterned papers to use in your paper craft, scrapbooking, and party decorating projects. I hope that you’ll head over and check it out, and I plan on sharing some of my video tutorials here on Paper Crave from time to time, too, so stay tuned!

Right now, the shop is all about Halloween. I love Halloween! I’ll be adding new products throughout the week, but the two main collections are Ye Olde Halloween and MC Spooky. Here’s a little peek at the patterned papers in each collection:

Ye Olde Halloween Digital Printable Papers

Ye Olde Halloween Digital Printable Papers

MC Spooky Digital Printable Papers

MC Spooky Digital Printable Papers

Des Pâtisseries

Sycamore Street Patisserie

Fancy something sweet? A macaron, perhaps? Or maybe a madeleine? Sycamore Street Press’ new “Des Pâtisseries” line combines delicious-looking French pastry art with luscious letterpress for a result that will be pretty much irresistible to sweet-toothed paper lovers everywhere.

The collection includes four greeting cards, each featuring a different pastry, a craving-inducing art print, and a scrumptious 2012 calendar. If your mouth isn’t already watering over these delectable paper goodies, then it will be soon!

Pastry Letterpress Cards

2012 Letterpress Calendar

images from Sycamore Street Press