Italian Stationery Wins Over Your Heart

Valentine’s Day is traditionally known as the day of love, often expressed by handmade paper Valentines and homemade treats of all sorts.  Rossi embraces this tradition, in fact, it’s practically the company credo and you’ll see it proclaimed numerous times onrossi love the Rossi website.  It’s true: the Rossi stationery products are made with creativity and tradition—and a big dose of love!

With less than a week to go to the Big Day, share your love and appreciation with these inspirational Valentine ideas crafted with Rossi products.

All Heart: A new pattern from the 2013 Letterpress Collection

Red is for Roses:  A new pattern from the 2013 Letterpress Collection. (also available in tan)

Kris Stewart, owner of Scroll Book Arts, loves using the new letterpress papers
for her albums and books.  She explains: ”Never having worked with letterpress before, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it! Now it’s officially my favorite Rossi paper to work with. Letterpress has such a nice texture to it. If you haven’t felt letterpress before, the printing process leaves an indentation so you not only see the printing, you feel
it. This paper is a dream and I thoroughly enjoyed crafting these albums.”

Bookbinder Kris Stewart will win over your heart with this lovely album crafted with Letterpress paper

Bookbinder Kris Stewart will win over your heart with this lovely album crafted with Letterpress paper

The Letterpress texture works well for albums and books

All Heart:  the red bookcloth sets off the tan letterpress paper and the texture works particularly well for albums and books

Rossi decorative sheets are not only great for albums, but work well with any product branding. Juliette Goggin from the UK packages her soap line, jewelry and repurposed goods with Rossi papers.

Juliette Goggin’s handmade treasures look extra special when packaged with beautiful paper

For more information about Juliette Goggin, please visit: http://www.juliettegoggin.co.uk/

Kris Stewart’s books can be found on her Etsy store, Scroll.

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To see a video of the Rossi1931 collection, click here. For more information about Rossi1931, please visit http://rossi1931.com/

WELOVE

Featured Designer: Scroll Book Arts

It’s always fascinating to learn about entrepreneurs who have turned their passion into thriving businesses. It’s even more interesting when you discover that Rossi decorative papers have played an important role in their businesses!

That’s the case for Kris Stewart, a talented bookbinder from the Pacific Northwest who has been designing exquisite books and albums for the past 14 years. Last year, she designed two of her best-selling albums using Rossi decorative papers: a beautiful blue peacock feather motif with shimmering gold accents and a weathered gold brocade on a white background.

Happily ever after: a popular Rossi sheet used for a wedding album

Happily ever after: a popular Rossi sheet used for a wedding album

Kris describes herself as a “maker” and a “designer.”   She says, “When I was really young it was construction paper with tape and staples (way too much tape and way too many staples!)  Then it was coloring books filled with abstract patterns just begging for the right combination of crayons. Next it was grand architectural plans for houses I wanted to live in when I grew up, complete with furniture arrangements and landscaping.”

A brilliant Florentine pattern, traditional and modern

A brilliant Florentine pattern, a traditional yet modern aesthetic

“Now that I’m an adult, I may not live in any of those houses I designed as a child, but I am still a maker and a designer, happily working at the intersection of beauty and function.  Bookmaking  became a passion when I happened onto a class 14 years ago. I researched new techniques and tried new ideas and now specialize in paper covered albums and scrap books which I sell through my Etsy shop, Scroll.

Kris says she is very fortunate to work with the world’s most beautiful papers every day: “How lucky I am!  I get the opportunity to work with papers from around the world, including Italian-made Rossi  Papers.  They have become some of my best sellers!  One of my favorite things is to go to the paper store and pull out one big drawer after another, looking at and feeling each paper.”

Kris says that the design process for an album’s cover starts with choosing the decorative paper.  She states: “That seems like it would be the easy part, but really, there are too many choices!   So much beauty, so little time.”

Kris is a master at combining materials like this sand-colored binding paired with a Rossi seashells paper.

Kris is an expert at combining materials like this sand-colored cloth binding paired with a Rossi seashells paper.

Her plans for the 2013 line of custom wedding and baby albums are coming along nicely, and lovely Rossi papers will once again be represented.  The new albums will debut in mid-January and she looks forward to another exciting year of bringing smiles to customers’ faces.

Kris Stewart’s books can be found on her Etsy store, Scroll.  For more information, please visit Scrollbookarts.com

To see a video of the Rossi1931 collection, click here.

For more information about Rossi1931, please visit http://rossi1931.com/

This album sports an equestrian theme, sadly a Rossi discontinued style :(

This album sports an equestrian theme, sadly a Rossi discontinued style

 

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