Kiss my what?

2008 has kept us so busy with custom design and printing projects like wedding invitations and personal stationery, we haven’t had much energy to develop new products for our nationally distributed wholesale line. But it’s always on our minds, and we add new designs when we can. We recently printed a couple of fun, random new cards. Like “Kiss my grits,” shown to the left (click on the picture for a larger view). I loved the sitcom Alice in the late 1970s, especially the star’s brassy co-worker Florence “Flo” Jean Castleberry. At my request, Katie the intern (who has, very sadly, moved on – now she’s designing stuff for the Minneapolis Public Libraries, and selling cards on Etsy) created this portrait of Flo, so we could help revive her catchphrase.

Also new: this tongue-in-cheek greeting, printed on 80# bright white vellum cover (which contains 30% post-consumer waste, though we don’t brag about it on the back of the card). I love the planet as much as the next person, and at Lunalux we do our best to recycle and use environmentally friendly products. But after hearing and/or reading so many sales pitches regarding the complicated environmental practices of various paper mills, packaging suppliers and gift manufacturers, I can’t tell any of it apart anymore. Hence the exasperated whale.

These goofy cards are already for sale in the Lunalux studio store, and will be distributed to our sales reps in short order. If there’s a card store near you that should have these in stock, let us know and we’ll send them a catalog!