ABSORBENT ARTICLES AND/OR PACKAGING COMPONENTS EACH HAVING DIFFERENT PATTERNS IN A SINGLE CONTAINER

In the present invention, a packaging component having an outer surface and an interior volume contains within the interior volume a plurality of absorbent personal care articles. Each absorbent personal care article has a garment facing surface and a body facing surface. A portion of the plurality of the absorbent personal care articles in the packaging component are first absorbent articles having a first pattern embossed or printed on at least a portion of one of the surfaces. In addition, a portion of the plurality of the absorbent personal care articles in the packaging component are second absorbent articles having a second pattern is embossed or printed on at least a portion of one of the surfaces. In this aspect of the present invention, the first and second patterns are different from each other in at least one aspect. Further, a portion of the plurality of absorbent personal care articles may also contain additional absorbent articles which have yet another pattern embossed on one of the surfaces. In another aspect of the present invention there are more that two different embossing or printing patterns on the absorbent articles within the package. Generally, in the present invention every absorbent article within a given package may have a different pattern embossed or printed on the body facing surface or the garment facing surface of each of the absorbent articles. Also provided are wrapper components for absorbent articles having different patterns thereon.