Fun & Unique Wrapping Paper

Hey guys! I've been updating my Zazzle shop this week and going through some older designs. As I was looking through my shop, I noticed that wrapping paper seems to be a customer favourite. I haven't really shared much about wrapping paper on my blog, so I thought I'd share some with you today.

Decorative Rainbow and Textured Chevron Pattern Wrapping Paper

Zazzle's wrapping paper is so fun to design! :) As someone who creates a lot of patterns, there is just something so satisfying about tiling and resizing your newest pattern on a product. All over print product are definitely my favourite and I always go out of my way to make sure each new pattern I add to Zazzle is added to wrapping paper.

Another reason I love this custom wrapping paper is that it can be used for a variety of things other than wrapping presents. Did you know that people use wrapping paper in crafts and home decor projects? When I was a student, I worked at a furniture store that would repaint old antiques. Sometimes a vintage print wrapping paper was used on the insides of old cabinets to give it a shabby chic look and new life! You can even add a splash of colour and art to the back of a plain old book case - and if you like the design on your new wrapping paper enough, you may even consider cutting a rectangle piece and framing it as artwork. There is really so much you can do with fun patterned wrapping paper.

This cute sloth wrapping paper is one of my best sellers! I'm happy to help
spread the joy of sloths to many gift recipients. ;)
Watercolour Cute Baby Sloths on Tree Pattern Wrapping Paper
by TanyaDraws

This pineapple pattern is another popular one, and one of my personal favourites. :)
If I were to decorate anything in my house with wrapping paper, I would use this pattern
in my kitchen cart cupboards. I use my kitchen cart as an iced tea / Italian soda station, so I think pineapples would be cute with it! Every adult person needs an iced tea station, right? XD
Tropical Watercolor Pineapple Pattern Wrapping Paper
by TanyaDraws

This gold and green pattern wrapping paper is one of my newest designs!
I think this design would be lovely for the holidays, on a glossy wrapping paper.
Green & Gold Ornate Decorative Pattern Wrapping Paper
by TanyaDraws

This autumn leaves design is perfect for fall gatherings, and the background
can also be changed from white to any colour imaginable!
Painted Autumn Leaves Pattern Wrapping Paper
by TanyaDraws

This is a fun one! These unicorns were designed as vectors and the original file is
large, so you can resize the pattern for different looks. This would also be a cute
wrapping paper to do crafts with!
Rainbow Unicorns & Gold Stars Pattern Wrapping Paper
by TanyaDraws

If you are interested in learning some of the crafts you can do with wrapping paper, check out this Buzzfeed article that gives 19 clever ways to use leftover wrapping paper! My personal favourite thing from that list is the 3D shelves... they look great and add a nice pop of colour to a room!

Have you used wrapping paper for a craft before? What did you make? Let me know in the comments below, and don't forget to subscribe to my blog to get my newest updates! :)

Tanya

Zazzle Apple Watch Bands Feature

I was so excited to hear last week that Zazzle has introduced Apple Watch Bands to their product lineup! They actually added quite a few new products last week in anticipation for the Holiday Season - including puzzles, notebooks and iPhone 8 & X cases... though the Apple Watch bands are one of the ones I am most excited about. There aren't many places that offer customized Apple Watch bands, so Apple Watch owners will be pretty happy about these.

Not only do these look great, they are also durable and made with quality leather and have a traditional metal watch buckle. These are hand crafted by the maker In a Flash in Charlottesville, Virginia USA. In a Flash is known for providing long lasting printed and UV-cured custom designed on various items such as iPad smart covers, cases, wearables & more, so its only natural that they added Apple Watch bands to their lineup. 

New Red Panda Design with Monogram on Zazzle!

I've been wanting to draw animals lately... and not all animals, just a specifically odd collection that contains ferrets, parrots, racoons, lemurs and other random creatures. :P I've now crossed Red Panda off my list with this design!

I really enjoyed creating this pattern :) Sometimes its just great to go back to the sketchbook and draw something completely random. Something that you don't see every day, can look up pictures & read about. This was red pandas for me. I had always seen them in the Zoo and thought they were the cutest animals there. I was more than happy to dive into the world of the red panda once again and look at cute pictures of red pandas lazing around in their natural habitats for hours. I drew my red pandas in different poses (even included a cute sleeping one with z symbols in there!) and gave them a simplistic look that is almost cartoonish. To complete my pattern, I added in drawings of bamboo leaves, because those are a red panda dietary staple! The green leaves really went well with the reddish brown shades of the pandas fur.

New Gold Foil Greeting Cards at my Zazzle Shop!

Recently Zazzle added a highly anticipated option to their already wide lineup of cards - the option to design in gold or silver foil! This gives any design, text or photo that is added to the front or back of the card a shiny look and texture. Its really great fun to work with and I'm really enjoying the results so far! Plus as someone who does add faux glitter / confetti / gold foil elements to her designs... I really appreciate the fact that I can now offer customers my customizable designs in a real, shiny texture!

I added a bit of a preview of what I've been working on in an earlier post, but I'll share more of my designs here! So far I've been working on mainly typography centred cards, with a custom photo element where you can add your own family or pet photo.

Here are my favourites so far ! :)

New strawberry Pattern Craft & Gift Supplies at Zazzle

Hey guys! I've been busy creating new designs and one of my favourites is a bright and cute strawberry fruit pattern!! I've added this pattern to a wide variety of products on Zazzle... including craft supplies! wrapping paper and fabrics are my favourite things to design at my shop, so of course this repeating pattern was a must to put on those. This pattern is very versatile. It features a turquoise blue background colour, that can of course be customized by you! Change the colour to whatever you would like, change the size of the strawberries to get a different effect out of the design, even add a name!

Cute Strawberry Fruit Pattern Thank You Gift Tags

by TanyaDraws

Cute Strawberry Fruit Pattern Small Gift Bag

by TanyaDraws

Cute Strawberry Fruit Pattern Tissue Paper

by TanyaDraws

The gift tag and gift bag were just meant to be! Customize the text on the thank you tag to match whatever holiday or event you need it for. Even add someones name for a unique, personalized gift wrapping idea that they will want to keep.