Kawaii Wrapping Materials Book Giveaway

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Sandwiches! It's here!
The Japanese craft book I made with two other authors is on sale in a few days! You may have seen the sneak peek video of behing the scenes making.
I'm so excited I can finally tell you all about it.


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I worked with an incredible bunch of people. Tachibana-san, Killigraph-san, Shimizu-san, Kyou-san (she has designed patterns for mt tape!) and Boco-chan. Together we made かわいいラッピング素材BOOK.

It' s a book filled with all the cute materials you need to make cute wrapping and comes with a CD-rom with templates for envelopes and boxes of all shapes and sizes made by Killigraph-san. The templates all fit to an A4 sheet of paper so it's super easy to print and if you'd like to make them bigger you can easily enlarge on a photocopier.

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The CD-rom also has heaps (some aussie slang) of beautiful patterns designed by Kyou-san so you can print out your templates with patterns. And I made a collection of collages that you could print out on your templates too. One of the collages is a scatter of my craft pom poms and another is a little arrangement of flowers from my local Ozeki supermarket in Shimokitazwa. I thought it could be cute to see these printed on an envelope or mini box.

All of the patterns you see in these pictures (plus many more) are provided as image files on the CD-rom. Together we also made heaps of labels, stickers, seals and sticker strips so that you can print out on sticky back label paper and have fun decorating your packaging! There are hours of fun in this one book!


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As I was making the wrapping for the photoshoots I took photographs of the steps and work in progress. These are all shown in the book so even if you can't read Japanese, it's very easy to follow the how-to-make instructions.

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Our book goes on sale on 13th October. If you would like a copy you can order one online here.

AND. I would LOVE to giveaway a copy to a lovely Hello Sandwich reader. All you have to do is leave a comment below and I will draw a winner on Thursday 20th October!


Update: Thank you all so much for entering the giveaway and for your super kind words! The giveaway is now closed.


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Only Free Paper

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Zine lovers in Tokyo will absolutely LOVE Shibuya's Only Free Paper store! It's a mini-me shop situated on Cat street where you can pick up many Japanese 'free papers'. They also have an archive of each of the free papers so you can take a seat on the bench and relax looking over the collection. Hiki-chan and I spent a lovely rainy afternoon there today getting inspiration for our MCA zine fair zines!

Which brings me to my other exciting zine news! Hello Sandwich will have a table at the MCA zine fair ! If you are in Sydney on the 22nd May, please pop in and look out for the Hello Sandwich Tokyo table which will also showcase some zines from Hello Sandwich Tokyo based zine making friends Hiki-chan, polkaros, Ben Davis , BOM, Sunshine to you, Mark Drew and lovely Yumi Takahashi who I shared a MCA zine fair table with last year. A super thank you to Miss Beatrice for minding our booth :)

Zine Making!
GET INTO IT!

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Zipper Magazine

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I am most probably too old to be buying this magazine, but I just can't resist buying Zipper each month! I enjoy the layout. Something about the mix of thousands of fonts and patterns on each page and the range of super cute graphic devices. Wouldn't it be fun to layout out pages like this all day! Dear Zipper Editorial team, if you would like a gaijin Deputy Art Director, pick me!

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Hello Sandwich Potato Stamping









A few nights ago my Aunty Nin and I had a lovely Potato Stamping Evening at Hello Sandwich Headquarters. What a great evening it was! Potato stamping is so much fun - instant, effective and the stamping creates such oh-so-lovely textures. The finished products (to be used as gift wrapping) were rolled up and given as teeny tiny tokens to team members in my office.

Speaking of gift wrapping, did you see my guest blog entry over at Do's Family? It was such an honour to be with such amazing creative company and share some gift wrapping tips.

Happy Holidays Sandwiches.

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Hello Sandwich
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