Dear Everyone ~
These past few weeks at BZS have been a whirlwind of incoming papers and outgoing parcels. Fortyish kits for Bookful of Fanciful Faces were posted to multiple students in fourteen states, including three to Hawaii; two flew to Canada and one to Austria. Fresh shipments arrived from Carta Pura in Germany, and from Cambridge Imprint and Hadley Paper Goods, both in the UK. All were quickly decanted and displayed. We have a few new items to share with you, including a bit more LOVEly inspiration in the Valentinian Dept.
For starters: the 2 x 2-inch Hahnemühle mini-concertina book is back in stock. Ruby has turned one into an incredibly sweet valentine, illustrating a different heart on each of the panels, taking advantage of all the mediums we stock in the shop: Lyra Colour pencils and LePens, washi tape, and waxed-linen thread. On one panel, she has attached a petite origami heart folded from a 3 x 3 piece of Cambridge Imprint paper. I then “finished” the book with a 6 x 6 piece of CI Selvedge Madder pattern paper and beribboned it with a piece of Italian cotton ribbon. You could present it like a bonbon, on a little plate, or hide it in someone’s pocket, or place it atop a pillow….
As elegant as a little black dress: Carta Pura’s most recent addition to their paper repertoire is Aquarello Nero (which almost sounds like a cocktail). The pages share the delicious attributes of the Natural White in terms of texture and receptiveness to all manner of mediums. Ruby immediately tested it with both Kuretake white brush pen & fine white brush pen for the PVA glue signage in the shop. I’m stocking two handy sizes of these pads.
Two new-to-us colours of Carta Pura papers have joined our repertoire of Rivoli Rose: Vanilla and Light Licorice (which you could call Dove Grey, but we are in dessert mode). Available in A6 Rivoli pads & matching envelopes, you can read more about both shades in their respective shop listings.
Blocks are back in stock: The almost everything Schreibblock and Zeichenblock good for everything pads are ready for your sketching, doodling, drawing, and musing pleasure.
Our Cambridge cup almost overfloweth: We’ve brought in seven new parent sheets from Cambridge Imprint, bringing our ever-growing selection to fifty! That’s a lot of nifty mixing & matching! The feline, canine, and equine patterns are divine!
Huzzah-là-là: Herewith a preview of six new charmola greeting cards by Hadley Paper Goods, perfect for all seasons and reasons.
Here’s a sampling of lovely emails received from customers about their BZSamplers for Valentines Day. Judith, who lives in Chicago, had motored right over and was quick to pick up her sampler… and to begin mixing and matching and catching up with friends. She wrote “… I have moved many times during my eight decades, leaving friends behind and making new ones. So your offer of a Valentine sampler of lovely papers aroused my creative juices. I was able to put the Heart Bunting origami kit that I already had to good use. Here are the results of my fun afternoon spent folding, cutting and writing. Thank you for putting the sampler together. It’s a beautiful way to tell my friends I’m thinking of them.” She also sent this photo of her heartfelt handiwork.
Laurie, all the way in Hawaii, wrote, “OMG, the package arrived yesterday and it is just gorgeous. Once again I don’t want to touch any of it…I just want to look at it. I am always making my sister a card for Valentine’s Day, so I have to bust into this, but I don’t want to…it is so pretty. Thank you!”
Aquarello Nero
Rivoli Vanilla
Rivoli Light Licorice
BZSampler for Valentines Day
For your heart’s content, Bari