Weekly Wrap #65 : Chip Bag Wrap

Weekly Wrap

Recycled Chip Bag Gift Wrap

Transform your empty potato chip bags into snazzy silver and white gift wrap! Simply cut the bag along its seam, turn it inside out to reveal the silver or white lining, give it a little wash and dry, and wrap to your heart’s delight. No one will ever guess the secret of your wrapping paper … until they unwrap the gift and spot the Utz or Ruffles logo, and after that your chip bag gift wrap will be legend and stories will be told about how clever you are on every “gift wrap” holiday thereafter!

image from Martha Stewart

Letterpress Bookplates from Let’s Be Friends

The peeps at Let’s Be Friends are proposing that we bring back the practice of writing our names in our books like we did when we were kids, and they’re offering this fun, modern set of letterpress bookplates in their shop to get us started! The two-color bookplates are available in sets of a single design or as a variety pack, and I think that they’d make fantastic gifts for bookish friends, too.

Letterpress Bookplates

Let's Be Friends Bookplates

Two Color Letterpress Bookplates

images from Let’s Be Friends

Japan Aid Limited Edition Print

Japand-aid Print

Giftware design company, GAMA-GO, and letterpress stationer, Hello! Lucky, have come together to support the ongoing relief efforts in Japan, and their collaboration has produced this wonderful, limited edition Japand-aid print, available through the GAMA-GO website or, if you’re in the San Francisco area, at Hello! Lucky’s SoMa shop (977 Howard Street).

The prints are $50 each, and 100% of the purchase price will go directly to help the people of Japan via the Japanese Red Cross. Prints are available for purchase as of this afternoon at 1pm PST, and you can head over to GAMA-GO to purchase yours and help out a very worthwhile cause.

image from GAMA-GO / Hello! Lucky

Super Cool Birthday Cards

My bookmarks folder has been filling up with lots of super cool and clever birthday card designs, and I thought it was about time to share a bunch. I really need to do this more often because there are so many great birthday cards out there!

Super Cool Birthday Cards

Above, clockwise from top left: Floral Burst from Rifle Paper; Happy Birthday letterpress card from Nate Duval; Razz Birthday from Pup and Pony; Magical Birthday from The Social Type; Letterpress Birthday Card from Sycamore Street Press; Jetty from Smock; Party Like It’s 1999 from Ink and Iron.

Cute Birthday Cards

Great Sentiment from Ink and Iron; Birthday Face from Fugu Fugu Press; Rainbow Confetti card from Printerette Press; Off the Hook from Dude and Chick; Ship in a Bottle from Lulu Dee; Bird Guitar greeting from Dutch Door Press; Chocolate Bar birthday card from a.favorite; Make a Wish from a.favorite; Customizable Birthday/Anniversary Card from Inklosures.

images from their respective owners

Grocery List Notepads by Inklosures

Magnetic Grocery List Notepads

Is there anyone else out there who absolutely loves food and cooking but sometimes wishes – especially when there’s a blizzard or rainstorm happening outside and your cupboards and fridge are empty – that all of the groceries that you need would magically appear on your doorstep so you won’t have to make the trip to the grocery store and slug it out with everyone else who’s grabbing for the last head of romaine lettuce?

Inklosures Grocery Lists

If I’m going to have to make the trip every week, rain or shine, I want to at least add in a little fun if I can, and these cute new grocery list notepads from Inklosures will definitely do the trick. How could you not find yourself feeling more cheery, even smiling perhaps, as you look down to check what’s next on your list and see a happy loaf of bread or a milk bottle with a moo cow on it?

Inklosures Grocery List Notepads

The notepads have 36 lined sheets with a rotating array of 9 cute illustrations printed on 100% recycled paper, and they come with a sturdy magnet attached to the back of the notepad so you can hang them on your fridge and jot down what you’ll need as you need it. A great gift idea, too!

images from Inklosures