Dear Everyone ~

I’m delighted to announce the arrival of sixteen new-to-BZS Tassotti patterned papers. I’ve grouped them into a quartet of themed palettes: Sprigs & Twigs, Mille Fiori, Fancy Foliage, and Genius Geometrics.

To highlight their fabulous foldability and paste-ability, I’ve put the papers through their paces.

The Sprigs & Twigs patterns are abloom on a quartet of baby buttonhole-stitch books. These are among the smallest buttonhole-stitch books I’ve made, measuring 3 x 3¾ x 1¼. The pages are Stonehenge paper, of which a single parent sheet yielded 16 petite four-page signatures. Each book feels like a charm.

The Genius Geometrics patterns have wrapped their way around a quartet of pencils. They will dress up any desk, pouch, or notebook, and they sharpen easily breezily with a manual sharpener. I have, in fact, just successfully sharpened one in my electric sharpener (which may be sharper than yours, if you see what I mean).

I folded a foursome of envelopes in ascending sizes from 3½ x 5 to 6½ x 10 in the Mille Fiori patterns (Dahlia, Bougainvillea, Acacia, and Bouquet-a).

Whilst at the post office entrusting parcels last week, I checked in to see what new issues were available. How auspicious that one of the freshest spring Forever stamps happens to be a booklet of tulips! Alyson, my postal muse, & I give the tulips our stamp of approval in their own right—and right on these envelopes!

For the finale, I wrapped four boxes in Fancy Foliage, with complementary seam binding.

Grafiche Tassotti papers from Italy

Stepping into spring, Bari