Voilà: Valentinear Inspiration Parcel

Dear Everyone ~

Love is indeed a many splendoured thing: you can send it in the mail, prop it on a pillow, or leave it as a surprise, anywhere you can tuck a tiny origami heart. If you’d like to dress up a few valentines, we’ve curated a charming array of supplies. And if you’d like to endear yourself to a crafty friend or VIP in your creative cosmos, our parcel makes a sweet & inspiring gift.

The kit notably includes three Wanderlust scalloped heart cards, which made my heart pitter-patter when I received one as a sample from Lady Lucy of Wanderlust. The back of the heart is blank, for your sweet nothing, or other sentiment, or perhaps simply a provocative question mark?

Our kit also includes 16 sheets of A4 paper (8¼ x 11¾): from Wanderlust Papers in the UK, 4 pink gingham and 4 pink flora; and 8 Rivoli Rose, the perfect pale pink, from Germany. This sheet size is spacious & gracious for handfolding an announcement-style (straight-across flap) envelope, or an elegant, slim, mailable open-end envelope, or a 5½ inch square envelope, which is also mailable, but at the nonmachinable rate.

Decorative accessories abound: vintage red-bordered labels and special delivery labels, petite (No. 1 size!) glassine envelopes, and 3¢ strawberry stamps. The little glassine is just the thing for presenting a tiny origami heart (or a pair of candy hearts or a bonbon).

The ensemble will be enveloped in a British glassine sleeve…which will mail in a sturdy cardboard envelope, suitably seasonably embellished with YKWs. If you are giving a VIP as a gift, we will be delighted to mail it directly to your recipient, with a note inside, conveying your heartfelt compliments.

And if you’d like to make a multitude of origami hearts, queue up some music to fold by! Cambridge Imprint’s Heart Bunting Origami Kit presents 36 sheets of 6 x 6 patterned papers. A charming little instructional booklet is included AND you can watch an xoxcellent video as well (on the Cambridge Imprint site). If you cut a sheet into quarters (you will have four 3 x 3 sheetlets), you can make incredibly adorable petite hearts—as shown here. I plan to leave a couple everywhere I go on February 14!


Valentinear Inspiration Parcel
 
Love is in the air, Bari