Etsy Monday Digital Downloads for Valentine's Day Wrapping

Valentine's Day is edgng closer.  Etsy has a lot of graphic downloads for sale if you aren't finding what you want for free.

I particularly liked JustanArtStore.  She has a good selection of Valentine's Day gift wrapping/scrapbook pages you can download, and I particularly liked the design she had that celebrated love for all humankind. These are cute drawings!

All religions, all races, all love.

She had other very cute Valentine's Day designs too, including:

An old-fashioned take on the holiday.

And finally, Hearts!

Etsy Monday 3PoppyDesign Modern Valentine

3PoppyDesign has some wonderful gift wrap for sale!  Her St. Valentine's Day choices are very appealing.

You get 3 sheets of this 20" x 29" size.

Another version of that great hearts and arrow design.

I also like her Valentine's Day cards, very simple, good for friends, family and more.

One card, comes with envelope.

I love this heart design!

The designer, A Adams, is a mom, and dedicated to drawing, something I can appreciate and identify with.  Great work, great shop, she has a lot of other very nice choices for gift wrap.

Etsy Monday Tuttosicrea Everything is Created

A few years back, my husband and I went to Italy and Morocco. One of the things we learned about ourselves a long time ago is a pure "vacation" is not something we do well with, much better to have a purpose to our activity. Kevin does special wall finishes, so we went to the places where these wall finishes originated and arranged some classes.

Our trip took us from Milan to Vicenza to Venice to Florence and finally to Lake Como before we went to Marrakesh.

Of course, Italy is magical. For us, it was the evidence all around us of creativity, a pulse that persisted through hundreds of years, wars and political systems, fortune and failure. But there you will find even today artisans making a living creating beautiful and unique things, and their work is a respected part of the fabric of life there.  As we crossed the River Arno and made our way into the Artisan's Quarter in Firenze, shop after shop held a creative person at work. A mountaintop near Lake Como had tables with locally crafted teas and jellies. Milan celebrated the artisans who bring the opera to life. And so on.

Today's shop Tuttosicrea, which means "everything is created", has a beautiful selection of handmade articles.  The shop name (which I couldn't agree with more!) and the nature of her items brought me back to that trip, and the places and people we visited. A shop, a place and a country where everything is created.   Etsy says the store is based in Monza, a place I haven't been to so I checked out Google Maps. It's a little north and west of Milan, and of course beautiful.

from Google Maps imagery

Now for her wrapping magic.  Elena put together a beautiful gift wrapping package for Valentine's Day.  Handstamped paper, string, gift tags, a vial full of heart stickers and finally some beautiful polymer hearts! This would be very special wrapping for a special person.

Valentine' gift wrap package

the tags

The hearts!

She had a similar package for fall/winter:

Rustic gift package, all you see here.

Pretty stuff celebrating love, life and the magic of creation!

Etsy Monday aquabirch

In aquabirch, you can find some nice modern options for Valentine's Day, both cards and gift wrap.

2 good size sheets, quality paper. 

Pretty heart paper. 

Another option for Valentines' Day. 

There are some great cards, too, very simple, but nicely designed.

an I love you card.

Wrapper of the Week Molly Mell Everything you can do with a heart!

I was poking around trying to find some good DIY Valentine's wrapping, and everything I liked came from a blog called Molly Mell.

Regina Mello has a sharp eye for the utterly adorable. This is true of her photography, food recipes and so on, but I was particularly impressed with her wrapping ideas.

For Valentine's Day, she has some great riffs on what you can do with a simple heart punch .

Like this:

Go here for a great gift tag DIY

And this was such a great idea! She used heart cut outs to cover up reindeers on some gift wrap she had bought.  Way to switch the season!

A lovely Valentine DIY

And finally, more DIY Heart Gift tags.

Cute tags, right?

So these are apropos for the season, but she has some great Christmas gift wrap ideas and a lot of very pretty photos of every day things.  Don't miss checking out her blog!

Etsy Monday Favorite Story. Valentines and Calendars!

Valentine's Day is coming! Yay! I think a holiday that celebrates love is a fine idea right now. Empirically, so does Favorite Story, a pretty design shop based in Danville, CA.

Here's the "About" on the shop:

" About

We all have stories to tell - love stories, birth stories, stories of triumph and faith. Favorite Story was designed to help tell those stories through the products and paper we use each day.

• Joined November 27, 2011

Favorite materials
inky pens, pulpy paper, gauche, watercolor, nature  "

The designs are pretty, delicate and there are a lot of design elements I like -- palm leaves, tillandsia, ferns.

I have always loved faux bois.

Very Palm Springs, very Florida

Besides gift wrap, this pretty Birthday Calendar with Tillandsia illustrations is so pretty

Getting down to Valentine's Day, how's this for a great card for friends?

And finally, what caught my eye in the first place, this great Valentine's Day Wrap:

I would mix and match this with some of her other designs.

Bag It

I like all these ideas for Valentine's Day Gift Bags.

From SweepmeUp

How To at Family Chic by Camilla Fabbri

More from Camilla, this is actually pretty easy to do!

valentine's favor bags from camillastyles.com

Krafty Valentine - Three Ideas for Valentine's Day Gift Wrapping

I like these kraft paper wrapping ideas for Valentine's Day.

Follow the link for directions and a charming story

Some really nice variations on the doily theme!

follow the link for directions

Etsy Monday at House129 Three Valentine's Day Embellishments

I have pinned work by Kelly Rowe before  from her lovely blog.  Her Etsy shop is a also charming place to visit, particularly while preparing for the "love holiday."

Here are some of the items on my wish list:

Can you even stand it???  POM POM yarn.

Red Heart Kraft Round stickers.

everything is better with love.

Romantic, Pretty, Girly Valentine's Day Wrapping

Romantic pictures and themes tend to have lots of pastels, soft, fluffy textures, and be shot slightly out of focus, as if you are seeing it through a cloud.  Boxwood Clippings did a lovely Valentine's Day feature some time back, illustrating my point:

Boxwood Clippings

and this do it yourself gift wrap by French by Design

FrenchByDesign

I heart gift wrapping - 5 ideas for Valentine's Day

I heart hearts for Valentine's Day, like this:

DIY Valentine wrapping from the house that lars built.

Here are more DIY heart gift wrapping ideas, links below each picture for instructions:

How cute would a present from the kids wrapped up like this be!

Heart Garlands!

accordion heart topper.

Pretty wrapping from RedOnline

more valentine's day wrapping

Pretty Valentines Day gift wrapping.

DIY from thehousethatlarsbuilt.

DIY from ginatepper.com.

Etsy Monday Valentine's Day

Ideachic  belongs to Julie and Dave Sandusky. They have a very cute stationery shop on Etsy, with lots of lovely things for the lovely holiday. To wit:

Pretty gift wrap paper.

Red and pink gift wrap paper.

Pretty love note card.