I love packaging. I could spend hours packaging up a single client’s order and I never do it the same way twice. It’s not exactly good for efficiency, but it sure is fun. Lucky for me, Paper Source is just a short walk away, and Rugg Road Paper Co is not much further.
The paper and accessories may vary client to client, but with each I do always include a business card, sometimes of that client’s own pets if the timing works out, and a handwritten note. I also keep to the same Fat Orange Cat Studio color scheme of orange and blue (or shades of). Everything else is up for grabs!
Japanese paper and ribbons from Paper Source, little birdie paper clip from Anthopologie.
Calligraphy on note cards and business cards by Paperfinger, letterpress by Parrott Design Studio.
I had fun with this next order for Freddy and Sydney. I couldn’t personalize their larger print products, preferring to leave them safe and bubble wrapped as they came from the printers, so I went to town with the smaller prints their owners also ordered. The main package is wrapped in tissue paper which I folded before wrapping to create a pocket. I made sort of an “obi” with scraps from my Japanese paper, and glued that below the pocket. A thin strand of ribbon anchors the top. Inside the pocket I tucked in an envelope and a note card. Clipped to the note card is a business card with an image of Freddy and Sydney from that very shoot. Since it was close to the holiday season when the order was completed, I embellished the front of the envelope with some holiday stamps. Flip it over and you’ll see it’s closed with a business sticker. Yay stickers!! Inside this envelope are…more envelopes, one to hold loose 5×7’s, and another to hold loose 4×6’s. I calligraphed their names on one of them.
See it all deconstructed.
Tied up with a big orange bow with the larger products
Phew. By the way, the main package contains a customized photo box of 5×7’s on matboard, one of the products I offer with pet prints. I’ll show these and other products in the next post!
Looking at all this makes me wish I had a pet so I can get a photoshoot with you and get all this pretty wrapping! whee!
you have the most spectacular attention to detail!