Welcome to the CottageRts Blog

The CottageRts blog is a place to be to follow us on our creative business journey. Find out what inspires us to create the designs we do and what goes in to designing the perfect letter writing paper or stationery set.

How An Afternoon Printmaking Resulted In Our First Notebook Collection

As the month of September rolls in once again, we wanted to share what inspired us to create our first ever notebook collection. As...

The Inspiration Behind Our New Cyanotype Seaweed Stationery

Finally it feels like summer may have arrived in the UK. We are currently in the midst of a ‘heatwave’ and it seems to have been a bit of...

What’s in Our Summer 2022 Stationery Box?

Th day’s are longer, the weathers warmer, the plants are in full bloom and the sun is shining. Well almost, if someone could have a word...

4 Reasons Why Using Paper Can Be Better Than Always Relying On Technology

In a world where we are constantly in touch with technology it is easy to dismiss the relevance of traditional stationery items like...

Standing With Ukraine

We are sure all of us would like to help the people of Ukraine in any way we can. With this in mind we have produced a writing paper, in...

How To Gift Wrap Paper Products

OK so we’ve got a confession to make. One that as we run a stationery shop on Etsy we really shouldn’t be making…… but anyway….here it...

Our Favourite Product

The advent calenders are diminishing, the fairy lights are twinkling, and tree is up, much to the delight of cats up and down the country...

“Ahh that would make a great stationery design!” These are usually the words exclaimed by one of us when we see something that REALLY...

The Purpose of the Envelope

Envelopes. They are rather insignificant in the grand scheme of things arn’t they? What’s the purpose of them? Are they to simple hold...